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A new business—ACJ Enter prises—which will buy and sell grain and livestock feed ingred ients in carload lots and up, will open for business in Winters May 15. The merchandising office, which will be managed by M. D. (Doc) Johnston, formerly of Kimbell Mills of Fort Worth, is a division of Alderman-Cave Milling Grain Company, and will be located in part of the old Abilene Southern Railroad depot on West Dale Street. The office will be equipped with a teletype receiver for an instant and constant flow of commodity market news, and will be in constant telephone contact with commodity mark ets all over the country. The Winters office will be the only such office in this part of the State; the nearest is at Lub bock, on the South Plains. ACJ Enterprises will be in the grain and ingredient buying and selling business as merchandis ers and not for speculative pur poses, it was stated by spokes men for Alderman Cave. Opera tions will not be confined to Tex as or the immediate area, but will cover an area of sever al states. Presence of the com pany will not necessarily mean an increase in railway or truck freight traffic here, it was stat ed, because most of the grain commodities bought and sold will not be brought to Winters. Johnston, who is retiring after several years as a merch andiser of glain and related products for Kimbell Mills, will not be a broker, but a trader or merchandiser, it was pointed out. He has 45 years experience in the field, and was formerly with Blewitt-Little Co., of Fort Worth as a broker and merchandiser. Alderman-Cave Milling Grain Company will continue buying grain as has been the practice of the company in the past, it was stated. ACJ Enter prises will deal only in large orders. Johnston will not be a strang er to Winters. He was connect ed with C. L. Green Milling Co. here about 16-11 years ago, for about a year. While here, he was a member of the board of Deacons of the Baptist Church, president of the Men’s Bible Class, Training Union director, was a member of the Winters Lions Club, and was president of the Winters Chamber of Com merce. In Fort Worth, Johnston was on the board of Deacons at the Broadway Baptist Church, and president of the Baptist Men’s Union. Mrs. M. D. (Stella) Johnston will retire shortly from the or der department of the Fort Worth Public Library. For sev eral years she has been pur chaser of books, not only for the Fort Worth Library, but for li braries in several other cities. She also has been active in church and civic affairs, and while in Winters was a member of women’s clubs and church organizations. Although John ston will open his office here May 15, Mrs. Johnston will not join him until sometime in the summer when she retires from her present position in Fort Worth.
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Winters Enterprise
Winters, Texas, US
Fri, May 09, 1969
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