When it comes to newspaper anecdotes,from the days of Barbara and Julie,  there's no end to the supply and as  will become evident, no timeline. 
None of this is in chronological order.

 Items of note...Grant Mabry, who married a Seguin woman also with the last name Mabry,was ad director and  part of the "new regime",when the "grande dame and elderly  blue-haired lady", The Seguin Gazette, then owned by John Taylor, was sold to an outside company which then   became the Seguin Gazette-Enterprise. Bill Slaughter was editor.  I also recall somewhere among those years I met a fine young gentleman, with emphasis on the word "fine and gentle"... Mr. Bill Muelker, our pressman. 

Our esteemed photographer Bill Schroeder was responsible for making many moments memorable in those days. He and Staff Writer Linda Rogers had the (in) auspicious duty of going to ALL the schools who submitted Santa letters and taking multitudes of class photos.  This added to the already hefty supply of pan developing tasks Schroeder had to accomplish. (more about pan developing later)

 Embittered by his newfound title, "Photographer to the Santa Letter Stars", he was always in the darkroom, never to see the light of day.  One day with the ever-present cigarette dangling from his Santa-induced frown, Schroeder was handing out photos to the editorial staff and someone commented that one of the names might be wrong on the cutline...his response?....."don't worry about it...they know who they are".  We all laughed and in those days we did that a lot, because if you didn't laugh, you'd definitely have to cry~