Show KANSAS WITCH DAY FESTIVAL INDEPENDENCE Kan By Kan-By By The Associated New Press Press New Orleans has bas basIts ts its Its Mardi Gras but to the people Southeastern Kansas the Louisana celebration is ls overshadowed by In In- In Independence's Independence's dependences dependence's held every Halloween een night here Eight years ago aiO the plan started when a half halt dozen men and women wo wo- women wo- wo women men gave ga a Halloween party in inthe inthe the he business district for the boys and girls of the clip city There was a a decidedly noticeable lack of de destructive de- de destructIve destructive pranks in Independence that year and the following year jear ear another party was given Each year the affair grew ups Grown Joined the fun and now several thousand people imbued with the carnival spirit Invade In Independence In- In Independence Independence dependence each Halloween night Parades are held all day long and andare andare 0 are repeated at night under the glare glare of floodlights Everyone Is masked massed and the gay crowd takes over the town bowing to no rule except that of Queen some young joung woman selected the night nl ht before the celebration by a secret committee Last j year ear people from southeastern Kansas attended the Nee celebration by the he heay way ay is Halloween spelled backwards and and pronounced as is with the accent on the first syl syl- lable This year will 11 take the form of a n historical pageant depicting the development of the middle west and will be November 3 3 with coronation of the Queen November 1 I due to the fact that October 31 is Sunday |