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Show Other winners in the event were the Wizard of Oz scene, a pair of lovable frogs, a dragon, a cat playing pool, a lire engine dfrven by a dog and a learing group of guys "checking out" a curveous gal in a Corvette. Non-winning, but impressive entries, were an owl, an alien, a Budha, bathers in a hot tub. and a local saloon from the 1880s. Gat and Mouse Take Home the Cheese : t ''''' Visions of Tom and Jerry 'and that old familiar "cat and I mouse" game, came to mind with the first place winner of the 9th annual Coca Cola Snow Sculpture Contest, l Richard Byard and friends ifrom Salt Lake City took home the first place $400 prize money for their clever sculpture. sculp-ture. It was a cat's head sticking through a mouse hole with the grinning mouse just out of reach inside. Despite the snowy weather, more than 120 entries braved the cold to compete in the annual event, nvhich drew more than 10,000 (spectators. Second place, $200, for the contest went to the imaginative imagina-tive entry from the Nelson plan fojv!ICaptain Hook' The Captain stood from the side cf his ornate boat and looked down to the crocodile lurking just below. : Third place winners were the Greene Handley group Troin "Woods Cross, who created the Mexican bar scene. Inside the adobe structure was a shapely senorita and a somberoed senor. A sleeping dog lay at his feet and a bottle of whiskey kwas strategically placed atop he piano. The Coca Coia Company cheerfully gave away more ' than 1,000 Snow Sculpture buttons in addition to more than 600 free frisbees and serving around 100 gallons of Coca Cola. fv - '-iiKvcfA ' " - C v- - ; f ' k .... 'M - iv::;"" ';;:t-'';?;v- Vr1".:"'! - f V; Y f ' ' ' v - ' v - ' ,v "i A , V v V , . |