YOUTH TO REPDACE A STEER AS FEATURE OF S. L. STOCK SHOW The Intermountain Junior Fat Stock Show, held every June at North Salt Lake Stock Yards, will de-emphasize the value of the animal and concentrate con-centrate upon "Grand Champion Cham-pion Youth" at the 14th annual renewal in 1950. That was decided de-cided at a meeting of the Board of Trustees, under the presidency presi-dency of James A. Hooper, this week. The Board, at the recom-"'"v recom-"'"v mendation of Mark Nichols, 'state director of the FFA, and Davd Sharp Jr., director of the State 4-H Clubs, eliminated eliminat-ed from the show all champions, cham-pions, grand, reserve or breed, in cattle, sheep or swine. In its place, the show judges will select se-lect a group of 10 or 12 special animals in each division to be known as , "purples" or "specials," "spe-cials," all of which will be auctioned auc-tioned in groups of three or four and all by lot. i The system is expected to eliminate the "jackpot", plan whereby a so-called champion may demand 60c premium per pound over the second animal, in spite of the fact that the T actual difference per pound in market value is 2c or less. The plan was supported by commer-' commer-' cial "buyers for retail stores, packers, hotels, and other groups of buyers. In return for the elimainition of socalled "champions" the buyers have suggested that the top group of all animals to be auctioned with a promise of special premiums for the buyers, buy-ers, such as 20c per pound for beef, and other animals at com parable prices. The system would result in no ultimate loss for the group just a smaller price for the first animal. The same system of grading, now used generally in the United States, according to Messrs. Nichols and Sharp, will be suggested to all Utah junior shows at the meeting of the Utah Association of Livestock shows, to be held in Salt Lake in late January.