Iron County Record | 1951-12-20 | Page 4 | State's Champions Are Top Winners in National Finals of Sewing Contest

State's Champions Are Top Winners In National Finals of Sewing Contest y , .i ' '. - - - 7 ; .. ' frO - '"'1 I V-i-A 'V " 1 "Aw ,,;fVi ..' if 1 1 Ill '' i It'' '1 i I ., CZjklZ-. Li', J (Wool BurtJu Pholn) PORTLAND,, Orenon Utali' Junior and St-nior Horn Sewing Cliumpioiii in the fifth annual "Make It Yourself W illi Wool" Contest have emerged as top winner) in the contest's famed National Finals. Mis Elaine Holt, 22, of Clearfield, the state's Senior Champion, has won the Grand Prize for seniors, and Miss Loreen Johnson, 16, of Vernal has taken second prize in the national competition for juniors. As the outstanding sewer in the Senior Class for girls from 18 through 22 Miss Holt (on the right) will receive a 30U scholarship, presented by the Forstmann Woolen Company, for her suit of Juilliard's gray wool flannel. Miss Johnson I at left), who entered the National Kinals with girls from It through 17, receives a $100 Defense liond, presented pre-sented hy John Wallher fuhrics, for her two-piece dress of Milridge's wool llunnrl. More than $2,500 in national awards are presented to the contest's con-test's winners. The two young Utah women, seen aliove wearing their state winning-entry winning-entry fashions, competed with 21 other top-ranking sewing experts from 13 Western states in the National Finals. With them here is Mrs. Sterling Krranhruck, ('resident of the Women's Auxiliary of the Utah Wool Growers Association. The young women visited 1'ortland on an all-expense -paid trip to be guests at the 87th annual convention of the National Wool Growers Association and to appear in the National Fashion Show here December 5. The "Make It Yourself With Wool" Contest is conducted each year throughout the Western wool-growing empire by the Wool Bureau and the Women's Auxiliary of the National Wool Growers Association.