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"The Land of the Big Rich." That's what Americans call Texas. In a world that is crying poorer and poorer and poorer, Texas is shouting rich and crescendo. In Houston (population 700,000) there are more than a hundred multi-millionaires. Slogan of one of the biggest Dallas banks is, “Money grows on trees.” · In fact, much of it spouts from oil.
In pounds, a Texan with two millions isn't anybody. He counts after he passes the ten million mark.
What are these fabulously wealthy men like? How do they make their money; how do they spend it? Evelyn Irons has just toured Texas, meeting many of the millionaires, to find out. Here is her close-up of one of them:
THE
LORD OF
RUNNING W
IL
HE
is king of a million acres, 80,000 cattle, 150 cow- hands, a village ho built himsalt.
makes millions, spends millions, but profers a little ranch-house to a 10-car garage prairie palace (plus swimming pool).
who has a surplus of is Robert Justus Kleberg everything... excopt the one thing he prays for
most.
In scientific
By EVELYN IRONS
a machine. Kleberg has two of these
£25,000 things, price
the trees, each, to tear down plough up the mesquite roots and grow good grass.
Like most Texans, Bob Kle-
berg is a rugged individualist. Over highballs in the glassed- in veranda of the small, seven- room ranchhouse where he lives to the huge with
מנ
in
Santa
s hacienda
its 10-car garge and swin
Corpus Christi, Texas. HE
TANNED, blue-eyed, handsome man of 56, wearing a battered white Stetson and glitteringly polished Mexi- HE can cowboy boots with high heels, charges through swing gate in his big Ameri- ture development, eun car.
ways to combat drought. He has He drives fast across the a new dodge-injecting water rough prairie pasture, and into the dried-out subterranean
rand. pulls up beside a round con- crete water-trough where a He is lavished more millions dozen calves cluster in the of
Twenty years ago the Hum blazing sun. Temperature is mighty chocolate brown beasts ble Oil Company of Texas 90 degrees.
In 1939 more than 80,000 of them all lensed the King Ranch.
crnment. bull they completed their first pro- descendants of Monkey, a "Trough's too high for t
produced to withstand the long ducer. Today is flowing them," he calls in rapid Texas droughts and torrid suns from more than 720 wells on hand. Spanish do a Mexican ranch by crossing Brahman bulls from the ranch. Kleberg gets a.
India with the ranch's original royalty of one-eighth on pro- "See you get Home English shorthoins and dirt put around so that they fords
Here- duction-12 million barrels
can reach it easier."
on building up his famous herds Santa Gertrudis cattle,
Wealth
This is Robert Justus Kleberg. president of King Ranch Inc, lord of nearly a million
here, and acres
TE has developed the famous HE several thousands more in King Ranch quarter horses, Pennsylvania and in Queens-mustangs with the Texan cow
crossing thoroughbreds land, Australia.
_named boys' "quarter horse," Exactly how many million for is speed in the quarter of dollars Kleberg (pronounced mile. Each of the 150, vaqueros Clayborg) is worth he will not (cowboys) on the ranch needs say and nobody can reckon, at least 12 of these horses for but it is agreed that he is one of his work
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SYMBOL
OF
SUCCESS
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This was the "Christmas- tree," only sign above ground otu, flowing oil well.
where his
guests
man
MB 2001
he said, "Socialian ки enterprise. Look at Australia, No wonder they cannot get the immigrants they need. A connot own his land there-be has to rent it from. the goy- How can he be ex- pected to put his best into land which is not his?"
Hostess
of the ranch
KLEBERG
How many millions? He- won't say.
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cowboy blankets, making its own boots, saddles and bridles. Should he want to take trip, ho has the big DCZ acroplane which he shares with the Humble OU Company (the company maintain a fleet of 30).
Cummings
London Express Service
THE
GREMLIN
with a German accent
LIKE u lot of other ex-
RAF types I have been waiting since the end of the war for some opposite num- ber of Pilot-Officer Prune to give us a book about the German Air Force.
