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Show v, iern Youths Capture Junior Growers' Awards WESTERN state youths cp-' cp-' turcd the national championship champion-ship r.nd other major awards ..i ihe fifth annual scholarship ccn-Lest ccn-Lest of the National Junior Vege-.able Vege-.able Growers Association with boys and girls from Montana, Utah, New Mexico, Idaho and Colorado winning $25 Victory bonds for efficient production and marketing. ' Eighteen-year-old James L. Amnion of Albany, Ore., was named top winner and 1945 national na-tional champion by the association's associa-tion's adult supervisor, Prof. Grant B. Snyder of Massachusetts State College, during the junior growers' grow-ers' 11th annual convention in Cincinnati, O. A total of $6,000 in scholarship awards, provided annually an-nually by the Great Ayantic and Pacific Tea Company, was given to the contest winners. As national champion, Ammon received a $500 scholarship award. Western regional champion Jack Grenz of Albany, Ore., was awarded a $200 scholarship. Sectional Sec-tional winners receiving $100 each in scholarship awards included Nephi W. Bushman of Snowflake, N. W. Bushman R. H. Corbin .-7 ' &L James L. Ammon Ariz.,- and Robert H. Corbin of Grey Bull Wyo. Youths from 46 states competed in the nationwide nation-wide contest this year. The Victory bond winners in the western states included Kenneth Ken-neth Huggins, 16, route 1, La-Plata, La-Plata, San Juan County, New Mexico; Darrell E. Evans, 17,-route 17,-route 3, Farmington, San Juan County, New Mexico; Edward M. Briggs, 17, Decker, Big Horn County, Mont.; Berniece G. Haw-ley, Haw-ley, .17, Rosebud, Rosebud County, Mont.; William Robert Thornley, 17; Smithfield. Cache County, Utah; Byron Glassman, 16, Eph-raim, Eph-raim, Sanpete County, Utah; Marion R. Morganson, 17, Aber deen, Bingham County, Idaho; Marilyn A. Young, 16, route 3, Longmount, Boulder County, Col., and Ivan Ammon, 16. Bethune, Kit Carson County, Col. |
