HERALD AND NEWS, KLAMATH FkLLS, OREGON
PAGE FIVE
U.S. Cowboy Hall Of Fame
Candidates Voted At Meet
SUNDAY, JANUARY 26, 1958
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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
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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. The department says fewer
coarse and unfinished cattle are
going to slaughter, and that ex
tremely high finish cattle arc less
popular with consumers.
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