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Show Festival Termed Big Success By Promoters; More Hoped For Moab's first Autumn Festival and Craft Fair was termed a complete success at its closing Sunt'ay night by participants partic-ipants and visitors alike. A total of 22 booths offered their wares of food, drink and interesting interest-ing things to buy, with selection se-lection ranging from bunches bun-ches of dried grasses to guppies to cotton candy. Several food booths ran out of their specialties and had to close early, and most craftsmen reported repo-rted their sales had been excellent. Prizes were awarded for the most inventive booths, and Delma Tan-green Tan-green won first place for hers, where pottery, bottles bot-tles and handcrafts were sold. Second place went to Canyonlands Complex Club for their "Weed Wagon", Wa-gon", and wood worker Marion Terry was awarded awar-ded third place for his booth and display. Prizes were also awarded awar-ded winners in old-fashioned old-fashioned competition games Sunday afternoon, where kids and adults indulged in-dulged in egg toss, straw carry, and other such traditional tra-ditional fun. Games were conducted by theJaycees, who also lent their efforts wherever needed during the Fair. Purpose of the event was to involve all who are working in the creative arts, where they could show or sell their products, pro-ducts, to promote an old-time old-time fair atmosphere, and offer fun for everyone. Proceeds, which came from a So booth fee, totaled to-taled $110 and have been deposited into a bank account ac-count to be used for the support of cultural events for Moab. All involved in the Fair indicate enthusiasm for continuing the eventyear-ly, eventyear-ly, and several ideas have been brought forth for more diversified activities activi-ties and sales. Nik Hougen, coordinator, coordina-tor, expressed thanks to all the organizations, businesses and people who put in time, donated prizes or otherwise gave their support to the fair, and to all the citizens who attended. U cq.J ' i - ' : ;" : ""..VI t 1 - ! Mud Dobbers Pottery, old bottles, wood pieces for do-it-yourself decorating de-corating were sold by Delma Tangreen and friends in this booth, which won first prize honors for the most inventive and interesting booth. Prizes on wares ranged from $.25 up. - ---;, - ur?i ii to- ! ''.-: .. -c f . :; - ,v"-r '.;V?f.AV.:vf-r - -;-V-'-.i.- J:iJ-;1y. ' Z -Sij . The Weed Wagon was sponsored by Canyonlands Complex Club, and won second prize for booths. The ladiesof the organization gathered dried grasses and weeds, selling them by the bunch. Historic wagon was borrowed from the Tommy White Ranch. y- - . ... :.:. i.'v i, ,- '1 if Tr ,, . .. -.t i.--p.,,fJ -,T -f . iv 1 5. - 1 I I Handmade Grandfather Clock and spinning wheel drew attention to Marian Terry's booth, which won third place prize. Added attraction at the booth was a demonstration on how to use the spinning wheel. Two spinning wheels and the clock were sold during Craft Fair. |