National Amateur Press Association: The Buck Creek Press 28

National Amateur Press Association
Monthly Bundle Sample, The Buck Creek Press 28, p.2

Issued at the whim of the editor - publisher - reporter - typesetter - flyboy and janitor.
Wilson L. Barto, Sr.

This is another whim of The Buck Creek Press to be Mac computer set and to be printed offset. Two hundred and twenty-five copies go to members of the National Amateur Press Association. Others go to understanding and sympathetic relatives and friends. The body type and headlines are mostly Caslon. This is a publication of The Press Of Buck Creek, founded at Yardley, Bucks County, Pa., in 1967. This quarterly journal first appeared in February, 1994, in Weatherly, Carbon County, Pa., and was moved to its current home in Skippack, Montgomery County, Pa., in 1997.

Whim No. 28 September 2000

When will the drink industry ever stop using those fluted-bottom bottles that fall over on refrigerator shelves or will fridge manufacturers stop using those wire-like shelves that don’t support those fluted-bottom bottles?
Between the two of them, this appears to be like a conspiracy against innocent, frustrated homemakers.

Those modern designers are no help, either, when they streamline a cake of soap that narrows down at each end like a kayak. You can’t hold onto them in the shower and at least once during a shower they slip through your hands and go scooting across the shower room floor.

Among the anniversaries being observed this year is one for the daily newspaper. Germany has issued a 110-pfennig commemorative stamp marking the 350th anniversary of the first daily.
In 1650, shortly after the Thirty Years’ War, Leipzig printer and bookseller Timotheus Ritzsch published Einkommende Zeitungen, or Incoming News.
Ritzsch (1614-1678) published his four-page paper six times a week and crammed it with news, which was abundant because Leipzig was a vital cultural and commercial center.
With merchants, scholars, opportunists, politicians and tourists flocking to Leipzig, Ritzsch easily could fill the pages of his tiny paper&@151;set by hand and printed on a wooden press.
It was estimated no more than 200 copies were issued Monday through Saturday.
Reproduced on the stamp is the front page of his issue 17, which is housed in the Royal Library in Stockholm.

We apologize profusely to Martha E. Shivvers for misspelling her by-line under the title of her very welcome poem, "A Fervent Plea," we ran out front in the June issue. We dropped the second "V" from her name.

What can we do about the growing mispronunciation of the word, realtor, which even realtors now days are mispronouncing reelator? The best speakers use it and it’s damned frusterating.

Washington and Boston had better watch out. Their preeminence in Fourth Of July TV extravaganzas is weakening. The ones telecast the same night from Cincinnati under the baton of bandsman Eric Kunzel are superb.
For our money, Kunzel’s July 4th show from the banks of the Ohio River this year was far and away better than the standard fare produced once more in Boston and Washington.

ImPRESSions.
By The Prop

Which one of the two major presidential candidates will do as he has promised once in the White House?
What can we do when campaign promises are being cast aside?
Take the thorny issue of health care. If either man is to remain true to his pledges in that muddied field , I believe the procedure should look something like this:
Feb. 1, the CEOs of all the HMOs, the prescription drug industry and the insurance companies playing in that game, should be summoned to the White House for a heavily covered — not a closed door—conference in which they are given six months to line up behind all the sugary campaign talk and make the changes in their pricing and services that the winner promised.
How can there be any less of an outcome, what with the improvements we will have been promised in many things from the campaign stump?
All the talk will have been threaded together with good feelings of how things will be. A sincere winner on Nov. 7 would have enough time to get all his ducks in a row before Inauguration Day if he means all he has been saying.
Remember, Feb. 1 is the deadline for getting true reform of the health care mess under way or we will have been deceived one more time.

Last updated: 03/22/2001