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Tell us confidentially your plans or needs. Our engineers will recommend for your par­ Hydraulic Power ticular problem. Pumps Steel Press for Cotton Seed Oil Mill Gazetteer OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE NATIONAL OIL MILL SUPERINTENDENTS’ ASSOCIATION and TRI-STATES COTTONSEED OIL MILL SUPERINTENDENTS' ASSOCIATION President Chandler’s Letter Lubbock, Texas, December 31, 1943 made there will bring about some drastic changes in the oil mill industry. I am thinking particularly The December issue of the Gazetteer was a real of our press rooms. I think they are in for quite a Christmas present with nice letters from our vice- bit of face lifting in postwar days, and rightfully so. president, Pete Reeves, Mr. Bentley Page, and our There will be lots of revamping and retooling o f friends from the Tri-States Association; also an ex­ almost every kind of manufacturing concerns, and ceptionally good article from our good friend, Mr. I do not believe the oil mills will be an exception. The A. L. Ward. I personally want to thank each and fact of the matter is our mills are out of date now, as every one of you for your contribution. I am sure a whole. The oil mill industry is one of the South’s everyone enjoyed hearing from you. Please keep up most important, yet as bad as I hate to say it, one of the good work. I also want to congratulate Mr. the least attractive to our young men that would Charles L. Lockett of Bauer Bros., and our old make good operators. I hope to see the day when the friend, R. M. Julian, for their splendid articles in oil mill will be as attractive as our modern food pro­ the November issue. How about it, boys? Let’s make cessing plants with the most modern machinery and 1944 the banner year for the Gazetteer. Write just labor-saving devices. You died-in-the-wool hydraulic anything at all. If you have a machine you think is men, of which I happen to be one, had just as well getting the job done, do as Mr. Page has done, write face the music. The postwar model mill will be a us about it. It will help everyone concerned. continuous process. You can figure that out fo r your­ From all accounts we are really going to have the self. Just one man’s opinion; what do YOU think? last word in an experimental mill at A. & M. when it I would like to take this opportunity to extend is completed. It will be one that we will be able to to you my best wishes for a happy and victorious work out our milling problems in. I am predicting New Year. right now that some of the discoveries that will be C. M. CHANDLER. Secretary Wilson’s Message Wharton, Texas, January 9, 1944. when he pleads and begs you through the columns of the Gazetteer to support the association with To the Members of the National Oil Mill Superin­ everything you have—not only by writing for the tendents Association Everywhere: Gazetteer, but by paying your dues, talking the Greetings for the year 1944. May this brand new association to non-members when you meet them, year be one of prosperity to each and every one of and helping them to see that they will be benefited you, and that it will be one of happiness to each of by coming into the association. In other words, let’s you is my wish to you. make 1944 the banner year of our association. Our association is to be congratulated on having We have quite a few members who are in arrears with their dues. We would like to take time to write such a splendid president. He has the interests of out a few receipts so that we can all say we are up our association at heart, and along with Vice Presi­ with our obligations for 1944. dent Reeves, is working very hard to keep our asso­ ciation at the top of the list. So we are now asking With the old, old greeting, I wish you a happy each and every member of the National Oil Mill and prosperous New Year. Superintendents Association to get in behind your Your secretary, president and vice-president and answer his calls HARRY WILSON. Industrial and Educational Cooperation The following address was delivered by Dr. C. C. results that we now see from that co-operation. Hedges, before the Texas Cotton Seed Crushers in — Editor. convention in Galveston in 1925, while the editor was vice-president of that association. We thought Was a good address at that time, and we are It gives me pleasure to say a few words to this repeating it, for it was made at the time the founda­ society in regard to the field of chemistry and its tion was laid for the co-operation between the Texas relation to the progress of different industries. ■ & M. College, and the cotton oil industry, and the Chemistry, as you know, may be considered one of Page 4 O I L MILL GAZETTEER January, 1944

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and the things we buy and sell in our daily life. We fort by “the grace and good-will” of science. jive surrounded by an ocean of air and we draw this Tons of sulphuric acid and arsenic used to be blown air into our lungs about eighteen times a minute. from the tops of smokestacks of copper smelters, It has a certain approximate chemical composition killing animals and plants on neighboring farms, but which influences our daily life by the oxidation or today they have been harnessed by science and the consummation of the food we consume within our arsenic put to work for agriculture by killing the bodies producing energy and heat and building up boll-weevil and the sulphuric acid used to make phos­ broken down tissues. Our body is nothing more than phate rocks available to feed the hungry plants as a human furnace which consumes fuel as food, and fertilizer. produces both mental and physical power by the use By suspending a few crystals of copper sulphate of the oxygen of the air. You know it is a fact that in water, the growth of a plant known as algae can you have to furnish a certain limited amount of air be controlled in our water supplies and the irrigation to a furnace, or you will not get maximum efficiency, ditches freed of the nuisance, increasing the wealth so it is with the human body, you have to breathe of the irrigation regions. plenty of pure air. There is not a thing you handle A scientist is your defense against laws more every day that does not have a chemical composition, dangerous to break than any others—the laws of and I would like to see the inquisitive side of all nature. If business breaks these laws, the penalty natures so developed that they could not come in is usually death. The industry cries out too often contact with any material thing unless they asked that they have millions for defense but not one cent the questions: What is its composition ? What can be for keeping out of trouble before it happens. This is produced from it? The world, as viewed by different the day of preventive medicine or the process of individuals, generations, and races of men, is a dif­ “ keeping well.” ferent realization of the beauty of nature and a Chemical science is the dominating factor in the dream of unknown possibilities. To the chemist it is field of human welfare. a field of opportunity for the onward progress ol This should not necessarily be a day of increased science and industries. productivity but it should be a day of increased effi­ This is a chemical age, and we live, move and ciency in production, and every industry of recent have our physical being as a result of chemical pro­ development recognizes this fact. The field of an cesses, and whether we travel on foot in chrome- industrial chemist is broad and the harvest in all in­ tanned shoes and rayon stockings or go to work on dustries is ready. This is not only true in all the rubber wheels and concrete roads, we travel in com­ large industries where they need men trained in

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O il M i l l G a z e t t e e r THE NEW YEAR 1943 has passed out as a year of many heartaches Official Organ of the and with much sadness. The new 1944 comes in with National Oil Mill Superintendents Association much promise; however, we can expect more heart­ and the aches and much more sadness in this new year. But Tri-States Cottonseed Oil Mill Superintedents Association Published monthly by the Oil Mill Gazetteer it is the one wish of all of us to all of you that the Wharton, Texas year will bring forth out of all its heartaches, sad­ ness and turmoil, a year that will be remembered Entered as second-class matter at the postoffice at Wharton, Texas, under Act of Congress of March, 1879 for all time to come as a year of victory, for free­ dom, for America, and all the downtrodden peoples Subscription, $1.50 a year, in advance of the countries that have been overrun by Hitler Advertising rates furnished upon application and his cohorts, and amid all of this, we here at H. E. W ilso n ...... Editor home must carry on, for the end is not yet. This ter­ Jane Inez Gordon ...... Associate Editor, Memphis, Tenn. rible war is not over and every day that we 2ose by listening to some crackpot that it’s almost over, it will last just that much longer. What’s the answer if we wish to see this thing- over by the end of 1944, as some are predicting? Let’s get busy and work to one end alone, and that is to put our money into Bonds and work just a little bit harder than we have been doing and keep the one thought before us at all times that every day’s delay means that many more of our boys will not come back. Let’s make 1944 a victory year but let's don't let the boys at the front down in talking about it. Let’s get to work!

