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Memphis, Tenn., May 24 —Launching an unprecedented cotton roads survey and completing selection of permanent department heads, the National Cotton Council this week gathered new mo mentum in preparation for the formal opening of its headquarters office in Memphis on June 1. The cotton roads survey, looked upon as a likely key to a potential market of a million bales a year, will be di rected by Gibb Gilchrist, dean of the school of engineering at Texas A. M. and former president of the American Association of State Highway Officials. The project is designed to exhaust the subject of the possibilities of cot ton fabrics for use in reinforcing bi tuminous highways Snasmodic use of cotton in such construction during the past few years has resulted in a total for the U. S. of approximately 600 miles for cotton roads, as against a possible two million miles which the Council hopes to prove adaptable to cotton construction. In addition to the selection of Mr Gilchrist as chief of the cotton roads survey, President Oscar Johnston of the National Cotton Council has announced the appointment of Ed Lipscomb, for the past three years director of the Mississippi State Advertising Commis sion, as director of the Council’s Ad vertising department. Mr. Lipscomb has been serving the Council in an ad visory capacity since its organization last January. Frank K. Dunn of Washington, D.ie has been made chief of the Council's field force in charge of organizational work in the nineteen cotton growing states. Active in business and civic af fairs of the South for the past twenty years, Mr. Dunn comes to the Council from the Social Security Board in Washington, where he has been serv ing as special field representative, Mr. Dunn's staff will serve the Coun cil’s state units in the completion of state organizations and county com mittees on which the five primary raw cotton interests will be represented. Permanent headquarters of the Council will be opened in the Cotton Exchange building at Memphis on June 1. Speed-o-Print rotary stencil duplica tors $22.50 hand-feed model; $32.50 automatic feed model. Complete line mimeograph paper and duplicator sup plies. The Rockdale Reporter. ¢f.
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Rockdale Reporter and Messenger
Rockdale, Texas, US
Thu, May 25, 1939
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