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Photograph reproduced with copyright permission from Oregonian Newspaper
Martin Family: Barbara lower left, Ken upper right, Barbara
Lee lower right, Susan upper right, and Virginia upper middle.

Council from June 1956 to January 1957. expenses paid trip to Havana, Cuba by collecting
Barbara Martin won the club speech contest box tops. This trip became a subject of speeches in

held March 5, 1954, at the Aero Club with her speech her Toastmistress Club. Her husband Ken delivered
titled “Box Top Beauty.” Barbara competed in the speeches about the trip to Cuba in his East Portland

Area Contest at the Multnomah Hotel on March 21, Toastmasters Club No. 710. One was titled “Box
1954. Topping to Cuba.” In 1954, Barbara won a free jeep

Barbara Martin had a talent for winning other but traded it in for a 1954 Ford Country Squire
types of contests. In 1947, she won a free dinner at station wagon. This station wagon was cream color

So and So’s restaurant in a KXL Radio contest. On with red trim and had seats for eight people and a
September 2, 1949, she won a watch on the CBS rear seat that was removable for storage.

George Fisher’s contest. According to the Oregonian Barbara was often a lucky winner. How did
newspaper she won frequent contests in 1949. She Barbara Martin’s luck run out? How could Barbara,

was a member of Westwins Club and Wintellects her husband, and daughters vanish? Stay tuned for
contest clubs. December 1951, she won an all the next exciting episode.

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