Evening star., 1939-02-12
Boy Publishes
Sports News
OF His Club
Community Center
Buys 50 Copies
Every Week

The salary is so cents a week,
and it is paid by the Powell Com
munity Center. for which Eddie gets
out the Powell Boys Club Weekly
High Light every Tuesday.
Fifty cents a week may not seem
like such a big salary" Eddie con-
ceded, but I can do lot with it.
I can 60 to the movies without hav-
ing to ask my parents for the money,
I can buy lot of little things that
I need, and-well, I've got $40 in
bank besides"
More important than the money,
however, is the fact that Eddie's
work on his four-page photographed
paper is giving him experience in
the field which he hopes to enter
when he becomes man.
I'm going to be a sports writer" !"
he declared. And what I'm doing
now gives me lot of practice along
that line. You'd be surprised how
much sports news goes into my
paper"
Won Four Medals.
Writing sports news is pretty
much of natural" for Eddie, be-
cause he is something of an athlete
himself. He won four medals in
the indoor sports carnival held at
Mckinley High School recently un-
der sponsorship of the Community
Center Department. Three of the
medals were gold and the other one
was silver, and he won them in the
40-yard dash, the standing broad
jump the relay race and the run
ming high jump. He plays forward
on the Powell Boys Club basket ball
team, and summer before last he
finished second in swimming con-
test at Tech. He is in the 85-pound
class.
Eddie decided to become a news
paper editor while vacationing at
Fountain Inn, S. c.. last summer.
Another boy and I talked about
getting out a paper" Eddie ex-
planned, but just about the time
we got ready to do it my vacation
was over. and I had to come back
to Washington. Then I saw a hec-
tograph; that's a sort of box con-
tanning plate Of gelatin. and you
rub glycerin over the gelatin and
it duplicates writing or drawing, or
anything. I asked my father to
get me one for my birthday, in
September, and he did.
Il didn't have a typewriter then,
or 1nffnrnI n kNy
and ran it off on the hectograph
I called the paper the Snapshot,
and sold it for cents a copy. I
also sold ads for 2 cents each. I
published the Snapshot from Sep
tember until January, and made
about 81 a week out of it."
Rents Typewriter.
Eddie used some Of his profits
to rent a typewriter for SO a month.
But it's better to buy one" he
said, 80 now I'm saving up for
that"
The Snapshot became the Powell
Boys Club Weekly High Light in
January.
"I make less money" he said,
"but I don't have to worry about
selling. I just fix up so copies
every week and take them over to
the club. and John Tanning, the
leader, gives them out to the men,
bers. Then Phil Fox, the physical
director. pays me my so cents,
and-well, that's all there is to 1t"
Part of Eddie's profits also went
into a new hectograph. "The first
one wore out" he explained, "and I
guess the second one will, too,
after a while, but I still make a
profit. My only other expense is
for paper, and I buy that in the
10-cent store. It's the legal size.
and fold it in the center and get
a 4-page paper
Eddie lives at 1445 Ogden street
N. w. and is in the sixth grade at
Bancroft School. He gathers news
for his paper after school each
day, and does his writing over
the week end. BY Monday night,
he is all ready to 60 to press-or
rather to hectograph.
1T takes me about 21a hours to
print so copies" he said. Then
all I have to do is wait until Tues
day night and take them over to
the club. It's so much fun-I'd
do it even If I didn't make money
out of it,