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Evening star., 1942-04-19

first line of the song seems to me
to be more appropriately She was
chosen from a number of contest
ants to represent Montgomery Blair.
The judges we're members of the
High School Student Council
of Montgomery County, which spon-
sored the contest, and several
teachers.
Two original musical compositions
by Mary Ann we're used In gradua-
ton exercises at Montgomery Blair
last June. She was presented on
THE Junior Star Of the Air" at
that time. Since, then, she has
served as pianist on WWDC at Sis
pm. every Saturday.
Phil Warner, red-headed captain
of Company B, Mckinley High
School Cadets, has been elected
president of Techs June graduating
class.
- X
Jay Carmody, The Stars drama
and movie critic, spoke at recent
Woodrow Wilson High School "Tri-
Y" meeting AT home, we're Or
dinary people, but in Hollywood
we're treated as celebrities" he said,
adding, according to the Wilson
Beacon:
"Hedy Lamar is different off the
screen-cool and intellectual, one
with whom you can talk about the
war and the Washington situation.
All men hate Taylor because he is
so handsome. After you know him,
you find he is swell guy Ann
Sheridan is a delightful windblown
gal from Texas. You'd never call
her anything but Annie. Gable and
Tracy are two fine fellows. hale and
honest. Shirley Temple is natural
and unSpoiled. Katherine Hepburn
is very photogenic but off the screen
she is very unattractive, with red
hair and freckles."
X X
Writes Ruth Davis, l3, of Paul
Junior High School: II was glad to
receive the dollar for my last con-
trlbution to The Junior Star. will
probably buy War savings stamps
with it."
Silver Chips, official student pub
hcatlon of Montgomery Blair, went
In for its usual April Fool" stunts.
even printing some of its adver-
tisements upside-d down. My fingers
were slightly burned by this pub
hcation last year Are you listening,
Peggy WeissO. So this year, I'm
Evening star., 1942-04-19
BY BERT SACKETT.

Springtime is garden time. Dress
up your garden with these easy-to-
make plant-row markers. They are
fun to make and, If you need pocket
money. easy TO sell.
ANY straight-grained wood frcm
discarded grocery boxes will do for
your material. This wood runs from
IA of an inch to IS Of an inch thick
and is easy to cut. In addition, get
seversl OLD seed cstalogs, some red,
yellow. white and green paint, ana
some cardboard.
First, select good sized pictures of
the vegetables you are making
markers for. Carrots. beetS. turnipS,
radiSheS and tomatoes are good ones
to start with. You can add 10 your
line as other vegetables are called
for by your customers. The pic
lures used should all be about the
same size.
Make cardboard dummies" of
each vegetable by drawing or trac-
ing the vegetable on cardboard. then
cutting out the outline Mark
around these dummies" on the
upper ends OF your stakes.
The stakes should be from
inehes to IL inches long Determine
the length by the way your wood
VIII cut up best Make the stakes
vide enough to take the fun width
Of the vegetable. After you have
marked the stakes with the veg
etsble outline, cut around this care
fully with coping or jig saw. II
you can use a power jig saw, YOU
can cut out four or five at time
by stacking the wood stakes one on
top of the other,
Make a cardboard Zig for the
pointed ends Of your stakes, Marx
the end that goes in the ground
with this jig and cut of the waste
Evening star., 1942-04-19

