STOCKSHOW & FREEING OF IRANIAN HOSTAGES

                    
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STOCKSHOW & 
FREEING OF IRANIAN HOSTAGES

ACROSS THE FENCE

--Arvord M. Abernethy--

From: The Hamilton Herald-News

January, 1981

 

When I came by to see last week, I didn’t have time to tell you of my impression of the Youth Stock Show as I had too much to tell about Paul Gilliam.

 

I didn’t get to spend a lot of time at the show, but what I saw was very encouraging. I was there for the hog judging and then for the judging of showmanship in hog displaying. That showmanship contest was real interesting to me.

 

Usually the first thing a big hog wants to do when placed with a strange one is to fight. About a dozen hogs along with their exhibitors were brought into the ring at the same time. The purpose was to see which one could control and display his hog to the best advantage. Those boys and girls with their little switches, hovered over their hogs like a mother hen over her chicks, and they had full control without any hog fights. Then they were asked to switch hogs and take control of a hog that was strange to them. You could tell that a lot of time had been spent getting ready for that event.

 

There were great exhibits in every department. The hand work in the Home Economics Department was beautiful and I would like to have been the one who judged those cakes and goodies.

 

The thing that impressed me was the large group of boys and girls from over the county who are involved in such a worthy work. It may not always be a money making project or a grand prize ribbon winner, but everyone who displayed anything was a winner.

 

They are winners because they have learned what responsibility means. They had projects that must be given some time and labor, often when they would like to be doing something else. Projects that they want to make the very best possible; a reaching for perfection.

 

There are a lot of people to whom we owe our thanks far seeing that such a wholesome activity goes on. There are the parents who must encourage it in many ways. Then the 4-H, FFA and FHA sponsors who work closely with them. Then the people who get the show together along with the ones who contribute to the fund drive for the prizes. The frosting is put on the cake by the buyers of the exhibits at good prices. May they realize that they are not just buying calves, hogs, poultry, handwork, etc, but are buying stock in future American Citizens.

 

 

Tuesday was a TV viewing day around our house. When we went to bed Monday night, the news indicated that there might soon be some news concerning the release of the hostages. I got up at 4 that morning and turned on the TV. The news was that all differences had been settled and that as soon as the transfer of money was made, the hostages would be released. They added that since the transfer of money could be done electronically, the release could be at any moment.

 

Since there had been so many false hopes raised in the past, we wanted to hear it for sure, so we waited and waited. The inauguration came along with interspersed announcements that unconfirmed reports were that the hostages were on the plane ready to leave Iran . Then, came the report that they had cleared Iranian air space, and what a site it was to see them come off the plane in Algiers! We are thankful for their release, and may none of their lives be affected by the bondage. I’d bet that none of those radical Iranian captors was involved in a stock show.

 

 

 

 

Shared by Roy Ables

ACROSS THE FENCE 

 
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