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Show Utah Manufacturers Offer High School Students Essay Prizes The Utah Manufacturers Association As-sociation this week announced a special contest for high school studepts to promote a wider interest in-terest in Utah-made products. The project offers several special spe-cial prizes for essays adjudged best in the state-wide competition. competi-tion. The feature prizes are the celebrated Utah Products Surprise Packages, each containing con-taining several dozen small articles ar-ticles of Utah manufacture. In addition the first place winner will recive a $50.00 U. S. Savings Sav-ings Bond and the writer of the second place essay will receive a $25.00 bond. The essryj may be from 200 to 500 words in length, they must be completed com-pleted and mailed to the Utah Manufacturers Association, 425 Kearns Building, in Salt Lake City by November 5, 1949. The general subject of the contest is Utah-Made Products and the contestants may develop any theme relating to the general gen-eral subject. Among themes sugegsted by the sponsors are: Utah Products in Our Home-ton Home-ton Stores, The Variety and Excellence Ex-cellence of Utah Products, Some Utah Brands and Labels Worth Knowing, The Importance of Home Industry, Boosting Utah and Utah Products. "The essay contest will serve a double purpose," said David H. Thomas, chairman of the L M A Utah Products committee. "To some extent it will reveal the current knowledge among high school students of Utah products and their importance to Utah. Secondly, it will stimulate stimu-late a wider interset in the resources re-sources of our state and the products pro-ducts manufactured here. Increased In-creased interest in Utah products pro-ducts will strengthen our local industry and aid in building a greater state." Ames K. Bagley, executive secretary sec-retary of the U M A, in commenting com-menting on the project, stated "The home market, the general area where the products are made is of vital importance to Utah manufacturers. It means, in many instances, the difference beteen expanding operations or declining production between success of a manufacturing 'enterprise 'en-terprise or failure. Everyone's interest in the state is involved in the health and growth of our manufacturing industries for a.c they , expand, trade and profes-ional profes-ional services expand and a broader tax base is created for necessary government services." |