Word: wilhelm
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...Backbone." Melvin Wilhelm is a lean, saddle-brown man who has lived all of his 50 years on Edwards Plateau and runs a sheep and cattle ranch near the little town of Menard (pop. 2,000). Last week Wilhelm looked out across the gaunt and tortured hills of his range and stubbornly...
...Wilhelm runs 650 sheep and 51 head of cattle on his four sections and another thousand acres of rented pasture land, a spread that would normally carry from 1,000 to 1,100 sheep and from 125 to 150 cattle. When the drought took hold in earnest back in 1950, Wilhelm played it smarter than some of his neighbors, sold off his herds to prevent overgrazing, used the cash to buy feed for the animals he kept. Today it costs him a money-losing $12 a year to feed each cow, $2 to feed each sheep...
...Breaks My Heart." Since 1951 Wilhelm has operated his ranch at a net loss of from $1,000 to $1,500 a year. "I really don't see how we're going to pay off our land, at least not in our generation," says his wife, Grace. A calm, friendly woman of 43, she does the work of a hired hand at lambing time, philosophically shrugs off such things as the fact she has never been able to buy carpets for the concrete floors of their ranch home. "The thing that breaks my heart," she says...
Your article on Champagne Charlie [March 26] gave me quite a lift and guffaw. However, your adjective "military" as applied to Charlie's mustache missed the bull's-eye a bit; perhaps your writer is a youngster who doesn't happen to have seen Kaiser Wilhelm's mustache...
...Died. Wilhelm Miklas, 83, pre-World War II President (1928-38) of the Austrian Republic, who twice in 1938 refused Hitler's ultimatum to form an Austrian Nazi government, was forced out of office on the day Nazi troops rolled across the border; in Vienna...