| ‘Arms Officials Around and About... Outline Plight @ Richard H. Balch, president of the Horrocks Ibbotson Co., Utica, N. Y., and vice-president and treasurer of the Sport Fishifng Institute, has been named national campaign manager for W. Averell Harriman, who is seeking the presidential nomination on the Democratic ticket. Balch has long been interested in New York politics and two years ago ran for lieutenant governor as a Democrat. Balch will handle the at NPA Parley D EFENSE risks involved in operating under materials inventory restrictions were described to the National Production Authority, at the first meeting of the Small Arms Manufacturers’ Industry Advisory tee in Washington, May Commit- 23. in different calibers and tions holding possession of steel down to a minimum working inventory or 45 days are impractical for this industry, the committee Allen, exhibition New caster York for City South RICHARD and Bend Bait BALCH Co., is foresak- in Germany. @ Irv (Lefty) Butwin of the Butwin Sportswear Co., and son of Jack Butwin, head of the firm, became the father of an eight-pound The inherent danger of operating without stand-by inventories beyond those required for current orders was highlighted by one manufacturer’s experience. After Dunkerque, he said, when this nation was being scoured for arms for Britain, offices. Don hibition agreed. of Washington from @ Charley Hall, head of Hall’s Sport Shop, Coffeyville, Kan., spent three weeks with Mrs. Hall visiting Mexico and attending the International Rotary Convention in Mexico City. @ S. E. Laszlo of Hy-Score Arms Corp., is spending May and June in Europe. Among other events, he attended a photographic ex- such small special orders, normaliy six months, now often runs more than ten months. Inventory restric- defense campaign ing business for the clergy. He will attend Missouri Valley College this fall for his doctorate in theology and hopes to play football and engage in track. He already has a license to preach and goes under the title of the Reverend Mr. Don Allen. types of guns, manufacturers pointed out. Lead time on delivery of the Harriman @ Special analysis type steels, rolled to specifications, are required to meet varying breech and cartridge pressures ” son, May 26. @ L. (Ox) C. Higgins of the C. & S. Sporting Goods Co., Austin, after two weeks Gladding & Co. Tex., and president of the NSGA, lost 44 pounds in a local hospital recovering from illness. @ Lyman Rogers, who represents Florida, demonstrates his line by an Evinrude motor. Dealers Gladding line from Rogers’ the B. F. in his own and jobbers in ‘“Gladabout,” powered are invited to test the boat. 30,000 American revolvers were immobilized until two years after the war for lack of a repair part requiring 150 pounds of special steel, which had been sold to scrap to bring inventory within legal limits. A satisfactory type of inventory control for the small arms industry could be developed in relation to pounds of metal per man hour of fabrication, it was suggested. About 85 per cent of arms’ industry’s output the small goes into protective the ing and services, work such as train- arming of the military police and governmental investigating agencies, farm-ranch vermin and pest control and for order of foreign governments, the committee estimated. Remaining 15 per cent is utilized for sporting purposes. Small arms output has been allocated by firms among their customers for the last 12 years, committee members said. Order backlogs were estimated as running up to two years for some types of firearms. Complaints that NPA brass allotments are insufficient to sustain 228 LYMAN ROGERS, aboard his “’Gladabout,”’ all set to induce dealers to “‘Line Up With Gladding.” production of small arms tion required were voiced. for essential Co: Walter Inc; Ewald, Ithaca, N:. ¥.; Florida ammuni- Meyer, uses Works, Fitchburg, Mass.; L. Pierson, O. F. Mossberg also Among those in attendance were: Richard S. Harvourd, Colt’s Mfg. Co.,; Hartiord, .Conn:; --William. -C. Schade, Olin Industries, New Haven, Conn.; G. Kenneth Willis, High Standard Mfg. Corp. Hamden, Conn.; more Ithaca Gun “Aldrich: H. THE Inc., Iver New Johnson’s Arms Haven, & Cycle & Walter Sons, Conn. P. B. Patteson, Remington Arms Co., Inc., Bridgeport, Conn.; ter W. Bissell, Savage Arms ChesCorp., New York Smith & City; Wesson, C. R. Hellstrom, Springfield, Mass. and A. L. Dickhart, Federal Cartridge Corp., Minneapolis, Minn. SPORTING GOODS DEALER for JUNE, 1952