Incentive for Sheep and Swine Building
Denver Loupe
Wyatt Winnie: Who was the director?
Denver Loupe: John A. Cox. I replaced John A. Cox. I didn't
replace him, I became director after he retired. And I remember
telling him, I said, "Johnny, do you see all these people here?" I
said, "Every little kid in there has two parents with him. And
probably a grandmother and a granddad with them. And we don't have
any place for them." And I said the people then in the coliseum, in
the livestock show, you had just one kid, an animal, an agent, and
the specialist . . . we showed more attention to that aspect of the
show because it was glamorous. And these kids back there, they were
just as worthy of our attention as the one who was going to show the
grand champion steer. He could show that little lamb over there
which was, you know, very inexpensive, but it got the kid involved
just as much or better than the other. And I made that note to him,
and he says, "You know, you're right." And he went to work through
the legislature and other things and within a few years we had the
Sheep and Swine building built. I don't want to take credit for it,
that's not my point. But it's a point we need to make. We had to
acknowledge the fact that these young kids with the very inexpensive
project were just as important as the kid who was going to show the
grand champion animal.