YELL FOR NEWSPAPERS VOLUNTEERS SOUGHT FOR SEPTEMBER CAMPAIGN

Volunteers are needed to sell newspapers on street corners Sept. 11 during the first Y.E.L.L. for Newspapers.

The Y.E.L.L. for Newspapers project will raise money for the Area Wide United Way and Newspapers in Education, a project of the Southeast Missourian.

"We've got a good contingent of volunteers already who have agreed to donate their time, but we need more," said Craig Felzien, chairman of the United Way board of directors.

"We've got 99 locations in Cape Girardeau and Jackson we think would be optimum sites for selling the newspapers."

About 40 of the 99 sites have been selected by clubs and organizations.

Felzien said, "We really need some help from civic clubs in Jackson."

A map of the sites is posted at the United Way office. To find out which locations are still available, contact Dorothy Klein, executive director of the United Way, at 334-9634.

On Sept. 11 from 6-10 a.m., volunteers wearing Y.E.L.L. for Newspapers aprons and buttons will be selling newspapers in Cape Girardeau and Jackson. Y.E.L.L. stands for youth, education, literacy and learning.

Volunteers will sell the regular edition of the Southeast Missourian in Cape Girardeau and the Cash-Book Journal in Jackson. But the newspapers will include a special wrapper with information about each of the United Way agencies.

Each newspaper will be stuffed with a comic book, compliments of VIP Industries. In addition, some Y.E.L.L. newspapers will be stuffed with prizes.

Volunteers will accept donations for the newspapers. The recommended minimum donation is $1 per issue.

Regular home delivery for both newspapers will be conducted as usual.

"We will have an organizational meeting once we know who is willing to help," Felzien said.

He asked that volunteers notify the United Way as soon as possible, at least before the end of the month.

"This event will be very organized," Felzien said. "We will have team captains by street corner.

"We are allowing groups or organizations to put up banners if they want to. We think it will be a high visibility event."

Felzien said, "In St. Louis and Kansas City, where I have been involved in newspaper days before, there is a real feeling of excitement. People get out and hawk newspapers, which is something you don't see any more."