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PROSECUTOR BEGINS PROBE OFNPROPOSED DOG RACING PLANTbeby5WcelitnyofVOohangatndImnsip,CPorig-ni-ni-ip-It-nfa r-m, erD59.eiK.p..ea-li-m-al-) Prosecuting Attorney .1. Carl Marshall disclosed Tnesday that I he has started an inquiry into the i plans and activities of the Fairfield Amusement Park Ltd., a partnership organization, formed tor the purpose of sponsoring dog racing at a $100,000 track to be constructed this spring in the village of Fairfield.He said that he has received jonly one protest against plans for I the inauguration of dog racing in ; Greene County that, from an in-' dividual representing a Xenia organization. However, the prosecu-jtor said it. was of a confidential (nature and declined to reveal the jidentity of either the man or the {organization he represents, j Prosecutor Marshall’s chief interest in the matter at present is j to investigate the possibility of {gambling in connection with the jrac.es when the track is established jand he is not yet ready to ;in-inounce wha' position his office will (take on the question of whether jthe racing will he permitted without interference.i No individual or group has ap-1 proached Sheriff Ohmer Tate in regard to the proposed track either {for or against the project, the sheriff said.Attorney Frank L. Johnson, this city, is looking after the legal interests of the Fairfield Amusement Park Ltd. which purchased a thirty-one acre tract of land from Hie i Miami Conservancy District, located within the corporate limns of ! Fairfield as a site for the racing plant. Ordinances authorizing ’he mayor to license the track and legalize the racing have been passed i by the Fairfield village council.There is little opposition in Fairfield to the project, according to Mayor Ft O. Roin«zong, who is quoted as declaring that the $-00 {dally fee which the village will j rec eive from the trac k influenced the village council to approve the project since Fairfield is nearlyt$33,000 in debt lor its newly-installed waterworks system.The proposed Tack will he a quarter mile in length and will be the first turl track established in the United States.MAHKtlSLIVE STOCK{choice, $90 11; common and medi-CHICAGO LIVESTOCKi CHICAGO, April 10 Hogs, ro-'eeipts, 16,000; including 3,000 directs; market mostly strong to 10c higher; top, $11.60 paid for a load of ::.'57 ]b. averages; hulk of good |and choice hogs scaling 160-350 lbs I$11.25(1/11.50; butchers, medium to 1 choice 350-350 lbs., $11 lt;011.45; 200-350 lbs., $11(0 11,60; 160-300 lbs., $10.75(011.50; 130-160 lbs., $9,750 11.50; packing sows, $10(010.60; pigs, medium to choice 00-130 bs., $8,50010.50.Cattle- Receipts, 7,000; calves, 2,000; market, steady to strong, 1 trade on fed steers and yearlings; she stock mostly steady; top $11-80; slaughter classes Steers, good and choice, 1300-1500 lbs., $13,250 14.85; 1 100-1300 lbs.. $13.250 14.85; (050-1100 lbs., $13.250 15; common {and medium, 850 lbs. up, $0,750 113.25; fed yearlings, good and {choice, 750-950 lbs., $13.500 14; heifers, good and choice, 850 lbs. down, $12.50(014.40; common and itnedium $00 12.50; cows, good andIV-Mil TON CACfll'HARum, $7,50 0 9; low cutte and cutter $6 250’7 5o; hulls, good and choice j(beef) $9.500 10.50; cutter to medium $7.750 9.50; vealers (milk fed) good and choice, $120 16 medium j $10 500 12; cull and common, $80 ,10.50; stocker and feeder steers, good and choice (all weights) $11-,750 13; common and medium, $9,75 !0 11.75.Sheep—Receipts. 15,000; market iopening slow, indications weak 10 125c lower, for fat lambs; indicated bulk fat lambs, $170'17.25; fat ewes steady, wPh fop $11.50; clipped ewes $10.50; shearing
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Xenia Evening Gazette
Xenia, Ohio, US
Wed, Apr 10, 1929
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