The Daily Republic from Mitchell, South Dakota • Page 9

Wednesday, July Mltetell Dally RWWte Kodeo is number one sport PltiRRE. S.D. "A lover, a fighter and wild bull rider." That's What the bumper sticker on the cowboy Cadillac said about the guy in the wide- brimmed hat. Rodeo is South Dakota's number one professional sport, paying top money to contestants and providing plenty of action for spectators. Rodeo, to most people, has always been a bunch of wild bucking horses, gutty cowboys and good times on a Sunday afternoon.

But behind the rodeo's front bucking chutes are hours of work for the promoter, from contracting the stock and preparing the arena to parking the spectators. The average rodeo is not a spur-of- Ihe-moment gathering of cowboys and stock contractors, but rather a planned sporting event that begins to take shape months before the actual competition. Early in the spring, the contractors begin to gather special livestock for rodeos. Calves are brought up from the southeastern United States, special steers are brought in from Mexico, and crowd- pleasing bucking horses; and bulls are rounded Up after a quiet winter on the range. The Mekican cattle are often brought.in for steer wrestling competition because of their light weight and lone horns.

Local steers with a comparable horn length are mucn too Dig and heavy for the cowboy to, wrestle. Often times, later'in the season, the imported beefs become too stout for competition and must be retired, The Mexican stock usually comes off a near-bare range Wagner man celebrates 50th year in business L.L. (Jack) Hennies was recently honored for his 50 years in the service station business in Wagner. Hennies has worked at or operated a service station at the corner of Main Avenue and Highways 50 and 46 since 1925. WAGNER, S.D.

L.L. (Jack) Hennies recently celebrated his 50th year in the service station business at Wagner. He has worked at or operated a station at the corners of Main Avenue and Highways 50 and 46 in Wagner since 1925. Hennies said, "Iii 1925, immediately after graduation from high school, I went to work in a gas station for Tom Harney and Lloyd Abbot. I had problems finding the transmissions on those Model T's." Henhies worked for several different managers until 1934 when he was employed by Niels H.

Nielsen in what is now the Co-op station. In 1942 he leased the station from Nielsen. Two years later he leased the station from R.N. James and in 1948 he purchased the facility. "I have always sold Champlin products," he said.

He has served on the city council for several years and was WagneFs mayor for one term. He joined Wagner's fire department in 1929 and was a member for 30 years. He also served on the hospital board for nine years. An avid sports fan, Hennies played baseball for many years and also managed the Wagner team. He was inducted into the South Dakota Baseball Hall of Fame in 1968.

Revenue sharing confabs slated for local officials Officials find WASHINGTON, D.U A series of eight workshops on general revenue sharing for local government officials and interested citizens in South Dakota will be conducted around the state from July 2129. The Office of Revenue Sharing of the U.S. Treasury Department has announced plans for the meetings. The workshops will be co-sponsored by the South Dakota Bureau of Finance and Management and are designed to meet the specific needs of local governments in South Dakota. Also cooperating in these workshops are the State Auditor General's Office, the regional planning districts, the U.S.

Bureau of the Census and the U.S. Department of Labor. The workshops will cover all aspects of the revenue sharing law with special emphasis on SBA loans now available 6 counties of in SIOUX FALLS, S.D. South Dakota office of the Small Business Administration has been given authority to make business economic injury loans in Bennett, Lyman, Shannon, Stanley, Todd, and Washabaugh Counties as a result of the blizzard in March of this past year, according to Chester B. Leedom, SBA District Director.

Economic injury loans are made to businesses experiencing injury as a result bf natural disasters. Examples of businesses affected may be a farm equipment dealership, grocery store, hardware store, lumberyard, or a similar business, which is dependent upon a farmer's ability to pay on a timely basis. Such loans can be made to cover accounts, either receivables or payables, which would have normally been paid had such a disaster not occurred. "Economic injury loans may be accepted now and March 8, 1976, in Bennett, Lyman, Todd, and Washabaugh Counties. These loans carry an interest rate of 5 percent and may run for as long as 30 years.

Applicants must furnish proof as to the extent of injury the business has experienced and how long it will take before the business can recover from the adverse conditions." Leedom said. "We urge anyone living in the six counties who would like information concerning i to contact bank or the SBA. tf Bennett, Shannon, Washabaugh the following: uses revenue sharing funds and local law and how it affects a government's revenue sharing decisions revenue sharing funds are allocated Decision-making and community involvement in the General Revenue Sharing Program arid answers with workshop participants. All county and local governments in South Dakota have been invited to send representatives to the workshop in their area. Civic groups and other interested community organizations also have been invited to take part in the meetings which will discuss the requirements of the revenue sharing law which encourage public participation.

