Evening star., 1950-08-24
All Girls Pack Ideal Lunch, With Surprise
By John M. Kouffmonn

That was the advice of two Gath
ersburg Junior All Club girls
who won the junior demonstration
team championship at the Mont
gomery County Fair yesterday.
Poised and efficient. Betty 10
Wear. 10. of Germantown, and
Patsy Messer, II, of Gaithersburg,
told a panel of judges exactly
what an ideal school lunch should
be and then packed one, complete
with a surprise"
The surprise, perhaps a nickel
or a candy bar, is a must in every
lunch. along with vitaminS, ex-
planned Patsy, who also won a
cattle show with her Jersey COW.
A dozen All club youngsters
whose motto is "cook. sew, catch
a beau" competed in the home
demonstration yesterday, second
day Of the annual fair at the Gath
ersburg Agricultural Center.
They mixed cookies, made cheese
and ironed blouses to illustrate the
right way of doing such home
projects.
Sister Also Wins.
Another member of the Wear
family also was a demonstration
winner: Mary Margaret Wear. 16.
who with Marjorie Burdette, II,
of Gaithersburg, won the senior
All team demonstration with
cheese cake recipe. Mary Dorsey.
II, of Germantown won the indi-
vidual demonstration contest by
showing how to iron a blouse prop
erly. while Lillian Arnold. Is, of
Lewisdale was senior individual
winner with q cottage cheese max
ing demonstration.
Today's fair events include more
judgings: Swine. Guernseys and
Holsteins. Then at $3.50 o'clock
tonight a baseball game will be
played between the Montgomery
County League All-Stars and the
Gaithersburg All-Stars. Last
nights amateur boxing matches
between Quantico Marines and
District National Guardsmen were
Cancelled because of bad weather.
Yesterday was a big judging day
at the fair. There was little frivol-
ity-just the serious business of
getting animals ready for showing.
Donning rubber boots, Joan and
Patsy Toms of Olney, aged Is and
13. washed their Holsteins to
clean them for today's judging,
while in the long barns, Gordon
Keys, II, Of Olney and Joyce
and Barbara Riggs. Goshen teen
ayers brushed the tails and clipped
the forlegs of their show animals.
Nearby. Gene Ifert, IL, of Middle
town. welded a pitchfork to give
his animals fresh clean straw.
200 Winners Picked.
In the day-long showings, more
than 200 top winners were picked
in cattle, sheep, poultry, rabbit
and garden produce classes. In
the Ayrshire open class. William
H. Hill and son Of Woodbine,
showed the grand and senior
champion bull, while John H.
Nicolai. jr., Ellicott City, was an
nounced as owner of the junior
champion bull. David and James
Patrick. Woodbine, won the fe-
male Ayrshire championships,
while Albert Owens and James
johnson Of Gaithersburg were top
club winners.
Patsy Messer's cow was grand
and senior champion club Jersey,
while Carol Mills of Travilah
showed the junior champion in
that class. as well as the Jersey
open. T. M. Anderson's grand
and senior champion female took
top honors in the Jersey open.
Championship bulls were shown
by Glenellen Farms, grand and
senior, Ayrlawn Farms, Junior.
Hillcrest Farms at Westminster
took all championships in the
shorthorn class except
for the senior champion female,
won by Spates and Nicholson,
Comus. .
Sheep Show Winners.
Top winners in the sheep show
were George Lechlider of Gath
champion Hampshire
ram and eve; D. w. Chambers u
Son. Westminster. mpion
Shropshire ram and eve. and Ray
mond Zeltman, Ellicott City,
champion Southdown ram and
eve.
In the poultry exhibits, To-
year-old Harry Kirk of Silver
Spring captured all but two of
the ranking titles: Best cock, hen.
cockerel, young trio, old trio, best
make of the show. best female Of
the show and best trio of the
show. Jimmy Arnold of Damas-
Gus won best young trio. while
Edwin Fisher, Rockville, won best
pullet. Nearly all the rabbit
awards were taken by zelie Min
Mich of Silver Spring. with Ed
Johnson of Brinklow winning
first in the New Zealand junior
white buck class.
In the household department,
Mrs. r. N. Whipp of Rockville,
wife of the assistant county agent,
won 10 blue ribbons in the cloth
ing show. Mrs. Whip, a skilled
seamstress from the time she
made her own high school gradu-
alton dress, exhibited clothes
made for herself. her children,
even a sport coat made for her
husband. Other clothing show
winners were Mrs. Clay Plummer,
Mrs. Horace Wear, Mrs. Garner
Duvall, Mrs. w. E. Bergfeld and
Miss Amy Fry.
Fresh Produce Winners.
Winners in the fresh produce shows