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Show Essay Contest To Feature Utah Products Opens The Utah Manufacturers Assn., this week announced a special con test for high school students to promote a wider interest in Utah-made Utah-made products. The project offers several special prizes for essays adjudged best in the state-wide competition. The feature prizes are the celebrated Utah Products Surprise Sur-prise Pakages each containing several sev-eral dozen small articles of Utah Manufacture. In addition the first place winner will receive a $50 U. S. Saving Bond and the writer of the second place essay will receive re-ceive a $25 bond. The essays may be from 200 to 500 words in length they must be completed and mailed mail-ed to the Utah Manufacturers assn 425 Kearns Building, in Salt Lake City by Nov. 5, 1949. The general subject of the contest con-test is Utah-made Products, and the contestants may develop any theme relating to the general subject. sub-ject. Among themes suggested by the sponsors are: Utah Products in Our Hometown Stores, The Variety Var-iety and Excellence of Utah Products Pro-ducts Some Utah Brands and Labels Lab-els Worth Knowing, The Importance Import-ance of Home Industry, Boosting Utah and Utah Products. "The essay contest will serve a double purpose." said David H. Thomas, Chairman of the UMA Utah Products Committee. " To some extent it will reveal the current cur-rent knowledge among high , school sch-ool students of Utah products and their importance to Utah. Secondly, Second-ly, it will stimulate a wider interest in-terest in the resources of our state and the products manufactured here. Increased interest in Utah pro ducts will strengthen our local industry in-dustry and aid in building a greater great-er state." Ames K. .Bagley, executive sec, of the UMA, in commenting on the project stated "The home market, the general area where the pro- the range, and for the materials which aer developed in mining and quarrying operations. ducts are made is of vital importance import-ance to Utah Manufacturers. It means in many instances the difference dif-ference between expanding operations oper-ations or declining production -between success of a manufacturing manufactur-ing enterprise or failure. Everyone's Every-one's interest in the state is in-voled in-voled in the health and growth of our manufacturing industries for as they expand, trade and profess ional services expand and a broad er tax base is created for necessary necess-ary government services." Many products of Utah factories and industrial plants are sold thru stores; food stores, service stations clothing and department stores, furniture stores, paint and hardware hard-ware stores, building supply houses general stores, drug stores. These products are generally know as "consumers goods'" although some goods of this type are sold directly by the manufacturer to the consumer. con-sumer. Other products of Utah plants are sold as supplies or materials mat-erials for industrial users or for use in commercial and service industries. in-dustries. Almost all of Utah manufacturing manu-facturing is directly related to the agricultural or mineral resources of the state and the manufacturing manufactur-ing operations provide a market for the products of the farm and |