E4—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, August 16,1980 TEMPLETON, Cal - When you’ve wanted to be something all your life, it’s still “unbeheveable” that you’re finally the best, ac cording to Dean W Schow, Paxton, Nebraska, who walked away from here recently with the 1980 World Livestock Auctioneer Champion title “Auctioneering was something that fascinated me from the time I was a little kid When my dad went to the sale I always wanted to go,” he revealed Schow was one of 65 contestants viemg for the title at the Templeton Livestock Market on June 21. Each contestant had a chance to merchandise livestock and were judged by a panel of livestock market owners based on criteria they would use in employing an auctioneer for their own marketing business The 35-year-old Schow grew up in Paxton, where he has lived since he was five Learn hunter safety UNIVERSITY PARK party and the wildlife that he New hunters, especially, will hunts find Penn State’s Other lessons detail correspondence course on survival techniques and give Hunter Safety a good guidelines for selecting and training manual. using sporting arms and ammunition, plus a lesson on The course emphasizes marksmanship, facts, ideas, and ways to To get the course send develop a sense of values $4 00, plus 75 cents postage, and responsibility to wildlife to Hunter Safety, Box 5000, resources It reviews the University Park, PA 16802 hunter’s responsibility to Make check payable to Penn himself, the others in his State. World Livestock Auctioneer Champ got started practicing on a tractor He sells for Ogallala, Nebraska Livestock Market and has a farm of his own in Paxton where he farms wheat, corn and also raises cattle and hogs As Schow said, “We’ve got a little of everything, but not too much of anything very big” When most children play games like fireman, Schow remembers practicing to be an auctioneer “My father bought an old two-cylmder tractor when I was nme years old They’d putt-putt-putt and I’d try to sell to the rhythm of that,” he said Schow’s first try at the World Championship came in 1973, in Norfolk, Nebraska He didn’t place in that competition, but in 1978 he was the Central Region runner-up And last year m Brush, Colorado, he won the number two title, the reserve world champion. After attending an lowa auctioneering school, Schow started working the ring for the Ogallala market m 1967 and slowly worked up to auctioneering regularly He and his wife, who he says is “the best partner I’ve got”, run both the farm and las auctioneering business. “It’s not my business; it’s our business She thinks as much of the auction business as Ido,” he said Schow said he sometimes gets a bit 'weary” when the days get long and sales and farming run back-to-back ' But if you really love what you’re doing it’s not really work I’ve got to admit, I just love the auction. “I hate to think when my father died three years ago I almost gave it up ” He decided to continue both farming and auctioneering thanks to ,encouragement from friends “I just love to get off the tractor and head to the sale because I like the people and I like to be around them. 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