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Byting into computer clubs
CUPERTINO. ( A — There's a club Hw almost everything these
You can join the River Phoenix fan club, the Girt Scouts or Boy
ScxHits. or e 'e n a computer club
Every year Apple Computer sponsors a nationwide contest lo r the
Apple Cmnputer Clubs Ibe clubs create some unique programs and
enter them in the contest.
Ib is year s stuJent grand prize w inners were Susanna Gonzalez, 10.
and Maria Hernande/. 9, from Tijerina Elementary School in Houston.
Texas. Ibey wrote a software pn»gram that teaches English to their
Spanish-speaking tnends
Ibe Panther Komputer Klub at South W hittier Intermediate School
in hitner. C alifornia. dedicated their year to classmate Joe G o n /a le /,
who was in the hospital w ith leukemia They designed canls ;ind wnne
letters for him on their computers E ' entuallv. Joe received a computer
ol his own and was able to write letters back to his classmates
D a 'id Harris, 14. wrote a program called "T he Declaration o f Inde
penitence " David, from Ridgecrest. C alifornia, wrote the program
using the format ol the television game show "Jeopardy " to test know I
edge ot the nation's Constitution
Jason Anthon'. 15. from Schenectady. New York, built a speech syn
thesizei and graphics board for his Apple computer during a four month
stay in the hospital He won the Judges' Choice award
it you like p la 'in g w ith computers and have some good ideas, join
a computer club and hvte into fun
Dressed as a patriot. David Harris explains his Constitutional program
Big bug
brings big
bucks
Skateboarding soloist
H ()1 .IY W (X )D . I I
M o m . look
what I found on the beach It's a cock
niac,l. and it's longer than tw o inches
Dune Snyder didn't know it when he
brought home the dead roach, hut the hug
was a big winner Inline. 12. entered it in
the (ireat American R o a c h o il. a national
contest to find out which state has the
biggest hugs Ibere were 2 .(MO bugs
entered in the contest from 40 different
states.
Lainc won SI.(MM) lot his big critter, and
now his state can claim to have the biggest
bugs m America
Scout soars
on Eagle
Award
Keep the forest safe
tor woodland creatures.
When a ireedies in a forest lire,
eventually another tret* grows to lake
ns place.
Bui when a cl iild dies in a ioresi
lire, nothing will ever lake us plate
Bui sorrow
Kememl m * i I < > i est I ires kill more
than irees And only vou can prevent
lores! tires
BRADENTON. FL
Howard A
Hughes Jr., 13, has earned one ol Bov
Scouts highest awards, the haglc Award,
after only tw o years in the group
Io cam the award Howard redesigned
sidewalks at the G irl Seoul camp in fa s t
Bradenton so h a ixlii aptxal kids could go
to the camp A lte r lx- drew tin ¡»Ians,
How.tnl asked people to donate wood ux!
t o ix rete for tlx project. W ith ihe help o f
some scouts from his mx>p. ,x- built ramps
aixl sidewalks Ibe project was doix m
one month
t he Pled/it- ol Alle^i.ince first
appeared in JX9Jm .be week/»
Hosion magazine f lic Youth's
Com panion.
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YOUNG AMERICAN
UPI PHOTO
Ai age 10 Stefan Miienkovic of Yugoslavia has
become the voungest violin soloist ever to perform
al New York s Lincoln Center Yl/hen Stefan is not play
ing the violin, he cruises through Lincoln Center
Plaza on his skateboard He carries his rare violin in
a case under his arm while he skates.
AUGUST 12
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