The Abilene Reporter-News (Abilene, Tex.), Vol. 70, No. 260, Ed. 2 Wednesday, March 7, 1951 Page: 9 of 26
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Cotton Inquiry Sel
Ex
inges to Open
By the Associated Press
The nation's principal cotton ex-
changes scheduled reopenings for
tomorrow after the Office of Price
Stabilization amended a much-eri-
tieized order on cotton price cell-
"However, cotton men still con-
tend the price restriction on raw
cotton will hurt long established
methods of trading la cotton fu-
tures.
In Washington, price control of-
ficials were asked to appear before
a Senate-House committee tomor-
row and explain how they deter-
mined the “freeze" on cotton
prices.
In Texas, the Dallas and Lub-
bock cotton exchanges planned re-
openings tomorrow. The Galveston
exchange announced no plans to
reopen. Officials of the Houston ex-
change will decide today what ae-
tion to take.
Most exchanges had been idle
about six weeks, pending clsrifi-
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cation of the government’s Jan 39
price freeze order
G. C. Cochran, Lubbock cotton
buyer and member of the board of
directors of the Lubbock exchange,
said he believed the new ceilings
would cost South Plains farmers
from “five to 59 dollars" a bale.
He said be understood some cot-
ton which has been selling in the
Lubbock area for 44 cents a pound
will be rolled back.
Cochran said the ceilings will
cause a roll back of seven cents
a pound on some of the lower
grades of cotton, such as it pro-
duced in the Lubbock ares He
said the majority of South Plains
cotton, now selling from 38 to 41
cents a pound, will bring only from
31 to 35 cents unless the ceilings
are changed.
The New York exchange ruled
that trading in all deliveries would
begin Thursday, but there were
some special rulings regarding
the March, 1951, contract—the spot
month.
Trading in this spot delivery, the
exchange ruled, will be for liquida-
tion purposes only, excepting to
cover deliveries of spot cotton.
HE MEANT WELL
Solon Helps GI
From Bad to Worse
WASHINGTON, March 7. Un—A
congressman can be just too help-
ful, Rep. Belcher (R-Okla) decided
today. F
Without mentioning any names,
he related in a weekly news let-
ter to constituents that one of his
colleagues went to the aid of a
woman who said her serviceman
husband was desperately needed
at home.
The representative "cut his wsy
through a mountain of red tape
and got her man returned to her,"
Belcher wrote, and he continued:
“He was rewarded by an acid
letter from the husband, who In-
formed his congressmen that he
had joined the Army to get away
from his wife, .and would be in the
future please mind his own busi-
ness.”
CHIMP ACTOR DIES —
Pierre, Jo Jo and Rollo, per-
Tamba, (above) alias Bonzo,
forming chimpanzee veteran
of scores of movies and
television shows, suffocated
to death along with several
other animals when fire
broke out in the chimp house
of the World Jungle com-
pound at Thousand Oaks,
Calif. Above he is attired in
cowboy outfit for the film
"Bedtime for Bonzo.” (AP
Wirephoto).
PRODUCERS
LIVESTOCK
AUCTION
SALES
MONDAY - FRIDAY
Sale Starts 11 O’clock
2 miles east on now
highway 80
W. 0. Kemper
w. S. (Cub) Young
Funeral Set Today
For Merkel Man, 81
MERKEL, March 7.—Funeral
for Joseph Johnson White, 81, will
be held at 2 30 p.m. Wednesday in
the Merkel Baptist Church.
The pastor, the Rev. Joe Allen,
is to officiate, assisted by the Rev.
E. D. Landreth of Abilene.
Burial in the Rose Cemetery
here will be under direction of
Starbuck Funeral Home.
Mr. White, Merkel farmer and
carpenter, died here Tuesday after
a long illness.
His survivors include two sons,
J. C. White of Sacramento, Calif.,
and J. L. White of Merkel: one
daughter, Mrs. A. R. Johnston of
Merkel: six grandchildren and six
great-grandchildren.
(Continued from Pege 1)
The Republic Aviation Flant en
Long Island, for instance. Is look-
ing for 399 of these men That fig-
ure. they say, is fairly typical of
aircraft plants everywhere
WEAPONS CHANGE
3. The new weapons and equip-
ment are different and more de-
structive—and much harder to
make with existing facilities. The
assembly line that turned out Sher-
mans and Pershings needs exten-
sive re-tooling to produce the more
agile but heavier modern tank.
(Chrysler is building a totally new
plant to handle its orders for
tanks). The only similarity be-
tween these land battleships and
the older models is that they still
have hulls and bogey wheels.
