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A contest for public high school students of Virginia to find a name for a symbolic figure to be used extensively in advertising the State’s ports, was announced today by David H. Clark, director of the Virginia. State Ports Authority.
The Virginia Ports Development Committee has authorized awards totaling $350 in United States Defense Bonds for winners in the Statewide name contest. The winner will receive a $200 bond, while the first and second runners-up will win a • $100 bond and $50 bond respecively.
Copies of the handsome caricature have reached the high schools where the students are (being asked in the ‘caption, “What’s My Name?’’. The contest is. being announced today through state-wide newpapers, radio and television.
The Port Development Comihittee, of which Hunter Phelan is chairman, is cooperating with Virginia State Ports Authority as co-sponsor of the contest, during which the agency hopes to obtain a name for the figure that may be adapted to the general ports theme in Virginia.
Clark said the State Ports Authority will use the figure, designed out of cargo-handling devices, with the Globe of the World serving as its head in advertising Hampton Roads and the other ports of Virginia. The caricature wears a cap with space reserved for the name to be selected from the contest. Hft anchor chain legs are fashioned to cargo ships as his feet while a cargo sling represents his arms and hands. A snatch-block hearinrr thp jx/atHq “PnrtQ Vtf Virginia", make up his body.
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