Show TOM RANDA ry wr y a t e ruM li lia a a j 1 1 T r k t A f i 1 IH V Y mow r rr i iI I H I 1 t r j 4 fM r r n j i jl 1 J LOOKING FOR TROUBLE Some students at Viewmont High School are just looking for trouble And they find it In engines They will compete in a contest to see how fast they can get a bugged engine running I I Viewmont High has picked its I Road Scholars I THESE ARE ARS THE boys who will represent Viewmont In the 1968 1958 Plymouth Trouble Shooting Contest according to Mr Flake Competing for Viewmont will willbe willbe willbe be Frank Eggett and Don Venter who will be accompanied by Mr Waite Valte and Mr King In the Trouble Shooting Contest to be beheld beheld beheld held May 17 at Higl Highland and High WINNING TEAM in the local contest will receive a trip to Indianapolis In June to compete against leading Trouble Shooters Shoot Shoot- ers from all parts of the country country country coun coun- I try In the National Finals Winners Winners Winners Win Win- ners at Indianapolis will receive ve college scholarships trophies prizes tools and equipment valued at Trouble Shooters com compete pet e against other teams and the clock to determine which team can most quickly and accurately locate diagnose and repair a series senes ot of mechanical malfunctions malfunctions in the Ignition fuel and starting systems of a new car THE VIEWMONT team willbe will willbe willbe be sponsored by C. C S. S Motors ia The Trouble Shooting Shooting Shooting-c-on Contest Contest Con Con- test te-st was organized by Los Angeles Plymouth dealers In 1949 to help recruit qualified mechanics THE FIRST contest involved 50 boys from 17 schools It was an Immediate success After a few years ears of local loal contests In Los Angeles the program spread to San Francisco Francisco Francisco Fran Fran- cisco and San Diego Then the move eastward began with Detroit Detroit De Detroit De- De troit Buffalo and Boston joinIng joinIng joining join- join Ing the growing list of sponsoring sponsoring sponsoring spon spon- cities In 1960 there were 16 local contests That number more t l than doubled the following year with 50 schools competing in 35 contests By 1963 there were more than schools taking part in the annual contest IN 1962 PLYMOUTH decided to hold a national championship finals in Detroit an event which is now an established feature of the annual competition Last June 92 teams representing 48 states won the right to compete compete compete com com- pete for scholarships and other prizes Surveys have shown that ap apI approximately approximately ap- ap I proximately 65 per cent of the young people who participate in the contests find work as automobile mechanics The two are Don Venter and Frank Eggett 1 l and r center who are Instructed by Mr King left and Mr Waite right EACH OF the top ten teams in the two classes in the finals finals vocational school students and high school industrial arts students students stu stu- dents will dents will win for its school shop an assortment of mechanical mechanical mechanical me me- training aids and tools Scholarships offered the first five i ve winning teams in each class have the following value 2nd 2000 3rd 1500 1000 Prizes in the written examination given I to all participants in the finals I are 1st 2nd 3rd 50 |