V. D. ANDERSON COMPANY DONATES EQUIPMENT At our last committee meeting December 8, at the A. & M. College, College Station, Texas, 0. S. Anderson and Mr. Keahey of the V. D. Anderson The Oil Mill Gazetteer does not necessarily endorse all the Company of Cleveland, Ohio, were present and very opinions expressed in contributions appearing herein. As the graciously agreed to install one of their latest expel- official organ of the National Oil Mill Superintendents Asso­ ler presses in the new cottonseed oil laboratory now ciation and Tri-States Oil Mill Superintendents Association, this journal carries official communications and articles con­ being erected on the campus o f the college. The gift cerning the activities of the associations, but in all other re­ of this equipment to the A. & M. College by the V. D. spects the associations are not responsible for what appears Anderson Company has only one stipulation, and in these pages, including opinions to which expression is given. that is that the equipment will pass back to them if and whenever the cottonseed oil laboratory or the OFFICERS OF THE NATIONAL OIL MILL SUPERINTENDENTS ASSOCIATION work is abandoned. The Chemical Engineering De­ C. M. Chandler, Lubbock, T e x a s ...... President partment and the Research Department heads, along H. D. Reeves, Corsicana, T e x a s ...... Vice-President with the officers and members of both the Texas H. E. Wilson, Wharton, T e x a s ...... Secretary-Treasurer Cottonseed Crushers Association and the Oil Mill BOARD OF DIRECTORS Superintendents Association, wish to express their K. A. M cL achlin...... Loving, New Mexico appreciation to the V. D. Anderson Company, and to H. B. G la zn er...... Palestine, Texas both O. S. Anderson and Mr. Keahey for their splen­ George Bittner...... Oklahoma City, Oklahoma did co-operation in this work. W. A. D a v is ...... Childress, Texas STATE VICE-PRESIDENTS Arkansas ...... C. W. Hoover ...... Wilson OIL FOR OUR ALLIES California ...... H. F. Crossno ...... Los Angeles Georgia ...... W. W. O r r ...... Macon The Gazetteer has just received a report from Louisiana •...... J. W. T hom p son ...... Ruston the War Food Administration showing amount of Mississippi ...... C. C. Castillow ...... Greenville New Mexico ...... R. W. G orm an ...... Roswell commodities furnished our allies under the lend- Oklahoma ...... A. C. R o s s ...... Purcell lease system, and we note that during the period Tennessee ...... W. E. H a ssle r...... Memphis from January 1 through November 30, 1943, that North Texas ...... R. M. J u lia n ...... Colorado the United States Lend-Lease Administration fur­ South Texas ...... G. W. M o o d y ...... Taylor Mexico ...... Salvador F. Rojas . . Gomez Paiacio, nished our allies with 86,262,902 pounds of oleo­ Dgo., Mexico margarine, and 5,347,620 pounds of cottonseed oil, South America .... Chas. G. P. Cochrane . . Catacaos, Peru 300,904,000 pounds of edible linseed oil, 21,783,000 OIL MILL MACHINERY MANUFACTURERS ANI> pounds of soybean oil, and in addition to oils and SUPPLY ASSOCIATION fats, a large list of other foods, one item of which R. L. McCann, Fort Worth, Texas ...... President was 233,492,000 pounds of dried eggs. These items Charles C. Cantrell, Fort Worth, Texas...... Vice-President are just for lend-lease to help feed our allies. Add to Olin Brooks, Dallas, Texas ...... Secretary-Treasurer these items the enormous amount of pounds of food TWENTY-FIVE YEAR CLUB for our armed forces and you can readily see where Charles W. Rankin, Brenham, T exas ...... - . President and how these shortages occur. So, punch a few Eugene Bradshaw, Houston, T exas ...... Vice-President more holes in your belts, boys. We are going to H. E. Wilson, Wharton, T e x a s ...... Secretary-Treasurer have to tighten up before this thing is over. fgnuccry» 1944 O IL MILL GAZETTEER Page II

COMMITTEES TO MEET portunity to see just how his own results are stack­ Dr. Lindsay Head of the Chemical Engineering ing up with what his neighbors are doing, not only Department of A. & M. College has called a meeting in his own section but also in other states, and we for January 15 in Room 210 in the Petroleum Build­ appreciate very much the courtesy of the Barrow- ing on the campus of all the committee members Ag-ee Laboratories in furnishing- us with these who were present on December 8, and those who are monthly reports. interested in the short course as well as the new equipment for the cottonseed oil laboratory that is WHO HAS FILE COPIES? now being erected on the campus; meeting called to order at 10 a.m. The Engineers Committee will have For one of our foreign subscribers who wishes to plans and specifications for the machinery layout have a complete file of past issues of the Gazetteer, to discuss and other proposals that may come up, we are trying to locate two copies of Vol. 46, Nos. 1 and if there are others who wish to offer equipment to 5, and 7, and one copy of Vol. 48, No. 3. If any of for this laboratory, we would like to have you either our readers have such copies in their files and would attend this meeting or get in touch with the editor, like to furnish this foreign subscriber, who happens who is co-chairman of the College Relations Com­ to be in one of the foreign government offices, we mittee, and is representing the Texas Cottonseed would like to receive these back copies, as our file is Crushers Association, sponsor of both the labora­ completely exhausted. Thanks. tory and the Short Course. GREETINGS FROM McELREATH MORE EQUIPMENT FOR LABORATORY The editor received, among many Christmas The editor has just been advised by J. I. Jackson greeting cards, one from our old Scotch-Irish friend, that the Fort Worth Steel & Machinery Company McElreath, of Stamford, in which he signed himself will install one of their latest type, all-metal, brush- as '"one o f the five hosses.” Now, if he had made it less linters, with the necessary equipment, in the five old hosses, well, we would not be wondering. new cottonseed oil laboratory that is now being However, whether it was five hosses or 55 hosses, erected on the campus of Texas A. & M. College. The we bet Mac was pulling in the lead team. Happy New entire membership of both the Texas Cottonseed Year, Mac, and all the rest of our friends. Crushers Association and Oil Mill Superintendents Association, as well as the personnel of the college OLD ADVERTISER IS BACK faculty in the Chemical Engineering Division, and the College Relations Committee of the Texas Cot­ We wish to call the reader’s attention to the tonseed Crushers Association, wish to extend to Mr. half-page advertisement in this issue of the South­ Jackson and his company, for this expression of their western Machine & Supply Company of Oklahoma willingness to co-operate with those who are doing City. They are back with us again and are old friends this work. The editor, who is co-chairman of the of both the Gazetteer and the National Oil Mill College Relations Committee and who has charge of Superintendents Association. The Gazetteer appre­ this work, wishes to personally thank Mr. Jackson ciates its friends among the advertisers and wishes for this gift. for all of them a happy and prosperous New Year.

A 50 PER CENT DISCOUNT CONTINENTAL GIN GETS FOURTH AWARD An order has been placed by the Texas Cotton­ Continental Gin Company, recipient of three seed Crushers Association with the Bauer Bros. Com­ Army-Navy “E” awards for meritorious services on pany of Springfield, Ohio, for one of their latest type the production front, has been granted a fourth cottonseed cleaners. Bauer Bros. Company has very award renewal by the Navy Board for Production graciously discounted the price of the machine 50^, Awards, according to advices received by Merrill E. for which the committee and the Texas Cottonseed Pratt, president, from Admiral C. C. Bloch, chairman Crushers Association, as well as the two oil mill of the Navy Awards Board. A new Army-Navy “E” superintendents associations, wish to express their pennant with four stars affixed has been forwarded appreciation for this discount in price. to the company’s plant in Birmingham. When the present equipment was installed in the In his letter notifying Mr. Pratt that the fourth cotton oil laboratory, the Bauer Bros. Company made white star had been granted, Admiral Bloch wrote: the same contribution to the work on both the hull­ “The men and women of your plant have con­ ing and separating equipment, as well as the present tinued to maintain the high standards they set for seed cleaner. The cleaner that will be furnished will themselves when they were originally awarded the be their No. 199 size 48" cleaner. This equipment is Army-Navy “E.” They may well be proud of their promised shipment by June 1 or earlier so that we achievement . . . can have same installed in our new building, ready “The additional white star which the renewal for the 1944 Short Course. adds to your Army-Navy “E” flag is the symbol of appreciation from our Armed Forces for your con­ tinued and determined effort and support so neces­ BARROW-AGEE MONTHLY REPORT sary for victory.” Our readers will note that with the December Continental Gin Company received its first Army- issue we had our first monthly report of the Barrow- Navy “E” award prior to Pearl Harbor on November Agee Laboratories of Memphis, Tenn., on results 8, 1941, and was the first plant in the Southeast to obtained from mill samples analyzed by them in receive this honor. It is one of the few plants in the their laboratories. While this is an average report nation that has been awarded four successive stars irom each state, it gives the superintendent an op­ to its “E” pennant. Page 12 O I L MILL GAZETTEER January, 1944

