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They crossed Aberdeen Angus, Shorthorn and Hereford stock with buffalo. The offspring were called cattalo. First generation cattalos looked like king-sized cattle with a marked shoulder hump. By the third generation the hump had been bred out, reproduction bred in. So crossbreeding was dropped for straight cattalo-raising...
...started wildcatting for themselves. In partnership with Stepbrother Charles Urschel Jr., they operated Slick Oil Co., struck it lucky in south Texas and in Mississippi. Tom Slick Jr. branched out. He got dozens of patents on gadgets he invented, everything from fishhooks to oilfield equipment; he ran an experimental Hereford breeding farm, launched a frozen-food locker. When war came, he went to work for the Federal Government on oil jobs, went into the Navy and is now on his way home from Japan to aid the latest family venture...
...most important figure of the day looked out of place in a cap and a "bulky, sheepskin-lined winter coat. He was chubby George Rodanz, 37, a Toronto, Ont. trucklines operator and cattle breeder. He had come to Oklahoma's annual three-day auction, in the heart of "Hereford heaven," to buy a prize bull...
...tireless competition between Hereford and Aberdeen Angus men, the new $51,000 record may not last long. But many a cattleman thinks that such fantastic prices, even in boom times, are dangerous risks. A good bull can pay for himself in breeding fees in a few months, but a bad one cannot. Two years ago a bull named T. Royal Rupert 99th sold for a world record $38,000. Cattlemen soon dubbed him "Reluctant Rupert." He has shown absolutely no interest in cows...
Last week's atomic conversation: ¶ Alamogordo, N. Mex. was abuzz with the news that red Hereford cows had turned white following the first atomic explosion nearby. At Carrizozo, a black cat had turned half white. At Bingham. a rancher blamed the atom for grey streaks in his beard...