The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1936-09-17
HEALTHY KIDS
GIVE RULESFOR
HIGH SCORES
Hundred Per Centers Don't
Dunk DOughnuts; Eat Lots
of Vegetables and Strong
for Fruit :.

Doughnut dunkers, look out!
You may never be a winner in a
4-H health contest. w.
Neither Frances Mclean, IA, q
Prosser high school freshman, given
100 percent perfect rating, nor Ace
Clark, jr, II, Albion high school
senior scoring 97.9, which is tops
for boys in the state, ever eats
doughnuts, says story in a Yaki-
ma paper today.
No Tea or Coffee
Tea and coffee are two more items
not found on the list, so far as these
husky youngsters are concerned.
Each drinks a quart Of milk and six
glasses of water day. Neither one
ever thinks of starting for school
without having eaten breakfast and
there is nothing "mincing" about
the sound of those breakfasts. Fruit
and cooked cereal, bacon, eggs.
toast, milk or hot chocolate-never
pancakes more than once q week.
Mentioning the vegetable prefer
ence of these young health cham
pions means mentioning. practically
the entire output of the garden. A
glance at Miss McLean's naturally
curly hair will prepare any one for
the news that she eats carrots and
spinach, but there are also peas,
beans, cauliflower, tomatoes. cab
bage and turnips. with potatoes
holding their proper importance.
Strong for Fruit
Fruits favored by the young peo-
pie include apples, figs. grapefruit,
dates, grapes, oranges, melons,
peaches, prunes, pears and april
cots. This means both fresh and
canned. Candy hardly gets q break
maybe after dinner, once week.
Early to bed and early to rise, with
plenty of chores around home, and
on their club projects. seem to be
the rule applying to both. Both
sleep with wide open windows.
Miss Mclean, who shows very
white teeth in wide smile, as she
says she "feels pretty healthy" since
hearing she made q perfect score. Is
the daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. G. II.
McLea who 1--we a few miles from
Prosser at Walnut Grove. Her
mother is All club leader in sew
ing project work.
Special Club Work
The grey-eyed health winner has
had two years in club work, particle
pating in canning, sewing and gar
den projects, as well as the health
contest. She plays the piano and
violin, and now plans to attend
Whitman college and take course
in music. She is one Of three child
rem. All are engaged in club work.
Miss Opal Jenkin, home demonstra-
ton agent for Benton county, ac-
companied her to the fair, the
health event being the only compe-
tition in which she engaged mere.
Ace Clark, jr. is the blue-eyed
son of Ace Clark, ST., tackle on the
State college championship football
team in 1915. In addition to being
q health contestant at the fair. he
is putting on agricultural demon
STATIONS during the week for Whit
man county, under supervision OF
the county agent, Tony Harms.
Likes Stock Work
Young Ace also goes in for beef
cattle, Shorthorns, and Chester
White swine, at his home. two miles
out Of Albion. He had the prize fat
steer at the All club fair held In
Whitman county. This Is his nth
year in club work. He has led his
county in health contests, accord
ing to Harms. for several years, and
is now q beef club leader. He has q
brother and sister.
At college the boy plans to take q
course in agriculture, probably spec
ializing in animal husbandry, he
now thinks.