AKERS
_`———` _0F KENTUCKY _ ___" _;;_§Q1;;
abor,
ation $500 to $1,000 annually, providing the fair»association receiving such
ue of support offers at least an equal amount in these classes. .1f the fair.‘
form, association offers a less amount the financial support of the Common-
com- wealth of Kentucky will be reduced in proportion thereto. ·
dere- -· ·
icial "... any fair association offering special prize money for 4-H or for
s, so Smith-Hughes agricultural student projects may receive an additional
vhich sum ranging from $250 to $500 provided each fair appropriates an equal
pro- amount in these classes." . 4
num- ` r
? the During the regular session of 1940, the State Fair Board Law of 1938 was
repealed and re-enacted to set up a nine-member board consisting of three ex-
officio members and six members appointed from the State at large. The ex-officio
[tive members consist of the governor of the Commonwealth (ex-officio chairman of the
qbeyg board), the commissioner· of agriculture, labor and statistics, and the dean of
ever the College of Agriculture of the University of Kentucky. The members-at-large,
» the two of whom are appointed annually by the governor, serve for terms of four years
each, thus reverting to the sound principle of the "revolving" board as provided
in the legislation of 1906. A provision of the 1940 law requires that at least
itate one of the six appointed members ofthe board shall be a member of the State Farm
tion Bureau. The board, so constituted, elects its president and vice-president, who
,s to have the active management of the fair as in any ordinary business corporation.
mrs. ‘
Lgysv ·` -‘ FAIR BOARD PERSONNEL
tate ‘ i' I- " ` . ‘
Ongd Within the legal structure of the State Fair as above outlined is here pre-
,fOrG sented in. condensed form the personnel of the fair board and management. As a
Ving matter of convenience this information is grouped _under four-year intervals
mgm- ·corresponding with the terms of office of the governors who, since 1912, have had
· the ini their` hands the power of reconstituting, through appointive action, the
the personnel of the board: ` ` ‘
the · `
n Of 1902-7 J. C. W. Beckham, Governor. I. B. Nall (1902-4) and Hubert VreeYand
(1904-8), commissioners; H. A. Scovell, director Kentucky Agricultural Experiment
Station. Officers and directors of the Kentucky Livestock Breeders' Associat,cn,
tate 1902-3 and 1905: 1902-- president, H. L. Dorsey, Anchorage. Vice-presiden#s--
iOnS Col. John G. Roach, Glenview; W. L. Scott, Shelbyville, and E. R. Bagley, Bowling
out Green. Directors-- T. L. Hornsby and W. H. Giltner,-Eminence; Frank G. Hogan,
But and G. A.·Birch, Louisville; B. B. Stith, (Elizabethtown; James L. Gay, Pisgah;
the G. Letterle, lHarrod's Creek; W. T. Lillard, ’Lawrenceburg; E. W. Sewell, Ancho-
1OnS rage; James Taggert, Finchville; J. G. Stodgill, Shelbyville. 0n» the board of
Fair 1903 Abram Renick, of Clark County, replaced Vice-president Roach; Gladwell Nor-
6nt, ton; Louisville, replaced W. L. Scott; Lafayette Green, Grayson, was elected ~in
as Q place of E. R. Bagley. Directorsl Stith, Gay, Lillard, and Stodgill retired;
ally director Sewell died. In their places the association elected J. C. Leach,
Caldwell County; `W. L. Caldwell, Boyle; Col. D. L. Moore, Mercer; J. C. Shrop-
shire, Fayette; and Prof. M. A. Scovell,.director of the Kentucky Agricultural
d of Experiment Station, Lexington.. ln charge of the fair of 1902 were Vessrs. L. L.
Dorsey, M.‘W. Neal, G. A.·Birch, B. B. Stith, Frank G. Hogan, E. W. Sewell, and
T. L. Hornsley. J. W. Hornsley was custodian of premium funds and in charge of
ticket sales. L. L. Dorsey and J.`W. Hornsley, together with M. W. Neal and
Lafayette Green, were chief among those in charge of the fair of 1903. The- fair
of 1905 »was conducted by President F. G. Hogan, Louisville; T. L.Hornsley,
treasurer; and George A. Bain, together with a board of control consisting of
Messrs. Hogan, Birch, Norton, and Sale, of Louisville, and Messrs. Scovell,
Estell, Harbison, and Breckinridge, of, Lexington. L. B. Shropshire was seare-