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Size: 2 boxes (1 linear feet) Acquisition: Gift, 1990 Access: Open for research Processed by: |
Lloyd G. Schenck was the manager of the Lufkin office of Perkins- Goodwin Company, New York paper brokers who handled the Southland Paper Mills business. Schenck later worked as a Lufkin News writer, sometimes writing articles about his experiences with Southland Mills and people associated with the Mill and Perkins-Goodwin Company. He was also a member of the Kurth Memorial Library Board in the 1940's. This small collection consists of early documents and later papers relating to Southland Mills which were collected by Schenck.
(Angelina County Historical Survey Committee. Land of the Little Angle; A History of Angelina County, Texas. Lufkin, Texas: Lufkin Printing Company, 1976. pp. 110, 123).
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BOX 1
Folder 1: First draft of Development of Southland Paper Mills, as of Sept.21, 1939, prepared from old records of Lloyd Schenck.
Folder 2: Correspondence, 1937-1958.
Folder 3: Contract and sample letters for purchase of newsprint, 1939.
Folder 4: Newsprint sheet sizes and data, ca. 1939.
Folder 5: Roll sizes, 1939.
Folder 6: Tonnage figures for purchase of newsprint by newspapers, 1939-1950.
Folder 7: Texas papers using rolls who replied to questionnaires, 1940.
Folder 8: Southland contract tonnage distribution, 1940-1958, inclusive, report prepared by L. G. Schenck, 1959
Folder 9: Perkins- Goodwin Co., Statistical Sales Summary of Southland Paper Mills, Inc., Period 1940- 1959 inclusive.
Folder 10: Memo, by Lloyd G. Schenck, regarding shipments made and remaining on domestic contracts, 1946.
Folder 11: Clippings from the Lufkin News, "N. A. Newsprint Capacity vs. Possible Demand," 1957.
Folder 12: "Miscellaneous Matters," by Lloyd G. Schenck, a report on mill activities for 1957 and 1958, January 1959.
Folder 13: Sample from Southland's first roll of newsprint, 1940.
Folder 14: Pamphlets, "History of Southland's Development," and "Southland Paper Mills, Inc.," 1949, 1959.
Folder 15: Programs of "Ten Year Club" banquets, 1950, 1952.
BOX 2
Folder 1: 'History - North American Newsprint Industry," by Lloyd G. Schenck, 1954.
Folder 2: Newspaper articles relating to paper mills in the South, ca. 1935-ca. 1940.
Folder 3: Newspaper and newsletter articles relating to paper mills and people associated with them, including particularly Louis Calder, in the South, 1951-1959.
Folder 4: Newspaper articles as above, 1960-1969.
Scrapbook: contains newspaper articles, reports, letters, and political cartoons regarding the use of Texas pine for newsprint and the opening and dedication of Southland as the first newsprint mill in Texas. Also includes original issue stock subscriptions (1939) and Securities and Exchange Commission Registration Statement and Amendment (1938).
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