Items for Layoff Auction announced

Announcement from Chas. Montague on Layoff Auction:
E-mail cmontague@thebeaconjournal.com with your item numbers and how many tickets you want for each. I will then pull the tickets and set them aside until I receive your money. Then I will put your tickets into that item's bag and hold your duplicates for the drawing. The date of the drawing has not been set, but I will give fair notice and notify you on anything you win and get it to you.

For simplicity's sake, just make checks payable to me. If you don't want to trust me on all this, decide how much you would've spent on raffle tickets, add $50 and send a donation straight to the Layoff Fund.

How would you like to have your own photo face mask of the departed Jim Crutchfield? Or, the 1971 pter Pulitzer Prize medallion key chain with the laminated double-truck of our coverage reporting that Prize? Or, a ‘‘Blue-Collar Mentality and Proud Of It'' T-shirt?

LET THE LAYOFF FUND RAFFLE TICKET-BUYING BEGIN
These are the items as of 9/11. There may be more.
Tickets for items 1 through 24 are $1 apiece, or six for $5.
Tickets for items 25 and 26 are $5 apiece or four for $15.
For $34, you can have a chance to win all of these.

1. First, because she'll always be first: Frances B. Murphey ‘‘You Do It One Day At a Time’’ photo bookmark from May 1996 farewell, with a Courtesy of Fran Murphey matchbook (latter donated by Jim Kavanagh).
2. Second, because he would've wanted the first item to be first: The better-paper-stock tabloid-size magazine tribute to John Shively Knight that we put together and published after his death in June 1981.
3. NEVER-BEFORE-SEEN OUTSIDE OF THE PRINTERS CLUB ON A DARK DECEMBER NIGHT: Yes, it's the photo face masks of your Beacon Journal bosses used for the legendary skits at the annual Guild Christmas party. The first winning ticket gets first choice, and the next winner chooses until all 20 are gone. A list of the faces is at the end.
4. The great notes on bosses'-name note pads that used to appear on the bulletin board the day after an election congratulating us on our great coverage. We don't have the notes, but we have be blank note pads. Again, the first winning ticket gets first choice, and the next winner chooses until all are gone. There are 19 note pads, but since we have a 2.5-inch stack of Bob Jodon note pads, there will be three winners for him Each the first 20 winners of face masks and note pads will also receive a Courtesy of Fran Murphey matchbook (matchbooks donated by Ted Schneider). Again, a list of name note pads is at the end.
5. The series of five special Beacon Journal sections, each in the typefaces, layouts and headline styles of the years it covers, put out from June 29, 1975, to July 4, 1975 to mark the 150th anniversary of Akron. You'll see strange bylines ` By Kathy Fraze ` and strange photo credits ` Ted R. Schneider Jr. photo, Dennis Gordon photo.
6. The July 4, 1976, bicentennial edition of the Akron Beacon Journal.
7. The Jan. 17, 1991, ‘‘WE'RE AT WAR’’ edition of of the Akron Beacon Journal, reporting the start the night before of the Persian Gulf War, the first one, the one that ended. This item includes a comprehensive double-truck map published a couple days later.
8. The Dec. 31, 1999, Akron Beacon Journal special sections on The Story of the Century.
9. The April 30, 2000, special section of the Akron Beacon Journal marking the 30th anniversary four days later of the Kent State shootings.
10. The Sept. 11, 2001, Extra edition of the Akron Beacon Journal: ‘‘OH, MY GOD"
10A. The Sept. 12, 2001, edition of the Akron Beacon Journal: ‘‘WHO DID THIS?’’

