Grand Feature Parade to Crown Luci Johnson Queen Shenandoah
Nine thousand participants join the Grand Feature Parade in Winchester with bands drum corps and floats from eight states. Luci Baines Johnson will be crowned Queen Shenandoah XXXVII amid a crowd of tens of thousands watching from downtown routes to Gerard Street. Lucille Ball serves as Grand Marshal in an event featuring 184 units including 81 bands and 59 floats.
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Gerrard St
Bre
Winchester
Canada
Luci Baines Johnson
Shenandoah
Johnson
Lucille Ball
Festival notes and parade details at Shenandoah Apple Blossom
The Shenandoah Apple Blossom Festival features Buddy Stephens and Tom Meredith of Martinsburg Explorer Scouts carrying the Miss Shenandoah Apple Blossom banner in Friday's Grand Feature Parade. The winning contestant’s town provides the parade float in Friday morning’s beauty contest at the Quarles School. The Apple Blossom Jamboree hosts private Western Square dance clubs from 7:30 to 11 p.m. Rayburn Hickerson of Front Royal chairs the event with limited spectator seating and a nominal door fee.
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Buddy Stephens
Tom Meredith
Martinsburg Explorer Scouts
Quarles School
FGP
Rayburn Hickerson
Front Royal
Beware the New Monarch in Winchester, Virginia
Urgent dispatch warns Virginia residents that Winchester faces a takeover by a new ruler described as a manipulative figure. The message calls for vigilant citizens and urges total attention and calm, signed by Lyndon B. Johnson as father of the queen.
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Winchester
The
Star
Firemen Parade Plans Move Forward with Apple Blossom Events
Plans proceed for the Firemen's Parade led by Dottie West of Nashville Tennessee and for related Apple Blossom festivities. West will cue the parade at 6 p.m. from the George Washington Hotel route with events at Handley High School Capitol Theatre and Lee Jackson Restaurant. Notable attendees include Norman G Dyhrenfurth, judge at the Miss Apple Blossom contest, and Jose A Correa among other festival dignitaries.
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Dottie West
Nashville, Tenn
George Washington Hotel
Rouss
Handley High School
Capitol Theatre
Miss West
Handley Grounds
Lee-Jackson
Norman G. Dyhrenfurth
Santa Monica
Calif
Glaize
Fairmont Ave
Feature Parade Route Listed
The Grand Feature Parade route for tomorrow starts at the George Washington Hotel on Piccadilly Street and proceeds west to Loudoun Street then follows Loudoun Cork Braddock Piccadilly Washington Germain Stewart Gerrard and back to Gerrard. A banner across Braddock and Loudoun marks the parade end at that corner.
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Piccadilly St
George Washington Hotel
Loudoun St
Loudoun
Cork St
Cork
Braddock St
Braddock
Piccadilly
Washington St
Washington
Germain St
Germain
Stewart St
Stewart
Gerrard St
Surprise Visit Highlights Shenandoah Apple Blossom Coronation
President Lyndon B. Johnson spent a luncheon in Winchester for Luci Baines Johnson as Queen Shenandoah XXXVII of the Shenandoah Apple Blossom Festival. Reported urging from Luci and White House secrecy clouded plans for the coronation and possible overnight stay.
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Lyndon B. Johnson
Washington
Luci Baines
Shenandoah
White House
Mr. Johnson
President Johnson open to changes to civil rights bill
Senate floor manager Sen. Hubert Humphrey says Johnson will accept some amendments if the Senate produces enforceable legislation and prefers the House version. He notes the President is not against amendments that do not weaken the bill. The Star will not publish tomorrow during the Shenandoah Apple Blossom Festival.
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Washington
Johnson
Senate
Hubert H. Humphrey
Humphrey
8 000 UFO Reports No Flying Saucer Threat
The Air Force says it has investigated more than 8 000 UFO reports in 16 years and found no evidence of a threat to U S security or that these sights are alien spacecraft. About 7 7 percent remain unidentified. last year 382 reports were filed with 15 still unknown.
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Washington
Air Force
U.S
Associated Press
New Mexico
Vandalia
Ohio
New Jersey
St. Galen
Switzerland
Warrenville
Iil
Lucille Ball Arrives as Grand Feature Parade Marshal
Lucille Ball arrives tomorrow to serve as Grand Feature Parade marshal in Winchester. She will be greeted by local officials and drive with Gary Morton to events at Handley High School Quarles School and the George Washington Hotel before leading the parade through downtown.
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Lucille Ball
Apple Capital
Miss Ball
Gary Morton
New York
Arthur Godfrey
Godfrey Hill
Harry F. Byrd, Jr
Tom Baldridge
Leesburg
Mr. Morton
Winchester
Handley High School
Quarles School
Grand Marshall
Jamestown
N.Y
Eddie Cantor
Hollywood
Wilkins
Handley School
Mr. Wilkins
Greek Cypriots End Cease-Fire With Castle Attack
In Cyprus the Greek Cypriots fired seven mortars at St Hilarion Castle within 15 minutes ending a 13 hour cease-fire. The UN reported a Canadian UN peacekeeper unit came under fire near Agehirda as both sides questioned the cease-fire. UN Secretary General U Thant announced a new peace plan.
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Nicosia. Cyprus
Kyrenia
St. Hilarion
U.N
Agehirda
Winchester Festival Opens Amid Rain and Lights
In wet conditions the George Washington Hotel hosts Festival workers while a parade forms for Miss Linda Smith of Maine, crowned Queen of Monroe College. Limousines state troopers and buses crowd the area as crowds are expected despite rain.
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George Washington
Linda Smith
Maine
Monroe College
Crowns Amid Clouds At Shenandoah Apple Blossom
Crown rites proceed despite forecast rain as Luci Due Johnson and Miss Shenandoah Designate, Miss Johnson visits a local orchard and prepares for a 2:30 coronation at Handley Bowl with honors from General LeMay and the Mexican ambassador among participants.
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Luci Due
Handley
Air Force
Curtis E. LeMay
Miss Johnson
Antonio Carrillo- Flores
United States
Norman G.dhyrenfurth
Mt. Everest
Rainy Cool Stretches Through Virginia This Week
Two low fronts will persistently bring showers and cool conditions to Virginia over the next several days. Temperatures will remain mild with frequent rain chances across the state, according to the Weather service in Richmond.
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Richmond
Virginia
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