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Show Prizes Are Offered To Students For Air Mail Essays "Wings Across America" is the subject of a natipm-'widel school essay contest announced by I. A. Smoot, state chairman of National Nation-al Air Mail Week, May 15-21, who has just received the rules ana regulations governing this contest from Paul R. Younts,i ex;ecu)tive chairman, Charlotte, North Carolina. Caro-lina. The essays are to be based on the progress, dependability- and future fu-ture possibilities of this method of modern communication. State Chairman I. A. Smoot is sending every post office in Utah a supply of rules and regulations governing this contest, which will, without doubt, create more interest inter-est in aviation than has ever been known in the nation, as every high school pupil in America has an even chance to win one of more than a hundred valuable prizes, including some 50 air plane trip-to trip-to Washington, Hollywood or Miami. Mi-ami. Mr. Smoot states that eveTy high school pupil or those having high school cirricula in Utah are not only eligible to enter this contest but urged to do so. The prizes are certainly worth trying for. Here are the prizes: There will be two prizes for some bright boy or girl in every state of the Union. The first state prize will be an airplane air-plane trip from the winner's nearest near-est airport to Washington and return. re-turn. The second state prize will be a trophy to be presented by the Utah air mail week campaign committee. The essays of pupils winning a trip to Washington and return will be entered in a national contest con-test in which the winner will be given an airplane trip with expenses expens-es paid for five days from Washington Wash-ington to Hollywood for those living liv-ing east of the Mississippi river or to Miami if the winner lives west of the Mississippi river. The second national prize will be i I trophy, while the third national prize will be a plaque to be pre-j pre-j sented by the national air man week committee. The basis for judging essays wil) be on originality of ideas 50 po (Continued on last page) Prizes Are Offered (Continued from first page) cent, continuity and construction 25 per cent, spelling and punctuation punctua-tion and neatness 25 per cent. All essays are to be certified by the school principal as to the eligibility eligibili-ty of the contestant. Essays must be postmarked not later than midnight, mid-night, May 1, 1938, and addressed "State Chairman National Air Mail Week Contest", in care of your local postmaster. All essays es-says winning either in the states or national contests will 'become the property of the committee for use in promoting the growth of aviation. For further particulars or a copy of the air mail week essay contest rules, and regulations, see either your school principal ot your postmaster at once for the contest will close at midnight, May 1. It is believed that every ambitious ambi-tious boy or girl eligible in Utah will enter this unique contest. |