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2 The News-Review, Roteburg, Ore. Tuej., Aug. 21, 1956 Activities Crowd Fair Agenda Grandstand, Pavilion Sites Of Four-Day Entertainment A four-day schedule of special; judges, and their decisions will be events is planned 10 please and iinal. entertain fair goers at the 1956 Douglas County Fair, Aug. 23-26. Thursday morning, will begin with the judging of livestock, foods, community bootns. land products, and farm crops. The remaining judging will be completed inuay and Saturday mornings. The Ott and Ricketts Talent Con test will be run off each night of the fair with the finals held fa unci ay night. Red Rcfnolds, cowboy tele vision star, will act as master of ceremonies during the entire con test. Every night at 6 p.m., fair goers will witness an old-fashioned balloon ascension act. The balloon ascends and at a certain altitude the rider parachutes from the bal loon. Sheep dog trials will be held Fri day afternoon in front of the grand stand. A giant free barbecue will be in front of the grandstand with the Governor, Elmo Smith as hon ored guest. The barbecue, sponsor ed by the Hoscburg Lions Club, has been a feature of the fair for the past three years. Fans will thrill to the horse rac es, which will take place both Sat urday and Sunday afternoons. There will be special entertain ment between races. The 4-H style revue will be held on Saturday aft ernoon. Following the revue is the junior livestock auction in the judging arena. Micro-midget rac ing is to be held Saturday and Sun day evenings in front of the grand stand. The giant free barbecue will be Saturday. Once again fairgoers will feast on a thick slab of prime beef cradled in a monstrous bun, covered with a delicious barbecue sauce. Ice cream and soft drinks will be served. The chef will again be Al Oliver from Corvallis. The Hoscburg Lions Club will begin barbecuing the meat Friday evening so that all will be ready to go at 12:30 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 25, in front of the grandstand. The lady Lions will again serve this luncheon to hun gry fairgoers. An added feature to the feast will be Gov. Elmo Smith, who will preside as honored guest. He will speak in the pavillion on Saturday. He will be the second governor in the past three years to attend the fair. In 1!54, the late Gov. Paul Patterson was here. Two exciting days of horse rac ing have been planned as part of the entertainment at the fair. On Saturday at 2:30, horses from Se attle to San Francisco will line up at the starting gate for the first race of the day, announces racing secretary Harry Hucklcr of Olal la. Model airplanes will compete be tween races in a contest sponsor ed by Lester's Toy and Hobby Shop. Enthusiastic horse fans will view six races run Saturday the 25. Sunday will be another day of top entertainment with post time at 1:30. For added enjoyment be tween races, the Umpqua Cutting and Roping Club is sponsoring a calf roping and cow cutting contest where cowboys will compete for cash prizes. These two days of horse racing promise to be a fore runner of a full scale racing meet at the fair next year. Alert and well-trained sheep dogs will compete at 2 p.m. Fri day, at tho fairgrounds in the fourth annual Douglas County Sheep Dog Trials. A total of $210 in prizes will be awarded at the trials this year. En tries are open to any working sheep dog. There is no entry fee. A max imum of eight dogs will be accept ed, with preference to dogs enter ed in previous years. Tb dog must fetch sheep from corner of arena, run them through a gate and then pen them. The dogs will work with approximately five sheep. All sheep used will be similar and none used twice. The handler or owner of the dog may assist the dog in any way he desires. However, this will be tak- en into account in judging, and ex cess assistance will count against; the dog owner. There will be three Judging will be based on judg ment of the dog, obedience by the dog of signals from the handler, time to pen sheep, and assistance Irom the handier. "One of the fair's most popular features, the Ott and Ricketts tal ent show, will be presented again at the 1956 Fair. Douglas County entertainers will compete for prizes in this fourth annual show. The first round of premliminaries will be held Thurs day evening at 7:30 in the pavilion. This year the fair brings as mas ter of ceremonies Red Reynolds, KVAL-TV cowboy star. He is known to everyone as the red-headed cowboy with his guitar. Friday night at 7:30 winds up the preliminaries. The semi-finals will be staged Saturday evening. The big night is Sunday night at 7 p.m. when the-finalists will vie for top awards. Facilities are even better for the contest as the stage has been made larger, repainted and better lighting installed. There is no age limit or entry fee, the only require ment being residence in Douglas County. Entries can now be made by applying in person at the Ott and Ricketts Music Store, corner of Jackson and Cass, Roseburg. En tries can be made either individ ually or by groups of four persons or less. A total of $400 in cash prizes, as well as over $2,000 in