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Show ' ... . - I ' J' ' , . . ' : f V"' - . v . : : . "Monkeys in Snow" viewed by some of the many people attending Park City's Sixth Annual Snow Sculpture Contest held Saturday on the golf course. yx -m 1 . sculptures Draw Thousands won the $400. Tom Allen's humorous bar room scene with a dance hall queen belting out a song, to the tune of an accompan-ing accompan-ing piano player, at the annoyance annoy-ance of a patron cupping his ears took first place. Mr. Allen has entered every Park City contest and has finished in the top three The monkey musicians sculpt- ! ed by the Tom Oaks family was an easy second and Robert Mullen with his Buddha took third. Mr. Mullen and company were inmates of the State prison on a trustee program. each year. He won first prize last year. also. Although there were some bare spots appearing at .'the golf course, and one couldn't help feeling a bit uneasy about tromping across an exposed green in cleeted snow boots, there was enough snow to produce fifty or so startling sculptures. The sixth annua! Snow Sculpture Sculp-ture Contest drew thousands of gogglers to Park City Saturday and was rated highly successful by Coca Cola and KALL Radio, co sponsors of the event. Sculptors, began arriving early, staking out claims ensuring enough snow for their forthcoming forthcom-ing masterpieces of predetermined predetermin-ed magnitude. With $400 in first prize money at stake, sculptures of snow and ice began growing with great imagination, skill and delicacy. A girl teetered atop a 20 foot turkey smoothing, while her friends below sawed, gauged and formed occasionally passing up a jug of wine. An entire family labored tirelessly tire-lessly on an impressive piece depicting a band of six, 15 foot monkeys playing away at various instruments. Marilyn Revas smoothed down the enormous protruding tongue of a yet un titled work with a "smoother" (pan cake turner) while her partner Marti Ewart added finishing touches with a "finishing upper" (table knife). The most popular sculpting article was a saw. Coke bottles came in second with gardening trowels and Popsicle sticks being equally revered among artists. Only one person was noticed to be wearing the correct attire being: dark turtle neck and trousers to absorb the sun's warmth, face mask as protection against a constant barrage of ice balls, and yellow lenscd goggles to avoid snow blindness. Hundreds lolvgagged on the first tee, guaffing beers in alpine tranquility intcruptcd only by an occassional lost child, crying and suffering from advancing stages of multiple frost bite. When the judging was over, experience and pr rscrvcrance |