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Old fort near Cairo, left over from the Romanoccupation.

The Rameses Hilton on the right, wherePaul and Martha stayed twice in Cairo.

The Alabaster Sphinx near Cairo. Only a fractionof such attractions are on display. Time andlack of money prevents more progress. ^

Looking up at the awesome heightof the Pyramid. This one has anentrance, but there's nothing in-side but a passageway.

Some back streets are narrow, asthis one. Perhaps a refuge fromthe clatter and din of cars.


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More temples near Karnak and Luxor. There areover 100 of these columns, which are said tobe able to hold 100 soldiers on top of eachone. Guess they could, but they'd have to bethin, and they would get very well acquaintedduring the transaction. Faces on the walls hadbeen chiseled and defaced by later generations.

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Jinormous temples at Karnak and Luxor. Attendeda sound and light show in the evening, whichwas extremely impressive. We were annoyed, thenamused at hundreds of people taking flash pic-tures during the show of objects hundreds offeet away, when there isnft a flash born thatcan light much over 2 5 feet.


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_-cGigantic statues of Ramses II and his queenNefertari. Relocated 200 feet to escap' backwaters of the Aswan Dam.

Forlorn broken statues at one of the temples.A lion among them. Sometimes curators sort thrurubble like this and reconstruct.

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Donkey power is s t i l l big in Egypt, even thothey have cheap gas oli ne . They usua lly tr ot te dalong willingly, not balking as is their nature.

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Paul, Martha and playmates on board a felucca,ages-old sailing vessel on the. Nile. Was fun,but don't think we'll make It our next hobby.

Costume night on the "Osiris" brought out theseFrenchmen (Martha says they were Italian), whowon first prize.The "Orisis" docked while we wander around onshore. Recently there were only four vesselslike her...now there are getting to be dozens.


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T h e h o u s e o f A g a K a h n , w i t h t h e c i t y o f A s w a ni n t h e b a c k g r o u n d . L a k e N a s s e r , 2 5 0 mil es lo n g, behin d As wan Dam.-N o t a b l a d e o f g r a s s a l o n g i t s s h o r e s .

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Getting a little sun around the pool of theOris is. Not the cheapest tan possible.

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Grandfather Martin's Certificate of Election, swearing him in as Governor ofKansas in 1885. Just unearthed from family archives. This is a copy. Bobhas the original.


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Ports of call were:Honolulu - OahuHilo - HawaiiKona - HawaiiRahului - Kaui

This ship and her sistership, Independence, laidat anchor in Hong Kongsince 1975> and were recently activated.The young American crewwere exceptionally competent and courteous,making it one of Pauland Martha's pleasantestcruises. It was #15.

Hawaiian cruise onthe U.S. Constitution,an American ship, plying the Hawaiian islands from the port ofHonolulu.Taken "by Paul and Martha, and Herb and FayeChapman, in November/December 1982.Prom Saturday to Saturday. This i as the26th cruise for theship.As usual...superbIAs there was a hurricane the previous week,devistating the islandof Kauai, this usualport was bypassed.

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Ernie, Bob, Paul, Martha, Ida, Helen and Doro-thy at a family reunion at Wichita in November1982.

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Hugged wilderness as seen from ahelicopter on Maui. Untouchedfor millions of years, and likelyto remain so.

The S.S. Constitution, built in 1951, carrying800 passengers. Renovated in 1981, and looksjust like new throughout. 30,090 tons.

Wild garden spot along the coast of the BigIsland.

One of many buffets on board theConstitution. Had a choice oftwo buffets and a dining roomevery noon.


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Replicas of old Hawaiian boats now plying thewaters of Hawaii, complete with tourists andukeleles.

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Martha, Faye and Herb waiting under a gianttree in Kona, to see if a rent car shows up,It did.

Karvelous hula on board the ship by girls andboys from Hilo. The center girl is "Kiss Hul1982" for all the islands.