Tri-States Superintendents* Section

By Jane Inez Gordon

MEMBERS OF TRI-STATES ASSOCIATION OFFICERS OF THE TRI-STATES COTTONSEED OIL SERVING OUR COUNTRY MILL SUPERINTENDENTS ASSOCIATION C. W. Hoover, Wilson, A rkan sas...... President C. Y. Katzenmier, Leland, Mississippi ...... Vice-President W. E. Hassler, Memphis, Tennessee...... Secretary-Treasurer Jane Inez Gordon, Memphis, Tenn. .. Corresponding Secretary STATE VICE-PRESIDENTS Conway George, Memphis, Tenn.—Navy Tennessee ...... E. S. Lyle ...... Dyersburg Mississippi ...... E. W. M a r x ...... Hallandale Biffle Owen, Memphis, Tenn.— Army. Arkansas ...... Frank Harris ...... Helena Billy Ware, Memphis, Tenn.— Air Corps. South Carolina .... R. T. Herring ...... Ninety-Six Bates Wilson, Memphis, Tenn.— Navy. North Carolina .... C. E. K i n g ...... Weldon Earl Smith, Memphis, Tenn.— Navy. Georgia ...... F. A. Perkins ...... Atlanta Alabama ...... C. F. Agrell ...... Montgomery H. E. Ayres, Knoxville, Tenn.— Navy. Louisiana ...... R. D. M ille r...... Minden Fred Richardson, Memphis, Tenn.— Army. California ...... R. D. Ryan ...... ------Fresno Hale Autry, Memphis, Tenn.— Air Corps. Missouri and Illinois C. T, O’dena ...... Cairo, 111. Thomas Finch, Tiptonville, Tenn.— Army. STATE PROGRAM CHAIRMEN Chas. A. Conley, Jr., Memphis, Navy. Arkansas ...... Roy Castillow ...... Little Rock If you know of any other members, please Mississippi ...... B. C. L u n d y ...... Greenville Tennessee ...... Homer B a rn e s...... Memphis notify us. RESEARCH COMMITTEE Cecil Wamble, Chairman...... College Station, Texas J. R. Mays, Jr...... Memphis, Tenn. There were some interesting letters in the De­ E. H. T en en t...... Memphis, Tenn. cember issue of the Gazetteer, and I hope all of you BOARD OF DIRECTORS read them. President Chandler of the national asso­ W. I. T em p le...... Newport, Ark. ciation and Vice President Reeves. I always enjoy Cecil W a m b le...... Greenwood, Miss. W. E. H a ssler...... Memphis, Tenn. the letters from the national association, as distance R. L. L o g g in s...... Blytheville, Ark. makes it almost impossible for them to attend our Roy C astillow ...... Little Rock, Ark. meetings or we to attend theirs, and these letters J. J. F in c h ...... Tiptonville, Tenn. keep us all in contact with each other. C. W. H o o v e r...... Wilson, Ark. I also notice that the new laboratory at the MEETINGS A. & M. College will be completed early this year, February ...... • •. • Memphis, Tenn. and this is really a forward movement for our indus­ try, and represents the fruits of the labor of far- thinking representatives of the industry. The short PRESIDENT HOOVER S LETTER course held there each year has become increasingly Wilson, Arkansas, January, 1944. popular, and with the new laboratory, the facilities will accommodate more men who will attend. It is a Dear Members great stride in our educational system for the indus­ try, and we should be very proud of this accom­ Happy New Year! And have you made those res­ plishment, which will prove beneficial to all of us. olutions for 1944? If not, why not renew your old One of our members came through with an idea ones ? But add that we will work harder toward help­ in economy in the use of press cloth that won an ing- bring our country out of the war, by not forget­ award offered by his company— J. D. Jones, Swift & ting to save all scrap and buy War Bonds. We have Co. oil mill, Memphis. Congratulations, Mr. Jones, learned this year that everything is of value and and thanks for passing it along. We need more of there must not be any waste— we have learned to do such ideas. If anyone has any ideas that will help without many things that we once thought impos­ our industry, pass it along. It will be greatly appre­ sible, and it has been good for us all. So let’s not ciated. relax, but keep alert to ways and means to increase Again wishing you all a happy New Year, I am the efficiency of our mills with what we have. I know all of you are mindful of these things, but it’s Yours sincerely, good to have it brought to our attention at every C. W. HOOVER, President, opportunity, as it will help to bring us that much Tri-States Oil Mill Superintendents Association. nearer to victory in 1944. Our association held a very interesting meeting RIECHMAN-CROSBY COMPANY HOLDS in Little Rock in December, and it was decided to THREE-DAY SALES CONFERENCE have a Memphis meeting February 5, and a meeting in April in Greenville, Miss. These meetings are im­ The Riechman-Crosby Company, Memphis, Tenn., portant, as it brings us closer together and gives us opened the new year with a three-day sales confer­ an opportunity to discuss our problems, and I hope ence on January 6, 7, and 8 at the Chisca Hotel with that as many as possible will try to attend both Richard Alcott, vice-president and general manager, meetings. The program committees have promised us presiding. a good program. On the program for the first day was a discus- fanuary, 1944 O IL MILL GAZETTEER Page 13 sion of Keystone Lubricating Company’s products MRS. HOOVER’S FATHER PASSES by A. W. Ellerbrock, DuPont paints and protective coatings by H. K. Snider of E. I. DuPont Company. C. H. Burnell, Sr., father of Mrs. C. W. Hoover A sound motion picture was shown by the Tennessee of Wilson, Ark., passed away at her home December Coal, Iron & Railroad Company, presenting “To Each 7. He was 80. He was a retired engineer for the Other.” R. E. Cook and Mr. Bryson of Alexander Yazoo & Mississippi Valley Railroad, who began his Bros, discussed leather belting and crimps. At noon railroad career more than 60 years ago. He retired a luncheon was given by the Riechman-Crosby Com­ about 10 years ago. He was bom in Urbana, 111., and pany for the sales force and factory representatives. had lived in Clarksdale, Miss., 30 years before mov­ ing to Memphis in 1927. Masonic services were held The highlight for the second day was a discus­ at the National Funeral Home in Memphis, with Rev. sion of linter and gin saws, huller knives and con­ W. C. Scott officiating. Burial was in Memorial Park. tractors’ supplies by J. A. Riechman, president. H. S. Wright talked on the “Availability of Electrical Ma­ Mrs. Hoover is the wife of the president of the terials for 1944.” R. Y. McIntyre of the Continental Tri-States Oil Mill Superintendents Association, and Gin Company discussed “Elevating, Conveying and manager of the Delta Products Co., Wilson, Ark. Transmission Machinery,” while F. Doyle Bowers of the Republic Rubber Company, held a discussion of their entire line. Frank Brown and John Muller of the American Pulley Company talked on “Pulleys, Trucks, Speed Reducers and Motor Bases.” The American Pulley Company was host for dinner that evening at Hotel Peabody. Concluding the sales conference on the last day, Mr. Alcott discussed territory coverage and ways and means to improve their position in sales. The catalogue from cover to cover was discussed by H. R. Shannon, N. C. Wilson and L. F. Busier. The afternoon session was given to the Henry Disston & Son’s representatives, Walter Knapp, Wal­ ter Gebhart and Gus Milde.

