Frederick John Donkin Jr., Salt Lake City, Utah: an interview by Becky B. Lloyd, September 17, 2002: Saving the Legacy tape no. 579 & 580

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FREDERICK JOHN DONKI , JR. P MB 17 2002 years old. I sold magazines for several years. I delivered th alurday Evening P I and I think the other one was called Liberty. I don't recall exactly. I sold two fthem. BEC: So it was like how newspapers are now they d drop them off or you go pick up a bundle? FRE: We'd go pick them up. There was a distributor on 100 South and there's a street between 1000 and 1100 East that goes north and south. I can't remember the name of it now. If you were going on it toward 100 South, it would go right into the middle of Holy Cross Hospital. The street is only a block long. BEC: Yes, and you'd go there? FRE: Yes, there was a house. As I remember, it was a corner house on that street and 100 South. That's where I'd get my magazines. They'd come to that person. But I had regular customers. I just delivered them. And later on when I got into school, I would have loved to gone into sports because I was pretty good at a lot of them, especially baseball and football, but I didn't have time; I had a paper route. I carried about 100 or 110 papers. It was the Deseret News. It was the evening paper. In those days it was real expensive because it cost eighteen cents a week to take the paper, seventy-eight cents, if I remember correctly, for the month. BEC: That's something. During that time, that amount was a real stretch for a lot of folks. FRE: Yes, but I made more money on starts than I did on the paper route. We got paid according to how people were on our paper route. I'd go out and work house-to-house to get new people to start. We got paid so much for each new start. Well, it wasn't much, but in 1939 it was a lot. I got enough new starts that I won a trip to the World's Fair. 7