friday, august 29, 1975
daily nebraskan
page 5
Fair attendance
expectation high
Hopes are high for another record-breaking attendance
at the 75th annual Nebraska State Fair which opened its
doors Thursday afternoon.
State Fair Manager Henry Brandt saidthat he hopes to
top the 600,000 attendance mark this year. Last year
577,000 visited the 10-day event.
Brandt said that advanced sales for the nightly
grandstand shows now top 30,000, which he said is the
largest advanced ticket sale in fair history. The record
number of advanced sales is one indicator of a possible
attendance record, Brandt said.
Bio name entertainment highlights the grandstand show.
The Captain and Tennil'e will perform tonight at 7:45. Jack
Albertson and Freddie Prinz, from NBC television's Chico
and the Man, will perform Sunday. Country-western singer
Roy Clark performs on Monday and Tuesday, the Osmond
Brothers perform on Friday,. Sept. 5; Lynn Anderson and
Roger Miller sing Saturday and Sunday, Sept. 6-7.
Ml grandstand shows begin at 7;45 pjn. Reserved
admission to all the shows, except the Osmonds, is $4 while
general admission is $2. -
Reserved admission to the Osmond's show is $6, while
general admission will be $4. .
The gates to the fair open at 8 a.m. starting today until
the fair closes Sept. 7. The Murphy Brothers rides and side
shows begin at 10 a. m. except Tuesday through Thursday
when the midway opens at noon.
Admission to the fair will be $1 .50 per person, up 50
cents from last year. Parking on the fairgrounds the same as
last year. Children under 1 2 are admitted free.
Veterans will be admitted free on Sunday, and citizens
over 60 will be admitted free Wednesday.
Prices for midway rides will range from 50 to 75 cents.
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Photo by Kavin Higtoy
Three youths caught up in the excitement of the Nebraska State Fair and a Daily Nebraskan photographer.
Fairgoers also may purchase books of tickets worth $6 for
$5 and tickets worth $3.50 for $3.
This year's fair will feature several new buildings
including a remodeled industrial arts building, a new horse
barn, a new children's barn and Heritage Village, which
includes a one-room school house which originally stood in
Saunders County and has been restored by the Lincoln
Public Schools, the State Fair Board, the State Historical
. Scoiety and the Junior League of Lincoln.
Entrances to the fair parking lots are at 14th, 17th and
27th streets. The farigrounds has capacity for 20,000 cars,
but as usual, fairgoers who arrive late, especially on
weekends and in the evenings will have to tind parking
away from the fairgrounds, Brandt said.
Lincoln students to taste rural school atmosphere
During the next two years, Lincoln public school
students will have an opportunity to attend classes in a
one-room schoolhouse.
Originally the Cunningham School in Saunders County,
the rural schoolhouse is part of the new Heritage Village on
the Nebraska State Fairgrounds. Heritage Village is a joint
project of the State Fair Board and the State Historical
Scoiety.
The interior of the schoolhouse has been furnished by
the Historical Society to represent the late 19th century.
During "the next' two years, fourth and seventh grade
students will attend class at the school in a bicentennial
program through a joint effort of the Nebraska Department
of Education, Junior League of Lincoln, Lincoln Public
Schools, the Fair Board and the State Historical Scoiety.
According to Marvin Kivett, director of the State
Historical Scoiety, it is not unusual for students to still
attend a one-room school in some parts of the state. He
called the project a real learning experience for urban
children.
Cabin added
Next to the schoolhouse is the reconstructed Hudson
Cabin, which was built in Lincoln about 1863.
The cabin was founded, in 1964 inside the structure of 1 1
house workmen were razing at 2239 S. 9th St. in Lincoln.
Kivett said the Society and the Fair Board plan tc
expand Heritage Village, which will be a permanent exhibit
on the State Fairgrounds.
He- said the next building to be added probably will be s
blacksmith's shop.
Planning for Heritage Village began last January. The
initial financing for the village come when the Legislature
passed a bill to give the State Historical Society $60,000 for
construction of the village, Kivett said.
He added that the $60,000 docs not provide all the
noney needed for the Heritage Village, and the rest is
:oming from other sources.
; Thursday, the State Historical Scoiety was given a
overland trails covered wagon by Gov. J. James Exon to
lisplay at the village. ......
The schoolhouse, cabin and wagon will be open for
lisplay during the State Fair which began Thursday.
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