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PHIL PIDGEON WILL ADDRESS TRI-STATES ASSOCIATION IN FEBRUARY “The Employment Problem of the Postwar ★ ★ ★ ★ Period” will be discussed by Phil Pidgeon, president of Pidgeon-Thomas Iron Company and the Memphis Chamber of Commerce, at the February 5 meeting' of the Tri-States Oil Mill Superintendents Associa­ N o w . . . tion in Memphis at Hotel Claridge. Mr. Pidgeon is district chairman of the Commit­ tee for Economic Development in the Postwar Plan­ 4 S t a r s ning. His district covers 18 counties in Tennessee, two in eastern Arkansas and 38 counties in northern Mississippi. The committee is already making plans in our to stimulate, encourage and assist all business, in­ cluding manufacturers, wholesalers, distributors, re­ tailers and service organizations. It is the commit­ Arm y-Navy tee's purpose to maintain a high rate of employment through expanding production. Surveys show that “ E” Pennant there will be a need for 58 per cent more employes in manufacturing industries within two years after the w7ar than there were in 1940. He stated that it A new Army-Navy "E " pennant, is not too early to think about problems which will follow the war and certainly employment will be a with four stars affixed for meri­ major problem. torious service on the production Homer Barnes, superintendent of the Memphis front now proudly flies above our Cotton Oil Mill, is program chairman. C. W. Hoover, plant in Birmingham. Delta Products Co., Wilson, Ark., is president and will preside. Our company received its first Those w.ho attend the meeting will be dinner guests of the oil mills and supply firms of Memphis, Army-Navy "E" award prior to and Mr. Barnes urges all who expect to attend from Pearl Harbor on November 8, 1941. out of town to be sure and make reservations at the hotel, as the meeting falls on a Saturday night, It was the first plant in the South­ which is an unusually heavy night at the hotel. east to receive this honor and is one of the few plants in the nation COTTON IN PLASTICS STUDIED BY COUNCIL to be awarded four successive Several of the nation’s large manufacturers of stars. plastics and chemicals are co-operating with the research division of National Cotton Council in a study of cotton’s use in making plastics, the council For more than a century our has announced. It was revealed that research so far company has made a continued has been unable to keep pace with expansion of the and determined effort to uphold plastics industry because of the tremendous demand created by the war for sturdier products. This de­ exacting quality standards in the mand, the council said, has given great impetus to manufacture of cotton gin machin­ use of cotton in plastics. A new field for cotton had ery. It is to this tradition that we been opened up by use of unspun cotton in plastics and enormous possibilities are expected to be re­ owe our record in producing war vealed in this part of the council’s study. materials. To this tradition we shall cling when victory returns our full G . WORTHEN A G EE, President E. R. BARROW, Secretary end Treas. facilities to the service of the cot­ ton ginning industry. BARROW-AGEE LABORATORIES INCORPORATED

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R. M. (DICK) FLUKER PASSES NEWS FROM THE TRI STATES The Nebraska Consolidated Mills of Omaha, Ne­ Dick Fluker o f the Butters Manufacturing Com­ braska, has leased the Farmers Products Co., Col­ pany passed to his final resting place on December lierville, Tenn., for the season, and are crushing 11 at his home in Atlanta, Ga., and he was buried at Washington, Ga., his birthplace, on December 23. soybeans. The mill has been increased from two ex- pellers to four, and they have also installed a four- Mr. Fluker leaves a wife, one daughter, Mrs. G. R. stack 72" high French cooker. The mill is owned by Newton, and one son, J. D. Fluker of Atlanta, and Mr. and Mrs. Lucius E. Burch, Jr., of Memphis. R. A. five sisters and three brothers. Mr. Fluker was born in Washington, Ga., July 18, 1885, and was reared at Callier is manager. the same place. Prior to his entering the machinery line with the Butters Manufacturing Company of Buff Chisolm, Jr., formerly of the Trenton Cotton Atlanta, he was a very active and efficient oil mill Oil Co., Trenton, Tenn., and son of B uff Chisolm, superintendent, having had charge of mills in Geor­ superintendent of the mill, is in the Paratrooper Di­ gia, and at one time was superintendent of the vision and at present stationed in North Carolina. Longview, Texas, mill. He went with the Butters He was a member of the Tri-States Superintendents Manufacturing Company on December 10, 1935 and Association before going into service. Mr. Chisolm had been connected with that company up to the also has another son, Edwin, 21 years old, who has time of his death. Dick Fluker was well known to just returned from Alaska where he was employed the members of the cotton oil trade throughout the in the building of the new highway there. He will belt, was a fine gentleman and knew his well-chosen leave for service in the army soon after the first of profession, always had a pleasant smile and was well the year-. liked by everyone. The officers and members of the ❖ ❖ Machinery Supply Manufacturers Association, the Tri-States Oil Mill Superintendents Association and D. C. Taylor, representative of the Quaker Rub­ the National Oil Mill Superintendents Association ber Corp., Philadelphia, Pa., with headquarters in extend their heartfelt sympathies to the members of Memphis, has received no news of his son, James, his family, and his wise counsel will be missed by who was reported missing in action since last Feb­ all of those who knew him when it comes time to ruary, following the African campaign. James was meet in convention again. with the Armored Division. While on a recent trip East, Mr. Taylor stopped in Washington in an effort to find out further news. WIN AW ARDS s|c ;|c :-c Two enterprising young men of Swift & Co. Oil Among those who are well known in the indus­ Mill, Memphis, have come through with money-mak­ try, whose sons are serving our country are Walter ing ideas recently. C. Y. Brock, cashier, received $10 Ostrand, general manager, Caldwell-Moore Division, for a “good housekeeping idea” from his company in a contest. He suggested that all trucks leaving the Swift mill unloading station be swept clean of the precious seed before leaving the mill, as very often P. B. PORTER, B.S., Ck.E., President N. C. HAMNER, Vice-President the trucks leave with many pounds of seed clinging R. H. PASH, B.S., Secretary to the sides of the truck beds, which sift to the ground as waste, or are blown out by the wind. Mr. Brock was also chairman of the War Bond commit­ Southwestern Laboratories tee for the mill and he has developed into an excel­ lent salesman. Consulting Analytical Chemists and Chemical W. H. Stewart, superintendent, who joined the Engineers Memphis office in November, having been with the Atlanta mill, was awarded $40 for his ideas on oil 308 l/i Navarro Street 1105 */2 Main Street lubrication. Congratulations, Mr. Stewart and Mr. SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS DALLAS, TEXAS Brock!

