Fool's Gold

It's National Wheaties Week! Yes, it's National Wheaties Week! And Wheaties present Joel McCray in Tales of the Texas Rangers! On stage tonight transcribed from Hollywood, another in the Wheaties Big Parade of exciting half-hour presentations.

Of the Texas Rangers starring Joel McCray as Ranger Pearson, Texas more than 260,000 square miles, And 50 men who make up the most famous and oldest law enforcement body in North America. All from the files of the Texas Rangers come these stories based on facts.

Only names, dates and places are fictitious for obvious reasons. The events themselves are a matter of records. Tonight's case, fools gold. It is shortly after 9am on the Tuesday after Labor Day 1946. Two men in a late model black sedan cruise slowly along the main street of the town of Live Oak in West Texas

Let's go over it once more. We've been over it 20 times boy. Let's get it done I ain't taking a chance on you making any mistakes. I ain't making mistakes I want to go back to Huntsville again Haven't done anything but case this bank since I got out of the pen a month ago

You sure there's no God. No, I told you like this Ain't got but two tellers in the gates Got an alarm system though One of them moves for an alarm start blasting Are we gonna hide out afterwards?

He'll leave that to me. We'll beat our way back to where I've been working round up will be starting tomorrow Now get the old man to take you on until things cool off. That's good. Yeah Ain't nobody gonna suspect a poor working cowpoke Here we are you keep me covered while I cash the check yeah