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CHINCHILLA SHOW
CUDJOHNSEN V/0
1.7 February 73
1001 NATURAL SOF
03XX--KKXX.. SUGGESTEDD LEAD. .ONEOOF THE JOURNALISTIC STEREOTYPES FOR THOSE OF US
WHO WORK THE WEEKEND NEWS BEAT IS COVERING ALL THE VARIOUS TYP"S OF SHOWS SPONSOREI
BY THIS AND THAT ORGANIZATION...ANTIQUE SHOWS, BOAT SHOWS, COIN SHOWS, DOG SHOWS
AND THE LIST GOES ANDGbI.....CHANNEL FIVE REPOR'EHOJOHN GUDJOHNSEN PAN ACROSS THIS
LITTLE PUBLICIZED SHOW IN IRV ING....
GUDJOHNSEN V/0... .TO THE UNTRAINED EYE THESE ANI14ALS APPEAR SOMEWHA T LIKE SHORT
EARED RABBITS BUT I KNOW OF VERY FEW RAB ITS THAT ARE WORTH $1500 DOLLARS APIECE
AS SOME OF THESE ANIMALS ARE wT. THESE ARE CHINCHILLAS.. *.MOST PEOPLE THAT
HAVE SEEN CHIN CHILLASX KKX XX XRXX X XXKE EXXX HAVE SEEN THEN IN
THEIR PROCESSED FORM AS PART OF A LUXURIOUS FUR COAT. THIS WEEKEND CHINCHILLA
RANCHERS FROM THROUGHOUT THE SOUTHWEST ARE IN IRVING COMP JTING FOR REGIONAL PRIZE,
FOR THE THE QUALITY OF THEIR ANIMALS. TODAY'S COMPETITION IS A STEPPING STONE TO
JUDGING -576
NATIONAL XMM TM TO BE HELD IN MARCH IN ICHITA, KANSAS, WHERE THE NATIONAL
WKXK
CHAMPION CHINCHILLAS WILL 7C NAMED.3 ABOUT FORTY RANCHERS XXX ENTERED SOME FOUR
HUNDRED AND FIFTY ANIMALS AT TODAY'S JUDGING. THE JUDGING TABLES LOOKED SOMETHI-,(
LIKE A HOSPITAL OPERATING ROOM WITH JUDGES DRESSED IN SANITARY WHITE SMOCKS. q
EACI ANI!JTAL EXAMINED UNDER HARSH FLUORESCENT LIGHT IN ORDTR TO DETECT FLAWS IN
o PEL ( TAK NATURAL SOF) ........ASIDE FROM THE NATIONAL XI PETITION THIS IS
THE LARGEST SHOW OF IT IS KIND IN THE COUNTRY. THE AVERAGE WORTH OF EACH ANIMAL
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WORKS AUT TO ABOUT FIVE HUNDRED DOLLARS APIECE...THAT TO ALMOST A QUARTE
OF A MILLION DOLLARS WORTH OF CHINCHILLARS IN IRVING TODAY .JOHN G. CHANTTEL FIVE
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WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.). [News Script: Chinchillas], script, February 17, 1973, 6:00 p.m.; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1735193/m1/3/: accessed July 7, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting UNT Libraries Special Collections.