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Link-Belt Co. Walter, Jr., is seaman second class, in T. W. Lewis, president, Lewis Supply Co., Mem­ training at Millington, Tenn. Faye A. Hurd, also of phis, was named chairman of the executive commit­ the Link-Belt Co., has a son stationed at Camp Mc­ tee for the 1944 Southwestern College campaign Cain, near Grenada, Miss. Goal for the college’s twelfth drive will be $50,000 ^ '.-c to assist in supporting the school during the comma- year. It is expected that the campaign will be con­ Mr. and Mrs. Owen Rauch, owners of the Phoenix cluded by the last week in January. E. R. Barrow Rubber Co., Memphis, were hosts at a dinner-lecture Barrow-Agee Laboratories, Memphis, is one of the meeting in December, at which a number of oil mill vice-chairmen. superintendents who are users of V-belt drives at­ Mr. Lewis was also reelected president of the tended. Spence Gear of the Thermoid factory spoke. Memphis YMCA, and will begin his new term on About 100 industrial users attended the meeting January 1. which was held at the Gayoso Hotel. ^ :|c ijc * ❖ * J. S. Gassaway, manager o f Swift & Co. Oil Mill, Billy Ware, formerly with the Southern Cotton Memphis, and a crowd of Delta planters and ginners Oil Co., Memphis, before going into service, is now spent Thanksgiving Day in search of white tail deer. in the engineering air corps, and while in training Result: 190-pound, eigrht-point buck was bagged and is stationed at Goldboro, North Carolina. Billy had Mr. Gassaway is having the hide made into a rug— a three-day leave for the Christmas holidays and his for proof, he says. wife met him in Atlanta, Ga., for a visit, since he sfc ifc was unable to get to Memphis. George M. Chapman, purchasing agent for Swift * * * & Co. Oil Mill, Memphis, has returned from his H. H. Johnson is the new superintendent at the vacation, or rather, part of his vacation, since he Nebraska Consolidated Mill (soybean mill), at Col­ took off a week during the hot summer. lierville, Tenn. Mr. Johnson is well known among the * superintendents, as for a number of years he was At the Swift & Co. Oil Mill, Portageville, Mo., connected with one of the Refuge Cotton Oil Co., in T. C. Troy, formerly with the Continental Gin Co.’ Mississippi. Mrs. Johnson was the first president of is the newcomer at this mill and is busy placing the Woman’s Auxiliary to the Tri-States Oil Mill guards around the machinery to prevent accidents. Superintendents Association. 5j: sfc R. H. PATTERSON HAS FOUR The lint house of the Delta Products Co., Wilson, SONS IN SERVICE Ark., of which C. W. Hoover is manager, was recent­ ly destroyed by fire of unknown origin. R. H. Patterson, manager, Trenton Cotton Oil Co., Trenton, Tenn., has the distinction of having four sons serving our country in the present conflict. Lieut. Robert F. Patterson is in the Air Corps HOUSTON LABORATORIES g stationed in Texas, and Lieut. Russell, Jr., is with the Medical Corps, at present in Texas. Frank is a jj F. R. ROBERTSON, Ph. C. pilot stationed in Louisiana. Ensign Reg J. is in the Navy, stationed at San Diego, Calif. Reg was with B Analytical and Consulting Chemist g the Buckeye Cotton Oil Co., for two years before going into service, and he was also connected with S COTTONSEED AND PEANUT PRODUCTS j} the Trenton mill. W A SPECIALTY 8 H Member National C. S. P. A. and Texas Cotton Seed 0 Farmer (showing friend over the farm)—“How w Crushers Association and Referee Chemist H many sheep would you guess were in that flock?” H of the American Oil Chemists Visitor (considers a moment and ventures)— W Society H '‘About five hundred.” ff Long Distance Phone: Houston 267 ji “Absolutely correct! How did you guess it?” 0 120614 Preston Avenue HOUSTON, TEXAS » “ Waal, I jes counted the legs, and divided the number by four.”

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FROM MR. VERDERY on down and I’ll see if I can get you on the pay roll. Wishing you all a merry Christmas, Sincerely, M. C. VERDERY, Lieut., U.S.N.R. P. S.: Harry, please send my Gazetteer to the above address . . . Same postage as in the States.

MAGNETIC PROTECTION IN AN OIL MILL By CHAS. L. LOCKETT, Sales Manager The Bauer Bros. Company, Springfield, Ohio Admittedly, the average oil mill superintendent is an ingenious fellow, frequently required to solve an urgent problem through the rule of common sense. Equipment manufacturers also have problems equal­ Escort Repair Base, Navy 117, ly as pressing and intricate. c /o Fleet P. O., New York, N. Y., One such was brought to our notice about five December 16, 1943. years ago in connection with magnetic protection— the formula we were asked to solve being to erect a Dear Harry: flat bottom spout or chute at least 15 feet long, at an angle of 45°, to be equipped at the lower end with As I sit here in shorts (tropical uniform) and a magnet so powerful that it would retard and hold a with sweat running- down the back of my leg's, it is one-inch steel ball when released at the upper end. difficult to realize it is December and Christmas is The specifications included that the magnet must be almost here. However, packages and cards are arriv­ permanent in its grabbing power, must require no ing in great quantities and we are about to work up wiring, switch, generator or rectifier; thus, it must a little Christmas spirit. If the paper shortage has be complete in itself. not cut down on the pages of the Gazetteer excess­ ively, I would like to slip in with a few lines of greet­ When is considered the velocity of a steel ball so ings to my oil mill friends. released, the problem at first seemed impossible, yet our engineers persevered, at first trying a design Several months ago I wrote my boss that the with double air gap, which proved fairly satisfactory, dirtiest, dustiest old oil mill he could find would look good to me, and by now it would look even bet­ but not until the spout was equipped with a velocity ter. A few of the boys have been keeping me posted but I sure would like to be back on deck in Texas for Whatever Your Needs Are in a few snorts of Christmas cheer. We have a mighty fine group of officers and men and although most of LEATHER BELTING us would prefer to be in a more active zone, they are for all carrying on and doing a good job. OIL MILL and GINNING MACHINERY Any oil mill man going into the service should not consider anything but the Navy. To a man from “AKRON" West Texas, who has never set foot on board ship CAN SUPPLY THEM this may seem a strange choice, but actually the Branch Office and Repair Plant at 406 South Second St. ship repair business is exactly like oil milling. Steam Memphis, Tenn. engines, diesel engines, boilers, pumps, bearings and Leather Belting in Sizes to 20" in Stock at the hydraulic equipment. Operate and make repairs Memphis Branch twenty-four hours per day and if anything goes wrong blame it on those on the night shift . . . Ex­ THE AKRON BELTING CO. actly like oil milling. No, I’m not in the recruiting Akron, Ohio business, but if any of you are interested just come Leather Belting Makers Since 1885 OIL MILL MACHINERY Hydraulic Presses Hydraulic Pumps Meats Rolls Accumulators Stack Cookers Knife Hullers Pressure Cookers Mote Reclaimers Drain Pumps Hull Packers Hydraulic Formers Cracked Cake Feeders

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PATRONIZE YOUR ADVERTISERS Page 18 O I L MILL GAZETTEER January, 1944 retarding- baffle, the magnets with three air gaps, If, in passage from seed house to cleaner, or from was the problem considered as satisfactorily solved, cleaner to linters, or from linters to hullers, there and assemblies with Bauer Permanent Magnets is a sloping spout to carry the whole seed, a’ Bauer as now produced have proved satisfactory wherever Permanent Magnet should be installed therein, also installed. an excellent place is in spout or chute carrying The magnets used are made from an alloy of broken cake from breaker to meal mill, thus safe­ guarding the plates. aluminum, nickel, cobalt, etc., fully resistant to de­ magnetization by stray currents; they have a hold­ Already many progressive superintendents have ing power many times that of old style horseshoe adopted Bauer Magnetic Protection, our records magnets and are far more dependable than even the showing 144 Magnetic Fields in 58 industrial plants best electromagnet; they are affected but slightly throughout Texas and Oklahoma. Many oil mills by shock or temperatures up to 1,200° F., and will from North Carolina to California are similarly pro­ support upwards of fifty times their own weight. tected, many superintendents at first installing one only, later deciding- upon similar magnetic protection Bauer Permanent Magnets were the first to be in other parts of the plant. accepted by the Mill Mutuals Bureau for Class A in­ stallation, and already there are imitators whose The foregoing is a summary of but one of the claims for equality should be carefully inspected. many oil milling problems which, within the past Each assembly is shipped complete, ready for in­ sixty years, have been successfully solved by Bauer. stallation in existing spout or chute, all necessary A modern cottonseed oil mill is incomplete without Bauer Magnetic Protection, which many may have being to cut a hole 18 inches long by width of the noticed as included in our regular advertisements field, and instantly is afforded complete protection during past years. against tramp iron, etc., passing to the machinery.

