Newsprint Shortage
Serious, Not Likely
To Get Much Better
By MARTIN PACKMAN
Washington Supplies of the
paper on which your newspaper
is printed have been scarce, are
scarce, and will continue scarce
for an indefinite period. Pro
duction of newsprint in both
Canada and the United States
is running at record levels, but
consumption also is greater than
ever before, and newspapers are
having trouble getting all the
' paper they want at reasonable
prices.
Cranston Williams, general
manager of the American News
paper Publishers Association,
has called the current market
"the tightest we have ever had,
when there has been no form of
government restrictions or con
trols." The Commerce Depart
ment has predicted a substantial
deficit for some years to come.
And it stated last January: "At
this point there is little knowl
edge as to how the anticipated
deficit after 1958 will be over
come." Inventories Down
Demand was so great last year
that some 56,000 tons of news
print had to be withdrawn from
publishers' inventories. Toward
the end of the year, newsprint
manufacturers were receiving
more orders than they could fill
and had to cut deliveries from
5 to 13 Vz per cent. On top of
that, major producers hiked
their prices about $4 a ton. The
New York delivered price now
is $130 and gray-market prices
ranging as high as $250 a ton
have been reported. At $130 a
ton, the cost of newsprint is
more than double what it was
at the end of the war.
The United States now de
pends on Canada for about 80
per cent of the newsprint used
by its daily and weekly news
papers. Most Canadian produc
tion is concentrated in Quebec
and Ontario. Thus, little Amer-
lean pressure can be exerted on
the biggest segment of the in
'dustry to hold prices at fair
levels.
High Cost Business
Making newsprint is a high
cost, long-term affair. A single
mill may require investment of
$30 million to $48 million and
may take as long as two to five J
years to get into production.
The industry remembers the
overproduction and ruinously
low prices of the depression
years; it is understandably re-
luctant to expand its facilities.
American newspapers, grow
ing fatter every year, have been
using more and more newsprint.
Daily circulation has risen more
than 17 million during the last
15 years. The amount of news
print used to print advertising
has zoomed some 150 per cent
since 1941.
To ameliorate the problem of
persistent shortages, efforts are
being made to expand the out
put of American newsprint
mills. Although there is no pros
pect that the United States will
become self-sufficient at any
early date, greater production
at home is obviously desirable.
Plans recently announced call
for the addition of anywhere
from 600,000 to 800,000 tons of
capacity to the U.S. total by the
end of 1958.
New Mills
Two new mills will be built
in the South, one at Mobile,
Ala., the other at Pine Bluff,
Ark. New machines will be put
into existing mills at Calhoun,
Tenn.; Coosa Pines, Ala.; Luf
kin, Tex.; and Woodland, Me.
Construction of other mills in
Colorado and Florida is reported
to be under consideration.
Attempts are under way also
to increase newsprint supplies
by developing new raw material
sources and processes. In recent
years the use of hardwoods to
make pulp has increased, and
there are prospects that even
larger quantities will be utilized
in the future, thanks to the de
velopment of the so-called
chemi-groundwood process.
The possibility of making
newsprint from de-inked news
papers has been revived by the
development of a process which,
though still in the experimental
stage, is considered promising.
On the other hand, the increased
production of newsprint from
bagassee (sugar cane residue)
does not appear likely "for the
near future," according to the
Commerce Department.
Floods, Tornadoes
Plague Southland;
Snow in Carolina
By UNITED PRESS
Spring and winter weather
waged a cross-country battle to
day, touching off floods, a torna
do, and Southland snows.
The battle line stretched from
the Rockies to North Carolina.
Texas was hardest hit with a
tornado which ripped through
Hovey Monday night and flash
floods which boiled up follow
ing five inches of rain.
Ground Turned While
A southeast New Mexico hail
storm turned the ground white,
while heavy snow was reported
near Williamston, N.C. Thunder
storms rumbled today from
northern Texas eastward into
Tennessee, North Carolina, arid
Virginia.
The Hovey tornado tore
through the center of the small
west Texas town. It ripped out
all power and communications
lines, but miraculously refrained
from causing serious damage.
A deputy from Pecos made a
tour of the area and reported
there were no injuries.
Central Texas Drenched
Downpours drenched central
Texas, causing floods around a
Crooked line in the area of Cole
man, Brownwood, Commanche,
Dublin, Valera and Stephenville.
The rain-swollen Bosque river
spilled into 100 Stephenville
homes and rescue workers set
out in boats to take residents
from house-tops in Valera.' Most
Coleman county roads were
blocked and traffic was at a
standstill.
Temperatures contrasted wide
ly on either side of the cold
front.
Barkley Ranked High
As Teller of Stories
spot with Eisenhower 3 col hed
Washington U.R) Alben
Barkley ranked close to Abra
ham Lincoln as a master story
teller and political wit.
He used his homespun yarns
and quips not only to entertain
his friends, but also to win over
and sometimes to wither his
opposition.
Some of his best:
Perhaps his classic tale was
one Barkley called "The true
story of the ungrateful constitu
ent." It involved a farmer for
whom Barkley had done many
favors in Washington.
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During a crucial campaign,
Barkley suddenly heard that
the farmer -was going to vote
against hmi. Amazed, he ap
proached the farmer and recited
all the things he had done in the
farmer's behalf over numerous
years.
"Yeah," the farmer sneered,
"but what have you done for me
lately?"
