Show 1 ME Inc 11 C sf-iLI sf 1 Fire Shooters Shooter's Wife Haws Hauls Nitroglycerin but Job Bores Bore Her l p pI I J Bumping over rough roads with a cargo of explosives holds no thrills for Mrs Tex Thornton left She says her husband lower r right has 1 all the fun of fighting oil well blazes like the one pictured with the nitroglycerin which she hauls to him AMARILLO Tex AP H AP-H Her r husbands husband's dangerous vocation is shared by Mrs Irs Tex Thornton wife wIre Or bt tile me man who puts out fires in the oil fields by tossing nitroglycerin l to the flames But she finds no thrill in it It Is Mrs frs Thorntons Thornton's job to haul hau nitroglycerin cerin to her husband Recently Recently Re- Re Re lIe- she drove an aut automobile miles over rough roads carrying 1500 quarts of ot the explosive Scores of motorists who saw Mrs Thornton Thornton Thornton Thorn Thorn- ton approaching abandoned their automobiles and scurried across the prairie But she insisted there was nothing to make a fuss about Mrs Irs Thornton had to change tires s five ne times before she delivered delivered ered the nitroglycerin to her husband husband hus hus- band who was fighting a costly gas fire at Corpus Christi My ly work is just col colorless dess routine rou- rou tine she remarked after the peril peril- eril- eril I ous trip Tex Te has s all aU the fun and andI I eny envy him His work really is dangerous dangerous dan dan- and he ho accomplishes some some- thing My l bit is incidental and anybody could do It it Thorntons Thornton's fun cun consists of d don donning nning n- n ning ning- an asbestos suit crawling to the edge of ot a fire crater and hurlIng hurlIng hurling hurl hurl- ing 50 to quarts of nitroglycerin into the flames If It several blasts fail fall to extinguish the fire he digs deeper into his bag of tricks and gets water and steam to help him Mrs l Thornton also takes care of the storage of ol the family stock of nitroglycerIn While she d does es not dread the explosive she do does doer 5 fear the mice and snakes which she finds in the storehouse Since their marri marriage ge five fie years ago Mrs Thornton has been helping help help- Ing big Tex Tec fight the fires i es Her Her- hobby is Is' airplanes and she he longs for the day when her husband can buy her one |