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★ Centrally located ★ Meeting-place of the Mid-South ★ Five Restaurants The above photo was received by the editor in the form of a Christmas greeting card from our ★ Convention mutual friend, Charles West, well known to the cot­ ton oil trade as Charley West. Up to the time of Facilities Pearl Harbor, Charley was a very prominent cotton­ Dining and Dancing Nightly in seed products broker, but being of an ambitious the Glamourous nature, Charley wanted to get into the thick of it. However, Father Time had crept up on him just a SKYWAY little bit too far, and instead of getting into the fighting forces, he had to do the next best thing, to and as you see him in the photo, he has been helping Irrationally Known Orchestras to build the Alaskan Highway. Not many of his friends would recognize him in that Northern winter F. R. SCHUTT work suit with that mustache, and those snow gog- Vice-President and General Manager gles, but we have got to take his word for it. Charley, the boys all wish you a happy New Year.

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SYNTHETIC RUBBER AS POSTWAR MATERIAL under certain conditions have superior ageing quali­ FOR INDUSTRIES ties, friction-resisting qualities, etc. By D. C, TAYLOR, Representative, Synthetic rubber is nothing new to the indus­ Quaker Rubber Corporation, Philadelphia, Pa. try. Its use has been constantly expanding- for many NOTE: Mr. Taylor is the Tri-States representative for years and will continue to do so in the future. There the Quaker Rubber Corporation, with headquarters in Mem­ are many significant reasons why we have not had phis, and in writing this article for the Gazetteer he gives a greater expansion of synthetic rubber in the past, picture of the rubber industry today as he sees it, and it is his but this picture is a different story, both today and belief that synthetic rubber is definitely going to be our post­ war material for industrial and mechanical rubber items. tomorrow. Materials for the manufacture of syn­ thetic rubber are materials of which our nation has It is a well known fact that our rubber situation an abundance. Most, or rather a large portion of has been very critical, for civilian uses, for quite these materials, are produced in our native South some time. The picture today is no more colorful, but and a great many of them are of a direct descent of on the contrary. The crude rubber supply is down to the oil milling industry, namely various oils. nil, but this should not be alarming-, since it has been proved that there is a very satisfactory sub­ It is true that most of the synthetic rubbers will stitute for crude rubber. be improved upon from day to day, but on the other hand, it is true that they have already been improved There have been thousands of misleading articles, to a very high standard of working efficiency. Since both in newspapers and over the radio by high of­ ficials, whether synthetic or natural rubber will better serve for thousands of rubber items. It has been proved by actual tests and performances that SEND US YOUR ORDERS FOR RECON­ thousands of items will give far greater efficiency DITIONED STEEL SPLIT PULLEYS made from synthetic rather than natural rubber. With the work of our chemists on one hand and our “ American-Dodge,” all sizes— The largest factory technicians on the other, the time has now oil mills in the southeast have used our pul­ come when America will no longer be deprived of leys for several years. Prices on request. Sev­ this very essential item for any reason whatsoever. eral thousand pulleys in stock. There are certain places where certain synthetic rubbers are far superior for resisting heat— resisting Macon Iron & Paper Stock Company abrasion— resisting acids— resisting oils— resisting Established 1919 electricity, and thousands of other purposes too P. O. Box 506 Macon, Ga. numerous to mention. Certain synthetic rubbers

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PATRONIZE YOUR ADVERTISERS Page 20 O I L MILL GAZETTEER January, I 944 synthetic rubber and various raw materials and AVERAGE REPORT FROM OCTOBER 29 compounds that go into the manufacture of synthetic TO NOVEMBER 28, 1943 rubber affect each of us either directly or indirectly, By BARROW-AGEE LABORATORIES, Incorporated it behooves each of us to overlook any defects of the Analytical and Consulting Chemists and EneinpM-« ’ past and assist in every way possible to make it Memphis, Tenn. ’ more efficient in the future, as it is my honest belief MEAL AND CAKE that it will definitely be our postwar material. Moisture Oil Ammonia Standard Grand average ..... 7.19 5.37 8.04 g7 Mississippi ...... - 7.33 5.33 8.14 55 NEW ECON-O-MATIC DRIVE HANDBOOK Arkansas ...... 6.68 5.45 7.99' gg Louisiana ...... 7.15 5.44 7.88 69 New 70-page Handbook explains the unique auto­ Tennessee ...... 7.18 5.15 7.97 gs matic belt tension control feature of American Econ- Texas (Eastern) .... 7.06 6.23 8.16 7« YOUR MILL— Samples o-matic Drives. It shows you how and why Econ-o-matic Drives HULLS increase machine production through eliminating Fine Meats Whole Seed Total Oil belt slip, increase belt and bearing life and reduce Grand average ...... 0.16 0.07 0.43 Mississippi ...... — 0.14 0.08 0.41 drive maintenance. In addition, the Handbook gives Arkansas ...... 0.12 0.08 0.35 you complete V-belt and Flat-belt drive selection Louisiana ...... 0.17 0.04 0.50 tables, specifications and installation instructions. Tennessee ...... 0.21 0.06 0,41 Address Dept. 145, The American Pulley Company, Texas (Eastern) ...... 0.20 0.09 0.44 YOUR MILL— Samples 4200 Wissahickon Avenue, Philadelphia 29, Pa. SEED CRUSHED IN YOUR MILL Pressroom and Separation Efficiency A truck driver, in a hurry to get to his destina­ F. F. A. D. & T. MOISTURE OIL AMMONIA Estimated Yields tion, missed a turn in the road. He ran across a farm­ Pounds Efficiency Gain or Loss Samples Factor Pounds er’s yard and straight into the kitchen of the house, Crude Oil Ref. Oil Cake Crude Ref. Crude Ref. where the farmer’s wife was cooking a meal. She Yours ...... looked up briefly, then nonchalantly went on stirring Standard ...... 100.0 100.0 ...... Month's Best • 307 293 951 104.0 105.4 +12 +15 the stew on the stove. SEED RECEIPTS The truck driver, somewhat confused and embar­ Estimated Yields Moisture Oil Ammonia Pounds Pounds rassed, managed to blurt out: “ Can you tell me how F; F. A. in Seed in Seed in Seed Grade Oil 8% Cake to get to Hagerstown?” Grand avg. 2.4 10.4 18.5 3.97 99.5 310 933 “Yep,” answered the woman calmly, straight Mississippi 2.7 10.3 18.7 3.97 99.0 314 933 Arkansas 0.8 10.0 18.5 3.95 102.5 310 928 past the dining room table, then turn right beyond Louisiana 2.9 * 10.8 18.3 4.00 96.5 306 940 Tennessee 0.7 10.3 18.3 3.96 102.0 306 931 the piano.” Texas (East.) 0.9 10.6 18.0 3.94 100.5 300 926 YOUR MILL— Samples . OIL • Rfg. Color Flavor Grade F. F. A . Loss Red Prime Off Prime Off Grand average ...... 2.6 9.8 6.3 69 31 67 33 HELPING TO SOLVE Mississippi ...... 2.8 9.9 6.2 63 37 61 39 Arkansas ...... 1.2 7.0 5.0 96 4 96 4 Louisiana ...... 3.6 12.1 7.3 54 46 53 47 THE Tennessee ...... 0.9 6.2 5.3 100 .... 84 16 Texas (Eastern) ...... 1.3 7.3 5.6 100 .... 100 YOUR MILL— Samples TRANSPORTATION PROBLEM In this report there are several interesting sets of figures. There is little, or no change in pressroom results or separation results and little or no change in the analysis of seed receipts except for free fatty PHELPS PNEUMATIC acid content. The pressroom standard of 67 is identical with last month’s average. The average ammonia is the UNLOADER same, while there is only 0.02% difference in oil left in cake and only 0.22% in moisture in cake. The same holds true in separation. Average total oil in Keeps trucks moving hulls is 0.01% higher than last month while the whole seed and fine meats are the same as last Keeps railroad cars moving month in the average. Speedy and efficient This actually looks like a well standardized opera­ tion and is the more noticeable in view of the change in quality of seed, and the fact that the mills for the most part have been working current receipts as received in so far as that was possible. Hubert Phelps Machinery It is in the seed receipts that the change in qual­ ity is apparent. While the average of all seed receipts Company analyzed in our laboratories is remarkably close to the previous month in the quantitative value, the BOX 1093, LITTLE ROCK. ARK. free fatty acid has increased from 1.6% to 2.4%. The average moisture (10.4%) is the same as last PHONE 2-1314 month; the average oil (18.5%) is the same as last month; and the average ammonia (3.97%) is almost identical with last month’s ammonia (3.96%).' The

