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Newspaper
Terre Haute Tribune
Location
Terre Haute, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 08, 1968
Page
2
Ingram outlined fair changes including new farm implement displays, fully booked exhibition space, and rising grand stand seat sales. City bus service will run to the fairgrounds. a 4-H pony color guard and a clown will entertain daily.
Gov. Agnew chosen as running mate as discussions continued and Nixon prepares for delegates to ratify the selection. Nixon, 55, will run with a 49 year old vice candidate as party delegates vote tonight amid dramatic state roll call reactions.
At a news conference Nixon declared readiness to lead and set path to choose a running mate. A marathon roll call across New York California Ohio Pennsylvania Michigan and New Jersey showed Nixon ahead with 692 votes as Rockefeller Reagan and Romney lagged, Illinois delivering unity for Nixon as South Midwest and West largely backed him.
Vigo County council debates funding from the cumulative bridge fund with 17 500 carved from total appropriations. The panel cut 5 000 from two 15 000 requests for Old Louisville Road Bridge Pierson Township and Ragan Road Bridge Fayette Township and 7 500 from a 25 000 request for Concannon Road Bridge Sugar Creek Township. A 1 740 request for wing walls on Head Road Bridge was granted. Full approval also went to a 10 000 reconstruction grant for State Line Road Bridge over Clear Creek, out of service since December 1967, with a resolution directing the Board of County Commissioners to verify construction specs. Sheriff’s requests totaling 16 920 to 20 245 were approved, including 8 000 for three patrol cars. Various welfare and county department appropriations were approved, including 10 000 for crippled children and multiple smaller allocations.
Six Vigo County farm implement dealers from seven manufacturers will display more than 50 pieces of new equipment at the Vigo County Fair. Exhibits will run Sunday through August 16 in the implement building near the main fair entrance with no display admission. Adults pay $1 to enter the fair while parking remains free and evening grandstand performances require no extra charge. Dealers include Vigo Tractor Sales, W C Baker and Sons, Fagg and Son, C R Maysfield, Bill Decker Ford Sales, and Headley Implement Co.
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