Soldier, did you ever drive a
truck to the last war? You would
hardly recognise the new ones.
At the Dodge plant in Detroit,
they are turning out a weapons
carrier equipped with a "breath-
er” and so water-proofed that the
motor keeps right on purring when
the windshield is three feet under
water. It has a heater for quick
starting at sub-zero temperatures,
a gadget that will keep a flat tire
clinging neatly to the rim, and a
bolting assembly—all painted yel-
low-that permits you to tear out
the whole motor and install anoth-
er in 20 minutes. The seats and
back-cushions are foam rubber:
they won't flatten Into sheer cast
iron on a rocky road, as the kapok
filling did
SHORTAGES APPEAR
3. In the effort to fill defense
orders and at the same time go
on producing for civilian consump-
tion. some serious shortages have
already appeared.
Aluminum la one. High heat-re-
sisting steel Is another. Electrical
equipment and precision instru-
ments sre still others. Rolling
stock for transportation of materi-
al and semi-finished machines is
very short. Freight cars are going
out of service at the rate of 5.000
a month—which to faster than they
are being made.
As a result, thousands of facto-
ries—even those with defense or-
ders—are competing with each oth-
er for these facilities. As a rubber
executive put it: "A defense order
to nothing but a hunting license.
You still have to go out and find
the material." -
4. Some factories are restating
defense orders. Even though ma-
terials shortages may have cut
them down to low production or
none at all, they are retaining their
manpower and postponing conver-
sion. They argue that in the last
war, the conscientious owner who
converted-, early, at his own ex.
pense and at the loss of his cus-
tomers, sent those customers to
competitors who waited 18 months
or two years—and then got de-
fense contracts at higher rates as
well. So hundreds ul plants are
waiting, watchfully.
ORDERS ‘FARMED OUT'
During World War II,Chrysler,
one of the great tank-producing
firms, employed more than 4,000
sub-contractors to supply various
individual parts, assemblies and
gadgets.
Republic Aviation, making the
rugged thunderjet fighters, already
has more than 1.100 producers in
its “source files." There are 165,-
000 parts in a conventional jet,
and many of them are made by
small plants that specialize.
In short, almost any given weap”
on or piece of equipment actually
is the product of many different
factories, big and small The speed
with which Chrysler can produce
tanks or Republic can turn out
fighter eraft may very sell de-
pend. like a convoy of ships, on
the slowest unit in the line.
Consequently, with shortages in
engineers, equipment, machine
tools, critical materials,—and the
will to cooperate—the whole vast
industrial machine is affected. The
gears clash and the motor sput-
ters.
In 1941, an actual state of war
cut back production for civilian
use and released men, machines
and materials for war work. In
1951. the job is harder for the very
reason that. In many minds, no
emergency exists.
Lone Star Awards
Service Pins to
Company Veterans
Service pins for 19 years tenure
and more with the Lone Star Gas
Company were awarded six Abi-
lene employer in a safety meeting
Tuesday of the pipeline division
here
W. F. Crook, district pipeline
foreman, beaded the list of honor-
ed employer receiving a pin for
25 years service with the company
Three employer were presented
15-year service pins, G. H. Me-
Minn. O R Landers, Jr., and J.
M. Brown. Ten - year service pins
were given to J. A. Trammell and
M O Wright
J. L. Foster of Dallas, general
company superintendent, presided
at the safety meeting and present-
ed the service awards. The meet-
ing was held in offices of the Lone
Star pipeline division here.
Crook, 53, started out with Lone
Star in Joshua, Tex., as a com-
mon laborer. He was transferred
to the Abilene division in 1928. Na-
tive of Johnson County, he is mar-
ried and has a daughter, Mrs. A.
B. McElrath, also of Abilene.
With more than 11,000 members,
the daisy family depends on beesfor
fertilization.
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Carle 11 am.
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Soldier Decorated
Master Sgt William 3. Mendina
has received the Bronte Star med-
al to Korea, according to his
grandmother, Mrs. J. P. Greene,
Abilene Rt. 5. She said it was
awarded for his fast work in re-
pairing F-51 fighters and getting
them back to squadrons. The sole
dier's wife lives to San Antonio.
Buy, Buy
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Abilene Teachers
To Elect Officers
Members of the Abilene Class-
room Teachers Association will
elect officers at a 4 p.m. meeting
Wednesday. Selma Bishop, presi-
dent, has announced.
Superintendent Nat Williams and
W. P. Palm of the Abilene School
system will make reports on the
meeting in Atlantic City of the
American Association of School
Administrators and the mid-winter
meeting of the national organiza-
tion of classroom teschers.
The meeting will be held in the
high school auditorium.
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