Evening meetings will be held: Monday, July 21 at the Pierre City Hall; Tuesday, July 22, at the Tripp County Courthouse in Winner; Wednesday, July 23, at the Community Room of the Douglas County Courthouse in Armour; Thursday, July 24 at the Turner County Courthouse in Parker; Friday, July 25 in the Community Room of the Arlineton Auditorium; and Monday, July 28 in the Community Room of the First National Bajik in Mobridge. These meetings will Afternoon meetings will be held at 1 :30 p.m. Saturday, July in Room 134 of the Johnson Center at Northern State College in Aberdeen, and at 1 p.m. Tuesday, July 29 in the North Lodge of the Surbec Center at South Dakota School of Mines and Technology at Rapid City. Co-ops plan insulation hog cholera Texas in WASHINGTON (AP) Agriculture Department officials are preparing a federal quarantine aimed at curbing the spread of hog cholera from an infected herd detected last week in the Texas Panhandle.

Officials said recently that the federal quarantine will be announced in a few days and will argument a Texas state quarantine already in effect. The disease, recently thought to be practically eliminated from swine herds in the United States, was found in a herd of about 170 hogs on a farm owned by Louis Woodford near Hereford, Tex. A spokesman for the department Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service told a reporter that the federal quarantine will be limited to an area including a 10-mile radius around the Woodford farm. Quarantines restrict the shipment of swine from an infected area. College meeting i it" (' lev 1 IiilU-'." i iiu tf 'Mia contact tne Rapid.

City. Lyman and should contact iib SBA office. A of the Sioux is in Pierre at on the third cry month from 1 wiom concluded. Ree Electric Cooperative, Miller and East River Electric Power Cooperative, Madison, are sponsoring an insulation school to be held on Tuesday, July 22, at the VFW Hall in Miller. The meeting will begin at 8 p.m.

All interested persons are invited to learn more about insulating homes and buildings and how proper insulation can save on energy costs. Vernon Joy of the Tri-State Insulation Company, Miller, will conduct the insulation portion of the school and will rnwr the tooics of insulation basic principles of in sulation, types of insulation and how to insulate floors, walls, celings and windows. Use of vapor barriers and fireplaces will also be included in the discussions. Larry Green, manager of member services for East River Electric, will review current trends in electric heating. Refreshments will be served following the meeting.

TV repairing FREEMAN, S.D. Freeman Junior College will offer a program in television electronics during the 1975-76 school year. The department will be headed by Ed C. Epp, of Henderson, Neb. The program is designed to prepare students for careers in radio and television repair.

First year courses will include basic electronics and will teach basic knowledge of simple electronic circuits and electronic parts like transistors and vacuum tubes. Second year courses will deal with maintenance and repair of a television set. This includes a practicum in which the students will spend in a repair shop. Honor list announced at USD VERMILLION, S.D. The Honor Students in the University of South Dakota College of Fine Arts for the second semester have been announced by dean Wayne S.

Knutson. Honor students include: Renee Pier, Avon; Richard Spohn, Canistota; Diana Gough, Canova; Nancy Folkerts, Corsica; Marlene Wittmuss. Fairfax; Shana Gullicksoi "reeman; Alary Vggel and Diane Wicks, Montrose; Curtis Cokeley, Scotland; Karen Beck and Charles Varilek, Tyndall; and Ernest Shaheen, Winner. i and lacks feed. The steers fire skinny, purchased for what they could be, not what they Calvfes used early in the season are often brought up from Florida or other southern states and used through July.

By the beginning of August, local calves, usually coming from a Brahma-Angus cow herd to a Brahma or Mexican fighting bull, are ready for actioh. These calves provide the crowds and the cowboys with plenty of surprises; They are tough and wiry and have showmanship that is inherited from their fathers. Bucking stock is selected with as much time and care as goes into the breeding and buying of steers and 'calves. The broncs are not always bred for the rodeo, but rather are selected from unmanageable riding stock. A horse that's strong, halter-broke has good temperament, but refuses to be ridden, will generally make a bucking horse.

Stock contractors don't care to have animals that are Unruly in the chutes because they not only take extra time to prepare ride, but they, will exhaust themselves before the cowboy ever straddles their back, According to one contractor, the days of the wild mustang are gone forever. The old idea of a bucking horse was a fighter, an animal so wild that it took a half-dozen men to-get him pointed in the direction of the chute and, another dozen to saddled. Today, the animals are performers. Bucking is their job, not fighting. Some work, is being done to breed bucking into future generations of horses to Insure generations of top ejtiality rodeo stock.

