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Note: Bayard Transcript - October 5, 1922
Sam Howell, employe of the Scottsbluff Star-Hearald, spent Sunday with his mother and sister in this city.
NEWSPAPER ARTICLE
Sam Has 27 Years in At Gering Courier Sam Howell started working for the Gering Courier in 1934 and has been a loyal, hard working employee ever since. Born in 1895 in Linden, Iowa, Sam started his printing career at the Bayard Transcript in 1914 and has worked for the following newspapers and printing firms: Morrill County News, Bridgeport News-Blade, Scottsbluff Star-Herald, Prompt Printery, Scottsbluff Republican and the Manning (Iowa) Monitor, a German newspaper. Sam couldn't read or write a word of German, but he could run a Linotype and hand set type for the paper. He said if the printer's devil put the hand set type back in the right case, he could spike a line as fast as the next by knowing the type sequence in the case and by recognizing the characters. Sam enjoys press work and Linotype operating best of all the various printing jobs, and he has had plenty of press time on the old Washington hand press, Chandler and Price, foot power press, as well as a Lee 2-revolution, Cranston, Kluge, various snappers, Miehle cylinder and vertical, Kelly B, Duplex and Babcock. Sam likes to tell about how he could pull through a Washington hand press with several sheets of paper over the type while practically all larger men couldn't begin to pull it through. Sam weighs a short 130 pounds and stands about 5 feet. You can find Sam down at the Courier plant working most anytime of the day or night and Sundays, even though for the past several years he has been his own boss, naming his own time for work. The courier crew always looks for Sam if they have misplaced anything around the shop or if they need a cut which ran anywhere from yesterday to 20 years ago . . . and Sam will normally come up with it. Sam still laughs about the first time he saw a Linotype slug and couldn't figure out how in the world corrections could be made. After years of work with few vacations, Sam was convinced he should do a little traveling and now, each year he flies to California to visit relatives. Sam has kept his driver's license current even though he hasn't owned a car for over 25 years. He says every spring he gets the bug to buy one. About the only trouble Sam has caused the plant is his habit of hoarding pay checks for an indefinite period, they cashing them all at once, which irritates the bookeeper. In summing up the story of a faithful employee who has served The Courier for over 27 years with his endless toil, here is a man who has earned the right to come and go anytime he wishes from the Gering Courier and never needs to back up to accept his paycheck.
GRAVE STONE
IN LOVING MEMORY SAMUEL N. HOWELL 1895 -- 1969
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