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office, and others. The barbershop is now in the new Student
Center building (Dining Hall), and the Transportation Department,
first aid and infirmary, have been moved into other old buildings
(to be wrecked later). The legal office, together with Church
Administration offices, has been moved into rented space, off
campus and over a drugstore. The News Bureau has been moved into
a new temporary, portable building. And those two larger old
houses from which they moved have been demolished and cleared away,
to make room for the new Administration Building which WE HOPE we
may begin constructing next year.
The Printing Plant
Our printing plant has outgrown its quarters, and been moved to
larger (but old) buildings four times in the last nine years. Today
the main printing plant, housing the presses, folding machines and
mailing room, are in a remodeled former lumber shed which a new
freeway will replace; the composing and typesetting room is in
another leased building a block and a half away; and the bindery in
still another building almost a mile away from the campus.
We are FORCED to construct, off campus, and the other side of
the new soon-to-be-built freeway, a new printing plant of 170,000
square feet of floor space. A second big web-fed press is on order
in England, due to arrive late next fall.
Since we moved into our present main printing plant, the State
Highway Commission has routed the new freeway to go right through
it! We MUST MOVE IT!
If we are to continue publishing The PLAIN TRUTH, books and
booklets, and the Correspondence Course, the printing plant must
expand. That, with the broadcasting, is the very lifeblood of
God's Work!
Architects are now working on plans for this new printing plant
-- put it all under one roof. Almost half of it will be housed in
an older existing building -- about 70,000 square feet -- which we
have purchased (but do not yet have possession).
We have acquired most of the remainder of a whole square block
for this purpose. It, also, is in this semi-slum area, but across
the Union Pacific tracks, and across from the soon-to-be-
constructed new freeway. In this area, now being upgraded into a
modern, light manufacturing district, we can build with low-cost-
type construction.
It is vital that the printing plant be housed all under one
roof. It is a MOST important phase of God's Work. And our
Pasadena printing plant is now one of the largest on the west coast
of the United States.
Now Television
Also in this area we MUST construct a new television studio --
IF we are to go on television coast to coast in the U.S. and
Canada. In a way, we are already on T.V.. But we are only on a
minor UHF station -- channel 22 in Los Angeles -- and it has very
few viewers. We are not now equipped to produce programs of a
quality that the VHF stations would accept (channels 2 to 13).
Equipment to produce that kind of programs could not be housed in
present quarters -- MUST be in a new T.V. studio.
However, the present programs on Channel 22 are giving Garner