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Show JUNIOR LIVESTOCK GROWERS TO RECEIVE $5,000 IN S.L. SHOW Members of the 4-H and Future Farmers of America i Clubs will receive approximately j $5,000 in special awards and premiums for the cattle, hogs and lambs they grow for the 1949 Intermountain Junior Livestock Show, Raymond C. Wilson, President Presi-dent of the Show announced this week. This is the highest premium prem-ium awards made in Western Junior Shows and is in addition to more than a quarter million dollars in auction receipts. The Executive Committee of the Intermountain Junior Fat Stock Show voted a minimum of $3,000 in premium awards, the same high total as given in 1948. As against the minimum, the junior jun-ior growers received $4,300 in 1948 and probably will receive more in 1949. - In addition, in 1948, there were awarded ten live calves to be grown and shown in next year's show. Awarded in June and now being distributed were calves worth about $125.00 each, donated by Charles Redd, LaSal; Lon Hopkins,' Woodruff; J. A. Scorup, Moab; McKinley Mor-rell, Mor-rell, Junction; Deseret Livestock Live-stock Company, Salt Lake City; Producers Livestock Marketing Association (2 calves) North Salt Lake; Wasatch Livestock Loan Company, Salt Lake City; Joe Haslam , Jensen, and Enos and Lincoln Stookey, Clover, Utah. The Intermountain Junior Livestock Show, in its 13th year, has been recognized as the world's largest jujiior show. It is sponsored by the Livestock Committee ' of the Chamber of Commerce, the Salt Lake and Davis County Commissions and the State of Utah. |