Something like this has now come along It is called "I Flew for the Fuehrer,"* by Heinz Knoke, Young Heinz knows 67 varieties of Une- shooting and he finished up the war plastered with Iron Crosses, Oak Leaves and Clusters." But he is 1 likable chap for all that.
You learn from him that the course of life in the Luftwaffe ran on much the came lines as it did in the RAF. They had their parties and went in- to war next day with stinking hangovers.
They complained that their own anti-aircraft guna never filt anything (and so did ̈we). by
BERNARD
They were plagued from HQ. and driven mad by the
WICKSTEED chair-borno
base.
warriors at
blood
they
Their gremlins were brothers of ours, and played just the same tricks as did on us. Guns that had been perfectly all right before fused to Bre the moment a target came into the sights,
We used to call the
re-
Curly mortiing German reconnais sance planes the Milk Run, and one of our jobs was to
thom
It is very discrectly, done. No
to chaso flame-belching chimneys intrude KLEBERG has a wife named on the landscape. In 50 miles lugton 28 years ago
Helen whom he met in Wash-
His one extravaganco-horses, His and married
horse Assault won the They used the same phrase with Kleberg, who drives with after a 17-day courtship. Slim American triple crown (the and our milik runs were just as a revolver at his left and a and
much a curse to them as theirs Kentucky Derby, the Preakness elegant, her hobbies are heavy sporting rifle at his right horses and photography.
were to us. You had to get up One at Balmore and the Belmont at a walk and I might take a shot
at such an, unearthly hour in coyote.") I noticed here
house is Stakes af New York) in 1948,
to tical the morning
with and covered by a huge enlargement and he had two entries racing there a short aluminium paint of a picture taken by her of a colours this Kentucky Derby How Heinz endears himself
under his brown
them. and white ed-head resembling-a fre- catile round-up. hydrant.
He files to the races whenever to the navigator in me with his Mrs Kleberg leaves the care he can take time off from his description of a time when he of the ranch to her husband.. ranch; bets in blg money. wan lost. "I have no faith in She is his hostelashe hes
my compass," he writes, "But entertained hundreds of the
there is always the possibility that the beastly thing may be right.
He gets himself into trouble with his senior ofleers, “bor-
Ay, to rows" a plane to
his wedding, beats up his fiancee's house, switches off his radio and pretends he cannot hear when he does not like the ar- ders he gets from the ground. Quite a lad, Heinz, in spite of his line-shooting. Pity that he joined the wrong air force.
He has racehorses, too-30 In training, 30 more two-year-olds. He has built a model village of white timber houses for HOW.
500 people complete with school
ranch workers and Jamilles.
H
their
THE
Pet Toy
But even a millionaira cow- notable guests who visit the boy with lands so large that ranch (Lord Halifax went to
there is a month's difference in stay there when he was British the climate of their extremes Ambassador in Washington).
something which he wants She has Mexican servants and cannot got. Kleberg complains car bounced into 1 and shops, to house the Mexican thicket of mesquite (they Spanish..
she directs them in
that the racing papers cannot fuent
roach him until they are too pronounce it meskect), gnarled,
late for the tips and form to be feathery-leaved tree which is The Klebergs have one child, of any use. And there is his It is reckoned that with its lovely to look at and the a girl named Helenila,
bitterest enemy, the drought. colossal sales of beef (20 million scourge of the King Ranch, married to a Philadelphia doe- The ranch's parched miles have not had a good rain in five the richest men in rich Texas. pounds a year), and of breeding Here Kleberg delightedly show- tor.
ranch ed off his pet toy the powerful How His King ranch is the greatest bulls and horses, the
docs Kleberg
years. Kleberg's bright bluc "free-dozen he invented beef-producing
the brings In a million dollars unit in
spen eyes turned to the bright blue millions? Most of world,
year after expenses are pald combining two bulldozers
"Every day," herald and the dollars are ploughed back sky. and But
income-tax before Bob Kleberg does far
sombrely, an outsize plough. Mounted on into the ranch. For such a rich
"I pray for rain. more than keep his ranch tick- deducted. But it has a hidden this towering contraption, Wo man, he lives modestly.... The [- ing over. He spends millions with worth far more. The smashed down trees 20 and 30 ranch is his world, producing
feet high, feeling like gods on on research on genetics, In pas- wealth is oil.
its own wool to make its own
The brand carried by 80,000 cattle the running tariat.
