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Show DUKE ASHBURN PLACES HIGH IN NATIONAL ROADEO An eighteen-year old state of Washington youth was crowned driver champion of the United States as a result of winning the fifth annual National Teen-age "Road-e-o. He is Chris Bayley of 13504 Eighth Avenue, N. W., Seattle, , Washington, the son of Mr. and Mrs Emery P. Bayley. With his title, the dark haired Washington youth also wins a college scholarship amounting to $1500 which he will probably prob-ably use to go to Harvard, his college choice. Duke Ashburn, winner of the Milford and Utah Slate Road-e-os, finishing in 10th place with the creditable . score of 711 points. Second place winner in the U. S. Junior Chamber of Com-merce Com-merce competition was Tommy Varner, 17, of 404 Springdale drive, N. E., Atlanta, Georgia, who won a $1000 scholarship. Third place honors went to Sidney Van Court, 19, of An-dover, An-dover, Ohio, who won a $500 scholarship. Patricia Ledger, 17, of Portland, Port-land, Maine, sister of last year's first place winner, wound up in 'fourth place in the 1956 competition highest position ever attained by a girl contestant con-testant in the Road-e-o's five year history. The other girl in this year's contest, Lue Knud-sen Knud-sen of Mesa, Ariz., placed 20th in the competition among the 50 teen-agers representing all the 48 states, the District ' of Columbia and Hawaii. The road-eo is sponsored jointly by Liberty mutual Insurance In-surance Company, the Chrysler Corporation and American Trucking Associations, Inc. In winning top honors in the four-day competition, Bayley scored 781 points out of a possible pos-sible 1000 while the second-place second-place Georgia boy notched a total of 750.5 points. The third place winner, Van Court, racked up a total of 748 points. Duke's score was 711 and the lowest score was 490. |