Hogg to Texas

Like Delaware with its du Ponts, North Carolina with its Dukes, California with its Stanfords, Alabama with its late Harvey G. Woodward (TIME, Jan. 5), Texas had a friend to education in the late William Clifford Hogg, oilman who died in Baden-Baden a year ago (TIME, Sept. 22, 1930). Son of the late Governor James Stephen Hogg, brother of Michael and Ima Hogg,* he made a fortune in oil, willed a large part of it to schools and colleges. Appraisal last week revealed the extent of the bequests: a total of $2,618,568. In the discretion of Brother ''Mike'' Hogg, $1,923,568 is bequeathed for a proposed Varner School to be established in Brazoria County, Tex., on the Hogg plantation, The Varner, as a memorial to the late Governor Hogg and his wife. A vocational school "for training poor boys and possibly girls, of good family history, sound morals and good scholarship, graduates of South Texas high schools." Varner School would give courses in husbandry and other rural pursuits. There are bequests to 14 Texas universities and colleges. Or, if he likes, Brother Mike may drop the idea of a Varner School, give the whole residue to the University of Texas or to other worthy Texas projects. Last week, Brother Mike was trying to decide.

* A whimsical Kansas City newspaper 40 years ago added Sisters Ura and Hoosa (TIME, Sept. 21).

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