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Show Sale Brings Good Prices for Stock In Annual Show The nineteenth annual Millard County Junior Livestock show came to a successful conclusion Friday afternoon,. May 26. It was held for two days in the livestock show barn north of Delta. Wednesday the stock was brought bro-ught to the show and registered in the various classes and breeds. Thursday the judging was done with Marden Broadbent of the BAC judging the hogs. First place winner and grand champion was shown by Jay May Forty-one hogs were entered. David Sharp, 4-H leader, judged the sheep giving the grand champ ionship to Theron Johnson, Sutherland, Suther-land, and the reserve championship champion-ship to Matthew Clark of Sugar-ville. Sugar-ville. Forty three lambs were exhibited. ex-hibited. An Aberdeen Angus, shown by Phyllis Ingram of Mills was the grand champion of the fat beef division, with the Hereford steer shown by Robert Jackson of Sutherland, Suth-erland, chosen as reserve champion. champ-ion. There were 104 fat beef entered en-tered in the show. The beef were judged by Major Henderson of the USAC. Lucille Bennion, Delta, took 1st place in the breeding sheep class, with Maylon Eriekson, Sutherland the second place. The Hereford bull shown by Pet ersen Bros, took first pace in the breeding beef division, and Daisy Duck a Tribune award calf, shown by Ferrall Quornberg, Scipio, took first place in the dairy classification. classific-ation. Thursday evening the Stock -man's banquet was held in the Delta high school gym with all exhibitors, officials and guests pre sent for the event. Earl Greathouse was master of ceremonies for the banquet, which was catered by the City Cafe. Three hundred attended at-tended the banquet. Friday morning the sale was held with the hogs going to the ring first. The grand champion hog, shown by Elwin Johnson, was bought by the Quality Market of Delta for 70c a pound. The Quality Market also bought the reserve champion hog for 58c a pound from Jav Mav. of Sutherland. ity and D. Stevens & Co. and sold through their meat markets. Other Oth-er steers averaged around 30c a pound through the sale. The Tribune award calves were presented to two local boys. The registered Hereford, steer bred by Mark Johnson, Holden, was presented pre-sented to Scott Skidmore, Sutherland. Suther-land. The Jersey heifer, bought from Smoot Bros., was presented to Evan DeBloois, a 4-Her from Holden. He is the son of Mrs. Nina DeBloois . Much interest was taken in the show this year with record crowds attending each day. The affair was well handled and moved with rapidity that showed the officers and committee workers had prepared pre-pared well for the event. Those in charge of the show are to be congratulated on the highly successful suc-cessful event. George Talbot, Hinckley, bought the grand champion lamb of Theron Ther-on Johnson'splaying $1.50 a lb. for it. The reserve champion was bought by Quality Market, for $1. 25 a pound. The rest of the lambs went at an average of about 33c a pound. After a short recess the sale of fat beef was commenced with the grand champion shown toy Phyllis Mills, entering the ring first. It was bought by Pratt Thom as for the Commercial Bank of Delta for 65c a pound. The reserve re-serve champion, shown by Robert Rob-ert Jackson, Sutherand, was bought bou-ght by Sears, Roebuck & Co. for 57 cents a pound. The animal will be divided between the Qual- |