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ELIZABETHTOWN
Two youthful “hobby far
mers” took the top honors
- Wednesday night in beef
competition at the
Elizabethtown Fair.
Amidst a chorus of
thunder, lightning, pelting
rain on the canvas tent and
the applause of onlookers,
die top beef honors went to:
Bob Snyder, 17, son of Mr.
and Mrs. Melvin Snyder, 550
Groff Ave., Elizabethtown,
who showed his purebred
Angus junior yearling heifer
to first in the breeding
competition, and
Rick Baker, 18, a 1960
graduate of Elizabethtown
and member of the Lower
Dauphin Baby Beef Club,
who showed his Angus-
Chianina cross to the Grand
Championship of the Market
Steer competition.
.Both Bob and Rick are
non-farmers in the strict
definition of the term.
Bob is in his senior year of
studies at Elizabethtown and
hopes to go on to Penn State
to study wildlife technology
and become a researcher in
that field. His family has
been “off ’ the farm for some
eight years.
Ride works for his father
in masonry contracting. He
Repeat performance for Deb Martin at E-Town Fair
ELIZABETHTOWN - It
was 1979 all over again in the
sheep competition Wed
nesday night at the
Elizabethtown Fair.
Deb Martin, R 1 East Earl,
is a year older and her
Suffolk lamb has grown into
a yearling ewe. But both
returned to the spotlight to
make it two years in a row to
capture the Grand Cham
pionship of the Show.
Daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
John M. Martin, R 1 East
Earl, Deb walked her lamb
every day before the 1979
show. On pasture this year,
her entry must have been
well trained because she
remained in top condition to
retain the title.
Deb and younger brother,
Barry, dominated the
championships. Deb also
took the Reserve Cham
pionship in the market
division, in addition to her
top winner in breeding.
Barry had the champion
market lamb and the
reserve champion in
breeding.
And even younger brother,
Jeff, took his share of win-
Long Duroc wins
swine grand championship
ELIZABETHTOWN -
The 227-pound purebred
Duroc of Gordon Long, 1980
graduate of Penn Manor
High School, captured the
Grand Championship of the
Elizabethtown Fair Swine
Show Thursday night.
The big red hog, its coat
glistening under the show
ring lights, first took the top
spot in Class 2 of the
Heavyweights and then went
on to top its counterparts
from the light and medium
weight divisions.
Long is the son of Mr. and
Mrs. Howard Long, R 3
Columbia.
The Reserve Grand
Championship went to a
Hampshire-Yorkshire cross
Non-farmers take top beef honors at E- Town
is toe son of Mr. and Mrs.
Virgil Baker, R 2
Elizabethtown. His steer is
kept in a shed at home. Bob
boards his animals at
Baum’s Bologna, where he
has worked for the past three
years after school and
weekends.
Bob’s medium lightweight
market steer took the
reserve champion honors.
Rick also placed first in
Showmanship for par
ticipants 15 years and over.
Bob’s heifer was picked
over Rick’s market steer for'
the Grand Championship of
the Beef Show.
Complete results:
Breeding - Bob Snyder, 1;
Kurt Hess, 2.
Market Steers - light
weight, Tim Foreman, 1;
Donald Groff, 2; Brenda
Fisher, 3; Dale Fisher, 4.
Medium lightweight, Class
1, Greg Taylor, 1; Kurt Hess,
2; Kim Schildt, 3; Rae Ann
Hollinger, 4; Class 2, Bob
Snyder, 1; Dennis Shelly, 2;
Keith Hess, 3; Randy
Hollinger, 4; Class 3, Ride
Baker, 1; Cindy Baker, 2;
Barry Gieb, 3; Tony Shank,
4; and Richard Hollinger, 5.
Showmanship, 15 years
and over - Rick Baker, 1;
Bob Snyder 2; Kurt Hess, 3;
nings, too.
Complete results:
Breeding classes
Ram lamb, Suffolk, Deb
Martin, 1; Barry Martin, 2.
Ram lamb, Cheviot, Gary
Eberly, 1.
Two year and over ewe,
Suffolk, Barry Martin, 1;
Deb Martin, 2.
Yearling ewe, Suffolk, Deb
Martin,!; Barry Martin, 2.
Ewe lamb, Suffolk, Barry
Martin, 1; Deb Martin, 2;
Darlene Horning, 3; Randy
Hurst, 4.
Hampshire, Barry Martin,
1; Southdown, Jeff Martin,
1; Cheviot, Gary Eberly, 1.
