OHB 0088 | Oral History

OHB 0088

Chairman of the board, Morrison Milling Company, Denton, Texas. Family background; father’s employment with Red Star Milling Company, Wichita, Kansas; father’s purchase of Alliance Milling Company, Denton, 1936; history of Alliance Milling Company; father’s short-term financing of milling company; description of personnel and shipping procedures; effect of World War II on the milling business; explanation of “brown flour” days; description of company’s American markets; father’s efforts to bring Santa Fe railroad to Denton; father’s civic activities; description of company’s brand products; apprenticeship experiences working for company; family involvement in company; establishment of grain testing and analysis laboratory; introduction of kit business, 1965; percentage breakdown of product sales; description of milling equipment; competition in prepared mixes product line; qualities and training of personnel; comments on OSHA and safety in work place; personal and company’s civic participation; comments on use of advertising; dealings with EEOC; comments on government’s handling of aflatoxin incident, 1971; effects of government regulations on small companies; views on conversion to metric system; comments on American farmers’ plight; responsibilities as chief executive officer; comments on company’s short­ and long-range plans; importance of formal education for business and life; growth of sales and company assets, early 1980s; comments on internal changes and financing plant expansion; changes in product packaging; description of USDA’s Payment-In-Kind program; comments on consumer usage of product mixes; views on company’s future.

About this Oral History

Physical Description 203 pp.
Terms of Use Open
Interviewer(s) Floyd Jenkins
Date of Interview June 21, 1978 to July 3, 1978, July 18, 1979 to April 3, 1983

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