Corpus Christi Caller-Times du lieu suivant : Corpus Christi, Texas • 166

14J CORPUS CHRISTI CALLER-TIMES Sun July 12 1953 30-YEAR RANCH EMPLOYE a Cy Desk Gearing House for Vital Information making the payroll and completing the bookkeeping records Another two days was required at the Laurelee Division from 10 days two weeks at Norias and he nt the remainder of the month to two weeks at Norias and telephone I just serve aa a relay station" Yeary was born in Rungs and moved to Kingsville with his parents to 1906 He has lived hero since except for a short period in Cbrpus Christi He was married in 1946 to Mtea Ollio Mae Thompson of Oklahoma City One of the oldest employes (in point of years) on the ranch Yeary owns nary a hone nor cow nor a pair of boots In his 10 years of association with Uugoat cattle ranch ho admits to having ridden a horse twice at the beginning and end of a five mite jaunt Five minutes at a trot and tha purchasing agent came up with a pain in hie toft aide He pulled the hone up to a walk Both aides then hurt Yeary then led hie mount up near tha point when ho waa to meet a party touring the ranch with members Fisher Heads Accounting Payroll Offices of Ranch Fitter head of the a c-1 and record middy arailabla that rountlnjr and parroll departments internal revenue department In the Kins Ranch office haa been might aak far" rater Mid "in ajeociated with ranch intereats! outer to tacilUiata matters' inea ini I Fish or haa had mm Fiaher then lived in Kingsville perience with government acoun-and waa In choice of the books ttants Ho once had one In the for the Lynch Davidson Lumber (office for tour straight years Co in COrpua Christi Robstown' checking the mark's accounts to and Kingsville Robert Kleberg try and prove the corporation Sr hired him away from the lumber firm to keep accounts on the terming interests and rental property of the ranch The ranch then owned extensive farming id that was rented out on a share-crop basis and considerable rent propertiee Fiaher weetor from the department of Inter-placed at the head of these opera-s nal revenue in the who tone with an office in the -Kings-! doubted there were as many wind-villa Lumber CO After the ranch mills on the ranch as the ranch and the Fie to interest! separated hsted The fellow came down to the lii-iw fwwipeny and thejhtbhe a physical check and count Kingsville Hardware Co Fiaher Chaaged Hie Sited Cy Yeary and John Finnegan took the investigator out to Santa Gertrudla to arrange for transportation Hera they found a truck loading supplies and equipment to go out to a cow camp and told the government official that this was his transportation The official demurred a bit and wanted to know why the truck was loading on so many provisions if you're going: to visit and count all the windmills going to gone anywhere from three weeks to a month" they explained The Hns Ranch count of its wind- alao hept the books tor the lumber yard He still keeps the accounts an the estate of Robert Kleberg Sr FMa BeBvfite Fteher came to Kingsville in 1130 from Bell villa where he was hem an a combination cattle ranch and farm After he comp Dieted hie public school education he attended business college and has "been studying ever store" Fteher sold the laws enacted by each Ouigiess usually calls tor noma revision to the accounting system on the ranch He said the has been completely CSk CY YEARY purchasing agent and remounted around Ask Theft Urn first slab employes in the King Ranch office make to secure needed information or data on the -many and varied opera-tteaa of the wide-spread ranch that are not handled through their de-MVtintnUe i Possibly no other King Ranch employe has more detailed and varied information on ita opera-m at his finger tips than Cy Yeary purchasing agent liaison man between the business office and field operations and overall coordinator of details Yeary is one of the veteran ranch employes now serving his 30th year He joined the ranch in 1923 to work with John Finnegan in the business office after having worked tor two yean with the old First State Bank Back in those day each division handled its own payroll kept books on its operations and submitted monthly reports and balance sheets to the KingsvUle office Sent te Norias In 1933 Robert Maxwell book keeper at the Nona Division suffered a stroke and Yearly waa sent there aa relief