Fair attendance lag persists despite star acts and big goals
Attendance trails last year by about 6000 with totals yet to be finalized though officials still expect near record 2.5 million. Tonight’s entertainment features Chet Atkins Boots Randolph Floyd Cramer Golddiggers and Dave Merrifield at 430 and 830 p.m. in Miami County junior division winners include Milton Union FFA sweeping Poultry Show top honors Barb Leatherman Napoleon 4 H safety winner Greg Moyer Baltimore best speaker David Pickering Greene County top tractor entry Jeff Smith Jamestown grand champion junior fair market swine for a 200 pound purebred Hampshire among 382 entrants.
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Golddiggers
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Miami County
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Napoleon
Greg Moyer
Baltimore
David Pickering
Greene County
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Jamestown
Hampshire
Mob mulls return to international drug trafficking
Newsday reports New York Cosa Nostra leaders on Staten Island discussed resuming drug trafficking, citing a federal source. Young Turks push the plan, arguing narcotics became a national problem after the mob exited the trade. They claim reentry would be a service to the country and would address suburban distribution now dominated by others.
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UPI
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Newsday
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Escapee binds hostage in diabetes case and flees
Abed Browning, an insulin dependent hostage, was released by convict William Elias Davidson and his wife El Ten after a weekend escape in Florida. A manhunt targeted the couple as they abducted the Mel Prime family from a Miami Beach motel and fled toward Tennessee, where Browning was found tied to a tree and treated. The Prime family Howie 12 Jimmy 11 Cecilia 9 were abducted with their car later recovered.
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Jimmy
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