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100 Units Entered in Laredo ParadeLAREDO~ °f. ^er Diinne Rickct.oi, City Po- serving as this year's Parade |The key ceremony yearly isid more than iu.OGO persons t St of fi £S ^a,sl!aK R0]tl!!T'Tlt;1 ^nt of the parade re-and more than Iu,O00 persons T L?lXMU , V'*1 I siwill participate in the 7Jstwt^: ' icIl v^?rger of llw. ba,!ci grand International Parade of - ■ -s- tlnw I'°P0Z* forinorthe George Washington’s Birlh-day Celebration Saturday.The parade is scheduled for JO ]ir.r(, a.m., and will follow (lie usual route, starling west of the business sector near the Missouri-Pacific Railroad depot, moving east 0:1 Houston and turning north on San Bernardo (U.S. 81 Business). The units will disband at the Laredo Martin High School grounds.Yearly more than 100,000 persons from Laredo, Nuevo Laredo, Mexico, and surrounding towns swarm the streets of Laredo to see the mammoth parade. Attendance annually is - large from Mexico because of a-waiver of visas and passports so that Mexican residents can' cross freely to attend the cele-i bration festivities.. U.S. Immigration Sendee has authorized a passports and visas waiver of Mexico nafion-Laredo Marlin and Nixon High School bandmaster. Lopez owns and operates a musicLauyir Gill, An gusto Guajardo Knowles will ride at the head ofJr., Javier Santos, and Major it he parade in an open eon-Vernon Ilourfeo of Laredo A KB. vcrtiWe,. W. N. (Hilly) Hail Jr„ local! Right behind will ix* Miss store banker, will serve as master of,Cindy McKendrick, 17-year-old t, . . . |ceremonies for the. parade at;senior at I-arcdo Nixon Highi rr l ! Alberto Mag. the reviewing stand. Ha!] wilLSchool, portraying this vear’snon Ji. is chairman of the pa- ...... ' -- - brude bleacher committee.Working with these men to coordinate the spectacle are C.N. Fansler Jr., Dennis Longoria, City Fire Chief Mike B.'buildingviewing stand.Preceding the parade at 8:30 a.in, will 1» the traditional In-tor national Bridge CeremonyCrystal City, and Laredo Mai tin, Nixon, United, and L. v Christen and Lamar Junic High Schools.The lead band again will !:when U.S. and Mexico officials meet at (he center of the bridge to exchange greetings and the ‘abrazo’ or embrace of friend-the popular Lackland AFB BanPerez Jr., Frank George Ballard, Lulher P.'ku-als during the February 22-25 period.J. C. Martin III, parade committee chairman for Hie Washington’s Birthday Celebration Association, said afwut /Ofl high school bands, drum and bugle units, high school and collegiate thill teams, floats, dance graujw from Laredo and Nuevo Laredo, youth groups, and military units trill be in this year’s parade.Seining as parade director is Army Maj, Roberto Fiores, pro-TT Cintroduce the hundreds of I'.Ji.jlndiau Princess Pocahontas ._____.MV„ v,and .Mexico honor guests jindpShe is the daughter of Mr. and',ship. U.S. officials then will os- th dignitaries at the reviewing,Mrs. II. Eugene McKendrick of cort the Mexican visitors to the Nstand on Houston Street in front I Laredo. reviewing stand,of the Webb County Courthouse! In keeping with a 71-year-old The array of high schooltradition, Pocahontas will re-bands participating includeIxecinfciubs, school.?, cliurch ceivc the key to the City from Houston Memorial, La Jolla, and youth organizations a!Laredo Mayor J. C. Marlin Jr. San Marcos Baptist Acadetnv, will bo in the parade Hit*Col. Harold F, Knowles, Wing Commander at Laredo AFB, isof San Antonio. Re present] n Mexico will be the Ignacio gar; goza College and Regiomotilar Institute, lwth of Monterrey an the Leopolds Naranjo College i Nuevo Laredo,Some 30 floats sponsored b commercial houses, civic aJoske's of TexasWOLFF AND MARXSave, Thursday, Friday, Saturdayf*What a tire! The General Jet Full 4-ply nylon
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San Antonio Express
San Antonio, Texas, US
Thu, Feb 22, 1968
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