PATRONIZE YOUR ADVERTISERS January, 1944 O I L MILL GAZETTEER Page 21 difference in the value of the seed is reflected in the trol of processes for guesswork and uncertainty and grade, which averages 99.5 this month as against increases the productivity of labor by supplying 103.0 for the previous month. While high free fatty more efficient processes, where the standard and acid seed are still largely confined to the southern quality of the finished products are revised, and the part of the territory covered by this report, there amount of seconds and rejections are reduced. This are other localities, more or less isolated, where this should not only be a day of increased productivity condition is found. but it should be a day of increased efficiency in pro­ Naturally, with this condition in seed, the quality duction, and every industry of recent development of crude oil produced has been noticeably affected. recognizes this fact. How many business men can Average free fatty acid has jumped from 1.7% to tell the quality of the gas, coal, or lignite they are 2.6%; refining loss from 7.5% to 9.8% ; and color burning, or the amount of slate or other impurities from 5.6 to 6.3 red. Only 67% of the oil samples they are purchasing for fuel? How many pay two graded prime this month as against 82% for last prices for their lubricating oil while with a little con­ month. trol, work and expense could materially increase Seed receipts have materially dropped o ff but their profits? Do you call this industrial efficiency? will continue to straggle in for some time. Many This is not efficiency, but wastefulness, and the time mills have early seed in storage and yet to be crushed. is coming when all material will be bought and sold Soybeans have been moving- in fair quantities to under specification, defining the quality desired and Southern mills that are prepared to crush them and making rigid tests to make sure quality is received. this movement should continue. This would be more satisfactory to the producer and ------»------the consumer. INDUSTRIAL AND EDUCATIONAL Courses in the colleges are occupying a position COOPERATION of constantly increasing importance. The develop­ ment may be said to be due not only to the recog­ (Continued from page 9) nition of the importance of engineering in the train­ velop. Eternal research is the price of survival in ing of every liberally educated person but to the fact modern industry. Science is advancing so rapidly and that the development of the industries is dependent with results of such far reaching influence that no upon a thorough knowledge. industry can hope to ignore research and live. Indus­ The courses at the Agricultural and Mechanical tries must understand that we are in the midst of an College of Texas are designed to prepare men for industrial revolution, in the course of which many industrial leadership. Every industry should be established businesses will find their balance sheets under the control of a man trained for that purpose. deeply colored with red unless those in executive He who builds the factories and directs the processes control can read the handwriting on the wall and of manufacture is an engineer. Texas has educated direct their course in the flood of new knowledge few men along this line and the demand of industries coming from the research laboratories. Industrial developments along new lines are everywhere in progress. They call upon the chemist and chemical engineer for new equipment and new o ver 40 Texas Oil Mills methods of production and control. Do you think that the progressive men connected with one of the oldest and largest industries are going to be content Are Using: to sit idly by the side of progress? Will they be satis­ fied to use old methods based on ‘'rule o f thumb” and not let scientific methods show them the way to TON-TEX BELTING new industrial efficiency in milling and refining? Will they not be progressive enough to say what is EXPERIENCE has shown TON-TEX a MASTER good enough for father is not good enough for me for driving: and make the cottonseed oil industry one of the most LINTERS, ROLLS, ATTRITION MILLS, FANS, advanced of all? or on any drive where hard work and shock I would not for a moment have you infer that I loads are encountered. think a college course can give a man anything TON-TEX BELTS can easily be m ade ENDLESS on which it is not possible for him to get himself out­ drive without disturbing pulleys, bearings, couplings, side of college, but I do believe that it is only the or machine and shafting adjustment. exceptional man who will get it outside. The college TON-TEX has less permanent stretch than other types course merely provides a more orderly procedure in of belting; therefore take-ups not necessary. LINTER the mental training, and a more logical sequence in BELTS in use five seasons have never been touched. ATTRITION MILLS, SEED UNLOADERS, BLOWERS, the development of the students’ “ thinking powers.” are successfully being driven with TON-TEX ENDLESS The South, from an industrial standpoint, is one Belts without use of idlers or take-ups of any kind. or the wealthiest sections in the Union, but she needs TON-TEX BELTING is showing two to one life over trained men to develop and control her industries. other belts on Oily Rolls and difficult drives. y1® State of Texas raises one-fourth the cotton to WE GUARANTEE Longer Belt Life, More efficient clothe the world, yet she imports practically all of Service at Less Cost. her wearing material. She produces large quantities ENGINEERING data cheerfully furnished. oi cottonseed oil but imports soap, produces hides to shoe the nation but imports all her shoes. The work of the chemist and the engineer is the chang- CEN-TEX SERVICE CO. lng of the raw material into the finished product P. O. BOX 951 WACO, TEXAS with the greatest efficiency and with the least pos­ "A Complete Belting Service" sible cost of production. He substitutes a rigid con­ PATRONIZE YOUR ADVERTISERS Page 22 O I L MILL GAZETTEER January, 1944 for engineers is increasing more rapidly than men by a larger and more efficient production. This is a with engineering training can be supplied. The in­ day of centralization of wealth, of power, of com­ dustries are constantly crying out for men who know merce, of marketing, of farming and of industry what they want and want what they know. where the brains of one master mind controls the The A. & M. College of Texas asks only the oppor­ policies of large production and distribution. The tunity to help the industries in selecting men for methods of today are no longer the methods of yes­ their organizations by recommending to them men terday. What was good enough for father in business who have stood the test by sticking to a four-year is no longer good enough for us. Today is not today course in college through many difficulties and by but more like tomorrow, for we keep step with the living in dormitories where they have to learn to revolving world so closely that the twilight of today live in harmony with their associates. becomes the dawning of tomorrow. Sunset and sun­ We do not expect to prepare young men ready to rise are as one. step immediately into positions where they must as­ The advancement of science in the cottonseed sume great responsibility and display mature judg­ oil business has only begun. The surface of efficiency ment. We try to impress on the boys the idea that has only been scratched, and in the next ten years their education is merely a foundation on which they the industry will be completely changed whereby its must build and I believe you will find that what the processes will be placed upon a more scientific basis young men ask is merely a chance to begin at the and the mills will be controlled and supervised from bottom and find their own level. They seek the op­ the laboratory. Guesswork will be superseded by portunity to learn your business with a living wage exact knowledge obtained through research. Through comparable to their training. They do not ask favors the application of chem istry and engineering these on the strength of their diplomas, but merely the possibilities will be realized. opportunity of showing what they can do with the So looking forward to the possibilities of advance­ training they have received. Hard work is not a new ment of science in the great cottonseed oil industry, experience to most of these boys, for a large number the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas, of them have earned a considerable part of their through its Department of Chemistry and Chemical college expenses. My purpose here is not to ask you Engineering, puts forward every effort to develop to assist in giving employment to our graduates, for industrial cooperation with the educational institu­ as a matter of fact, the demand far exceeds the sup­ tions. This contact was at first attempted by the ply, and practically every young man who is grad­ establishment of a lectureship whereby the Texas uating this year from our classes has already defi­ Cotton Seed Crushers’ Association sent to the college nitely accepted employment, and we could have representatives from the industry to speak to our placed three times as many. students of the commercial processes and outline to Competition in industry is so strong that we can them the opportunity for scientific control and ad­ no longer ignore the possibility of increasing profits vancement. This opened the way for a closer contact as the officials of the association became more inter­ ested in our college work and recognized the fact that we were training men for the industries of Texas and the South. Today every member of the Texas Cotton Seed Crushers’ Association is heartily and enthusiastical­ ' ,e € ^ z 4 ^ / / z e ly behind the program at the college exemplified by the association placing at the disposal of the college a complete cottonseed oil mill where we take the A MODERN HOTEL seed from its crude form to the finished products: lint, hulls, hydrogenated oil and soap. This is the only mill operated by an educational institution for the training of college graduates. Next year we have available six graduate fellowships of $600 each to CLARID £r£ assist students to pursue graduate work in the field

