Evening star., 1941-08-11
THE EVENING STAR WASHINGTON D. c. MONDAY H.
s Back Yard Play
Places Entered
In Competition
Officials Hope TotoI
Will Be 100; Contest
Closes Saturday

F1fty-three play places had been
registered Saturday for the second
annual back yard playground con-
test. which is entering its final
week. Officials hoped the number
will reach 100 before the contest
closes Saturday.
The competition is sponsored by
the Department of Vehicles and
Traffic, the Recreation Department
and the Junior Board Of Commerce,
in cooperation with the District
w. P. A. 1t was started last year,
chiefly for the purpose OF taking
children off the streets and reduc-
ing the traffic toll.
Eligible for consideration In the
contests are Fairgrounds furnished
with purchased equipment and those
fitted from homemade materials.
The prizes, donated by the Junior
Board of Commerce, are: For play
ground with purchased equipment,
first, a badminton set; second. a
pup tent; third, sand box. For
homemade Fairgrounds, first.
sliding board; second, a seesaw;
third a pair of roller skates.
A. A. A. Women Give Prizes.
Tn addition, the women's safety
division of the American Automobile
Association has donated two lawn
swings to be awarded the white ana
colored Fairgrounds contributing
most to the safety Of their neigh
borhoods.
Contestants registered Saturday
we're:
street NV: S. M. Barrett, 1858 Irv-
ing street NV; Julia Bender, l6lO
Fifth street NV; the Rev. Vlrgil
M Cosby. 4347 Fessenden street
NV; Melvin Frost, 944 Twenty
sixth street NV: Frank E. Hagan,
722 jefferson street NV; Ernest l..
Kendall, 6021 Third street NV; -.
E. McQueary, 3842 Window place
N. w; John Rider Peaslee, 1924
Nineteenth street NV; Francis Z.
Shannon, 5031 Second street NV;
S. Stichman, 1920 Seventeenth street
NV: Fred M. Wade, 1908 Twenty
eighth street NV.
Jamie Childs. 1925 jackson street
NE: William Claveloux, l72l Law
renee street NE; Pamela G. Gayaut,
41O8 Eighteenth place NE; w. w.
Giffin, 1912 Monroe street NE; E. o.
MacDonnell, 2949 Mills avenue NE:
Mrs. j. Metz. 3OO8 Fifteenth street
NE: T. l.. Printz, 2805 Charming
street NE: Willmore Pyles. 1887 Irv-
ing street NE; Robert M. Yeabower,
1911 Taylor street NE.
George Kephart, 433l Barker
street Sc; Shirley Layne, 2348 @
street Sc; Mrs. M. l.. Oberman,
1904 o street Sc; Jay Sain, lis
Upsail street Sc; M. F. West, 22l4
Thirtieth street Sc.
Other Contestants.
H. C. ARTIST, 2422 N street NV;
Junior Bradley. 1886 Vernon street
NV; Beatrice Bryant, 2483 Phillips
court NV; Margaret Cannon, 2218
M street NV; Grace Craize, 926
Twentieth street NV; Melvin M.
Frost, 944 Twenty-sixth street NV;
Lewis A. Johnson, 100 Irving street
NV; Elsie Milton, 1885 U street
NV; Wilhelmina Montgomery,
2424 N street NV: Ruth Savoy, 1884
Vernon street NV: Mrs. Mary
Stevenson, 80 N street NV; Mary
Swami, l116 Irving street NV,
Florence Yates, 1904 Chases court
NV.
Mrs. Albert NJ. Carroll, AIS Sheriff
road NE: DR.. r. N. Crawley, 5214
Ames street NE; Muriel Duhaney,
1886 East Capitol street: Thelma
Fagin, 5000 Ames street NE; Mrs.
Harold Jackson, 1902 East Capitol
street: William Kelly. 5304 East
Capitol street; Mrs. Lawson Veney,
1903 East Capitol street; J. F. Will
kinson, 1924 Ames street NE; Dor
othy Mayo, 1882 D street Sc.
Maryland.
Marion N Brown. Dupont street,
Kensington; Mrs. Edwin Childs, ia
Hilton avenue, Takoma Park; DR..
Karl Dertzbach, 1905 Custer road,
Bethesda; Mrs. Erwin A. Snyder,
SSH Lambeth road, Bethesda.