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The Skyland Post
West Jefferson, Ashe County, North Carolina
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North Carolina's World's Fair Commission asks communities to send female sponsors and boy color bearers for North Carolina Day on June 19 at the New York World's Fair, with Governor Hoey speaking and school bands participating.
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Charlotte.-New Yorkers and visitors to the World's Fair will always remember North Carolina as the state of beautiful girls, if the World's Fair Commission has its way. Every community and county in the state is being asked to send its own sponsor to the Fair on North Carolina Day (June 19th.), Coleman W. Roberts, exhibit chairman, announced. Town and counties are also asked to send boys as color bearers in the parade which will be a part of the state's big day in New York.
The sponsors, to be selected in any appropriate way by their own communities, would be representatives not only of their own towns, but also will typify North Carolina's charm and graciousness. Sponsors will hold their "office" throughout the term of the fair, or for six months, and would be officially recognized at any time they choose to visit the exhibit, but it is hoped to have all of them in New York on the day set aside as this state's own, when Governor Hoey will speak.
Schools and other organizations are being invited by the World's Fair commission to send bands to New York for this day, and two of them-Lenoir and Charlotte High Schools-have made plans to go.
Final plans for North Carolina Day have not been announced, but Roberts promised today that "North Carolina will monopolize New York and the Fair on June 19."
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New York
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June 19th
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North Carolina's World's Fair Commission is requesting each community and county to select and send a female sponsor and boys as color bearers for the parade on North Carolina Day at the New York World's Fair. Sponsors will represent the state's charm and hold office for six months. Schools like Lenoir and Charlotte High are planning to send bands. Governor Hoey will speak, and the state aims to prominently feature itself on that day.