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Show American Legion Oratorical Contest Starts The American Legion is once again honored to sponsor its annual an-nual National High School Oratorical Ora-torical Contest. The American Legion of District Dis-trict No. 9, Department of Utah, comprising all of the American Legion posts in Duchesne and Uintah counties, sincerely extends an invitation to the students of our high schools in the Basin to participate in this contest. The contest is of national scale and pertains to some phase of Americanism. It offers students a very worthwhile opportunity to participate in public speaking and to study Americanism. This year the topic of the contest is "Checks and Balances Our Basic Governmental Govern-mental Principle." The respective high school winners win-ners are to be determined by February 14th. The school finalists final-ists will compete in the District contest (Duchesne "and Uintah counties) by Feb. 28th. The winner win-ner will then proceed to the Regional Reg-ional competition at Westminster College in Salt Lake City by March 7th. Then the Department of Utah finals will be held prior to March 15th, and the State of Utah finalist goes on to compete com-pete in the National Contest. The winner of the Utah Contest will be awarded a one-year scholarship schol-arship to attend the University of Utah. The National finalists will be awarded a first place $4,000 scholarship, second place, a $2500 and third place a $1000 scholarship. scholar-ship. Other awards will also be made to winners of the District and Regional contests. The high school contests will be under the direction of the high school faculties, and the District No. 9 contest under the direction of Calvin J. Monks, commander of District No. 9, and Francis Mc-Kinley, Mc-Kinley, Americanism chairman of District No. 9 of the American Legion. |