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Show I One Time Parowan Resident Gets Writing Award mm ta , : v:r.i. j&h 1 , MARGARET HYATT Margaret Hyatt, formerly of ' Parowan and a daughter of Jay W. Moore of this community, commu-nity, was the 1968 sweepstakes winner in the annual crea-i crea-i tive writing contest sponsored j by over 300 member clubs of the California Federation of the Californit Federation of Women's Clubs. The award was announced at the annual convention in Los Angeles and presented to Mrs. Hyatt at a districtmeeting in Ocean-side, Ocean-side, Calif. Mrs. Hyatt, who now lives near San Diego, in Escondido, won with a short story about pride, entitled "The Fish". She also submitted entries of poetry poe-try and an article which contributed to the total award. The writer was a reporter for the Salt Lake Tribune at Parowan in 1940-41 and for the Ogden Standard Examiner, in 1943-52. At the same time, 1943-49, she edited her own weekly paper, the Davis News, in Clearfield. She has been the Escondido Times-Advocate reporter re-porter at Ramona from January, Janu-ary, 1963 until recently moving mov-ing to Escondido. Although she lost her sight about three years ago, she has continued writing. She was a member of the League of Utah Writers from 1945 until un-til she moved to California in 1961. West based magazines and papers which have published MTsrHy3tts-"woi"k"irrclutlei the Denver Post, Arizona Highways, High-ways, Desert Magazine, Utah Farmer and the LDS Relief Society Magazine. Mrs. Hyatt was the wife of the late Ross D. Hyatt, a native na-tive of Parowan. She herself was born at Modena; She went to school in California and returned re-turned to Utah after her marriage mar-riage to Mr. Hyatt. A son, James, lives in Layton; John lives in Sunnyvale, Calif., and Gene in Paramount, Calif. i |