Soap Box Derby Veteran, 14,
Confident He'll Win This Year
Robert Cutshaw. 14, feels sure he
will be the 1948 Washington Soap
Box Derby winner.
He is a veteran of two Derbies,
•sd has been getting better each
time.
In 1948 he won two preliminary
heats before losing the next qualify
ing round. Last year, in a new and
speedier car, he wound up in second
place in the "A” division. Right
now he is hard at work on still an
other car. This is the one, he thinks,
which will take him to Akron, Ohio,
and a crack at the four-year college
scholarship offered the national
winner.
Built In Basement
He is building the vehicle in the i
basement of his home, 713 Crois
sant place S.E. There he built the
other cars. There, also, his brother,
Otis. 21, built two cars which he
raced in prewar coaster contests.
An eighth grade student at Kra
mer Junior High School, Robert—or
Buddy, as he is known to his family
—plays center field on the baseball
team there.
Other Derby developments yester
day Included an announcement by
general chairman Howard P. Bailey
th%t the first showing of the Soap
Box Derby film would be at 8 pm.
Wednesday at the 5th precinct.
The film, which reviews high lights
of the Washington and Akron
Derbies, will be previewed before a
comittee planning a parade in the
Southeast section the night before
the seventh Derby.
Contestants to Parade.
Marching in the parade, which is
sponsored by various Southeast
civic and businessmen’s organiza
tions, will be all contestants in the
next day’s big race.
The film will be shown at most
District high and junior high schools
during the next two months. Or
ganizations wishing to obtain the
film may make arrangements with
Mr. Bailey at The Star.
Gail T. Judd, director of racing,
also announced yesterday that a
meeting of the commanders of the
60 American Legion posts in the
District Department will be held at
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co-sponsors the Derby with The
Star.
Mr. Judd said the Derby chairman
of each Legion Poet would also at
tend the meeting at the ballroom
of the Legion Club, 2437 Fifteenth
street N.W.
Additional Entrants.
Additional Derby entrants in
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Donald E. Rogers, 12, of 1217 Thir
tieth street 8.E.; Junius A. Young,
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Dennis R. Conger, jr., 12, of 608
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Charles W. Buck, jr., 14, of 109
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Carl Frandsen, 13, of 6713 Second
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Ray Ulmer, 13, of 4103 Fifty-third
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John Buckley, 14, of 4212 Twenty
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Soap Box Derby Guide
The Washington Soap Box
Derby is a coaster car race for
boys sponsored by The Star
and the District Department of
the American Legion Boys, 11
to 15, inclusive, and those
reaching their 11th or 16th
birthdays in the period from
June 1, 1946, to August 15, in
clusive, are eligible.
Official rule books and driv
ers’ licenses are issued on reg
istration with a Chevrolet
dealer in the Washington area.
Entry blanks must be signed
by a parents or guardian.
The coaster cars must be
built by the boys racing them,
at a cost of not more than $6
each in addition to the amount
spent for wheels and axles.
These maximum limits are
prescribed: Length, 80 inches;
width, 42 inches: height, 28
inches (windshields of any kind
are prohibited); weight of
racer, 150 pounds combined
weight of racer and driver, 250
pounds.
Officials will disqualify any
car which, in their opinion,
was not built by the boy who
entered it in the race.
Shiloh Baptist Church
To Mark Tuskegee Day
A Tuskegee Institute founder’s
day observance will be held at 11
a.m. today at Shiloh Baptist Church,
Ninth and P streets N.W.
The Rev. A. Joseph Edwards of
Zion Baptist Church will be guest
speaker, and Jesse O. Thomas of
the American Red Cross adminis
trative staff will preside.
Census of Librarians
in D. C. Area Planned
The District Library Association
is planning the first census of libra
rians, it was announced yesterday.
Questionnaires will be mailed to
a preliminary list of 2,300 library
employes in the Washington area
this week the announcement said.
It is believed the area, including
the District, Alexandria, Arlington
and Fairfax, Montgomery and
Prince Georges Counties, has the
world’s „ greatest concentration of
librarians for an area of compara
ble population.
The association hopes to reach
1124 Florida Avi. N.1L
every professional librarian in the
area in compiling the census. De
velopment of a program based on
librarians’ interests and problems
as reflected in the replies is planned.
Washington area librarians who
do not receive a questionnaire are
urged to contact Miss Lucile Morsch
at the Library of Congress.
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