Pair of lambs, Deb Martin,
1; Barry Martin, 2; Gary
Eberly, 3.
Market lambs
Class 1, 58 - 74 lbs., Barb
Martin, 1; Barb Martin, 2;
Steve Kulp, 3; Joanne
Eberly, 4; Jay Garber, 5.
Class 2, 77 - 86 lbs., Gary
Eberly, 1; Steve Kulp, 2;
Barb Martin, 3; Steve Kulp,
4; and Jay Garber, 5.
Class 3,87 -93 lbs., Kirsten
Homing, 1; Jeff Martin, 2;
Carlyon Witmer, 3; Loretta
Chisham, 4; Deb Martin, 5.
of Steve Smith, winner m
Class 6 of the medium
weights.
Long also won the light
weight division cham
pionship with a 192-pound
entry.
Complete results:
Lightweight
Class 1, Gordon Long, 1;
Wayne Gish, 2; Judy Gish, 3;
Barry Gish, 4; Dave Coble,
Class 2, Gordon Long, 1;
Sheldon Heisey, 2; Steve
Heisey, 3; Wayne Gish, 4;
Barry Gieb, 5.
Class 3, Peggy Kreider, 1;
Bill Capp, 2; Wayne Gish, 3.
Lightweight champion,
Gordon Long, Reserve
champion, Peggy Kreider.
Breeding Champ and Grand Champion of the
Beef Show at the Elizabethtown Fair was a
purebred Angus junior yearling heifer shown by
Bob Snyder, of Elizabethtown.
Brenda Fisher, 4; Greg
Taylor, 5.
Class 2 Showmanship, 12 to
14 years old - Kim Schildt, 1;
Class 4, 93 - 100 lbs., Jeff
Martin, 1; Barry Martin, 2;
Deb Martin, 3; Barry
Martin, 4; Darlene Horning,
5.
Class 5, 100 - 109 lbs.,
Maria Lorah, 1; Kent
Halsey, 2; Deb Martin, 3;
Barry Martin, 4; Wanda
Steffy, 5.
Class 6,110 -112 lbs., Deb
Martin, 1; Carolyn Witmer, 2
and 3.
Class 7, 115 - 122 lbs.,
Barry Martin, 1; Wanda
Steffy, 2; Linda Homing, 3;
Carolyn Witmer, 4; Maria
Lorah, 5.
Pen of 3, Carolyn Witmer,
1; Deb Martin, 2; Barry
Martin, 3; Steve Kulp, 4; and
Barb Martin, 5.
Showmanship, ISyears
and over - Kirsten Horning,
1; Barb Martin, 2; Deb
Martin, 3.
Showmanship, 12 to 14 -
Gary Eberly, 1; Jerry
Kieffer, 2; Kent Halsey, 3.
Showmanship, 8 -11 - Jeff
Martin,!.
Master Showman - Kir
sten Homing and Barb
Martin.
E- Town
Mediumweight
Class 1, Judy Gish, 1;
Gordon Long, 2; Bill Capp,
3; Gordon Long 4; Barry
Gieb, 5.
Class 2, Peggy Kreider, 1;
Eddie Huntzberger, 2; Scott
Smith, 3; Eddie Huntz
berger, 4; Duane Shelley, 5.
Class 3, Jeff Wagner, 1;
Judy Gish, 2; Bill Capp, 3;
Duane Shelley, 4; Wayne
Gish, 5.
Class 4, Peggy Kreider, I;
Barry Gieb, 2; Wayne Gish,
3, Dennis Shelley, 4; Dennis
Shelley, 5.
Class 5, Peggy Kreider, 1;
Dave Coble, 2, Dennis
Shelley, 3
Class 6, Ste.e Si.iilh 1,
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Keith Hess, 2; Richard
Bollinger, 3; Cindy Baker, 4.
Class 3 Showmanship, 8 -
11 years old - Tim
Oeb Martin’s Suffolk yearling ewe took the Grand Championship of the Show
at the Elizabethtown Fair Wednesday night. The pair captured the same honors
Tops in the Elizabethtown Fair swine show was this Duroc, shown by Gordon
Long, R 3 Columbia.
Market steer champion at the Elizabethtown
Fair was an Angus-Chianina cross shown by Rick
Baker, of R 2 Elizabethtown.
Foreman,!; and Randy Foreman, 1; Rick Baker, 2;
Hoillnger,2. _ and Bob Snyder, 3.
Steers to be sold - Dennis
Master Showman - Tim Shelly,!; and Barry Gieb, 2.