Entry blanks may be obtained at the Chamber of Commerce office. The blanks should be completed and returned to the Chamber office. Contestants must furnish a 5x7 or 8x10 glossy print of themselves.

To be eligible for competition, entrants must be 15 to 21 years old, never have been married, and may be sponsored by any organization or merchant. Membership in a roundup club is not required and the queen contestant does not have to sell tickets to win.

There will, however, be an award for the contestant who sells the most tickets. In case of a tie for queen, the girl selling the most tickets will be named queen.

Entrants living within a reasonable distance of Ponca City will be required to participate in the booster trips. The winner will be eligible to compete in the national rodeo finals in Oklahoma City.

Queen contestants will be judged 50 percent on horsemanship, 25 percent on poise and personality and 25 percent on appearance. The girls will be judged on horsemanship at 6 p.m. Friday, August 29, in the arena. Spectators are welcome. There will be no admission charge. Poise, personality and appearance will be judged at the queens luncheon to be held Saturday, August 30, at 11:30 a.m. in the Chariot Room of the a QuoVadis.

The coronation will be at 7: 15 p.m. in the arena, preceding the final performance of the rodeo on Saturday, August 30.

Hostesses for the queen contestants this year will be members of the Ponca City Business and Professional Women's Club. They will accompany contestants on all of their public appearances and will be all assigned in alphabetical order to the contestants as entries are made. The hostesses are Miss Janet Bain, Mrs. Maureen Barksdale, Miss Paula Bogert, Mrs. Linda Haun, Mrs. Dorothy Lively, Miss Patti Norris, Mrs. Lois Scott, Mrs. Marsiha Shea and Mrs. Sandy Thompson.

Gene Blake is rodeo queen contest chairman and Mrs. Neita Rogers, representing for the third year the Ponca City BPW Club, is co-chairman.

First prize is a four piece set of ladies luggage, which may be seen at the Chamber of Commerce office; second prize, $50 savings account, and an engraved trophy will go to the queen and Miss Congeniality. A silver trophy buckle will be awarded to the girl selling the most tickets. Numerous activities have been planned for the queen after the contest closes.

Judges To Rate Queen Contestants In Horsemanship At Arena Tonight

A busy week of rodeo activities and suspense will end Saturday night for the nine aspirants to the title of 101 Ranch Rodeo Queen as the new queen is announced preceding the final rodeo performance in the arena.

The winner succeeding the reigning queen, Janie Roby, will receive a four-piece set of ladies luggage. Second prize will be a $50 savings account, Miss Congeniality, to be chosen by the queen contestants, will receive an engraved trophy.

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Everyone is welcome to watch the horsemanship judging of rodeo queen contestants in the arena tonight prior to the grand entry. Judging is at 6 p.m. and the program  is free to the public.

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A silver trophy buckle will be awarded the girl selling the most rodeo tickets.

The contestants will be judged on horsemanship tonight at 6 o'clock in the arena, accounting for 50 percent of the total score, according to Mrs. Neita Rogers, co-chairman with Gene Blake for the contest which is being sponsored for the third year by the Ponca City Business and Professional Women's Club.

A Saturday noon luncheon is planned for the young ladies in the Chariot Room of the QuoVadis, where they will be judged on poise, personality and appearance.

Judges at the luncheon will be Mrs. Ida Lee Cook, president of the Oklahoma Federation of Business and Professional Women's Clubc; Dino Economos and Mike Flynn, both of KOTV, Tulsa, and Don Walton of television station KFDI, Wichita.

Mrs. Cook teaches vocational business education at Holdenville High School. Active in many community organizations, she has served as president of Oklahoma Business Education Association, president and treasurer of the Holdenville Faculty Club, and presently is serving as state treasurer of the American Association of University Women.

A graduate of the University of Oklahoma with a master's degree in business education, she is active in the First Baptist church. Bowling, reading, vegetable and flower gardening fill her leisure hours.

Economos will bring an international flavor to the judging team. Fluent in several languages he has resided Athens, Greece. A native of Dragerton, Utah, he has a B.S. degree in journalism from the University of Tulsa, where. he was named "Outstanding Journalist' by the Dow Jones Co. Currently serving as assignment editor for KOTV news,  he worked three years as a radio announcer while finishing his education. Free time for Dino is rare, but what time I there is he fills with photography, free-lance writing, cinematography and his ham radio.

Flynn, a veteran of 15 years in radio and TV, is a graduate of Tulsa's Will Rogers High School and earned his B.A. degree from the University of Tulsa. A native of Santa Fe, N.M., he has varied outside interests. He is an accomplished guitarist and folksinger, raises and photographs Quarter Horses, writes a column on horses for the Tulsa Tribune, and has published nationally on several occasions.

He is a member of the Oklahoma Quarter Horse Association, Oklahoma Palomino Exhibiters Association and the Tulsa Jaycees. He joined KOTV in February 1969 and assumed the job of newsman for the Midday. Report as well as the 6 p.m. and 10 p.m. newscasts on Saturdays.

Walton, better known in KFDI country as Little Donnie Do-Dad, served as one of the judges for last year's contest. Born and reared on a farm near Yates Center, Kan., he studied journalism on a scholarship at a Kansas junior college.

