![]() Worthington’s boyhood dream was to fly planes. He eventually joined the Civilian Conservation Corps, earning $30 a month, of which $25 was sent home. Under the New Deal, Worthington, a 13-year-old ninth-grade dropout, went to work on a road gang as a waterboy, earning 15 cents an hour. ![]() The family filled the house’s floor cracks with newspapers to keep out the wind and dust, according to the book, which described his mother as the rock of the family and his father as a hard worker. Eventually they found a house in “the sticks,” as Worthington described it in his biography, for $5 a month in rent, near oil wells. When moving to Kilgore, Texas, to look for work, the family loaded their belongings on a Model-T. He grew up poor in a family of Dust Bowl wanderers searching for work as they lived in shacks, not unlike the Joad family in John Steinbeck’s “Grapes of Wrath.” Worthington outlined his life in a book, “My Dog Spot, The Cal Worthington Story,” by Bob Cox. His mother, Vidella, already had six children, and she would add two others. president - his father, Benjamin Franklin Worthington, was a staunch Republican. 27, 1920, in Bly, Okla., and named after the 30th U.S. The business will go on as usual.”Ĭalvin Coolidge Worthington was born Nov. ![]() “The family has succession plans to keep the dealership here. They went on a fishing trip to Alaska, about 90 miles outside of Dillingham. The last time they saw each other was Labor Day weekend. ![]() “It was a business conversation,” Karalis said. ![]()
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