Salt Lake Telegram | 1941-08-12 | Page 9 | S. L. Mail Clerk Awarded Prize in National Postal Rose Show

S. S L. L Mail Clerk Awarded Prize In National Postal Rose Show A ros by any other other name In the case of Mildred L. L Bancroft Bancroft Bancroft Ban Ban- croft it was a Pink Delight A stemmed long-stemmed four loot long bright pink rose she entered in the Postal Portland Ore National Rose show It smelled so sweet it won for her a inch 16 trophy in the national national na na- na- na airmail airman rose section The Therose Therose Therose rose was sd long it had to be trimmed before it could be sent airmail last June In the foot five-foot carton of the money order order order or or- der division rigged together Miss Bancroft order clerk in iq the Salt Lake post office was presented the tM trophy Tuesday Tuesday Tuesday Tues Tues- day by Postmaster I. I A. A Smoot who congratulated her on winning i first place for the Salt Sa-It Lake office of of- Lice flee Its not everyone who can win wina a prize in a national competition he said Miss Bancroft said said it was noth noth- ing She grows them by the hundreds hun hun- hundreds in 99 different varieties In her backyard at 1177 Whitlock avenue A rose she ate said whether it wins a trophy or not would smell as- as