KEEP TALKING '
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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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