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Show Essay contest deadline set; awards listed The VFW 5787 sponsored contest is progressing nicely, according to Commander James Mason of the local post, who states that it is being conducted con-ducted as a class-room project in the 10th, 11th and 12th grades at high school. It is the seventeenth annual Voice of Democracy project sponsored by the VFW. December 16 is the deadline for the entries at the high school, where the ten best compositions will be selected. From these ten, judges will select se-lect the three best, first, second sec-ond and third, and prizes of a $25 bond, $10 and $5 will be awarded. The essays must take not less than three minutes to read and not more than five min-utes. min-utes. They are to be written J on the subject, "Challenge of J Citizenship," and will be ; judged on content, 40 percent; J originality, 40 percent; and de-J de-J livery, 20 percent. J First, second and third place j winners will read their essays at a VFW sponsored meeting 5 at Memorial Hall, Dec. 19, at 5 8 p.m., to which the public J will be invited. Presentation of awards will be made at this time. California produces 40 per J cent of the world's commercial 5 raisin crop, half of which j comes from one county alone Fresno. |