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Show Cheever Enters Finals in Utah Talent Quest Thirty-three contestants from the intermountain region will compete at Midvale Harvest Days Tuly 31 and Aug. 1 to win the Utah Talent Quest and appear on Ted Mack's Coast-to-coast T V broadcast. Among the contestants will be Leon Cheever son of Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Cheever of Cedar City. Leon won the right to participate in the Talent Quest through a series of elimination contests which began with the Kiwanis Club sponsored Junior Talent show in Cedar City. He then was selected to appear on the southern Utah talent quest on TV in Salt Lake City at the Joint talent show sponsored sponsor-ed by the Cedar and St. George Kiwanis clubs. From the Salt Lake City TV appearance cheever was selected to represent southern south-ern Utah on the Harvest Days show next week. Cheever does a series of sound effects and a ventriloquism act. Talent programs will be conducted con-ducted both Thursday and Friday nights, July 31 and Aug. 1, at the Midvale Kiwanis bowl, and the winner of each night's contest con-test will win an opportunity to appear on the Ted Mack show and compete for nation-wide honors. Winnets In the Talent Quest will be selected by the bowl audience aud-ience by secret ballot, a method which has proved exceedingly popular in the past. Acting as masters of ceremonies of the two bowl shows will be Rolf Peterson, radio personality, and Dan Valentine, newspaper columnist. |