T-SHIRTS ARE BACK:
11. The legendary I Survived the Reorganization of 1980 T-shrt. The old clock tower says JB instead of BJ. (I may have two more of these
coming. One winner per shirt). Donated by Ted Schneider
12. Oh Oh MTX ERROR. WHEN IN DOUBT, REBOOT. Donated by Paula Scheis.B
13. Blue Collar Mentality and Proud of It. Akron Newspaper Guild, Local 7. (There may be others of this, as well.) Donated by Ted Schneider.
14. The Guild, Local 7, white with red stripes at neck and sleeve. Donated by Ted Schneider.
15. Akron Beacon Journal, basic blue. Donated by Paula Schlies.
16. Also in the fabric department, an Akron Beacon Journal canvas carrier's bag, with flap and padded shoulder strap. Donated by Ted Schneider.
17. Four Terry Pluto books, three donated by the author and one by Phil Masturzo. Terry has autographed his three and will customize autographs on on all four. 4 winners. They are 2 Burying the curse, How the Indians became the best team in baseball; False start, How the new Browns were set up to fail; and Dealing, The Cleveland Indians new ballgame.
18. Another book: Killing yourself to live, 85% of a true story, by Chuck Klosterman (I'm sorry, but I forget who donated this. Remind me and I will give you credit.)
19. Two winners. Each gets four of the front page glasses the Akron Beacon Journal put out in 1989 to mark the 150th anniversary of the newspaper. Six glasses donated by Mary Beth Breckenridge and two by Phil Masturzo.
20. Two winners. Each gets an ‘‘official story’’ of the Akron Beacon Journal, one booklet put out in 1964 and the other in 1974. Read about the ‘‘men of the horse-shoe copy desk.’’ Read about the Women's Department. 1964 booklet donated by Paula Schlies.
21.Combo item. A brick and a light from the old Beacon Journal clocktower, with Courtesy of Fran Murphey matchbook. One winner. Light and matchbook donated by Jim Kavanagh; brick donated by Alan Ashworthy
22. Combo item. Akron Beacon Journal mug and water bottle. One winner. Donated by Paula Schleis.
23. More paper goods. Three winners. Let Us Light Up Your Life Akron Beacon Journal bumper sticker and two Are You Hot Yet hand fans from the protracted 1997 Guild contract negotiations. I forgot who donated the bumper sticker; remind me.
24. Combo item. Up to 13 winners. All-American Soap Box Derby ball cap, with Akron Beacon Journal on the side, filled with Guild by Association sticker and 11 buttons: one Akron Newspaper Guild, Local 7; one 54 years of Loyalty, Local 7; three Don't Tread on Us, The Newspaper Guild; two Flexible, Not Breakable; one Some Respect Would Help; one Whatever Happened to Coming Together; one I am the Beacon. Donors include Jim Kavanagh and Debby Stock; remind me if you also donated.
TWO VERY SPECIAL ITEMS;; Tickets for these are $5 apiece, four for $15.
25. The pewter Pulitzer Prize medallion key chain holder given to staff members for the 1971 Prize for Kent State shootings coverage. The winner will also receive the laminated, reduced size double-truck of our coverage reporting that Prize, which I believe to be the best of our four -- three the staff won and the Prize that John S. Knight won. Medallion donated by retired reporter Dick McBane. AND I MAY HAVE ANOTHER 1971 MEDALLION COMING.
26. Men's Tissot gold-front wristwatch, analog, with second hand and date box, battery powered, sapphire crystal, leather band. The watch retails for $175.
BOILERPLATE: This raffle is being run by Chas. Montague, who is doing it unilaterally, and he will try not to be arbitrary and/or capricious. However, he will not devote time to PC- or committee- or task-force-type inquiries. All uncredited donations are by Montague or by someone he is
not going to identify.

PHOTO MASKS AND NOTE PADS

The Bob Giles note pad gets special mention because there is only one sheet and because it is unique. It says: "Beacon Journal A Knight Newspaper"

FACE MASKS
Dale Allen, Dave Cooper, Jim Crutchfield, Susan Mango Curtis, John Dotson, Al Fitzpatrick, John Greenman, Bill Hunter, Bob Jodon , Chris Harte, John S. Knight, John McMillion, Jim Nolan, Paul Poorman, Joette Riehle, Susan Schwartz, Larry Williams and Bill Winter

NOTE PADS
Maureen Brown, Dave Cooper, Jim Crutchfield (2 kinds, 2 winners), Susan Mango Curtis, John Greenman, Barbara Griffin, Chris Harte, Bill Hunter, Bob Jodon (2.5-inch stack; 3 winners) , Michelle LeComte, John McMillion, Elizabeth Patton, Tim Smith, Debbie Van Tassel, Stuart Warner, Larry Williams and Bill Winter