The Sidney Herald

B. Atchison Wins Homemakers of Tomorrow Award

Bonnie Atchison of Sidney high school is the local winner of the Betty Crocker Homemaker of Tomorrow award.

She received the highest score in a written examination on homemaking knowledge and attitudes administered Dec. 3, to senior girls by Mrs. Adaline Thomas of the home economics department. Her examination paper will be entered in competition to name this state's candidate for the title of All-American Homemaker of Tomorrow and will also be considered for the runnerup award in the state. For her achievement, she will receive an award pin designed by Trifari of New York.

The national winner in the fourth annual Betty Crocker Search 'conducted among 327,000 young women in 11,800 of the nation's public, private, and parochial high schools will be named April 17 at a banquet in the Waldorf-Astoria hotel in New York City. General Mills sponsors the program to assist schools in education for home and family living.

Each State Betty Crocker Homemaker of Tomorrow will receive a $1500 scholarship and an educational trip with her advisor to Washington, D. C., colonial Williamsburg, Va., and New York City. A $500 scholarship will be awarded the second ranking girl in each state. The school of the state winner will receive a set of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

The scholarship of the young woman named All - American Homemaker of Tomorrow will be increased to $5,000. Girls who rank second, third, fourth in the nation will receive $4,000, $3,000 and $2,000 scholarships, respectively.