FAIR ASSOCIATION
ELECTS OFFICERS
Sunday afternoon at 2:00 the
meeting of the stockholders of the
NWA Fair Association was called
to order by Pres. Johnson. After
reading the minutes of the meeting
held Dec. 28, 1946, President John
son delared nominations for direc
tors in order, whereupon the fol
lowing were nominated and elect
ed: Sammy Mogg, Mrs. Rhetha
Harper, Ole Hay, A. Polet, Rev
Lewis Hudgins, Mrs. Margaret
Mozee, Miss Eunice Logan.
The secretary instructed to call
1 e newly elected directors togeth
er and cause the election of of
ficers.
General discussion followed af- i
ter which a motion was made and
unanimously passed recommend
ing to the board of directors to
consider the advisability of again
offering a car, also to hold a pop
ularity contest for the Queen of
the Fair, also to take steps to or
ganize a dog racing committee an-4
to give races leading to the day of
the fair when a long race will be
run and the Fair Queen will pre
side over same. The big race can
be held after the closing of the
JOHN OLSON WINS
"20-40“ PARKA
The 20-40 Club held its first
public dance last Saturday at the
Territorial School with a fine at
tendance of enthusiastic dancers.
Highlight of the evening was the
raffling of a’ beautiful fur parka
which was won by John H. Olson
of the N. C. Co.
Music was furnished by the
Hyde orchestra with Bobby
Whiten at the piano, Woodbury
Abbey on the trumpet and Fred
Hyde, trap man.
Presiding at the punch bowl
were Mr. and Mrs. Yakubovsky.
GRAB BAG
BERNE, Ind. (VP)—Book dealer
Fred von Gunten’s most profitable
mystery today was not bound in
printed pages, though it was
sheathed in leather.
Von Gunten said a customer
looking at his stock of b llfolds
found one with S35 currency in it.
Von Gunten was still more amazed
when the customer chose another
wallet.
Fair, in order that personnel of the
fair may have the opportunity of
taking part in the festivities.
Detroit Newspaper Places
Old Files In School Library
EAST LANSING, Mich. —The
department of journalism at Mich
igan State College has received ap
proximately 700 bound volumes of
the Detroit Free Press. The gift
came through an offer of Morgan
Oates, Free Press Librarian, who
contacted Prof. A. A. Applegate,
head of the journalism depart
ment.
The run dates back 50 years
f'om 1940. Lack of library facili
ties make it impossible to open the
collection for public use but as
soon as cataloguing and rebinding
can be completed the volumes will
be on display.
Jackson E. Towne. head librar
ian, values the collection at $1,200.
Other long runs of the Free Press
are on file at the University of
Michigan library the Michigan
State library at Lansing, and the
public libraries of Detroit and
Grand Rapids.
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KINGS OF ENGLAND didn’t
alway’s speak the ‘King’s English,’
according to the Encyclopaedia
Britannica. English did not be
come the native tongue of the
kings of England until the reign of
Henry IV. 1367-1413.
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FEARSOME FOUR HARMONIZE —Rose
Bowl bound. Alabama’s Vaughn ‘Pancho’ Mancha, Harry Gilmer,
Hal Self and Tom Whitley (left to right) sing “California, Here 1
Come” after the players accepted the bid to play in the Rose Bowl.
PHYSICAL IDENTIFICATION
PORTLAND, Ore. (/P) — Joseph
H. McCusker bit the leg of a man
attempting to hold him up.
Today police held David A.
Crawford, 21, on a charge of as
sault and robbery, asserting Craw
ford’s leg had the unmistakeable
marks of teeth when they stopped
him.
ALMOST ONE-THIRD of all
the aliens in the United States live
in New York state, according to
the Encyclopaedia Britannica. Sec
ond in size of alien population is
California; third is Pennsylvania,
according to figures of March 1,
1944, which showed a total of
3,600,000 aliens in the United
States.
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