Newspaper clipping: Greer Festival Beauties

Title: Newspaper clipping: Greer Festival Beauties
Accession Number: 2023.23.2
Accession Date: Feb. 15, 2023
Accession Creator: David Lovegrove
Depositor: Found in collection
Description: Article announcing Linda Ballard, Meta Jean Rast, and Sandra Croxton as contestants for the Peach Festival beauty pageant, as well as the presence of N. C. Apple Festival Queen Daphne Fair
Date: June 8, 1961
Format: newspaper clipping
Storage Location: General Archive Box #5 Folder #5
Text: Greer Festival Beauties

GREER-When the fifth annual Peach Festival is held at Greer June 13-17, these four girls will be among the contestants for the title of "Peach Queen." Linda Mae Ballard of Spartanburg, 18, has blue eyes, weighs 115 pounds and measures 35-24-35. Meta Jean Rast of Dillon has blue eyes, blonde hair, and measure 36-25-35. Sandra Lou Croxton, 18, of Kershaw has blue eyes, light brown hair, and measures 35-22-34. Daphne Fair of Leaksville, N. C. who is "North Carolina Apple Festival Queen," will be one of the several beauty queens to be seen during the event here.
Relation: Related sources are all from the 1961 Peach Festival and in the same archival folder; Photograph: 1961 Peach Queen Phyllis Parker; Photograph: Peach Festival 1961 Phyllis Parker; Photograph: Peach Festival 1961 Phyllis Parker, alternate pose; 1961 Peach Festival brochure; 1961 Peach Festival program; Photograph: Peach Festival Peach Queen Phillis Parker; Photograph: 1961 Peach Festival pageant event; Photograph: 1961 Peach Festival memorial dedication plaque to Ben Gramling; Newspaper clipping: Contestants at Greer; Newspaper clipping: They Seek Peach Queen Title At Greer; Newspaper clipping: Peach Festival Parade Will Be On Television; Newspaper clipping: Phyllis; Newspaper clipping: Queens' Banquet Given Saturday By Kiwanis Club; Newspaper clipping: Visiting Beauty Queen Here For Peach Festival