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52nd NATIONAL CONVENTION NUMBER O il M ill G azetteer __ OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE NATIONAL OIL MILL SUPERINTENDENTS* ASSOCIATION AND TRI-STATES COTTONSEED OIL MILL SUPERINTENDENTS1 ASSOCIATION Vol 50: N o . 12 Wharton, Texas, June, 1946 Price 25 Cents STEEL AND T o r TW o r I h MACHINERY CO. MANUFACTURERS OF HIGH-GRADE OIL MILL EQUIPMENT - Invites Inquiries about the Following: ALL-METAL, 177 SA W . SAW FILING AND BRUSHLESS LINTERS GUMMING MACHINES —incorporating the vacuum principle of removing lint from — One machine does both gumming and side filing opera the saws, and embodying all late improvements in design. tions. Made also with 106 or 141 saws. BRUSHLESS LINTER DEVICES PNEUMATIC SEED UNLOADERS —This device, installed in a linter, utilizes the vacuum from —for unloading cottonseed, peanuts or beans from trucks the lint flue system to remove the lint from the saws— per mitting removal of the linter brush, with resulting saving and freight cars. Convenient and quick. in power and maintenance expense. LINT FLUE SYSTEMS AUTOMATIC POWER SHOVELS —for unloading from trucks and freight cars. Large ca —correctly designed to give trouble-free and economical pacity and economical. service. Guaranteed not to require more than lJ/2 hp. per connected linter. PRESSURE BLOWING SYSTEMS LINT CLEANING BEATERS —to pneumatically convey hulls, cracked cake, cottonseed, —which remove a high percentage of the large trash, as well soya beans and similar materials at low power cost. as practically all of the pepper. Accepted as the best. 141 AND 177 SAW LINTER CAKE AND MEAL ROOM ---------------------------------- CHANGEOVER PARTS EQUIPMENT — to convert and modernize old linters to 141 and 177 saw —including 4-roll breakers suitable for both hot and cold machines. Parts are standard and interchangeable. cake— reels for screening— hot cake cutters— cake strippers. A complete line of screw conveyor and accessories, vertical screw elevators, V-belt and roller chain drives, drag flight conveyors and other a U o conveying and mechanical power transmission machinery. SALES OFFICES P. O. Box 1065 P. O. Box 1038 P. O. Box 1499 ATLANTA, GEORGIA FORT WORTH, TEXAS MEMPHIS, TENNESSEE Tel. Calhoun 9658 Tel. 4-4255 Tel. 5-3132 O a s s u r e more efficient operation of cylinder oils — one for every operating con T machinery, to increase production and dition and every steam engine, new or old. reduce maintenance costs, oil mill operators T o improve the operation and prolong everywhere use effective lubrication — the life of grease-lubricated ball and roller Texaco. For example — bearings in all types of machinery, use The proper Texaco steam cylinder oil Texaco Regal Starfak. will assure better performance from your For Texaco Products and Lubrication steam engines — will atomize completely Engineering Service, call the nearest of the and adhere to cylinder walls under all steam more than 2300 Texaco distributing plants conditions. That means less cylinder wear, in the 48 States, or write The Texas Com more efficient and economical operation. pany, 135 East 42nd Street, N ew York 17, There is a complete line of Texaco steam N ew York. TEXACO Lubricants, Fuels and Lubrication Engineering Service TUNE IN THE TEXACO STAR THEATRE EVERY SUNDAY NIGHT STARRING JAMES MELTON WITH HIS GUEST, ED WYNN — CBS Oil Mill Gazetteer Official Organ of the National Oil Mill Superintendents' Association and Tri-States Cottonseed Oil Mill Superintendents' Association Fort Worth, Texas Our Convention City The war’s end meant not only reconversion for in or preparing to build airplanes, Globe, Johnson Air dustrial Fort Worth but expansion and enlargement craft and American Eaglecraft Company. of existing businesses and acquisition o.f new ones. In spite of the fact that Fort Worth’s wartime Fort Worth’s biggest “war baby,” the §43,000,000 contracts exceeded those of any other Texas city, Consolidated Vultee A ircraft Corporation plant, is the end of the war was not only the signal for con remaining to become Texas largest single manufac version of existing plants, but also for the building turing operation. A personnel totaling more than of new ones. 6,100 will soon complete the plant’s huge experi Meat packing was Fort Worth’s first big industry mental superbomber, the first B-36, a 10,000-mile and remains one of its most important. Its five range six-engine craft. plants employ more than 6,000 persons and have a Three other Fort Worth plants are now producing (Continued on Page 22) The Will Rogers Memorial Colliseum and Auditorium Oil MILl GAZETTEER June. 1S46 WtamifiajrtuMAA a n d (Di&JjdbidbM Oil Mill Supplies Equipmeit if J m t a ■©# o u r l i n e s ” wCiPPrOTPcM l&wn ip|«fr WMtlSppjV^gj * iikdk & Dedbrar Hediik Took ifcdfetei