Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-10-30
MANASSAS READY
FOR MILK FESTIVAL
Town Bedecked in Bunting
and Flags for Fete
Tomorrow.
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Special Dispatch to The Star.
MANASSAS, Va. October 3o.-GoT-
geous with bunting. flags of all nations
streamers Of colored light and unique
and educational window displays, Ma
nsssas is ready to entertain a host oil
visitors TO the first annual Piedmont
Virginia Dairy Festival, which will u
marked by an all-day celebration to-
morrow
The festivities will get under way al
10 80 am. with a concert by the Ma
rine Band from Quantico. followed al
IL o'clock by the colorful and impress
sive ceremony incident to the corona
ton Of Miss Mary Elizabeth Nelson OF
Manassas as Regina I. Queen Of the
Piedmont Virginia Festival. This fea-
ture will be staged on the spacious
grounds OF Annaburg, on the edge OF
the town.
Military Escort for Queen.
William Tyler Page, clerk Of the
United States House of Representatives
will deliver the coronation address and
place the crown upon the head Of heT
highness. and after the enthronization
the royal party. surrounded by the
honor guard Capt R. Buford Rose and
a detail from the famous Richmond
Blues, will proceed TO the reviewing
stand 10 observe the pageant.
The historically accurate pageant
MILK Through the Ages written by
Miss Beatrix Clark. rural school super
visor will be started at IL 80. with $50
pupils OF Bennett School unfolding the
story Of the development of the dairy
industry, in six episodes beginning with
1000 years ago in Central Asia and
moving through to the year 1924, when
the Plymouth colony received its first
complement of heifers and bulls from
the ship Charity; the early Colonial
days of Piedmont Virginia to the pres
ent day of modern dairying.
milky Way" in Afternoons
The afternoon will begin with the
Milky Way" parade, which will start
from Annaburg at pm. headed by
the Quantico Marine Band. and Mar
shals Melvin C. Hazen and E. r. Con-
ner, the royal float, the Richmond
Blues and Mayor Harry P. Davis, with
officers OF the festival and distinguished
guests in automobiles. The second sec
ton will be headed by the Washington
and Lee High School Cadet Band, fol-
lowed by the cadet corps and high
school pupils from Arlington, Fairfax,
Loudoun, Prince William, Fauquier,
Stafford, Rappahannock, SpotSylvania,
Orange and Madison Counties, and
floats from each of the counties par
ticipating
The third section will be headed by
the Marine Fife and Drum Corps, fol-
lowed by special county floats, the
Smith Hughes section. under j. P. Pull
len, vocational agriculture director in
Prince William schools, showing herd
Improvement floats and special dairy
features, while the fourth section, with
the American Legion Band OF Alex
andria in front, will have special floats
of the Future Farmers of Virginia, All
Clubs, in costume. and representation
of the Virginia Homemakers' CLUBS.
Street Carnival Feature.
Following the parade there will be g
street carnival and at night there VII
be a coronation ball in the gymnasium
while amusements of every sort will d
available for those preferring the eX'
element of the crowd and the outdoor
Halloween celebration.
DISTINGUISHED guests who will view
the parade with Mayor Davis are WIZ
liam Tyler Page, Senator Carter Glass
REPRESENTATIVE Howard w. Smith, Judge
Walter T. Mccarthy, Brig. Gen. r. G
Berkeley. commanding the Marine Base
at Quantico; G. w. Koiner. State com
missioner of agriculture; r. j. Poison
National Dairy Council; Walter .
Newman, supervisor of agricultural eau
cation; Nelson F. Richards, winchester
Andrew Bell. secretary, Winchester
Chamber of Commerce; John r. Hutch
eson, State dairy expert; John McGill
Maryland Virginia Milk Producers AS
ISOLATION; C. w. Holloway, dairy. depart
nent, V. P l., and r. G.. Connolly
extension dairyman, Blacksburg.