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Show Wool Growers Auxiliary Announces 'Make It Yourself With Wool' Contest More than $25,000 in prizes, including in-cluding important scholarship. Defense Konds, expense-pai.t trips to Long Beach, Calif., and many equally valuable awards are offered to girls from M through 22 in the seventh annual ! "Make It Yourself with Wool" I h"me sewing contest, which opens today in Utah and 13 oth-1 er Western wool-growing states. The contest Ls sponsored in this i state by the Utah Woolgrowers' auxiliary, in cooperation with the Utah Wool Growers Association and the Wool Bureau, Inc. ' In announcing the opening of, the contest, Mrs. M. V. Hatch of Panguitch, stae contest director, emphasized today that key prizes added to the award list last year, through the cooperation coopera-tion of the F. W. Woolworth com- j pany and the Singer Sewing Machine Ma-chine company, will again be offered of-fered in 1953. These prizes include in-clude both national and state awards, she said. Utah's two outstanding out-standing sewing experts will compete with top winners from other states for national prizes, she continued. The contest serves the signifi-cent signifi-cent purpose of creating sewing skill and developing fashion knowledge, Mrs. Hatch said, by encouraging young women of high school and college age to make their own suits, coats and dresses from virgin wool fabrics. In addition to the thousands Af young women who enter the 3ent on their own each year, the state contest director, continued, many thousands more enter the contest from schools and college classes. More and more Extension Exten-sion Service leaders and home ?conmics teachers are making the event an important adjunct to their instruction. As in previous years, she said, he competition will have two divisions the junior class, for girls from 14 through 17, and the senior class, for those from 18 through 22. When the contest reaches its climax early in December, the top sewing experts from all contest con-test states will be four-day guests of the National Wool Growers Association in Long Beach, Calif, where they will model mo-del their own creations in the famed National Fashion Revue, held in conjunction with the SStth annual convention of the association. States in which the contest held are Arizona, California, Colorado, Col-orado, Idaho, Missouri, Montana, Nevada. New Mexico. North Dakota, Da-kota, Oregon, South Dakota. .Utah, Washington and Wyoming. Mrs. Marvel Murdock of Ilebt r City, Utah, is national contest director. The coveted top award in each division in the national finals 1 of the contest is a $300 scholar ! ship to a school or college of the contestant's choice, presented by the Forstmann Woolen company and Pendleton Woolen Mills. First place awards in both junior jun-ior and -senior classes are Singer mahogany console sew ing ma-! chines presented by the Singer Sewing Machine company. In addition ad-dition to sponsoring these awards, the Singer company presents pre-sents a portable sewing machine as an award in state competitions competi-tions in each of the 14 contest states. A $500 scholarship will be awarded 'by Colorado Wowen's college to the participant in the National Fashion Show whose home-sewing skill and academic standing in high school are adjudged ad-judged to be outstanding. The award is open only to National Fashion Show participants from 17 through 19 who have graduated graduat-ed from high school not later than one year previous to the close of the 1953 contest. A $100 Bond is awarded also to the girl selected for the title of 1953 "Wool Princess." This I prize is presented by the Producers Produc-ers Livestock Marketing Asso- jciation of Ogden, Utah. An additional addi-tional award of a dawn-to-evening "Glamour Ensemble" in Chamberlin's fine handwoven fabric will be presented to the runner-up in the "Wool Princess" competition by Chamberlin's Handwovens of Seattle, Wash. |