merchandise awards will be made. First prize will be $100, plus mer chandise. Every contestant will be elven some prize, states Contest Manag er Chuck Ricketts. The separate catagories wnicn will be judged are dancing, instrumental, vocal (two age groups) and miscellane ous. One of the special events at the 1956 fair will be the nightly flight of an old-fashioned hot air bal loon. This is an event which is rarely seen these days and should prove most exciting. The balloon will take to the air each night of the four-day fair at 6 p.m. The balloon used is a big silk bae filled with hot air and handled by a skilled aerial artist during the ascent. Ralph Wiggens does a trapeze act while hanging from the ballon. Then by releasing his hold on the balloon, the aerial perform er becomes a daring parachute jumper and makes a graceful des cent. He usually lands safely, gath ers his balloon and is ready lor a trip to the sky again the following evening. This balloon event is free there is no special admis sion charge made. Micro-midget racing will be an other new and special feature of the fair. This popular sport is play ed by upwards of 15 go 20 local men in their specially built racing cars, racing on a 1-10 mile oval in front of the fairgrounds stand. First held indoors here in 1955 and again in the winter of 1956, micro-midget racing has become a popular spectator sport. Hold out doors for the first time in Rose burg this year at the fair, it should become a featured attraction. Promoter of the event is Rose burg's Joe Cole, popular racing an nouncer. Cole points out that the midget features can go 70 miles an hour down the highway. Be cause of the turns on the track however, viewers will see them race at 35 and 40 miles an hour. According to Cole, though, 40 mph, when your seat is only two inches off the ground, is like a 150 miles in a normal car. Races will be held Saturday and Sunday evenings with a full racing program to start at 8 p.m. each night. Box seats are available in the grandstand and with the in creased lighting facilities in the arena, this will be a first-class show, promises Cole. The first census on record was made in 3.800 B. C. bv the Baby lonians, says the National Geo graphical Society. Many Events Set In Fair Schedule Fair Schedule THURSDAY, AUGUST M 9:00 a.m. Judging, all divisions. 2:30 p.m. Horse performance classes, grandstand. 6:00 p.m. Balloon ascension, erandstand. 7:30 p.m. Talent contest, first section, pavilion. FRIDAY, AUGUST 24 9:00 a.m. Judging, all divisions. 2:00 p.m. Sheep dog trials, grand stand. 6:00 p.m. Balloon ascension, grandstand. 7:30 p.m. Talent contest, second section, pavilion. SATURDAY, AUGUST 25 9:00 a.m. Judging. 12:30 p.m. Free barbecue, grand stand. 2:00 p.m. Gov. Elmo Smith, pa vilion. 2:30 p.m. Horse races, grand stand. The Cover Paul Jenkins' Leica searches through Douglas County each year for a picture to adorn the cover of the annual county fair edition of The News Review. This year, the search, ing was easy. It ended at the Shady Bridge south of Rose burg one hot June day. Dff to the side and below the highway wos this field of baled hay. We believe it is port of the Happy Valley Ranch. Part of an old or chard frames the field. The baled hay had been set up right, for thundershowers had drenched the area the 'week the picture wos taken. Then the hot sun broke out. Some of the bales still were curing in the sun only few days ago. There hod been no ser ious roins since the liqhtnina quit that June week. pavil- auc- 2:30 p.m. 4-H style revue, ion. 3:00 p.m. Junior Livestock lion, judging arena. 6:00 p.m. Balloon ascension, grandstand. 7:30 p.m. Talent contest, semifi nals, pavilion. 8:00 p.m. Micromidget racing, grandstand. SUNDAY, AUGUST 26 1:30 p.m. Horse races, grand stand. 6:00 p.m. Balloon ascension, grandstand. 7:30 p.m. Talent contest, pavilion. 8:00 p.m. Micromidget races, . grandstand. 4-H, FFA Program WEDNESDAY ' 4 p.m. Judging contests, pavilion. 6 p.m. Entries close. THURSDAY 8:30 a.m. Livestock and dairy judging contests. 9 a.m. Dollar dinner contest, pavilion. 9:30 a.m. Judging of livestock class es. FRIDAY 9 a.m. Swine showmanship. 9 a.m. Canning contest, pavilion. 10 a.m. sheep showmanship. 10:30 a.m. Muffin-baking contest. pavilion. 11 a.m. Poultry showmanship. 11 a.m. Forestry identification. 11:30 a.m. Rabbit showmanship. 1 p.m. Demonstrations. 1 p.m. Cake-baking contest, pavil ion. 1 p.m. Beef showmanship. 2 p.m. Dairy showmanship. 3 p.m. Horsemanship contest. 4 p.m. Rabbit-judging contest. 4 p.m. Poultry-judging contest. SATURDAY 6 a.m. Weigh stock for auction. 9 a.m. Bread-baking contest, pa- vilion. 9:30 a.m. Tractor-driving contest. 10 a.m. Style revue judging, pa vilion. 10:30 a.m. Crops identification contest. 10:30 a.m. Sewing contest. 2:30 D.m. Style revue modeling. 3 p.m. Fat stock auction. SUNDAY 8 p.m. Exhibits released. rKtt BARBECUE mokes typical fair scene. Gov Elmo Snnth this year will be first in line at the feed, to De held Saturday ot 12:30 in front of the grandstand. The Rose- burg Lions Club is expecting to feed 4,000 persons. Later, the governor will speak in the pavilion. (Paul Jenkins photo).
