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Show New Records Set When Steer Sells At $1.10 a pound; Lamb at $2.50; And Hog at 57 l-2c Pound At Sale I mplon brought last year. The reserve re-serve champion was bought by the Delmart. Sales continued high all down the line of beef entries with the bidding ending in about a minute min-ute after animal entered the ring, and the average price running 30.-89c 30.-89c per pound, which to date has set a record for any Millard County Junior Livestock Show, and sets one for the rest of the state to shoot at. The bidding stayed brisk right down through all of the calves, whether they were choice, good or commercial, and many in the last class brought higher prices than the animals in the next higher class. Among the large buyers at the show were the Stevensen Restaurant Restaur-ant of Salt Lake City, who purchased pur-chased twelve more beef besides the grand champion; A. Bells, Salt Lake City; Utah Parks Co.; ZCMI; Granite Meat and Livestock, Murray; Mur-ray; with many others buying a few head. After the sale the buyers and officials of-ficials of the show were entertained entertain-ed at the Banque Hotel with a steak dinner was served to the buyers and .committeemen which met with good success and appreciation, appre-ciation, and the show was officially of-ficially over. Calves were trucked out and after the railroad strike ended the balance went by train. The show was headed this year by W. R. Walker, president; Ray Greenhalgh,, vice president; Herman Her-man Munster, manager; Eugene Sanford, secretary; Scott Chesley, treasurer; Lawrence Christensen, assistant manager; Marvin Ogden, Rulon A. Anderson and John O.Barton O.Bar-ton were the FFA advisors; and George Whornham and Rodney Richenbach were the 4-H advisors. To them and their committee workers wor-kers must go a great deal of the credit for the most successful livestock live-stock show Millard County has ever ev-er seen, and we join the Future Farmers off America and 4-H Club members in offering our congratulations congratu-lations for the excellent achievement. I The fifteenth annual Millard ceeded all optimistic hopes for a ceeded all opptimistic hopes for a successful sale, amounting to $75. 000 in sales as against the $50,-000 $50,-000 expected. Nine more steers than were anticipated were entered, enter-ed, bringing the total to262. Also Al-so there were 24 fat hogs; 39 fat lambs, plus the breeding stock in all classes. Thursday was spent in judging with the hogs first on the list. Max Jensen of Deseret placed one of his hogs as the grand champion, and another as the reserve champion. Robert Fowles of Sutherland, who entered the show for the first time this year, took the grand champion in the fat lambs, with Snell Olsen of Spanish Fork placing his as reserve re-serve champion. Seven fat hogs were judged primes, and seven fat lambs were placed as prime. Eighty-eight choice fat calves were shown at the show and after af-ter a long period of judging John Walker of Sutherland was picked as having entered the grand champion cham-pion fat beef. He was closely followed fol-lowed by Sherman Jones, also of Sutherland who placed his as the reserve champion. Walker's jalf weighed 960 pounds, and Jones' at 912 pounds. The annual stockmens banquet was held Thursday night in the Delta high school lunch room with Dewey Sanford as master of cere-monies.The cere-monies.The banquet was attended by most of the exhibitors and many state and county officials. Friday morning the sales began with Col. W. H. Adams, and his son W. H. Adams, Jr., as auctioneers. After fast bidding the grand champion cham-pion hog owned by Max Jensen was bought by the Delmart for 57 ',( a pond. The Quality Market Mar-ket bought the reserve champion at 35c a pound. Other sales in the same class were cdrrespondingly high. The sale of the grand champion lamb, entered by Robert Fowles, started off the hectic bidding for the balance of the stock in the show after it had been bought by the Delmart for the record price of $2.50 a pound. Dewey Sanford bo't the reserve champion lamb of Snell Olsen's for 75c a pound. The beef sales were exceptionally exception-ally fast, and within a short time the grand champion calf belonging to John Walker was sold at the all-time all-time record price of $1.10 a pound. The purchaser was the Stevensen Restaurant of Salt Lake City, and the calf was bought through the Cudahy Packing Co., also of Salt Lake City. Sherman Jones received receiv-ed 57Vrc a pound for his reserve champion, which was about 25c a pound higher than the grand cha- |