Something for the Girls

For thousands of bright-cheeked 4-H* Club members, a grand championship at a big livestock show is a headier dream than flying a rocket to the moon. Last week, at the top-billed International Live Stock Exposition at Chicago's International Amphitheater, the coveted purple ribbon went to Lone Star, a Hereford owned by 18-year-old Sue White of Big Spring, Texas, the third girl to win the award in the show's 54-year history.

Sue, who had dropped out of Howard County Junior College after one semester to groom her 4-H animals for this year's shows, had her first taste of glory last February. Then, one of her steers won the grand-championship at Fort Worth's Southwestern Exposition, and was sold to Texas Publisher Amon Carter for $6,000. Sue dutifully turned the money over to her family, hard hit by the drought. At Chicago last week, Hotelman Albert Pick bid $20 a lb. for Sue's steer, highest price ever paid at the Chicago show.* Sue, who paid $189 for the calf, grossed $21,445 ($20,100 in the auction, $1,345 m prizes). Probable net: $13,420.

* Head, heart, hands, health.

* But not the highest price ever paid at a livestock show. At Kansas City, Mo., in 1946, a Hereford steer brought $35.50 a lb.

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