You pick your group from your
friends and have them meet at your
home at stated times. Each one is
assigned certain ingredient neces-
Sary to candymaking and brings it
with him. Everybody chips in on the
sugar.
The members Of your group who
are experienced candymakers are
put in charge of operations and the
other members follow their instruc-
tions. If you have persuasive sales
man in the group, have him contact
local merchants and try TO obtain
donations OF ingredients to increase
your store of materials. AS the news
gets around, donations will roll in
from other sources so that. in time,
members will not be obliged to
give much from their own pockets.
You should also have some one who
Is good at packing and wrapping to
prepare the candy for shipping.
Personal Touch.
The completed products are sent
to any boys In the service who are
known personally to members OF
the group. These service men are
asked to see that the candy is prop
erly distributed among the men at
their camp. In this way, there is a
personal touch to the gifts that can
not be obtained through national
organizations.
h. @lI
a uniform, but you can do your bit
to keep up the morale of the boys
who are out there holding the line
until you are old enough to get into
the scrap.
The following recipes may prove
helpful:
Divinity Fudge.
cups granulated sugar.
l cup light corn sirup.
4 teaspoon salt.
q cup chopped nutmeats.
n cup water. 3 egg whites.
l teaspoon vanilla extract.
Combine sugar, corn sirup, water,
and salt in Soup pan. Bring to boil
and continue cooking without STIR
ring until hard ball forms when
little is dropped in cold water
Beat egg whites stiff and gradually
beat in the hot sirup. Continue
beating until 1t stiffens. Add vanilla
and nuts and turn into creased pan.
When cold, cut in squares. Makes
40 to so pieces. Wrap in wax paper
Immediately to prevent drying.
Penuche.
cups brown sugar.
l cup evaporated milk.
tablespoons corn sirup.
u teaspoon salt.
Cook all above together until
soft ball Is formed when dropped
in cold water. Remove from stove
and add 2 tablespoons margarine.
Cool to lukewarm, then beat and
add Ia teaspoons vanilla and l cup
chopped nuts. Put in creased pan
when stiff enough and cut in
squares. IS pieces.
Peanut Butter Fudge.
4 heaping tablespoons peanut but
ter.
tablespoons cream.
! teaspoon vanilla.
Pinch salt.
Confectioner's sugar.
Work together peanut butter and
cream, gradually adding sugar until
stiff. Add vanilla and salt and
enough more sugar to make it stiff
enough to roll between the hands.
Form into rolls, cut in slices, and
dip slices in confectioner's sugar.
These recipes will do for a starter.
You undoubtedly will find that each
member of your group has his own
favorite which you will want to try.
Just be sure that it is a candy that
will travel successfully and not be
in crumbs upon arrival.
Evening star., 1942-04-19

The native and foreign children 20
TO school together, and when away
from classes, participate in the two
main Central American sports. base
ball and soccer. The natives. in
cidentally, are very friendly, and I
preferred their companionship to
that OF many Of the foreigners
In this small country" Jack con-
tinued. there are two volcanoes,
both inactive; that Is. they no longer
erupt. However. each morning at
sunrise, they belch forth smoke.
Often. the natives climb to the top
of the volcanoes and fire bullets
into them to start them smoking.
Costa Rica is occasionally shaken
by earthquakes, none OF which are
so bad as those in other parts of
the world, The only really harmful
one hit Carthage, city to the north.
about Is years ago. Nicaragua was
the scene of the worst earthquake
In Central American history. The
quake struck Managua, the capital.
In 1881, killing about 1000 persons. {"
These are but a few Of Jacks
recollections of Central America.
A sophomore at Washington lee
High School, Arlington, he hopes 10
return to Latin America as an
aviator after graduation.
Evening star., 1942-04-19

me, and all other Americans, too.
A sharp report from the gun broke
the tranquility that was so solemn
1t seemed almost holy. To the clear
notes of the bugle Old Glory de-
scended.
Then the bright colors of our
great flag, the natty uniforms of
the soldiers who stood at attention,
the glowing city in the distance, ran
together In q blur Of tearA The
Evening star., 1942-04-19

