Show MIA Play Writing Contest Opens Opens- Deadline is Sept Sent 30 The 1950 MIA Competition n Is li now open and closing date dale Is la Sept 30 1956 I It was announced today by theMIA the theMIA theMIA MIA Drama committee of the general boards of the and auxiliary organizations organizations of the Church of Jesus Christ I of Latter day Saints In The Service f e R CLARK E E. E TAYLOR Two Moab youths are currently current ly Iy enrolled In basic training with the U U. S. S Air Force at Parks Air force Base California according to Sergeant Carl Sims local air force recruiter They are Clark E E. Taylor son of Mr and Mrs N N. B. B Taylor and James K IC Jefferies son of Mr and Mrs Harry Jefferies During their stay in California the two Moab youths will receive re reo extensive training in such subjects as mathematics history military law and personal hy giene iene iene e r JAMES K JEFFERIES I After basic training they will either be assigned to air force bases tases where their particular skills I Iare are re needed or sent to air force t c e c h n i c a 1 l or administrative schools I Prior to his In Salt Lake ake City Airman Taylor attended attend attend- ed d Grand County High Airman Jefferies attended Forest Grove High Ugh In Forest Grove Oregon William R. R Bass Dass son on of Mr and Mrs Urs K H H. Nielson of Price has been promoted to the rank of airman irman first class at Air Base in Germany It was reported reported reported re re- re- re ported here this week His wife Is the former DixieRuth Dixie DixieRuth Ruth luth Hawks of Moab Bass attended Roosevelt High school chool scho l and was a farmer prior to entering the service July 2 1954 He Ill is assigned to the Installation In In- squadron as an equip equip- equipment equipment ment meat operator specialist I Manuscripts are arc being considered consider consider- ed In four classes as follows Class A for length full plays Class B n for musicals Class C for short plays with a special category Young Writers Sec Section lion tion for authors who have no not yet reached their birth birthdays days All plays received will be rated superior excellent or good fo for publication or reject Those accepted ac aCt ac- ac for publication will be purchased for the 1957 MIA Book Boo I of Plays at rates which vary wit with the rating of excellence length full-length plays and musicals musical judged superior may be purchased for those judged excellent may be purchased for am and those good may be purchased fo for Short plays judged superior may be purchased for those thos excellent may be purchased for fo and those good may be purchased pur put chased for 50 Plays received In the Youn Young Writers Section may be purchased purchased pur pur- chased at the same rates The MIA purchases the right t to publish plays In the annual MIA Dook of Plays and the right fo for regularly organized f MIA WA groups group to tn produce such plays without further royalty arrangements Al Alother All other rights remain the property of the authors This is the third annual play writing competition In the two previous competitions two twenty-two plays were selected for publication publication tion from the more than three hundred manuscripts submitted Works have been received from Germany Scotland England Canada Canada Can Can- ada IIda Mexico and Brazil and from nearly every state In the United States Membership In the L L. D D. D S S. S church is not a prerequisite but all plays are lire subject to the standards standards stand stand- ards of that group Plays submitted must be typewritten typewritten typewritten type type- written without extensive handwritten handwritten hand hand- written corrections or notations and must be bound in a cover of some kind They must not be postmarked later than Sept 30 1956 Judging will begin Immediately immediately immedi on the closing date of the contest and judges decisions will willbe willbe willbe be made as soon as possible All decisions are final There is no limit as to subject matter of the plays nor the type of treatment Plays will be judged I for play worthiness However I there Is a definite need for plays I using teen teen-a teen age e casts |