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Size:1 box, 1 bundle (1.5 linear feet) Acquisition: Gift, 1990 Access: Open for research Processed by: |
Southland Paper Mills, Inc. was organized on June 13, 1938. Chief investor and first president was Ernest L. Kurth. On May 27, 1939, the mill site was dedicated to Charles H. Herty, the person who brought the project about by insisting that the South could produce commercial newsprint. On January 17, 1940, production of the first commercial newsprint made of Southern pine was begun at the mill located near Lufkin because of the wood, water, fuel, and transportation available there. Within the first ten years of operation, a second newsprint machine was needed. In 1966, St. Regis Paper Company purchased the Southland stock that had been owned by the Louis Calder Foundation and various Calder family members. In the summer of 1977, St. Regis bought out the remaining shares of Southland. Champion International Corporation bought St. Regis in September 1984, making it the industry's largest manufacturer of "white paper" and the second largest domestic producer of newsprint.
Southland's Lufkin mill pioneered the way to Southern paper production, therefore, making it an important part of American history.
These records, donated by a long-time Southland employee, represent only a small portion of the company's business records. In 1990, the bulk of the records were located at the company's office in Lufkin.
The collection consists of annual reports meeting minutes, history and activities of the company and other items relating to the business.
For earlier documents see L.G. Schenck Southland Paper Mills Collection
[B-55]
BOX 1
Folder 1: Southland history, statistics, and Securities and Exchange Commission annual report for 1974, ca. 1946-1982.
Folder 2: Southland annual report, 1939-1949.
Folder 2a: Southland annual report, 1950-1959.
Folder 3: Southland annual report, 1960-1969.
Folder 4: Southland annual report, 1970-1976.
Folder 5: St. Regis annual report, 1983.
Folder 6: Champion annual report (& brochure "Ideas on Paper"),1984.
Folder 7: Champion annual report (& brochure "Champion Makes Paper"), 1985.
Folder 8: Board of Directors annual meeting, 1948.
Folder 9: Board of Directors annual meeting, 1958.
Folder 10: Board of Directors annual meeting (and reports), 1963.
Folder 11: Board of Directors annual meeting, 1966.
Folder 12: Board of Directors annual meeting, 1968.
Folder 13: Notices to stockholders and employees, 1948-1949.
Folder 14: Stockholders lists, 1948-1950.
Folder 15: Stockholders annual meeting, 1958.
Folder 16: Shareholders meeting, 1977.
Folder 17: Shareholders annual meeting notice/letter, 1984.
Folder 18: Southland balance sheet/income statement, 1941-1942.
Folder 19: Monthly financial meeting minutes, 1973.
Folder 20: Southland Paper quarterly report, 1977.
Folder 21: Correspondence, General, 1947-1955.
Folder 22: Correspondence re use of Prisoners of War, 1944-1945.
Folder 23: Correspondence with Congressman Lindley Beckworth, Wright Patman, et al, 1948.
Folder 24: Correspondence re patent cases with attorneys Andrews, Kurth, Campbell, et al, 1951.
Folder 25: Correspondence with attorneys Andrews, Kurth, et al, 1961.
Folder 26: Correspondence, Personal, 1972, 1982.
Folder 27: Southland office memos, 1940, 1959/60, 1971-1973.
Folder 28: Southland war production, 1943.
Folder 29: Agreement with Deerfield Company re: building a new mill (XYZ), 1946-1947.
Folder 30: Agreement with Deerfield Company re: building a new mill (XYZ), 1947.
Folder 31: Agreement with Texas Power and Light re: service in emergencies, 1945.
Folder 32: Southland tour of plant for newspaper representatives, 1941.
Folder 33: New paper machine startup celebration, 1948.
Folder 34: Open house (tour of mill), 1959.
Folder 35: Shutdowns, 1958-1966.
Folder 36: Strike against Southland, news articles, notices, etc., 1965.
Folder 37: Southland Safety Manual and memos, ca. 1965, 1984.
Folder 38: Humorous file, includes "How to Make a Piece of Paper," ca. 1965.
Folder 39: Southland Mill, colored aerial photo off-print, ca. 1975.
Folder 40: Paper samples, 1940.
