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Czech native with a passion for reptiles, said he had abandoned his job as a zoology teacher in Toronto Central Technological School to travel with his show.
Next to Demcak's trailer, bold letters invited
fairgoers to see the smallest woman in the world
A 2-foot-tall woman with a red and yellow dot-painted smile slouched inside a carpeted half-box, offering spectators postcards with her picture and signature.
BUT CIRCUS-TYPE sideshows didn't interest all the visitors.
Pam Zimmerman, Girard graduate student, who has been to the fair the last three years said. "We come here mostly for the concerts."
And there will be plenty of concerts this year during the week-long fair.
Virginia Elliot, an employee with the fair's public office said. "They have the biggest market in the nation."
Among this year's entertainers at the fair are country singles Anne Murray and Willie Nelson, and the groups Alabama and the Oak Ridge Boys.
ELIOT SAID THAT last year's fair attracted more than 311,000 visitors.
"We get really good representation from all over the state," she said. "More and more we
also find that in competitions the entrants are from out of state.
The fair draws out-of-state visitors mostly from Texas. Oklahoma and Nebraska, she said.
Gregg Roberts, 22, said, as he groomed a 2,200-pound ebony black bull for exhibition, that he had come to the fair from Oklahoma every year since he was 9 years old.
To him, the main attraction of the fair was not the concerts or the sideshows.
He said, as he teased the animal's tail, that heliked partying the most.
Partying is bound to be a regular feature at the fair, but while some things like partying remain the same, other facets of the fair are always changing.
THIS YEAR, for the first time, the University of Kansas and Kansas State University shared a
John Naughtin, of KU's University Relations,
said that partly because of budget cuts the two
schools would be closed.
But both universities have the same goal for their displays.
"We want to inform people about what the state institutions are doing." Nauchtin said.
hastis hirdrons are olding, *vegatitn said*
KU has had a boath at the fair for the past nine
KU's natural science department contributed
a live snake display to this year's joint a exhibition. K-State's College of Engineering will provide an electronic checker player later this week.
BECAUSE IT WAS the first day of the fair, and the first time KU and K-State had occupied the same space, there were some problems. But as I mentioned earlier, buildings would be overcome as the fair progressed.
Naughtin said that the first day of the joint exhibition had brought spatial and organizational problems inside the steaming hot and crowded Industrial Building.
"Things are a little bit crazy."
The tail was a world of contrasts
Not far from the Industrial Building, the Kansas Community Corrections put up a grim display of makeshift weapons and drug paraphernalia confiscated from Kansas prison inmates.
Bob Hanningam, an official in the Department of Corrections, said, "We want to educate the public as to what correctionalists are all about to the degree possible."
Bill Lucas, corrections program consultant,
aid he also helped that the display would serve in part as a reminder.
This year's fair will offer rides, music, food, and competition until Sep. 18.
HUTCHINSON — Larry Daniel, Harrison, Ark., sleeps in the pen of a cow he was caring for at the fair.
Stephen Phillips/KANSAN
HUTCHINSON — Bill Howell, Coats, grooms a sheep that will be judged later in the week.
$50 Best Toga
50¢ Draws ALL NIGHT
60¢ Long Necks
TONIGHT
New West/Contemporary and KLZR 106 present
with special guests THE REPLACEMENTS
Monday, September 12, 1983 Kansas Union Ballroom
NEW HIGHER STAGE
8:00 p.m.
$4.00 Student with K.U.I.D. Advance
$5.00 General Public Advance
$5.00 Student with K.U.I.D.; $6.00 General Public; day of show
Tickets at SUA BOX OFFICE