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r4 Daily Sun, July 15, 1962 Corpus Woman Recalls Life Over Texas, Nation InAmassingWealth; Sees Australian Opportunities By GENNY McNAMARA Corpus Christi Staff Writer CORPUS CHRISTI, Tex. July 12 It was a time of boom and bust when Mr. and Mrs Lonnie Glasscock married in 1917. Mrs. Glasscock was a ranch girl and her husband a jitney driver, member of a circus family.

"The day after we were mar ried my husband told me he was going to be worth $10,000 in 10 years. I didn't tell him, but thought he must think he was awfully smart to make as much in 10 years as it had taken my 20 to said Mrs. Glasscock, a woman of quiet manner with high cheek bones and gray hair. The Glasscocks lived in two back rooms of a house San Antonio and shared the bathroom with the landlady. After driving jitney awhile Glasscock helped his father, now farming, with his crops.

before long a drought hit Texas, and everyone who could wiggled out and got jobs." Hit Oil Fields The Glassscocks, with a 13- month-old baby, loaded their possessions into a Model and headed for the North Texas oil Fields, A white tent was the Glasscocks home. Their bed was a 9 by 12 rug folded on springs. Glasscock became a the boom came, population might grow from 500 to 5,000 overnight. There wouldn't be enough water so they would dam up a stream, mucker's job was to stand behind the dam and keep driftwood out of the pump that kept the water from building up. provided your own tent, and you carried your own water and wood.

lot of poople were living there in tents, and none of them had known each other 30 days before they came. But you were all neighbors, and all helped each other. Frontier Spirit "It was a frontier spirit. the end of a year made over $1,000. We set aside $155 as our travel stake and planned to stop and work to replenish The Glasscocks, with Mrs.

Glasscock's brother, headed for Denver. In Yelowstone Park the men worked cutting oak. They passed through apple country and worked on a dam on the Rimrock River, a government project. cooked over a campfire and learned to make our bed of pine boughs they made a fine bed. day the snow came down lower on the peak of Mt Rainier; and people said that when you see the snow for the trees, you had to get out if you were going before the were blocked for tho winter.

husband knew that we stand the cold without woolen underclothes, so we went south along the West Coast, picking pears and The Glasscocks stopped in Los Angeles and their second son was born. Mrs, Glasscock, with the help of her older son, 3, ran a hamburger stand. Glasscock worked for a lumber company. were waiting until August, for the baby to be old enough to travel. dream was to go to Aus- trallia.

I would go as a passenger and he would work his way over. We wanted to buy a ranch. We both loved the soil and we loved to grow things. Enter Oil Busltirsft about that time his brothers decided to go into the oil business. They needed somebody with know-how and somebody whose wife mind living in a tent.

They wrote us every day to come Finally the Glasscocks went. They lived in a screened tent now. with a floor and side walls. Glasscock worked a tool- pusher. worked hard and ate simple food, and we saved $200.

spent it on a dry hole end started all over again, without the screened Mrs. Glasscock and her sons wore overalls that she made from discarded cement bags When the Glasscocks were money ahead again, they invested in a pump to collect waste oil. those days you have a well unless it flowed and everybody got soaked in oil sold the oil to drilling companies for boiler fuel. one night we heard a knock on our north door, the one we never used. Get Good Tip stranger in a black slicker stood there in pouring rain know you're looking for a place to invest your he said Everybody knew saved our money.

man said he had just come off a rig in a new oil field at Lytton Springs. The core was dripping with oil. husband went to the field and took out a franchise on a spring near the field. He piped water to the field, three miles away. You had to have water to drill and it was too expensive to haul.

it was from water, not oil, that we made our first real Mrs. Glasscock stayed behind and managed the waste oil business. we got a lease on a tract of land that had dry holes drilled on three sides of a volcanic cone. But we studied the area and decided to drill on the fourth side. paid off, and that was our first oil well.

We convert our property into money. It was a time when you could go to bed a pauper and wake up a millionaire. Or the other way around. Near Big Spring, Glasscock and his brother, Gus, bought an 80-acre lease. After Magnolia Oil Co.

brought in a well on an offset lease the brothers sold the lease for $160,000. Bring In Wells Then five miles away they bought another lease and brought in a well. They moved again, 12 miles this time, and struck oil another time. next venture was gas wells near P. ttus, and we lived in a shantv there.

were getting what we wanted from the oil business, but we knew it was getting us, too. In the evenings we would sit on the back steps of our shanty and know that we would be in the oil business as long as we After organizing a gas system for Pettus and Tuleta, a neighboring settlement, Glasscock moved to the East Texas Field and brought in 26 wells. In 1930 Mr. and Mrs. Glasscock and their sons, Woodrow and Lonnie, came to Corpus Christi.

