Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: WEDNESDAY, September 14, 1994 TAG: 9409140071
SECTION: CURRENT PAGE: NRV6 EDITION: NEW RIVER VALLEY
SOURCE: PAUL DELLINGER STAFF WRITER
DATELINE: PULASKI LENGTH: Medium
And she doesn't even smoke.
Gibson manicures and paints fingernails at the La Salon beauty shop on East Main Street (Virginia 99) during the week. On weekends, she's at places like Richmond or Bristol, Tenn., chatting with race fans on behalf of the tobacco company. She will be at her last race of the month in Martinsville on the last weekend of September.
Gibson and the other Winston representatives also promote Camel clothing. The company is continuing to diversify and offers Camel T-shirts, jackets, hats and shorts that were popular in Europe before being made available over here.
In January, Gibson is scheduled to compete in the Miss Winston competition at Winston-Salem, N.C., where the company has its headquarters.
If she wins, it will not be her first contest prize. She went to New York in August for the Miss All-American Girl Pageant and was the national talent winner, singing an old Judy Garland favorite, ``Zing Went the Strings of My Heart.''
She was also among the top 10 in the modeling category, third runner-up in beauty and first runner-up for interview. Hudson Chevrolet, Signet Bank and Heritage Buick in Pulaski had sponsored her.
In another pageant, she was a half-point from the top 10. Her demonstration tapes were sent to Nashville's Silver Ring Records, and promoter Nile Peaytt asked her to compete in an Opryland pageant in Tennessee.
Unfortunately, that's the same weekend as the Martinsville race where she is under contract to appear. Peaytt has told her she should participate in his Talent America Search next year, in which selected women model for calendars, posters and promotional materials.
Gibson connected with R.J. Reynolds through the Marilyn Modeling and Talent Agency in North Carolina.
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