Corpus Christi Caller-Times from Corpus Christi, Texas • 169

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CALLER-TIMES Sun July 12 1953 17J LAND TAX CONSULTANT French as well as English Wills la equally at homo talking to a sun-tanned vaquero aa participating in a round table discussion of economics political science or history His wife is cousin to Adtal Stevenson former governor of linois and Iasi Democratic standard bearer Within the abort time he has been associated with King Ranch Wells has absorbed an amazingly broad knowledge of its operation Its holdings Us plans and its history- To the inquiring visitor to King Ranch ho has a ready an-er to the youngsters ha has time to spare and has served as district official of tho Boy Scouts to tho good listener he can spin a good story He's an ambassador to the manaer born and ho would add prestige to the State Department aa an embassador either with or without portfolio Robert Wells Man of Seemingly Limitless Information and Energy found himself in Venezuela as part of tho Standard Oil Go After a year in Veneiueua ha waa transferred to Bolivia where ho spent two years in La Pas perhaps the moot altitudlnoua capital In the Western Hemisphere was toward the close of the decade of the U20'e that Wells was transferred to tho Argentine where he eras to spend the next IB years Ha became during that time one of tho beet known Americans in tho Argentine and among his Inti mats friends was Dr Galnsa Pas famous editor i tf La Prunes Welle was a member of tho Jockey Club in Buenos Aires and was known among induat relists and government officiate alike By GRADY BTILES Cmltar-Times Editor Robert (for Chriton) Wells land and tax consultant and public rotations dlraetor for King Ranch la a man Mcmlngly llmittaaa Information and squally limlttasa energy and sxpsrisncs an lntamatlonal figure whosq ances-try tnctudea a marshal in Napotaon's army an officsr in ths Tsxas Navy and a Judga who atngla-handedly put down a Mexican rtTOlutian and eonalatsntly re-fussd tha governorship of Tsxas as wall as othar public of flea WhUa yet a downy-faccd young-star Walla was driving an ambulance along tha Western front in Franco before ha had reached voting age ho was fighting with the French Foreign Legion and by tha time ha had reached tha ago of tha raaor'a edge ha was confounding tha faculty at Princeton University and setting a record never before equalled in that staid aid nearly 290 years of dispensing knowledge at top-drawer levels Out of Princeton with a bachelor of science degree ha associated himself with Standard Oil Oo and took off to South America where ho remained for nearly 29 years as a representative of tha oil company as representative in Argentina of tha coordinator of Inter-American Affairs the Rockefeller organisation and as operator of his own business firm before returning to the United States and to Texas to become associated with Xing Ranch Son of Ranch Attorney It Is not strange that Robert Walla should have eventually become identified with tha King master of tha ship Bratus The grandfather later resigned from tha Texas Navy bought St Ji Island and settled down business of ranching Marshal Kleiber Walk1 great uncle on his side of the family commanded legions in Egypt Went to Franco Wells was born in Brownsville grew up then -as a youngster attended school there and later was sent to a school in the East It was whilo ho was attending tha eastern school that World War got under way and young Walls like others among his classmates was Bred by -a desire to repay America's debt to Franco enlisted in an American ambulance corps that went to Franco long before the United States entered tha war Although hardly beyond tha knee-pants age Walla soon eras seeing lots of action along the Western Front as ha drove his ambulance back and forth from tha front Unas to Bald hospitals at ths rear It was no play ovpn tor a youngster By tha time tha United States entered tho war young Wells was Ytitfl AA IllMBR Jumpy at tho roar of carman or the staccato fire of machine guns Ha was ready to enlist in the Army but tho rad tape was so ubiquitous that almost strangled him before bo Anally was told once and for all that his enlisting was as impossible as a Franco-German lovefeak Ho tried every device ha tha book along with several ho invented himself but tha brass hats of pra-f days were Just as adamant as are now Joined Legion Walls Joined tho French Foreign Legion He was assigned to tha Legion's officer training school went through tho mysteries of ballistics in French teamed tho business of In 1M2 Nelson Rockefeller persuaded Wells to become tho representative of tho coordinator of Inter-American affairs with headquarters In Buenos Aires Throughout tha war yean Wells kept tha Rocksfelter enterprises functioning smoothly in Argentina and did great deal to promote international goodwill and understanding among countries In the Western Hemisphere During hie yean in tha Argentine wells had a front-row seat from which to view tho rise to power It waa comparatively swift and thorough terminating