Folder 41: Policies, Procedures position descriptions duties and responsibilities of employees, 1969-1973.
Folder 42: Champion: "Salaried Employees' Benefits" brochure, 1985.
Folder 43: Letters and notices to employees from E. L. Kurth, 1941, 1950.
Folder 44: Southland "Ten-Year Club" annual banquet, 1950-1951, 1953, 1958-1964.
Folder 45: St. Regis service awards pamphlet, ca. 1980.
Folder 46: St. Regis and Champion annual service awards banquet, 1983, 1987.
Folder 47: "Woodlands Newsletter" Personnel Department, 1960.
Folder 48: "Weekly Release" newsletter of Personnel Dept., 1960.
Folder 49: "Weekly Release" newsletter of Personnel Dept., 1961.
Folder 50: "Weekly Release" newsletter of Personnel Dept., 1962-1963.
Folder 51: Southland News, for employees, August-November, 1951.
Folder 52: "News at Southland Paper," newsletter for employees, 1967.
Folder 53: The Southlander, for employees, Winter 1968-Autumn 1969.
Folder 54: The Southlander, for employees and friends, 1970-1972.
Folder 55: The Southlander, for employees and friends, 1973-1979.
Folder 56: Update, for employees. 1980-1984.
Folder 57: Update, for employees, 1984-1986.
Folder 58: "The Champion Report," newsletter for employees, 1985.
Folder 59: The Champion Magazine, No. 14, 1985.
Folder 60: "The Wire," newspaper of Champion Corp., Dec./Jan. 1989/1990.
Folder 61: Southland Papers Mills, Inc. brochure, cat 1960.
Folder 62: St. Regis subject publication, "Omnimanagement," 1979.
Folder 63: Champion brochure, "The Life of the Forest," 1985.
Folder 64: Champion St. Regis articles, 1985.
Folder 65: News releases, 1973.
Folder 66: Radio spot announcements, promoting Southland, 1962.
Folder 67: Report on newsprint production, by H. S. Smith, 1943.
Folder 68: Speech to Lufkin Rotary Club, "Research and Development," 1947.
Folder 69: Speech to Lufkin Rotary Club, "The Paper Industry and the Southland Mill," 1947.
Folder 70: Speech to Center Rotary Club, "The Paper Industry and the Southland Mill," 1950.
Folder 71: Personal, E. L. Kurth's death and funeral, 1960.
Folder 72: Personal, J. H. Kurth, Jr. correspondence re his death, 1968.
Folder 73: Personal, Melvin E. Kurth, Jr., 1972.
Folder 74: Personal, W. L. McHale's correspondence and death, 1957.
Folder 75: Southern Newspaper Publishers Assn. Bulletin re opening of Southland Paper Mills 1940.
Folder 76: Lufkin Daily News special section, Ernest L. Kurth Appreciation Day, Dec. 1949.
Folder 77: Newspaper clippings about Southland, 1945-1978.
Folder 78: Southland article in Southern Pulp and Paper Manufacturer, Jan. 1975.
Folder 79: Southland Day luncheon, Angelina County Chamber of Commerce, 1954.
Folder 80: Newspaper clippings about Kurth family, 1949-1974.
Folder 81: Newspaper clippings about paper industry, 1951-1975.
Folder 82: Newspaper clippings, other, 1941-1974.
Folder 83: Angelina County Chamber of Commerce brochures, 1952.
Folder 84: Lufkin, proposed charter, 1965.
Folder 85: National Council for Stream Improvement Annual Report, 1946-1947.
Folder 86: Income data on U.S. and Canadian paper companies, 1950, 1367.
Folder 87: Pamphlets re work-related issues, 1958, 1982.
Folder 88: American Forest Products brochures, 1953/54, 1955/56.
Folder 89: Article re castor oil research, ca. 1939.
Folder 90: News Print Service Bureau Reports, 1945-1947.
Folder 91: Organization chart, unknown company, n.d.
Folder 92: Brochures on Communism, 1956, 1964.
Bundle 1:
Southland Mill customers mastheads, ca. 1950.
"Southern Newsprint Pioneer: The Lufkin Mill, Celebrating 50 years of Progress, 1940-1990."
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