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Record Junior Fair Livestock Auction Sets Attendance and Sales
The annual Junior Fair Livestock auction Saturday morning sold 260 animals for a total of 50 038 dollars. Fifty steers brought 33 808 dollars hogs 18 906 dollars and lambs 5 323 dollars. Grand champion steer Kelvin G Frye New London Happy Farmers 4 H Club weighed 1 115 pounds at 1 60 a pound. The reserve steer Elaine Smith Monroeville Future Farmers of America weighed 944 pounds at 1 a pound. Grand champion hog Jeff Balduff Fitchville Bonanza Workers 4 H Club weighed 201 pounds at 2 55 a pound to Sandy Ridge Fruit Farm Norwalk. The grand champion pen of three hogs sold for 78 cents a pound. Auctioneers were G A Pickworth and R L Garner. A separate turnpike accident left a Willard man in satisfactory condition after rear ending another vehicle in rain near Fisher Titus Hospital.