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Show Winners Named In City-Wide Library Contest The Salt Lake City Public Library Li-brary completed its first city-wide summer reading program. The contest for young children 8 to 12 years of age was started June 11 and concluded July 23, a six week period. Winners of the "Beehive Reading Read-ing Contest" were awarded merit prizes by GailPlummer, president of the Library Board of Directors. In Sugar House at the Sprague Branch Library the ceremony was held on July 30th at 10:00a.m. Sixteen top winners fdr the city were announced byV. Far-rell Far-rell Thomas, Special Service Director. Di-rector. For the South East section sec-tion the winners" were: Rhonda Flandro,' 1553 Logan Ave., and Noreen Aiko Okubo, 2321 So. 13th E. 245 "Certificates of Merit" were also presented at the special spe-cial programs honoringthe "Lead er Readers." Certificates were earned by reading one book in the five major areas, including: Biographical, fiction, science, fairy tales, and general classified. Over 500 participants entered the city-wide summer reading program. pro-gram. Special prizes consisted of selected sel-ected editions from the Through Golden Windows" series and selected se-lected reference books. Each book carried a special inscription honoring the contestant contest-ant readership ability and accomplishment. accom-plishment. Sprague Branch Library, 2131 So. 11th East can be justly proud of its participation in the contest. Mrs. C. K. Naffzigger is the head librarian and Mrs. F. O. Randall, the children's librarian. They gave the youngsters aid in their selection selec-tion of reading material for the Beehive Contest. Mrs. Naffzigger and Mrs. Randall Ran-dall report that 900 books were read by participants in the contest from the Sprague Branch. Total circulation for the month in the children's room was 9,112 books. Rhonda Flandro won first place by reading 78 books from the required list, and Noreen Aiko Okubo won bv readina 77 books. In third place was Catherine Van Lancker who read 47 books. This feat seems most remarkable as Miss Lancker came to Utah from Belgium only three years ago. |