Life for a bucking horse is pretty good. He spends his winter with no one bothering him and his summer is a series of short jumps from one rodeo to another. The animal has to perform his best each every time out pf the chute, so the contractor provides him with plenty of feed and water, keeps him In excellent health and offers plenty of pre-show rest after a long haul on the road. It's important that the animal be consistent. If the horse is a true performer, he will come out of the chute each time bucking hard.

If an animal decides to run rather than buck out of the chute, he won't have a home on the rodeo circuit for the top-performing animals that have come from South Dakota ranches, "Baldy." has to be a favorite. He was a timid bull who had a great deal of courtesy for the CoWbpy on -his back, 1 or the cowboy under him. bull would lift just to miss a' cowboy had fallen," recalls one spectator. Baldy was so timid that there, was some concern that he would not eat': enough to keep up his strength'. He was often pushed around by other, more aggressive animals and could not get to the feed.

Baldy was moved into a corral by himself to insure his'health artd save him the.iembarrasshlent of competing with the other critters for food, Besides being a very courteotls and timid bull he was a terrific performer, so great that he was invited to the National Finals for seven years in a rbw. In 1961, at the National Finals in Dallas, Texas, Baldy was selected as the top bucking bull iri the nation. The lifestyle bf the rodeV performer has changed drastically in recent years, He no longer is a foot-loose if amp wandering from one rodeo to the next, trying to keep Himself in beer money, Today he has become one of the most respected athletes in professional snorts. The change in the cowboys character has come abbut partly through the organizatiort of the Rodeo Cowboy's Association. The Denver-based association lias been in' strumental in organizing artd standardizing rodeo across the country.

It has set up schools fdr judges'to' learn the tftost important points in a ride, it keeps a complete record Of winnings for each member cowboy, compiles national standings, helps young want to learn more about the sport. Today, rodeo is a part of growing up for many South Dakotans. Youngsters may debut in the arena in "Litt'le Britches" and 4-H rodeos while still in grade school. There is statewide competition to reach the South Dakota high school rodeo championships. Almost every college campus has its own rodeo team.

And who want to keep on riding can continue at dozens of jackpot rodeos, at S.D.R.A., rodeos, or even break into R.C.A. circuit. urges suppor i of local merchants By VERN MCKfcJE Executive Manager Greater S.D. Association PIERRE, S.D. It is time to say a wprd of praise in behalf of the local store versus the itinerant merchandiser.

By local store, we mean the permanently based enterprise that is a regular part of the community scene, whether' locally or not. By itinerant, we do riot mean companies whose sales persons move about, for many of them maintain regular salesmen, nor do we- mean vending representatives who bring needed products and services to the community on a sustained basis. We do mean the fly in and fly out type of sales in which? merchandise may be offered to customers at lucrative savings on a onetime-only basis, often, in competition with the same, brands handled by local stores. The local store provides permanent employment; the earnings generated expand the tax base to provide additional local services. Such institutions have permanent investments in buildings and equipment or a rental obligation oil such fixed assets.

They invest in community improvement projects and worthwhile local causes with a tremendous contribution of time and money. A local store pays taxes of all kinds, not just salestax on the purchase slip. It provides service in the form of a place to go if something turns sour and it provides another subtle kind of service that is easy to overlook, maintaihance of an inventory for the year around convenience of its customers. By the way of contrast, the itinerant types provide only a handful of jobs for a few days. The rental obligation, likewise, is for a few days, and there are no residuals at all in the way of community plowback.

The. customer gets the benefit of Bank plans 4-H barbeque SIOUX FALLS, S.D. The 23rd annual Northwestern Bank Barbecue for 4-Her's will be Saturday, August 9, at 5 p.m. at Northwestern's Barbecue Park. The barbecue and Barbecue Park serve as the setting for the annual crowning of the 4-H Chief an.d Princess, and for the presentation of numerous other 4-H awards.

