1965-Voice Of The Tennessee Walking Horse 1965 September Voice

v ® ice EDITOR’S COLUMN CELEBRATION ACCLAIMED BY REPRESENTATIVES OF NATIONAL HUMANE SOCIETY OF THE TENNESSEE WALKING HORSE A NATIONAL PUBLICATION DEVOTED EXCLUSIVELY TO THE BREED VOL 4 September, 1965 NO. 7 ---------------------------------------------------------------- PUBLISHED BY ----------------------------------------------------------------- VOICE Publishing Company FOUNDED 1960 BY BEN A. GREEN GENERAL OFFICES SHELBYVILLE. TENNESSEE For Information Contact: C. Bruce Spencer C/o VOICE PUBLISHING COMPANY Phone 267-1726 (Area Code 615) Chattanooga, Tennessee P. 0. Box 6052 124 E. 10th Street Chattanooga. Tennessee 37401 ARLENE EKLUND.........................Contributing Editor C. BRUCE SPENCER..........................Managing Editor DR. M. E. ENSMINGER................. Contributing Editor FRED E. FRIEND................................. Associate Editor BILLY JOE ANN ESTESS............ Contributing Editor GLORIA L. SPENCER........................ 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IN THIS ISSUE EDITOR’S COLUMN.............................................................................................. 5 CELEBRATION '65................................................................................................. 6 COVER STORY.............................................................................................. -........14 PARADE OF CHAMPIONS..................................................................................... 24 '65 FUTURITY STORY.......................................................................................... 32 FUTURITY CHAMPIONS........................................................................................33 DEEP SOUTH HORSE SHOW CIRCUIT............................................................ 51 STALLION DIRECTORY.......................................................................................... 56 VOICE TRADE MARKET........................................................................................ 58 In what is perhaps the first "breath of fresh air” we have received in several years, the 1965 Tennessee Walking Horse National Celebration received "good notices” from official representatives of the National Hu mane Society. This, in our opinion, is a step in the right direction for the continued advancement of the breed in general. The VOICE office had been in formed prior to the Celebration that well-regarded representatives of the various branches of this national organization would attend the show and that their intentions were only to observe. Mr. RALPH EIDSON, Superinten dent of the Humane Education Soci ety, Inc., and Officer H. M. OLER, both of Chattanooga, acted on the recommendation of the National Of fice in Denver and made arrange ments to cover the Celebration. Mr. Oler spent eight days on the show grounds and Mr. Eison was there several days. Also in attendance was Mr. RON ALD LAMBERT, a director of the American Humane Association, lo cated in Denver, Colo. He attended the show and spent one whole day on the show grounds observing. In a recent discussion with both Mr. Eidson and Mr. Oler, we learned that they were well pleased with the overall situation as they found it. Mr. Eidson stated, "I feel at this point that things are in good shape. Out of thirteen hundred horses we found only one or two isolated cases of obvious mistreatment of Tennes see Walking Horses here.” He fur ther pointed out that "We do not aim at any particular breed and want the Walking Horse people to know that in an official capacity we regard this breed with the same respect accorded to all others. Our only goal is to prevent the mistreat ment and extreme abuse of all show horses.” Mr. .Oler, who has an excellent background in the horse business and is an experienced ex-Cavalry man and Rodeo participant, stated that, in his opinion, "A large part of the trouble seems to be that the (Continued on page 57) September, 1965 5

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