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A Taylor newspaper legend

A Taylor newspaper legend
Retired Taylor newspaper legend Lomis Weber (center) enjoys the flowers growing in his front yard. He is accompanied by his daughter Sandy Weber Baker Tharp and son Mark Weber. Photo by Tim Crow

OUR TOWN

One of my early role models for a strong work ethic and future career success was Lomis Weber at the Taylor Daily Press. I was 17 at the time and had been promoted from delivering newspapers to working in the circulation office and in the pressroom.

Lomis was the foreman of everything from the composing room where large, blank sheets of graph paper on slanted boards became newspaper pages filled with headlines, stories and advertisements, to finished copies of the newspaper rolling off the presses.

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