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■ there were a lot of questions
•that had to be answered
oefore such an undertaking.
One of the strongest
proponents of a county fair is
Norman Swann, a former
chairman of the Manheim
Fair Association, who said
he had tried to start a county
fair 10 years ago but at that
time “no one listened.”-
He said the Manheim Fair
Association can no longer
use school property for its
fair. He pointed to problems
New Holland is having with
finding room for any ex
pansion. New Holland now
holds its fair on the town’s
main street, “with no where
to go” for expansion.
Swann said that the
Manheim Association had
started talking about a
county fair a year ago and
that that association is
backing the proposal “100
percent.”
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better job in all agricultural
phases on a county-wide
area," he said. He said a
large committee on a county
wide level could accomplish
more for a bigger show,
which he said probably
would be patterned after the
state show.
Swann said he doesn’t
know what property might
be available for a county
fair, but said one possibility
would be to hold it in
Quarryville, where the
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Solancd Fair Assn, is in the
process of buying more land
for expansion of its fair.
He said he expected that if
a county fair was started,
local fairs would be
eliminated, adding that a
former chairman of the state
fair administration had told
him several years ago that
Lancaster County should
have one fair. He said ha
visualized a central
volunteer organization for a
county fair.
He estimated that 40 to SO
acres of land would be
needed, and would probably
cost | % million. Asked
where he thought this money
would come from be said
that most local fair
associations would have
money to dispose of if local
fairs were eliminated, that
the State Fair Fund has
money available for this, and
that hopefully farm
organizations would support
it similar to the way they did
the building of the Farm and
Home Center.
Martin Nestleroth, who is
president of the Manheim
Fair group and reportedly
was instrumental in having
Monday night’s meeting
called, said that he per
sonally is in favor of the
county fair, and feels that
“tfie benefits-outweigh the
problems if the whole county
is willing to cooperate."
ffe said that he and his
board members (Manheim
Fair) had not taken a vote on
the issue but were waiting to
find out at Monday night’s
meeting where the finances
would be coming from.
He said bis group is also
waiting to find out what
other areas .have to say
Monday concerning giving
up their own fairs, and also
how the Fair Fund money
would be divided.
New Holland
Although New Holland
apparently is having .the
most problems in keeping its
fair operating, two officials
of that community’s fair
organization were not
particularly optimistic about
a county event. New Holland
now conducts its fair on the
main street of town, and
according to one spokesman,
a lot of people in New
Holland, and some state
officials, are “fussing”
about getting the fair “off
the streets.” '
Carl Groff, treasurer of
New Holland’s organization,
said he considers the
proposed county fair “wish
ful thinking.”
“I don’t think Lancaster
County could or would
support a fair,” he told the
Lancaster Fanning.
“And where would you get
land in Lancaster County—it
would cost more than a
million dollars.”
He said that a county fair
would mean one of two
things: either the county
would get half of the money
that the State Fair Assn,
gives for fairs, with the
community fairs dividing the
other half, or the small fairs
would be eliminated.
He raised the question of
whether or not the state
would run the county fair. “I
don’t think it would pay for
itself,” he said, pointing out
that people don’t pay now to
go to the local fairs.
The tuning of a county fair
was another problem Groff
brought up.
“When would they have
it 9 ” he asked “There
wouldn’t be enough to show
in August, ” he said, adding
that September would
conflict with local fain.,
He also railed the question
of whether a county fair
would be just another tourist
attraction', rather than an
agricultural event.
Dr. > Louis Williams,
president of the Mew Holland
organization, said-ha is
keeping “an open mind” on
the issue, and has no ob
jections to a county fair if it
can be run “in good taste”
and with high quality.
However, he is opposed to
it “if it means a cut in state
money to local fairs."
“I’m first for keeping local
fairs,” he said. “They’re
important to small towns,”
he went on, pointing out that
two of their main values are
the ties they keep between
local people, and the op
portunity the smaller fain
give youth of a community to
show what they can do.
“I’m going to the meeting
Monday and if I can be
convinced that a county fair
can operate without spen
ding millions of dollars, and
if it will have leadership and
can be worthwhile, then I
won’t object,” he said.
He said that while a county
fair might give more far
mers and exhibitors more
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, some “big ones” with {ess;
quality in exhibits than the
Ififinl fairs, had.
Adding that it would be
difficult for the New Holland
Fair to operate without state
money, Dr. Williams said he
didn’t know whether a
county fair would mean loss
of money from the state.
“I can’t really see it
getting off the ground
without speanding a million
or two on it,” be said.
AdmlnistrativeProbleins
Carlton Groff, president of
the Solanco Fair Board
(Quarryville) said that be
sees a lot of administrative
problems, more than
anything, connected with a
county fair.
“To do it right would cost a
lot of money,” he added.
He said that the state fair
administrators allot funds to
local fairs and there are
some “Divergent opinions’*
among them on how to best
spend the money. He said
some are for the small fairs,
.while others want to
eliminate these and have
just one major county fair.
Groff said that he’s “open”
to a county fair, but he
believes the local fairs better
serve the interest of what bis
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organization.
He said that a lot of
exhibitors from this area
(small garden items, etc.)
would not take part in a
county fair, that a county
event “would be more
commercial growers.”
Epbrata Mayor Lloyd
Gerhart, who has been
president of the Epbrata
Fair Association for 25
years, said he didn’t know
what kind of support his
association would be aide to
give a county fair, that all
the money they had raised
had been given away.
He said that the
association hasgiven about
1135,000 to the Epbrata
Hospital, Rec Center and fire
companies in die last 25
years, with another $5,000 c * n,e
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secretary, of the Lampeter's,
fair board, the county will
have,to decide whit type of i
fair it want*—a normal one
with 75 percent midway, or a
more educational one, like'
communities nbir have—and'
then start looking at
financing.
Hp said a carnival type
fair costs more;; “but that’s
where the money comet'
from.”
He said a big fair would not
be economical; unless you
u go to entertainment,” and
he is opposed to this type.
The fair should be
educational, he said.
He said that basically, a
county fair wouldn’t detract
from local fairs, but that the
timing would be a big factor,
that the county fair should
not overlap with smaller
ones.
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