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Show S5000 RICHER Drue Roberts Collects Top Contest Award Mrs. Drue Roberts, and her husband, hus-band, Orlin S. Roberts, were in Salt Lake City Friday " at which time Mrs. Roberts received a check for $5000, her grand prize in a national soap .contest. A week ago Mrs. Roberts was notified that she was one of the twenty national contest winners, and her prizes included a '52 Ford two-door sedan, 1000 gallons of gas, a year's supply of Camay, Oxydol and Dreft, and $200 worth of groceries. Several days later she was told that she had also won the grand prize of $5000 which was entered by the twenty finalists. , The contest was sponsored by Procter & Gamble, whose unit man ager, A. H. Anderson, Salt Lake City, gave Mrs. Roberts her prizes. In Salt Lake City Mrs. Roberts was interviewed and picturced for the Salt Lake dailies, appearect on KSL, on television, on KDYL, and made a recording for release later. lat-er. Mr. and Mrs. Roberts and their two daughters, Joan and Jean, are still considering the wisest way to use the $5000. Their first plans cal for new furniture' for their new home in Delta, and then perhaps per-haps a trip in the new car. Monday the year's supply of soap arrived, and Mrs. Roberts says their cupboards and the garage gar-age are now well filled with soap. However, there is still room for the groceries, car and gasoline. The Roberts family and their friends are still marveling at Mrs. Roberts 'good fortune, and rejoicing rejoic-ing in her skill at winning a prize of such dimensions. Earlier this year Mrs. Roberts won a smaller prize in a casserole dish contest, and she looks forward with enthus iasm to entering future contests. |