Pleasant Days Cool Nights Are in Store
Rain ice and sun arrive in 18 hours as temperatures fall from 40 to 30. Winchester hosts 30 visiting mayors and their wives at the War Memorial Building with a parade float after a noon luncheon. Forecast calls for a frost 28 to 32 degrees then a warming trend to 70s and 80s by Tuesday. Apple Blossom weekend expected to be perfect.
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Star
Winchester
Stewart Bell
Shenandoah
National Weather Service
Cork
Braddock
Piccadilly St
Cameron St
Ward Plaza
Loudoun St
Coronation Week Festivities Crown Shenandoah Queen
Laur y Boone 19 daughter of Pat Boone is crowned Queen Shenandoah by Elizabeth Taylor Warner on Handley steps during a golden anniversary festival in Winchester. Voices from past queens, daughters of presidents, and Somoza family members will join a full schedule of parades, concerts, and fireworks.
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Star
Shenandoah
Handley Steps
Laury Boone
Pat Boone
Elizabeth Taylor Warner
Elizabeth Steck Arthur
Luci Johnson Nugent
Susan Ford
Nicaragua
Lillian Somoza
United States
Edda Sevilla Somoza Sacasa
Sacasa
Sen
Harry F. Byrd, Jr
Harry F. Byrd
Gretchen Thomson
Courtney Byrd
Winchester 179-Unit Feature Parade Opens Tomorrow at 1 20 P M
The Grand Feature Parade for the Shenandoah Apple Blossom Festival celebrates its 50th year with more than 179 bands floats and marching units in four divisions. Festival Queen and 1924 Queen Elizabeth Stock Arthur entourage join, Lions Club float carries the original queen amid a star lineup including Senator Byrd and Representatives Robinson and Hyde Jr. Mayors and Fort Myers Army Fife and Drum Corps lead and pace the parade starting at 1 20 p m with cool sunny weather expected and TV coverage.
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Deborah Lee Derflinger
Jack Derflinger
Reliance
Shenandoah
Warren County
Warren County High School
Drama Club
Reyettes
Reliance United Methodist Church
Derflinger
Winchester
David Ratcliff
Ratcliff
Lions Club
U.S. Army
Fort Myers
Minnesota
Winchester approves site for lighted baseball diamond
The Winchester Planning Commission approved a new site for the proposed lighted baseball diamond in the Winchester Recreation Park. Area News notes continue with coverage of the Joint Civic Luncheon Firemen's Parade and Dottie West on page 11.
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Area News
Winchester Planning Commission
Winchester Recreation Park
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Miles Cary
Miss May
By Susan Burke
Bell
James Wood High School
Frederick County Junior High
Herbert Solenberger
VPI
Miss Boone
Dottie West
Mar
John Dalton
Mills Godwin
New Virginians
Handley
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Friendship Fire Hall
Winchester Armory
U.A.W
Papermill Road
Bob Wood
Nashville, Tenn
Lee Jackson
Paul Hornung
Sugar Ray Leonard
Don Strock
Howard Stevens
Chip Garber
Tom Bosley
Queen Laury Boone
Shenandoah-elect
Civic Club
Mary Henkel
Douglass O. Hill
J. Miles Cary
Handley Ave
Firemen's Parade
Frederick County
Round Hill
Valley Ave
Henry Lowry
Coke Plant
Dottie
Byron Metcalf
Abby Als
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