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Savannah's late, great Chemist Charles Holmes Herty spent the last eight years of his life trying to make commercial newsprint out of Southern pines. In his laboratory he found a process that worked, but he died in 1938, before the South's lumbermen could build him a mill. What kept Dr. Herty at his labors (and excited many a Southern businessman) was the prospect of another rich, new industry to help along the South's industrial revival...
Three weeks ago, in Lufkin, Tex., the Daily News went on the street printed throughout on Southern-pine newsprint. It was the first newspaper ever to use a commercially made Southern-pine paper. Last week the Dallas Morning News followed suit, ran off an edition on 35 tons of Southern newsprint. By week's end, seven carloads of the paper Dr. Herty labored to perfect had been delivered to the Morning News press rooms...
...Awaiting Maritime Commission approval were requests to sell two ships to Panama to carry grain to the United Kingdom, France, Belgium and Holland; one ship to Canadian International Paper Co. to transport newsprint to the U. S. and Great Britain...
While the late great Industrial Chemist Charles Holmes Herty was still at work on his process to make newsprint from the pesky, resinous southern pine, Rayonier had put its research staff of twelve Ph.D.s to work in its laboratory in Shelton, Wash, on a process for using southern pine for rayon pulp. Laboratory-proved, their process had its production test on Dec. 6 when the Fernandina plant turned out its first batch of pulp, 30 tons. For the South, proud of industrial growth, it was also a first: today Fernandina is the only producer of bleached sulfite pulp from southern...
...year for the newspaper business was 1939. Europe's war sent U. S. circulations soaring in September. But labor has gone up, newsprint is higher, State and Federal taxes have steadily mounted. Advertising revenues have gone down. A modern newspaper must have a leased wire service, color comics, syndicated columns to build its circulation. All these come high. With one week still to go, 1939 had seen the end of 75 daily newspapers, 25 more than...