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Show H. S. JOURNALIST CONFAB AT PROVO SATURDAY Student Journalists and their advisers from Springville high school have been invited to attend the Eighth Annual Conference of Intermountain High School Journalists Jour-nalists which will be held at Brig-ham Brig-ham Young university at Provo on Saturday. In addition to school newspaper newspa-per and yearbook staffs throughout through-out the area, newspaper editors and printers have also been Invited In-vited to attend the meet, since it is being combined with a special observance of the 500th anniversary anniver-sary of the invention of modern printing. Sessions of the conference on Saturday morning and afternoon will be addressed by prominent journalists and educators. In department de-partment sessions specific problems prob-lems In both school and professional profes-sional journalism will be considered consider-ed on panel discussions. All student delegates at the convention con-vention will be eligible to compete com-pete in an editorial writing contest, con-test, for which prizes will be scholarships scho-larships to B. Y. U. covering one quarter's tuition. One will be given giv-en for the best entry submitted by a girl and one for the best submitted sub-mitted by a boy. A- special feature of the traditional tradi-tional gathering, founded by the late Harrison R. Merrill, will be an exhibit of three thousand years of progress in writing and print-j ing. This exhibit will include j Babylonian clay tablets dating be- fore 100 B. C, Hebrew scrolls on parchment and leather, Arabic and Syriac books, reproductions of pages from the Gutenberg and Wycliffe bibles, and examples of the finest in modern printing. A number of college and high school newspapers and yearbooks will also be displayed. . Nine students and one adviser from Springville high school attended at-tended the conference last year at B. Y. U. |