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...HOPING TO STAY AFLOAT UNTIL DAY. At dawn the ship rolled and tumbled like a half-submerged log, the red paint on her bottom plainly visible. But she floated. And out beyond her, half hidden by the smoking seas, lay a wallowing covey of rescue ships: the U.S. freighters Southland and War hawk, U.S. military transport General A. W. Greely, the Norwegian tanker H. Westfal-Larsen, the German steamship Arion, the British steamship Sherborne...
From Cape Charles to Corpus Christi, the word had spread: the election-year plan of the anti-Truman Democrats would be launched by Virginia's Senator Harry Byrd when he spoke at Selma, Ala. Advance billing implied that many of the Southland's big shots would be there...
Four others of the first ten on the team will not be able to go to the sunny southland because of studies and other reasons. Paul Tobloas, Mitch Reese, and Don Blackmer all are bogged down by thesos and other work, while Bayard Robb, a potential number three man, is out for baseball. Dick Myers, another sophomore who was expected to make the trip, also will not be able to go. In fact, Barnaby has been hard put to find ten players to accompany...
When it comes to doing something he thinks his country needs, Di Salle lets no one stand in his way. Last week it was the cotton bloc, a group which shot gaping holes through price control in World War II. This time it came marching up out of the Southland to bang away at one of the most important bulwarks of Di Salle's program-the new ceiling price on raw cotton...
...Lufkin's population. But the Kurth achievement that most East Texans boast about, and the one that is of prime importance to the Southern economy, is newsprint. Set up only nine years ago as the South's first newsprint producer, Kurth's $18 million Southland Paper Mills, Inc. last week was rolling out enough newsprint (132,718 tons last year) to supply some 70% of Southern newspapers, and was grossing $15 million a year...