Evening star., 1950-02-15
Fast Appeal Due Blossom Fete
On SEGREGATION Scheduled Here
In Schools Here On March 81
3-Doy Festival Set
Regardless of Time
Cherry Trees Bloom

mat annual spectacle of beau
tiful girls and beautiful sights,
Washington's Cherry Blosso
Festival, will be held on March 81.
April l and 2.
Meeting today, the 1850 Cherry
Blossom Festival Committee an
nounced plans for the event and
the appointment of committee
heads. CD. Mack. manager of
the Mayfower Hotel, will be gen.
eral chairman for the third sue
cessive year.
Mr.. Mack said that as has been
the custom, each State and three
territories will send princess to
the festival. One of these will be
chosen Queen by the spin of a
giant wheel of fortune. She will
be attended throughout the fes-
tlval by Miss Mary Jane Hoyes,
Princess from the District who was
Miss Washington of 1949.
Trees Needn't Bloom.
If the cherry blossoms don't
bloom on the exact dates of the
! festival, the program will go on
without them, Mr.. Mack stated.
However, Edward j. Kelly of
the National Capital Parks office,
said the blossoms should arrive
on schedule IF all our figures are
correct"
when they do appear, the hor-
none spray will assure their
blooming for at least II to Is
days." Mr.. Kelly added.
The committee outlined this
program:
On March 80, preliminary to the
official opening of the festival, the
princesSes will attend reception
In the Senate caucus room. On
March 81, a formal reception will
be held at the Shoreham Hotel.
At this reception the queen will
be chosen.
On April l, a pageant called
The Story of Spring" will be
presented in the Sylvan Thea
ter on the Washington Monument
Grounds. The program will be
repeated April 2.
On the nights of April and 2,
a water pageant will be produced
on the Tidal Basin at the base of
the Jefferson Memorial.
Honorary chairmen of the festi-
val will be the three District Com
m1Ssioners and Interior Secretary
Chapman. Other officials of the
festival include:
Francis G. Addison, jr., treas
urer; Clarence A. Arata, secre-
tary; Mrs. Betty M. Moore. assist
ant secretary; Mr.. Addison, Mr..
Arata, E. C. Baltz, Carter T. Bar
ron, Edward r. Carr, Melvin D.
Hildreth. Joseph C. McGarraghy
and F. P. H. Siddons, Executive
Committee: Mr.. Kelly. Arrange
ments and Grounds Committee:
Mr.. Carr, Ball Committee; Her
bert P. Leeman, Milo F. Chris
uansen, Jerome B. Mckee, Maui
rice R. Palmer and Edward M,
Warner, City Participation Com
mittee.
Other Honorary Chairmen.
Also, Frank E. Weakly, Herbert
c. Blunck, Bourbon A. Dawes and
L. Gardner Moore, Hospitality
Committee; Edgar Morris, Invita-
tlons Committee; Col. John T.
Cole, Gen. Clifton B. Gates, Rear
Admiral Glenn B. Davis, Gen. Hoyt
S. Vandenberg and Vice Admiral
Merlin O'Neill. Military Participa-
ton Committee: Robert Clover and
John Tondra, News Photographers
Committee.
t Also, Mr.. Barron, George Crouch
Paul SchWarz and Allen Zee
Pageant and Music Committee:
Police Chief Robert j. Barrett
Inspector Mark H. Raspberry
Public Order Committee; E. F
Harloff and Ralph Pagan, Public
| ity Committee.
Also, Bryson Rash, Gene Juster,
Norman Reed, John S. Hayes,
Eugene Thomas, Roger M. Coelos,
Ralph Burgin, Warren Mats and
Louis Chellenbarger, Radio and
TeleviSion Committee; Washing
ton I. Cleveland, Signs and Dec
Grafton Committee; Carl M.
Walker, State Society Participa-
ton Committee; Thornton w.
Owen and Larry Zuch, Ticket
Committee; Maj. Henry M. Cum
ningham, Transportation Com
mittee; Harold P. Ganss and
Jesse Manbeck, Ushers Commit
tee; Daniel A. Leonard, Water
Pageant Committee; George Sup
plee. Amplification Committee,
and Mr.. Owen, Souvenir Program
| Committee