Douglas daily dispatch., 1928-03-07
RICE OUTLINES CONDITIONS
UPON WHICH HE WILL ACCEPT
PRESIDENCY OF ASSOCIATION
Chosen to Head Cochise County Fair Board, He Says
Raising Of Fund Which VIII Insure Successful Meet
ing Is Requirement Outlook That IL Will Happen

Two developments were noted yes
terday in the NO, ement to make cer-
tain that there will be a fair meeting
held this year by the Cochise County
Fair association One was the general
approval Of the action of the sock
holders in proceeding to name a board
CT directors and Of the directors to
elect officers for the year and the
other was the statement issued by Rex
Rice, who was tho unanimous choice
of the directors for president, Of the
terms upon which he will step into the
position of president md give the at
tention, effort and time required to
make q fair successful.
Mr.. Rice was on business and
pleasure trip to Nacozari which had
kept him over Sunday and Monday
trd when he returned yesterday and
found he had been elected president
Of the fair aSsoci 1tion in his absence
he issued n statement covering his view
of the situation. He has been one OF
the consistent proponents of oontinu-
ing the fair meetings and he believes
that to be the best policy of the city,
but he believes that TO do that 1t
should be upon l., definite business
basis that would insure q successful
fair from the beginning of the work
to develop the program. Mr.. Rice said;
There has been great deal of dis
cussion over the CochiSe county fair,
to be or not to be- The various Of
fices have been rendered to, and re-
fused by n4ny, no one seemed in
clined to do the work or take the re-
sponsibility of putting on the fair.
Il have been away from Douglas two
days and was not advised of the
stockholders meeting and of course
was absent The position of president
was pushed on to me due to the Act
that 1 was not there, to refuse, same
as the rest did.
II hesitate to say that / will not
serve, for two reasons. First, 1 firmly
believe that some good comes to Co
chise county from the fair and indi
rectly a great da ! Of good to Douglas,
and it would be back-sliding to quit
at this point. Second, / have openly
worked for the continuance Of the fair
and expected to help with the work
but had no idea of being president
"I will accept the position upon one
condition and that is that the cham
Der of commerce or some welfare club
appoint. workers to raise budget of
$4,000 on or before April l. 1928. The
money can be raised and if Douglas
wants the fair, it will be no trouble for
a good committee to raise the above
amount.
IN reason for making the above re-
Guest is due to the fact that money
matters have always been one Of the
big worries andS having been left to
the last minute, made it hard to col
lect and finance the obligations enter
ed into by the directors. Pledges
should be paid in at once and not
postponed until fair time.
81 feel tltlt a big, better than ever,
fair can be held in Douglas in 1928
and whether or not the public desire a
continuance of the fair should be evil
denced by the subscriptions received
by the committee in case a committee
is appointed.
"The' limit of April l is set for the
simple reason that a successful fair
takes months of preparation" :
The position A.ken by the president
elect met with approval of all those
who learned of the nature of it yes
terday. He struck note that har-
nonized with the general view of bust