county extension agent who Fair financially. Draper had the with steel bunks for the annual Mahan hired as the Fair’s livestock support of Chamber of Commerce agricultural school. manager, Hemphill had been president Ed Overholser, the The State Fair continued its promoted to secretary of the Fair son of Henry Overholser. The emphasis on the importance of before Mahan’s death. new public-private partnership agriculture in the state. Even For the most part, Hemphill was successfully put to the test during the Great Depression in followed his predecessor’s immediately. When heavy rains the 1930s, many counties and Large crowds waited at the Fair in 1935 to see Lillian Glantz, the human cannonball, shot from a cannon. management goals for the State washed out five days of the 1926 individual livestock and farm Fair. Hemphill had excellent Fair, businessmen guaranteed a exhibitors entered competitions relationships with Oklahoma $25,000 loan which saved the or provided informational City’s business community State Fair again. booths. Farm implement displays and approached the Oklahoma The most important building expanded and the new motor City Chamber of Commerce to added between 1925 and 1937 was truck industry was promoted forge a partnership for a new the 4-H Building, a two-story by truck manufacturers. Slowly, Made in Oklahoma exhibit. facility that included exhibition trucks were replacing railroads Stanley Draper was the new space, a dining hall, and a as the preferred method of chamber manager and accepted meeting space that could seat delivering goods and livestock the challenge to involve leading 1,000. The second floor housed produced on Oklahoma farms businessmen to support the dormitory rooms furnished and ranches to market. 21 35