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Show p GIRL STATERS Susan Sumner. Cindy Grass, Marianne Holman, Alice Walser, Leslie Jenkins, Linda Mayfield were picked for Girls State Legion Auxiliary Selects PI. Grove Girl Staters Pleasant Grove High School Girl Staters for 1979-80 have been selected. They are Marianne Holman, Alice Walser, Leslie Jenkins, Linda Mayfield, with alternates alter-nates Susan Sumner and Cindy Grass. The American Legion Auxiliary sponsors Girl State. They will conduct con-duct the thirty third session of Girls State. June 3 through June 9, 1979 at Southern Utah State College, Cedar City, Utah. The 1979 Girls State will be limited to 336 girls. The various Units of the American Legion Auxiliary have been assigned their quotas. The entire assemblage assem-blage will become the mythical 51st state and will function according to the laws of procedure ced by themselves; and in other ways live as self-governing citizens during the full period of Girls State. Each girl has a choice to learn for herself that government gover-nment is just what she makes it. They apply for, and are appointed to, the various appointive positions in the State government. They perform per-form the duties of their various elective and appointive oficers. They hold courts with girls serving as judges, lawyers, jury, trying actual cases. They set up their city and county government, pass and enforce ordinances. of the State of Utah, taking the basic laws of Utah as their guide. In substance, the program is designed to teach the girls that our American form of government demands an intelligent citizenry and clean, honest, impartial administrations ad-ministrations from all public officials. In Girls State the girls observe at first hand the problems of government. They elect their own officials, from the Governor down. They have their own legislature where they present and argue their own bills; they have their own laws, enfor- |