Evening star., 1948-04-11

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league. Jean Byerly, had come to
work under violent protests from
her father, who was terrified that
she would get her feet wet and
further aggravate her cold. After
promising again and again to steer
clear Of any water whatsoever. Jean
was allowed to get out of her
fathers car and she promptly
stepped of the running board into
a large bucket of water.
The most maddening thing to the
feminine car washers was the fact
that after carefully cleaning the
outside of the cars, they would dis
cover that they had forgotten to
brush out the inside and so would
be I forced to correct the error,
thereby dirtying the outside of the
car again.
Enough Of the girls: / shall take
you around to the front Of the ga
rage where the members of the
opposite sex were busily engaged in
frightening of all would-be Gus
toners by pouncing on any car that
so much as slowed up in front of
the station, proceeding to clean the
windshield and fill the gas tank.
One unfortunate individual drove
in to ask for directions and was i'm
mediately surrounded by half a
dozen energetic teen ayers who re-
fused to stop work long enough to
find out what he really wanted.
Around the, middle Of the after
noon when business was little
slow, the boys decided to do some
thing about 1t. Therefore, an in
teresting pantomime took place,
which no doubt amazed innumer-
able unsuspecting car drivers.
One of . party of three stretched
himself out in the middle of the
highway, assumed an expression of
intense agony and gazed sorrow
fully up at the second boy, who
bent solicitously over him with
crocodile tears streaming down his
face. The third member of this
little drama stood a short distance
away from them, shouting, DE
tour! I" at the top Of his lungs
and pointing frantically toward the
entrance OF Nails Garage. This
little plot was broken up soon after
ward when people began wandering
over to see what was wrong with
the wounded" young man.
Bill Jibeault was kept busy at the
pumps, and during this process he
developed the habit of sticking the
gas caps from the tanks into his
pocket and Immediately forgetting
all about them. BY the end of the
day quite a few cars were whizzing
along minus caps, and Bills pocket
was sagging noticeably.
AS long as we're on the subject,
Johnny Wagner had rather en-
barrassing experience, also. While
oiling q car he was called away for
a minute and the car went shooting
off down the road with the coil can
rattling around In its engine. The
owner returned shortly to inquire
WAldt OlA Cdi I'll Oul dlAdtCuL AuC-
chanics had done to his coupe.
At 9 o'clock in the evening all the
teen ayers knocked off work, having
raked in between $3.50 and $400, and
free passes to the State Theater
which we're contributed by the man
ager, not to mention an endless
amount of experience.
Leaning on each other for support,
the dirt-begrimed, grease-smudged
boys and girls stayed just long
enough to hear Mr.. Nails announce
that the garage had done three
times as much business as usual.
To the kindness and cooperation
of Mr.. Nails and the residents of
Falls Church, the members of the
Teen Canteen owe the success of
their experiment, and they wish to
thank each and every person who
helped them in their drive for funds
to furnish and set up a recreation
building for local young people.
1.-THE Sunday Star tUiH publish
each iOeek an article ,Uritten By
student from high school in
this Diciuitu)