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Newspaper
Stamford American
Location
Stamford, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 27, 1957
Page
14
Stamford hosts the Texas Cowboy Reunion with two organizations guiding the event. Pioneers and rodeo planners rely on volunteers, dues, and gate fees, while the town gains publicity and economic benefits. Names include Hardin-Simmons band, Leon Hallman, Mrs Ellen Thompson, Rotan and Rotan’s 4-H Rodeo notes.
On eve of the 13th Texas Cowboy Reunion in Stamford crowds are expected to swell for three days. The rodeo features new calf flanking contests, reinstated old ropers, and afternoon and night shows with trick riding. Judges include lumphreys, Proctor, Hutson, Chick, Willingham, and Rhoades, who died in 1941 after serving as a rodeo judge.
Thirteen entries have been received for the grand opening parade in Stamford on July 4, Texas Cowboy Reunion day. Committee members include Mrs. Mar eely Bailey, Mrs. J. P. Bunkley, Mrs. Mayme Yates Orr, and Mrs. G. H. Zachary. Sponsors from twenty cities will ride in the grand parade and appear in the rodeo arena after. A ball and other entertainment follow the parade. Lois Perking is Stamford sponsor.
The Texas Cowboy Reunion program includes a new best cutting horse event with a $100 purse. Horses and riders are scored on combined skill and speed as cattle are sorted from a herd labeled by ribbons. A chuck wagon dinner will host visiting newspaper men with pioneer cowboys. Ranger Captain Tom Hickman plans to attend with troops and wives.
Texas news notes a likely heated special session focus on water policy with Gov. Price Daniel backing a statewide water agency to negotiate with federal authorities on reservoir financing. The report also covers Board of Water Engineers tensions, insurance regulation changes, and other statehouse developments.
A letter writer on his farm notes crops grow while you sleep and prices may rise or fall. He recalls a U S Chamber of Commerce forecast of rising wages and prices and jokes he is an economist too. He argues farmers already live on hope, with prices uncertain and only hope increasing.
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