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MONDAY, JT’LY 11. 1055.V'vJ r2\l]Ai Dstrcit LakesWater CarniyalWaubun Woman New Queen With Kvonne Slender A Inn A W innerParade I eat tired And 1 no look Part InFishing ContentDETROIT LAKES — More than 25.000 persons crowded Detroit | Lakes Sunday for the Parade of j the Northwest, one of the climax- j inf events of the 20th annual Northwest Water Carnival. iA hundred units participated in j the 14 hour parade which followed the annual fishing derby which ! closed at noon.An 18-year-old Waubun, Minn , woman, Yvonne Kersting, Sundaynight was crowned Miss Northwest, succeeding Miss Nancy Jensen of Fergus Falls, who has held that honor for the past year.The new queen, daughter of Mr, and Mrs. Michael Kersting. was chosen from a field of 11 con test -anti She will attend the Minneapolis Aquatenmal as Miss DetroitLikes.Named attendants were Marlene Wrote, 20, IVmfdjl, and Evonne Slender, IS, FrareeWm Gntsffke. of Detroit Lakes, won first place among 100 anglersin the Fisihng Derby * with a 74pollnd Northern Other winners:Walleye 1 ike—Gus Forsythe. Detroit Lakes. 4 pounds* String ofwalleves — Joe Friescn, DetroitLakes. 14-12Northern B gge^t string, Richard Busch, Detroit Lakes, 6-8,Bass mtm Louis Paseh* Detroit Likes. 3-6.SuQtih I^ouise Rice, Detroit Lakes, 1-2; Best string—Waily Myhrom, Detroit Lakes, 16*1.Crappies- Harry Hunger, Detroit Lakes. 1-8 Best string, Gun-nar Bakken. Hawley, 3-4.Fishermen were hampered bychoppy water in Detroit Jake but even at that more than 200 fish were in the contest.
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Fergus Falls Daily Journal
Fergus Falls, Minnesota, US
Mon, Jul 11, 1955
Page 10
Full Page
Clipped by
Don B.
MN, USA 10 Dec 2018
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