just reporting that the April Fool"
issue was very clever, and letting 1t
go at that. Typical item:
Henry Hank Greenberg, former
first baseman and right fielder for
the Detroit Tigers, American League
baseball team, through pure coin
cidence, Is to become student at
Blair"
The Coolidge Courier also got out
an April Fool" issue, listing its
staff as follows: "Crackpot in
chief, Shiftless Schimmel; associate
screwball, Hopeless Hurley; court
testers, Dizzy Deatherage, Ratty
Rosenberg, Mopey Melnicove, Snuffy
Scott, Jerky johnson, Wacky Wag-
ner; powers that be. Miss Kathryn
A. Trufant, Mrs. David Parrack,
Mrs. Gertrude P. Silverman, Mr..
Paul D. Hahn"
Typical item: Terrifying Twaddle
Two unassuming gentlemen %,
A. Hitler and Hirohito, have the
same birthday, April %. Perfect ex-
amples of the April Fool"
The Roosevelt Reporters April
Fool issue was titled the "Woose-
welt Weporter." Typical item: "A
history-making event took place at
6:2212 am, when the Student Coun-
Gil completed the purchase of the
Central High School - . The sum
paid - was 1894 and an old
Willkie campaign button"
Making even less sense than any
of the other high school publica-
tions, the Central Bulletin presented
this breath-taking item, among
many others: "+ A new campaign
hit Central yesterday. This cam
paign, to collect the eyes from old
potatoes, will end in two weeks.
Each person will have ample time to
save all the eyes he can"
In other words, the ayes have it,
and it is so ordered
At least 10 per cent of all the
boys at Montgomery Blair are SPORT
ing the new Mohawk haircut in
troduced by John Palmer, according
to Silver Chips.
Writes Sylvia Prost, IT, Manassas
(VaD High School: Il do want to
tell you how much I enjoyed par
ticipating in the Junior Star radio
broadcast. Although I had told no
one about it, several of my friends
heard the program. The Entertain
ment Committee of our Student
Government Association asked me
to give full report of 1t all at our
assembly the following week"
Such is fame!
For the second successive year
Mckinley High School students are
conducting a contest to select a
Mr.. Tech" and a Miss Tech"
Tech Life is sponsoring the compe-
tition, and the winners will be
chosen on the basis of beauty, per-
sonality, popularity and value to
the school" Norman Davis and
Peggy Simpkins won last year.
Arthur Bonner, l3, Alice Deal
Junior High School, reports that
his most precious hobby is keeping
up with this breath-taking war"
He has eight scrapbooks, he adds,
all filled to the brim with the most
important headlines and articles"
Evening star., 1942-04-19
You Can Sell These Plant
Markers to Gardeners

This will make all your points uni
form.
Sandpaper of rough edges and
paint the vegetable outline Use the
main color of the vegetable and
creen-like red for the rsdish and
green for the leaf stems Do not
try to make the vegetables fancy
These markers are especially good
where rows of seeds are planted in
a he'd from which plants are to be
tranSplanted.
Evening star., 1942-04-19
Homework
Prize Contribution
BY FRED DEININGER, Is,

Alice Deal Junior High School
7 feel springtime in the air,
Signs of new life everywhere
I want to be serious and do my share
But, somehow or other, I just
don't care.
love to feel the warm spring breeze
Passing through my hair
I think about the circus
And the fun I'll have there.
The crocuses and daffodils
And buds upon the trees
Give out their lovely fragrance
And lure the busy bees.
Spring fever is my trouble now,
And I must write poem
But I'd rather put on my overalls
And 60 out and do some hoein'l
Evening star., 1942-04-19
BY PAULINE BLOOM.

Have you ever felt that you would
like to try modelling, but found for
one reason or another that the
usual modelling clay was unobtain-
able?
Well, that need no longer keep
you from fashioning interesting
little figures, for you can manu-
facture your own clay right in your
own kitchen. There is nothing TO
Evening star., 1942-04-19

| n Ce tral
A m erica He
also visited Pan
anna and learned
quite a bit about
the customs ard
habits Of our
neighbors o. the
south.
When a for
eigner goes to
Costa Rica to
live explained
Jack, "he lives
in a settlement
composed chiefly
Of people from
his own country
Evening star., 1942-04-19

the National Art School and won
an Armistice Day cartoon contest
at Woodrow Wilson High School
He is art editor of the Wilson Bea-
con
Il enjoy drawing pictures with
plenty OF action. in both pen and
pencil" John told me-
He is now working on a comic
strip which he hopes will further
his ambition to become a profess
sional artist.
Evening star., 1942-04-19
Riddles

