Show G y I NEARBY AND I YONDER Off the Beaten Path to Unusual Unusual Unusual Un Un- usual Places and Things By T T. T. T MAXEY Service The Pageant of the Raisin In III raisin industry of America Is T JL mainly limited to a 0 few counties In California where the climatic and irrigating ir ir- conditions are l ideal ideal Fresno Fresno county t producing the major major- portion of or orthe the crop or some pounds annually As a n natural consequence the dt city of Fresno determined to make the most of the situation set Itself up as ns the Capital of or and annually annually an un celebrates the tile fact filet b by 1 hul holding I the II Pageant of the Pates were scratched histories I searched the tale of the raisin unearthed un in- inI i un and 1 around it there was ns woven wo a n star story which r reaches hack back to the Garden of I Eden The Bible intimates that lint old man planted the first grape vine near neur Mt It Ararat The first dried grapes R or OJ raisins of which accurate account was uns found foun likewise had hud to do 10 with Armenia The valley of the San reasoned reasoned rea rea- on l the is The Thc Garden of the Sun SUlI Therefore why h not nut a n pageant From the Garden of ot laden EtIn to the Garden arden of the Sun SUIl A Accordingly Accord Accord- In I an nn annual raisin day usually day usually during the tile latter part of ot April was April was decided upon and the people of the tile valley set N about to hrin bring the ral raisin ln and lre Fresno nn Into their own When King Grape preceded by the lie blare of hands and accompanied d by hy hl his followers arrived In u Main Street Fresno had become the mecca of SIman so SI man many people who hapP happened 1 d In to see what nil all the excitement nt was nil all about that it ft sarc scarcely l know knew what to do 10 with i them hem Obviously they did It again next year Now most folks know that is the tile home of the raisin |