The Frisco Employes' Magazine, June 1927
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lNDUSTRlAL RELATIONS SECTION QBE FR!SCO JuN ll 1927 A JUNE 1927 NO. IX T i Wear-Proof Journals a 1 The S8'( reduction in sr:lrrinq loatl, due , to friction clirriinat~on,onlc beLi~nsto ~-4 eupwss tlie value of 'I'imken-equipped rai1ro;ld c;ir journals. , 1/q. hrxe the rpaci~v,because 'I'imlicn Bearings are more than eclual to t!~ctre- mendous shock antl side-thrust, as fl;lne;ecl steel wheels race over stccl curves, cross- ings and switches. Compactly, simply, n ith al)solutcly no axle wear, A/,/, stress is mply provitfed for I)v 'I'imken material and desiqn -'I'imlien-matle electric steel; 'I'imk:-n tapered constructior,; anti Tinilten PUS1TIl'LI.Y AIIGNLD I<OI IS, considereti the gre;ltt.st I)e;trinq advance since the atlvcnt of the taper principle. Journals are permanently protectecl. (;one are hot-boxes, endless lubrication, and rough stat-ring. I .her, fuel antl materials are saved. I,Tpon request any railroad mav have tlie data resu!ting from !.cars of 71'imIccn develop~nent. Tapered \Y RolIer R F. CARR, Memphis W. E. LOWRY, Hickory Flat, MI-. n President Vies-Pres. and General Manager SPECIALIZING IN RAILROAD BUILDING MATERIAL Strong as Ever for the "Frisco" Phone, Main 2312 P. 0. Boxomlcu 1032 MEMPHIS, TEN. Hussey-Hobbs Tie Company RAILROAD CROSS TIES AND SWITCH TIES POLES-PILING ST. LOUIS, MO. ROGERS, ARK. HOUSTON, TEXAS ------- L. Em Puckett, Inc. AMORY, MISS. HARD WOOD YELLOW PINE Lumber "WE HELP MAKE THE FRISCO SAFE" Page , C ALBERT RUSSELL T. R. SIMMONS W. A. SCOTT' CLEVELAND LUMBER COMPANY JASPER, ALABAMA Railroad Lumber : Pine and Hardwood TWO MILLION FEET PER MONTH ON THE FRISCO IN ALABAMA JASPER ELDRIDGE SIPSEY Fully Equipped plant Planing Mill and Car Decking and Dry Kiln and Plane1 Retail Yard Short Dimension High Grade Finish DEPENDABLE SERVICE QUALITY COUNTS HATTIESBURG PHILADELPHIA BIRMINGHAM NEW YORK ALBANY. GA. ST. LOUIS CHICAGO THE HOME LUMBER CO. INCORPORATED NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA J. R. PRATT W. J. ROEHL PRESIDENT 1948 RAILWAY~CHANOE BLDQ. W. W. BRADLEY ST. LOUIS REPRESLNTATIVL TREAS.-GENL. MGR. WE SPECIALIZE IN RAILROAD AND CAR MATERIAL June, 1927 'F~~QwFMPLOW&~UNE Page 3 The Mount Vernon Car Manufacturing Co. Just completed, Neu Repair Shop, -*- 500' x 150'. I Capacity Fully equipped with 10,000 Freight Cars; Cranes, Electric '31'~~3 1' 150,000 Wheels; BUILDERS OF FREIGHT CARS MOUNT VERNON, ILLINOIS WESTERN TIE AND TIMBER COMPANY II 905 SYNDICATE TRUST BLDG. WALTER POLEMAN. President A. R. FATRMAN, Vice-president E. A. NIXON, Vice-president THOS. T. POLDMAN, Sec'y and Treas. I( Treated and Untreated Cross and Switch Ties, Piling, Car and Track Oak Owners of KETTLE RIVER TREATING COMPANY MADISON, ILLINOIS Zinc and Creosoted CROSS TIES, Modern Adzing and Boring Machines Treating Plants located at Madison and Edwardsville, Ill. ~I E. A. NIXON, President R. A. CALVIN, V.-P. and Sales Ngr. ' A. R. PATHMAN, Vice-president H. G. McELHINNBY, Sec'y and Gen. Supt. R. E. KNEELAND, V.-P. and G. Mgr. J. E. PETERSON, Treasurer I r '? June. 1927 THE FRISCO EMPLOYES' MACAZINE ROOM 743 FRISCO BUILDING :: ST. LOUIS WM . L . HUGGINS. Jr., Editor MARTHA C . MOORE. Associale Editor WM . McMILLAN . Adoarflslng Manager H .A . PICKENS. ASSI. Ed.-Frlsco Mechanlc J . J . KAPLAN . Adocrlidng Sollcllor VOL . IV JUNE. 1927 No . 9 Permission is given to reprint. with or without credit. in part or in full. any article appearing in this Magazine Contents of This Issue PAGES Frontispiece .................; ............................................................................................................................ 4 . Tulsa Becomes Largest Frisco Terminal ........................................................................................6-8 General Solicitor Miller Made Vice-president ............................................................................. 8 Remarkable Progress of Famous Ozarks........................................................................................... 9 Frisco Increases 1926 Net Operating Income ................................................................................. 10 "Colonell' Sam A . Hughes Appointed Colonization Agent ........................................................ 11 Ozark Strawberries Honored in Van Buren Fete, May 4........................................................ 12-13 News of the Frisco Clubs ................................................................................................................... 14-17 Central Division Wins Accident Prevention Cup...................................................................... 18 For Meritorious Secvice...................................................................................................................... 