Before -300 Texas ranchers last week, Tojie Harrell, president of Fort Worth's big Traders Oil Mill Co., made a short speech. Said he: "In 1953 I realized all of us would meet somewhere, but I thought it would be in the poorhouse instead of like this." The occasion was a party in honor of Tojie Harrell and his part in preserving an old Texas tradition: that a Texan's word is as good as his bond. After the ranchers had eaten all the fried chicken they could hold and had sung themselves hoarse, they gave...
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