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! > i at iii Harvard's Milk Days a traditional salute to the dairy farmer By Dick Peterson HARVARD -- It's a slice of Americana. It's Milk Days -- Harvard's 44th annual salute to the dairy farmer. It's a family-style celebration, the kind the American Dairy Association would put its Real seal of approval on. There are parades, crepe-paper clad princes and princesses, a queen contest, bed races, a drum and bugle corps com­ petition, carnival rides, a talent show, a tractor pull, farm tours, and goat and horse shows. Of course, there's a cattle show, too. It all begins in earnest May 30 with the crowning of the Milk Days Queen. And it doesn't end until after the sun sets with a fireworks display Sunday, June 2. There's a little of everything for everybody. And just about anyone who is anybody watches the hugh Milk Days parade. Harvard swells to 10 times its size during the parade. Last year, the' usual crowd of 55,000 viewed the parade, which featured more than 100 units, in­ cluding 25 bands. The main street through downtown Harvard is renamed for the weekend, becoming the Milky Way. That image is taken so far as to whitewashing Ayer Street in the wee hours of Milk Days, Saturday. This year's parade begins at 1 p.m. Saturday, June 1, with -- what else? -- a milk drinking contest in front of the reviewing stand. About a half hour later, the more than 100 units begin a two-hour tour of the Milky Way. At 12 o'clock high that day, the WGN radio Noon Show will be broadcast live from Harvard. Milk Days, Saturday, begins at 8 a.m. with the goat show. Farm tours begin at 8:30 a.m. and a half hour later, the cattle show, gets under way. The goat and cattle shows will be held under tents at the Milk Days grounds on the north edge of Har­ vard. As soon as the parade is over -- at about 3 p.m. -- the goat show resumes. At 6 p.m., a team of Army personnel will hold a rappeling demonstration at the high school football field. The field is the site of the Creme de Corps II drum and bugl€ competition. The contest, which features some of the top drum and bugle units in the nation, opens the 1985 season for the young musi­ cians. Last year, more than 1,500 people wat-. ched the contest, which was won by the renowned Rockford Phantom Regiment. The weekend really begins at 8 p.m. Thursday, May 30, with the selection of the Milk Days Queen and the Coronation Ball at the Harvard Moose Lodge. Seven area high schools are represented in the contest, and one will succeed Kim Kvistad as Milk Days Queen. The band, Trilogy, will be featured at the ball. Milk Days, Friday, May 31, is set aside for the kids. A youth parade will be held through downtown Harvard at 6:30 p.m., followed by the crooning of the Milk Days Prince and Princess at 7:30 p.m. at the high school football field. A clown show for the kids will follow at 8 p.m. Milk Days, Sunday, June 2, begins with a horse show in rural Harvard at 8 a.m. The goat show continues at 9 a.m., and at noon a tractor pull will be held across from the Milk Days grounds. The weekend begins to wind down at 5 /• . p.m. with the 10th annual Milk Days talent contest, which has three age divi­ sions and cash prizes. The fireworks display closes the celebration at9:30p.m. Throughout the weekend, carnival rides, concessions and a flea market will be held at the Milk Days grounds. On Milk Days, Friday and Saturday, children will be able to visit the Wee Farm, also on the Milky Way grounds. If you want to catch the popular bea races, be on the Milky Way at 7 p.m. Milk Days, Wednesday, May 29. Teams com­ pete in men's, women's and coed divi­ sions. Time trials for the finals were held the three previous Fridays. A sneak preview to the Milk Days festivities is offered Sunday, May 28, with a sock hop in the enclosed downtown Har­ vard parking garage. Food, beverages and plenty of music will be available from 8 p.m. to midnight. the Milky Way, which is a whitewashed and renamed Ayer t. 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