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Sand sculptures on the beach at Waikakee. Theheads are not there...probably not completedthat far.

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One of several touristy busses now seen in Hawaii.

The ship in port at Kahului, Kaui, as seen fromour helicopter ride.


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Carved life-size Popeye in frontof a little shop on Maui.

One of the many waterfalls seenin the wilds of Hawaii, and carefully preserved..

Stream making its v/ay to the ocean on the BigIsland, with spectacular old bridge spanningthe chasm.

Beautiful surf with modern hotels at Kono, Hawaii, not far from v/here Captain Cook landed.

Lava field on Maui...very recent eruptions,and a strong smell of sulphur in the air.


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At a luau on Maui, this young man walked, satand stood on a hot fire for long periods oftime.

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Secluded spot on the Big Island, with a fewboys fishing and swimming. Beyond the horizonis California.,

Launch carrying passengers ashore at Kona, theonly port without a dock. Inside the crater of the volcano on Maui. Veryimpressive...the floor of hell.

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Main street of old whaling town on Maui. Some-times 50 or more whaling ships would anchor,and the sailors came ashore for Saturday night.Captain Harry Wu of the Constitution. EvidentlyChinese and talented, but spoke poor English.The owner is a Chinaman in Hong Kong.


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More lava fiel ds on Kaui, with tre es fe ll ed intheir prime.

Demonstration of ice carving on the ship'sdeck. He was qui te an a r t i s t .

Herb and Faye in a wilderness onHawaii. Those are not vines inthe background...they are rootsdropping many feet from branchesto the ground.

Pretty and talented hula dancers at a show onthe ship at Hilo.

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Bell helicopter we rode for ^0 minutes on Maui,Seven passengers including pilot. Very smoothand scenic.

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Crusted lava on Maui, still steaming, with aneruption less than two months ago. We couldwalk out on part of the crust.

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Untamed wilderness on Maul as seen from heli-copter, with waterfall. Part of beautiful interior of the ship, withgrand piano and the Constitution Lounge.

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Martha relaxing in favorite spot on the sundeck, under a lifeboat. Resort on Maui where we attended luau.1,000 people attended. Some


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Kahului, Maui, with old volcanoes in backgroundas seen from the helicopter.

Part of the play "Anything Goes," presented onthe last night on the ship by entertainmentstaff.

Unique windmill made from an oldhubcap and fan blades.

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VCrater of active volcano on Maul. A drizzly,muggy day, pictures weren't good. ;abin 27*+, comfortable, and "home" after un-packing, for six days,

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Insi de of sh ip' s li fe bo a t, with rowing mechan-ism to keep passengers occupied if adr i f t . Our waitress, Carol, showing off baked alaskaon the last night of cruise. Sweet gal.

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Little sugar plantation town on Hawaii, withfew changes in many years. Pit at luau, with three pigs simmering underrocks, canvas and fuel. V/as very tasty.


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Crowd gathered around the pool of the ship forthe day's festivities

Inside the crater of the big volcano on Kaui.Awesome1.

Dining companions: Krs. Fish, Herb, Faye, Paul,

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The long bow of the ship, withone of the cleanest and neatestarrangements we've seen.

Mr. Fishraska. and Martha. The Fish's were from Neb-

An outcrop called the "Needle"on Kaui. We didn't quite seethe attraction, but everybodywas gawking and taking pictures,so we fell in with it.


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Symetrical underpinnings of abridge in the boondocks of theBig Island, enabling the high-way above to span a gorge.

Our ship at anchor at Eona, with evening'ssightseers going out to gawk at her aboard atamarind.

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The rows of lifeboats on the Constitution,hopefully never to be used.

The junior set of Hilo puts on their versionof the hula, and does it very well indeed.


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And from England... the first pictures of littlePeter Knight, .above with his proud papa Vic,who has sprouted the beard since we saw him.And below with Linda.

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Bobbye and Martha Tons in g busy winning at bingoat the Printing Center Xmas Bash.

