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Show A Dixie Queen Wins All-State Honors Congratulations to Miss Noma Andrus, the St. George beauty who walked off with all honors in competition with Utah's fairest daughters in the Covered Wagon Days Queen contest at Salt Lake City. Our own Miss Andrus was selected upon a basis of beauty, personality, grace, poise and background from among 56 finalists from 16 cities and towns throughout' the state all of them selected beauties, and all of them lovely and charming girls. To lead this roup is an exceptional ex-ceptional honor. It is interesting to note that two of the last three queens of the state-wide celebration in the state capital, are southern Utah girls. In 1939 the honor was won by Miss Marie Bertelsen, of Marysvale, and this year the honor came to St. George. It must be that Dixie's mild and gentle climate makes for beauty. Incidentally no small measure of praise is due to the officials of the Salt Lake City celebration and the contest chairman, B. A. Reynolds. They have always claimed that they were endeavoring to make the pioneer fete there a state-wide affair, and whether they succeed or not, their impartial conduct and their handling of the event should do much to obtain that objective. Not only does the Covered Wagon Days parade invite in-vite a score or more high school bands from throughout the state to participate, but the committees in charge and the judges seemed to be eminently impartial in their selection selec-tion of the Queen to preside over the event. No special consideration was given Miss Andrus because she was from "outside of Salt Lake City", nor was this fact held against her. The girls were judged entirely by numbers, and neither their names nor the localities from which they came were mentioned to the judges. Hail the new Queen. |