OCR Text |
Show Panguitch Miss Wins First Place in Elks Student Contest Two outstanding students of the Panguitch High School and one from the Cedar City High School have been named winners In the Cedar City Elks Lodge annual Worthy Student Contest, Leonard Smith, contest chairman announces. Miss Maxine Orton, of Panguitch, Pan-guitch, was named first place winner in an extremely close contest, winning the coveted title ti-tle by the narrow margin of one percentage point over Miss Sara Jenson of Cedar City. Third place went to Wayne Owrns, also of Panguitch, who was just one percentage per-centage point behind Miss Jen-son. Jen-son. Cash awards of $75, $50 and $25, for first, second and third places, respectively, will be made to the three winners, and In addition addi-tion all three will be entered in the state contest in which the first place winner will receive a $100 scolarship and become eligible eli-gible to compete for a national scholarship. Eight contestants were judged in the final contest, Mr. Smith said, with the competition between be-tween all eight as close as that of the first three, with only seven sev-en percentaee poir.ts separatinc the entire group in - the final tabulation. The five contestants in addition to the three winners, were Warren Eyre and Sheldon Talbot, Tanguitch High School; Sharon Clark and Elaine Green, Cedar City High School, and David Dav-id Brown of the College of Southern South-ern Utah. Judging was done on the basis of scholarship records, attainment, attain-ment, personality and leadership, perseverance, citizenship and worthiness, with each of the eight contestants ranking high In each category. The awards will be presented at the regular meeting of the Elks Lodge on Wednesday, April 6, Smith states. Iri announcing the winners, Mr. Smith complimented each contestant con-testant on his or her reoorrt of attainment and effort, and wished wish-ed each the fjrsatest possible success In reaching his educational educa-tional goal. |