The Everest
Relax And Do
Katmandu.
A TINY, plump, little
Nepal woman, five-feet
Is
by his
Tiger
Had
Better
What He Is Told
By SYDNEY SMITH
now
and keep a family and marry off two daughters without money!"
Nanny Tensing is particularly about her position. "I'm out of work now," she says, Li-Col John Hunt, leader of "I've nirways been a nanny 10
tall, who has lived all her Governor of West Bengal (Sunday)-could get a word in smsitive
and the mayor of Calcutta; at teatime.
which she
42 years in the one room in passed through Patna, as the Everest expedition, told me English children in Darjeeling was born, was the guest of the Bihar that Tensing was going to fly to but now-no English, no work. last week installed in the Governor; was met like England.
But, if ever I'm able, I'm going ambassador's suite at Kat royalty at Katmandu air-
"Not right away," said to buy a biz house in Darjeeling mundu's Royal Guest field: had tea with the Nanny. "First ho must come three rooms, maybe even foutr House.
British Ambassador and Sir Calcutta and Delhi, and after arily. and beamed with joy at
home to Darjeeling, then go to And she waved Mrs Ang Lahma (Goddess John and Lady Hunt. There that he can only go to England such an incredible prospect, of Children) Tensing, wife she walked around her am- if I and Pem Pem and Nima
DEFINITE PLANS of Everest hero
you've
her cigarette
Tiger bassadorial suite and after. too. If you want himony' in case husband Tonaing does i
M
Tensing the Sherpa guide, wards went off --
gol to take. us”. And by gov- beamed broadly. But had one of the greatest ernment car of course — to meant it.
she not realise it, she has pretty des days of her life when she Katmandu's
falte plans for him. "Yes, of | tiny, stuffy, Sitting in her own gucat course be con go on climbing arrived at Katmandu to ricketty little Indian cinema, house suite, puffing a cigarette, mountains," she asserts, but he welcome her husband.
sometimes slapping her knees has got to come home to Darjeel- Ang Lahma is a typically
NOT A BIT SHY with pleasure, Nanay Tensing ing first and, after our journey
told me:
to England to see the Queen, bo'a jolly Nepalese Nanny who
But was Nanny Tensing for "I've never imagined a day got to have two months rest at chain smokes cigarettes just a moment shy? Not a bit. She like this-look at those flowers, lot."
As though tallding firmly to a as fast as she throws the Just laughed and talked,. and the carpet, the fan in the cell-
talked and laughed.
ing!"
email chlá Nanny adds "I'm stubs away.NE
Nunny was not frightened of telling him Now you come along From her one-roomed With her were her two tall, her first fight. "You know I home to Darjeeling darle "Pem wooden home in Darjeeling, stripped Tibetan aprons,
Blin, pretty daughters/ In felt just like a goddess up there. Pem is tolling him the same and long in the sky and then coming he do what he says because whose mountain fastness tight skirts, with their sleek suddenly down to Katmandu, the ds his darling." she has never before left in black hair în long plaits,
She prattled on: "Is frensing Anid Per Pam: amiles shyly hor life, she took an acro-
srodnig for London, to get ʼn medini urat mode. Ilmuka as though Neither of them-16-year-old or will it be some money? You the Everest Tiger bed jing better plane, paid for by tho Fem Fem (Dearest) and Nima toow how difficult it is to live rebut and to what he is told.
Evana Brothers, Is. Ed.
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