Show southern pulp may lower costs of U S newspapers largely dependent on high priced canadian and scandinavian mills for the millions of tons of newsprint it uses annually the U S publishing industry has long been looking forward to the development in this country of a low priced newsprint that would bring down production costs such a newsprint was successfully made and used in the south responsible for the discovery of the new southern newsprint was the late savannah ga chemist charles H herty hoping to open up a rich new industry that would speed the unfolding of the mouths industrial wings he began experimenting early in the thirties to rind find out whether commercial newsprint could be made from the common fast growing southern pine already the foundation of the kraft paper industry low grade paper used to make some paper bags herty discovered that it could but he died in 1938 before mills could be built that could make the southern pine newsprint in commercial quantities however the southern newspaper publishers association sponsored construction 0 of f a mill based on the herty process at lufkin texas it was this mill recently completed I 1 that was turning out the new newsprint last week among the papers using it were the shreveport la times the little rock ark democrat the lufkin daily news first to use the new paper and the dallas morning news reports were that it met every expectation that it fed evenly took tension well and reproduced pictures clearly hardly had the success of the new southern newsprint been established when C P winslow director of the 11 forest products laboratory in madison wis made the announcement that it could be produced even cheaper |