The committee concluded that the first peach festival queen should be the daughter of a peach grower. Choosing a queen was a more delicate matter, requiring finesse, fanfare and fuss - and, naturally, an adequate stock of feminine beauty. Carlton, was appointed to royal status by acclamation.

County Agent Glasscock’s assistant, Cecil C. No festival, the planning committee wisely decided, was worth the name without a queen-and a king, of course, to keep the lady company on the throne. Faris, cooperated with the various committees, doing his part to make the festival a success. The Old Reliable’s agricultural agent, the aforementioned Mr. Educational features resulting from friendly competition between growers were designed to develop better peaches and more astute marketing practices by growers and shippers. The obvious entertainment value was frankly calculated to attract attention to the county’s fast-growing peach industry, bringing future customers. Glasscock and his associates in cooperative extension work the commercial peach growers of the county - some 450 in all the civic leaders of Clanton, Thorsby and neighboring towns, and other interested persons, put on a grand show with an admitted dual purpose. Working as parts of a well-geared machine, County Agent M. They’re proud of their fine cattle and produce, and are especially “sold” on their peach orchards, Their peaches are getting a national reputation, but no one in the county intends to lie back and rest on reputation alone.

The celebration for ‘48 will have to “go some” to beat this year’s eminently successful venture, but Chilton Countians are used to thinking in optimistic terms.

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