Show national crochet contest explained As stated last week the regulations for the third annual national crochet contest are offered in this issue although the illustrations have not yet arrived we will publish two next week and the following week in order that you may have time to send for your design or you may call at the record office to select from the full assortment and save even more time A few references taken from the material sent to us for publication li may also be interesting to you and follow herewith the contest is a nationwide nation wide competition and operates in cooperation with local county and state f fairs airs it is open only to women whose crochet work has taken a prize in a 1939 state fair therefore the need to enter your work in the utah state fair to be held september 16 to 23 the program is an effort to improve the quality of contemporary crochet and to strengthen the prestige of american needlework the contest is judged by a committee of outstanding authorities in the art needlework field no entry fees are required all entries are protected by full ansur continued on page 13 I 1 CROCHET CONTEST continued from first page ance all entries are returned at the completion of the contest the regulations follow prizes 1300 in cash prizes will be awarded the grand national winner will rece receive re the title of national crochet champion and in cash she will aho afo receive a free trip to new york city and a three days visit there as the guest of the contest if the winner comes from within a radius of miles of new york so that the new york visit would not be interesting I to her she will receive a trip to bermuda instead four cash prizes will be awarded in each of the ten classes of competition special prizes of 50 each will be awarded the best crochet submitted by a junior 16 years old or younger and the best crochet submitted by a woman over 70 one hundred honorable mention awards will be given rules all entries must have won a prize at a state county or local fair during 1939 all entries must be entirely crocheted of mercerized zed crochet cotton v judgment will be based on gen it sfa faal al appearance beauty of design rind nd workmanship suitability and taste the opinion of the judges must bei be considered final in all cases designs need not be original but originality will count clas classifications ions 1 Table clothes 2 bedspreads 3 luncheon sets 4 doilies dailies or 5 blouses or dresses 6 baby garments 7 household accessories cess ories 8 fashion accessories 9 edgings eddings or insertions 10 chair sets final national judging will be in november 1939 all first prize crochet winners in 1939 pairs fairs will be notified by the national crochet bureau of their eligibility for the Cont contest eist 11 nd d foiw forwarded a raed all necessary in actions for submitting their en B es a tunnel 20 feet in diameter to divert the flow of flash floods in big muleshoe Mule shoe wash the original channel of which will be filled A concrete box 12 by 12 feet will take care of little muleshoe Mule shoe wash the project starts at a point just north of the nipples nipple and extends northward to cane springs wash bridge although the contract calls for only a graveled surface the state road commission says it will be brought to a dustless surface next spring estimated cost of the project is placed at |