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itay-ofthelesAndy Williams, old teenagerFairtbigattractiontoursgroundsDES MOINES (UPI) -Andy Williams took hits charm to thelivestock barn and exhibitbuildings of the Iowa State me,and spend more time looking atall the livestock and exhibits, but the crowd just wouldn’t let ’ said the television and re-of therns-oneulv, ♦ »Fair Friday evening.Williams, the star grandstand show at this year’sfair, took an unannounced tour of the sprawling fairgrounds ona small golf scooter to get a close look at the huge exposition.Glad He Came“I’m delighted I came to thisfair,” Williams told LnitedPress International in an interview after the tour. “1 w«s really amazed at how large itis.“I just wish 1 cowld g° out ing star who was bom inWall Lake, Iowa, and spent part of his youth in Des Moines.Williams made the rather speedy tour on a two-seated golf car driven by Fair Board Secretary Kennth Fulk, who explained the sites to the tv star along the way. A larger police scooter with flashing red light followed, carrying a UPI reporter and photographer. Other carts followed carrying the five young Osmond brothers andtheir father, and the five teen-aged daughters of Fulk. Williams never left die cart,but did shake the hands of a few admirers at some of th e stops, and waved to others as he passed by. By prior agreement, all would - be autographhounds were waved away.Since the tour had been anently did not recognize the tv star.When the procession we n t through the gates of the walled-in Teen Town, Williams wasgreeted with the blaring soundsf The Monarchs. a local twistnounced beforehand only to band, and the sight of a groupf teenagers gyrating in mod-formance, said other fains he has attended don’t seem to have as many livestock on exhibit asthe Iowa fair.“The others are morecarnivals.” he added.“I’m really surprised at theenormous size and number oflikenewsmen, people on t h e fair grounds and in the buildings were amazed to see a procession of golf carts with Williamsleading the way.He couldn’t hear their voicesem dance steps “I’ve n?ver seen more b«auti-‘Oldest Teenage’ ful horses and cows. I fell inWhat was Andv’s reaction to love with those cows.the teen-age music?“I dig it. I’m the oldest teen-over the sound of the cart ino-jager in show business.’’ repliedthe 35-vear-old star. “If I hadtors, but it was easy to readtheir lips as he went bv.“Why, that’s Andy Will most of them could be seen to say. A few were unimpressedby the cart parade, and apparmy choice, that’s where I’d be (Teen Town).”Williams, still sitting ingolf cart in the grandstand in field before his evening per- i equipped.He added that as a boy in Wall Lake, which he left at the age of 7 to come here, his fam-ilv didn’t live on a farm, buthad a few head of livestock andchickens.“We were more like Noah'sArk Wp had two of each,” he
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Ames Daily Tribune
Ames, Iowa, US
Sat, Aug 28, 1965
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