There were no computers but our electric/mechanical typewriters had reached their highest state of development. For example, they could self-justify columns of copy--but to change the size of type we had to use another photo-based machine.
Cutting and pasting were done by hand with sharp knives, real scissors and a hot, waxy layout paste.
When the full-sized page layouts had been completed by my students, with black patches where the photographs would be inserted later in the process, I would take them into Honolulu where professional Hawaii Hochi newspaper technicians would photograph them, insert the offset-ready photographs and print as many copies as we wanted.
Creating our weekly newspaper was a team hands-on arts and crafts project--now gone the way of the buggy-whip and high button shoes--but lots of fun in it's time.
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