The annual barbecue held during the Sioux Empire Fair serves approximately 1,000 pounds of prime barbecued beet to over 2,000 4-H exhibitors, their leaders other dignitaries. cutting middleman and the savings appear to be substantial: But if all businesses were conducted! that way, the retail trading areas of. South Dakota, communities would be sparse indeed. The ayailability of a wide range of merchandise would be missing. Far be it from the Greater South Dakota Association to discredit a cOmpiany's efforts to 'boast sales by any honorable means.

cherish the competitive spirit; but quickie sales by itinerants not the blessing'theiy seem to be. The local'store Dakota will still be around; if supported, because it earns' its keep in many ways and the modest Sanborn4-H Achievement Days set WOONSOCKET, S.D. Sanbdrn County's 4-H Achievement Days held August 14 and 15, according county agent Robert Beach. Exhibits will be entered between 8:30 a.m. and 11:30 a.m.

August 14. Judging of the 1 indoor at noon and continue until about 5 p.m. Sheep classes, will judged at 1 p.m. and dog entries will be judged at 4 p.m. Exhibits will be on display from 6 p.m.

until 10 p.m. A chicken barbecue will be held at 6:30 p.m. and the 'evening program will begin at 8:30 p.m. A livestock judging school will be held at 8 a.m. August 15.

Swine, beef and dairy exhibits will also be judged that morning. Livestock judging will continue that afternoon. Exhibits will be released at 2 p.m. August 15. All events will take place at the 4-H grounds at Forestburg.

retail profit margins are a small price to pay for what they give customers and the community. Freeman, Menno share grant funds VERMILLION, S.D. Freeman and, Menno schools will each have 1 two new teachers as a result of a federal grant 1 to the University of South Dakota School of Education. USD has received a $275,000 grant to initiate a new program designed to more effective learning-teaching opportunities for young people. The two ye'ar grant was funded by the Department of Health.

Education, and Welfare for a proposed Tenth Cycle Teacher according to Prof. Roland El lertson, teacher corps director. Four graduate interns will spend two years teaching in two target schools, Menno and while completing work on their masters degree in education. "The target school teachers will be provided a program to upgrade and improve their leaching skills, as well as retraining and development in other areas," said Ellertson. He added, "the entire program is designed to provide more effective learning-teaching opportunities for young people." Two interns will be working with Dale Crosby in Menno's elementary school system.

In Freeman, two interns will work with Delmer Hofer in the secondary The grant provides funds for program support and ap-' proximately $30,000 for each target school. Over the road travel is the most tiresome duty for rodeo animals. Because bf that, stock contractors allow their animals plenty of rest before each performance. USDA expects good corn crop WASHINGTON (AP) Ample rainfall and warm weather this spring in most areas have raised prospects for a record 1975 corn crop, estimated by the Agriculture Department at almost 6.05 billion bushels. The estimate, announced recently by the Department's Crop Reporting Board, would put this year's corn production 30 per cent above the 1974 less than 4.7 billion bushels.

Last year's crop was hit by poor weather all season too much rain during planting, summer drought and early freezes last fall. Based on July 1 surveys, the board algo said this year's wheat harvest will be almost 2.2 billion bushels, up 22 per cent from the 1974 record of about 1.8 billion. Don Paarlberg, USDA director of economics, said the big corn harvest still more than three months away would help trigger more livestock feeding help dampen food price increases through most of 1976. Producers have held down feeding grain to livestock the past year because of relatively high grain costs. A bumper harvest would mean lower feed prices and would stimulate production of meat, poultry and dairy products, Paarlberg said.

Larger exports also are likely in 1975-76, and a record harvest Stickney I luss Molds lU'iinion STICKNF.V. S.D. The, Stickney High School class of hold a 10th anniversary reunion hurt 1 July 5. Thomas Kelly served, as master of ceremonies for the banquet program. Jerry Ft.

Bliss, Texas, received the award Tor traveling the longest distance to attend the reunion. Saturday evening's activities included a tour of the school, banquet, program and dancing. A potluck picnic was held in the Stifkney Park Sunday afternoon. would provide ample supplies for those sales, according to USDA experts. The department planned to issue a new analysis of supply and demand prospects today, including projections for domestic and export use of both corn and wheat.

The new crop report said a corn harvest of almost 6.05 billion bushels not only would be up 30 per cent from last year's but would be 7 cent larger than the previous record of about 5.64 billion harvested in 1973. Officials said this year's corn crop is expected to average a yield of 90.3 bushels per acre, compared with 71.3 in 1974; 91.2 in 1973 and a record 97.1 bushels in 1972. The wheat crop, at nearly 2.2 billion bushels, was expected to average 31.7 bushels per acre against 27.4 last year and would match the 1972 Production of soybeans, cotton, sorghum grain and a number of other crops were not included in the July report. Those will be forecast in next crop production report on Aug. 11.

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