Union College - Golden Cords Yearbook (Lincoln, NE)

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if XE' Q. 3: 5 is at . we Bookstore Boosts Added Supplies In 10 years, V. F. Mayer, manager, has increased three times the yearly sales of the Bookstore, while main- taining the same square footage of sales space. During Mayer's first year at Union, '57-'58, sales totaled 838,000 Business progressed proportionately with the school year until 1961 when Mayer substituted the self-service for the clerk-service system. Comparing the ,61 sales with the '62 s a l e s reveals a significant improve- ment. In 1961, sales totaled 855,000 After the installation of the self-serv- ice d urin g the summer of '61, the school year '62-'63 witnessed a jump in sales to new heights-fi372,000. Since 1962, the yearly average increase has been 135k This year sales were push- ing 169? ahead of last year. In accounting for the progress and multiplied sales. Mayer points to the self-service substitution and to the ad- dition of school supplies, a variety of sweat shirts, and most recently the handling of personal drugstore sup- plies. C A S H FOR BOOKS! Srfnzester time finds many .signs an flze lzoolcstore rlaar- anrl the largest volume of lJ11sinr'.s'.s. Anne ,lab anticipates flzff coming onslaught. Ioan Bromme wonders how many let- ters sheill lie alile to write this .wrne.s'tcr with so mach to zla. Books are really in the foreground for the average Union College student.

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The Capital City Bookbindery ac- commodates seven midwest states. ln fact, states manager F. L. Surdal, at least 95W of our jobs are done for commercial business. An average of 35-40 students assist the seven full- time employees in this S140,000-a-year binding business. By far the largest job in the past three years has been the binding of Omahzfs 20-volume Synopsis. There were over 400 sets of the 20-volume Synopsis bound with- in a two-year period. Mr. Surdal takes pride in the personal attention that the bindery offers each customer. One of the largest customers for the lzinclery is the college library. Herr' Cleua Hoeckemlorf gauges the thickness of one of the many periodicals which are bound at the llinflery.

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llollege Broomshop Produces Vanety Uf Products Superintendent of Lincoln Broom and Mop Works, Dan Olderbak, is reported to be a friendly and con- siderate boss and maintains the re- spect of his 40 Union College student employees. But the demands for Old- erbak's quality brooms has excelled the current output. Union College can't supply enough workers to fulfill Broomshop demands for help. Last year the Broomshop sold over 350,000 worth of brooms and shipped them into 23 states. So great is the popular- ity of the Broomshop products that the factory is able to offer a larger variety of brooms to place on the mar- ket. Examples include toy brooms, parlor brooms, house brooms, janitor brooms, an d rayon or cotton mop heads. One of the last steps in making a broom is placing the label on it before it's finally packaged. Jerald Gottfried com- pletes another of the many hundreds of brooms that pass through his hands each day. Mr. Olderbak is responsible for pro- ducing not only brooms but quite a va- riety of products. Here he displays one of the long-wearing rayon mop heads. Handling the broom stitcher requires both skill and speed. After the broomcorn is wound onto the handle Arthur Blood stitches the corn together, making the broom flat.