When Disaster Strikes

But it was no joke. The fire started in a tar truck that was reroofing the building. It quickly spread to the in-plant's roof, and then into the building.

"Almost everything was lost," Franklin recalls. "All the mailing and binding equipment were lost in the fire. The presses and typesetting equipment suffered heavy water damage from the efforts to put out the fire. We had one press, a Heidelberg two-color perfecting press that survived the fire and was later sold."