Presentations from the 2010 Annual Convention in Williamsburg
The Oil Mill Gazetteer
Evolution
of the Oil Mill Gazetteer
This magazine was born in 1894 when a group of Texan oilseed processors
felt the need to have a source for industry information and news.
It has been published monthly since that time.
The memoirs of Gus Baumgarten, a 12-year veteran oil miller from
Schulenburg, Texas - the “daddy” of the Oil Mill
Gazetteer - reveal the first copies of the magazine were mainly
copies of the proceedings from the IOMSA meetings, which began
in 1894. But in 1899 the paper took on the look of a genuine magazine
covering not only the proceedings, but industry news, ideas from
oil millers, and advertising.
Two things have been the foundation of the magazine - that it
pay for itself and that it adhere to its original mandate to provide
an informational tool for the superintendents’ association.
Through the more than 100 years of publication this tool has grown
and it has become a source of information for the world’s
oilseed processors, always targeted to the superintendent’s
area of responsibility.
The Oil Mill Gazetteer has had only seven editors: Gus
Baumgarten, H. J. Thiessen, John Bannon, H. E. Wilson, Kris Smith,
Paula Kolmar, and currently, AOCS Press, with Jack Wolowiec acting
as editor. The editors have consequently served as a consistent
source for the IOMSA (which uses a 4-year board of director term)
and the industry. Today, the Gazetteer is published every
month with subscribers in several countries - just about anywhere
there is a crushing or processing plant. It is product of the
International Oil Mill Superintendents Association, enjoying complete
support of the officers and board of directors in matters of business
and content.
Members of the IOMSA receive a complimentary subscription to the
Gazetteer with their membership. Others can subscribe for
$35 per year domestic, $37 per year foreign, $112 airmail.
From the pages
of the Gazetteer
QUOTABLE
George Walsh, 1908…I left Dallas last June, coming to this
town, Memphis, Texas, where I built a 60-ton mill, which so far
has not lost one hour since the wheels first began to revolve.
We have a flourishing town of 3,000 with every indication of growing
to 10,000 soon.
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C.H. Wooten, 1920…I am trying something new, for me, in
the oil mill game. That is using a diesel engine for a prime mover.
It sure looks odd to hang around a mill without an old Corliss
engine and two or three boilers.
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September, 1949…For the past 18 years the appropriations
bills have carried riders prohibiting the Quartermasters Department
from buying oleomargarine for the army for edible purposes. Last
week, congress eliminated the rider and the army can enjoy prime
colored oleomargarine.