When Jimmy was 18 months old, he was sickened by meningitis. He was blessed to survive, but he lost his hearing. That is where the “never give up” attitude came from. His parents and his family saw him through. Jimmy attended the Rinehart School for the deaf from age 5 through the 6th grade. He came back to go through public junior and high school, placed in the same class with his sister Joy. Jimmy’s father, Ellsworth, raised cattle and founded the Howard County Beef Club. He got Jimmy started, and soon, others were coaching Jimmy. Jimmy started slow… his first steers were not the winners, but within a few years, he exhibited numerous county and state level champions. The early years – JCL Polled Herefords
1963 - Get of sire – JFG Silver Mischief, HAB Silver Mischief and A September and two November calves.
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Grand Champion Polled Hereford female, Left to right, Joe Lewis of Alfalfa Lawn Farms, judge, American Hereford representative, Bettye Linthicum, Jimmy, Sr. The heifer was purchased from Jim and Faye Gill, of Coleman, Texas.
HAB Victor Mischief... 1962 National Grand Champion Polled Hereford Bull. $102,000 (Left to right: BC Rogers – new owner, Otis Smith – semen interest owner, Gene Schubert, manager, Rogers Farms – TJ Atkins, Manager of Potomac Valley Farms.) JCL was given ½ interest in Victor Mischief to feed, fit and show the bull. Jimmy was 21. He wasn’t very tall, but to get him into the hotel where he sold, was a challenge. The doorway had to be cut out... the bull was too wide to make it through. The American Hereford Association graciously paid for the reconstruction of a new doorway.
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