Very proud of his readers, the
Riddle Man presents more contribu-
tions they've sent him, How about
you? Send your new, good puZzlers
to the Riddle Man, care of The
Junior Star
/. How can you tell fiat women
are sad?-Harold r. Manning.
2, If YOUR uncle's sister is NOT your
aunt, who is she?-ElnUra M. Burch.
3. What does a wagon have that
it doesn't need, yet apparently can I
go without?-Betty Lou Hale.
Evening star., 1942-04-19

OF 1921 WiScon-
sin avenue NV.
John began n
developing his
talent at 4.
While still In
grammar school
he drew and COL
ored muralS for
TIE schools dis
plays. since
leaving grammar
school he has
progressed con-
siderably along
artistic lin es =,
having Harnad a
Evening star., 1942-04-19

hlll-two at the
gun, one to lower
the flag. another
TO receive it and
an officer in
charge. In the
distance, illumi-
mated by the
rays of the eve
ming sun. stood
w a S h n G ton.
capital city Of
the free.
And here on
the hill Id
Glory waved su-
prene a b OV e
the soldiers and
Evening star., 1942-04-19

6 o m cry Blair
Hi g h School.
Silver Spring.
won first prize
in a contest
in which stu
dents of all the
county's high
schools partici-
pated. She COM
posed both words
and music of a
song beginning,
Wave our ban
ners high" (Her
title was ITO
M o n t G ON e ry
- - - IL
Evening star., 1942-04-19

marcn came TO
Margaret only
two days before,
after she had
read a report on
the exploits of
the great ma
tional hero, Gen.
Douglas MacAr-
thur. The ap-
plauSe from the
S I u d e mt body
was overwnelm-
ing, but Mar
garet remained
calm and made
several returns.
Evening star., 1942-04-19
A eronautics Group
Meets Weekly at
A nac0Sfia High
BY ZENAIDA JENKINS, II,
Anacostia High schooi.

For several months. students and
adults interested In aeronautics
have met at Anacostia High School
every Thursday night at 8 o'clock
under the guidance of Miss Helen
Herfurth. They have studied the
history of flying and the theory OF
fight.
Many of the group expect to be
pilots, though some just want to
know what 1t is all about. Miss
Herfurth will continue on instru-
ments, parachutes and meteorology.
but unless the c. A. A. can secure
a mechanic to teach inspection and
care of airplanes and engines,
the group will have to obtain this
knowledge elsewhere. Some of the
students are taking the ground
aeronautics course started in Febru-
airy in the Anacostia curriculum.
Students wishing to take this must
have had one year of physics, or
be taking their second semester Of
it, and four semesters of mathe-
maticS, or be taking their fourth
semester. This is a full credit
course under qualified teacher.
Evening star., 1942-04-19

Timely
The plane had been flying in a
thick fog for hours Suddenly a
tower with a lighted clock loomed
up in the mist. The pilot swung
the plane frantically and missed the
tower by hair.
The co-pilot leaned back and
sighed in relief. We'll, at least we
know what time 1t is" he said.
Evening star., 1942-04-19
Tech Student
Is Author of
Song Tribute
Macarthur March
Scores at Savings
Stamp Assembly
Prise Contribution
BY JEANNE BARINOTT, Is.

A triumphant Macarthur March"
composed by Margaret June Rob-
erts was the hit OF recent War
Savings stamp assembly at McKin-
ley. The inspiration to write the
Evening star., 1942-04-19
Help Fighting Services by
Forming a Candy Club
Nv MARGARET MCNEIL.

Instead wasting time dreaming OF the future days when you'll be
able enter the active service of why do something
about 1t now2
There movement operation Chicago which
candy
Evening star., 1942-04-19
Prize Contribution
BY SYLVIA PROST, II,

NaHassas NFsI FIEh SCHOOL.
Today, at sunset, stood upon a
hill and watched Old Glory lowered
earthward toward American soil
There were five soldiers on that
Evening star., 1942-04-19
Just Between Ourselves
BY PHILIP H. LOVE,
Junior S,ar Editor.

