Evening star., 1944-08-06


both legs were -splintered. The doc
tor ordered me to bed for two
months.
Months Lengthen.
Here I had a good opportunity to
study problem in addition and
patience. The two months length
ened into four and the four months
into six, and so on.
OF course staying home meant
missing my studies. So we arranged
with the School Board to have a
teacher from my school instruct me
twice a week. She left homework
for me to do in all my principal
subjects. I was delighted to re-
ceive my elementary school diploma
in June and 1 hope to enter
Bladensburg High this fall.
One of the most fascinating Incl
dents of my home course was when
I entered a Statewide poster con-
test sponsored by the Humane So
ciety Of Maryland The poster took
two weeks to complete. Even though
I did not win derived much pleas
ure and experience from it.
Interested in Planes.
After my days school work was
completed there were many long,
dismal hours in which had no ac-
tivity. I decided not to cry about
it but to find something to do.
About a week after went to bed
I decided to send letters to all the
important airplane concerns and
ask for information about their
planes. I wrote "a letters. This
taught me composition and gave me
experience in writing business let
ters. I received many flne pictures
and quite bit of helpful informa-
ton.
My father and my friends gave
me four silhouette books. I also re-
ceived a book from one Of my faith
er's friends about our country's ad-
vancement In aviation since Pearl
Harbor. feel quite versed in sew
eral branches of aviation now. !
can spot the majority Of planes
flying above us. I have even seen
the Constellation and Black Widow
| incidentally I hope to be an areo-
nautical engineer when 1 grow up
Invasion Scrapbook.
AS all of you know the invasion
of France was June 6. 1 was quite
interested and have been saving the
most important maps and articles
and placing them in scrapbook.
When the bombing of Japan was
noted by the American people I
was making a scrapbook on the
B-29. So I just continued making
the scrapbook and adding the details
of the bombing.
I am an ardent model railroad
fan. I must get this from my
father, who used to be a locomotive
brakeman, fireman and engineer
(Not at the same time, of course
After the war hope to have a
model railroad on the third floor
of our house. I am planning for
that now. build all kinds of rail-
road buildings for my future model
railroad, but in the meantime I in
tend to use them under our Christ
mas tree. I started building just to
give me something to do, but it has
become fascinating hobby.
Best Buildings.
I have built almost enough model
buildings to supply small freight
yard. Among the best buildings are
a combination freight car unloading
shed and freight car repairing shed,
sand tipple, an oil tank with two
sided shed protecting it to supply
the freight shed with oil for ma
chinery, a large Toulouse and a
large station not entirely completed.
Accompanying the station are min
iature time tables and a directory
1 slapped together two storage sheds
and made few model trees out of
different kinds of sponges. The
principal materials for the buildings
are cardboard, balsa wood and cel-
lophane.
I have plans drawn to make q
modern signal tower, an icing plat
form and shed for refrigerated cars
and a water tank. I plan to use
coarse coffee grounds for ballast
under the tracks.
Very soon I hope I'll be able to
walk again. It will all depend on
the X-rays.
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