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Niebauer Family Dominates Cambria Livestock Shows
BY MARGIE FUSCO
Cambria Co. Correspondent
EBENSBURG - Winning is aU
in the family with the Niebauers.
The children of Jerry and Paul
Niebauer, brothers of RD 1
Ebensburg, in Cambria County,
enjoyed some friendly competition
at the Cambria County Fair and
came away with most of the
livestock honors.
Jerry’s twins Tina and Todd, age
14, came away the big winners.
Tina’s 1,220-pound Angus steer
took the grand champion rosette in
both the Baby Beef and Cloverleaf
County-Bred steer competitions.
Todd rounded out the field with the
grand champion trophies for swine
and lamb. Tina was also named
champion showman and fitter in
the Baby Beef show, and Todd was
named champion showman in the
swine judging.
To round out the honors, younger
brother Matt, age 10, took home his
share of ribbons in steer and swine
competition and was named
reserve champion showman and
fitter in the swine judging. And not
to be outdone by his children, Jerry
got serious about the parents’
Missy Steinman and her Cloverleaf reserve champion.
Pictured with her are 4-H leader Don Mayer and Union Press
representatives.
Market Show Entries Sell For $57,000
MARGIE FUSCO
Cambria Co. Correspondent
EBENSBURG - Tina Niebauer
is $7,015 closer to her dream of
becoming a veterinarian. Her 1220-
pound Angus steer, Augie, the
grand champion of the Baby Beef
4-H and Cloverleaf County-Bred
Beef 4-H Shows at the Cambria
County Fair, brought a record
breaking bid of $5.75 a pound in a
heated competition. When the
gavel fell, Sherri George, owner of
Hoss’s Restaurant, Johnstown,
Dale Hoover, (left), Hatfield Packing, bought Todd
Niebauer's champion market hog.
showmanship category in the
Cloverleaf beef show and came
home with the grand champion
award.
The Paul Niebauer children, 17-
year-old Mike and 15-year-old Lori,
made an excellent showing as well.
Lori’s 1,100-pound Angus steer was
named the reserve grand cham
pion in the Baby Beef show and
reserve champion showman in the
senior division of the Cloverleaf
show. Matt won champion
Showman honors in the senior
division of the Cloverleaf show and
grand champion fitter in the swine
show.
Noting that she is close to her
brothers and her cousins, Tina
Niebauer summed up the family
honors, saying, “I’m proud of all of
us.”
Cloverleaf Steer Show
The third annual Cloverleaf
County-Bred 4-H Steer Show, held
September 3 as part of the Cam
bria County Fair, drew praise
from Judge Glenn Eberly. “The
club has made great strides in just
a few years,” he said. “They show
extremely good depth of quality.”
Eberly, director of the Meat
Animal Evaluation Center in State
emotional bidding war with
Cambria County commissioner
Ron Stevenson. Miss Niebauer’s
steer sold for $2.50 more per pound
than the 1985 grunu aiampion
animal.
By the end of the Thursday night
sale, auctioneer Chester Davis of
Ebensburg had garnered bids for
118 animals for a total of $57,760 in
sales. Proceeds fronTthe sale go
directly to the 4-H members.
Missy Stineman, 17, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Stineman of
RD#l,Sidman, took hr $3,762.50
College, was judging the program
for the second year in a row and
could offer a comparison from 1985
to 1986 winners. He told the
audience that about a dozen of the
35 entries were on a caliber to
compete with the best animals in
the state.
The Cambria County Fair,
unlike other fairs across the state,
holds separate shows for county
bred and non-county steers.
Results of the fair’s livestock
events are as follows.
