Dec 1961 - Mar 1974

Johnson Morey Litho and Johnson Publishing Co.

  Bill Morey that ran the Forney Arc Welders Printing Facilities in Fort Collins, CO. joined in Partnership with Ray Johnson to open the Johnson Morey Litho in 1961 in Loveland, CO. I soon thereafter started working for Bill Morey by painting inside and out the building located at 102 W. Fourth St. in Loveland, CO. The building was once used by a Feed Store, by 1974 Ray Johnson had owned the entire block. Photo of building taken on visit July 1997, upper right.

  I started working in the bindery, putting covers on books, graduated as a folder operator, a pressman, a Linotype Operator as shown by the certificate. Bill Morey soon left the partnership and Ray Johnson took over the full operation of the plant.

Besides the opportunity of working for this great man, Mr. Ray Johnson, for 13 years. The three most memorial events that happened there was his death in the airplane crash and the injury that I sustained on the job. The insurance carrier for the Workman Compensation Board fought me tooth and nail for my injury benefits, till Mr. Johnson stepped in and said, �Paul got hurt while working for me, I pay the insurance premiums, now get with it and make it right for Paul to collect his disabilities.� Lastly was the assassination of our 35th President John F. Kennedy November 22, 1963.

  Ray Johnson had an employees profit sharing program and a paid life insurance policy program. I have since cashed out on the profit sharing, but still have 10 paid life insurance policies, one for each year I qualified for.

  The bottom three photo were taken in the 1970's of a gathering of the employees of JP Co at the home of Don and Sybil Arns, all of which started working there at the approximate same time in the early 1960's.

Wedding Reception of Julie Ann Dale and David Merlyn Schram

This event took place 29 November 1976. I remember it well. At that time I had a Camper on a pick-up. Almost everyone here in Vancouver left after bowling on a Wednesday night. We had fun going over the passes in Montana, slipping and sliding all over the place.

The real excitement came later though. One morning we woke up in the camper and couldn't get out. The door had frozen shut. With a little pulling from the outside and me damaging my shoulder from the inside we finally got out.

In the photo Mom Dale is giving Rosie Marie Dale a hug and Paula June Dale Finch sitting in the background.

6 August 1974 I applied to the Veterans Administration for a G. I. Loan for the purchase of the house where we presently live in Vancouver, Washington.

The view of the very beginning of the eruption of Mount Saint Helen's was taken from our front yard, 18 May 1980. The other picture was one taken of the third eruption later that month while we were in Florence, Oregon at a bowling tournament. They were selling pictures of the individual bowlers, so I said what the heck and purchased this one of me. Good form isn�t it?

During the years of 1979 through 1981 I decided that I wanted to put a print shop here at home while I was also working for CF, in Portland, OR. Shown below was my Business Card. I worked up quite a clientele before selling the business for $5 thousand. The cost of the equipment was about $6 thousand, so I didn�t do too badly. �SP�s� stood for Slim Pickins, that was my CB handle and it fit in well with this business, mainly because I didn�t charge enough for the jobs that I did.