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Show Smithfield Boy Wins Honor Names Utah Vegetable Growing Champion Robert Thomley, 14, son of Mr. and Mrs. Clark Thomley of Smith-! Smith-! filed, has added to his record of i agricultural achievement with his j selection as Utah champion in the ! national junior vegetabel growers' j association production and market-j market-j tag contest for 1943. Young Thomley will receive a $25 war bond from a $6,000 schol-a.ship schol-a.ship fund provided annually by the Great Atlantic and Pacific I Tea company for the contest, ac- cording to a report from the na-! na-! tional association headquarters in Chicago, 111. The award may be used as an agricultural college scholarship or for purchase of j equipment and supplies to develop some phase of vegetable production produc-tion or marketing. It is the second consecutive year that the young Smithfield agriculturist has won first place in the state in the vegetable con- test, and i.ist year he ranked first in the state in raising of pheas-I pheas-I ants in a 4-H club project, j Professor Grant B. Snyder of Massachusetts state college, adult ! advisor in the national vegetable contest, announced that boys and girls from 33 states competed in the 1943 contest, completing successful suc-cessful vegetable projects and required re-quired studies of production and marketing methods to show the importance of efficient marketing. Hie $500 national grand prize was won by Wayne Robert Ennen, ! 19, of Terre Haute, Ind., and the ' $200 western region championship j prize was won by Janice Fenske, ! 16, of Savage, Mont. |