CLOVERLEAF COUNTY BRED SHOW
Light Lightweight
Jett Stmeman
Medium Lightweight
Todd Niebauer
Heavy Lightweight
Mike Niebauer
Champion Lightweight
Mike Niebauer
Reserve Champion Lightweight
Todd Niebauer
Light Medium Weight
Missy Stmeman
Medium Medium Weight
Missy Stmeman
Heavy Medium Weight
Stefame Kazmer
Medium Weight Champion
Missy Stmeman
Reserve Medium Weight Champion
Missy Stmeman
Light Heavyweight
Andrea Sharretts
Medium Heavyweight
Tina Niebauer
Heavy Heavyweight
Dennis Dumm
Champion Heavyweight
Tina Niebauer
Reserve Champion Heavyweight
Dennis Dumm
Grand Champion
Tina Niebauer
Reserve Grand Champion
Missy Stmeman
Senior Champion Showman
Mike Niebauer
Reserve Senior Champion Showman
Lori Niebauer
Junior Champion Showman
Staci Kazmer
Reserve Junior Champion Showman
Danny Myers
Senior Champion Fitter
Dennis Dumm
Reserve Senior Champion Fitter
Jarrod McCombie
Junior Champion Fitter
Staci Kazmer
Reserve Junior Champion Fitter
Stephanie Kazmer
BABY BEEF CLUB SHOW
Light Lightweight
Todd Niebauer
Medium Lightweight
Todd Niebauer
Heavy Lightweight
Matt Niebauer
Champion Lightweight
Todd Niebauer
Reserve Champion Lightweight
Matt Niebauer
Light Medium Weight
when Charles J. Pudliner, Jr.,
Meats of Johnstown offered a
winning bid of $3.50 for the
□overleaf Show reserve grand
champion, a 1075-pound Angus
steer. Pudliner’s bid was $1.55
higher than the winning bid for the
□overleaf reserve champion in the
1985 sale.
Lori Niebauer earned $1,705 for
her Baby Beef Show reserve
champion steer, a 1100-pound
Angus, which brought a winning
bid of $1.55 a pound from the
Riverside Market in Vinco. Total
steer sales for 40 animals brought
in $40,508, or an average of 91 cents
a pound.
Todd Niebauer’s grand cham
pion 250-pound Duroc hog brought
a winning bid of $3.05 a pound or
$762.50 from Hatfield Packing
Company. Lore Fnedel, 15,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. D.L.
Fnedel of Wilmore, received $4ll
or $1.75 a pound from Charles
Pudliner, Jr., for her 235-lb.
reserve champion cross-bred hog
Forty-seven hogs were auctioned
at an average price of $1.07 per
pound, bringing in a total of
$11,157 35
Todd Niebauer also added
$4Ol 50 to his bank account when
Don Templeton of Ebensburg
produced a winning bid of $3 65 a
pound for the youngster's 110-
pound cross-bred wethi i, thi
fair’s grand champion market
lamb. Ten-yeai old Sara Puruc
zky, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
William Purucztu ot Summerhill,
took home $l9O hr her reserve
grand champion lamb, a 100-pound
" • *i " winri'ig
Mike Niebauer
Medium Medium Weight
Mike Niebauer
Heavy Medium Weight
Lon Niebauer
Champion Medium Weight
Lon Niebauer
Reserve Champion Medium Weight
champion steer. Representing the Union Press Courier,
sponsors of the Cloverleaf Show, are Carmen Cammarata
and Francis Albright.
calf, Blackie.
bidder was Mr. Pudliner.
The market lamb sale brought in
$2,693.80 for 17 animals. The
average price was $1.50 per pound.
Scot Wagner, 14, son of Mr. and
Mrs. John Wagner of RD #l,
Homer City, earned $501.50 for his
grand champion veal calf, a 295-
pound Shorthorn bull named
Blacky. The winning bid was of
fered by the Riverside Market in
Vinco. John Strittmatter, 16, son of
Mr. and Mrs. John Strittmatter of
RD 1, Ebensburg, took home $364
for his reserve grand champion
Holstein bull veal calf. The win
ning bid of $1.40 was offered by Mr.
Pudliner.
empleton, Ebensburg.
Mike Niebauer
Medium Heavyweight
Tina Niebauer
Champion Heavyweight
Tina Niebauer
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Fourteen veal calves were
placed on the block and brought in
a total of $3,400.30. The average
sale price was 91 cents a pound.
Premier buyer for the sale was
Charles Pudliner, who purchased
15 animals for a total of $8,459.31.
There were 62 bidders in the sale,
50 of whom purchased animals.
Two animals were donated to
local groups. Food for Families in
Johnstown received an 84-pound
lamb donated by Dan Till of RD 8,
Johnstown and the Holsopple Feed
Mill. The Presbyterian Home of
Johnstown received a 127-pound
lamb donated by Ike Hughes of
Portage.