Sharon Womack and Louise Rushing looking es-pecially festive at the Christmas party.

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Intriguing melon duck posing as a centerpieceat the Christmas; party buffet.

Nancy and James Sawyer show offtheir new party clothes.

Roxie and Jimmy Turner, Nancy and James Sawyer,a customer, and Al and Mrs. Zitoon at the party.

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Paul emceeing the Christmas party, picking thenext victim, complete with his blinking hat.


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iIlristal t r ie s on her charn Christmas 1982,

Another boondoogle. One of a dozen or so busesplying the streets of Fort Worth, occasionallywith a passenger...-I83,000 American dollars each!

Easy way to transport the go-kart to a near-bypark, in the back of the Phoenix.

Ryan wouldn't slide without a photographer there.

Cherry an uneasy passenger as Joelle shows offas a go-kart driver. She took naturally to spinning out.

Martha and Dustln discussing the next "I can gohigher than you" contest coming up.


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Laura Tonsing almost there at 15. Dan Tonsing at a debonair 13.

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Debra Carver teaching Ryan tricks of theflying oval on the go-kart. Debbie just along for the ride as Saul isan old pro at the wheel.


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Matt Ashcraft hamming it up at 7.

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Paul and Martha disembarking from the Mississippi Queen, a week'svoyage in February 1983. From New Orleans to Vicksburg, and backto New Orleans. Cruise #16. Very enjoyable.

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A victim of recent high water along the River.And this was behind a levee. Old army truck looking like a leftover from theCivil War, but more likely a victim of the flood.

One of two steam engines driving the paddlewheelof the Q-ueen. Up close the paddle wheel was enormous, and wasplanked with ordinary 2x12's.

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The beautiful Mississippi Queen. 38O1 long, topspeed 12 mph, -00 passengers, lM-0 crew, and justsix years old. Largest paddlewheeler ever built.


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The pictures at right are of the restor-ation of the "Cairo," a Union ironcladsunk by a mine during the storming ofVicksburg during the Civil War. It sunkin the mud and was remarkable preservedwhen raised about 20 years ago. Hundredsof artifacts were recovered, like shoes,razors, liquor, watches, live gunpowder,etc. After years of controversy as to howand where the money would come from, itis being restored at the Vicksburg Na-tional Cemetery. A museum in connectioncontains the artifacts.Above and below are some of the guns stillat Vicksburg, out of several hundred.

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Rosedown Plantation at St. Francisville, La...built in 1835.


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Diane, Kristal, Bobby and Martha pose happily inMay 1983.

Saul getting ready to pay T-ball at Crowley inthe midst of an undefeated season.

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Outside the Doodad are Paul, Si, Diane, Jane,Bobby, Kristal, Nancy, James-, Bobbye, and Rick.Inside are Saul, Dan, Martha, Laura, Matt andDustin. May 1983.

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Mrs. Dorothy Tonsing

Mrs. Dorothy L. TonsingServices will be at 10 a.m. Wednesday at First Lutheran Church for Mrs.Dorothy Louise Tonsing, 73, 1280 Oak-ley, who died Sundayat a Topeka hospital.Mrs. Tonsing wasactive in both Lutheran Church Womenand United ChurchWomen on the national level and wasthe first Lutheran re-*;. presentative on thenational board ofUnited Church Women.She received the Ecumenical Awardof the Kansas Council of Churches in1959 and had been named Woman of theYear in Religion in Topeka. She had

served as vice president of the KansasCouncil of Churche s.She was born July 15, 1909, at Falunin Saline County, the daughter of Fredand Alphild Anderson Peterson.She attended Falun schools and theUniversity of Kansas. She was graduated from Kansas Wesleyan University atSalina in 1932.Mrs. Tonsing was a member of F irstLutheran Church, Church Women United, Topeka Intercultural Club, American Association of University Women,Topeka and National Retired Tea chersAssociations, Topeka Woman's ClubandKiwanitas.Mrs. Tonsing was a member of fournational boards of Lutheran ChurchWomen. She represented the LutheranChurch in America and the KansasCouncil of Churches on the board of theNational Council of Churches of Christin the U.S.A. She was president of Central States Synod Lutheran Church Women and president of Church WomenUnited at Topeka and state levels.Mrs. Tonsing was one of nine members of a planning committee for the1962 merger of women's work in theLutheran Church of America.

