1949 Press Photo Horace Hedit hosts Youth Opportunity Program band contest

Junior Band Wins Contest. The "Junior Dixieland Jamboree Band" made up of three New Orleans youths won fist prize yesterday in the Horace Heidit Youth Opportunity Program broadcast over a nationwide radio hookup from the Lyons Youth Center. The band will go to Louisville, Kentucky, to compete in an illumination contest leading up to a $5000 award. Horace Hedit.

Photo is dated 1949.

Photo measures 8 x 10 inches.