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The young lady who holds the title of America's Junior Miss of 1961 arrives in Dallas on the first leg of a nation-wide tour for a clothing manufacturer. 18-year-old Mary Fran Luecke of St. Louis was selected the nation's outstanding high school senior last March in a pageant at Mobile, Alabama. Dallas Mayor Cabell leads the official greeting party, hands over an honorary citizenship certificate, then gives in to the urge to give the teenage Miss America a hug. MED. HANDS SOMETHING TO LITTLE GIRL Miss Luecke then hands two roses from her bouquet to three-year-old Malissa Shuhzel, the mascot of the Little League Pirates of the \East~ Dallas Cosmopolitan baseball league. MED. LITTLE GIRL AFTER PLAYERS Malissa ponders the gift and wonders what to next. The daughter of a St. Louis newspaper editor, Amer~oa' s junior Miss received a of her choice. 6-thousand dollar scholarship to the coleg&