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upon neighboring towns for its water supply and its 

 fire protection. 



That is why the aggressive, alert "Togie" Harrell is 

 so interesting and significant. He is really research- 

 minded and stands as the epitome of many of the 

 younger leaders among the big operators and the 

 smaller independents, men with vision who scan the 

 horizons eagerly. 



The first research laboratory in the cottonseed in- 

 dustry was established away back in 1887 by the Amer- 

 ican Cotton Oil Company, and in that laboratory the 

 roly-poly genius with the twinkling eyes and little, 

 close-cropped Van Dyke beard, the great David Wes- 

 son, blazed the way to a truly refined cottonseed oil. 

 Shortly before he died in 1934, this insatiable enthus- 

 iast for the cottonseed gave a little dinner party at 

 which he fed his friends a wide variety of cottonseed 

 foods, including croquettes and biscuits. We choked 

 them down, for who would displease such a delightful 

 host? Harrell is a son of that same good line. He was 

 one of the first of the smaller independent mill oper- 

 ators to install a research laboratory and man it with 

 high-grade technicians. He backed his research director, 

 C. W. McMath, with time and money in the long re- 

 search that resulted in the perfection of the first cotton- 

 seed flour to win official approval as a food product 

 from the American Medical Association. This flour is 



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