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Show Junior College Debate Tourney Plans in Making Utah State Agricultural college debaters and coaches opened preparations this week for the annual Utah-Idaho junior college debate tournament which is expected ex-pected to attract delegates from coleges throughout Utah and Idaho Ida-ho to the Aggie campus April 11 and 12. Douglas Parkinson of Rexburg, Idaho, student debate manager at the college, began work as general chairman of the event by issuing invitations to nine Utah colleges and eight Idaho institutions. insti-tutions. Parkinson, assisted by Ruth Warr of Preston, assistant debate manager, plans to take advantage ad-vantage of his alma maters central cen-tral location and attract as many representatives as possible. Central event of the tournament tourn-ament will as usual be debate with impromptu speaking and oratory or-atory contests filling in between eight or nine rounds of debate. The question to be debated is the national collegiate issue, "Resolved, that the Nations of the Western Hemisphere should form a Permanent Per-manent Union." Topics to be discussed in the impromptu speaking contest will be taken from March and earyl April issues of Time magazine. Oratory subjects are optional. The . Utah-Idaho junior . college tournament is sponsored annually an-nually by one of the 17 member schools. Last year it was held at University of Idaho, Southern Branch, and the year before at Branch Agricultural college in Cedar City. Parkinson teamed with Alan Fonesbeck of Logan to win the title, in both of these meets. This duo, however, are ineligible in-eligible for participation in the 1941 meet. |