Battle Creek Enquirer from Battle Creek, Michigan • Page 3

THE BATTLE CREEK ENQUIRER AND NEWS Sunday, October 28, 1956 79-33 IT. Michigan Ave. Phone WO 8S135 Shop Tomorrow Friday 9:30 'til 5:30 p.m. Park Free in Our Big Paved Customer Lot While Shopping at Jury-Roue's HOP and COMPARE I ftowes not (ftowhyy dc o7 I l. V- Martha Dean Chestnut, left, Miss South Carolina last year, and her room mate at college, Marian Ann McKnight, the current Miss America.

In addition, the little state has produced a Mrs. America, a national Maid of Cotton and two Miss USA's for the Miss World contest. South Carolina Cornering Market On Beautiful Girls By ROBERT McIIUGH COLUMBIA, S.C. UP) The pretty girls of South Carolina, like the fleet race horses of Kentucky, are bringing glory to Dixie and world-wide recognition to their state. On their beauteous heads rest five of the world's top beauty crowns.

No other state can make that claim. Little, South Carolina ranking 26th in the nation in population has produced a Miss Universe, the current Miss America, a Mrs. America, two Miss U.S.A.'s for the Miss World contest and a national Maid of Cotton. C' I Five of her six entries in the Miss America contest have been js simply overrun with pretty among the 10 finalists. women.

Tough on Judges One also discovers the tradi- Judging a state beauty contest tion that compels southern girls in this Magnolia land of pulehri-to consider it their duty to de-tude is an exercise in ecstatic I velop charm a factor that is frustration. For example, Marian given equal attention along with Ann McKnight, the Manning, S.C., a well-turned calf or a classic beauty who charmed the nation profile in most beauty contests, and the judges in Atlantic City Bllt more important, South when she won Miss America hon-j Carolina girls are usually vcl-ors this year, has been defeated 1 erans 0 beauty contests by the in local competition by her room- time they reach the Miss America or some other major contest. mate. The room Marian and Martha rean Chestnut shared at little Beautiful and Poised Marian Ann was one of the Coker College in Hartsville proba few Miss Americas who didn't Wy had more beauty in(0 tears of confllsinn 1001 man any oiner in i whon h(r name was announced country. 1 1() (ne na(i(m as the winner.

Why Martha Dean, a stunning bru-1 should she? By then, little Marian nette, was Miss South Carolina was a confident winner of nine last year. The judges deliberated previous beauty contests with all in an agony of indecision before the poise of an archbishop at a selecting her over Marian. church picnic. The rural communities of this Pretty Slate of Affairs slate delight in annual festivals The search for an answer to the success of South Carolina in to promote watermelons, tobacco, beauty contests leads first to the cotton, timber or just to have a obvious conclusion that the state good time. If; 12.

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