Imperial Valley press., 1932-03-03
PRIZE WINNERS
ANNOUNCED IN
TREE CONTEST

Prizes for the Wining essays in
the contest conducted by the Ell
Centre Chamber of Commerce were
awarded yesterday at the Ell Cen
tro Chamber of Commerce lunch
con. First prize was awarded to
Evelyn Russell, pupil in the seventh
grade at Wilson school, for the best
composition in strict essay form;
second prize was awarded to Jac-
queline LaVine, who wrote a short
narrative composition; third prize
to Aiko Kubota, the author of a
brief play; fourth prize to Mary
Kathryn Horton, who also adhered
to essay form and fifth prize to
Marshall Wolinsky, whose essay was
attractiVcly illustrated with photo
graphs taken by the author.
Cash prizes were awarded the
first three winners and a framed
copy of the verse Tree" to each
of the two others by Mrs j. D.
Huston, member of the chamber
tree planting committee, who asked
the children to cooperate in the
plans now being made for arbor
day tree planting on March 10.
Mrs. Huston told of the community
tree planted on Washington's birth
day and of additional planting to
be made on March 10, at which
time it is expected that trees will
be presented to the various schools
of the city to aid in the beautifi-
ontiOp of cphnn1 crorndc bai,on oor-
ried out in connection with the
Washington bicentennial tree plant
ing campaign.
Mrs. j. S. Jones, chairman Of the
chamber tree planting committee,
reported on the work of the COM
mittee, which included the distribu-
ton of 1000 palo verde trees in the
past two months for planting on
the residence streets of Ell Centre,
and spoke of the splendid cooper
alton B. M. Gruwell, city superin-
tendent of schools had given in
planting trees. Mrs. Ross T. Hick-
cox and Mrs. L. c. House, also
members of the tree planting COM
mittee, each gave a brief talk on
the Importance of city beautifica-
ton.
Tom Hurley, former supervisor
of San Diego county and candidate
for the United States congress from
the Goth district, who was a visitor
at the luncheon commended the
children for their splendid compos-
itions and also complimented the
teachers of Wilson school for their
cooperation with the chamber in
the essay contest. Hurley has spoke
highly of the organized effort on
the part of the city of Ell Centro to
further tree planting. Jimmie
Coyle, former secretary of the E.
Centre chamber, was present with
+! Hurley and also gave a short talk
on the cooperation in this city in
its Identification plans.
After thanking the children for
their cooperation and expressing
the appreciation of the chamber OF
commerce to the principal and
teachers of Wilson school, from
which school all the essays were
submitted, M. M. Munson, who pre-
sided at the luncheon stated that
the essays of the following pupils
had received honorable mention
and that a palo verde tree would
be delivered at the school for each
child by the Ell Centro chamber:
Calvin Aaron, Geneva Abel, Ro-
berta Barratt, Margaret Chestnut
Eleanor Childers, Morlin Childers
Cheryl Clancy, Billy Collins, Thurs
| ton Grassland, Loretta Cunningham
Helen Davis, Helen Dowd, Leonard
Carey, Myrtle Havens, Kathryn
Jane Henderson, Lucille Henderson
Kusuto Ishimaru, Stella Mae John
son, Dan Judd, Faye Kerr, Thelma
Land, Betsy Mazda, Jean Malan
: Dorothy Mall, Pauline Murray, Lily
! Nishimoto, Tom Nishimoto, Toxic
Okamura, Annie Lee Rapson, Davic
Roberts, Shirley Schoenburg, Fran
ces Sieber, Kathryn Surface, Sybi