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Another clue comes from a study of 7,000 trees, sponsored by the Environmental Protection Agency. Scientists at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee examined 14,000 core samples of the tree trunks. Their findings: beginning in 1960, in eight Eastern states, pitch and shortleaf pines and red spruce started to show narrowing growth rings, a sign of sluggish development. Similar changes have been noted in West Germany's stricken trees...
Butting up against the heel of the Appalachian Mountains near Anniston, Ala., Fort McClellan appears to be the most placid of military bases. It is pastorally appointed with sweeping greensward, tall stands of shortleaf pine and pleasing arrangements of whitewashed command buildings fronted by old-fashioned verandas. It is a small post, with slightly more than 5,000 people. But McClellan is unique in that 2,000 of those are WACs; it is the largest WAC base in the world. What is more, 20% of the WACs are black. More than any other single factor, that probably accounts...
Paradoxically, though Lufkin's newsprint sells for only $40 to $50 a ton,* it is harder to make from Southern pine than are more expensive papers. (Texas shortleaf pine yields a newsprint thicker, less pliable than standard newsprint.) Southland's 50,000 tons a year will be no more than a drop in the 3,000,000-ton bucket of the U. S. newsprint market. But if Southland's product becomes generally acceptable, the South's newsprint industry may be due for at least a boomlet...
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