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Show City enters notional contest Springville has entered the 1967 National Clean Up Contest. Con-test. The entry has been received re-ceived at Contest headquarters in Washington, D. C, the Springville Herald was notified this week. The National Clean Up Contest, Con-test, which is the oldest and lai-gest competition of its kind in the United States, is sponsored spon-sored by the National Clean Up-Paint Up-Fix Up Bureau. "The progressive, civic-minded people of this community are to be congratulated for their accomplishments," said Bureau Director R. H. Hacken-dahl. Hacken-dahl. "The results they achieved achiev-ed show that these citizens have accepted the challenge to work in partnership with organizations or-ganizations and departments of city government to attack the problem areas of their community." com-munity." The Contest entry, in scrap-book scrap-book form, will be judged with entries from other cities and towns of the same size throughout the country. All entries en-tries are judged in one of the three following population categories: cate-gories: Under 25,000 people; between 25,000 and 250,000 people; and over 250,000 people. peo-ple. Judging will take place in late January, and the results will be announced then. Those communities receiving an engraved Trophy, a Distinguished Distin-guished Achievement Award, or a Certificate of Honorable Mention will accept their awards at the National Cleanest Clean-est Town Conference, February 18-20 in Washington, D. C. The highest possible award, the Trigg Trophy, will go to one city, regardless of size, which the judges decide best exemplifies exem-plifies the principles of the Bureau's nation-wide community commun-ity improvement program. The mayor and a delegation (Cont. on back page, col. 4) City enters national clean-up competition (Cont. from Page One) of citizens have been invited to attend the Conference and to accept the award earned by the city. Judges for the 1967 National Nation-al Clean Up Contest are: Mrs. E. D. Pearce, chairman of the judging panel and president of the General Federation of Women's Wo-men's Clubs; Richard L. Bre-ault, Bre-ault, U. S. Chamber of Commerce; Com-merce; Mrs. Dorothy Gazzolo, National Association of Housing Hous-ing and Redevelopment Officials; Offic-ials; Clifton W. Henry, U.S. Conference of Mayors; Harold E. Horn, International City Managers' Association; Mrs. Diana Mac Arthur, National Youth Conference on Natural Beauty and Conservation; Robert Rob-ert E. McCabe, US Department of Housing and Urban Development; Devel-opment; Archibald C. Rogers, American Institute of Archi-tecs; Archi-tecs; and Conrad L. Wirth, National Na-tional Recreation and Park Association. As-sociation. The National Clean Up Contest Con-test has been held each year since 1929. Its purpose is to give national recognition to cities ci-ties and towns for their efforts in clean up, civic improvement, and beaut.ification. t |