She received the Valiant Womanaward of the national Church WomenUnited body in 1979.She was a member of Sigma Tau Delta, professional writing fraternity andthe English Coffee Club, a study groupon English literatur e.She was married to Dr. Ernest F.Tonsing Jun e 1, 1936. He was p astor ofFirst Lutheran Church many years before he retired. He survives.Other survivors include two sons,Fred Tonsing, Thousand Oaks, Calif.,and Evan Tonsing, Stillwater, Okla.Burial will be in Salemsborg LutheranCemetery in the Salemsborg community southwest of Salina. Mrs. Tonsingwill lie in state at Penwell-Gabel Fu neral Home until 7 p.m. today when thecasket will be closed. Relatives andfriends will meet from 7 to 8 p.m. Tuesday. Memorial contributions may bemade to the Seminary Fund, FirstLutheran Church, 1234 Fairlawn Road,66604.

ObituariesMARTHA ELIZABETH TONSING

. . . World War II veteranMemorial service for Martha Elizabeth Tonsing, 59, of 6913 Sheridan, will be at 11:30 a.m.Monday at Shannon's South Chapel.Sh e died of cancer Thursday at home.Mrs. Tonsing, a native pof Weatherford, l ived in | vFort Worth most of her |life an d was a World War fII Marine vetera n.She was a Lutheran pand a homemaker .Mrs. Tonsing had trav- Seled around the worldseveral t imes.Survivors include her |husband, Paul M. Tonsing of Fort Worth; two!sons, Richard Tonsing ofFort Worth and RobertTonsing of Austin; her|daughter, Nancy Sawyerof Fort Worth; a sister,J an e Pickard of For tWorth; and six grandchildren.The family suggests memorial donations bemade to the American Cancer Society.

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May 27 , 198 3 FORT WORTH NEWS-TRIBUNEHer brother-in-law and nephew, both ministers, conducted memorial services Monday at Shannon's SouthChapel for Mrs. Martha E . Tonsing, 59, who died at herhome, 6913 Sheridan, after a longillness.

Mrs. Tonsing wa s the wife of PaulM. Tonsing, longtime printing executive here who heads PrintingCenter of Texas Inc. The serviceswere conducted by Rev. ErnestTonsing of Topeka and Rev. FredTonsing of California.Mrs. Tonsing was one of the firstwomen U.S. M arines in World WarII . Her husband also w as a M arine.Together they had traveled aroundMrs. Martha Tonsing the world many times.She was born in Weatherford and lived there most ofherjife. Other suryjyor& are two sons, Richard of Fort

'Worth and Robert of Austin; a daughter, NancySawyer of Fort Worth, a sister, Jane Pickard of FortWorth and six grandchildren. iFriends who wish to do so may make memorials inMrs. Tonsing's name to the Am erican Cancer Society.* * *Harvey Gaylord, retired president of Bell Helicopter,died in Niantic, Conn., at the age of 79. When Bell moved here from Buffalo, N.Y. in 1957, Gaylord became itsfirst president. In his 13 years as a Fort Worth residenthe was active in many civic and cultural organizationsand was a director of the First National Bank of FortWorth.


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Gathered for Martha's funeral are Diane, BoblFaul, Rick, Bobbye, James, Nancy and Cherry.

And here are Bobby, Diane, Nancy, James, Cherry,Rick, Bobbye, Evan, Paul, irnie, Ida, Dolly,Fred, Helen and Bob,Herb Chapman on his retirementin May, 1983. A small token inback of his pickup, signifyingwe don't want him to leave.

