Manuscripts

Transportation - Employee policies

Description: Approx. 12 items: memo, 9/23/1953, subject - "Production - General Driver Safety Contest"; memo, 3/5/1962, "Transportation Carriers Account"; memo, 5/29/1962, "Resequencing Transportation Runs" (incl. chart of proposed runs); related memo, 6/6/1962; series of 1964 memos on transportation costs / hauling expenses; stapled packet, 1964, headed "Time Variance Analysis of Los Angeles Times truck runs" (w/ chart); stapled packet of memos (w/ chart), 1966, on Transportation Overtime.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1953, 1962, 1966
Call number: mssLAT
Creator: Los Angeles Times (Firm)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: The Los Angeles Times,
Restrictions: Open for use by qualified researchers and by appointment. Please contact Reader Services at the Huntington Library for more information.

Production - Employee Policies

Manuscripts

approx. 7 items: 9-pp. report, undated, "Changes - Policy, including personnel and work methods; 4-pp. packet of information (stapled), 2/1966, "Production Overtime"; 3 memos (stapled) 1/1967, on incentive systems / bonuses, etc.

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Information Systems - Computer Center Supervisor (8553/435)

Manuscripts

2 items: memo, 7/18/1962, to Robert Flannes on subject "Supervisory and Staff Job Evaluation for Computer Center Supervisor(Arthur Bracking) ; stapled packet, 20+ pp., on Computer Center Supervisor, Accounting Dept.

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Display rates - Orange County

Manuscripts

Single stapled packet of four items: handwritten note, 10/24/1967, from Robert D. Nelson to "VS" (Vance Stickell) ; 2-pp. memo from Bob Christy to Vance Stickell, 10/30/1967, on "Orange County Retail Rates" ; single sheet of note paper with handwritten notes ; numeric chart titled "Orange County Newspaper Retail Sales."

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Corporate Bulletins

Manuscripts

Cover letter to "All Times employees" from Otis Chandler plus booklet on "improved group insurance plan," 2/12/1965 ; letter to "Times employees and their families" from Otis Chandler on $1 million TM contribution to the profit sharing plan, 12/28/1965. Otis Chandler memo, 1/7/1966, on new secretarial assignments within his office ; 4-pp. stapled packet on Company rate increases plus a one-page chart comparing these rate increases with "cost of living" increases, 1960 - 1966, 5/1966 ; 5-pp. Management Conference Bulletin, 9/1966. Two memos stapled, one to Management, one to all Times employees, announcing "22nd consecutive Annual Company Rate Increase," 5/12/1967 ; memo from Robert Bills' Office to Blanche Saulsberry on Desk Bulletins for Suburban Offices ; bomb threats memo from Otis Chandler, 6/26/1967, stapled to 5-pp. Plant Security Manual. Otis Chandler cover memo and attached news story of 2/17/1968 on changes in the top tier of TM involving Norman Chandler, Albert Casey, Franklin Murphy and Otis Chandler ; Otis Chandler memo, 3/7/1968, on promotions and changes at LAT ; Otis Chandler memo, 5/15/1968, on the 23rd consecutive annual rate increase for LAT-TM Press employees (with chart). LAT Management Bulletin from Otis Chandler, 9/15/1969, on "the proposed merger of the Times Herald Printing Company of Dallas and Times Mirror ; Management Bulletin, 12/8/1969, from Robert D. Nelson on the promotion of James B. Grider to the position of General Manager of Times Mirror Press as of 1/1/1970.

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Organization Charts

Manuscripts

Approx. 10 items: or. chart, Times Mirror News Division, 2/9/1962 (master & one copy); Otis Chandler memo to "Management Personnel," 2/23/1962, plus "Newspaper Division and Times" org. chart, same date; dupe of previous chart; same title as previous, dated 4/2/1962; "Editorial Organization Chart, 4/6/1962; 2-pp. memo from Vance Stickell to "Display Advertising...various Times Department Heads" on "Display Advertising Organizational Structure, 4/24/1962; "Times Display Advertising Organizational Chart," (on sturdy paper) 4/24/1962; "Editorial Organizational Chart," 10/1962. a

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Pressroom 1962 Campaign

Manuscripts

35-plus items. (most items are bound or stapled together in sizable stacks) Materials include: large stapled packet of memos and reports, dated 11/1962. Subject given as "Economic information - pressroom negotiations" - incl. many charts showing increased annual costs to LAT of adhering to union guidelines; material related to strike against The Oregonian and Oregon Journal in early 1960s; "Proposed Otis Chandler Remarks" to pressmen in lead-up to vote on unionization, 1962; examples of memos, letters and other materials geared to sway pressmen away from union influences. Seven letters comprising 23 pages, pertaining to reader's correspondence. Some of the topics include Summer Camp fund, Ronald Reagan, Editorial policy on request for sponsors for immigration and missing persons.

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