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KEEP TALKING '
By Voice Secretary
Mary Frances Explains Dear Friends:—
1 have written this column " Keep Talking” for three reasons: 1st, because your Editor and I sincerely appreciate all the wonderful things you have said about the Voice; 2nd, because Ben is so snowed under with Walking Horse news of all kinds for the magazine that he hasn’ t had time to do justice to the Party Line and 1 want you to keep finding friends throught the Voice; and 3rd, because I ' m tired of contacting you through remote control!
We women must keep our men in their place and I intend to pul in my two cent ' s worth! I ' m afraid Ben ' s new hat is going to get too small for him, if you keep praising the Voice, but honestly, he laps it up like a kitten drinking milk and to use an old Alabama saying:‘ He ' s as happy as a dead
pig in the sunshine.” As for your renewals, please keep them coming, so we can get the records straight for our second year. This is especially important since we are changing printers and all name plates are having to be re-cut. Notices of expiration dates were not sent out with March issue, so please check your expiration date and let us hear from you.
Down home in Alabama, we register for Cash Jack Pot weekly drawings at the picture show and a person’ s name is never taken out until he dies. We feel that way about your renewals. We want them all and if you don’ t want the Voice, you ' ll just have to die or yell " Slop It."
However, we do need the nice kopecks( Russian money) that your renewals bring in.
Remember, that I still love you people more that the horses!
Many thanks to all of you wonderful Subscribers who make the Voice possible. Sincerely, MARY FRANCES
Talbert B. Hughes, P. O. Box 1093, Johnson City, Tenn., sends in his renewal with this note:“ Dear Ben:— As a lover of Tenn. Walkers, a breeder and owner of a Coming 3 yr.-Old Stallion, ' Go Boy’ s Easter Son,’ shown this year in the‘ Big Class’— I’ ve gotten much more from your fine efforts. Use this money for postage, extension of my subscription to Voice or anything you see fit and for Gosh Sakes get to feeling good again— like a Two-Year- Old."
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This comment from C. S. Carr, Jr. Rt. 2, Greenbrier, Tenn., with check for renewal: " I have enjoyed every issue and anxiously await each new one. You are to be commended for the great boost this magazine is giving to the industry. You are obviously a person who has deep respect and admiration for the finest breed of horses this world has ever known.”
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Leonard Johnson, Rt. 1, Box 141, Oklahoma City 11, Okla., writes:“ The first year’ s issues have been great! I look forward to the coming year with pleasure. I am an ole Tennessean from Fayetteville who has come to Oklahoma to l e a c h. Though I thoroughly enjoy living here, there is still no place like the hills of Tennessee, and another thing, it is difficult to get back to the Celebration."
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" Please continue to send my magazine to the same address. Congratulations on your magazine. You are doing a wonderful job. It certainly is a help for people with pleasure horses to have contact with what is going on in the Walking Horse World. I have learned a great deal about my horse and enjoy her more as a result. Thank you for a great magazine.” Susie Baker, 251 Hathaway Rd. Dayton 19, Ohio.
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" Attached is my check for renewal to the Voice of the Tennessee Walking Horse. 1 almost overlooked the notice you had in the February issue. I am very happy you are well again. You are doing a grand job with the magazine.”— G. H. Achenbach, Rocky Creek Farm-Vidalia, Georgia.
An " out of this world” wish comes from Mrs. A. D. Cluiss, Rt. 2, Box 24GE, Corpus Chrisli, Texas:“ I am enclosing my check for renewal to the ' Voice.' Thanks for each continuing, interesting issue and we hope you can carry it on for the next hundred years, at least!”
Mrs. W. O. Motley, Rt. 1, Hollis, Okla., says, " Please renew my subscription. We love every minute of this magazine.” * # #
Joe Cashion, East Tennessee Baptist Hospital, Knoxville, Tenn., writes,“ Please extend my subscription to your fine magazine for another year. Thanks!”
April, 1963
" Dear Ben & Wife:— Please send me another year of your wonderful magazine,” A. D. Brown, Foster, Kentucky.
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“ Good Luck and God ' s Blessings in your great enterprise. Check enclosed.” Paul J. Brienza, Picatinny Road, Morristown, N. J.
C. E. Bourne, P. O. Box 641, from Greenwood, South Carolina, says, " Am owner of 3 Registered Walkers and wouldn’ t own anything else. Please send me another year subscription to your magazine— Voice.”
Clayton St. Germain, 125 Berard, Breaux Bridge, La., swelled the Editor’ s head a little more with this comment:“ Please keep the Voice of Tenn. Walking Horse Coming. I’ ve had more information about horses in one issue of this magazine than all other magazines combined.”
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“ Ben, my family and I have enjoyed your magazine the entire year. Everyone in Southern California who has Walkers is reading the magazine from cover to cover. I pass my copies along to friends, hoping to get them started in Walking Horses. Since I last wrote you a few things have happened to me. First, my filly— Joy Boots— got a third at the California Futurity. Next I got married and with the union 1 acquired a Merry Go Boy Mare, named Go Boy’ s Imp. Then next we packed up and moved to Oregon with the hopes of raising Walking Horses, so keep the Voice coming.” A. Johnson, 575 S. W. Spring Lane, Portland 25, Oregon.
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From Doris L. Sutton, Rt. I, Box 277, Pedricktown, New Jersey, comes this terse but meaningful note,“ Kindly renew our subscription to your terrific magazine— Voice!”
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Another voice from Oregon speaks: Mrs. L. G. Zumwalt, Rt. 4, Box 385-Z, Albany, Oregon, says:“ Please renew ' my subscription immediately, as we don t want to miss a single issue of your fine magazine. We especially like the articles by Dr. Ensminger and the articles about how to train colts and young horses. Like many of your readers, we tire learners, not experts.”
M. B. Rhodes, Milan, Mo., Rt. 5, writes:“ Our subscription expired with the February issue and I hope you will receive this check in time to send us the March issue. We don’ t want to miss any of them.”
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