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This article is part of WikiProject Beauty Pageants, a WikiProject related to beauty pageants, their contestants and winners.

The Complainant is the owner of a Unites States trademark registration number 2,130,222 for MRS. AMERICA®. The service mark is used in connection with the promotion of sales of goods and services to others by conducting beauty pageants. The MRS. AMERICA® was first used by Complainant in 1976^[1]

The 1957 Mrs. America Pageant was sponsered by Northwest Natural Gas and the recipient of the title "Mrs. America" was Cleo Maletis. The pageant, it seems according to a fuller view of its [the pageant entitled "Mrs. America"] history, became an incorporated body in 1976. Before 1976, the Mrs. America Pageant still had the same name, but legally wasn't an incorporated body. Therefore this current article "Mrs. America" should read "Mrs. America, Inc" if you feel so inclined to get down to the nitty gritty because it's a privately held, for profit firm now.

The reason I bring this up is because Cleo Maletis is my grandmother who has now forgotten she was Mrs. America due to Alzheimers and I feel that creating a Wiki article on her is a fitting and sincere tribute to her incredible life. If the current Mrs. America, Inc. doesn't recognize past recipients of the title, then they're doing themselves a disservice by refusing to honor past recipients who were called "Mrs. America" just as they are today.

AmanUwellCant (talk) 05:32, 31 January 2008 (UTC)