' When the wedding reception
was over after his marriage to
the present Mrs. Barkley in
1949, the bride ruefully ob
served that she hated to leave and
go out "and face that mess
again" meaning a mob of well
wishers. "That's no mess," Barkeley
told her. "That's the American
people."
Barkely was fond of quoting a
letter supposedly addressed to
Dorothy Dix.
"Dear Miss Dix," it said. "I
am in -love with a beautiful girl
of fine character and I want to
marry her. But there are some
things I am ashamed of. She
knows about my sister who is a
prostitute, my brother who is in
the penitentiary and my uncle
who is in an insane asylum. But
she doesn't know about my two
cousins who are Republicans.
"Should I tell her?"
When Barkeley was Senate
majority leader, there was an oc
casion when former President
Truman forgot to keep in touch
with him about legislative strat
egy on a suddenly proposed
change in the tax laws.
, "I feel like a catcher in a night
ball game," Barkley told a
White House aide. "They not
only fail to give me signals from
the bench but sometimes they
switch off the lights just as the
pitcher throws the ball."
Tax Assessor Has
Reply at Fingertips
Grand Rapids, Mich. U.PJ
City Assessor Harold A. Linn is
all set for complaining taxpay
ers who say, "I'll bet the valua
tion on ycur house is pretty
low." t
Lynn just opens a record book
which shows the valuation on
his own home has been raised
from $5,100 to $6,900 during the
past two years.
"You're a darn fool to raise
your own tax bill," one taxpayer
told him. "It does cost me a lit
tle money, but it answers ques
tions like yours," Linn replied.
Tuesday. Mar I 1958
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Eisenhower, Truman Lead Nation
in Mourning Death of Barkley
Washington (U.R) Presi
dent Eisenhower and former
President Truman today led the
nation in mourning the death of
Sen. Alben W. Barkley.
Mr. Eisenhower said In a
statement issued shortly after
he learned of Barkley's death
that he was "shocked" by Bark
ley's "sudden" passing.
"As vice-president of the Uni
ted States, a member of Con
gress and senator from Ken
tucky, Mr. Barkley had a long
and distinguished record of pub
lic service for the people of his
state and country," the Presi
dent said. "The nation is poorer
by this tragic event.
"Mrs. Eisenhower and I join
with all other Americans in ex
tending our heart-felt sympathy
to his family."
Personal Message
The President also sent a per
sonal message of condolence to
Mrs. Barkley.
At Huron, S.D., where he was
scheduled to make a speech last
night, Mr. Truman expressed his
sadness. It was -'the Truman
Barkley team that carried the
Democrats through their finest
hour in the surprise 1948 presi
dential election victory.
"I'm just as sorry as I can be
to hear of Sen. . Barkley's pass
ing," Mr. Truman said. "He was
one of the finest men I ever
knew.
"He was a great congressman,
a great senator and one of the
greatest vice-presidents of this
nation, and a citizen that the
United States can always be
proud of."
Vice-President Richard M.
Nixon, who insisted three years
ago that only Barkley be known
as "the Veep," joined other Re
publicans and Democrats in
laying aside all party differences
to mourn the death of one of the
best-liked men in the capital.
Respected by All
"Sen. Barkley was loved and
respected by all those who were
privileged to know him, regard
less of their political affiliation,"
Nixon said. "He was, and will al
ways remain, in the hearts of the
American people, the one and
only Veep."
Former Vice-President John
Nance Garner called him "one
of the great statesmen of our
generation.'
Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt, widow
of the late President Franklin
D. Roosevelt, said Barkley's
death "will be felt greatly by
the country ... he was a fine
man." .
Adlai E. Stevenson, who won
the 1952 Democratic nomination
that Barkley had sought, said
"no American of his time has
been more respected and more
beloved." Stevenson's statement
was sent here from Oregon,
where he is campaigning for the
1956 nomination.
Sen. Estes Kefauver (D-Tenn.)
said Barkley's death will be
"deeply felt in a very personal
way by millions of Americans
who saw 'in him a personifica
tion of the best of the qualities
we seek in our national leaders."
Kefauver telephoned his state
ment from Florida where he is
campaigning for the 1956 Demo
cratic nomination.
'Deep Personal Shock'
Senate Democratic Leader
Lyndon B. Johnson (Tex., who
like the President is a heart at
tack victim, called Barkley's
Blind Youth Works
Toward Ministry
Alliance, O. U.R) Lyle De
Puy, 21, totally blind for eight
years, has begun his second se
mester at Mount Union College
here with a purpose.
DePuy says he got his call to
enter the ministry while serving
as organist for a Texas church in
1952 during one of his annual
jaunts that have' taken him for
thousands of miles around the
country as a hitch-hiker.
"I had been playing there
about three weeks when I real
ized my call to serve Christian
ity," -DePuy said. He left Texas
at once for Cleveland to com
plete his high school work so he
could train for the ministry.
ROMANCE WINS
Tampa, Fla. U.R) The draft
board here agreed to delay
Heinz Bachmann's induction
into the service for 22 days in
order to let him marry his Ger
man sweetheart, who was en
route here by boat when Heinz
was called.
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death "a deep personal shock."
He said Barkley "carved out a
place for himself in American
history not only as a great leader
but a man who occupied a warm
spot in the hearts of his coun
trymen." Speaker Sam Rayburn (D
Tex.) said he and Barkley en
tered Congress the same day in
1913 and served on the same
committee 14 years before Bark
ley went to the Senate.
"He was a great legislator,
fundamental statesman and a
great American. With his friends
and loved ones I shall miss him
always," Rayburn said.
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