Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-11-03
Prize Speakers
In Radio Appeal
To All Parents
Wind Up Campaign
Sponsored by Times to
Awaken City's Electorate
BY RAY HARRINGTON

Detroit'S registered voters, Ill.,
LOG str ing, were urged over
WXYZ this morning shortly after
the polls opened, toiexercise their
franchise before the polls close to-
night, by the best two orators the
city's 10 high schools produced.
The champion speakers are Alga
Naumoff, 10, of Western High, and
Don Blakely, Is, of Mackenzie
High They were chosen from boy
and girl representatives of the
high schools as the final oratoricsl
contest of The Detroit Times
Board of Education get-out-the.
vote campaign, held last night at
Northern High.
Speaking for the youth of De.
troit and Michigan they pleaded
that every parent of this city get
to the polls before they close at
8 p. m, thus winding up the CAM
lpaign for heavy general election
vote which the Times has spon-
sofed with the cooperation of
the board of education in every
fone OF the city's $50 schools for
the last month.
Keen rivalry existed among the
high schools for the vote CAM
paign oratorical championship. Six
judges pondered long after the
speeches were concluded before
manning Blakeiy and Miss Naumoff
the grand champions of the city,
Thereby awarding them the first
place Times trophies and giving
them the honor of making the
iWXYZ broadcast.
Blakely il the son of Mr.. and
Mrs. c. A. Ted Blakely. 11722
kentucky avenue, and Miss Naus
moff is the daughter of Mr.. and
MRS. Stanley Naumoff, 5000 Fif-
Iteenth street
| PLACE SECOND, THIRD
Second place In the girls divf-
sion of the oratorical final went
to Shirley Saccoman, is, of DENLY
High, and third place to Rosemary
Hoover, is, of BEDFORD High. The
second place in the boys division
went to Reuben Silver Of Central
High, and Western High placed
high In the boys division when
Ted Montgomery took third place.
\ The other finalists, all of whom
received Times trophies which are
to be suitably engraved and kept
in their school trophy cases, were:
Il Central High, Ethel Eissnberg.
! Cooley, Carolyn SINNERS and
Jack Orrico.
| DENLY, Roger Brown.
\ Eastern, Dempsey Prappas and
1 Winnorgean Shemwell.
i East Commerce, Jean 1turde-
want and CasimiY Przybyl.
| High School Of c o m m Q zoe.
Larry Watkins.
i Mackenzie, Jean George.
q Miller, Frederick Dennard and
IEstelle Richards.
i Northeastern, Helen Bobbls and
Elliott Shepard.
7 Northern, John OhIiRsy and
4 Elizabeth Edmonson.
1 Northwestern, Jack Cole md
|, Patricia Butler.
| Pershing, Zelma SmitH md
donald Weilemann.
BEDFORD, William Seibert
> Southeastern, Agnes SherroY
and Manfred Kaulfuss.
Southwestern, Carl Weinfefd
and Madeleine Cree.
| Wilbur Wright, Robert Rock,
JUDGES FOR CONTEST
Judges for the contest were
Mrs. Frances Pettingill, former
president of the National Congress
!, of Parent Teacher Associations,
: Glenn M. Coulter, president of the
! Detroit Bar Association; Ralpi,
Murphy, president Detroit Retail
M e r hants' Association; S. W.
Curtiss, commander Detroit Dis.
tricts Council, American Legion;
John II. Kenyon, past president
Detroit Civilian Club and former
district governor of Civitan Inter,
! national, and the Rev. DR.. Edward
{ L. Williams. pastor of st. Marks
Episcopal Church.