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...seven carloads came (as did Lufkin's paper) from a new $6,000,000 newsprint plant, built by Southland Paper Mills, Inc. outside of Lufkin. Southland Paper was financed by sale of $1,742,000 worth of stock (of which Southern newspaper publishers took $425,000) and a $3,425,000 loan from RFC. His publisher-stockholders contracted with President Ernest Lynn Kurth, onetime lumberman, to take his entire output for five years...
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...
...Duke's band has broken all records at the Southland during his present stay--a sign that he is finally stepping from the pedestal he has always occupied in the musical world to the attention of the dance public as a whole...
...those of you that are interested, Jack Teagarden's band comes into Southland next Monday for two weeks, then Teddy Powell's band, and on February 19, the Kansas City cyclone, Count Basie returns for a couple...
...whereas most people think that their complicated style takes months of rehearsal on each thing. I could ramble on for pages about this bunch. Suffice it to say that practically every critic thinks they are the biggest and most important thing in jazz, and get ye down to the Southland to hear them. By the way, the Duke will be at Briggs and Briggs this afternoon at three thirty. Drop over and meet him--it's worth...