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Show Model Car Makers May Win $115,000 Eighteen university scholarships worth $38,000 and another $77,000 in cash and other awards are the i stakes in the 1958 Fisher Body Craftsman's Guild model car competition. com-petition. ! Enrollments for the competition jare being accepted now, it was : announced today by C. W. Mc-Clellan, Mc-Clellan, administrator of the Guild, j Boys born in the years 1937 'through 1941 are eligible to enroll in the senior division; boys born Jin 1942 through 1946 may enroll in the junior division. An enroll-ment enroll-ment card may be obtained by 'writing to the Fisher Body Crafts-! Crafts-! man's Guild, General Motors, Detroit De-troit 2, Michigan. Approximately 1,000 public and parochial schools throughout the I country will be visited this fall by field representatives of the Craftsman's Guild to explain -the model car building program. A booklet on model car design and construction is given to each boy enrolling in the Guild. Prepared Pre-pared by professional designers and engineers, it is the only textbook text-book of its kind for boys wishing to learn about automobile design. Since 1930, the Fisher Body competition com-petition has awarded 179 university univer-sity scholarships valued at $525,-500 $525,-500 to national winners. Approximately Approxi-mately $875,000 in cash and other awards have been made to thousands thou-sands of boys winning state and regional honors. The Fisher Body model car competition has become j nationally famous as one of industry's in-dustry's most successful talent j sources. A survey of former winders win-ders revealed that the same dreams that help a boy design 'and build an award-winning model mod-el car help most of them to be-jcome be-jcome prize-winning adults, too. j Awards for the best models entered en-tered in the Guild competition include in-clude eight university scholarships for the nation winners of the Jr. and Senior Divisions of the com-I com-I petition. In each age group the (awards will be: 1st $5,000 schol-jarship; schol-jarship; second, $4,000; third, $3,-jOOO; $3,-jOOO; fourth, $2,0000. In addition, ten $1,000 scholarships are awarded award-ed to boys showing exceptional their employees) are eligible to enter the competition. Duplicate awards are made if the son of a GM employee wins. The 1957-58 competition will end June 2, 1958. designing ability. There are 16 awards in each state and the District of Columbia Colum-bia eight in each age group as follows: first, $150 cash; second, $100; third, $50 and five honorable honor-able mention awards of $25 cash. For judging purposes, the 48 states and District of Columbia are grouped into 20 regions, each of which will send a Junior and Senior Se-nior Division winner expense-free to the national Guild convention next August. Sons of General Motors employees em-ployees (including dealers and |