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Show Newsprint To Be Scarce Coming Year Publishers this week heard a discouraging view of the newsprint news-print situation, as printing and publishing industry officials united unit-ed with the Census Bureau to initiate in-itiate a survey of their facilities. Declaring that exports from Canada and Newfoundland cannot can-not be expected to increase and that no large supplies will be forthcoming from the Scandinavian Scandinav-ian couutries. Franklin Schurz, vice-president of the South Bend Tribune, told members of the Inland In-land Daily Press Association at' Chicago that publishers should plan to operate next year on the same supply of newsprint as this year. Meanwhile, newspapers throughout through-out the country, mainly those in the Texas, Oklahoma and Southwest South-west areas, affected by the strike of British Columbia loggers and sawmill workers, had announced drastic cuts in number of pages and advertising. Representatives of 13 major Texas papers, including includ-ing those in Houston, Dallas and San Antonio, decided to cut their" newsprint consumption 50 percent at a meeting of the Texas Newspaper News-paper Publishers' Association. |