| Show SMALL BUSINESS by C WILSON HARDER senator D ala senate small business committee investigating weird actions of the national yat lonal production authority on rubber is learning one apparent fact that fact is this if a washington bureaucrat cannot ignore a small busl busi busly y they instances a 0 f 1 both have en the record of the hearin bearin hearings bearings ings cs for example in his atef testimony I 1 B calvin vice CW C W hrden der president the bearfoot sole company ot of wadsworth ohio employing about 00 people making rubber heels and soles found the allocation set tor for them threatens their existence he addressed several inquiries to leland spencer head of the rubber program spencer failed to 0 o acknowledge any ny communication spencer is vice president of a subsidiary of one of the big your four in rubber assumed control of rubber when earl glenn generally credited with establishing ft a lair fair allocation system was summarily tired fired without explanation 0 0 IN then there la Is the testimony presented by kent tomlinson head ot of the kent equipment company to in chicago q tomlinson has bat an unique problem ills his company probably the smallest of the goo firms in the nation la in the rubber business specializes in snaking making rubber fingers for automatic chicken picking machines these machines have been responsible for the dressed chicken industry jumping from million birds processed in 1910 1940 to almost ft a billion and a half chickens at the present time 0 Mitlon tl st it but aulm to make these picking infers lingers his company needs only 5 tons ot of rubber per month ot of which 70 fo must be latex spencers office cut him down to 35 latex this means he said that the fingers only last a fraction ot of their normal time requiring the use of 50 tons ot of rubber a month to supply his customers 0 tomlinson talked to a mr miller la in spencers office to explain the unusual problem involved mr miller promptly demanded why erent you there to write the law when tomlinson replied he had never received any notice of a meet ing for this purpose he was told it was all in the newspapers not getting any place with mr miller tomlinson told miller he was going to appear before the rubber hearings of at the senate small business committee 1111 10 miller replied replie dt will well that hat Is like most of you fellows fellow go 0 over there and talk to ft a lot of senators who are trying to run our department and do not do anything about it 41 that was what the bureau underling said tomlinson reported in a land where government is supposedly vested primarily in elected representatives 0 sen sparkman however Is not accustomed to being pushed around by bureaucrats and he Is deadly in earnest about his chairmanship of the senate small business committee 41 he is taking a long hard look at all bureau directives 0 through his el efforts forts order cutting off aluminum to 75 of the nations small aluminum alain inurn fabricators fabricatore fabrica tors who only use 6 so 0 of t the he national supply has been postponed sen spark man intends to investigate chances are an actual potential surplus of aluminum exists 40 |
