THE DAILY NEBRASKAN
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Ag Cotton and Denim Week
Heralds 1949 Farmers Fair
Friday, April 22, 1949
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Cottons and denims will be the
order of dress next week at Ag
college in anticipation of the
coming 1949 Farmers Fair, April
29 and 30.
Farmers Fair activities will be
gin on Thursday when the Whis
ker King contestants will be
judged at 5 p.m. in the Student
Activities building. Dr. T. H.
Goodding and Prof. M. A. Alex
ander will judge on the basis of
the best growth since March 23
The winner will be kept secret
until the Farmers Fair dance Fri
day.
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ERNIE GOTSCIIALL posts a Farmers Fair poster on one of the
rodeo arena chutes on Ag campus. Watching him and ready with
some more advertising for the gala affair April 30 is Jim Monahan.
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ITP GOES AG CAMPUS' first permanent rodeo arena! Don Bever
sinks a bit into one of the corral posts as Frank Bruning, left,
intently watches the procedure. Jim Monahan, back to camera,
lends assistance to the construction operation.
Tickets On Sale Now! 75c ttfn
The Annual Kosmer Klub spring musical
'1ETS CHANGE THE SUBJECT'
Directed by George Randol
Tuesday, April 26 Nebraska Theatre
Wednesday, April 27 Lincoln High Auditorium
G your ticket from any Kotmri Klmh
worker, Student Union booth, or box office.
Saturday's activities will open
with a parade, "The Progress of
Agriculture." It will begin at 10
a.m. at Ag campus, and will pass
through city campus, proceed
down O street and return to Ag
campus.
Open house will begin at 9 a.m.
and will be on exhibition until 6
p.m. Two trophies will be pre
sented this year. One will go to
the outstanding women's display
and the other to the winning
men's display.
Rodeo-goers will be admitted
into the arena at 1 p.m. Saturday.
The entire show will last approx
imately 2 hours. Bleachers with
a capacity for 3,500 people have
been constructed to accommodate
the huge attendance expected.
After the rodeo a barbecue for
Ag students will be held on lower
Ag campus. ,
The finale for the 1949 Farmers
Fair will be a square dance in
the College Activities building
from 8-12 p.m. Saturday, April 30.
Open House
Farmers Fair will open on Ag
campus, Saturday, April 30 at 9
a.m. with the departmental open
house. Visitors may spend the day
on the campus, seeing the all
studont managed and designed
event. Displays will be open un
til 6 p.m.
A special women's program
will be given from 10 to 12 a.m.
and from 3:30 to 5 p.m. in the
Foods and Nutrition and Home
Economics buildings.
The purpose of the open house
is to bring the latest develop
ments in research and resident
teachings for display and to bring
about new ideas in the Home
Economics and Agricultural fields.
Two plaques will be presented
this year. One will go to the out
standing women's display and the
other to the winning men's dis
play. Co-chairmen for the open
house are Keith Arterburn, Sue
Bjorklund and Harriet Moline.
Fair Parade
"The Progress of Agriculture"
will be the theme of the Farmers
Fair parade to be held Saturday
morning. Each organization, club
and organized house on Ag cam
pus will enter a float for the pa
rade. Floats will be judged on the
theme of the parade.
No prizes are being offered for
the floats, but $5.00 will be given
to each organization to spend on a
float. The parade will begin at
10 a. m. at Ag college and will
proceed to city campus and down
O street.
TONIGHT IS
COLLEGE
NIGHT
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Couples Only
Adm. 11-50 per oupI
Tmn Included
Dancing 9 Till 12
JUST GETTING ACQUAINTED! These three Ag co-eds, Ramona
Young, Marilyn Weir and Gwen Monson, look over one of the
calves they'll be chasing in the Farmers Fair hilarious co-ed
calf etching contest to be held Saturday afternoon, April 30.
Rodeo
Climaxing Farmers Fair activ
ities will be the second annual
rodeo held. Saturday afternoon at
1:30 p.m. in the newly constructed
arena north of the Beef barn.
Jack King, well-known midwest
rodeo and horse show announcer,
will handle the verbal account of
the rodeo. The list of competitive
events for the rodeo include sad
dle bronc riding, bare back rid
ing, calf roping, bull riding, wild
cow milking, cow cutting, and
co-ed calf catching.
Bob Eggert, chairman of the
rodeo committee, reports that the
arena is near completion. All
work on the construction of the
arena has been handled by Ag
students, who are interested in
seeing that the rodeo becomes an
annual event in the Farmers Fair
program.
Tickets will be on sale in the
Ag Union. Prices are adults, 60
cents and children, 30 cents.
Bleachers with a capacity for
3,500 people have been constructed.
Barbecue
Barbecue pits will be lighted at
a huge out-of-doors Farmers Fair
rally at about 11:30 p. m .on Fri
day, following the pre-Fair dance.
The ranch-style affair will be
served at 5:30 p. m. on Saturday.
Ticket sales for the barbecue
feast will close Friday, April 22.
Sales are restricted to Ag college
students, alumni and faculty peo
ple. Plans are being made to serve
between 750 and 1,000 people. Last
year 720 attended the feast.
Barbecuing this year will be
done by Prof. W. J. Loeffel, chair
man of the animal husbandry de
partment. All the barbecuing will
be done on the Ag college cam
pus. Co-chairmen of the barbecue
committee this year are Donna
Rudisil and Jack Baird.
Cotton-Denim Hop
The Cotton and Denim dance
is scheduled for 9 p.m. Friday in
the ballroom of the Student Ac
tivities building. Rural frocks and
jeans will again take the spot
light in the form of cotton and
denim. The dance will officially
open the Farmers Fair festival.
Jack Swanson and his orches
tra will furnish music for the
pre-Fair dance. The feature of
the evening will be the presenta
tion of the Goddess of Agricul
ture and the Whisker King. The
Whisker King's award for his out
standing growth will be a kiss
from the Goddess of Agriculture
and the first dance after the pre
sentation. Tfckets for the dance will Be
on sale next week in the Ag
Union for $2.00 per couple. They
may also be otained from any
Farmers Fair board member, and
will be sold at the door at the
dance, according to Connie Cros
by, chairman of the dance.
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