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Herb and Faye at his retire-ment party at the Ramada Inn.Some 38 participated.


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loelle Murray posing in April '83hinking about growing up.

Cherry,. Joelle, Paul and Ryan inOttawa, on a hot day in June.

Ryan wondering how the cameraworks, and if he can have it.

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Matt, Saul, Laura and Paul parked by theDoodad, fighting over who'll wash her.

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Cherry, Ernie, Ryan and Joelle in frontof Cherry's house in Ottawa, June I983.


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Monument at Custer's battlefieldin Montana, to the famous battlefought in 1876.

Paul at the seashore on Deer Island, Mass.,near Boston, the morning of June 23, 1983after lowering Martha's ashes into theocean, as per her request. Fittingly, a jetcomes in overhead, for she loved the sea,and flying. Ernie recited the Lord's prayerduring the tearful ceremony.


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Old Faithful spouting on scheduleabout.once an hour. They don'tturn it off at night..

Lonely bison in Yellowstone National Park. Fewanimals were seen.

One of several waterfalls in Yel-lowstone. . .beautiful!:

Bearproof garbage can in Yellowstone. Bears gotdangerous mooching garbage, and with people feedIing themj these cans were introduced, and peoplecautioned...so bears went back to the woods.


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Part of the crowd gathered early in the morn-ing to see Old Faithful spout.

Bob Tonsing, Jr., Paul, Ernie and Bob's wifeas seen in Denver. Bob was always a nice kid,and all at once he's a grandfather.

Various scenes in Yellowstone, seen by Pauland Ernie in June 1983

Charlie Brown and Billieholding up Paul's annual birthdaycake, before it is attached bygluttons.

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Various scenes at Concord, Massachusetts, outside of Boston, where thefirst shots of the Revolutionary War were fired.


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Finicular up Stone MountainChattanooga, Tenn. Drawn bya cable.The Tennessee River as seenfrom Stone Mountain...beautiful view.

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Monument on Missionary Ridgeto Grandfather Martin, whocaptured the ridge.

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Construction of new. paper warehouse at PrintingCenter at 701 East Fifth S t., Fort Worth. No sooner was the paper warehouse up in the summerof 1983, but it was full,'and more room needed.

Bobby, Kristal and Matt aboard areluctant elephant at game parkbetween Fort Worth and Dallas,the summer of 1983*

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The annual Washington trip by the Civic Leaders Assn. producedthis picture on the steps of the Pentagon. Richard Glaser andPaul are in the upper left quadrant.

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Employee-Owned P r i n t i n g FirmS t a r t e d W i t h B o r r o w e d $450By MACK WILLIAMSPaul Tonsing borrowed $450 in 1956 to start a printing business. Today he grosses $10 million a year,employs 165 persons and has customers from coast tocoast.Even in Fort Worth,where rags to richesstories are common,Tonsing's success isunusual. Now that hehas built up his businesshe's selling it to hisemployees. Eighteen ofthem are stockholdersand Printing Center ofTexas Inc., 210 Jones, isone of the outstandingw o r k e r - o w n e d c o m panies in the state.The 25-year-old firm,s c a t t e r e d in s evenbuildings, is constructing a new one on a6/i-acre site at 701. E.Fifth to put all depart- Paul Tons ing

