The San Bernardino County Sun from San Bernardino, California • Page 28

npi ymni pi.ywii '1' Nf 'WW Jon. 7, 1979 (City rinol) THI SUN 4 4 i Bloomington couple makes ranch galloping success i take a couple years to build the breeding stock up again, but by then the population will also have increased you can't keep up with it." When there is some time to spare, Hudson said she likes to do tole painting. "There's so much to do here, but if I have any time I go down to the barn and groom a horse. I also help groom at the various horse shows," she said. Hudson said she and her husband attend about 30 horse shows a year.

"Some people say they'd like it (living on a ranch) but they don't want to work at it. You can't quit at 5 p.m. and you can't plan ahead. It's hard work." Finishing her coffee and moving into the living room, Hudson points at an oil painting of "Buzzie Bell their champion stallion, who died last year at the age of 30. "We always say this is the ranch that Buzzie built he was a good sire and produced a lot of winners," she said.

The average life span for a quarter horse is 15 years, she. said. Buzzie's son, Buzz Burnett, is 20 years old. He is a quarter horse champion and has sired four American Quarter Horse Association champions, Hudson said. He has 82 first-place wins, 67 grand champion and 18 reserve champion awards.

Hudson picks up her dog, Dolly, and goes outside to chat with Yucaipa farrier Hugh Arther, busy shoeing one' of the horses. Arther learned his trade in the U.S. Cavalry. He joined in 1939 and By CONNIE RUTH Sun Staff Writer BLOOMINGTON When Evelyn and Buzz Hudson bought their 24-acre ranch on Agua Mansa Road here 20 years ago the only structure on the place was a small rock house. The couple kept the original structure, now the kitchen area, and built a rambling ranch house around it.

That the Hudsons raise quarter horses to breed, sell and show is evident by looking around their spacious home. The walls are decorated with portraits of their champions and silver trophies and awards fill bookshelves, tables and glass-enclosed curio cabinets. Seated at the kitchen bar and sipping a cup of coffee, Evelyn Hudson talked about their life here and their interest in horses. Presently, she said, they own 60 quarter horses and about 35 head of cattle. "We raise foals, sell them, show them and train them as cutting horses," she said.

"My husband and I have been members of the California Cutting Horse Association in the Southern California area since 1955 and are affiliated with the national association." A cutting horse, she explained, is trained to work and separate cattle. In arena horses are judged on their ability to work one or two head of cattle within a 2Vz-minute time limit, she said. "To show how popular cutting has become with quarter horse people, the National Cutting Horse Association Futurity offers a $300,000 purse," she said. Her husband is an approved judge for the American Quarter Horse Association, the National Cutting Horse Association and the American Paint Horse Association, she said. She has served as secretary for the Valley Quarter Horse Association the past 10 years.

Some of the problems of raising horses? "Primarily, self-inflicted injuries kicking each other or sticking their foot in a fence. Mainly, they need to be wormed and have tetanus shots regularly," she said. The Hudsons both come from farm families, she said. He was raised on a ranch in North Dakota and she grew up on a farm in Wisconsin. The couple has been married 42 years.

They have no children. A nephew, Rom Hertig, lives with them and attends Riverside City College, where he is studying agri-business. Hudson said they worked at several cattle and horse ranches before buying their first ranch in El Monte. "But the town Just built right over us there so we moved out here in 1959," she said. Although raising horses and cattle presents few problems, feeding them can be pretty expensive.

"Alfalfa hay is running about $100 a ton now," she said. From two to four steers are kept on a grain diet, some for their own consumption and the rest for selling, she said. The reason beef prices are skyrocketing, she said, is that there is a shortage of breeding stock. "It'll Staff photo by Coflnlo IvtH Evelyn Hudson and her dog "Dolly" beside painting of Buzzie Bell week and working from time to time on comedian Red Skelton's horses. "There are a number of people in the area training to shoe horses, but few make it because in the working is a lighted 80-by-200-foot arena.

Here the Hudsons' trainer, Rick Mowery, puts the through their paces. To the west, horses and cattle served 22 years, he said. To be a good farrier, he said, one must "be an animal lover first of all, like outdoor work and like people. I think you have to like all three people may be the most difficult," he said grinning. Arther, 56, moves from ranch to ranch in his work, visiting a 175-horse stable in Palm Springs each beginning it's hard work and they graze lazily in the afternoon sun.

Near the house and not far from get discouraged. The love of animals is what brings most farriers into it," Arther said. South of where the farrier is where the farrier is at work, a black afghan hound snoozes, resembling a rumpled rug. In this noisy class students the business skills enabled me to skip a lot of the classes 'at Skadron. It cut three months off my college time," she said.

Renee Sander, a 1978 graduate, works in the Admissions Office at the University of Redlands. "I could type 70 words per minute and took 140 words per minute in shorthand while in high school, so I really wasn't interested in going to college," Sander said. "Yucaipa High was fantastic preparation. Mrs. Marino relates to kids at their level.

She's an excellent teacher and we learned a lot," she said. students in my classes. When I get grandchildren, I'll know it -will be time to quit," she said. Alumni of the high school's business department include two recent graduates who received full scholarships to the Skadron College of Business in San Bernardino. Since the collge gives only one scholarship per county each year, Marino said it's a special honor for Yucaipa to win it two consecutive years.

