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Show Pioneer Utah Cattleman Named To U.S. Cowboy Hall of Fame honoree this year, Mr. Mitchell said. Colorado, because it had not previously made nominations, had four chosen. Included were John W. Iliff, Charles Collins, William Bent and Martin Sow-der. Sow-der. John Albert Scorup, 1872-1959 was a pioneer Utah cattleman, one of the builders of empire that became modern Utah; public pub-lic official; high authority in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and was prominent promi-nent in livestock organizations. Scorup's parents came from Denmark directly to Utah. They had eight children, four boys and four girls. John Albert, or "Al" started herding sheep when quite young since his father was responsible re-sponsible for the village flock. At 16 Al was working with cattle, cat-tle, which he preferred, riding for W. R. Rex and others. He saved $125 after five months work at $25 a month and bought his first 20 calves at $4 each and the first suit of clothes he had that were not homespun. At 19 JOHN ALBERT SCORUP Trustees of the National Cowboy Cow-boy Hall of Fame in annual meeting, meet-ing, held recently at Ft. Worth, viewed photographs of construction construc-tion progress of the shrine shared bv thf 17 WPst.Prn stntpc mnrlo he went into the rough White canyon country with his mount and a pack horse and rounded up cows and calves owned by Claud Sanford for a third of the calf crop. In those times and in that country this was quite a feat. Scorup lost grazing land he was using to armed Texans and had many other adventures typical typi-cal of the times and country. He was outstanding in making and keeping friends among the Indians, In-dians, gradually built up livestock live-stock culminating in the S & S Cattle Co., one of the earliest and best outfits in the country, had one of th longest careers as a cattleman, 68 years. He was progressive, always: willing to help others, built up stock quality; helped organize stockmen's associations; served as a county commissioner; was recognized by Master Stockman awards and the designation of "Stockman of the Year" in later times. He was an official in many conservation agencies, a member mem-ber of the Taylor grazing advisory advis-ory board; was a bank official and tireless worker for betterment. f " www---. WVMVWy AAAMVAV plans for additional fund raising through memberships and elected elect-ed 21 more persons for permanent perma-nent honor in the memorial to developers of the American west. Nearly $300,000 has been paid on the construction contract, trustee chairman Albert Mitchell of New Mexico told board members mem-bers gathered from all participating partici-pating states except Oregon and with underground work mostly done the first $12 million first union is appearing on its hilltop site near Oklahoma City. With cash and pledges on hand about $368,000 is needed to complete com-plete the first contract, trustees were told by Glenn W. Faris, executive ex-ecutive vice chairman. Trustees from various states discussed plans for memberships and memorials me-morials in the special donors' room of the shrine as means of raising their quotas, supplementing supplement-ing Oklahoma's major contribution. contribu-tion. National trustees shared a meeting with the Texas Association Associa-tion for the National Cowboy Hall of Fame, as a prelude to that state's membership campaign cam-paign under Ralph A. Johnston of Houston. The Texas organization organiza-tion has 12 area directors, county chairmen and 540 committeemen and voluntarily raised its goal above the 10 cents per capita basis used by states other than Oklahoma, which has a larger quota. Charles Redd of Utah attended his first meeting as a state trustee. trus-tee. Added to the national board were David Little of Idaho and Claude Olson of South Dakota, with S. J. Agnew, Washington, named as acting trustee. Twenty one persons were added add-ed to the rolls of honor in the National Cowboy Hall of Fame, so named because the image of a man on a horse is the central symbol of the era of western development de-velopment and expansion to make a total of 84 thus now enshrined. All are noted for contributions con-tributions to that development or in carrying out western traditions. tra-ditions. On an at-large basis the 1960 honorees are Cyrus L. Holliday, founder of the Santa Fe railway; Frederic Remington, whose art has a touch of universality; Sam Houston whose conquest of Santa Anna advanced southwestern American development by scores of years; and Alexander Swan, largest cattle empire builder of the inter mountain region. Oregon, Idaho and South Dakota Da-kota deferred nominating an |