He was an independent oil dealer here. An oil well struck by Glasscock in 1934 in Saxet. Field brought him $560,000 in 10 years. In 1939 he drilled a well In Vanderbilt Field. It had produced 3 million barrels by 1953.

Other successes were a wildcat well in San Patricio County in 1948 and a gas-distlllate discovery there in 1954. Even before the Glasscocks were married, they knew that Glasscock was a potential disease case. knew he could thank God for any life he had over 40 years, but he lived the way he should. lived to be Recently Mrs. Glasscock made the trip to Australia that she and her husband planned.

can brc-athe there. It's a land what Texas was in 1920 They aie giants in think What's Out and in for Fall By JEAN SPRAIN WILSON AP Fashion Writer NEW YORK you unpack those winter clothes that you probably stored away a few weeks ago, will they be out of style? What in your wardrobe will survive another season without revealing its age? Fashion writers attending the New York Couture semiannual Press Week July 8-14 will soon find out. A preview of fall collections by more than two dozen fashion houses will indicate what styles are out, still good, and new. Their notes will read some thing like this: PASSE The wallpaper fit. Tight midriffs and body hugging sheaths are giving way to less constricted silhouettes.

Big skirts. Voluminously gathered and knife pleated ones are pared down to slightly gathered, tucked or wrapped skirts. Bare necks. Although they plunged down to there last season. costumes for fall not only build up to the neck, they reach up to the nose, with exaggerated collars and scarves.

Ball gowns are modest in front, bare in back. Belts. They are prominent on jackets and coats, but they are missing on dresses. Bare arms. Unflattering to older women, designers are covering them with elbow and wrist length sleeves.

Glorified linings. The shock treatment of gaudy silk prints or violent plaids for linings of coats and suits and matching blouses or dresses is over. Blouses still match jacket linings, but with quieter fabrics. Ruffles. Man-tailoring, draping and subtle shaping have left no room in fashion for daytime frills.

Roaring look. losing out to the OLD. BI STILL GOOD High waistlines. It's firmly entrenched as a part of coat and suit silhouettes, as well as dresses. Back interest.

Fronts are shaped, full backs sometimes flare free, other times are belted. Tunics. Versions of the Rajah coat have multiplied like rabbits. Fur, Mink's still on everything. It also trims other furs such as Persian lamb, broadtail, and leopard.

Glitter: A bad stock market has done nothing at all to dampen enthusiasm for the brilliant opulence of beads, crystals and metallic fabrics. NEW? Everything seems to be Inspired by another era or another culture. This year it's chic to lock like a Russian with a fur bordered tunic; or an intriguing mata hari in a sweeping cape costume or trench coat; or a mystic Asian. Fabrics are new, and uses of them are, too. For daytime heavy tweeds and fuzzy wools are combined with satins and velvet.

And wooly fabrics are also used as ball gowns, Postcards From Boys In Camp Display Humor FASHION'Eli FOR length kelly green satin dress by eil liapnian flares out at its sides, rocket style. Worn over it is a 3-1 sleeved jacket that reiterates the missile shape theme. CHARRO DRESS Gray wool WESTPORT. N.Y., again its summer camp time, jacj(pt costume by the First La- and to many a lad i nothing like it-even if he does designer Oleg Cassini is em- miss his mom, forget to take his trunk key and is kept awake by another guy snoring. At Camp Dudley on Lake Champlain, an institution affil- broidered cowboy style.

BORDER INCIDENT Ropes of persian lamb, matching the hat, band the hemline and jacket of this costume by Samuel Winston. ing and action, and they need iated with the Young people with capital. I saw a hundred ways to make a fortune. as big as Texas and an empty, empty land. I saw all of the continent but the North, and going back in BOARD ABOLISHED AUSTIN Atty.

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They quickly culled these bits of unintended humor, with spellings per author: trip was horrible. having fun here. Forgot my got to camp send my trunk keys and my duffle bag key. And hurry, hurry, the looks of my leader it looks as if I will have loads of Mom: I am feeling great O.K. except I miss a few people.

One happens to be I pasted the 50 yd. swim. When I herd that you go of the diving board I past the getting drops in my eye and socking it once a got hits out of 8. One was a fly into a senior some game and a radio to nice here and the food is what the toilet house is called its called the Institution with much have Bill S. for a leader.

He says he is the best leader in was so busy making beds, eating and playing baseball I have made many excuse the writing but our beds are homesick but Is a breaf message to tell me where I can get a hold of guy under me snors at night so we use our water guns to keep him Sis: My junior leader thinks you are cute so to only one thing. No AF NEEDS HOGS SAN ANTONIO Air Force wants lots of dogs for guard duty. The animal pro eurement office at Lackland Air Force base put out a call Wednesday for 3.000 German shepherds for the air force sentry dog training program. SOCIAL REVUE Misses Betty Ross of Kerens and Nancy Batt.on left today for a vacation in Colorado Springs, where they will visit in the home of Mrs. J.

