' ffiTh Statesman, Sclera, Oro Thursday, PorerJOT lh 1S52 Polk Dairy Herd Improvement Group Compares Cow Costs Br LILXJE I. MADSEN Farm Editor, The States man RICKREALL A variation in profit of $207.74 per row was dis closed Wednesday at the annual meeting of the Polk County Dairy Herd Improvement Association held at the Rickreall Grange Hall, with Elmer Werth of Valley Junction presiding. The average profit above feed cost for the 10 high cows in the association was $402.57, while the average for the 10 low cows was $194.83. While the difference is not quite so great on the average in a large herd, it still runs into money. Jack Every. Dallas, acting secretary, reported. The average per cow in the two high herds (40 cows) was $396.43 while the average in the two large herds of the same num ber of cows was $216.04. Every explained that the pur pose of the association was to en courage dairymen to learn what their cows were producing and to retain only those giving the higher profits. Polk County Testa During 1952 there were 31 herds numbering 1,123 cows tested in Polk County. These cows averag ed 7,776 pounds of milk contain ing an average of 389.8 pounds of butterfat, giving an average value of products per cow of $505.50, with the total average feed cost per cow set at $236.43. The aver age return per cow above feed cost was $269.07. To Lloyd Spires, Dallas, went the honors for having the highest producing herd. His 12 Jerseys averaged 8,944 pounds of milk containing an average of 503.1 pounds of butterfat. The largest herd in the association was the 50 cow herd belonging to Jack de Jong of Sheridan, which produced a total of 400,945 pounds of milk containing an average of 437.9 pounds of butterfat. Second high in number of cows was Grace Shephard, Salem, with 42 head which averaged 333.6 pounds of butterfat. Second high in butter fat production per herd was Wal ter Lierman, Independence, with 28 cows averaging 464.9 pounds, niftiest Producer George Gentemann, Independ ence, was announced as owner of the highest producing cow in the association. One of his two-year-old Jerseys produced 11.062 pounds of milk containing 664.6 pounds of butterfat. Gentemann's four-year-old Jer sey also topped that class with 10, 669 pounds of milk containing 633 pounds of butterfat. Topping the list of three-year- olds was Walter Lierman with his Jersey, Sally, which gave 9,942 pounds of milk containing 634 pounds of butterfat. Lierman's five year-old. also a Jersey, topped her class with 12,587 pounds of milk and 652.8 pounds of butterfat. In the six-year-old group Geor ge Knaupp's Jersey was at the head of the list, producing 8,943 pounds of milk containing 467.3 pounds of butterfat. A no-host luncheon was served at noon. During the program hour a film on 'milk producing was shown, and Carl Fuller, weed su pervisor, spoke briefly on his work. Werth was re-elected president and N. John Hanson secretary treasurer. Lester Stewart was chosen as vice president. Hold over directors were Russell Hicks, Salem;M. B. Findley, Rickreall, George Gentemann, Independence. Gentemann, speaking on youth activities, urged offering a trophy for a "Junior Dairyman of the Year" in Polk County in, 1953, and in general stepping up the youth activities of the association. USAF Orders Supersonic Bomber Study WASHINGTON Ufl The Air ..Force said Wednesday it has asked aircraft manufacturers to furnish detailed design studies for supersonic bombers. The Air Force already has order ed into production the long-rmge, high-speed eight-jet B-52 bomber, a sub-sonic plane manufactured by Boeing Airplane Co., Seattle. "Experimental and service test models of this plane were complet ed this year, and it will be in production years before any bomb ers resulting from the current de sign studies," the announcement said. American Aviation Daily, a trade publication, said the Air Force has sponsored two design studies for a supersonic bomber, one by Con vair, the XB-58, and the other by Boeing, the XB-59. The publication said Convair "appears to have the inside track on the project, al though no firm order has been let to date." The Air Force declined to dis cuss this report or to confirm or deny the existence of B-58 and B59 projects. Roseburg Girl Cyclist Killed ROSEBURG IB Laurett Alice De Ross, 12, Roseburg, was killed and her brother, Arthur Lorn, 11, was seriously injured when they were hit by a. car Tuesday night while riding bicycles. Del Ray Carr, 17, Roseburg, the car driver, was booked at the county jail by state police on a negligent homicide charge. The accident occurred on a rural road on the Roseburg outskirts. INDIANS TO GET MONEY WARM SPRINGS W Some $420,000 in revenue from the sale of pine timber will be divided this month by the 1,200 enrolled mem bers of the Warm Springs Reser vation. Each will get $350. The timber Was sold to the Warm Springs and Da hi Lumber Companies. Reds Launch Heavy Attack On West Front By GEORGE MCASTHUR SEOUL, Thursday (fl Chinese Red troops launched their biggest attack in a month early Thursday on the Western front. South Korean soldiers fought doggedly in sub- freezing weather to hold Nori Hill and another outpost against the Communist onslaught. The Chinese opened ud with a heavy artillery and mortar bar rage shortly after midnight. Then they hurled attacks up to 300 men in strength at these two outposts of the Kelly Hill mass northwest of Yonchon. Slowly they fed in fresh troops until the attacking force was 1,400 string. South Koreans resisted bitterly. at some points in hand-to-hand fighting. The second outpost under attack is one mile west of Kelly Hill. At one stage of the fighting. South Koreans pulled off the hill west of Kelly. They reoccupied it later. On the Central front, the Reds sent small assaults against Snip er Ridge. In the air war, 12 Okinawa based B-29 Superforts bombed four Red Korean targets Wednesday night. They hit two supply centers at Kangdong and Moktong in the center of the peninsula a steel mill and a front line target. Air Force and Marine fighter bombers destroyed four Chinese artillery positions Tuesday. They unloaded 96,000 pounds of bombs at the big guns. Twin-engined B-26 light bombers attacked Communist transport. Pi lots reported 75 trucks destroyed last night. A U. S. Sabre ace bagged on Wednesday his second jet since returning from a tour of duty in the U. S. Lt. James A. 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