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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (Jan. 26, 1958)
HERALD AND NEWS, KLAMATH FkLLS, OREGON PAGE FIVE U.S. Cowboy Hall Of Fame Candidates Voted At Meet SUNDAY, JANUARY 26, 1958 i f V xmuchM i I ncai "--u, jaNSsELOWS- g I 1 NORMAL cA i ielW 7s-:A rn i.ow "V i S-SJK" V I ....I NORMAL VV WXJO . MUCH WAP ' All trw I ROBERT J. STEWARD, right, director of agriculture for the state of Oregon, is shown above staking Oregon's claim to a square yard of earth at the recent ground break ing for the National Cowboy Hall of Fame near Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Oregon will be given a deed to that square yard so that the western shrine on which construc tion begins this fall, will be built on land belonging to the state. All 17 of the western states will own part of the property. Steward represented Governor Holmes at the ceremonies. OKLAHOMA CITY Forly-one persons were voted into the Na tional Cowboy Hall of Fame by trustees in annual meeting here. as contracts were signed on archi tects' plans and specifications leading to construction start by autumn, for the first 1V4 million dollar unit of the Western shrine. Trustees from 16 of the 17 his toric Western states chose 11 per sons at large to be honored in the memorial, with 30 from other states after nominations had been screened in those states. Oregon did not present nominations this year and Colorado deferred to await polls in connection with its fund raising campaign for ' the shrine. All persons to be honored this year are deceased; all were iden tified with the livestock industry, had a hand in development of the American West or were promi nent in perpetuation of traditions and ideas of the West, which were the basic criteria for selec tion and approval by a three fourths majority of trustees. The list includes territorial and early state governors; trail blaz- Tap Water Tanks To Prevent Rust Home water heating tanks should be drained of two or three gallons of water about once a month to prevent the accumula tion of rust. This rust will often show up in laundry water or ev.'n bath water unless removed first. Glass or enamel-lined water tanks are not immune to the rust deposits since much of the rust is carried in through pipes. Keep a galvanized pail handy to the heating tank. About once a month, or oftener if the deposits seem unusually heavy, drain off a pail full of rust water from the petcock located at me Dottom oi the heater. TALLEST TREES F orests of the state of Victoria, Australia, produce the tallest trees l be found on that continent: the mountain ash. which may reach a height of 300 feet. ers of western migration and de velopinent; empire builders; col onizers; regionally and nationally known cattlemen; a triple world's champion rodeo cowboy; one of the most popular all time western mo"ie stars and two of the cen tury s most prominent animal husbandmen. Previously voted into the Cow boy Hall of Fame were Will Rog ers of Oklahoma: Theodore Roose velt of New York and North Da kota; Charles Goodnight of Texas. Charles Russell' of Montana and Jake McChire of New Mexico. During the annual trustees meeting here ground was broken for the shrine atop its 37-acre hilltop site, by governors, other stale officials and trustees of all the historic 17 Western states that are to share in the project. The other 16 states will be deeded one square yard of land at the site so the memorial will, in fact, be built on land of all these states. The at large honorces are Ed ward Beale of California: Dean W. L. Blizzard of Oklahoma; Frank Boise of Arizona; William F. (Buffalo Bill) Cody of Ne braska; Dr. Charles F. Curtiss of Iowa; James J. Hill of Minne sota; Pete Knight of Alberta; Henry Miller of California; Tom Mix of Texas and Hollywood; Eu gene Manlove Rhodes of New Mexico and Brigham Young of Utah. Honorees by states were: Ari zona, Ramon Ahumado and George Ruffner: California. Henrv C. Daulton and Fred H. Bixby; laano, frank Gooding and John Hailey: Kansas, Dan C. Casement and Calvin F. Floyd; Montana, Robert C. Ford and Carsten C. Kohrs: Nebraska, Frank North and Edward Creighton; Nevada. John Sparks and Daniel Wheeler: Ne'.v Mexico, John Chisum and Vic Culberson. And North Dakota. Wilse Rich ards and John W. Goodali; Okla homa. Charles H. Tompkins and Otto Barby; South Dakota, James Philip and Ed Lemmon; Texas, Stephen F. Austin and Oliver Lov ing; Utah, Anthony Ivins and Ja cob Hamblin; Washington, An drew J. Splawn and Benjamin E. Snipes; Wyoming, John B. Ken drick and Francis