W. Stringer. Sam Garrett is scout master for Boy Scout Troop 240 which will present a benefit program in cooperation with the Corsicana Music and Speech Teachers association Thursday, July 19, at 8 p.m. in the fellowship hall of Westminster Presbyterian Church which sponsors the troop. Donations on admission will be set aside for a fund to send the troop to the 1964 National Jamboree at Valley Forge, Penn.

The annual Navarro County Dress Revue for 4-H girls will take place Tuesday at. 7 p.m. in the Arena Theater, Navarro Junior College. Miss Helen Bonner will be the speaker when the Navarro County Historical society meets Monday, October 8, at 7:30 p.m. in the Civic Room, First National Bank building.

Navarro County 4-H boys and girls will be in annual encampment at. Lake Trinidad July 2527. The Ruth circle of the Missionary Baptist Church will meet Monday at 3 p.m. at the church in regular weekly session. Janell Spence, James Loyd Taylor Will Wed Soon Mr.

and Mrs. J. C. Spence of Route 1, Ennis, announce the engagement of their daughter, Janell, to James Loyd Taylor, son of Mr. and Mrs.

L. W. Taylor of Ennis. The wedding takes place July 20 at the First Baptist church in Ennis. Miss Spence is a 1962 graduate of Ennis High School.

Her fiance graduated in 1959 and is employed at The Automotive, Ennis. The couple will reside in Ennis. The Ladies Auxiliary and Canton M.D. Herring, No. 8.

will meet Monday at 8 p.m. at the IOOF hall, with Lady Clearcy Shoemaker and Harold Fountain presiding. Miss Alleen Carraway, Corsicana district secretary of the Wesleyan Service Guild, Mrs. Margaret Atkinson, Mrs. Hal Murphy, Mrs.

Clara Willard and Mrs. Fufa Pritchett, will attend the annual Guild Weekend, to be held at Southwestern University, Georgetown. July 14-15. Mrs. Joe Tate will represent the WSCS of the First Methodist Church at the annual School of Missions to be held at Southwestern University, Georgetown, July 16-20.

Miss Kay Smith, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Otto Smith, is visiting with friends and relatives in Tyler. The regular monthly birthday party will be held at the IOOF Home Sunday, July 29, at 3:30 o'clock p.m. These events are sponsored by the Rebekah Assembly of Texas and local arrangements are made by the Home Rebekah Lodge, No.

128, with Mrs. Mary Estell as committee chairman. SA LESMAN IN DICTED HOUSTON Earl Fairman 31, Houston salesman, has been indicted for possession of $11,560 in counterfeit $20! from Kentucky. Fall Fashions Keep Hemline At Old Height By JOY MILLER NEW YORK, July 12 Put away that needle and thread, Mabel. Your hemline is safe where it is for another season.

Actually, the skirt status quo has never been in jeopardy at the fall showings of the New York couture group, now halfway through a weeklong parade for the fashion press. Designers all along pretty much agreed on ending matters just below the knee. Little Startling What about a dominant silhouette? Nothing very startling is emerging it's Just more of the same easy, good-natured style of clothes wearing now. Most designers seem con tent to hone their favorite, familiar shapes and give shoppers a wide range to choose from. The best rule of thumb for fall: If you can get into it, in style.

Thanks to the First trip to India and Pakistan, the Far Eastern atmosphere so far this week has been so thick you could cut it with a bolo knife Walk in on any collection and the first question automatically is: Sari Wednesday afternoon was a brief respite, with only Jacques dome-shaped turban named Taj Mahal and Donald harem-pants-skirted pa- nung evening dresses evoking ex. otic images. That is, if you overlook Ceil Byzantine binge, which, technically, concerns the middle not anyway. Brooks Designs Young Brooks, who has just won a top fashion award and has some of his works hanging now in White House closets, pushed the shift into high gear for his Townley collection. The shift, which some lowbrows might dare to call the sack, is his pet profile, loose and unfitted.

Occasionally, though, he'd nsert a darted midriff for shaping, or box pleat a skirt, or break up a smooth expanse of fabric from neck to hem with scrolled, self-appliquued ings at waist or hlpline. His coats were slim shimmers or double-breasted steamers. He used a. lot of jersey, the most dramatically in a snow leopard print. His chief colors w'ere a creamy snow, jade, a strong pink called rouge, and a paler pink called quartz.

Brooks put sleeves In a few' evening so did Tif- feau in the Monte-Sano and Pruzan collection that followed. In the Monte-Sano suits, sleeves were mostly back to the old wrist-length; but dresses, and especially overblouses, were frequently sleeveless. To ward off pneumonia, they came equipped with elegant coats of double- faced mohair. look for fall put bulk at: the top, softness In the shoulder slimness in the skirt. The favorite combination was probably the sleeveless overblouse dress often with the blouse narrowed and buttoned down the front and matching coat.

