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PAGE fORTY TWOTHE MIDDLETOWN. OHIO. SUNDAY NEWS-JOURNALSUNDAY MORNING. MARCH 23. 19Strom*lt;MMoilsV(Mction MurksLocal Coni|mn\ I niqiicila vil;WiireTni\VOil IHorllt;It is strange how the complexity of modern living makes us completely unaware of what is going on all around us. If we had lived in the Middletown of 100 years ago, every activity in the community would have been known to every resident.paper mill that the Erwin the hydraulic in this veariTake, for example, that new boys just opened down there onof IlSi, Bet there isn't a man, woman, or child that doesn’t) know how much machinery there is m the mill, how many folks are working there, who they are, what they do, how much paper they produce, what kmd of paper, what it is used for, and by whom.Of course, Middletown was Just their wayvillage in 18.12 and news travel- fflashlight *with the help of ahose batteries are en- jcased in Sorg paper, and a map! printed on Sorg paper. ’• }And all over the world-—is Cape- itown. South Africa , , * in the :Australian bush ... in foxholes mKorea ... in smart bridge clubs in London, Pans, Cairo, New York. , , in a prospector1* but in the sub-zero expanses of the Yukon... m the gaming palaces ofReno and Las Vegas , . . hi your home—millions ot people will sitdown to while away a few hour*, for pleasure or profit, with a deckof Congress or Bicycle playingmaking machines with a capacity ;CJtrds mjwJlt; by toe United Statesof producing TS.CWO tons of paper jpaying card Company of Sorg 1paper. ;The list of products could go onp | and on. Lace paper, flame-1, *11 proofed paper draperies, sodat jUKt j firawi, wttU paper, jfovanimeiitMUitfew paptf mill l! Is $ki# of I greeting cariij.f Curd jthe most unique mills in the cmm* flahie ^ g„mes, catalog covers,posters—-everyday products you use ah through your life areaed fast, And. besides, there weren’t many books, and nomovies, radio, or television to occupy your attention.How different it is today. Thatsame paper mill—enlarged and expanded many times its original awn and capacity—still is located there on the hydraulic. But there isn’t a handful of people in Middletown who know what goes onin that mill.Today it i* called the Sorg Paper Company, It comprises three modern mills with six big paper*a year• * *But what kind erf paper? Now we come to the most Wresting fact about the Sorgin*try because of its versatility paper-making.inIn addition to its many stock made possible by Sorg papers.grades of paper for printing uses. Sorg has a national reputation for its ability to make a thousand* and-one special grades of paper for special converting, fabricatingby;Bo, the next ume you past the Sorg mills or see that fa*miliar bun Dial trademark, remember that, thanks to Sorg, youcould travel to the ends of theand industrial uses. The actual I earth and find there a little pieceCIIIlist of these special papers is ayard long but it is safe to say that we here in Middletown—and people ail over the world—come in contact with Sorg paper in mt form or anotherSorg makes the cover stock usedon telephone books all over theCountry, paper used in drinkingcups, lamp shades, facial tissue,window shades.* • •In thousands of offices from coast to coast, busy file clerks thumb daily through file folders that not so long ago were pulp lying in a shed down at the Sen g rmil. And tonight, thousands of rimers in night club* and restiu* rants ail over America will select j dm their evening meals frost a menuprinted on sorg papers, and u*tof Middletown in some form of paper made by the Sorg PaperCompany,duedmiha:1on.prow *napkins manufactured from Sorg craped tissue stock.'ions of building materials, ehemicals. agricultural productsdaily m multi wail shipping sacksmade from Sorg paper by anotherMiddletown firm—the Raymond f|jBag Company. I«.Right this minute, in hundreds ■'of dentist’s chairs, the nurse isfastening a Sorg ”K*y*Pie*M towel around a patient's neck. On some dark road tonight a thousand motorists will stop to findt#ryiftg tOfI'ti norea r*)So icikesThousandsOfProductsHERE ARE JUST A FEW of the products manufactured by the Sorg Paper Company-here ere the moot familiar to you—paper cups, textile bobbins, playing cards and *«a list that would run beyong aiu— * - -
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Middletown Sunday News Journal
Middletown, Ohio, US
Sun, Mar 23, 1952
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