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Show Check attics for papers; win SI 00 cash Those old letters and dusty books in your attic could help finance your summer vacation, that backyard patio or some other project you have in mind. The Utah Mining Centennial Centen-nial Committee says it will pay cash for the best authentic authen-tic and original biography or autobiography, diary, journal, or historical account about the state's early days of mining. Awards of $100 are to be made to at least three contributors con-tributors if they come up with outstanding historical papers before June 30, 1963, the committee com-mittee said. Papers submitted will be used by the committee in preparation prep-aration of stories about Utah's early mining days. Copies are to be made for the files of the Utah State Historical Society for futureuse. Awards of $10 will be made to persons who send manuscripts manu-scripts that are accepted for use in whole or part by the committee. All papers and books are to be returned, the committee said, unless donors expressly offer them for the permanent file of the Historical Histori-cal Society. Papers for the contest are to be mailed to the mining Centenniaal Committee, Box 2106 Salt Lake City, with return re-turn addresses. Mrs. Hazel A. Lowenstein of Terri Haute, Ind., is spending two weeks in. Springville, the house guest of her sister and brother-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Walter E. (Mildred) .Newman and family. She is also visiting her mother, Mrs. Nellie Anderson, And-erson, who has been confined to an Ogden hospital "the past three months. She is reported to be recovering' nicelv. Mr. and Mrs. Garth Tingy (Colleen Metcalf) and children have been visiting in Springville Spring-ville with their parents, Mrs. LeRoy Tingey and Mr. and Mrs. Maurice Metcalf, from Pennsylvania State College. They are enroute to Richland, Wash., where Dr. Tingey will do research for General Electric Elec-tric in the field of atomic science. |