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MELON FESTIVAL HELD AT MINEOLA
CU OF SIGN
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At the East Texas town of Mineola, all traffic comes to a halt along highway 80 and the visitors are asked to help the town celebrate its annual watermelon festival. There's free watermelon for all, grown in the self-styled "watermelon capital of the world."
LONG OF TENT
At this tent, thrown up beside the highway, hospitality is served by the slice. Watermelon is the largest crop grown in the Mineola area with more than four thousand acres'under cultivation. The annual festival is the town's biggest civic celebration, climaxing the harvesting of the crop of black diamond J...Latermelons. Practically all of Mineola's production is handled through the non-profit Farmers Market that ships the melons throughout the nation. There's plenty