The Abilene Reporter-News (Abilene, Tex.), Vol. 71, No. 184, Ed. 2 Monday, December 24, 1951 Page: 12 of 48
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12A THE ABILENE REPORTER-NEWS D:sI
12-A Abilene, Texas, Monday Evening, Dee. 24, 1951 p rig Hofers
Keep Holster
' Makers Busy
Last Rites Today
For J. A. Reid,
Putnam Resident
FITTING JOB—Claude Parr, leather technician in a Den-
ver saddlery, is selecting a holster to fit the pistol. Gun
toters insist that the holster is neither too big nor too little.
It's got to be just right
Wm. Tanner & Co.
FURNITURE & CARPETING
1441 Butternut, Abilene
*
By JOHN WORK
AP Newsfeatures
DENVER. - Since the last war
it seems everybody wants to carry
a pistol,” says Claude Parr, hol-
ster maker.
“Orders come from everywhere,
for every kind of gun,” says Parr,
who is plant superintendent for the
Herman H. Heiser saddlery la
Denver.
“But no matter how odd their
gun, chances are we have a model
somewhere in a pile of over 600.”
A month ago they had a tele-
phone order from the Egyptian em-
bassy in Washington for a shoulder
bolster for Egypt’s King Farouk.
They built the holster on a model
at a ‘38 caliber official police pis-
tol, and two days later it was la
Washington for shipmem to the
king.
Cast models are on hand for an
ancient single action cowboy style
.44, in fashion 60 years ago. Or
for the Lugers, Mausers, Berettas
and other foreign models brought
home by GI's.
If your gun should be an oddity
which is not found in Heiser's pile
of casts, you give them a complete
description and they model it in
wood, building the bolster on
their model.
The superintendent of the hol-
ster department, Niels A. Hansen,
says he had enough casts to equip
15 holster makers with full sets of
most asked for models, with a
Urge pile of “odd sizes” left over.
Hansen’s department turns out
from 25,000 to 30,000 holsters each
year. Hip holsters are the most
popular, but there is a large busi-
ness in the inconspicious_ shoulder
model, too.
Hansen, who is most often found
pacing through his workshops with
a fluttering bundle of back orders
in his hand, says he is currently
running 3,500 jobs behind schedule.
He sheafs through the orders to
give a notion of the widespread de;
mand for pistol holsters. One re-
quest is from the Panama Canal
Zone Three quick-draw FBI mod-
els are going to a ranch in Peru.
A large order is standing from a
shop in trouble-ridden Indonesia
Real Estate Firm
Chartered, Permit
An Abilene real estate firm.
Western Land and Development
Corporation, has received a state
charter. Secretary of State John
Ben Shepperd announced in Austin.
The firm's incorporators are
Raymond Thomason, Sr., Ray-
mond Thomason, Jr. and Ruby
Thomason. The charter is for .50
years and the capital stock is $3.-
000. %
1 Shepperd announced the Ranger
Oil Company of Delaware was
granted a permit to do business in
Texas with offices in Abilene. H.
listed as the Texas agent and
P Reynolds of Chicago Il-is
the firm’s home office is in Wil-
mington. Del. The charter to for
10 years, the capital stock $20,000.
BAIRD, Dec. 24.—Funeral was
scheduled at 3 p.m. Monday at
the Scranton Baptist Church for
Joseph Alexander Reid, 87, resi-
dent of Putnam for 58 years.
He died at 3:15 p.m. Sunday la
Callahan County Hospital at Baird
He was admitted Saturday.
Burial was planned in Scranton
Cemetery beside the grave of his
wife who died in 1947. The body
laid in state at his Putnam home
until time of the funeral. Arrange-
ments were in charge of Wylie Fu-
neral Home.
Mr. Reid was born March 19,
MM. in Meridian, Miss
He was a retired farmer
Survivors are two sons, Willie
Reid, Stephenville, Lance Reid,
Midland: five daughters, Mrs. An-
nie O’Dell, Lenos. Tex., Mrs.
Mary Foster, Wilson, Okla., Mrs.
Fanny Smith, Cross Plains, Mrs.
Berthe Bentley. Cisco, Route 4,
Mrs. Lucy Everett, Odessa: 34
grandchildren; 49 great-grandehil-
dren; a great-great-grandchild;
and a brother, Will Reid, Meridian,
Miss._______________________________
Mt. Dora, Fla., is one of the
most recent communities to install
electric garbage disposers on a
townwide scale Ninety per cent of
the houses are connected to septic
tanks and the new disposers grind
waste into small particles for quick
assimilation in the tanks.
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The Abilene Reporter-News (Abilene, Tex.), Vol. 71, No. 184, Ed. 2 Monday, December 24, 1951, newspaper, December 24, 1951; Abilene, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1648763/m1/12/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Abilene Public Library.