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Bloodlines ran everywhere in the race. Owner Dorothy Scharbauer and her husband Clarence have for the most part been cattle ranchers in Midland, Texas. But her father Fred Turner Jr. was a devout horse lover who had Derby Winner Tomy Lee (Bill Shoemaker's old friend) in 1959. Another return to glory amounted to an end to laughter: the breeder of Alysheba is Preston Madden of Lexington's Hamburg Place, the hors d'oeuvres center of the bluegrass. During the first 25 years of this century, John E. Madden was known as the "wizard of the turf." He bred five...
About a year ago, Keith Glasscock, a pipeline welder and amateur archaeologist, spent a Sunday afternoon poking around the Scharbauer Ranch near Midland, Texas. In a "blowout" (a hollow scooped by wind), he found some Folsom points. When he returned a few days later, the wind had dug the hollow deeper. On the surface of the blowing sand were fragments that looked like broken human bones. Glasscock picked them up, but was wise enough not to dig without expert advice...
...with the money. One of the salesmen of this first company was a Kentuckian named Lawrence W. Leeper whose wife had an independent fortune. In 1927 Lawrence Leeper bought the rights to the chopper, patented it in 1932. Engineer Dent Parrett improved the machine and wealthy oldtime Rancher John Scharbauer and friends put up $200.000 to establish Dixie Cultivator Corp. in 1936. Lawrence Leeper retained a controlling interest and has given new stock to as many of the original company's stockholders as he could find. This week he and his wife were the guests of Manhattan...
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