Cl4—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, August 1,1981
KANSAS CITY, Kan. Duane
Ohnemus, 20-year-old lowa cat
tleman, was named National
Junior Merit Award winner during
the Bth National Junior Polled
Hereford Heifer Show and Forum
in Hutchinson, Kansas. Ohnemus
is a student at lowa State
University and is the son ot Mr.
and Mrs. Delbert Ohnemus of Milo,
lowa.
Second place in this national
recognition program went to Jom
Snapp, 20-year-old daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Kenneth Snapp, West
moreland, Kansas.
In a tie for third place were J.D.
Shanks, 19-year-old son of Dr. and
Mrs. Jack Shanks, Mocksville,
N.C., and 19-year-old Scott
Torrance, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Duane Torrance, Media, Illinois.
Ohnemus received a $750
scholarship as well as an expense
paid, week-long trip to any U.S.
Polled Hereford operation of his
choice.
Miss Snapp won a $5OO
scholarship, while Shanks and
Torrance shared in the third place
scholarship of $250.
The recognition the tour
received was based on each ap
plicant’s outstanding
achievements with Polled
Heretords, citizenship activities
and personal development.
Ohnemus, an animal science
major, was cited tor the
aggressive way he had invested his
cattle and farming profits to
acquire halt-interest m a Polled
Hereford herd numbering nearly
200 head and the purchase ot a 118-
acre farm. He was active in FFA
and holds memberships in local,
state and national cattlemen’s
associations. He has increased his
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Ohnemus makes extensive use ot
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Ohnemus, described m the
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KANSAS CITY, Kan. -
Exhibitors from 28 states and
Canada once again drew a
capacity crowd to the National
Junior Polled Hereford Heifer
Show and Forum for a week-long
extravaganza of showing,
leadership training, family fun,
entertainment, education and
fierce competition.
The Bth National Junior classic
drew 404 head of Polled Hereford
heifers to Hutchinson, Kansas,
July 19-24, with 280 youthful
exhibitors displaying their best.
Grand championship of the
show, which featured only heifers
born in 1980, went to 19-year-old
Gerard Palaschuk, Wishart, Sask.,
on WP Miss Enforcer M 57, a
March daughter of Gold Standard
Sire enforcer 107 H.
Reserve grand championship
honors went to 17-year-old Greg
Billing, Little Falls, N.Y., on ASB
Bo Ten, a January daughter of
Gold Trophy Sire Will-Via Justa V.
The championship line-up was
composed of some of the breed’s
top heifers, traveling from all
comers of the country for the
competition. A team of three well
known cattle judges had the task of
appraising the heifers and picking
the champions. They were Ike
Eller, Virginia Polytechnic In
stitute, Blacksburg; Gene Wiese,
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man with "keen insight, mature
judgment and high standards,"
plans to return full-time to his
farm following college graduation.
Snapp, whose intense par
ticipation in a variety of activities
won acclaim from the Merit Award
has held ncaily “very
Kansas hosts national Jr. Polled Hereford show
Wiese and Sons Herefords,
Manning, Iowa; and Ed Kalianoff,
Kal-Kota Polled Herefords, Steele,
N.D.
Standing 52.25 inches at the hips,
the champion heifer, WP Miss
Enforcer M 57, was the tallest
heifer in her class. She was bred by
Palaschuk Farms, Ltd., Wishart,
Sask., and advanced to the grand
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Perry Holstein Qub to sell promotional calf
LANDISBURG - The Perry
County Junior Holstein Club will be
selling a better calf at the Perry
Dairy Princess Promotional Sale
on Friday, August 7 at the Art
Klmg Sale Bara, Landisburg.
This calf is Santee-Acres
Celebrity Kim, born January 13.
Delaware
NEWARK, Del. - Four
Delaware youths were selected
last week at the Pennsylvania
Association of Farmer
Cooperatives Summer Institute to
attend the American Institute of
Cooperations’ National Institute on
Cooperative Education.
It was held at Colorado State
University, Ft. Collins, CO, this
week. The tour were selected on
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She is sired by Rocky Elevation
Celebrity and her dam is a very
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"Kim” has been donated to the
Perry Junior Club by Ken and Jane
Benner ot Santee-Acres, R. 2,
Millerstown.
youth selected
the basis of their participation in
the Delaware Cooperative Youth
Training Session held in Dover in
April and the recent PAFC In
stitute.
The winners are: Melissa Op
dyke of Camden, Jenlyn Urban of
Milford, Valerie Shahan of
Greenwood, and Curtis Peebles of
Wilmington
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She reigned as Kansas Polled
Hereford Queen tor one year and
has exhibited cattle at all eight
National Junior Polled Hereford
Heifer Shows.
Snapp has served as her local 4-
top spot. In addition to breeding
the champion heifer, Palaschuk
Farms was the breeder of some of
the show’s other high-ranking
heifers, earning them the event’s
Premier Breeder title.
The reserve grand champion,
ASB Bo Ten, is no newcomer to the
winner’s circle. She began her
show career with the calf cham-
H council president and was the
tirst girl elected president ot her
FFA chapter. She has continually
improved her beet cattle
management practices to reach
her goal ot providing seed stock tor
both commercial and purebred
cattlemen.
pionship title at the 1980 Virginia
State Fair SOP Show and was
recently named grand champion at
the Eastern Regional Junior
Polled Hereford Heifer Show m
Gaithersburg, Md. At the Bth
National Junior Show, she moved
into the reserve grand cham
pionship slot from the reserve spot
in Division IV.
All proceeds trom this calf will
be used to support the junior
Holstein youth for their judging
school practices, and state and
national convention trips.
For more details concerning this
Benefit Calf Project, contact
Darnel Albright at 717-789-3387.
for A J.C.
Miss Opdyke was designated for
sponsorship by the Interstate Milk
Producers Cooperative, while the
others were sponsored by the
Delaware Council of Fanner
Cooperatives.
Miss Shahan was honored by
being voted the Outstanding Girl at
the Pennsylvania Institute, and
Raymond Vincent of Laurel won
the Delaware Scholarship Award.
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