Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-08-25
By Ben Fronklin

Today is officially Children'S
Day at the Montgomery County
Fair, although spokesman for the
fair board agree you might call
the entire five-day stand one
children'S day after another"
There is plenty of serious
competition among county dairy
and beef farmers and home
makers and garden clubs. Dairy
cattle, dairy goat, sheep, poul-
try. swine and rabbit judging
begins today.
But farm youngsters labored
in the stalls with horses and
brushes to primp their entries
for open" contests with their
elders. Today they are stealing
the show and the hearts of nom
farm spectators, who are out for
a look at the record fair regis
tration of $500 animals. Future
Farmer Of American and All
Club judging is on Friday.
Goat Has Baby Kid.
There wasn't a wide-eyed city
youngster in the first-day crowd
yesterday who wouldn't have
traded places with 9-year-old
Herbert Mumford III, of Wood
field, Md. Herbie's goat. Anne.
gave birth to a daughter. An
nette, early Monday. Herbie,
watching over his two goats in
a straw stall surrounded by gap
ing children, said: I'VE had a
terrible time getting the mother
goat over here. She was trying
to protect the baby goat"
Elsewhere on the 65-acre fair
grounds, Patsy and Roberta Mes
ser. Is and 10 year old daugh-
tiers OF, Mr.. and Mrs. Allie Messer
of Gaithersburg, divided atten-
ton between their own Holstein
yearling, Patsy's ~ sewing and
cooking entries and Roberta's
purple COW.
The COW, a white Holstein from
the Messer farm, is the CENTER
piece of a neutrality-suspicious.
contest sponsored by the fair
board, which had the animal
died purple as a publicity pro-
motion. Prize in the contest is
a vacation for two in Nassau, in
the Bahamas. Roberta's job is
keeping the purple COW purple.
The dye isn't permanent. The
contest closes Friday.
Beauty Winners There, Too.
Some of the vegetable coloring
rubbed off on Linda Weisbrod.
81, this years Miss Washington,
during official ribbon cutting
ceremonies yesterday. Miss Weis-
brod. in shorts, clambered aboard
the purple COW for photogra-
pliers and came down looking
kind of blue.
The opening ceremony was
delayed briefly while officials
tried to smooth over q delicate
situation arising from the ap-
pearance Of Miss Maryland for
the ribbon cutting in a black
dress, high-heeled shoes and q
red hat. Miss Maryland. 19-year-
old Phyllis Leftwich. of Dun
dalk, and Patsy Toms. II. Miss
Montgomery County F a m
Queen, Of Sandy Spring, finally
posed in street clothes after a
conference among chaperoneS.
Miss Weisbrod stayed in shorts.
Boys viii Chase Calves.
The program for Children's
Day today included q milking
contest, q freckles contest and a
scramble for calves. Thirty boys
in a pen with 10 calves viii be
out to grab the animals, which
10 Of the boys then win call
their own.
Highlights Of the day include
a three-hour rodeo. beginning
at 4::30 O'Clock and featuring
cowboys" from Montgomery
County and points West. A fea-
ture Of the Wild West show will
be a wild COW milking contest.
A childrens' pie-eating contest
at 4 o'clock may have to be held
without the presence Of the 1858
champion. He Is Conrad Mills.
Is, Of Rockville. Conrad's I'VE
Jerseys win be in the new steel
show pavilion just as the pie-eat-
ing contest gets under way.
tive been challenged to do II