while Maxwell recuperated Nurias was then one of the busiest divisions on the ranch with a complete re-feocing program underway on ita 100000 plus seres and an axtensiva water well drilling project in program In 1930 Uw ranch began operating San Antonio Viejo Division near HebbronviUa and Yeary spent a day or two each month there looking things over ho offered In ex- of the ranch family and arrived at tha xendesvous in from a a cloud of dust pianation of tha extended time it waa lota of fun riding 'took him to rovirthaoUtSnce Best Wishes to the famous King Ranch on its iooth birthday! FISHER heeds screen ting payroll department mills was accepted on the spot Fteher married Miss Erne Hoffman la 1923 and they live on their MO-acre farm just on the cut skirts of Kingsville Fisher also has paatine land at Bellville where he raises registered Santa Gertrodis cattle He is a member of the Santa Gertrudla Aworiatlnn I'm not going to let' the ranch get ahead of he declares "If they can raise Santa Gee-trudis so can The Fishers hers two sons Robert who is employed in the plant of CWaneM Ctop oha who finished Kingsville High School this year and plana to enter Texas AJfcM College this fall to study agricultural system overhauled in the peat years became of government regulations Keeping up-to-date on new government regulatksie and on revisions to the Income tax law haa almost become a full-time job try to have the Information IS tha Kingsville office When the ranch waa reorganised in 193ft aa King Ranch Inc aU of the bookkeeping and payrolls wars centralised in the Kingsville office and Yeary put at the head of the purchasing division Okays AU Kurrkaaes Aa purchasing agent Yeary approve! requisitions and Issues purchase orders for all tha ranch supplies from giant brush-cutting machine to the blackstrap molasses for the cow fence and windmill crows Ho purchases food stocks for the commissaries and tor the ranch rations that art given out each month to every ranch employe maintains Uw stock of supplies carried in the ranch warehouse and issues requisitions against these supplies In normal times under routine operations Yaary's liaison and coordinating metivitea require more time than purchasing and keeping track of the hundreds of types of supplies and equipment required to keep the ranch operating But when a Mg job is underway Yeary finds his hands full of tha job of selecting purchasing locating and getting shipments on equipment end material needed Handling routine Yeary typical pose at his dash is with a telephone in one hand and a pencil in the other busy jotting down notes aa information is relayed in to him that may call for action anywhere on the ranch In a one-hour session the writer jotted down- the following business that cam to his desk: An employ phoned to report a stallion caught in a fence and a part of the tones down Yeary notified ranch veterinarian ao he could check the stallion's Injury and notified Nick Dias that a fence repair job was waiting A call rams In from Laureles that a sick sent in to the Emert docker report that cattle from Caesar the that a new feeding tha procem of Caesar pans at Ague Dulce phone Two employes requisitions one from Laureles the machine reported "act- the wells Two on rain at Another asked Clement office aad look over pipe and InC tte STEWED BAX AX AS King Ranch Road Builder Got Hungry on Cuban Job WE TAKE PRIDE IN OUR FAMOUS BRANDS TOO! Highest Quolity Cribs Playpens bv STORKLINE EDISON LULLABY KROLL HAMILTON THAYER High Chous by STORKLINE THAYER COSCO NORLITT MOTHER PAL Starkline Fold-A-Way Table-Type Chairs Famous Kont-Wct Matrasses Trim Roll Kiddie Both by Trimble Tom-A-Bed Foldo Cribs by Roie-Derry Gym-Dandy Swings Stainless Steel Slides Play Pen Pads Bumper Guards Crib Pods and Contour Sheets for Cribs Youth Beds Big stock ot Toys Gomes Dolls Table Choir Sets "We strive to keep ovory baby Mod In stock" Alfred A Smith Mgr troughs on the ranch is 33 inches low enough for young stock to drink Before the eoU waa ita bulled the stock trampled it into a fine dust tha wind blew this away and periodic filling-in around tha troughs was necessary to enable young stock to reach the water I really think thin te the job that Mr Kleberg hired me to do" Seth said Seth built the race track at Santa Gertrudis where the young Thoroughbreds are put through their pacea In the program of