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LaVaca Fiesta Parade and Queen Coronation at Hallettsville
Hallettsville hosts the LaVaca Fiesta on September 6 and 7 featuring a gigantic parade led by the Second Armored Division and Band from Camp Swift, demonstrations from Randolph Field, a Friday ball game Hallettsville vs Weimar, coronation of Miss Myrtle Ann Mertz, a Queen's Ball, a big rodeo with square dance, and a Saturday tribute to Lavaca County service members with speakers General John M. Devine and Gov. Elect Beaufort Jester, plus a televised color broadcast by KPRC.
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Hallettsville
Camp Swift
Second Armoured Division
No. 10
Randolph Field
Second Armored Division
City of Hallettsville
Weimar
Myrtle Ann Mertz
Kathy Bozka
Fifi Pagel
Evelyn Tupa
Estella Rother
Bernice Schulte
Houston
Recreation Hall
Tony Martin
General Devine
Lavaca
John M. Devine
Beauford Jester
KPRC