Kankakee Valley Post, Volume 9, Number 45, DeMotte, Jasper County, 28 September 1939 — INDIANA CORN QUEEN CONTEST MONDAY NIGHT [ARTICLE]

INDIANA CORN QUEEN CONTEST MONDAY NIGHT

With girls from approximately a score of Indiana cities and towns competing for the title of Indiana Corn Queen, the 1939 Indiana Corn Festival will get off to a flying start at Fowler Monday night, Oct. 2. Hal Totten, popular Chicago sports announcer, will serve as master of ceremonies at the colorful queen’s selection contest, while the judges will be June Travis, beautiful motion picture and radio star; Clarence Shapiro, midwest talent scout for MGM; Eddie and Fannie Cavanaugh, who daily radio gossip club has been a popular radio feature for years; and Eleanor Nangle, beauty editor of the Chicago Tribune. Music for the evening will be furnished by Irvin-Maury and their orchestra from Pudue Univesity. The stage show and contest will run about two hours, and arrangements are being made to eat 2,000 people in the Fowler high school gym. The event will start at 8 p.m. Admission prices will be 50c for adults and 20c for children under 14. x The corn festival itself will be held at Fowler Oc‘ 12, 13 and 14. Gov. Townsend will open the festival Thursday afternoon, Oct. 12, his talk to be followed immediately by a balloon a double parachute drop. That night the queen will be crowned as a preliminary to the. beautiful coronation ball. Friday afternoon will be featured by a kiddie and pet parade, and the night by a special mardi-gras program on the midway. A band and float parade, headed by the 150 piece Purdue University military band, will feature the Saturday afternoon program, while that night a concert by the Purdue band and the cornhusker’s ball will close the 3day show. On all three days a midway five blocks long will be in operation and there will be eight free acts daily—four in the afternoon and four at night. The supplemental mixtures were more palatable than the single supplement, meat and bone scraps. Detailed results of the tests may be obtained by writing to the Animal Husbandry Dept, at Purdue U.