1967-Voice Of The Tennessee Walking Horse 1967 April Voice RS | Page 20

Celebration
Starts Construction
Of 3500 New Box Seats
JUST PUSH THE BUTTON—Mrs. Sharon Brandon, Secre­
tary-Treasurer of the Breeders Association is pictured showing
Mrs. Tommy Haislip the fine points of operating the new
Lektriever II automatic filing machine recently installed at
the office in Lewisburg,
In a recent news release to the VOICE, Mr. Bob
Thomas, Public Relations Director of the Celebration, In­
corporated in Shclbyville, Tennessee, announced that con­
struction will begin immediately on 3,500 new box seats
for the “worlds largest horse show.” The new seats will
add a stadium flair to the facility as they will be installed
as a second level on the south end of the arena. It was
decided to build a second level as opposed to extending
the stands they had, in an effort to provide the best pos­
sible view for the spectators.
Mr. Thomas pointed out that the old East stands will
now become reserved seats with the first ten rows being
on a “week-long” basis only. The remaining twenty two
rows will be reserved for the last three nights of the show
this year. Since the Celebration has a standing list of res­
ervation orders it is probable that all the new seats will be
sold immediately with orders that have already been re­
ceived. For information regarding seats contact: Celebra:
tion, Incorporated ( P. O. Box 192, Shelbyville, Tennessee.
The show will start August 25 and will end Septem­
ber 2, 1967.
Breeders Association installs
Automatic Filing System
For Registrations
Mr. Jerome Ryan, President of the Tennessee Walk­
ing Horse Breeders Association, Lewisburg, Tennessee, re­
cently announced the installation of a new automatic filing
machine that has been program to handle transfer and
owner cards and mare production cards for the association.
In announcing the installation of the new machine, Mr.
Ryan stated, “this new equipment has been purchased at
considerable expense to modernize the method of process­
ing the multitude of paper work that is involved in regis­
tering and transferring horses. After only two weeks of
operation it has become obvious that it will be a definite
asset to the office staff and with this machine in operation
we can process twenty five more sets of paper per day.”
The new machine, called the Lektriever II, is manu­
factured by the Remington Records Retriever Division of
Sperry Rand Corporation and is considered the latest thing
in automatic filing. The vast store of owner cards, mare
cards and transfer slips are catagorized in alphabetical
order and are coded for this machine. One operator can
handle the machine without getting out of her chair and
can do all the filing for the entire office staff. It now takes
only seconds to locate and process material that originally
took several minutes. Considering that it took a staff of
nine employees over eight month to catch up on the back­
log of registrations in the office a ye