CROCHETERS!
ENTER THE 1956 NATIONWIDE
CROCHET CONTEST
Sponsored by National Needlecraft Bureau
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OVER $3000 IN
NATIONAL PRIZES
FREE TRIPS
TO NEW YORK CITY
Here's your chance to win big
cash awards with your crochet.
Knter the nationwide crochet
contest at our fair and compete
for over $3,000 in prize money to
be awarded national winners by
l in National Needlccraft bureau.
The grand national champion will
receive $500 plus an all-expense
paid trip to New York City. Oth
er free trips will go to top win
ner in the "men only" and "teen
age" classifications.
The best of fair trophy, illus
trated above, engraved with the
name of our fair, will be awarded
to the contestant whose piece is
chosen best of all entries. You
can enter any one or more of 16
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classifications. If your entry is
awarded a nationwide crochet
contest blue ribbon as first prize
winner in one of these classifica
tions it can compete in the na
tional finals in New York City.
To be eligible for judging, your
article must be made of mercer
ized crochet cotton in any size
thread up to and including 100,
and must be completed this year.
After the judging at our fair, we
will report the names of the win
ners in all classifications to the
National Needlecraft bureau, who
will send official entry blanks for
the nationa finals to the winners.
The pieces may then be mailed
to the National Needlecraft bu
reau in New York City for the
national judging.
Our fair secretary has complete
rules and regulations for the na
tionwide crochet contest. Write
or call for your copy now!
Nationwide crochet contest
rules are as follows:
1. All entries must have won a
nationwide crochet contest blue
ribbon at a participating state,
county or local fair. Contact your
fair for entry requirements.
2. All entries must have been
completed since January 1, 1958,
except in those cases where par
ticipating fairs are held prior to
April 1, 1956. In the latter case,
entries completed since July 1,
1955, are acceptable.
3. All entries must be crochet
ed of mercerized crochet cotton
in any size thread up to and in
cluding 100. Mercerized crochet
cotton with a metallic strand is
also eligible.
4 A contestant may submit as
many entries as have fulfilled all
the foregoing rules.
5. National judging in New
York will be based on workman
ship, beauty of design and gener
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al appearance. Decision of judges
will be final. In case of a tie, du
plicate prizes will be awarded.
Nationwide crochet contest
prizes include:
Grand national champion: $500
(this includes classification first
prize award), plus a free trip to
New York City.
Teen-age girl champion: $100
first prize award, plus a free trip
to New York City for herself and
one parent or guardian.
Men’s champion: $100 first
prize aw'ard, plus a free trip to
New York City.
Classifications: Tablecloths,
bedspreads, luncheon cloths,,
centerpieces (14" and over), buf
fet and vanity sets, chair sets,
doilies (under 14"), scarves and
wall panels, pot holders and hot
plate mats, place mats, other
household accessories, edgings
and insertions, fashion accesso
ries. ladies over 65, men only,
teen-age girls.
Extra awards are being made
in the 1956 nationwide crochet
contest.
Smart Crochet magazine offers
$600 in special awards for orig
inal designs eligible for participa
tion in the 1956 nationwide cro
chet contest. An original design
is one you made up, not previous
ly published. If lyour design is
original, mark it so on your en
4 tort
All original designs receiving!
nationwide crochet contest blue |
ribbons in any of the 16 contest
classifications will be eligible for
the following Smart Crochet or
iginal design awards in the final
judging in New York City.
First award $200.00
Second award 125
Third award 100.00
Fourth award 75.00
Honorable mentions (10)
at $10 each 100.00
Total $600.00
Pictures of the designs receiv
ing the first four awards, the
names of the winners, and the
fairs at which they qualified, will
be published in Smart Crochet.
Directions will also be published
unless, because of excess length,
they are not suitable editorial
material. All entries will be in
sured from the time received un
til they are returned.
If you have further questions,
write to National Needlecraft Bu
reau, Inc., Smart Crochet
Awards, 430 Park Avenue, New
York 22, NY._
JULY 4 BIO DAY
Biggest day in the rodeo sea
son is the Fourth of July. In
1955 there were 42 rodeos on
this weekend alone with a total
purse of $116,625 before entry
fees were added. ^
Crochet Champions Chat
The nation’s top crocheters are shown admiring each other’s
work after their coronation as champions of crochet in the 1955
nationwide crochet contest. Left-to-right, grand national champion,
Mrs. Roy Johnson of Oakland, Calif.; male champion, Joseph Doli
naj, a railroad man from Dunellen, N.J.; and teen-age champion,
Mutsuka Arima of Seattle, Wash. The three champions received
cash awards, engraved trophies and all-expense trips to New York
City. Once again, needlework fame and fortune await the win
ner of the 1956 nationwide crochet contest which is now in prog
ress. The Holt county fair will sponsor the contest in this vicinity.
Why not try for a share of the more than $3,000 offered as na
tional prize money Start your entry today so that it will be fin
ished in time for the fair. For further information on how to enter
contact James H. Gibson, Chambers, secretary of the Holt County
Agricultural society.
SEASON LONGEST
The rodeo season is the long
est in the world of sports, start
ing in January with the rodeo at
the National Western Stock
Show in Denver, Colo., and run
ning through the Grand Na
tional Livestock Exposition at
the Cow Palade in San Francis
co, Calif., in November.
Try Frontier want advs.
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—CHAMBERS—
“We hope to see you
all at the Holt County
Fair at Chambers!
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Congratulations!
to the Holt County Fair!
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