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Show - , Mapleton News By Mrs. Norris T. Binks Phone HIJ 9-5875 j The following report taken from the Herald Express Labor Reporter in California will be of interest to friends and relatives of the former for-mer Lois Whiting of Mapleton who is now Mrs. Gilbert Baker, of Compton, California: "An 11-year-old Boy Scout, a youngster who typifies the finest qualities of American youth, was today named winner of the $100 first prize offered for the best theme for the Los Angeles Union Products and Services show in Pan Pacific auditorium. He is Dennis Baker, son of Mr. and Mrs. Gilbert Baker at 1415 S. Butler st., Compton. "New Horizons" Hori-zons" was his suggested and winning win-ning theme for the show. Dewey Copelan, show president, said the committee of judges selected the boy's slogan from thousands of entries en-tries "because they believed it best expressed the program of labor-management labor-management co-operation which is the basis of the annual products and services show. Last year Dennis was awarded first prize for designing a new emblem em-blem for the Colin P. Kelly school, where he is a sixth grader. He will be not only a special guest of honor at the services show, but he-will be its mascot, union officials said. The show will feature new ideas, new products, and new services of unusual interest in-terest to the American family. Mrs. Marva Whiting spent several sev-eral days in Needles, Calif., visiting at the home of her son Milo Johnson John-son and family. |