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Copied from an original at The History Center. www.TheHistoryCenterOnline.com 2013:023 L/.NE AUGUST • 1954 Copied from an original at The History Center. www.TheHistoryCenterOnline.com 2013:023 Copied from an original at The History Center. www.TheHistoryCenterOnline.com 2013:023 Published t Lomers Ond ( promote Fr · y the Lufki"ends and t':ndship and G n Foundry <'i ~Vanc e the f~d WiJJ With . a chine C n erest of it Jts cus. ~~IOIOIOIOIO~IOIOIOIOIOIO~V:· ~~:~~. P~a~n~y~,~L:u:~~~ P~r:od~u~c~t:s .J' LINE 0~,=: · :~::~:· Sales and Service Offices JULY-AUGUST. 1954 of the Volume XXIX Number 4 LUFKIN FOUNDRY & • MflCHINE COMPANY ••.•......................................................• BAKERSFIELD. CALIFORNIA 2800 Ashby St., Phone FAirview 3-1766 Carl Frazer CASPER, WYOMING DALLAS NUMBER P. 0. Box 1849, Phone 3-4670 R. S. Miller Bill Holliday FORT GEORGE ISLAND-fl. BEAUTIFUL SPIT OF LAND . 4-6 Roy Lilley, Jr. CORPUS CHRISTI. TEXAS 1201 Wilson Bldg., Phone 3-1881 Edd Terrill, Jr. DALLAS, TEXAS THE IRON GIANT .. 7 1208 Gulf Stales Bldg. Phone STerling 5127 A. E. Caraway-R. C. Thompson EDMONTON, ALBERTA, CANADA T.M.T.fl.. DIRECTORS MEET IN LUFKIN . 8-9 Lufkin Machin e Co., Ltd. 14321 108th Avenue, Phone 8-6412 Jack Gissler R. D. Dunlop LUFKIN INSTfl.LLfl.TIONS . ... 10-11 EFFINGHAM, ILLINOIS 210 W. Jefferson St., Phone 667-W P. 0. Box 6 Lewis W. Breeden fl RUSSIAN VILLAGE IN OLD MEXICO- EL DORADO, ARKANSAS J. R. Wilson Bldg. By Jack B. Kemmerer .. 12-15 P. 0. Box 748, Phone Union 3-7606 Harold Bowerman GREAT BEND, KANSAS North Main Street SNAPSHOTS BY THE LUFKIN Cfl.MERfl.Mfl.N .. ... 16-18 P. 0. Box 82, Phone 5622 Byron Robbins-Oliver McKay HOUSTON, TEXAS 516 City National Ban k Bldg. Phone CApilol 0108 LET'S Lfl.UGH . 19 Bill Miner-Tom Bowers Val Gallia KILGORE, TEXAS P. 0. Box 871 , Phone 3-875 COVER: fl. Devaney. Inc .. N. Y. W. T. Crowder, Jr.-Vemon Glenn T. fl. Bania LaFAYETTE, LOUISIANA P. 0 . Box 785, Phone 4-2846 INSIDE COVER: David W. Corson From fl.. Devaney. N. Y. B. C. Burnette LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA 5959 South Alameda Phone Lafayette 1201 V. J. Fawcett Al McConville Robert R. Spaulding Glenn E. Henderson MARACAIBO, VENEZUELA, S. A. TRAILER DIVISION Sales and Service Offices of the LUFKIN Aparlado No. 90 Ben C. Sargent, Jr. FOUNDRY & MflCHINE COMPANY NEW YORK, NEW YORK 149 Broadway CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS SAN ANTONIO. TEXAS Phone Barclay 7-0562 2838 Willa rd Street 900 Noaalitos Street A. V. Simonson Phone 4-7288 Phone FAnnin 5216 ODESSA, TEXAS Kermit! Gammill Otis K. McCauley P. 0 . Box 1632, Phone 6-5662 Nelson Henze Elvin Read DALLAS. TEXAS R. P. Weaver John W. Swanson, Jr. 635 Fort Worth Avenue Jim Rowe Phone RAndolph 247 1 SHAWNEE, OKLAHOMA George Henson Carl V. Wilkinson Modern Motors, Inc. OKLAHOMA CITY. OKLAHOMA Leroy G reene 201 North Broadway 1219 Colcord Building Glenn A. Foy Phone 241 Phone Regent 6-7480 FORT WORTH. TEXAS George Diddle Charles Dyer 3105 Binyon John D. Mettauer Phone WEbster 940 1 SHREVEPORT. LOUISIANA SEMINOLE, OKLAHOMA Morelle Hicks 2712 Glenwick Street 312 Eighth Street 450 1 Plea sa nt Street Phone 8-4740 Phone 34 Phone WEbster 77 16 Neill Morris Newell Lynch Bill P. Richards STERLING, COLORADO SWEETWATER, TEXAS 515 Elwood Street HOUSTON, TEXAS 711 West Broadway Phone 1459 2815 Naviga tion Blvd Phone 2892 G. W. Nichols Phone ATwood 6407 Sam L Jones TULSA, OKLAHOMA J.C. Lowe George S. Cowan 605 Thompson Bldg. Robert Lee Hamilton Phone 3-0204 Marshall Dailey TULSA. OKLAHOMA D. A. Reid Bruce Bates 1632 South Quannah H. H. Muller LUBBOCK, TEXAS Phone 4-4385 WICHITA FALLS, TEXAS 2108 13th St. Bob Phillips 411 Oil & Gas Bldg. R. L. Graham P. 0. Box 2465 WACO, TEXAS Phone 2-1967 ODESSA, TEXAS 3116 Willowbrook Drive Ernest Slaughter 401-A East Snyder Phone 2-4031 WILLISTON. NORTH DAKOTA Ph::me 7-6809 Bill F. Mayfield P. 0 . Box 934 Carl J. Couser Phone 3-6128 OKLAHOMA CITY. OKLAHOMA EXECUTIVE OFFICES AND FACTORY Jack L. Read Modern Trailers Lufkin, Texas EXECUTIVE OFFICES AND FACTORY 16 South Blackwelder Phone 3-4426 Lufkin, Texas, Phone 3-4421 Phone REgent 6-3687 C. W . (Lefty) Alexander, Sales L. A. Little, Vice President & Jess Mallow Manager General Sales Manager Pete Coleman Floyd S. Rogers Cooper Richards Copied from an original at The History Center. www.TheHistoryCenterOnline.com 2013:023 ort <;)eorge Sis/and~~ ~ (, ORT GEORGE ISLAND, a spit of land at the smooth beaches on the east. It is a natural setting l~ mouth of th e beautiful St. Johns River near for hunters, fresh and salt water fishermen. \ ~ } ~J ckso nville, has