Word: rodeoing
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...through. Last week it was opened. Typically Texan was the celebration. Caravans arrived from San Antonio. Houston, Orange, Corpus Christi. Louisiana, Mexico and the Valley. There were 1,500 Boy Scouts on hand. In most of the Valley towns there were free lunches. Army bands. Variously they had a rodeo, a wild-animal act, performing elephants, sound trucks. A song. Along the Bay, was written for the occasion. There was a special Christmas vespers service...
Last week, as it pushed into the central cow country, the Live Stock Special had drawn 19,000 sightseers in 15 towns. This week the inmates, men and beasts, stretched their legs at Arcadia, held a small rodeo. Ahead lay 20 more stops, perhaps another 30,000 visitors. Ahead also, for Florida, lay potential new wealth. Boss of the trip, A. C. L.'s Victor Wallace Lewis, has run such trains thrice before. He ran one through North Carolina in 1930; in the next ten years North Caro lina's livestock traffic increased 400%. Polite, twinkling-eyed...
...outsiders too, Huntsville's Prison roundup is worth riding miles to see. Rodeo fans cram into the Prison Stadium, not because their 50? admission fees go to the Prison System's education fund, but because the convicts put on a rip-roaring show. Besides routine rodeo events-bronc riding, calf roping, bull riding and wild-cow milking-there are entr'actes such as a 50-piece Prison Band, the Cotton Pickers' Glee Club and Bill ("Snuffy") Garrett, a "knobknocker" (safecracker) with 263 years to serve, whose clown act, in top hat and stripes, makes even...
...contestants last week was 25-year-old Frank Ellis, serving three years for a little shooting scrape. He had ridden broncs at Cheyenne, Pendleton and the great Broadway roundup in Manhattan's Madison Square Garden, had entered the Walls fortnight ago, just four days before the Rodeo opener. The con section cheered Newcomer Ellis wildly, but he was a mortified spectacle. The horse he drew calmly sidled over to a corner of the arena, refused to budge despite frantic gigging and ear cuffing...
...favorites did not disappoint the fans. The big, coal-black Hodge Brothers, Will & Sim, who operated a juke joint until one night they murdered a bothersome customer, ran away-as usual-with the calf-roping event. In the four years they have competed in the Prison Rodeo, the Hodges have set several unofficial world's records at calf roping, have won some $400 in prizes. Last October, Will was top money winner with $76, Sim runner-up with...