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Object Description

Object ID

2008.069.005

Title

People working on machines at the Langley Advance.

Date

[1953 or 1956].

Description

People working on machines at the Langley Advance. Jim Schatz took this photo. The 1st linotype is being run by Boris Granholm, the 2nd typesetter is Bruno Mueller, E.J. Cox is standing in the middle, and Fred Cox, compositor, in a white shirt, can be seen standing with George Johnson, advertising sales. The printer's devil (apprentice) is Delbert Anderson, and the press operator is Vic Roosum.

The back of the image notes that the Langley Advance Publishing Company consisted of president Fred Cox, Vice President George Johnson, Sec. Vice President Jim Schatz, and E. J. Cox was controlling shareholder and Director.

People/Subject

Cox, Ernest John (E. J.)

Ernest John Cox was born on May 2, 1890. He was the first Editor of the Langley Advance newspaper. Ernest died on June 24, 1974.
Term Source: HPC Record (HPC-365/1134)

Cox, Fred

Fred Cox was the son of E. J. Cox, the first editor of the Langley Advance. Fred took over the editor's position from his father. He was married to Betty.

Granholm, Boris

Boris Granholm worked for the Langley Advance Newspaper.

Johnson, George

George Johnson was a brother-in-law of Betty Cox. He worked at the Langley Advance newspaper.

Langley Advance (newspaper)

The paper was originally entitled the Langley Advance, and was first published July 23, 1931.The paper was started by Ernest J. Cox, who had moved to BC from North Battleford, Saskatchewan to take a half interest in the Abbotsford News along with Gerald Heller. At the same time, the Langley Board of Trade had been negotiating with Heller to start a paper in Langley: Cox took up the task. A few months after the Advance was founded, Cox and Heller went their separate ways, and Cox retained the Langley paper and Heller kept the Abbotsford paper. Cox ran the paper with the help of his wife and two teenaged children. After the war, son Fred Cox returned to the paper along with George Johnson (an RAF instructor) who had married daughter, Kathleen Cox. In 1947 Jim Schatz joined the paper. In 1949 The Langley Advance Publishing Co. Ltd. was formed with principals E.J. and Fred Cox, Johnson, and Schatz. E.J. Cox went into semi-retirement in 1958, and Fred Cox sold his interests in the paper, but took controlling interest of the commercial printing portion of the business. Schatz served as publisher and editor, and was well known in the BC newspaper industry. In 1981 Bob Groeneveld became editor, and remains editor today (2005).
Term Source: Paper Trails: a history of British Columbia and Yukon Community Newspapers, 1999 (by George Allan Afflek).

Mueller, Bruno

Langley Advance newspaper employee, formerly of the Berlin Daily Newspaper. Bruno had escaped through the underground when the Russians took over Berlin at the end of the war.

(Info from Betty Cox).

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