Day and night, residents of Newburgh and nearby communties are served by The Newburgh News. Production of this newspaper is a never ending race against time. Everyone is racing with the hours. As the minute and hour hancls move The News is busy gathering news for you. National New1Spaper Week has been designated to acquaint you with the every day activities of a newspaper. To help you know how a newsvaper is produced and to get you acquainted with those who help to make The News, this paper will print a series of 6 articles, with pictures, of which this is first.

Do you remember newspaper scenes in prewar movies in which a smoke-filled editorial room was ruled by a tyrannical editor who bit off the end of his cigar and bellowed at a quaking reporter?

If you do, forget it. A real life newspaper bears only the slightest resemblance to its Hollywood prototype, and the editorial room - which is most often portrayed in the movies - is nothing at all like the screen version.

Take the main newsroom of The Newburgh News for example. Faces, layout and facilities may differ somewhat from other newspapers but in general this department is similar to those in hundreds of other typical, modern dailies of the same size.

This is National Newspaper Week, and a good opportunity for readers of The News to make either a real or an imaginary visit to the editorial rooms. This is the place where the news is gathered from several sources, edited and assembled for each day's edition.

The News has five main sources of news supply. First of all there is the full leased-wire service of the United Press which delivers over 35,000 words of world news daily from every corner of the world. This "copy", is trimmed according to its importance and amount of space available, "heads" are written for individual stories, and they are sent to the composing room to be set in type.

Supplementing national coverage of the United Press is Gannett National Service in Washington which sends daily dispatches to The News and other newspapers in the Gannett group. Because the national capital also has become virtually the news capital of the world, GNS operates in an exceedingly fertile field.

Developments of particular interest to readers in New York State are handled by another special service - Gannett Empire State Bureau in Albany. The News has greatly expanded its coverage of State affairs since the inception of the Bureau, and the GESB slug is becoming increasingly familiar on Albany stories.

Exclusive to The News
These two services - Gannett National Service and Garnett Empire State Bureau - are exclusive to readers of The News. Their stories appear in no other paper except those in the Gannett group.

Then there is the city staff, which gathers news material of local importance. This staff, including editors, consists of 14 full-time men and women whose duty is to write and edit everything in Newburgh and vicinity which can be considered as news. It would be a physical impossibility for these reporters to be present at everyone of the hundreds of activities which require coverage, so they depend to a large extent on the telephone to contact secretaries of various organizations and obtain the necessary information. Voluntary "tips" from readers are also very valuable.

Finally there is a large corps of community correspondents - one in each town, village or hamlet in which The News circulates. They do not often handle "big" stories because such things are rare in small communities, but every little personal item is important in a town where everyone knows everyone else.

Double as Photographers
Photographs are also handled by the editorial staff. Many of the reporters also double as photographers, providing picture coverage for all local events. National and international news pictures are provided by NEA Service. Local pictures are processed in The News' own darkroom, and cuts are made in its own complete engraving department.

A visitor might view the editorial scene as a bedlam of clattering typewriters and teletype machines and jangling telephones. Actually, however, this department is a well-tuned machine in which each part functions efficiently in teamwork with all other parts.

Proof of this efficiency is provided daily when "deadline" finds that an almost unbelievable amount of news material has been assembled and is ready for distribution to more than 13,000 subscribers.