dangled like a lush plum to lure Today, the island visitor sees a large plantation ~A ' inter travelers, slave traders and people of every se ttlement which was Florida's first "White t} tation to Florida for nearly four centuries. House." There are two large club houses, currently A part of the island has been given, literally, to closed, about 10 private cottages, a small Episco the birds, as a State Bird sanctuary, during the past pal Church, and the Bird Sanctuary Lodge. few years. Its present tranquility shows little evi A winding dirt road tunnels its way under the dence of the noi sy past. Just the same, there is branches of the forest which covers most of the enough left to intrigue the im agination of any who island. The semi-tropical climate has produced a care to stop and see. vast area of incomparable vegetation surpas ing Just 20 minutes drive from Jacksonville over th e anything in orth Florida. The most beautiful for Heckscher waterfront drive, or via th e Mayport est tract lies in the John F . Rollins Bird and Plant ferry, Fort George Island looms up as an isolated Sanctuary given to th e State of Florida by Rollins hammock rising above marsh es on the west and College. 4 PONTE Vedra Beach is Jacksonville's most fashionable reso Copied from an original at The History Center. www.TheHistoryCenterOnline.com 2013:023 LEFT: These Oriental Gardens on the banks of the THIS is Florida's "First White House" built on beautiful St. Johns River attract Florida guests. the island by John McQueen. It's still livable. Copied from an original at The History Center. www.TheHistoryCenterOnline.com 2013:023 --- ,.. '--- - --.,~ Jacluonvlll~ - S.flR.flSOT.fl Jungle Gardens is one of many beau tiful parks in Riversi de section of Jacksonville permanent fort on the island. It became one of the significant symbols in the Struggle for world power Ponce de Leon explored in the vicinity of Fort which culminated in King George's War 1739-48. George Island in search of his Fountain of Youth. Spain gave the island to John McQueen in 1791 An adjacent island was the hiding place for the as a reward for the capture of everal British ad first Protestant settlers in America in 1562. Amer venturers who were annoying the Spanish empire. ica's first white child was born nearby. McQueen developed cotton crops and a large lum Guarding the mouth of the majestic St. Johns ber mill on th e island but sold it in 1804 to Hous River which was Florida's main travel artery for ton Mcintosh. T h is owner lost the property by centuries, Fort George was a key outpost in the mortgage foreclosure in 1817 to the fabulous slave truggles between the British and Spaniards for the trader, Zephaniah Kingsley. Sunshine State Peninsula. Oglethorpe built the first Kingsley made the island into a den for smug gling Negroes into the South. He ruled the island jointly with his Madagascan mistress, or wife, Prin cess Anna Madegigine J ai, whose reputation has been a subject of historical debate for years. The little house in which the Prince s lived still stands. The island entered a more respectable era after the War Between the States, when it was bought by John F. Rollins of New Hampshire. Rollins left the old prison room s and flogging posts which Kingsley had built for the slaves but turned to agricultural interests. He developed citrus groves and elaborate gardens. The island dock was the first landing place for coastal steamers entering the St. Johns River. Rol flBOVE: The Treaty Oak-more than 800 years old lins and his associates plotted the island for devel opment of a Winter resort community and built BELOW: Metrop olitan Jacksonville is only a 20- Florida's first large Winter hotel. It was a gay re minute drive from the tourist island. Ft. George sort until the yellow fever epidemic of 1888 fright ened the tourists away. Another fine new hotel was built. Both were destroyed by fire, however, and never rebuilt because the tourists were migrating further so uthward to the Gold Coast region. Jacksonville citizens built the Ribault Clubhouse on the island as a favorite weekend hide-away many years ago. A group of retired Army and Navy officers built a private club on the former Kingsley plantation tract at the north end of the island. Grounds of this club are still open to the visitor, though the clubhouse is closed. Copied from an original at The History Center. www.TheHistoryCenterOnline.com 2013:023 VULCflN, fllabam's famous giant, is 50 years old IRMINGHAM, called the Crossroads of the Finally, he was taken to the Alabama State Fair, B Southeast and the Younges t of the World's but his troubles were not over.