The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1938-04-21
Model Air
plane Contest
May Is to q
To Be Given In
Connection With Nat
ional Air Mail Week
PRIZES OFFERED
Plan Stamp Collection
Display In Connection
With Airplane Show

National Air Mail Week, to be
observed throughout the nation
during the week Of May Is to May
21st, has been selected as the time
for q model airplane contest to be
conducted under the auspices Of
the local Post Office department.
Postmaster b. r. Dubois has Of
fered prizes for this event, which
win be open to all boys and girls
Of this community, up to and in
GLIDING 10 years Of age. Registra-
lions must be made on or before
May 18th, and the model airplanes
viii be on exhibit in the lobby Of
the postoffice during the week.
Ten dollars has been divided in
to prizes as follows:
First prize, $500; second prize,
$500; five 800 prizes
Rules and regulations Of the con-
test will be announced next week.
Three judges viii be selected to
Judge the model airplanes, which
must be entered at the postoffice
not later than May 15th.N
There are no set rules or speci-
fications Of construction for these
model airplanes, and selection OF
type Is solely up to the boy or girl
who wishes to enter.
In connection with the model
airplane display during National
Air Mail Week, local philatelists
will have displays Of stamp collec-
tons in the show.
This should be an interesting
event and should have a great
number Of entries in the model air
plane display. This event is stag
ed to create interest In air mail
transportation.
In connection with the above
there are in the United States, two
school children who win attain ma
tion-wide fame as artists for their
assistance in promoting National
Air Neil Week.
The National Air Mail Week Conn
mittee arranged a poster contest
for the boys and girls In the high
schools and grammar schools and
institutions having similar courses
Of study, according to an announce
ment here today by John r. Coan,
State Chairman Of the National
Committee directing Air Mail Week
preparations in this state.
This contest win close the last
day of this month and a few days
thereafter the winner in each Of the
40 xvys11 1,n onnn1Innnd
The State Chairman announced
that any pupil in grammar or high
school classes may compete. He ex-
planned that the poster, to be elig1-
BILE, must relate to the Country's
air mail service of the present and
future and it's adaptability to the
needs Of the Nation. That allows
the contestants a broad opportun-
ity to use their Imagination and to
demonstrate their artistic talents.
Posters will be judged 80 per cent
on originality Of the idea; Is per
cent for neatness and Is per cent
for adaptability to promotion Of the
air mail services further develop
ment. The poster should he on
cardboard twenty by twenty-five
inches. :.
A committee Of three judges will
be named by the Air Mail Week
Chairman in each state. The post
er to be entered in the contest must
be mailed, with postage fully pre-
maid, to the State Chairman, Ma
tional Air Mail Week, Poster Con-
test, in care Of your local postmas-
ter, and the postmark must be
prior to midnight, May 1.
The winning poster in each state
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