Recipient Kathy Dodson, a legal secretary in Riverside, said classes at Yucaipa helped a lot. "When I left Yucaipa my shorthand and typing Simon's record isn't expected to fall in the near Marino said. "Almost all national records for typing and shorthand belong to men," Marino said. "They can really excell in this business if they apply themselves," she said. In advanced business courses, students are learning basic bookkeeping procedures and complete units where they "role play" various office jobs.

Class units range from payroll to personnel and is the closest thing to real life employment as they can get, Marino said. 4 "The unit on personnel is especially Important YUCAIPA In Room E-9 at Yucaipa High School, the noisy clackety clack of typewriter keys bounces arouni the walls. The beginning business education class has a tradition of producing good office a school spokesman said. "We try to make our classes as realistic as possible so students can be employed immediately after they graduate," business teacher Gwen Marino said. Courses Include typing, shorthand, office practice, basic business and bookkeeping.

The program has 700 students, most who complete a year of typing and office practice before taking advanced classes, she said. Students begin by building speed and accuracy, competing among themselves and against the clock. Although most Yucaipa High School business classes are predominantly female, school records in the business area are held by males, Marino said. Graduate Rick Simon set the campus shorthand record five years ago at 150 words per minute. Renee Sander came close last year at 140, but because it gives students a clear idea of what em ployers are looking for when hiring new people," she said.

Marino is a charter member of the Yucaipa High School faculty. She, along with teachers Bob Massongill and Bob Wilson, have helped a lot of students become successful over the past several years. "I'm starting now to get the children of former Mortician's son knows how come," he said. His hobbies? "I love construction poor John Twiss (city build ill e) UUuuuls Ww- LjuhLJ ing and safety department director) he constantly out here checking on something I'm constructing and we joke about it a lot." A few of his hobby creations at his Latham Street home are a waterfall, bird aviary and a Tiki hut. "Speaking of being busy," he said, "lots of students In performing arts also have jobs because the econo (Continued from B-2) stage has to offer is the audience they receive and we receive." "Let me tell you something else, too, because it will surprise you," Allen offered.

"I have people in here from Coach Don Markham's football team and they are natural leaders because of the training he and his associate coaches provide. "It's a blessing how Don instills the idea of teamwork I didn't teach them that, they come in here and display it Don taught them. Allen is a busy, very busy man who doesn't have time to join clubs. His only memberships are state and national teachers associations. Part of his "being busy" is his own distributorship for Am-Way, a cleaning products firm.

"It's parttime and increases my communication with people and simultaneously supplements in my is what it is and all have academic obligations. "I tell them to give first consideration to jobs and their studies and we'll fit them into performing arts where it won't interfere." "This has to be the dessert, not the main course although there's plenty of meat in it," he said with a laugh. "And don't forget, there's a sweetness about Colton nobody knows until they ve been in it. community sports JUUU JU Leopards Royals 4, Golden Nuggets Broncs 2, Sharks Swarm 2, Rockets Cosmos 3, Shoguns Skyhawks 3, Blockers Stingers 3, The OMNITRANS DISCOUNT BUS PASS for Senior Citizens and the Handicapped will be available at the following times and locations: Raiders and Pythons 3, Titans Spartans 3, Cobras Blazers 2, Sidekicks Lancers 4, Americans 3 (two overtimes). Divison 5 Scrapers 2, Moving Force Green Machine 6, Hornets Stompers 6, Colts Vikings 2, Hawks Tigers 4, Pogits Sunrisers 4, Quicksilvers Wildcats 5, Darts Pirates 2, Falcons Jets 2, Hustlers Rargsrs 2, Starlifters 1.

Divison 6 Stars 2, Roadrunners 1 (three ov unbeaten Cask and Cleaver Broilers. The second annual region 130 post season tournament began Saturday with games in four divisions: Divison 3 Panthers 4, Factory K-Digs 5, Kickers 0. Division 4 Sounders 2, Gladiators Diggers 4, Diplomats Bandits 1, Eagles Warriors 7, Spirits Earthquakes 2, RIALTO ertimes). Pre-registration for the 1979-80 season will be conducted from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Jan. 13 at Serrano Junior High School. SAN BERNARDINO Senior Citizens Center 600 W. 5th St. Each Monday 9-12 and 1-3 p.m.

City Hall 300 N. St. ft SAN BERNARDINO Duane Jackson scored his second goal of the game in the second fcalf Saturday to enable the Coca-Cola Zephyrs to win the San Bernardino-Highland Division 3 soccer championship, 2-1 over the Schultz Trojans. Jackson scored both goals for the Zephyrs ho ended the season with a 9-1-1 record. Brian Elliot played well in the goal for the winners.

David Hanson scored the Trojans goal. The Trojans ended their season 7-1-3. Two other divison title games are scheduled today, weather permitting. The Montecito Diggers, 9-0-1, will meet the Beemans Spartans, 9-0-1, for the Division 4 title at 2:30 p.m. At 1 p.m.

the Kasler Computer Scrapers, 9-0-2. meet the Perkins Rangers, 9-1, for the Division 5 title. Both games ar at Arrowview Junior High School. The Scrapers reached the finals with a 1-0 victory over the previously if- City Hall 150 S. Palm 10 a.m.

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