w d €fm m ts> M t i n g 'T libdkJksfwlfe W i t e m d k e s a n d Wtiesmfe Sells ^ tLiimJk B&dft Cfflnnw^twr omsH Trmrrtm®* swam 7* P jpam e R » fiigjfttfiiirffi Eqfii’pinenrdt * Wtew® <nimaU W<art^Hn<®uu$® f WdySimgi Iqwiffnnaift fnw dte t ftKMoihng Mtes; xr 5^1 %ffft t GsnenaJI fiisaJiiiiia: /Mtatans x $ K F © dll t Ulbiism Sfesifiri fPoirnrjs f HHdll Qwroil CfeMtem Ifenffi A C HI 5.SES w w n $ f « e r r s N. O. M. S. A. Members While io Fort Worth soft make our store your HEADQUARTERS t UPPLYi F O R T ff & IT HL © BID 2 E YSDT1JER mUDWEffiTTnSEffiS Page 22 OIL MILL GAZETTEER June, 1946 combined processing capacity of many thousand head of livestock daily. Fort Worth within the last two years has become the world’s largest sheep market, and recently the one hundred millionth animal passed through the Fort Worth stockyards. Fort Worth’s three flour mills have a combined capacity of 8,500 barrels of flour daily and 1500 barrels of corn meal. These mills do a large annual export business, The city’s 16 grain elevators have a combined storage capacity of 23,500,000 bushels of grain, and the number of carloads of grain han dled on the Fort Worth market in 1945 totaled 63,339. Other oustanding developments in industrial Fort Worth have taken place in the clothing manufactur ing industry, candy manufacturing plants, food pro cessing and canning, reconversion of steel plants to peacetime production, and manufacturing of trailers. Fort Worth Public Library Fort Worth’s excellent distribution facilities have, of course, been a decisive factor in the recent indus work by Fort Worth populace in turning every chan trial development. Nine railroads, seven of which nel into production for victory, but civic planning for operate shop and yard facilities, have 16 outlets; the future was already under way. The end of the major airlines and a vast system of highways add to war was the go-ahead signal— $40,000,000 has been Fort Worth’s advantageous position as an industrial designated for expenditure within the next 10 years center. on airports, highways, parks and buildings. Citizens of Fort Worth, long before the first em Already under way is the huge municipal airport bers of World War II burned, saw the need for great south of the city. The purchase of land is almost municipal improvements. Since 1934 more than completed and construction will be under way im $10,000,000 has been spent on public school buildings, mediately. grounds and equipment. In 1939 a $500,000 city hall and the $400,000 Public Library were built. Architects have been awarded contracts covering the construction of the Arts and Children’s Mu The war years were marked only with intensified seums, an amphitheater for large outdoor audiences, a police station and new jail, improvement and en largement of the sanitary sewer system and sewage disposal plant. Contracts have also been let covering sections of the expressways development, a long term plan devised to build a North-South and East- West inter-regional highway. The city’s water works system is being completely revised and greatly enlarged. Will Rogers Coliseum and Auditorium, on the site of the internationally fam ous “ Casa Manana” show of 1936 and 1937, is the nucleus for the mammoth civic recreation center included in the city’s post war plans. The city of Fort Worth provides not only a place to visit and enjoy, but a location in the center of the Southwest’s expanding industrial area to earn an excellent livelihood and enjoy the best in recreational and educational facilities. --------- --------------- NEWEST CEDAR OIL PLANT IN TEXAS BEGINS PRODUCTION Opening this month a new cedar oil plant near Junction, Texas, now gives the state three cedar oil extraction plants. A plant at New Braunfels and an other at Bastrop have been in operation several years. The new plant, employing 25 to 30 people, will extract oil from mountain cedar for use in per fumes, leather dressings, furniture polish and simi lar products, J. M. Potts of Dallas, and J. E. Hew- son of Freeport, chemical engineering graduates ot Texas A. & M. College, are the operators.— Texas Main Street Looking North Toward l'arrant County Court House Chemurgic News. June, 1946 O IL MILL GAZETTEER Page 23 CONGRATULATIONS to the National Oil Mill Superintendents Association, on this their 52nd Birthday "We wish to thank the Oil Mills and Gins for their continued patronage during the twenty-five years we have been in business. We will celebrate our Silver Anni versary on October 1, 1946. The growth of our company has been due to the patronage of our good friends, who are many throughout many states." Lone ★ Star BAG & BAGGING CO., Inc. (Established 192?) HOUSTON, TEXAS New Burlap and Cotton Bags — Second-Hand Bags — Bagging and Ties P.

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