Evening star., 1943-10-17
Leigh, Simpson Herds
Win Dairy Honors
In Fairfax County

The dairy herd of Linn Simpson,
with an average production Of 81 .48
pounds of butterfat and 80l.1 pounds
Of milk, topped Fairfax County Dairy
Herd improvement Association No. l
in September, according to the re-
port of H. r. Hawkins, herd tester
The herd of Hollywood Farm
ranked second, with 34.16 pounds of
butter fat, and Marvin Perkins herd
took third honors with 32.45 pounds
of butterfat. A cow owned by Salo-
mon Costa took top honors in in
diviGual cow production in butterfat
with 1877 pounds, and the high cow
in milk production, iwth 2,034
pounds, also was owned by Mr..
Perkins.
Averages of the association were
255l pounds Of butterfat and 637 5
pounds of milk, with Is herds on
test.
Leigh Wins Honors.
Honors In Association No. 2 went
to the herd Of A. l.. Leigh with an
average of 1919 pounds Of butterfat
and 981.8 pounds OF milk, with the
B. F. Salisbury herd ranking second
with 3784 pounds of butterfat and
1863 pounds of milk. The herd of
George o. Sutton stood third with
3340 pounds of butterfat and 733.6
pounds of milk.
Individual COW honors were at
tanned by cow owned by L. A.
Montague in butterfat production
with IT'S pounds, and COW in the
herd of Mark Turner led in milk
production with 2.070 pounds. The
association averages were PAS
pounds Of butterfat and 606.7 pounds
of milk.
Officers Are Named.
Mount Vernon Circle, Kings
Daughters, elected Mrs. Harrie
White of Wellington Villa, leader
for the coming year. Other officers
named at the annual meeting were
Mrs. Charles Gallaher of yelling
ton Villa, vice leader; Mrs. James
A. Dowie of Alexandria, secretary.
and Mrs. Thomas c. Gale of Fox
croft Heights, treasurer.
Public Hearing Slated.
The Fairfax County Board Of Su-
pervisors at its meeting Wednesday
will hold public hearing at 2::30
pm. on the application OF Sadie V.
Quander to operate a commercial
trash dump on the south side OF
Quander road, Mount Vernon dis
trict. Permits for commercial trash
dumps in the county must be re-
newed each year. The Quander
dump is the only licensed dump
being operated in the county.
The county school board meets at
10 am. Tuesday. The board will
consider a report from Supt. Of
Schools Wilbert T. Woodson on pro-
yiding additional school facilities at
Fort Belvoir. where an increase of
pupils. is anticipated about Janu-
ary I.
Club Meetings.
Meetings of five home demonstra-
tion clubs and two All clubs have
been arranged for next week by
Miss Lucy Blake, county home
agent.
The Woodlawn Home Demonstra-
ton Club meets at pm tomor-
row; Oakton club, 2 pm. Tuesday;
Fairview club, 2 pm. Wednesday;
Navy club, 2 pm, and fremont
Gardens club, 7:30 pm. Thursday.
Demonstrations of recovering UNI
brellas and remodeling clothes will
feature the meetings.
The Woodlawn All Club meets at
12:45 pm. tomorrow, and the Burke
club, $50 am. Tuesday.
Horse Show Scheduled.
The first annual horse show spon-
sored by the Baileys Gross Roads
Volunteer Fire Department will take
place this afternoon on the horse
show grounds. The event will be-
gin at l o'clock and will feature nine
classes.
Prizes will be awarded to winners
of each class. The knockdown-a and
out class will be the feature attrac-
ton Of the afternoon, and a silver
cup donated by Erwin Payne will be
awarded to the winner of this event.
Judges are Robert D. Graham
Fairfax, and Stewart Preece, Vienna
Goal Is Short.
Although Red Cross surgical
dressings units in Fairfax County
materially have increased produc-
ton this year, they still are short
approximately 5000 dressings a
month, according to Mrs. Robert N.
Landreth, chairman of the Pro-
duction Corps Of the local chapter
Mrs. Landreth stresses that more
volunteer workers are needed for
this phase of Red Cross work.