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Show Intermountain Spelling- Bee To Be Held in March Twenty-six thousand grade school students of Utah, mostly members of the fifth, sixth, seventh sev-enth and eighth grades, are completing com-pleting their last lap of study in preparation for school championships. champion-ships. The events in each school to determine the school champion must be over during the week of March 1, according to the announcement an-nouncement of Stephen J. Moloney, Mol-oney, contest director. School champions each will be presented with a certificate of championship and will have the right to enter one of the eight district contests to be held in the state by March 27. The Intermountain spelling bee is sponsored in Utah, Idaho, Western West-ern Wyoming and Eastern Nevada by The Salt Lake Tribune. 56,000 compete in the four states. School champions are awarded certificates, certifi-cates, district champions receive silver medals for themselves and a bronze plaque for their schools, and in addition receive a trip with all expenses paid for themselves and escorts to the state finals to be held in Salt Lake City about April 15. The state champions each receive re-ceive a gold medal for themselves, a. plaque for their schools and a two week's vacation tour which includes in-cludes a train trip through Feather Feath-er River Canyon to San Francisco, Francis-co, a visit in the bay cities, a boat trip to Los Angeles where they will be guests of Richard Dix, R. K. O. motion picture star on a trip through the studios, a visit to Santa Catalina island, sightseeing sight-seeing and entertainment in Los Angeles, and on the return trip a visit to the famous Hoover Dam at Boulder City, Nevada. |