Along the line from truck driving to department store manager, he developed a love for country music and cut a record. It was the record that brought him to KFDI 4-1/2 years ago.

He has worked sales, emceed an all-night show for two years, spent a year as promotion manager in charge of all commercial copy and production plus a three-hour air shift Monday through Friday. He presently holds down the program director's job and has the Little Donnie Do-Dad Show at noon Monday through Friday.

Seeking the title of 101 Ran Rodeo Queen this year, in order of entry in the contest, are Connie Corzine, Sheryl Lynn Smith, Linda Kelly, Janie LeGrand, Beverly McAnally, Robbie Willerton, Joleen Hurst, Kris Albright and Pam Griffin.

Also attending the luncheon Saturday will be members the BPW Club who are serving as hostesses for the queen contest.

Everyone is welcome watch the horsemanship judging of queen contestants in the arena tonight prior to the grand entry. Judging is at 6 p.m. and free to the public.

SHE WORE A WHITE HAT, but no one knew when this photo was taken that Beverly McAnally of Coyle, at left, would be the 101 Ranch Rodeo Queen for 1969. The nine candidates for the honor posed at the QuoVadis where they attended a luncheon Saturday noon. At the luncheon they met the judges, who finished rating the girls on poise, personality and appearance. The horsemanship judging was done Friday evening at the rodeo arena. From left the queen candidates are Miss McAnally; Robbie Willerton, Tonkawa, first runner-up; Jaynie LeGrand, Ponca City; Connie Corzine, Ponca City; Pam Griffin, McLoud, second runner-up; Sheryl Smith, Kildare; Nancy Kelly and Chris Albright, both of Ponca City; Pam Griffin, McLoud, second runner-up; Sheryl Congeniality.

QUEEN CONTEST trophies were carried home. Saturday night from the 101 Ranch Rodeo by these four beauties, headed by the Rodeo Queen winner at right, Miss Beverly McAnally of Coyle, member of the Guthrie Round-up Club. Other trophy winners pictured are from left, Miss Joleen Hurst, Fort Supply, for Miss Congeniality; Miss Pamela Griffin, McCloud, Okla., second runner-up, and Miss Robbie Willerton, Tonkawa, first runner-up.

Judges Select Coyle Girl As Rodeo Queen
A lovely young horsewoman from Coyle, the representative of the Guthrie Roundup Club, will reign as queen for the coming year.

She is Beverly McAnally, 16 -year-old daughter of Mrs. O. E. McAnally of, Coyle, , who was named to the list of "Top Ten All-Around Youth in the Nation" by the American Quarter Horse Association.

To her majesty went the queen's trophy, a set of matched luggage presented by Jack Parts of Glenn Paris and Sons Furniture Stores and red roses presented by Mary Blake through the courtesy of Ponca Floral.

Tonkawan First Runner-up
First runner-up is Robbie Willerton, Route 2, Tonkawa who will be a junior at Tonkawa High School. She has "grownup" on a horse, is a member of the Tonkawa Roundup Club and the Oklahoma Junior Quarter Horse Association. Sixteen years old, she is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Galvin L. Willerton, Route 2, Tonkawa.

As first runner-up, Miss Willerton received a trophy and a $100 Savings Bond from R. D. O'Meilia, president of the Pioneer National Bank.

Receiving the trophy for second runner-up was Pam Griffin, 17, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Griffin, Route 1, McLoud. She was sponsored by the Newalla Sunrise Round-up Club, of which she is the 1969 queen.

Champion Ticket Seller
Connie Corzine, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Jiggs Corzine, 301 East Prospect, received the sterling silver trophy buckle given by Cowboy Supply to the queen candidate selling the most tickets. Miss Corzine, first to enter the competition, turned in close to $1,000. She was sponsored by the 101 Ranch Memorial Trail Riders, who elected her their queen for 1969.

By the nine contestants themselves, Joleen Hurst, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Alden Hurst of Fort Supply, was elected Miss Congeniality and was presented an engraved trophy from Mr. and Mrs. H. A. Rogers.

Living on a ranch west of Fort Supply, Miss Hurst has been riding since she was eight years old and has been competing and winning honors in junior rodeos the past four years

Four Judges
The queens were judged on horsemanship, 50 percent, poise and appearance, 25 percent, and personality, 25 percent. The judges were Mrs. Ida Lee Cook of Holdenville, state president of BPW Clubs; Dino Economos and Mike Flynn, both of station KOTV, Tulsa, and Don Walton of television station KFDI Wichita.

Mrs. Neita Rogers served as queen chairman, with Gene Blake of the Rodeo Foundation as co-chairman.

Assisting Mrs. Rogers as hostesses for the individual contestants were members of the Ponca City Business and Professional Women's Club.

They were, together with the girls for whom they were hostesses, Janice Bain, Connie Corzine; Maurine Barksdale, Sheryl Lynn Smith; Dorothy Lively, Nancy Kelly; Pam Irons, Jane LeGrand; Pattie Norris, Beverly McAnally; Pauly Price, Robbie Willerton; Loretta Hanz, Joleen Hurst; Marsha Shea, Kris Albright, and Sandy Thompson, Pam Griffin.