An original song by Mary Ann
Mitchell, Is, is being sung in all the
high schools in Montgomery County,
Md.
Mary Ann, junior at Mont
Evening star., 1942-04-19
Bethesda Boys and Girls
Present Weekly Shoav
BY JOSEPH b. ZATMAN

Mike fright thing of the past for about 100 boys and girls in
public speaking classes Bethesda
These students consider boadcasng
having appeared weekly radio
Chamber Of Commerce October
inauguraed
Evening star., 1942-04-19
Recollections
Of Life in
Costa RiCa
Arlington Student
Liked to Play With
Native Children
rrise Contribution
Nv JOHN c. DUDLEY, Is,
wAshinEton-Lee High School.
Arlington. Va.

Jack Archibald, Is. Of l7le North
Creenhrier street. Arlington, has
spent a large part of his life in
Costa Rica, picturesque little country
Evening star., 1942-04-19
Wilson Art Editor
Began Developing
Talent at Four
Prime Contribution
BY DEMETRA BACAS, IL
Calvin rannlidna IIinh snAA.i

Although many people have
wanted to become artists, few have
taken advantage of their opportu-
mites so well as John Gerachis. II.
Evening star., 1942-04-19

My uncle left 800 clocks"
Boy. it's going TO take q long
time TO wind Up that estste!"
Evening star., 1942-04-19
Cuddles and Tuckie
Trademark Reg. U. 8. Pat. on.
BY FRANCES II. WILLIAMS.

The Scouts collected metal for
The national defense,
And everybody gave them some
Their piles have grown immense.
Evening star., 1942-04-19
Riddle Answers

/. BY their sighs tsize). 2. You
mother. 8, The squeak.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-09-24
It's Extra-East for Dud-Yet Gentle
Enough Even for Nom and the Kids!

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paint oil or tar dirt that regular toilet soaps miss
In 80 to SO seconds. that grimes out f-down
the drain! and LAVA cleans thoroughly, it
many germs helps hicks and cuts to hea
And what towel saver this swift cleansing soap isl
Dirt is washed off not "toweed" off
Yet, LAvAs amazingly gentle, too. It's creamy
smooth lather safely cleans little tots hands
it's gentle enough for Mothers skim Soothing and
conforting-leaves hands feeling fneL
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-09-24
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for porcelain, chromium, glassware etc.
Get LAVA today Dads war-working hands
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gentle cleaning (Procter g. Gamb1e)
The Wyandotte herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1879-1943, 1942-01-16
Lynn Says:

Good soups deserve attractive
accompaniment. Here are some
popular ideas:
Thin slices Of lemon. chopped
parsley, thin slices Of avocado
slightly sailed whipped cream
toasted almonds.
In the bread line you can really
do a lot of tricks. such as cuttino
the bread into fancy shapes witt
a cookie cutter. then toasting and
sprinkling on soup before serv.
ing. Rings (made with doughnp,
CUTTER, animal shapes. hearts
stars and diamonds are popular
Cheese sticks are good too and
are made by sprinkline grated
cheese on bread strips, broile6
and served hot.
Chopped chives CT cbopnec
parsley either by themselves or
sprinkled over the sailed whipped
cream add color to soup platters
The Wyandotte herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1879-1943, 1942-01-16
Refugees See
Parents Starve
Children Land in New York,
Faces Haunted by Sight
At French Camp.

