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Show Page 16 The Ogden Valley News Volume I, Issue X July 1999 RED ROCK RANCH & LIBERTY IN THE YESTERYEARS PLANNING cont. from page 12 • Credit shelter wills: Married couples with net worth exceeding $1.25 million can use this type of will to fully utilize the unified credit. • Irrevocable trusts: Married couple with net worth exceeding $1.25 million or unmarried individuals with net worth exceeding $625,000 can use this type of trust to help pay estate taxes on the excess. Life insurance is an attractive asset to place in these trusts because the death benefit is available when estate taxes are due. Remember, property owned in joint tenancy or with a beneficiary designation avoids probate and there is no need for a revocable trust! If you’re married, have a large estate and wish to avoid probate, you should also consider setting up a credit shelter will through a revocable trust to help you avoid probate and reduce your estate taxes. Although more sophisticated estate planning techniques are available for much larger estates, these basic techniques should get you started. *The $625,000 unified credit exclusion amount applies if death occurs n 1998. It is scheduled to increase as follows for death in the following years: $650,000 in 1999 $675,000 in 2000 and 2001 $700,000 in 2002 and 2003 $850,000 in 2004 $950,000 in 2005 $1,000,000 in 2006 By Desiree’ (Hunsaker) Stokes Back in the 50’s it was not uncommon to go to Red Rock Ranch on weekends which, at that time, was owned by Frank Muir. Here you could see a bunch of cowboys doing what Rodeo Cowboys do, Jackpot Rodeoing. There was Bull Riding, Saddle Bronc Riding, Bareback Riding, Calf Roping and Bulldogging which is now known as Steer Wrestling. Frank Muir and Parley Willard supplied the stock. There was a time when Bud and Verena Willard single handedly drove the bucking stock from Hyrum, over Avon through Three Mile Canyon to Liberty, over to their place and up South Fork to Red Rock Ranch. That’s quite a lot of work to go through in order to have stock for a rodeo! Bud Willard and Rowdy Muir were the pick up men more than most of the time. Ray Moser and Roy Bailey were the rodeo clowns. Tee Marrow was the announcer, Dot Sanders and June Willard were the secretaries and timers. When you jackpot a rodeo, you pay an entry fee and a percentage of the money goes to the stock producer and a percentage goes to the cowboys for their winnings. They usually pay 1st, 2nd, 3rd & 4th places, depending on FARMERS INSURANCE GROUP OF COMPANIES CLAIR C. BEASLEY Agent 5402 E 2200 N, EDEN UT 84310 745-3021 LONG-TERM CARE INSURANCE Farmers Life Insurance Company now offers Long-Term Care Insurance. 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Subscriptions available for out of area residents at $15.00 annually. Send payment with mailing address to: The Ogden Valley News P O BOX 130 EDEN UT 84310 how many cowboys entered in each event. If you had more men enter the bull riding than the bareback riding, then the bull riding would pay more money to more places. There wasn’t a lot of money back in those days and so a lot of the participants joined in to help do what was needed to have these weekend rodeos at Frank Muir’s Red Rock Ranch Arena. Everyone helped with the construction of the arena. The wives helped out too. With these being weekend Dale Southwick / Red Rock Arena events, all the kids were there also. It was a family event. I don’t Red (Bill) Hunsaker - Bull Rider remember this, but some of the stories Bud Willard - Pickup Man told to me by my father Red (Bill) Dale Southwick - Bulldogger & Hunsaker and my mother Janetta Bareback Rider (Hunsaker) Gardiner, my uncle Dale Malon Hebdon Bareback Rider & Southwick and my Aunt Johnnie Calf Roper Southwick, Bud and Verena Willard were more interesting and enjoyable Rusty Muir - Bareback & Bull Rider than you can realize, hilarious too. Clifford Holmes - Bareback Rider That’s why I wanted to share this with Carl Holmes - Bull Rider you. Darrell Storey - Bulldogger Some of the participants that were Jean Sanders - Bulldogger in these events I have listed below, so if you know them you should ask to Jay Hadley - Bulldogger & Calf Roper hear some of the stories for yourself. Blaine Hadley - Bulldogger & It’s things like this that you will keep Calf Roper with you forever, and smile when you Gary Cooper - Bulldogger &, Bareback think about them. Some of these & Bull Rider people are still around and, unfortunately, some have passed on. Bill Hadlock Sr. - Bareback Rider Jack Hadlock - Bareback Rider Max Checkman - Saddle Bronc & Bareback Rider Bud Jensen - Bull Rider, Bulldogger & Calf Roper Ray Smith - Saddle Bronc Rider Richard Smith-Saddle Bronc Rider Bill Lewis-Saddle Bronc Rider Lucky Madson-Saddle Bronc Rider Queen for a Holiday (1953) Janetta Hunsaker (front right) has been chosen queen of the Labor Day celebration at Red Rock Ranch, 10 miles above Hunstville. Her attendants are Janet Moser (front left), Dorothy Bailey, Joan Thompson and Donna Talbot (back row, left-right). Miss Thompson and Miss Bailey are from Huntsville, the other three from Ogden. They will rule a rodeo at the ranch Monday afternoon. An admission charge will be made. (Picture courtesy of The Standard Examiner) The Eden Park Committee is looking for an old or used harrow to regularly groom the surface in the riding arena. If anyone has one that they would like to donate. Please call Shelley Sontag at 745-2333. I’m sure I have missed some of the participants because this was such a big event on weekends for these people. I have included a picture of the rodeo Queens for the big Memorial Day event that was held every year which the article tells about, this one is from 1953. At that time Liberty also had an annual 4th of July rodeo to go along with the 4th of July celebration. That was before the arena was rebuilt. Due to the cost of liability insurance, the bucking and roping chutes were not put back in. There are a lot of the children from these participants who rodeo today, and their grand kids too. There may even be someone in these pictures that you know. It’s stories and memories like this we don’t want to lose. Note: Pictures donated by Janetta (Hunsaker) Gardiner. Stories by Red (Bill) Hunsaker, Janetta Gardiner, and Bud & Verena Willard. |