An information-packed article about your baby's care, feeding, growth and fun.
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Perk-ups for summer appetites
Warning to water babies
You can encourage a baby who is
ready to step out by offering your
helping hands and praising words
(everybody does better with applause!).
But if your child's muscles aren't yet
mature enough, he can't make it alone
no matter how much you try to
teach or help him.
How can you tell when baby's
ready to try walking? Watch him in
the play pen; if he enjoys high-stepping
as he hangs onto the rail, he'd probably
like to hold your hands and take a tour
around the room. Pushing a chair is
also a good way to practice; too much
hand-holding can make baby depend
too long on your hands for support.
When will your baby begin to
walk? A wiry little athlete may very
well choose to step out by 10 months
but an easy-going child may not
bother to try walking till 18 months,
or even later. The average: from 12
to 15 months.
Baby's first real smile shows up
some time in his second month
usually when you're smiling and sweet
talking at him!
What's more refreshing than ap
ple juice? Nothing except, perhaps,
apple juice mixed with other tasty
juices! Just what Heinz has fixed for
your baby 5 delicious new fruit juices:
Apple Juice, Apple-Grape Juice, Apple
Prune Juice, Apple Juice with Pine
apple, Apple Juice with Apricot. All
are mild in flavor, easy to digest and
specially processed to permit smooth,
even flow through nipples.
Sunshine is more intense at the
beach, because water and sand reflect
the sun's rays. Result: baby's tender
skin can get burned much faster. For
the first few beach days, keep your
cherub well covered head, body and
legs except for a few minutes when
he's wading and splashing. Increase
baby's sun time gradually, and avoid
middle-of-the-day exposure.
See how convenient Heinz new
screw-on caps are! Just a turn opens
or reseats jar. Now on a number of
Heinz Junior favorites as well as many
Strained varieties. More coming soon.
A change of taste often helps perk
up a "picky" summer appetite. Serve
baby Heinz' High Meat Dinners and
see delicious grown-up flavors such as
Beef with Vegetables, Chicken with
Vegetables, and Veal with Vegetables.
Gently seasoned and wonderfully nu
tritious, Heinz' High Meat Dinners con
tain 3 timet as much meat as ordinary
meat-and-vegetable combinations.
First with screw-on caps
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SOAP BOX
RACERS!
Twenty-five years ago this week tousle-headed Robert
Turner, representing the Muncie (Ind.) Star, glided past
the finish line on Burkhardt Hill in Dayton, Ohio, in a
homemade racing car to become the first winner of the All
American Soap . Box Derby. The $500 scholarship he was
awarded was nothing compared to the knowledge that
he, like Harroun Marmon, the winning driver in the first
Indianapolis Motor Speedway race, would be unique in the
history of a great sports classic.
For since young Turner coasted to victory ahead of 33
other contestants in 1934, the Soap Box Derby has be
come as much a part of American life as the World Series
and the Kentucky Derby.
This morning 171 youngsters between , 11 and 15 years
of age, representing most of the 50 states, will compete in
the '59 race over the specially constructed Derby Downs
course in Akron, Ohio. First prize: a $5,000 scholarship.
A crowd in excess of 75,000 will cheer its home-town
favorites as they swoop down the 1,175-foot course.
This . modern Derby a big-time sports event by any
yardstick is the culmination of the dream of Dayton
newspaperman Myron Scott. Scott was so impressed by
the number of youngsters building crude "soap box" auto
mobiles in the car-conscious '30s that he persuaded his
paper to sponsor a race one Saturday in August.
Scott had a lion by the tail and didn't know it. The
response to the first race was so tremendous that the event
could no longer be kept local. So the next year the Chev
rolet Division of General Motors co-sponsored a national
event with 34 newspapers which promoted the race and
sent entrants to represent their cities. Thus was the All
American Soap Box Derby born. Ever since, it's been a
growing enterprise. It's literally "a race of champions."
Before a youngster can qualify for the nationals, he has
to win the fiercely contested regional race in his area.
The checkered flag means so much to the young drivers
that they will often work on their cars for an entire year.
They're not allowed to have any help in building or de
signing them and they have to meet demanding specifica
tions, including an overall maximum weight of 250 pounds
for driver and car. This is a real problem for growing
boys; as they add weight, they have to' lighten their racer
accordingly to make the weigh-in.
Turner's tin-and-wood entry in 1934 would compare
pitifully with the modern racers. Last year's champion,
15-year-old. Jim Miley, also of Muncie, won in a sleek
black fiber glass racer, the product of loving construction.
The list of past winners is dotted with men who have
become successful business men, engineers and one even
a brilliant nuclear-weapons expert. But many of them have
stayed close to their first love speed and automobiles.
Bob Turner has a wheel-alignment business in Muncie;
Maurice Bale, the 1935 winner, is with General Motors;
another former winner has an auto-parts firm in Oregon.
Today's Family Weekly cover pays tribute to the A1I
Ameiican Soap Box Derby, the man who conceived it, the
millions of citizens who have supported it through their
newspapers, but especially to the bright-eyed youngsters
who race for the checkered flag.
Family Weekly, August 16, 1959