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Show John Muir Named Cedar's Winner In "Voice of Democracy" Contest i Following the theme "Voice of I Democracy," through its progress in history and conceding with j democracy as his reason for being be-ing interested in An. erica, John I Muir, a student at the Cedar City I high school and a resident of (he United States for only four 'months walked away last night with first place in the Junior Chamber of Commerce sponsored Voice of Democracy contest. Mr. Muir, presently living in Cedar City with Mr. and Mrs. Rulon Knell, a son of John Muir of Gillham, England, just 30 miles south of London, has only 'been in the United States for approximately ap-proximately four months. He entered the Cedar City high school for his first stage of education edu-cation while in this country. Overshadowed only by the fact that Muir is of such recent vintage vint-age to the United States was Roland Palmer, second place winner, and Winnie Heywood, third place winner in the locally sponsored contest. Mr. Palmer is a son of Mr. and Mrs. Leo Palmer, and Miss Heywood Hey-wood is a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Jim Heywood, both residents resi-dents of Cedar City. As winner of the local contest, a transcription of Mr. Muir's talk will be sent to the state Jaycees for competition on a state-wide basis, and with such outstanding possibilities as Mr. Muir's f.peech contains, according accord-ing to the judges, his next step mav well be the national contest con-test to Le staged in January. Ten finalists from the Cedar City high school competed in the stiff competition Wednesday evening eve-ning at the studios of KSUB and the judges deliberated for a long time before arriving at the final decision. The 10 finalists final-ists participating in the Wednesday Wednes-day evening affair, besides the top three, were Helen Harris, Ja-i.ice Ja-i.ice Bauer, Jula Rose Bentley, Janet Wasden, Sylvia Smith, Claudine Cowan and Dick Mad-sen. Mad-sen. Judges Included Dean Harry Flurhmer of the College of Southern South-ern Utah speech department; Mrs. Conrad Hatch, a former debate de-bate and speech major at the col- 'ege, ami Robert Heyborne, member mem-ber of the KSUB radio staff. In commenting on the talks as fcivon in the contest the judges (Continued from Page 2) Voice of Democracy (Continued from Page One) suggested that all of the finalists final-ists use their speeches for various vari-ous activities and as Dean Plum-I Plum-I mer pointed out, "If this Is your first crack at a speech contest, by all means don't let It be the last." Dean Plummer urged the students to participate in the program a second year Chairman of the committee in charge of arrangements for the local affair was McRay Cloward with a committee composed of the following men, assisting: James Hoyle, board advisor; Stanley DeMille, Robert Brad-shaw Brad-shaw and Dex Cowley. Mr. Muir, as recipient of first prize, was awarded a 17 jewel wrist watch, Mr. Palmer, second place winner, won a table model ladio and Miss Heywood was the recipient of a 45 rpm record player, all courtesy of the Jay-ctes Jay-ctes and the various business organizations. or-ganizations. Dealing with the advent of democracy de-mocracy in history Mr. Muir tiaced its ups and downs throughout history. The climax came when he listed the call of j democracy as the answer to world problems and his reasons for leaving his "beloved" England Eng-land to Jive in the U. S. |
