Blytheville, Ark. had never seen so many folks before. On Ross Hughes's farm there were 15,000 of themcome from as fur away as Texas to see the first annual cotton-picking championship of the U. S.
It was Roscoe Crafton's idea. Set a-thinkin' by the national publicity given the Corn Belt's annual corn-husking championship, he got some fellow cotton merchants to form an association last winter, sow the seeds of a national cotton-picking contest. "Wide open to the world" it would be. So they sent invitations to the Cotton Belt's Rotary, Kiwanis and Lions clubs, asking them to sponsor an entrant apiece.
Last week...
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