Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1950-08-18

Livestock entries are usually
heavy, indicative of Madison
Countys high position in the
livestock production field.
The special entertainment
scheduled for Sunday will be two
performances of The Buckeye
Frolics 2:3O p. m. and 500
p. m. The show includes Jimmy
James, guest-star from the Ma
tional Barn Dance, Montana Me-
echy with Ross Henricks and his
Buckaroos, The Lazy Ranch Boys
with Casey Clark and Barefoot
Brownie Reynolds, The String
Busters, Shirley Ann, a yodeler;
The Columbian Singers, Jake
Noble, Bob Miller and Lloyd
Stiles of Station WRFD.
Races Begin Monday
The Fair speed program gets
under way Monday and continues
throughout the fair, weather per-
mitting.
Fair Board members are this
year repeating a purse offered for
the first time in 1949 with the
idea of attracting better horses for
the racing program.
The idea of $500 purse and
$1,000 purse for Free-for- All
trot on the two big days, caught
the fancy of merchants, race en-
thusiasts and board members and
all contributed to make up the
purses.
1t was such a success that
purse of $1,000 in the event will
be offered for Wednesday and
81 500 in the same event Thurs
day.
Better Horses
The fair board has reported
that these two special purses were
the means of attracting better
horses, larger crowds and great
er enthusiasm at the races last
year.
Show Every Night
Entertainments billed for re-
naming nights of the fair are
the Broadway Scandals with an
extra large cast for Monday Aug.
21; the Joie Chitwood Auto Dare
devil Show Tuesday, August %;
the WLW Television show, We'd
nesday August % and the All.
Star Wrestling Show, Thursday
August "a.
Invite Central Ohio
Robert Hines, Fair Board
President and Fred NJ. Guy, Sec
retary Treasurer, announced
Thursday that an invitation had
been extended to all central Ohio
to attend the Madison County
Fair.
Monday August q will be free
day for children under II years
of age. The yougsters that day
will be guests of the Fair Board.
Fair patrons at the 61st annual
exposition will be able to get free
chest x-rays on the grounds. The
visit of the Mobile x-ray unit to
the Playground is sponsored by
the Madison County tuberculosis
Association and Madison County
Health Department.
Secretary Guy stated Thursday
that all of the WLW personnel
will be at the Fair for the Tele-
vision Show Wednesday night
August % Two of the WLW per-
formers will fly to the fair. Their
plane will land at Plain City be-
cause of the lack of landing facili-
ties at London, Mr.. Guy said.
WLW has requested the High
way Patrol or Sheriff's Office to
provide them with an escort from
Plain City to the Playground since
they will have only IS minutes
from landing time until show
time. They have notified Mr..
Guy their plane is scheduled to
land at Plain City at 7:45 p. m.
An added attraction for the
WLW Show will be the Arden
Dancers.
Office Personnel
Personnel in charge of the Fair
Board office, includes Mrs. Glenn
Sponsler, Mrs. Al B. Cauley and
Mrs. G +. Traphagen, according
TO Secretary Guy.
They have been handling en-
tries for the fair and transacting
other business OF the fair board :
IN preparation for opening of the
annual exposition.