All-Canadian Jr. Judging competition winner: Charles Pirie, thirteen-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. George Pirie, Elmside View Farms, Bristol, has won the All-Canadian Judging Competition held in conjunction with the All-Canadian Holstein Competition sponsored by the Holstein-Friesian Journal.

Charles had a perfect score of 120 points, as did fifteen other contestants, but place first in the nation and in Quebec on the draw.

Charles, who has completed one year’s work with the Shawville 4-H Calf Club led by Brian Drummond and George Coles, placed second in his club for the year’s work.

An interesting award: Margaret Easy and her brother Harold live in a house by the side of the railroad and Margaret has been a friend of the passing railroad crews for nearly fifty years.

It is the main line of the C.N.R. and trains running between Montreal and Vancouver run past about sixty feet from her window of her house in Norway Bay, at all hours of the day or night and Margaret waves a handkerchief to them in daylight hours and flashes a light at night, in railroad circles referred to as “highballing”.

Over the years, crews have become accustomed to Margaret’s wave and come to look for it. Perhaps it is because their home near Norway Bay is the first house the crew sees after coming out of the bush and river country after leaving Fitzroy Harbour.

Some time ago, the railroad men were planning a banquet in Ottawa to honour those who would soon be retiring and there, along with 350 railroaders including those to be pensioned, Margaret was honoured by being presented with a handsomely crafted plaque in honour of her fifty years of highballing.