Bill Routh:  

Catch 'em up on what you've done and who you are.My story,by W.T.R.-2 I was born in Ballinger,Texas and had to wait till I was about 6 years old before they would let me go to school.I went to Ballinger schools for 12 years and learned everything that I needed to know was learned in Kindergarten, but back in those horse and buggy days there was no such thing"coulda saved me a lot of time if I could have gone to kindergarten"!!!! I worked summers in high school at The Ballinger Co-op Cotton Gin,grain elevator and feed store,and for a couple of years after I graduated.Then it was off to the U.S.Navy to sail the Blue oceans and seas of the world.When I got out of the Navy and got thru serving some Naval Reserve time I went to work at the Firestone Tire and Rubber testing center at Ft.Stockton,trying to wear out tires for them,most of the time you could but sometimes you couldn't.Then it was off to Monahans Tx. to work for Commercial Electric Motors,not working on electric mot...Expand for more