Evening star., 1944-02-13
lust Between
Ourselves
By Philip II. Love-.
Editor, The Junior Star.

Star correspondent of your school?"
asks Janet Hilferty, 13, Of 6203
Forty-third street, Riverdale, Md.
Well, that isn't exactly a $64 ques.
ton, but there's money in knowing
the answer, as many j. S. corres
spondents can tell you. Hundreds
Of girls and boys have added to their
spending money-and their War
Stamp savings, too, of course-by
winning cash prizes In the j. s.
contributors contest.
The all-time champion Of ]. s.
prize winners was, believe, Jeanne
Barinott. She began writing for the
J. S. at 13, as pupil of Taft Junior
High School, and continued until
her graduation from Mckinley High
School last year. Her stories
earned total of $34 in prizes. And,
incidentally, her first prize-which
was also the first dollar she ever
earned-was contributed to the Red
Cross. ~
Shirley Turner, who still writes
for the J. s. from Roosevelt High
School, Is Jeanne's closest rival She
also became contributor at 10,
while attending Powell Junior High,
and has won $24 so far. And be-
tween now and her graduation next
June she may equal the former
Techite's record. II
But. of course, Jeanne and Shirley
are not the only correspondents who
nave found it profitable as we'll as
pleasant to work for the j. S., Soma
Of the others whose winnings have
made rather tidy sums are Doug
DAILY, Ruth Buchanan, Charlie Steb-
bins, Mildred Sears, Mary Webster,
Eugene Jones, Peggy Weiss. Edwin
White, Grace Preinkert, Joe Bill
Stephens. Anna Moore, b. Sando.
Rachel McReynolds and-well, not
wanting to make this just column
of names, I'd better stop here. oA
AS for Janet-she's already J. s.
correspondent, having won at least
two prizes that I recall offhand.
the first one on June IA, 1912, fer
an article on how to make wooden
whistle. So all she has to do to
become J. S. correspondent at Hy-
attsville High school, where she is a
freshman, is to send in some stories
about the interesting activities Of
her fellow students. And to get her
started under the proper auspices,
so to speak, I'm sending her J. S.
reporters card.
With a new semester just getting
under way, right now is an espe-
cially good time to break into The
j. S. Read the contributors rules
printed elsewhere on this page and
get busy interviewing some of your
more interesting schoolmates. Your
first good story will earn you a
reporters card, and you may even
win prize of 81. And if you're suf-
ficiently enterprising, industrious
and persistent you may eventually
match the enviable records set by
Jeanne Barinott, Shirley Turner or
some of the other girls and boys
mentioned above!
Junior jottings:
Three other notes from Janet
show she has the instincts of a REL
porter. One tells of the musicaIV
ability of James Cerda, a classmate.
He's pianist and, she says, can
really play solid jazz" as well as "in-
spring classical music" On the side
he collects coins and stamps
Helen Kienlick, another HyattsviIle
freshman, is the subject of the
second note, which says: "Helenis
mother helps her to prepare old, un-
used dolls to give to poor people.
Helen and her mother have given
dolls to about five needy families.y
=. And in the third note Janet res
ports on her visit to the Municipal
Wharf to inspect the Liberty ship
Mariner, which she describes in de-
tail. :. Shirley Young, 10, Bladens-
burg Elementary School, wrote a
play so good that her teacher chose
| it for presentation in connection
with the Fourth War Loan drive.
Somehow, the pictures of Juanita
Moore and Nadine Gorder got mixed
up in last weeks issue of The
Junior Star, and, as result, Juanita
was identified as Nadine and Nadine