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Evan Edward Worthing told the Negroes who rented his property in Houston: "You let me have what belongs to me. and I'll give you what belongs to you." A fair man who sometimes seemed hard, he had captained the first Texas A. & M. football team to beat the University of Texas (12-0. in 1902), and he sternly threw out tenants who had no good reason for defaulting on their rent. But he lent money freely when times were hard, would let a family fall behind on the rent if there were good reasons for it. Quietly...
Last week 20 college-bound Negroes from Houston (where a junior-senior high school was named for Worthing this year) got $4,000 scholarships in colleges of their choice. Total given so far by Worthing's trust, which will continue indefinitely: 130 scholarships worth...
...Houston Oilman James Marion ("Silver Dollar") West was a real-life version of the flamboyant Texas millionaire found in jokes, cartoons, movies and satirical novels. Worth an estimated $100 million, Jim West habitually sported a diamond-studded Texas Ranger badge and a brace of bolstered pistols dangling from a gold-buckled belt. He spent much of his adult life playing cops and robbers, riding around town with Houston policemen in a Cadillac equipped with two-way radio, four telephones and built-in racks for assorted firearms. Living up to his nickname, he had outsize pockets tailored into his trousers...
Last week, five months after West died of pneumonia at 54, executors inventorying his estate added a footnote to the gaudy Jim West legend. Found in a cellar beneath his Houston mansion were bags, barrels and cans brimming with silver dollars, plus a hoard of $2 bills. Estimated total: upwards of $250,000. Fearing that cartwheels might be scarce some day-the last batch was minted in 1935-West built up a reserve supply, apparently added the emergency store of deuces just in case the silver-dollar stockpile ran low. Jim West was no man to let himself get into...
Died. William H. Francis Jr., 43, Assistant Secretary of Defense for Manpower, Personnel and Reserve (since April 1957), Houston lawyer, longtime behind-the-scenes power in Texas Republican politics, World War II intelligence captain on Ike's staff; of a heart attack after playing tennis; in Washington, D.C. An advocate of higher military pay scales placing "major emphasis on achievement rather than on total years of service," Francis argued for the measure before a Senate subcommittee. It was enacted into law last week...