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Gillespie County Fair Beef Winners Highlight Local Livestock Show
The Gillespie County fat stock show awarded top honors to A. C. East with a Heatweight Hereford steer bred by Chester Bonn & Sons. Alvin Loltz captured reserve with his heavyweight Hereford. Other class winners included Kenneth Kuntz in medium Hereford steers and James Cox in heavyweight Aberdeen Angus steers. Dairy, lamb, poultry, rabbits, Angora goats, and breeding sheep divisions also crowned champions. A large slate of exhibitors plan to attend the Houston Fat Stock Show opening Feb 2, with 44 FFA and 61 4-H members exhibiting multiple species.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A. B. Childers
Texas A&m College
A. C, Kast
Fredericksburg
FFA
Chester Bonn & Sons
Alvin Loltz
Kenneth Kuntz
James Cox
Alsee Lochte
Alvin Lottz
Lottz
Duderstadt Sisters
Tommy Penick
Clayton Behrends
A. C. East
Keith Keller
Aberdeen
James Miller
Kenneth Lindig
Jersey
Allen Hagel
Wilbert Ransleben
Edgar Klein, Jr
Robert Williams
Lindon Vollmar
Thomas Pape
Southdown
Lester Behrends
Stanley Feller
Calvin Kuhlmann
Rosie Lee Lindig
Freddie Miller
Gilbert Gomez
Robert Walter
Wilbur Pfeiffer
Archie Pfeiffer
Darlene Fritz
Marlene Fritz
Arthur Wittig
Delbert Oehler
Harper
Angora Billy
Doe
Kenneth Oehler
Billy
Carlton Wendel
George Parker
Houston
Joe Tatum
Stone
Gillespie County