Evening star., 1938-07-06
SOAP BOX DERBY
CLOSING DATE SET
Boys Must Enter Not Later
Than Saturday Night,
Director States.

Hurry up" was the message issued
to boys today by o. c. Holleran. d.
rector Of The Star-American Legion
Soap Box Derby, Is he announced
that the entry list for the July -
coaster racing event will be closed
Saturday night.
. mo more applications for the derby
will be accepted after the close OF
business Saturday in the derby reg
istration places in the Washington
area" the director said. Every boy
not younger than 9 nor older than
IS who still wishes to get In may do
So with ample time to build = racing
car II he works hard"
This sentiment was echoed by John
Powell Junior High School, where the
woodshop has been turned into . soap
box racer assembly line as part Of the
summer program of the Community
Center Department.
The boys have four hours q day
from 10 am. until noon and l to
3 p.m.-in which to make their racers
in the junior high school woodshops, +"
Mr.. Williams pointed out. He esti-
mated that 80 or 40 hours of shop
work would sufiice for the job.
School Shops Available.
Mr.. Williams is serving the Com
munity Center Department at Powell,
while shops also are available to
derby boys at Eliot, Mcfarland and
Jefferson Junior Highs. Before school
closed for the season. ~ Powell boys
had entered the derby. According to
their instructor, at least half of them
will be racing downhill two weeks from
Saturday for the championship Of
Washington,s first Soap Box Derby.
Other arrangements for the derby
are progressing rapidly, according to
Mr.. Holleran. Construction will begin
tomorrow on wooden ramps which
will be used to start the boys in their
racers on derby day. Transporta-
ton will be provided for soap box
cars to and from the course.
This is just q small part of the
whole picture" commented the derby
leader. I'VE are going to make the
day q gala occasion that every boy
taking part will remember. There
will be plenty Of prizes and plenty OF
thrills. More than 800 boys have
entered. and we expect the list to
increase substantially between now
and Saturday night"
Rules for entering the derby will be
fyN11 A1sAW,hnro
Today's Entrants.
TodaV's derby entrants include:
Bruce c. Banning, 9, of 109 New York
avenue. Takoma Park, Md, Takoma
School: Philip Steiner, 603 Bonifant
street, Silver Spring, Md. Silver
Spring Elementary School; Zeph Phil
lips, jr., IA, Gaithersburg, Nd. CATH
ersburg High School: Burton Canham,
IA, of 1925 North Wayne street,
Arlington. Va, Washington and Lee
High School; Robert Cole, II, Of SIS
North Ivy street, Arlington. Va,
Thomas Jefferson High School;
Charles w. Culpepper. II. Of 43o5 North
Pershing drive. Arlington. Va, Henry
Clay School; Stanley Kidvell, II, OF
1928 North Wayne street, Arlington,
Va, James Monroe School: Alptunso
Coccia, 13, Of 1889 L street NV,
Calvert School: Bin Sharp. IL, OF
5113 North Sixteenth street, Arlington,
Va. Washington and Lee High: Irving
Seigel. II, of TAT L street N. E., Blair
School; Walter Aufdem- H..
of 635 Tenth street N. E., Madison
School; Eugene Martin Carroll, jr.,
II, Of 1871 Fifth street NV, John F.
Cook School; Joseph william Vernon,
IA. Of 110S Sixth street s.W., Jetfer-
son Junior High; Mccormick Wesley
Kennedy, Is, Of ITO Walnut street
NV. Powell Junior High: Eugene
Crawford. Is. Of 326 D street NE,
Stuart Junior High: Bartlett Hen
erickson, II, Burnt Mills Hills, Silver
Spring. Nd, Parkside School: Walter
Pohutsky. IA. OF 504 Fourth street
Sc. Eastern High; Perry r. Hengst,
jr, IS, Of 14l7 West Virginia avenue
NE, Eliot Junior High: Leonard
Brooks, IL. Of 2sl5 Yost place NE,
Taft Junior High, and Lawrence
Eisenberg. Is, Of 480l Forty-eighth
street NV, Alice Deal Junior High.
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