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Show : &toMgay Night all til Fain' ! each day. Thursday the 1 1th is Variety Day featuring the pigeon judging, a sheep shearing demonstration, a music and vocal competition and at 4:45 p.m. the Twin Contest (register at the bandstand, In the evening there will be a sky diving act, a ventriloquist, a hypnotist, a v Laotian entertainer and .a1' horse show. Friday is Kid's Day children 6-12 years old admitted free with eight Coca Cola bottle caps. Entries will be accepted until 10 a.m. for the flower show. There will be a magician, a piano contest, the judging of beef cattle and a horse pulling pull-ing contest. Saturday is Kid's Day too with a Jr. Horse Show in the morning and the judging of dairy cattle. At noon the famous Freckle Contest. Sunday is the fair finale. Throughout the afternoon and evening, the U of U wind brass and percussion competition com-petition will continue. At 7:15 Bob Munden billed as the fastest gun in the West will give a demonstration followed by a marimba band and an early 9 p.m. closing. . . . I . i The Utah State Fair closes this Sunday at 9pm. was particularly difficult to maneuver in and out of but in between shoulders bumping shoulders, it was possible to glimpse some exceptional professional and amateur work. On to the Horticultural Hall ... The Horticultural Hall has a timeless quality to it, as if the exhibits had remained unchanged since the 1930s. Neon lights marked the county exhibits, maps inlaid in grains, a barn built of beans, a paper mache skier (guess where ...) a cabinet of indigenous products and straight forward maps of the coal counties. It was hard to tell whether the exhibits accurately portrayed the character of the counties or just of their particular involvement with the . fair. The Central Utah Project took the opportunity to put on an elaborate production. Fountains and greenery served ser-ved to suggest what would come from the slides of concrete tunnels and dams which were accompanied by an explanatory tape. The center of the hall was dominated by the winning produce considerably worse for wear already only three days into the fair. ' The Utah State Fair continues through this Sunday, Sun-day, the 14th. The fairgrounds fair-grounds are open from 7 a.m. toll p.m. with special events scheduled throughout By Nan Chalat "Three trys for half .a dollar step right up!" "Ok folks, don't miss this chance to -see the amazing backwards back-wards chicken ..." "Featuring "Featur-ing a real chocolate brown ' zebra ..." Professional scam-sters scam-sters still it would be fun just to take a look at the pigmy horse (just to figure out what the trick is, of - - course) and how tough could it be to drop one of those rings over the top of a 64 oz. coke bottle? It is Saturday night at the Utah State Fair. There are families everywhere. Mom and Dad are holding the youngest's hand while the older ones brandish plastic sabers, helium balloons and cotton candy. There is literally something here for everyone". There are carnival rides that spin, that soar, that crash and some too for those with weaker stomachs: sto-machs: There is plenty of food, not exotic or particularly particu-larly nutritious but certainly American slabs of pizza, dripping ears of corn, Americanized Mexican fast food, snow tones, taffy apples, hot dogs, peanuts, taffy, fudge, ad infinitum. Just enough fuel to propel the crowd- around the" circuit of special interest booths and major exhibit halls. - The special interest booths are the most fascinating part of the fair. For those who imagine Utah to be a homogeneous entity they are , an eye opener. Note for instance that the Utah Athesist Society is just two booths down from one selling . teeshirts that say Happiness is Family Home Evening, which is one booth up from the Utah Chapter of the John Birch Society. Someone though had the diplomatic foresight to put the ERA supporters on a different isle and: to intersperse most of the , opposing political factions fac-tions with friendly dealers in wood stoves, food dryers, torquoise jewelry and handcrafted hand-crafted toys, i Energy related booths were the" most popular. Trying to save money knows no political bounds. Liberals and conservatives spent much of their time at the fair looking oyer? solar accessories accessor-ies and windmills. Another popular booth seemed to be the Utah Division of Public Safety exhibit which features an impressively wrecked car. ' The fairly smooth movement move-ment of human traffic ran into a few jams in front of r ; ; each of the exhibit halls. The 'A photography exhibit, set up as a series of tiny alcoves, each filled with winning nature and portrait photos 5,., , i tarn ' .n.,,--" XV " ! ' V . 1 I S " s ' - - - ' dry, . SH- v 7 , ;' i !'wKr f- T Colonel. ..Saxton of Price won 2nd place in the Utah State Fair Look-A-Like Contest. .. . . .... . ... 4. 1 1 ' li y . ,l.lV . . ' W 4 . . A. ' -.l .V.w. If :.., , Learn to identify native species at the Wildlife Resources Exhibit, Ex-hibit, v . .v.-i;...-': |
