WLS ENTERTAINERS ON 

 FRIDAY NIGHT PROGRAM 



PATSY MONTANA 

 Patsy Montana, as the little singing 

 cowgirl, appears as a real Rodeo-Ridin' 

 girl from the west — dressed in "chaps" 

 and boots, at the Sports Festival, Sept 

 3. She has appeared in several rodeos 

 staged in Oregon and CalUomia. Her 

 sweet singing and yodeling place her as 

 one of America's outstanding girl enter- 

 tainers. 



for "Tony" at a special booth north of 

 the Men's Old Gym Saturday morning. 



Prairie Farmer-WLS have two latest 

 model Phiico radios which they will give 

 as attendance prizes to the largest Farm 

 Bureau family and the oldest Farm Bu- 

 reau member who attend the Festival. 



Farm families that are in the habit of 

 gathering at the piano and loosening up 

 their vocal chords have entered the fam- 

 ily group singing contest, a new event 

 on this year's Festival program. 



Other musical events are the novelty 

 and square dance band contests. Last 

 year's winners are expected to show up 

 with new tunes and new acts which they 

 hope will put them in first place again. 



Some of the oldest contestants in any 

 sport are entered in the square dance con- 

 test. Dances of other counties will be 

 represented in the folk dance contest. 



Huskiest farmers from 20 counties will 

 pull in the tug o'war tournament. Con- 

 testing teams will draw for places Satur- 

 day morning, the day of the hay rope 

 battle. 



In the checkers tournament this year, 

 every player will play evely other con- 

 testant in the preliminaries. A scoring 

 system will be employed that will allow 

 three points for each game won and one 

 point for each draw. High scoring con- 

 testants will play for the title on Satur- 

 day. The scoring plan will apply to both 

 the men's and women's tournaments. 



At this early date we have no way of 

 knowing the numbers of husband callers, 

 hog callers, rolling pin throwers, rifle 

 shooters, horseshoe tossers, horse pull- 



ing contestants, runners, swimmers and 

 jumpers that will appear at the Festival 

 ready to beat the socks off everyone en- 

 tered in their favorite sport. 



At this time of year you can get away 

 from the farm for a few days without 

 endangering a single crop. So pack up 

 a picnic basket, load the family bus and 

 head 'er toward Urbana early on the first 

 Friday in September. 



A couple of days s{>ent with friends 

 on the University of Illinois campus will 

 be like a vacation. There is room for 

 80,000 persons in Champaign-Urbana so 

 don't worry about accommodations. Ask 

 your farm adviser about room reserva- 

 tions. There is ample parking space and 

 plenty of picnic grounds. 



If you want to see farm folks in ac- 

 tion — Let's go to the Sports Festival! 



THE PRAnUE RAMBLERS 

 The Prairie Ramblers and Patsy Montana, one of the most popular acta 

 from the PRAIRIE FARMER-WLS National Bam Dance will be one of the 

 highlights of the Illinois Farm Sports Festival, the night of Sept. 3 in Me- 

 morial Stadium, University of Illinois. These entertainers have been on the 

 air for several years and have attained great popularity with farm folks 

 everywhere. 



The Praitie Ramblers are four boys who first started entertaining in the 

 Mammoth Cave Region of Kentucky. 



li you'd meet the Ramblers face to face, you'd first shake hands with 

 Jack Taylor, whose guitar and bass fiddle playing are exceptional. Perhaps 

 Chick Hurt would smile at you next He really can make a mandolin talk. 

 Then Tex Atchison would step up — a handsome boy whose claim to fame 

 is the expert playing of a fiddle left-handed. Lastly, Salty Holmes would 

 greet you. He's a tall, lanky boy who keeps the house in laughter with his 

 comedy. He plays guitar, harmonica, a tin can and a jug; and yodels, too. 



