Oil Mill Gazetteer OFFICIAL ORGAN of the NATIONAL OIL MILL SUPERINTENDENTS* ASSOCIATION and TRI-STATES COTTONSEED OIL MILL SUPERINTENDENTS* ASSOCIATION Vol
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Oil Mill Gazetteer OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE NATIONAL OIL MILL SUPERINTENDENTS* ASSOCIATION AND TRI-STATES COTTONSEED OIL MILL SUPERINTENDENTS* ASSOCIATION Vol. 48; No. 7 Wharton, Texas, January, 1944 Price 25 Cents Fo r t 'W o r t h r ; : = iiiiter ribs LATE LINTER RIBS can be furnished for linters with 106 or 141 saws. They Pare easier to install—less likely to break—spacing of saw slots is more accurate— make a more rigid gratefall—help prevent buckling of lower rib rail and can be installed more quickly. The ribs are made of 5-16" steel plate. They are formed to the proper shape on a large forming press. The slots are milled with gang cutters to insure accurate spacing and are then beveled or “relieved" on the under side, quite similar to individual ribs. Any plate section may be renewed. The finished plate is case hardened to the proper depth. r-OTHER FORT WORTH LINT ROOM EQUIPMENT * Pneumatic Lint Flue Systems Pneumatic Rock and Shale Removers * Lint Cleaning Beaters Fort Worth All-Metal Linters * Saw Filing and Gumming Machines Permanent Magnet Boards * Linter Saw s Mote and Tailings Beaters * Brushless Linter Devices Vertical Screw Elevators * Lint Condensers Parts to re-build and convert Linters to 141 Saw Machines A Complete Line of Power Transmission and Conveying Equipment SALES OFFICES—Fort Worth, P. O. Box 1038 . Memphis, P. O. Box 1499 . Atlanta, P. O. Box 1065 T orT W orIh ^MACHINERY CO. manufacturers o f h i g h -g r a d e o il m i l l e q u i p m e n t THERE'S MORE OIL, MARKET FLUCTUATIONS occur and you can not do very much about them. They are BEYOND your control. But securing the GREATEST PROFIT per ton ol seed IS within your power and control. 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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 ihtouqkout the 1/eat SEND FOR FREE CATALOG No. 143 BUY SEEDBURO Lists and describes over 325 items. 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