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    "ocrText": "triday -\nDear Harry- -\nIf goes without saving\nIhape that Iroas mighty\nglad to get your Hed. letter\nthis morning\nTas has you had such\nbum luck getting the\nregiment into position\nMay be the regular army\nofficer didn't really know\nas much as he let on\nJohn thinks using\ntractors Trueko themyoure\nbeen used to horseh\nwould make a world\nof difference any way.\nI don't agree with you\nsick - I'm sure it was\nas to what male Tupuk\nhis Nifio back Deat driving\nall those 800 miles, It roues\nflatter out any body.\nThank is laid up again. th Sunday\nhis head broke out what\nhe thought mrs heat but it kept\nyesterday it very definitely developed is\ngetting werse and sprading T\nb sight The Dr was There for\nits sceping\nanhow to haly last night breative\nHe sayo it takes hereic treatment\nthe places. back again this amt\nto stay it I, is to mad about it\n+ in such a bas human it makes\nis it hander to do any thing for him He\nDr. convinced T. money\nImmot get get marg ready fn Reserest. she\noutside sap Donade from Some\nso third buy the clock,\nCuit do Lay of look thing for Beyr- hereey\nBUTLER MANUFACTURING COMPANY\nKANSAS CITY, MISSOURI\nE.E. NORQUIST\nPRESIDENT\nJuly 13, 1932\nHon. Harry S. Truman\n219 North Delaware\nIndependence, Missouri\nDear Judge:\nI am enclosing a copy of letter I have\njust written Mr. Phares, Chairman of the Missouri\nState Highway Commission at Maryville, Missouri,\nwhich I hope you will take time to read. I know\nyou are on the other side of the ticket and I\nperhaps should not bother you with this matter,\nbut think it well to inform you of the existing\nconditions.\nI think that we are justified in making\nthis complaint to the State Highway Commission\nas I think they have been very unfair in awarding\nthe contract to an out-of-state concern when our\nbid was lower. I have sent a copy of my letter to\nMr. Phares to several of my friends, and hope to\nget some relief in the matter.\nI also wish to call your attention to\nthe article by Frank Ennis on the cover of the July\n12 issue of the Kansas Citian. Mr. Ennis happens\nto be on the Governing Board of the Boys Hotel,\nwhich installed one of our stokers last year and\nvouch for its wonderful performance. We do not\nhave to take a back seat to any one in the stoker\ngame\nIf you have any comments to make or can\nassist us in any way without injuring yourself,\nwe will surely appreciate it. Would you suggest\nthat we write the other State Commissions. You\nprobably know them and are familiar with proper\ncourse to pursue than we are.\nWith kindest personal regards, I am\nSincerely\nEEN/LM\nПогдин E. E. Norquist\nEnclosures\nCOPY\nCOPY\nJuly 12, 1932\nMr. Wm. Phares, Chairman\nMissouri State Highway Commission\nMaryville, Missouri\nDear Sir:\nAt the suggestion of our mutual friend, Mr. William Buch-\nholz, I am writing to call your attention to the injustice given\nour organization in the awarding of the contract for the new Missouri\nState Highway Commission building at St. Joseph, Missouri.\nOur bid on the BUTLER COAL STOKER was several hundred dol-\nlars less than the quotation on the competitive stoker which obtain-\ned the award. Our stoker complies with the requirements of the\nState Highway Department, has proved itself in use equal or superior\nto any other stoker on the market.\nThe State Highway Department's invitation for bids specif-\nically specified a preference would be given to articles manufactur-\ned within the state and by local labor.\nWe wish to call your attention to the sound financial back-\nground of the Butler Manufacturing Company, assuring its ability to\nproperly fulfill its agreements, the fact it employs approximately\nsix hundred citizens in its plant in Kansas City, and that the parts\nused to manufacture this stoker are made within the State of Missouri.\nOn this basis, even if our price had not been several hund-\nred dollars low, the BUTLER COAL STOKER should have been entitled to\npreferred consideration, and ortainly we can see no justice whatever\nin awarding the contract for a stoker no part of which is manufactur-\ned within our state, and whose only representation within the S tate\n1s by agents enjoy sgaree mpwp 200 uze DO LOCATIA\nmale puper 20m STAS spre Done exig CUI.C-\nWe consider a grave injustice has been done to us, to our\nparty and to the taxpayers of the state at large, and In view of the\nfact that It will probably be some time bofore the actual installa-\ntion of the heating equipment will be started, we dosire to enter a\nvigorous protest and the request that the Highway Commission make the\nnecessary arrangements with the general contractate change the award\nand have a BUTLER COAL STOKER installed in the Highway Commission's\nbuilding at St. Joseph and also in the Highway Commission's building\nto be erected at Hannibal, Missouri\nLutte S*\n20J2 JS\" Jass\nPage 2.\nJuly 12, 1932\n#9 po eneeped 8.p\nup 28' 1000by using sjuo TM pps H7Spme2 parjume\nusrg редо If A copy of this letter is being sent to My: Campbell In,\nthe State Highway Commission's officelin Jefferson City, as we under-\nstand Mr. Campbell has been influenced In favor of the out of the pere\nstate stoker either on account of the method in which we were shown\nas an alternate bidder on the invitation to bid Pon this requipment,\nor from other sources of Pwhich we do not have direct knowledge. ppo\nno company. or USA pera poem qoire CO ла\" CO one\nWe therefore urge that you give this your prompt and care-\nTul ationtion and advise us what action you are taking to rectify\nthis injustice against the BUTLER COAL STOKER and Its manufacturer.\nyou SMILGTHE ppre complete IOL If a.pojces, NO belip or, пртор 78\nblezenneg courage. sprom* truly 000 TJO Insprce мриролеъ\nLeg gojjena you apro BALIER covr SLOKEN sponyg prace peen empreyed po\nour PTP pesis* 6.8.933 TC BUTLER MANUFACTURING COMPANY\nrisoq co дрта spopez SLC mage STEPTE pro OT,\nUTX THE Tea byeup TX kenses CTEAP using speep spe benge\nbLobeLJA EXPLAIN TPB Byro ISCF TP\nREW/DS °Z ppo Basica ECH By Norquist, Presidentivel so\nN° myan so GUIT 20m fo que proje-\neg MISPIN ejro spirce using pa JOGUJ Tupox*\nJesjja absorited B imergence MONTH pe ETASH DO encroyes\nAPO TRANSPORTON IOL prqu absers-\nco unra opper, e.poyrex. ou pps шиккер*\naperpo Debezmone* pwn въслед TRUOJE JN suao odney or unberyer.\neg spe usung* one врокеъ combyyou arep ape Lods premence or, pps\nyoza Jose pur pure блосертов OFF spe comberrence spokes aprop oppern-\none PTY our pupe HALTER covr SLOKEN ave TOJ-\npartyful up 2f' 2020bp*\none THE spe of que concluse zon ape NON RTSSONLY\npoys' I on 00 GUIJ 20mL иррепстов 20 - EXASH\n-doud mallff \"Ill , hnolut Instrum TWO to oris #A\nDOSL 3741\npressonly\nnotastment VewintH edses\nNAME AM*\n20J2 JS' J828\nCOLX\nCOLX\nCal. 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