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Commerce and Industry Day at Vigo County Fairgrounds
Terre Haute marks Sesquicentennial progress with Made in Vigo County exhibits and a Futuristic space capsule mock up from NASA. The event features a 2 p.m. free admission and an Executive Luncheon at the Terre Haute House with leaders from J. I. Case, Anaconda Aluminum, General Telephone, Public Service Indiana, Montgom ery Ward officials and more. Maynard C. Wheeler, president of Commercial Solvents, speaks. The fair runs noon to 9 p.m. Friday to Sunday with numerous industrial displays and military and naval exhibits.
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Terre Haute
Vigo County
Vigo County Fairgrounds
Cernan
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Terre Haute House
J. I. Case Company
Anaconda Aluminum Company
General Telephone Company
Public Service Indiana
Arketex Ceramics
Ann Page
Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company
Straw Steel Corporation
American Can Company
Anaconda and
Montgomery Ward
Fairgrounds
Terre Haute Fire Department
Atomic Energy Commission
U. S. Marine Corps
Indiana
Indiana Coal Association
Indiana State University
Rose Polytechnic Institute
St. Mary of-the-Woods College
Glass
Arketex Ceramics Corporation
Bemis Company, Inc
Columbia Records
Sunray DX Oil Company
Ethyl VisQueen
E. T. Hazeldine Company
Charles Pfizer Company
Pillsbury Company
Scientific Wax Products
Smith Alsop Paint and Varnish Company
Straw Steel Company
Weston Paper and Manufacturing Company
Civil Defense
Richey Mower Sales
Vigo County Home Demonstration Clubs
The
Metropolitan Insurance Company