The traditional hospitality of Dixie is perpetuated at of cottonseed oil mill operations by which we expect the Claridge, where nothing grows old-where the to demonstrate to the cottonseed oil interests that charm of the South and the march of progress are the basis of industrial progress is research. blended into a delightful atmos­ The college also conducts a ten-day summer short phere. New rooms. Excellent course for cotton seed oil mill operators which has location. Popular Coffee Shop. met with an enthusiastic reception shown by the large attendance at the first meeting last year. It FROM $250 has been impossible for the department to meet the demand for our graduates in Chemical Engineering although we have a registration o f 281 in the four- MEMPHIS year course. We also place a large number of our undergrad­ uate students in the industries during the summer vacation months in order to assist them to meet ex­ penses the following year and obtain a broader view of the industrial possibilities. Visit the Sensational New I want our students to get a place in the mills or BALINESE ROOM in the refineries so they come in practical touch with operation of a cotton seed crusher or with the refin­ ing side of the cottonseed oil business. These men

PATRONIZE YOUR ADVERTISERS January* 1944 O I L MILL GAZETTEER Page 23 do not ask favors of anybody. They do not wish white Customer (on the telephone)— “Three of those collar jobs; they do not want anyone to say they are apples you sent me were rotten. I am bringing them college men; but they are just the ordinary man on back.” the job. You know, sometimes we look at a college Storekeeper—“That’s all right, madam. You man as a man who is stuck up and will not do labor, needn’t bring them back. Your word is just as good but I want to tell you that the A. & M. College grad­ as the apples.” uate is not the man that is afraid to wear the over­ alls, as long as there is an opportunity to learn and a possibility of advancement. A drunk finally finds the keyhole and enters into I hope you will realize that the A. & M. College the house, where he stumbles around looking for of Texas is trying to function as a part of industry lights. Wife pipes up: and not apart from industry. We are always open to “That you, Henry?” No answer. A big crash of suggestions and we want your advice. We do not glass. “Henry! What in the world are you doing?” think our work is perfect. We see defects which we “Teaching your damn goldfish not to bark at me.” hope to correct in time, and we shall all work to­ 5{C gether on the firing line to attack and solve the many problems on the rocky road from the labora­ The energetic traveling salesman, eager to see a tory to the plant. big business executive, finally bludgeoned his way past the various secretaries at the end of a rush day Barney— “That’s a quare pair of stockings you in the office. have on, Peter, wan red and the other green.” “Salesman, eh?” snorted the big man. “Do you Peter—“Yes, and the quarest thing is I’ve an­ know that my secretaries have thrown out thirteen other pair like it at home.” salesmen already today?” ❖ * * “Yes, sir,” said the salesman. “I’m them.” * * * It was a dull day at the police station. In fact, it had been a dull week. Little Willie—“Mamma, don’t men ever get to “Whatta life,” grumbled one officer, who was heaven ?” trying to fill an inside straight. “ No crashes, no riots, Mother— “Of course they do! What makes you no razorings, no murders—not even a hot car. If ask?” this keeps up they’ll be reducing the force.” Willie— “Because I never saw any pictures of “Don’t worry, McGurk,” said the Chief, tossing angels with whiskers.” in a couple of chips. “ Something’ll happen. I still got Mother— “Oh, that’s because most men who go to faith in human nature.” heaven get there by a close shave.” ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ANTED ★★★★* SCRAP IRON ★ RUBBER ★ ALL METALS * ★ ★ To Keep WAR PLANTS Working ★ ★ ★ o

★ Take the vital metal parts of an old washing machine, for example. It contains enough rubber for three gas masks. Alumi­ num from 369 more would build one training plane for the U. S. Army Air Corps. The iron in it and 12 others would build a half­ ton army truck. The brass and copper will make fifty .30-caliber cartridge cases for our army.

★ If you have any metal of any sort lying around your mill or mill yard, at home or on the farm, let's get it in. Either give it to the local scrap collecting committee, or sell it to the nearest junk dealer— but get it in NOW! Page 24 O IL MILL GAZETTEER January, 1944

SOYBEAN CROP PROVIDES FOOD AND FEED Despite increased production of edible soya prod­ ucts to meet an expanded military and civilian de­ mand, more than 90 per cent of the soy meal of the large soybean crop is being used in the production of livestock feed, the War Food Administration said recently. Trade reports to the effect that a large percent­ age of the 1943 production of soybean meal has been set aside by the government for processing into hu­ man food at the expense of the protein concentrate ★ requirements of animal feeders are unfounded, Food Distribution Administration officials stated. No order has been issued by the government requiring processors to set aside soybean oil meal for the manufacture of edible products. Current rate of production indicates that the out­ put of edible soya products for all purposes during the last three months of 1943 will require the equivalent of about 74,000 tons of soybean meal. Soybean oil meal production during the same period, however, is expected to total between 800,000 and 900,000 tons. AN Requirements for edible soya products are expected to continue during the first quarter of 1944 at about the same rate as present— less than 10 per cent of the total soybean meal production. New processing facilities for producing soybean oil and meal are being added in the corn belt. Pro­ ADVERTISEMENT cessing facilities in the South and on the Pacific Coast also are being utilized to provide the maximum supply of soybean meal for all purposes. Facilities for the manufacture of edible soya flour and grits are ample to meet demands for these prod­ ucts, FDA officials said. Soya products are valuable IN TH E protein foods for human consumption. They supple­ ment meat, eggs, milk, and other such products in the diet of U. S. military forces and civilians and are essential in meeting the food requirements of our allies and liberated areas.

Oil Mill Gazetteer INDEX TO ADVERTISEMENTS Akron Belting Company...... 17 Atlanta Utilities W orks...... -...... 15 Barrow-Agee Laboratories ...... 14 Bauer Bros. Company, The...... 2 Briggs-Weaver Machinery Co...... 16 Reaches Every O IL M IL L Superintendent Butler Engineering Company...... 5 Butters Manufacturing Company...... 8 Carver Cotton Gin Company...... 6 in America Cen-Tex Service Company...... 21 Claridge Hotel ...... -...... 22 Continental Gin Company...... <...... 14 Davidson-Kennedy Company ...... 17 Fort Worth Laboratories...... 9 Fort Worth Steel & Machinery Company...... Cover 1 French Oil Mill Machinery Company...... Cover 2 Hotel Peabody ...... 18 Houston Armature W orks...... 18 Houston Belting & Supply Co...... 8 Houston Laboratories ...... -...... 16 Lone Star Bag & Bagging Co...... 9 Macon Iron & Paper Stock Co...... 19 National Blow Pipe & Manufacturing Company...... 19 National Hotels ...... =- 9 ★ Oriental Textile Mills...... Cover 3 Phelps, Hubert, Machinery Co...... 20 Reichman-Crosby Company ...... -...... 13 Screw Conveyor Corporation...... 5 Seedburo Equipment Company...... j Southwestern Laboratories ...... 1“ Southwestern Supply and Machine Works...... ] Texas Belting & Supply Co...... 1 Well Machinery & Supply Company...... Cover 4 Wood, A. A., & Sons Company...... 1 Woodson-Tenent Laboratories ...... 1^