NEW YORK. - Fifty-Six refugee
children, some of them aged beyond
their years by the experience of see
ing their starving parents begging
for bread through the barbed wires
OF a French concentration camp.
were among 30l passengers who ar
rived recently from Portugal aboard
the Portuguese liner Sepra Pints
Fifty of the passengers, IA of them
children, were found to be suffering
from fever and were sent to Ellis
Island.
The worn-looking children, al
ready saddened to hear that some
of their shipboard playmates were
i'll. broke down and Wept when tell
ing how they said good-by to their
parents at Camp de Ours in France
Some of the children boarded The
refugee tram for Lisbon at the con
centratiOn camp. Others, separated
from their parents for months, saw
their fathers and mothers at tn
camp Wnen the train stopped.
ITS horrible that the children are
sick. said a little brown-eyed
blonde girl. but it's not as bad d
throwing bread to mommy."
Some of the children said they hal
seen their parents die of starvation
and punishment they had suffered
Others were appalled, at the changes
in their parents after months in the
concentration camp.
Thin and FrightfuI.
Daddy looked frightful and old. q"
another little girl said ''He used to
be big and fat. He looked as thur
as snake
The children represented IS differ
ent countries, but most of them
came from Germany, Austria and
Czecho-Slovakia. They were brought
to the United States by the United
States Committee for the Care OF
European Children and were met at
the ship by Representatives of the
Hebrew Sheltering and immigrant
Aid society and the Joint Distribu-
ton committee.
Despite their sorrow the children
displayed an alert interest in the
medical aspects of the fever from
which their playmates were suffer
ing. One wanted to know the incu-
baton period for typhoid and licked
off the q days on his fingers to figure
how long the i'll children would ba
detained at Ellis Island.
Have they black plague, typhus
or just typhoid" Vienna chill
whispered to reporter.
Berlin Boy Breaks Leg.
One of the fever victims was IL
year-old Clauss Peter Gossels. a
native of Berlin. An active young
ster, he entertained himself the first
few days at sea by scrambling about
the ships rigging. Then, one day
he fell, and suffered a double frac-
ture of the left leg. The broken leg
was set at hospital in Bermuda
The youngest passenger was Rob
ert NATL, who was born FIVE weeks
ago in Lisbon. His mother, Mrs.
Rudolph NATL, was with him.
The ship carried one stowaway.
Hermann Ruszniewski, %, a PolisA
Jew, who had served with tie
French army. He got aboard h.
climbing the ships ratline at Casa
blanca after paying an Arab ,0O0
francs for pier pass. Taken to
Ellis Island, he is liable to deporta-
ton
The Wyandotte herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1879-1943, 1942-01-16
More Jobs in Prospect
For College Students

AUSTIN, TEXAS Young Amer
cans asking to work their way
through college will have an easier
time this fall than ever before if
expectations of Dean Arno Nowotny,
head of the University of Texas stu
dent employment bureau, prove cor
rect.
Dean NoWotny, through whom
some 1000 young men and women
obtain jobs each year, said defense
work and the draft have taken many
workers.
Consequently, we expect the larg-
est number of part-time job open
ingS for students in history" he add
ed.
Total income of working Univer-
sity of Texas students last year was
$57 100000. More than 60 per cent
of the students work.
The Wyandotte herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1879-1943, 1942-01-16
BOARD OF EDUCATION
Official Proceedings

january .. 1912
An adjourned meeting of the regu-
lar lnee Ing Of January ,, 1912 WIS
held on January 3, 1872 The meeting
was called To order at 1 40 PM. by
tn president, Charles ii. Block TruS-
Ices Present Altman. Block, HarriUtt.
HOmeiSter. jacobson and ) eele Alb
S-nt: McInerney.
The committee OH insurance pre-
scented the following revised distribu-
ilun of insurance and recommended
that lie Board of Education recognize
the following classics Of insurance
writers:
Class
Agents who maintain Il regular ID
flee and devote the major portion ot
their time TO the business of INSURANCE,
shall be- allotted $l2J.OOO Of insurance
r"yrrag each.
class
Persons who do not maintain Il L.
cu-nlZrd in>I-snCe office and who de
vote only Il portion of their time /"
the business Of insurance shall be III
io ted NGo.tNU of insurance eOvcrag
each
y supervising agent who ISSUES Il
single policy 80 the Board of Educa-
ton. makes all adjustments for LOSSES.
distributes TO other agents the quota
of insurance >ei by the Board of Edu-
cation. and acts as an Insurance adj
visor 10 the Board shall be allotted
the + maindcr of the insurance cover
aye