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Show Awards, Vacations Offered Winners in State, J National Make It Yourself with Wool Contest Two flying trips to Paris and Rome, two state champions, two five-day visits to Dallas and Fort Worth these prizes head the list of awards, in the $35,000 "Make It Yourself With Wool" contest now open to all Utah Girls between the ages of 14 and 22. Details of the state-wide sewing sew-ing competition to select Utah's two sewing champions were announced an-nounced today by Mrs. Ray J. Clark of Salt Lake City, the contest con-test director of the state. "In addition to the many na- tional awards, there are scores of valuable awards being offered in the Utah competition," says Mrs. Clark. "Contestants between jthe ages of 14 and 17 compete in i the junior class, and those from 'lS through 22 compete as seniors. sen-iors. Comparable prizes are awarded In each division." Winners of the Utah Championship Cham-pionship will travel to Fort Worth in January, 1956, to compete com-pete for coveted national awards with champions from other contest con-test states. State Awards Are Listed State prizes to be awarded in Utah include travel, sewing machines, ma-chines, Savings Bends and fabric lengths. The Singer Sewing Machine Ma-chine Company will present two featherweight portable sewing machines to talented Utah sew-ers, sew-ers, Rotary Mills. S. Stroock & Company and I. A. Wyner & Company Com-pany will present fabric lengths. The Handweaver and Craftsman magazine will award $50 Savings Bonds In each strte to a junior and senior whose award-winning garments are made of hand-loomed hand-loomed virgin wool. Other awards Include cash prizes, handwoven stoles and skirt lengths, presented by Cham-berlin's Cham-berlin's Handwovens, and all- expense ex-pense trips to the state finals. Travel to the national finals in Fort Worth for the two state champions will be presented by the F. W. Woolworth Company. The "Make It Yourself with Wool" contest is held in 15 states of the Western wool-growing empire. em-pire. It is conducted in Utah by the Women's Auxiliary of the Utah Wool Growers Association, headed by Mrs. Lcland Petersen of Hyrum. |