readying them tor track competition Ho and bis crews have constructed dams for the water const rvaHoa program on the ranch and had quite a task repairing 'pumping equipment damaged by the flood of Clearing Hoaae employs waa being clinic at Kingsville stopped qr to would be shipped following day and project was in being pet up nt the The amount ef rain camo in over the brought in tor Yeary 's signature and on from hop A pump waa ing on one of calls cams in checking Santa Gertrudis that Yeary and Jim manager go out installation of soma The only had feature to build- pared roads the ranch built When ing roads in Cube Is eating the the job waa finished Seth redgned native food and signed on with tbw ranch in Jack Seth says it takea a bit charge of maiotmanew and coo-of doing to get dong on fried and struetkm of roads spent IT baked sad stewed bananas after Tears with the Hate highway de-yntTra accustomed to steaks! pertinent as road Inspector before potatoes beano and desserts joining Briggs hi 191 ter airport "Those people dost know what- construction work brood is" said file King Ranchi The paved rosds werw built by road builder lost ten potmds'the ranch to provide nil-weather in less than three months and ten routes for the track movement of poiside off mo te like losing one of csttle Seth said For this reason my all of the important working and Seth returned May 4 from Cube loading pens art connected into where ho constructed 30 miles of the ranch highway system A coo-road tor the raneh holdings Hejaiderabte mileage of clay and said Chbaa laborers are good gravel secondary road have been workers juet need leadership and completed in recent years main-supervision and a soft voice Yell'ly to provide tor travel between out at a gang aad It would scatter the windmills and wells like a covey of quail he declared Other Koada Drinks ea Tvelva of the to mites Seth bunt Is new mad on the tore tracts the raneh has an intoraat In Tha ramatetog eight caaatcla the One tracta and will benefit a lot ef native farmers to that ana 40 miles aontheaet of Gamaguey The Imurrlfg Division leads te paved road mileage witlx 101 and at least 30 mOts of clay and gravel seccodary roads Tha Ddno Diviaka whore meet ef the terrain te deep sandy aoQ is more nearly btaaketod toy ita highway system thaa any other divi- Hia desk is the clearing house for Iota of information vital to the day-by-day operation of the ranch "All these people on tha ranch know where to find Yeary! explained lot of the calls I get should go to Larry Cavaxoe and Nick Dias but they are out with the craws so much of tha time they are hard to locate by two years ago Maintenance of the ranch roads is not an extensive program Seth aid Those In tha sandy sscOons require Little or no maintenance A 16-mile section acroea heavy black land on the Laurales gives Seth foe moot trouble This particular soil cracks- badly in dry periods mllooring water from later rains to seep under and undermine tte piTtnint The ranch owns and maintains all the needed equipment to build They regarded Seth aa a sort eflsioa The naeh also constructed "tin god' for getting them sot of the mud and wherever ha went the drinks were on the house Seth joined the ranch in May TOW at the conchmon of the big road-building program on the paved the Santa with the On of route from Enctna ecroee Fe Ranch to connect te Noriai rood system the big jobs Seth hai had the ranch is that ef ofi around appro- Jack Seth is hi charge of repairs sad mato-temace of the King Ranch rood system and tor eoneCrurtoe of new roads Seth who has followed fine typo of work for 3 yean recently returned from Cuba where he built 30 miles of nod tar the ranch on property the ranch holds an interest in the road bases carry on the repair and maintenance program dMskxia Ho was superintendent I ximatcly too water troughs in the On any extensive job the asphalt for Briggs and Co who had tealf and cow pastures of the sandy the contract for the 274 mites of' areas Standard height of water A Name You Can Trust "In Corpus Christi It's Center Tire for Seat Covers" Best Brands Mean a Lot in Cattle or in AUTO SEAT COVERS That's Why We Feature For over 43 Years I This Funeral Home Has Provided Understanding Help to the Families of This Area in Their Time of Sorrow ttiU ft tusa i Tim attani i MlMi Tv! 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