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THE WINKLER COUNTY NEWS, Kermit, Texas
Page 2—Sec. I Thursday, August 22, 1963
‘King of the Coin Collectors’
Displays His Money Suit
SAN JOSE, Calif. — Twenty matists. Gjurovich, a 63-year-old ancient coins and Spanish pieces
years ago, Rudy Gjurovich be-
gan collecting coins to decorate
the walls of a golf shop he
planned to open at San Jose.
He had so much fun gathering
coins that he forgot about golf
and went on to become one of
electrician, frequently travels
around California, exhibiting his
coin collection and wearing his
famous money suit.
The suit has earned him the
name, “The Money Man.’’ At-
tached to it are all types of
the nation’s foremost numis- coin and currency, ranging from
Tyler Munitions Plant
Made 10 Rifles Daily
TYLER (AP)—A modern mu-
nitions plant, turning out mis-
sile components or supersonic
planes, would make the Tyler
Ordnance Works, CSA, look like
small potatoes.
But it helped. Anything helped
the munitions-short Confederacy
in those dying days of the war.
The Ordnance Works actually
as founded because of the
ruinous policy of the Confeder-
acy where states rights applied
to the raising and equipping of
troops.
In 1862, James Short and
W. S. M. Biscoe went to Gov.
F. R. Lubbock and offered to
build, for a price, a plant to
manufacture 5,000 rifles. Lub-
bock needed them badly for the
Texas troops.
But Short and Biscoe could
not produce the rifles. They
were beset, like everyone else,
by the lack of materials in the
Confederacy.
The Confederate government
in Richmond, Va., took over the
plant upon payment of $30,000
and put Lt. Col. Gabriel H. Hill
in command.
Hill was an aggressive man
who did not mind treading on
the toes of his superiors in his
efforts to obtain supplies for
his plant. Sometimes he stepped
on toes just to let off steam.
the collapse of the Confederacy
apparently hoping something
could happen to revive the
^hort-lived nation. The Trans-
Mississippi department was the
last to surrender, and the follow-
ing day, Col. Hill abandoned the
plant.
The Union Army took over
the acreage on which the plant
stood, then Congress transferred
it to the Bureau of Freemen,
Refugees and Abandoned Lands.
This agency sold the works
in 1868 to Mrs. Mary McQueen
for $543.76.
The works left their mark on
Tyler. On one side of the 240
acres are trees which by their
size show they are second
growth.
The original trees were cut
down for fuel for the ordnance
works. Col. Hill planned to cut
down the trees on another side,
but the fall of the Confederacy
came before this was neces-
sary.
About 25 years ago, Dr. W. M
Bailey had some work done on
a large oak tree on his back
lawn. The tree stood about 125
yards east of the site of the
plant. The tree surgeon re-
moved a section of wood con-
taining five pounds of lead. Pre-
sumably the tree was used as a
Hill’s plant made a lot of target for testing rifles.
things besides guns and ammu-
nition, his carefully kept records
show.
The works fabricated windows,
sash cords, canteens, belts, sa-
bers, bugles, wagon wheels,
harness — even a staircase.
In the meantime, the plant
did fabricate or repair 2,000
firearms and by the end of the
war Hill reported he could turn
out 10 rifles a day — best pro-
duction rate west of the Missis-
sippi.
It mad t\fo types of rifles.
Repair was made on the dozens
of types of arms carried by the
troops, who used anything which
would fire.
In 18 months under Col. Hill,
the plant made over two million
shells. He could turn out 25,000
cartridges per day.
Col. Hill and his men con-
tinued work for a month after
The State of Texas has erect-
ed a marker to show where the
ordnance works once stood.
Charcoal Brings
Cash to Farmers
of 8 to impossible-to-obtain ex-
amples of United States “cut-
out” money.
“It took me almst 15 years
to get the suit together,” Gjuro-
vieh said. “It is worth $10,000
and there are 212 coins, all
of them equipped with locking
clasps.”
The suit has proved to be a
big attraction for shows and
parades; he also wore it at the
recent California state numis-
matic convention, where he
served as sergeant-at-arms.
Topping off his costume is a
hat which proclaims him “King
of the Coin Collectors.” Cali-
fornia collectors admit he very
well may be.
Gjurovich began collecting
during the Second World War.
When service men began send-
ing him souvenirs from over-
seas, he became fascinated and
encouraged others to send back
coins. With his collection grow
ing by leaps and bounds, he
decided to organize the San Jose
Coin Club.
He now boasts currency and
coins ranging from colonial 3-
cent pieces to $1,000 bills.
The rare money, valued at
$25,000, fills 12 display cases.
1ITTLE FOLKS
8y “Toefc* Knight
Pushing Big . .
(Continued from rage One)
he noticed a car moving down
the street. Having been given
the description and license num-
ber of a car stolen in Pecos,
the street sweeper noticed the
number on the car, picked up
his broom and drove the ma-
chine to city hall, about two
blocks away, to report the lost
car being in town. After a seven-
mile chase, Kermit police of
ficials had the stolen car and
driver under their control.
Singletary has worked for the
city since June last year. He is
a native of Oklahoma, but has
lived in Texas for about 11
years.
About the only special skill
needed to operate the sweeper
is knowing how to- steer it. And
with the steering gear operating
the rear wheel, it is about like
guiding a tricycle in reverse,
Singletary says.
The sweeper has a small
broom in front that whirls
around and kicks the sand and
debris toward the center of the
street. A broom about six feet
wide pushes the debris on a
conveyor belt and dumps it into
a hopper that carries about
three yards of material.
The sweeper broom has to be
replaced about pnce each
month, or after sweeping the
town about four times.
What are some of the things
different about Singletary’s job?
“Keeping out of the way of
cars. If you don’t you’ll sure get
run into,” Singletary said.
ST. LOUIS, Mo. — Missouri
hill farmers who never char-
coal-broiled a steak in their
lives are jingling coins in their
overall pockets and hoping the
boom in backyard barbecues
continues.
More than 85,000 tons of char-
coal, about one-fifth of the na-
tion’s total, come from Missouri
hickory and oak forests yearly.
Profitable charcoaling needs
cheap wood, cheap labor, and
native ingenuity. All of these
abound in the Missouri Ozarks,
where charcoal production has
tripled in the last five years.
It takes about two weeks to
transform a stack of Missouri
hardwood into charcoal. The
The wood is burned in rectangu-
lar kilns under reduced oxygen
for a week and is allowed to
cool for another week before the
oven doors are opened.
An ‘Untouchable’
Still Working
HONOLULU, Hawaii — One
of the famous “Untouchables”
led by Federal Agent Elliot
Ness still is working for the
federal government. He is Mar-
tin J. Lahart, now a graying
man, who works in Honolulu,
for the alcohol and tobacco tax
division of the Federal Treas-
ury Department.
Lahart was one of the group
of federal agents led by Ness
in an unrelenting war against
bootleggers and gangsters in
the prohibition era iin the city
of Chicago. He was, in fact, the
man who brought the name
“Untouchables” to the group of
trained agents.
The story is that gangsters
tossed a bundle of money into
a car in which Lahart and an-
other agent were riding. The
federal men tossed it back, and
Lahart shouted to the gang-
sters: “This will prove we can
not be touched.”
A Chicago newspaper quoted
the phrase, and after that Ness
and his men were known as the
“Untouchables.”
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Williams, Nev H. The Winkler County News (Kermit, Tex.), Vol. 28, No. 31, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 22, 1963, newspaper, August 22, 1963; Kermit, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth995182/m1/2/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Winkler County Library.