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Bennigsen Announces Free Night at Fairmount May 24 24FAIRMOUNT FAIRMOUNT PARK Collinsville 111 April 30 Open house will be held here Thursday night May 24 when the public will be admitted free of charge as guests of the management general manager Ray Bennigsen announced here yesterday yesterdayFree Free night at Fairmount Park has two objects Bennigsen said Our first one is that we hope the regular patrons will ac ¬ cept this as a token of gratitude and seC ondly we also hope that many others who have not seen night racing will be inter ¬ ested and come out and take advantage of the managementAll invitation made by the management All persons entering the plant on free night will receive a coupon which will make them eligible for ownership of a 1956 automobile which will be given away Thursday night May 31 31Last Last year the same promotion was of ¬ fered at nearby Cahokia Downs and proved more popular than the management ex ¬ pected The new automobile was won by an attendant in an oil filling station