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KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI May- 1952 O I L MILL GAZETTEER Page 3 Oil Mill Gazetteer CONVENTION CALENDAR— 1952 Volume 56 May, 1952 Number 11 T Published monthly by the Oil Mill Gazetteer May 12-13— Oklahoma Cottonseed Crushers’ Wharton, Texas Association Annual Convention, Lake Mur­ Official Organ of the ray Lodge, Ardmore, Okla. J. D. Fleming-, National Oil Mill Superintendents Association Secretary-Treasurer, 1004 Cravens Bldg., and the Oklahoma City 2, Okla. Tri-States Oil Mill Superintendents • Association May 19, 20 and 21—National Cottonseed Products Association Annual Convention, Roosevelt Hotel, New Orleans, La. S. M. Harmon, Secretary - Treasurer, Sterick Bldg., Memphis 3, Tenn. May 26, 27 and 28—Fifty-eighth Annual Convention, National Oil Mill Superintend­ ents Association, Rice Hotel, Houston, Texas. H. E. Wilson, Secretary-Treasurer, Wharton, Texas. • June 1, 2 and 3— Texas Cottonseed Crushers Association Convention, H eadquarters, Shamrock Hotel, Houston, Texas. Jack Whetstone, Secy., 618 Wilson Bldg., Dallas, OFFICERS AND EDITORIAL STAFF Texas. H. E. Wilson, Wharton, Texas......................... ..... Editor June 2-3—Sixth joint Annual Convention, Jane Inez Gordon, 1921 Lamar Ave., Apt. 4, Georgia Cottonseed Crushers Association Memphis, Tenn................. ......................Associate Editor and Alabama-Florida Cottonseed Products Burns H. Hamlett, West Coast Representative, Association, General Oglethorpe Hotel, 2301 East 52nd St„ Los Angeles 58, Calif. Wilmington Island, Savannah, Ga. J. E. Floyd Carpenter, Southwest Reporter, Moses, Secretary, Georgia Association, 318 P. O. Box 742, Waxahachie, Texas Grand Theatre Bldg., Atlanta 3, Ga. T. R. Caia, Secretary, Alabama-Florida Associa­ tion, 310 Professional Center Bldg., Mont­ Entered as second-class matter at the postoffice at gom ery 4, Ala. Wharton, Texas, under Act of Congress of March, 1879 • The Oil Mill Gazetteer does not necessarily endorse June 3, 4 and 5—Tri-States Oil Mill Super­ all the opinions expressed in contributions appearing intendents’ Association Annual Conven­ herein. As the official organ of the National Oil Mill tion, Hotel Buena Vista, Biloxi, Miss. L. E. Superintendents Association and Tri-States Oil Mill Superintendents Association, this journal carries of­ Roberts, Secretary-Treasurer, 998 Kansas, ficial communications and articles concerning the Memphis 5, Tenn. activities of the association, but in all other respects the associations are not responsible for what appears in these pages, including opinions to which expres­ June 8, 9, 10 and 11— N orth Carolina Cotton­ sion is given. seed Crushers’ Association-South Carolina Cottonseed Crushers’ Association joint An­ Subscription, $2.00 a year in advance. nual Convention, The Cavalier, Virginia All Foreign Subscriptions $4.00 per year. Beach, Va. Mrs. M. U. Hogue, Secretary, Advertising rates furnished upon application. North Carolina Cottonseed Crushers’ As­ Executive and Editorial offices: Wharton, Texas sociation, P. O. Box 747, Raleigh, N. C. P. O. Box 1180 Mrs. Durrett Williams, Treasurer, South Carolina Cottonseed Crushers’ Association, Published in the interest of Cottonseed Oil Mills and 609 Palmetto Bldg., Columbia 1, S. C. all other Vegetable Oil Processors. Page 4 O IL MILL GAZETTEER May, 1952 R i^h t for e v e ry J o b IN YOUR MILL VKciu& frU t l& l 2 5 'tyeasia Whether it be for your seed house, cleaning room, lint room or cake and meal room— Fort Worth has the right equipment to solve your problems . a full line of pneumatic cooling systems, seed unloaders, linter saws and lint clean­ er units. 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OHRMAN ED PFLA N Z JOHN GRACE President Oil Mill Machinery and Vice-President Oil Mill Machinery Secy.-Treas. Oil Mill Machinery Supply Men’s Association and Supply Men’s Association and Supply Men’s Association For the past three months Vice-President Ed Pflanz, Secretary, John Grace and I have been working- hard to complete plans to make the National Oil Mill Superintendents Association Meet­ ing-, to be held at the Rice Hotel in Houston on May 26, 27 and 28, a complete success. All of the major arrangements for the banquet, floor show, orchestra and entertainment for the ladies, have all been completed. Only the minor details are now in front of us and these will be taken care of when we arrive for the meeting. While many serious problems will be discussed at this meeting, I am glad to tell you that we have been most fortunate in securing some exceptionally fine acts for the floor show and can assure you that everyone attending the banquet will become better acquainted with his fellow members. The Machinery and Supply Company representatives will attend this meeting in force and will welcome this opportunity to again meet the National Oil Mill Superintendents. U. H. (B ILL) OHRM AN President, 0 . M. M. M. & S. A. All arrangements have been completed to entertain the superintendents, their wives and fam­ ilies at their convention this year at the Rice Hotel in Houston on May 26, 27 and 28. These ar­ rangements include a tour of the residential section of the city for the ladies in air-conditioned buses and a trip to the San Jacinto Monument and Battleship Texas which is anchored nearby. A luncheon for the ladies will be served in the Empire Room of the Convention Hotel after which Sakowitz will present a style show. Then there is the night of nights when we have our banquet to which everyone is looking for­ ward.