1963-Voice Of The Tennessee Walking Horse 1963 February Voice | Page 3

Voice of the Tennessee Walking Horse
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of the Tennessee Walking Horse
B en A. G reen .................................................................................... Publisher-Editor
M rs . B en A. G reen .......................................................................................... Secretary
OFFICE—SHELBYVILLE, TENN.
(This monthly magazine is dedicated to the welfare of the Tennessee Walking Horse breed
for show and pleasure.)
OUR AIM—To maintain a permanent publication that will merit the full support of all
who love the Tennessee Walking Horse.
Voice of the Tennessee Walking Horse is owned by Ben A. Green and Mrs. Ben A. Green,
Shelbyville, Tcnn., and its editorial contents can be used for re-publication by any person
or firm provided proper credit is given and the magazine is correctly quoted.
Voice of the Tennessee Walking Horse is published monthly at 1110 South Brittain St.,
Shelbyville, Tenn.
Send all subscription payments and advertising payments to Ben A. Green, Shelbyville,
Tenn.
Subscription price: §4 per year; Single copy 50 cents
A Personal Letter To You
Dear Friend:
Four and one-half moiuhs ago I
entered a severe mental depression-
one in which you wish you were dead
and had never lived. (It must be
experienced to be understood.) I
emerged from that depression like a
chick breaking out of its shell at 8
p.m. on Friday, Feb. 8.
During my illness the life of this
magazine was maintained by others
to whom I am inexpressively grate­
ful—especially to:
My wife, Mary Frances, who carried
on like the Joan of Arc she is;
My sons, the Rev. Duff Green and
the Rev. Bruce Green, who wrote
special messages for our Christmas
issue; and Dr. Ben A. Green, Jr. of
Western Reserve University who has
been a special inspiration to me since
he was born;
My daughters-in-law and my six
grandchildren (the sixth is Katherine
Elaine Green born Feb. 10, 1963 at
Memphis, Tenn., to Duff and Alice
Sawyer Green) ;
John B. Curley and his folks at the
Curley Printing Co., including Fore­
man Ed. T. Sparks of the composing
room and Miss Betty Elliott—who did
much thinking and working for me
to carry on;
Charles R. Goldswig of Dayton, O.
and St. Petersburg, Fla., and to
Virginia Lamb of Sacramento, Calif.,
who write our regular columns and
inspire in many ways.
And to you—Dear Subscriber. Dur­
ing my sickness—when we published
one 20-page magazine and two 24-
page magazines—we received ONLY
ONE complaint or criticism. We have
received hundreds of additional sub­
scribers. At this moment our mailing
list numbers more than 3,700. And we
are reaching the interested people.
Some weeks ago Virginia Lamb
wrote Mary Frances that "I would
hate to see the finest horse magazine
ever published go down the drain.”
'Dear Virginia—here’s a promise.
The Voice will not go down the
drain. This morning I drove to the
Notices To All
Voice Subscribers
Dear Friends:—With this issue the
Voice completes one year of publica­
tion. A large number of subscribers
will have received their full year of
issues with the February issue—and
subscriptions are due for renewal. Ad­
dresses marked with 2-63 WH show
that the subscription has expired. We
urge all subscribers due for renewal
to send their checks (§4) as promptly
as possible to The Editor at Shelby­
ville, Tenn. If the subscription was
originally sent to some other indi­
vidual or agency, the renewal should
be sent to the same person or place.
Thank you—Ben A. Green, Shelby­
ville, Tenn.
Please do not send unsolicited pic­
tures of horses to the Editor unless
you want the Editor to keep them.
Naturally, this does not apply to pic­
tures to be used in advertising.
print shop in a snowstorm before 7
a.m. But it looked like the sun was
shining to me. Gratefully, BEN A.
GREEN.
Midnight Mack K, Sun Dust Reach
New Home At Vic Thompson Stables;
Go Boy's Shadow Not In Syndicates
Midnight Mack K and Sun Dust,
two stallions in the program an­
nounced recently for breeding opera­
tions through syndicates, have arrived
at the Vic Thompson Stables near
Shelbyville, Tenn. where they will be
in service.
Merry Go Boy, a third stallion in
the syndicate arrangement, is at the
S. W. Beech, Jr. Farm at Belfast (Rt.
5, Lewisburg, Tenn. He has been
standing there for several years under
previous ownership.
It was learned on Feb. 8 that Go
Boy's Shadow—previously announced
to be in the syndicate operation—will
not be a part of it—but will remain at
the FI. C. Bailey Stables, Jackson,
Miss., under his present ownership.
Earlier announcements had indicated
the purchase of Shadow by syndicate
sponsors would be consummated on
Feb. 15.
Midnight Mack K arrived at the
Thompson Stables on Feb. 4—being
brought by Joe Urquhart from his
stables near Columbia, Tenn.
Sun Dust reached his new home at
Thompson's several days later, being
bought from Pat Kimbro of Atlanta,
Ga.
Originators of the Midnight Mack
K Syndicate and the Sun Dust Syn­
dicate are Don Decker of Omaha,
Neb., Jack Corn of Brentwood,
Tenn., near Nashville, and Vic
Thompson of Shelbyville.
Shares are being offered to the in­
terested public and details can be
secured from the originators named.
The plan is to sell approximately 100
shares in each syndicate with share­
holders receiving one service per share
during a season. Shareholders also
agree to pay their pro rata cost of the
syndicate’s operation—not to exceed
$60 per year a share, the sponsors said.