ments under one roof. Moving is already under waywith the five big web presses scheduled to make thejourney one at a time on weekends.Presiding over the carefully-timed maneuver, whichinvolves scores of newspapers and other publicationsprinted by the company, is Paul Tonsing, a World WarII M arine. The property at Second and Jones, leased byTonsmg 18 years ago, has been sold and will become thesite of a five-story- parking garage for the two CityCenter skyscrapers that Sid Bass will build in a four-block area adjoining his Americana/Tandy CenterHotel. * * *OLDTIME PRINTERS had wanderlust, and Tonsing was no exception. B oth he and his company havetraveled far.Son of a Lutheran minister in Atchison, Kan., whohad to run a print shop on the side to feed his wife andeight children, Tonsing grew up amid the type cases.He started at 12 and set forth on his travels at 18, whenhis father died. By the time World War II erupted hewa s a Linotype operator on the Los Angeles Times."I enlisted in the Marines in 1941 because therecruiting officer promised me the best-lookinguniform," Tonsmg recalls. He also got an acute case ofelephantitis during his 17 months in the Pacific."Back in San Francisco I met a cute Marine corporal(of the opposite sex) who whistled to me on the street.She says I whistled to her. It-turned out to be a boat inthe harbor whistling to both of us. After a whirlwindcourtship of six weeks we were m arried in 1944. It proved to be a very happy m arriage," Tonsing says.Martha T onsing was from Texas andwhen it becamedifficult to rent an apartment in Los Angeles they camehere with a new baby, planning to return to Californiaeventually. Pau l was hired as a Linotype operator byBranch-Smith Publishing Co. but the lure of free enterprise was overpowering. He and Martha bought theweekly Mansfield News.Serving as editor, typesetter, makeup man andpressman, Tonsing found the challenge great but the income small during his three years of ownership. Back to

a Linotype he went, this time on the Fort Worth Press,and later as a night operator at the Star-Telegram andthe All-Church Press while he spent days buying, sellin g and servicing printing equipment, mostlyLinotypes. * * * jIN 1956 HE BORROWED that $450 from the bank,bought a Linotype sight unseen from the back of atruck, and set up shop as a typesetter for weeklynewspapers, working 60 to 80 hours a week. His firm,Printers Service Co., acquired a hand-fed Babcock pressto print the papers and later moved up to an automatic

press from Arkan sas which could print 1,500 eight-pagepapers an hour.This wa s dazzling speed to Tonsing, but the best wasye t to come. Staley McBrayer, publisher of severalweeklies and dailies here, developed his web rotarynewspaper offset press called the Vanguard. Turningout 15,000 papers an hour with attractive color printing, it made letterpress obsolete overnight.With McBrayer and Tonsing as partners and an$80,000 Vanguard for starters, Printing Center Inc.opened in 1962 in a 5,000-square foot building at 215Jones. In a short time the large Bowman Biscuitbuilding across the street was rented and the originalbuilding became Printing Center's job shop.* * *VANGUARD PRESS CO. evolved into the CottrellPrinting Press Co. and eventually the Harris press.When McBrayer sold his newspapers and his presscompany stock to the Dallas News, his Printing Centerstock was par t of the package. The Fort Worth Shopper, then owned by Homer Tomlinson Jr. and TedTomlinson, bought the Printing Center shares, sellingthem to Tonsing in 1968, a transaction th at made himsole owner.Today, with stock held by 18 employees, the firm isthriving as never before. Together with th e five web offset presses it operates four sheet-fed offset presses anda complete bindery.Several newspapers, including The News-Tribune, areturned out on Printing Center 's big web presses everyweek. Circulars and books also are specialties of thefirm, which hired its first salesma n in 1968 to augmentTonsing 's work. Today the re are five and the cu stomersare located in many states.David Shipps, whose father was an oldtime FortWorth newspaper pressman, joined Printing CenterIsoon after it was launched and is president today. Thevice presidents are Joe Martin, production manager,an d Al Samaniego, pressroom superintendent. JohnIRiley is secretary-treasurer and Herb Chapman, also aformer Marine and newspaper publishing executive, isoffice manager.Other key employees are Louise Rushing, creditmanager and bookkeeper; Stanley Cole, job shop andbindery supervisor, and salesmen Don Roessler, Joh nRobbins, Wayne Douglas, Tommy Tomlinson andPhyllis Suttles.Printing Center has never stopped growing and PaulTonsing has never stopped traveling. He and Martha,who have three children and five grandchildren, havemade several trips around the world since their Marinedays. They never did *iake it back to California.

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