I Local Students Win National Writing Award Salt Lake City students have won five awards in America's largest creative writing competition compe-tition for high school pupils. The local writing champions captured a first award and four commendations in the Scholastic Magazines Writing Awards sponsored spon-sored by the Sheaf fer Pen Co. First place winner is Bonnie Vendig of Highland High, in the short story division. Commendations winners are Miss Vendig in dramatic script division; Richard D. Randall of Olympus High, poetry; Peter F. Kaiser, East High, poetry; and Steven Walker, East High, short story. Approximately 160,000 entries competed for the total, of 424 awadrs. Represented were students stu-dents in all 50 states, District of Columbia, Canada and 15 foreign nations. They were judged for writing skill, originality and quality of expression by 27 U.S. authors, educators and literary critics, including two former Pulitzer prize winners dramatist drama-tist Tad Masel and Novelist Henry Beetle Hough. First and second place winners win-ners receive cash awards, Sheaf-fer Sheaf-fer pens and gold keys. Honorable Honor-able mention winners receive keys and pens. Merit certificates are given to winners of commendations. com-mendations. The Writing Awards competition compe-tition was established in 1924 to encourage creative writing by high school students. Prizes totaling to-taling $4,665 are awarded for the best original manuscripts in major categories of writing including in-cluding short story, poetry, essay and dramatic script.