Evening star., 1946-04-26
Packers Ready 10 Bid
On Prize Steers Free
of 0PA Price CeiIinqs.
By staff Correspondent Of The star

RICHMOND, Va. April 26.-Pack-
ing house representatives and indi-
vldual butchers were prepared to
bid today-unhampered by ceiling
prIces-for $50 high-grade cattle
shown here yesterday at the sew
enth annual Atlantic fat stock show
sponsored by the Atlantic Rural
Inc. III
Two hundred and seventy-seven
head Of cattle, which are expect
ed to bring, in some instances, as
much as $100 per hundredweight, or
S81.4O above the present ceiling,
were entered by All Club and Fu-
ture Farmers of America groups.
Northern Virginia breeders had
more than SO head of stock in the
show.
Assured by Paul Swaffar, secre-
of the exposition.
that the Office of Price Administra-
ton has exempted all cattle certi-
fed by the exposition from ceiling
price regulations, meat buyers said
they were prepared ito pay we'll for
the choice steers" He also said
the cattle would not be included in
quotas.
champions to Bring High Price.
1t was not stated whether this
meat would be sold over counters
at ceiling prices or would 20 to res
taurants and hotels that would ad-
Vertlse steaks from prize steers.
Before the bidding began, cattle
men expressed confidence that the
grand champion steer in yesterdays
snow, an Aberdeen-Angus, raised by
l3-year-old Bobby SWecker, High
land County, and the reserve cham
plon, a Hereford raised by Dale
Higginbotham, 10s of Amherst
County, would bring 81 a pound,
or more. Other winners also were
expected to bring fancy prices.
Undaunted by steady rain that
left the show ground a pool of mud
and nullifled hours of work with
curry comb and brush, 'teen-age
farmer boys and girls from 10 Vir-
glnla counties and neighboring
States paraded their pet steers be-
fore the judges. And there will
be many a moist-eyed youngster to-
day who passes the halter rope of
his animal to the buyer.
Virginia Farms Win.
Among Northern Virginia exhib-
itors who carried away champion
ship ribbons were Highland Farms,
Round Hill, winner of the grand
champion group of three in the all
breeds class, and Mount Saron Farm,
Orange, winner of the grand cham
pion carload of Is Hereford cattle.
In the light Hereford class. first
place went to Edwin and Jackie Ar
mold, Lucketts, while Creighton
Smith and Jean Settle, both of Gull
peper, won third and fifth prizes,
respectively, in the Angus class.
John Rolfe, Poolesville, Md, son
of A. G. Rolfe, president of the
Maryland Hereford Breeders Asso-
citation and a director of the Allan
tic Exposition, won sixth place in
the heavy Hereford class. Young
Rolfe, in his last year as a All
Clubber, was the only exhibitor from
Montgomery County, Md.
In addition to prizes ranging from
50 to $50, the individual champion
ship winners were presented special
awards from the various breeders
associations at a banquet last night
at the Richmond Hotel
Stuart Praises Competition.
State Senator Harry C. Stuart of
Russell County, one of Virginia's
largest cattlemen, and a director of
the exposition, told All and FLA
groups that conditions like yester-
days show would stimulate better
cattle in the Old Dominion.
Other champions include:
Junior cattle division-Jimmy Coving-
ton, Martinsville, champion shorthorn.
Pens OF hve-Gilnockio Farm, Haywood,
champion Angus: K. C. Whittle, Martins
vile, champion shorthorn.
Spencer, w. Va, champion Hereford.
All Breeds individual-Old Elkton Farm
champion; F. F. Mcintosh. reserve cham
pion.
Winners in the swine, contests, barrows,
Kelton, Pa: reserve champion. Maple
Hedge Farm: champion pen of three, Carl
Grove, Waynesboro: reserve champion. pen
Of three, Remwan Farms, Vallsville; cham
pion group OF 10. Maple Hedge Farm.
Junior swine division. champion single