The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-05-13

casting network and consisted mere ly of an invitation to read the con- test details in the newspapers.
 Sharkey, the winner of the first prize of S25,00O, is married, and is milk route foreman at the South Boston Plant of H. P. Hood & Sons Inc, milk distributors, and lives at 1O1 Train Street, Dorchester, Mass. He wears overalls at his work, and is slender, of medium height, and has deep-set blue eyes.
 Born in County Tipperary, Ireland he came to the United States alone at the age of sixteen. Landing at Ellis Island in New York. he went at once to Boston, where he did odd jobs. Eight years ago he got job with the Hood Company delivering milk. He rose to the rank of fore man and now has several milk routes under his supervision.
 Sharkey believes he is best fitted for a salesman. It was this flair for selling, plus his own experience in getting his cigarettes wet while delivering milk that caused him to enter the Camel contest. He was quick to note the advantages of the new cellophane wrapper on Camel cigarette packages, and his letter was based on personal experiences in testing the wrapper both as to protection of the fresh tobacco flavor and to the ability of the new pack age to exclude rain, moisture and germs.
 Mrs Sweet, winner of the $10,000 second prize, is the mother of three boys, the oldest of whom is only ten. A graduate of Radcliffe Col lege in 1920, she has travelled with her Captain husband to Marine Corps posts in Santa Domingo, the Virginia Island. and other out-of- the-way places She experienced the hurricane in Porto. Rico. and was in Dover. N. J.. at the time of the big explosion there. She is sports-woman, and is tremendously interested in child psychology.
 In her travels about the world with her husband, Mrs Sweet Ob- served how torrid and damp weather In varying climates parch- ed or milldewed cigarettes. She noted that carton after carton of cigarettes shipped to the Marines spoiled and had to be thrown away. and easily realized how the protect ing moisture proof cellophane wrap per on Camels would result in fresh sweet smokes for service men in distant lands.
 The third prize- winner. MT Nolte. who will receive $5,000, Is real estate dealer, and instructor in the English extensive division of the University of Minnesota.
 He lives with his wife in the Dull uth suburb of Glenn Avon. and is a Yale graduate and member of Phi Beta Kappa, honorary scholas- tic fraternity. He is typical out door man, and bird lover. hunter and fisherman. During the war he was an aviator with the American Army, and is a former deckhand and forester. He Is the father of four children.
 Nolte based his contest letter on the many advantages offered to the outdoor cigarette smoker by the n w m o sture-pr0of cellophane wrapper which protects Camel cig- arettes in all kinds of weather and keeps them fresh.
 Telegrams of notification were sent to each of the prize winners yesterday by E. J. Reynolds Tobac- co Company. Winners of the three major prizes were invited by the Company to come to Winston-Salem in the near future to receive their checks at a formal presentation. Checks will be mailed within the next few days to the thirty-five other prize winners.