Chapman Familiar Ceil Chapman stuck to her familiar last superbly draped, figure-hugging, glittery confections. For a theme, she traded in last shopworn Cleopatra for the Byzantine beauty, Theodora, a courtesan who married Emperor Justinian and went in for civic reform in a high-handed sort of way. The byzantine influence showed in embroidered, jeweled borders and waistbands, shimmering metal brocades, byzantine halo hats, and lavishly sequined gilt dresses. But mingling with 4th-l2th century fashions was her up-to- the-minute missile shape. She got it off the launching pad as slim columnar shape ending with tail-fin flare at the knee.

It seemed OK with the fashion writers, who applauded. Corsicanans Visil Original Kentucky Home Four Corsicanans, representing three generations, have returned from a visit to their ancestral home in Bennettown. Kv. With Mr. and Mrs John Bennett were their daughter, Mrs.

Fred Richards, and the son, John Albert. The focal point of their visit was the residence of Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Young, built 136 years ago by Mr. grandfather, Stephen Bennett.

The structure of five rooms, two upstairs, is being refurnished in the period in which It was built. Five generations of the Bennett family have had access to the house, constructed of cypress, oak and maple. The Corsicana family also attended services in the bv- terian church where Stephen and Annie Bennett were married. For John Bennett it was a first visit to the site of his family origins, but the Corsi- canan has kept informed of its care through pictures sent Breezy, Easy! PRINTED PATTHRft 4789 SIZES 10-20 All flare and freedom a Hawaiian muu-muu in two, new versions! Sew them to wear at home, on beach or in cotton sheer as nightgowns. Printed Pattern 4789: Misses' Sizes 10.

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The Swedish girl was given her Doctor of Medicine degree here Wednesday. She plans to be a psychiatrist. She said she never will be able to thank her benefactors enough. A 27-year-old woman now, gitta still bears some of the scars of that day in August 195S when she stumbled into the whirling propellor of a smali excursion plane taking visiting youngsters for sightseeing flights around Greensboro, N.C. The propellor cut off her right arm, mangled her face and inflicted severe body injuries.

Birgitta was a member of a group of Methodist young people visiting Greensboro on a church exchange program. She and her parents wrere active in Methodist affairs in Sweden. I Several of the youngsters had! gone up in the piane but before turn came, then trag-: edy struck. For a month she was treated in a hospital, with five surgeons and nurses working around thej clock, striving to restore the girl to a useful life. The folks of Greensboro North and South Carolina also were busy.

They established a fund and the money flowed in, more than enough to pay her medical bills. When she was flown home in a militai'v plsne, she wrent with a check for $9.000 over and above the costs of medical care. More surgical and medical treatment came at home. There have been 11 plastic surgical operations, all paid for out of the fund. Meantime, Birgitta plugged away at her medical books, the fund helping pay for her education.

Birgitta said that getting her medical degree was happiest day of my life. I am glad I had the accident. If it had not happened, I would never have learned how generous and kindhearted Americans could be. never be able to thank them The French Academy elects new member only when death creates a vacancy. Get Your Sunglasses, Bathing Caps and Suntan Lotion at PHARMACY to WEST 2ND AVE.

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The couple had taken the child to a shady spot in a park like many others seeking relief from 90-degree heat Wednesday. Several passersby came to the spot and chatted with Johnson, who, like many another proud father, pointed to the carriage. He pointed once too often, and two detectives went to see just how remarkable this child was. Under the mattress in the carriage they found eight packets of heroin, they reported. Johnson, 24, and his wife.

Caroline, 23, both negroes, were booked on charges of dealing in illicit drugs. The child was sent to a founding hospital. Child IsMauled By Bear In Park MULLAN, Idaho l.fl A little girl, daughter of Dutch tourists, was severely clawed about the head Wednesday by a bear which had been fed cookies alongside the highway. Officials were told the bear reached into the small foreign car and scratched the girl. Five stitches at a hospital in nearby Wallace, Idaho, were required to close the wounds of Gemma Derksen, 2, whose er is a student at Utah state! college.

Willie Derksen, the father, told officers the bear appeared i enraged after they ran out of cookies while feeding it at a spring near Lookout Pass on' the Idaho-Montana border. Game officials said there had been complaints on at least 22 bears within the last week, many of them from tourists who apparently confused the wild type here with tamer bears they had seen in Yellowstone and Glacier national parks in Montana. Sun Want Ads Bring Results Your Want Ads to TR 4-4764. -BACKACHF? bills. The grand jury said Fair man also had possession of the plate used In making the bills.

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