19 Tupelo, Mississippi, Celebrates Opening of Milk Plant ......................................................... 20 Calvin Davis, Frisco Pensioner, Celebrates 82nd Birthday........................................................ 21 More Good Fuel Records ...................................................................................................................... 28 Reunion of Frisco Veterans, 1927, by R . F . McGlothlan ........................................................ 29 A Page of Praise from Loyal Frisco Shippers........................................................................... 331 Pension Roll ........................................................................................................................................... 32-33 Sport Togs for Miss Frisco ................................................................................................................. 34 .. Homemakers' Page ................................................................................................................................. 35 The Twilight Hour .......................................................................................................................... .36-37 Flashes of Merriment ............................................................................................................................ 38 Editorials ..................................................................................................................................................39 Frisco Magazine Presents First Views of New Tulsa Terminal ....................... .. ..................40-41 Pastime ................................................................................................................................................. 42 Frisco Mechanic ..................................................................................................................................... 43-47 Frisco Family News ...............................................................................................................................48-80 THE FRISCO EMPLOYES' MACAZINE I The Frisco Employes' Magazlne Is a monthly publlcatlon devoted prlmarlly to the Interests of the ore than 30 000 actlve and retlred employes of the Frisco Lines . It contalns storles Items of current we. personil notes about employes and their families. articles deallng with varlous bhases of railroad .rk. poems. cartoons and notices regarding the service. Good clear photographs suitable for repro- ction are especially desired. and wlll be returned only when requested. All cartoons and drawlngs must In black Indla drawing Ink. Employes are invited to wrlte articles for the magazine. Contributions should be typewritten. on one is of the sheet only. and should be addressed to the Edltor. Frlsco Bullding. St. Louls. Mo . Distrlbuted free among Frisco employes. To others. price 1; cents a copy; subscription rate $1.60 a ar. Advertlsing rates wlll be made known upon application Page 6 Tulsa Becomes Largest Frisco Terminal W ht divjin did Sapulpa ~aciktiesAre Abandoned cnm Frisco's $2,000,000 Payroll Largest of Any Tulsa Indust ry-1,200 Emplq Fry Haoe Home Terminal at Tulsa roll clip By W. L. H., Jr. \ (Pictzms 011 Pages 40 artd 41) do for HIRTY odd pears ago the Frisco's lone employe which was to conie to Tulsa when the old Xtlant fro at Tulsa, Oklahoma, an agent, might have Pacific Railroad Company, great-grandfather en T yawned wearily in the stuffy ugliness of his clap- Frisco Lines completed its line into Vinita, Olclaho tra & board station office, loolced speculatively out across in 1871. The "A. P." mas pioneering into unkn en dirt streets and past one-story buildings, and appraised territory. Wise railroad men shook canny heads. : th, the property owned by the company whose representa- road ended at Vinita for eleven years, and not I tive he was. 1852 was it extended to Tulsa, to Red Fork in I\ to Sapulpa in 1886, to Oklahoma City S2 He would have been unimpressed. His gaze an would have encompassed, within a radius Louis and Oklahoma City Railroad) C f of only a few hundred feet, some small, 1898. but acridly odorous stock pens, a pile Texas cattle, brought up to ,.' PIto of ties near a short side track. and Territory" for fattening before F: the main line track of the ~ri'sco, ment via Frisco Lines to east. sl running southward to Sapulpa, its markets. formed the principal r southwestern terminus. enue fbr the Frisco then, and That Frisco representative of many years, train service wed the '90's has faded from the pic- Vinita consisted of a mixed i1 t' ture of those early Tulsa days, senger and freight train each , with the long-horned Texas cattle daily. Stations were ten n. apart, trains made fifteen m in the odorous stock pens, the 4 cowboy and blanketed Indian,