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Show 4-H Girls Win Scholarships Through Skill With Need e College Course Assured For Dozen Lucky Ladies USING needle and thread, ingenuity and perseverance, perse-verance, 12 girls from as many states each won $200 scholarships at the National Na-tional 4-H clothing achievement achieve-ment contest held at Chicago in connection with the 24th National 4-H club congress. The scholarships were awarded award-ed by the Spool Cotton company com-pany of New York. The winners were Dixie Lee Nut-tall, Nut-tall, Dragoon, Cuchise Co., Ariz.; Mae Cngle, Canton, Cherokee Co.. Sewing isn't difficult if you have patience, says Rhua Slavens. who has made numerous hats and bags, a winter coat, and a coat and suit She admits, however, that she started start-ed sewing by making a tea towel! Ruth Erb thinks it is a crime to let good material go to waste, so she takes out-of-date clothing and, using her style sense, creates many fashion sensations. Ruth thinks everyone ev-eryone should go through the rag bag or the pile of discarded clothing cloth-ing from time to time to get material mate-rial for skirts, shorts, jerkin, blouse and other garments. Special occasions do not bother Kathryn Johnson, for she makes any outfit she wants. Her father's old silk shirts, discarded 20 years ago, provided her with a blouse. She reshapes re-shapes old hats into stylish modes the 4-H club, Mae Cagle progressed from making doll dresses to slip3, dresses, house coats and other items of apparel. If she likes a dress shown in a newspaper or magazine, she makes one like it for herself. Eleanor Zaharis has won many prizes for her exceptional sewing. She starts first with good material, tests it for wrinkles, chooses a pattern pat-tern carefully and sets to work. She refuses to rush through the sewing, but takes extra care to assure an attractive and satisfying result. Before she became an expert at sewing, Marie Weisheit made many mistakes, but you would never guess it now. Along with making her own ; clothes, Marie does most of the ; mending and darning for her family of six people. Another who started sewing oy J I lii.lll ljll,ii)tliliUll'iijli),Di.V Vv..m)iiAiij,WM;u i j ' SCHOLARSHIP WINNERS . . . First row, left to right: Dixie Lee Nuttall. Arliona; Gerry Keathly, Okla homa; Rhua Slavens, Montana; Ronnie Chrlstlson, Hlneonsln; Ruth Erb, New Hampshire; Eleanor Zaharis, Oregon. Second row, left to right: Mae Cagle, Georgia; Meta Marie Keller, Illinois; Dorla Clopper, Maryland; Mary-land; Kathryn Johnson, New York; Marie Weisheit, Indiana. (Blllle McCoy, Tennessee, not shown, was also a winner.) , 3a.; Meta. Marie Keller, Streator, La Salle Co., 111.; Marie Lorena Weisheit, Petersburg, Pike Co.. Ind.; Dorli Clopper, Hagerstown, Washington Wash-ington Co., Md.; Rhua Ethel Sla-yens, Sla-yens, Molt, Stillwater Co., Mont.; Ruth B. Erb, Hudson, Hillsborough Co., N. H.; Kathryn Johnson, Marathon. Mara-thon. Cortland Co., N. Y.; Gerry Keathly, Marland, Noble Co., Okla.; Eleanor Zaharis, Portland, Multnc-Tiah Multnc-Tiah Co.,, Ore.; Billie McCoy, Jasper, Jas-per, Marion Co., Tenn.; and Bonnie 3. Chrlstlson, Elkhorn, Walworth Co., Wis. In case any of the above do not take advantage of the scholarships, tome of the following alternates nay go to college instead: Alice Word, Oak Grove, Christian To., Ky.; Lorraine Miller, Fair-nont, Fair-nont, Martin Co., Minn.; Nnncy Brittingham, Marshallton, New Castle Co., Del.; Carley Jean Van-tant, Van-tant, Richfield. Lincoln Co., Idaho; Lyda Jean Smith, Boaz, Etowah Co., Ma.; and Helen Oehsner, Madison, Madison Co., Neb. Each 4-H clothing achievement girl had a personal story of how she itarted sewing, of her progress and f her final triumph as a national winner. ; Dixie Lee Nuttall got her start mnk-ng mnk-ng doll clothes. After dressing the loll in the best of fashion, Dixie tnew she had overcome most of the pitfalls of a beginner. She has iompleled a total of 77 articles and las knitted or crocheted 15 more. Bonnie B. Christlson admits she ilways liked to sew, and recently proved It when she made 10 gowns tor a formal wedding when her sis-r sis-r was married. Doris Clopper discovered that ihortage of piece goods during war-ime war-ime made remodeling almost a lecessity. She first selected a blue terge suit of her father's, took it i part, placed it on a pattern, and let to work. A fine two-piece suit tor herself resulted. A black coat vlth a big fur collar, discarded by icr mother, was revamped into a itylish garment by Doris. Her magic low turns all sorts of old garments nto attractive ensembles for her-elf. her-elf. family and friends. and creates other wearing apparel that will stand the test of any fash-Ion fash-Ion editor's eye. Billie McCoy estimates that she has saved over $300 by making her own clothing during the last few years. Evening gowns, blouses, skirts, suits, dresses and other needs were produced by her sewing skill. To list all her sewing achievements would make a news story in itself. In seven years of project work In making a tea towel is Gerry Keathly. Keath-ly. "If you've never sewed, you don't know what you're missing, ' she declares now. Making dresses, or suits, is now easy for her, and her favorite pastime is darning! Meta Marie Keller finds she can now make all her own clothes and still have time for fun and other work. It wasn't easy at first, she admits, as she looks back to the time she made her first cotton dress. |