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Show Troubleshooters Pic!:eil Dy Sc!:-. Four Viewmont High School students participated in a written test on March 2 at Utah Technical College in a try to qualify for the state championship of the Plymouth Trouble Shooting Contest. c- . LYNN Heaps, Lurlen A. Knight, Robert Marlette, and Brent Matern, all from Bountiful, Boun-tiful, have qualified in the school's competition for the contest. "We hope they will go on to the state and national contest," con-test," said Juan J. Allred, instructor in-structor In the school's automotive au-tomotive shop department. THE state finals are to be held at Utah Technical College on April 25 and the-national the-national finals are set for Kansas City in June. "We know that our students will do their best to score the high written test grades necessary to take Viewmont High into the state finals. The state contest, where the student teams work on cars, will give our auto mechanics students a chance to show how good they are when under pressure," he said. IN THE Plymouth Trouble Shooting State Contest, competing com-peting teams race to find malfunctions which have been placed in a new Plymouth car, fix them, and get the car in perfect running order. All cars in the contest are "bugged" identically, with malfunctions related to the electrical, starting and fuel systems or body hardware on the car. STATE champions will win all-expense paid trips to the Plymouth National Trouble Shooting Finals, where teams representing each of the 50 states will compete for scholarships and other valuable valua-ble prizes. Trouble shooters who qualify for the regional written writ-ten exam are outstanding students in their auto classes. Their instructors select four ""dents on tw mechanic i CW.. "Present tne? " |