E. Warren. JAMES J. HILL, of Minne sota, is one of the 41 people voted into the National Cowboy Hall of Fame at Oklahoma City. Oklahoma, by trustees of the western shrine at their recent annual meeting. Ground was bro ken and an architect's con tract let for the first one and one-half million dollar unit of the five million dol lar project. Completion is expected in 1959. Rail Pioneer Named Entry James Jerome Hill of Minneso ta, 1838-1916: builder of the Great Northern Railway; advocate of di versified farming; first importer of purebred cattle in the North west; operator of the region's first experimental farms; distributor of improved seed. Those who know of his fabulous railroad building history normally iimiK oi jamcs j. Mill only in that connection. His 8,300 miles of track includes seven of the 17 Western slates. The story of how tnat road was built, after Hill ac quired the 400 mile, bankrupt St. Paul & Pacific Railroad, is one of the great sagas of Western or any American history. The bearded Scotch-Irish em pire builder, born on an Ontario farm, began as a shipping clerk. He made from brown paper the first label for the first barrel of flour milled in Minnesota. He built his railroad with one equa tion in mind to which he felt he had an answer. The equation was: land with out people in the West times peo ple in the East without land equals development of a great American area. He provided the answer. He built the road, stretching it ahead of people, but brought the people in, helped them get estab lished, preached rotation and other conservation when it was "that dang newfangled stuff," brought in more than 800 purebreds from Scotland and England to stock the pastures. One of the great colonizers of the nation, he brought in thou sands of settlers, and ' the land prospered along the Great North ern route from the Great Lakes to Puget Sound. Not only the rail road, but the indelible stamp of better agriculture are the monu ments to James J. Hill. Cow Feeding Shifts Cited WASHINGTON W The Agri culture Department says the cat tle feeding business is undergoing three major changes. In the first place, feeding of cattle for quality slaughter is no longer confirmed to the Mid western corn belt. It is expanding! greatly in the West and in the! South, the department notes. I California now feeds seven! times as many as it did in the early lS30's; Washington and Ari zona each six times as many. secondly, tne feeding period has been shortened. In this the West has been in the forefront. Califor-, ma fills its feed lots twice during the year, but the Midwest will not average a complete second turn over during the year. In the third place, not as much TEMPERATURES in Klamath County may be expected to be slightly above normal for the next few weeks. These are not specific forecasts in the usual sense, but estimates of averages for the period. X-CT HEAVY S" pfPjlPPIk t MODERATE PRECIPITATION is predicted to be below normal in this section of the country from now until mid February, ac cording to the long range estimates of the U.S. Weather Bureau. vGypo' Boxes Change Name WENATCHEE HI The "Gypo" fruit box apparently is doomed. The box Isn't going out of exist ence, but its unpleasant sounding narne may never again be used. Fruitmen say it causes every one in tho fruit business grow ers, sellers, receivers and retail ers to wince when they hear it because it doesn't exactly ring of honesty. So, at a meeting of soft fruit growers here Tuesday, it is planned to form a committee of industry men to find a better, more pleasant sounding name or names for such containers. The "gypo" lug reportedly was born in the Wenatchee district during the depression. Some grow ers began using a box flatter than the previously used apple box, as they marketed their pears, apri cots and peaches. It had advantages. It caused less bruising of fruit, was easier for the purchaser to carry home and the unit price was lower. Today there are many sizes, but all are less than one bushel capaci ty and all are designed to be dis played without lids. But the word still doesn't sound wholesome, says Bill Hoard, pub lic relations man for the state's soft fruit industry. "It makes ev eryone feel uneasy." Once the industry has agreed on some more pleisani .-.omencla-ture, it is agreed that box sup pliers will go alopg, so that when a warehouse cai's in ior an order of "gypo" boxfs, the supplier will reply "there'g no such thing any more." emphasis is being nlaced on dto- ducing cxtrem.ily high quality beer. 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