in virtual dictatorship and upsetting ths whole economy of the country For a number of yean Wells eras vico president of tho Standard OU Oo in Venezuela Bolivia and Argentina In this capacity he was fit close association with both the industrial and political leaden of South America and ho became one of tho beet known Americans In the republics of Latin America As a member of the famous Jockey Club in Buenos Aires Wells came to know diplomats and leaden from practically every country in tha world After World War Wells entered business for himself in the Argentine but with the accelerated encroachment of government on business tt was only a abort time imtil he realized that no one i can do business with a dictator! It waa then that ha decided to re- i turn to tha United States after an abeeneo of nearly a quarter of a century For tha past three yean Welle has been associated with tho Kins i Ranch an institution widrh his father had a gnat part In putting together The eon like hie father Dtfort Aim is a aim of muy talents a gentleman and scholar would have contributed impressively to a coffee bouse bull eee-rton In which both Lord Cheater-field and old gam Johnson partl-clpeted Fluent la Spanish and i BOBEHT WELLS from Foreign Legion to tho King Ranch the King Raneh and Corpus Chrletl have coma i long way in tha peat hundred yean Wp have come a long way too since establishing our business and residence In this area and we will go a long way topteaaa a particular clients! with a dependable photographic service Our staff will Mtlsfy your photographic Mad at aU tlmaa PORTRAITS COMMERCIAL AERIAL INDUSTRIAL PUBLIC RELATIONS ADVERTISING -LEGAL -SOCIAL EVENTS DIRECT COLOR ml Ranch for probably no other one Kreou outside tha King and Kle-rg families had as much to do of opinion reached a climax a low weeks before Walls was to recatvo his degree Mur Oearaea What trar Hudson as ho made check on the candidates for graduation and found that tho bright young man from Texas was a little shy in language credits a fact that precluded his receiving a with assembling the vast holdings which now make up tha ranch as father the late am iiMHaaP flttnMMJw Judge James Wells of Browns-! fighting Legion-fashion and came villa who was the ranch's attor-'out as one of the youngest officers thn yra The ever to serve in the French Army! bachelor of arts degree Futher-elder Wells was recognised as one i and finished out tho war in com-1 more he had taken no science on mend of a field artillery unit courses at the University and that outstanding authority on titles to After the war Wells and his closed tho gates to a bachelor of lands under old Spanish and ext- older brother Joseph made a science sheepskin It was an em- can grants and a political figure leisurely tour of France and then Dsrrassing situation for the When tt waa apparent that Registrar Hudson had no reasonable solution to tha problem Wells pro-vidad on hlmaalf Ha caUsd attention to tha science courses he bad taken at the French Artillery officer training school and ha svan chaltanged Registrar Hudson to a debats on ballistics The registrar like drowning man grasping at a straw accepted Well's solution muy pronto preserved his reputation amongst the faculty as a man of sharp wit and keen eye and forthwith recommended that Robert Carlton Wells be listed among the candidates for the degree of bachelor of science leered Pint So it came to paac that Wells departed from Princeton with a BJ degree being the first and only person ever to be graduated from that two-and-a-half -century-old citadel of teaming with such a degree without ever having act foot inside a science laboratory or having cracked a science textbook Thus equipped Wells waa ready to fact tho world and In 1924 ho Serving Corpus Christ! sod the Great South Texas Ares J's re -as registrar who fait certain that nil brother faculty members would canauro him for having let things come to such an unhappy pass He tried to solve the problem by informing Wells that he would have to spend another year In tha Ivy-clad halls of learning but Walla would have none of that sort of academic skulduggery He was anxioua to get going The postwar world of tho 1920'a was waiting for young college graduates who knew no peer between Nueces and the Rio Grande Wells' grandfather James Wells lr had sailed the seven seas as a merchantman and had been captain of rtvarboata plying up and down the Mississippi River before he followed the migration of Americana into Texas President Sam Houston of tho revolutionary young republic appointed him commandant of at Galveston i tha naval sailing ho returned home to storm the gates of Princeton He was an above-the-avtnga student mature beyond hie year and ho completed the fouryear course in three yean In tha process however he contributed generously to ulcerations of one Mr Hudson who nt tha tlrna presided at the head table of the registrar's office Tha learned gentleman and the student from Texas never did laee eye to eye: and the divergence are a sure sign of quality! 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