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ga school around $750,000.
project, Members of the committee
cost as much as included Oscar Gomez, Terry
received the en-Atnip, tlaine¢ Gearheart,
endorsement fromAllen Floyd, DonButler, Nikki
committee here Padgett, Kathy Francisco, Ed
night. Preuschoff, Ray Gross, Rev.
committee, which Thompson and Dr. Largent.
studying the pro- Teacher Hired
up-dating of the In other action during the
elementary build-
its report to the
District board
and urged that a
for the work be
November election
members set plans
workshop decision
to study the
for the pro-
and make a de-
the matter.
kent Tom Lyda
Wednesday that
estimates for the
by the
show the work
in the neigh-
of $750,000. He said
are to have the
one-third by
This would mean
llion would have
through a local
meeting, the directors voted
to release Nina Parks from her
contract as vocational teacher
at the Othello High School.
The release will allow Mrs.
Parks to take a fellowship to
Oregon State University.
Named to replace her was
Monique Campbell of Moses
Lake. A graduate of Othello
High School Mrs. Campbell
attended Big Bend Commun-
ity College and received her
B.A. in business education
from Washington State Uni-
versity in 1970. She completed
her student teaching at Moses
Lake High School, and since
that time has served as secre-
tary for the Campbell Ranch
Inc. of Warden.
the board mem-
night that a
NE~" LOOK FOR ARENA - Fair directors Quentin Sasse, left, and Abie Schneider
inspect the new fence on the horse arena at the West District Adams County Fair, which
opens today. The attractive new fence replaced wire barriers, and along with new
lighting, which was also installed, will make it possible to hold the Friday gymkhana at
the grounds this year.
m
A bright-freshlookand lots while the RCA shows will OverstreetSunday
of outstanding entertainment feature some of the world's One of the highlights of the
will be the by-words here this best professional cowboys in fair will come on Sunday with
weekend when the 1974 action on Saturday night and the performance of Over-
editions of the West District Sunday. Both of the events street. The well-known re-
Adams County Fair and have lots of new features as cording star will be makinghis
Othello Rodeo get underway, l hev hope to lure increased appearances here following
The fair is scheduled to open crowds this weekend, shows at the Pendleton
at noon today on an almost
completely re-vamped and
vastly-improved grounds,
Base Closure
Study Told
A report in an area daily
newspaper earlier this week
quoted Air Force officials in
Washington D.C. as indicating
that a shutdown of the Othello
Air Force Station is under
consideration.
Spokesmen said cutbacks
throughout the nation are
under study to eliminate radar
bases performing duplicate
tasks. They reported decision
on the local base is expected in
about three weeks.
The local base, which was
cut back to a long range radar
site from a BUIC operation
about a year ago, now has
about 140 personnel and 250
dependents.
Top-drawer country-west-
ern entertainment will be
featured at the fair on Sunday
in the person of recording star
Tommy Overstreet, with the
rodeo offering reserved seats
for the first time and a list of
new faces as producers,
announcer and clown.
Entries Still Open
Fair activities actually
started here last night with
first entries accepted at 5 p.m.
The grounuJ will be open again
at 8 a.m. today for late entries,
with all exhibits-scheduled to
be in place by 11 a.m. Judging
will follow with the grounds
scheduled to open to the public
at noon.
Fair secretary Jessie Fox
reported that livestock entries
appear to be far above last
year, and expectations are
that exhibits in other depart-
ments will also increase.
Judging of livestock will be
featured through Thursday
• .,net I~*,idav vaith lho annual
Roundup. Over-street, who
will be backed by the Nashville
Express, has recorded num-
erous country-western hits in-
cluding "Heaven Is My Wo-
man's Love" and "You Were A
Lady". His shows will be at 1
and 5 p.m. Sunday.
Fair goers will find exten-
sive improvements at the
grounds this year including
complete painting of all
buildings, landscaping of the
new grass area, a new horse
barn, complete concrete floor
in the exhibit building a new
poultry and rabbit b~irn and
re-vamping of the horse arena.
Cascade Amusements is
operating a carnival at the
site.
Big Rodeo Purse
The Rodeo, which annually
attracts performers on their
way from Pendleton, Ore., to
the Western Washington
State Fair in Puyallup, will
feature a $2,000 purse.