The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1939-03-30

ing area; elsewhere In the state
they will pass o~ne-variety COM
munities greater in number than
the total of any other state. They
will see at Stoneville the worlds
greatest cotton production, hand
ling and ginning experiment sta
ton, possessing the only expert
mental cotton ginning and fiber
laboratory in the United States.
Sweet potato starch will feature
one OF the discussions of the
Councils program. This new In
dustry, holding tremen us pos
sibilities for the Coastal Plains
section and cutover pine lands OF
the South. is being taken past the
experimental stage in the worlds
only sweet potato starch factory
at Laurel. Delegates to the con-
ference will inspect the plant at
first hand on their post-confer-
ence tour.
The second afternoons general
sess t,n of the conference will be
devoted to the subject Of wood
pulp and paper. a discussion set
against the concrete background
Of 500, 900. 900 invested in new
Southern pulp. Kraft, and news
print mills. Once again, the Mis-
sissippi setting will be appropri.
ate, for 1t yea from .kckson
County that came the first South.
ern pine ever to be made into
paper. A Moss Point, Mississippi.
mill was the second to operate
successfully in the South, and was
the first Sout' ern mill to make
Dleaehed Kraft paper from pine
With but n exception no other
Southern state has Mississippi's
vice variety IN pulp mills ciassi-
fled by type of wood used. No
other Southern state has Missis
sippi's variety in pulp mill pro-
d rs manufactured. Cottonwood
from the lowlands around Green
vile. Mississippi. was used by DR..
Charles II. Herty to make lex
cellent newsprint" in one OF his
last experiments with Southern
wood.
In the developing ligno-cellu-
lose plastic industry Mississippi'e
Masonic plant at Laurel is an
outstanding example and one to
be inspected by delegates to the
conference. In the new plastics
plant, a part of Masonite opera.
tions at Laurel, the South has ita
only example Of plastics made
from wood. practically q virgin
field. The standard board made
by Masonite is also OF interest to
the chemurgists. involving as II
does the s of pulp and waste
wood.
Even in the field of naval
stores, Mississippi offers for the
inspection Of the Council mem
bers an extraordinary develop
ment. Stump reduction. or com
mercial turpentine. plants are
strategically located in five South
Mississippi cities Hattiesburg,
Laurel. Gulfport. Picayune. and
Columbia. In the gum turpen.
tine division, South Mississippi
has the largest stan | Of young
growth pine to be cupped In the
Southern naval stores belt. The
season will be we'll under way
when the conference meets. with
"hoe-"al" men and "apron-stick
ers" cupping the streaked surfaces
OF the trees for the flowing resin
The delegates will find upwards
of $4,000 acres-perhaps 1870 OF
thC OuhtI . tOtdi acreage - 10
tung culture in South Mississippi
The country's largest tung vi
crushing plant at Picayune has
bsen pressing the 1898 crop sincs
last December on a 24-hour a das
schedule. Twenty. miles north OF
Picayune the Federal and State
governments are setting up 8
100000 tung experiment station
on a 440-acre section of land do
mated by l.. O. Crosby, probably
the nations largest tung grower
The "Tung Tree Trail" In Pear
River County will be ATTRACTING
tourists from over the nation.
These are some of the actiyl
ties the c~hemurgists will see II
Mississippi during the red-lette,