The Mail-Journal, Volume 19, Number 5, Milford, Kosciusko County, 17 February 1982 — Page 37

We're Building ForThel9Bo's , ■ ' -At - The Papers Incorporated With • NEW BUILDINGS IP” ’I— I I ' I 1 i/I A 9,500 Sq. Ft. Addition Now Under Construction - And NEW EQUIPMENT A High Speed Stitcher-Trimmer In Our Mailing Department And , PEOPLE AND PAPER BWSHEIO w Hw-B Jl 4 L L 4Hr4wKi."» BBiHßLokJMnowi The Papers Incorporated Offices In: Milford, Syracuse, Warsaw, Goshen, Elkhart Corporate Offices At Milford, Box 188 — Phone 658-4111

Wed., Feb. 17,1982—Today And Tomorrow

ADDITION GOING UP — This photo was taken last fall as work progressed on the addition to The Papers Incorporated on Milford's Main Street. Outside work has been completed with the inside of the building to be completed this spring. >

A period of growth for The Papers Incorporated

The latter part of 1981 and 1982 will comprise a period of growth for The Papers Incorporated, according to Arch Baumgartner, president and publisher of the rapidly-expanding printing firm located at Milford. On Tuesday. Sept. 15,1981, ground was broken for a 9.500-square foot office building and mailing complex which should be completed and occupied by early spring. This is part of a continuing expansion program which began in the late 19605. The new addition will allow the printing company to enlarge several departments: notably its editorial, bookkeeping, mailing and composing departments. In the summer of 1979 a 60 by 80 steel warehouse was added to the company's physical plant, joining on the south the 44 by 150 office and pressroom built in 1974 and early 1975. At the time the new warehouse was built, an old, brick two-story' apartment located next to the Milford Fire Station was purchased and torn down, in order to make room for off-street parking for tl*e company’s employees. Add More Publications Besides its own "publications. The Papers Incoporated prints a host of publications which includes weeklynewspapers. shoppers, circulars and the like, most of them with color included, for towns in north central Indiana and as far away as Chicago and Bloomington. Newsprint consumption has continued to climb, to a poiint where the plant is now consuming on the average a semi truck load and a half per week. The Papers Incorporated prints 80,000 copies of four papers the firm owns and publishes, three editions of ‘the paper,' circulated in Kosciusko and Elkhart Counties, and The Mail-Journal. the weekly flagship newspaper serving the Milford. Syracuse. North Webster and Leesburg communities. In addition, the firm has a large commercial printing plant where > process color work is turned out. It added a high speed Cheshire mailer several years ago, and in February 1960 installed a Swiss-made Martini-Mueller stitchertnmmer These two pieces of equipment have made The Papers Incorporated a complete in-house printing, mailing and delivery system Tied in with this the firm has a division known as tpi (The Papers Incoporated) Delivery System, a delivery’ system serving a four-county area. Satellite offices are maintained by the firm for circulation, sales and editorial purposes in Syracuse, Warsaw. Goshen and Elkhart. The growth of the firm began in the late 1960 s with the advent of offset printing. Coincidental to this development was the graduation from Indiana University School of Journalism Ronald Baumgartner. His entry into the family business provided “new blood” and an

impetus needed to take advantage of new technological trends. “Our company has been riding on a crest of new technological knowledge in . the graphic arts industry.” states Ronald Baumgartner. The printing industry has fit hand-in-glove into the new computer technologyand The Papers Incorporated has incorporated this new knowledge into its Milford operation in an ongoing basis as new advances are made in the industry. The Papers Incorporated is a family business in every sense of the word: Arch Baumgartner is president, Ronald is vice president, Della is secretary-treasurer and Gloria is assistant secretarytreasurer. The company employs 68 people in „ Kosciusko and Elkhart Counties, plus a 200 strong “army” of circulation personnel. A profit-sharing plan was implemented by the owners as part of an enlightened approach to personnel relations. The genesis of the printing firm began August 5.1939. when Arch Baumgartner, just out of college, purchased the handset weekly newspaper. The Milford Mail, in his home town. Real growth, however, came with the advent of offset printing and photo-journalism. The moon program gave us mini circuitry, which adapted to the printing business ideally, and gave us high-speed typesetting facilities. Taking advantage of all this “modem gadgetry.” gives us a modern-day-printing plant as we now know it. '4 < j(| 11: TWENTY YEARS AGO — This photo was taken in 1961 and shows a portion of what has become the printing plant and mam offices of The Papers Incorporated. The door shown, has since been closed, hot was the front entrance of the building at that time.

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