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The Miami times. [volume] (Miami, Fla.) 1923-current, 1953-04-18
OUTSTANDING CITIZEN

The Rev. Edward T. Graham, pastor of Mt. Zion
Baptist Church. the second named in list of 28 men
submitted for the title of Outstanding Men during the
year 1862.
The honor came to the Rev. Mr.. Graham through the
recommendation of the Civic, Veterans and Service Or
CARNATIONS of Dade County in cooperation with Sholem
Lodge No. 1924 Bna Birth The program took place last
Wednesday evening in the Bayfront Park bandshell
This the organizations sixth annual program
and the first time far know, coored man has
received this recognition We we'll acquainted with
most of Rev. Grahams activities and pleased to
that he merits the recognition and has our hearty con-
gratulations
The Miami times. [volume] (Miami, Fla.) 1923-current, 1953-04-18

school students an opportunity of
meeting and talking with S''"ceNc
~ businessmen, tradesmen and
other professional le3ders of the
immunity, at the very time of
their lives this service is most
needed.
This aim will be accomplished
through the media of displays in
dividual and group conferences,
assemblies, audio-visual aids.
demonstrations and lectures.
The conSultantS for this con-
ference will be drawn from the
University of Miami, City of Coral
Gables, the public school system
and other outstanding citizens Of
the community.
The Miami times. [volume] (Miami, Fla.) 1923-current, 1953-04-18
Lloyd-Baker
Wedding Reception
Big Affair

The wedding reception for Miss
Jean Lloyd and Mr.. Richard
Baker held Easter Sunday on the
lawn of the Georgette Tea Room
in Brownsville was colorful af-
fair.
The program was as follows:
Wedding march, M-rsna Nc
Ivea at the piano; Solo, Because"
Vivian Hopkins; Elite Gospel
Singer, Nellie Ruth Johnson, Mar
vim Ferguson, Navel Role, Samuel
Terrell, Angelene Henderson.
Caroline Pinder, Jonathan Pin
der, Louise Role with M
Jones at the piano; trio, "Aice
Blue Gown" Alice, Georgette and
Jacqueline; duet, "A Little Bird
Told Me-" Mary Ellen Stewart
and Dorothy Ellen McCullen.
duet, Marsha McIven and Vivian
Hopkins; clarinet solo, Richard
Dunn; solo, Johnathan Pinder,
Cer@line Pirder at tie 'iano duet
Marie Ferguson and Milton Jones:
solo. Vivian Hopkins; pi-no solo.
Mr.. Linton Berrien.
The Miami times. [volume] (Miami, Fla.) 1923-current, 1953-04-18
G.. w. CARVER
HIGH LAUNCHES
CAREER WEEK

George W. Carver High school
will conduct its second annual
Career Conference April 20 thru
oath. We believe that education
is life. 1t is with this purpose, that
this Career Conference will help
high school boys and girls find
their places in various apheres of
the occupational world. Which
should result in them becoming
useful members Of their comnun-
ity and nation.
This Career Conference is pri-
narily designed to afford high
The Miami times. [volume] (Miami, Fla.) 1923-current, 1953-04-18
UNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND

Dr. Richard V. Moore, president of the Bethune-
Goodman College and state director of the College Fund
and Mr.. Virgil D. Hawkins, director of public relations
for the college in the city Tuesday for the initial
luncheon meeting of the 1868 campaign held at the Lord
Calvert Hotel.
The quota for the State of Florida is $4,000 and for
Dade County, $4,000.
When we consider there 81 students from Dade
County enrolled at of these schools receiving help
from the fund must admit that $4,000 is small
and there should be little difficulty in raising the
amount
Co-chairmen for Dade County Judge L. E
Thomas and Mr.. L. L. Brooks.
The Miami times. [volume] (Miami, Fla.) 1923-current, 1953-04-18

One of the top men in Broad
cast Music, Inc, leading music
publishers, is Ulysses Kay. He
recently was named editorial adj
visor on contemporary concert
music to the writer and publish
.r relations department of BMI.
The newest song published by
BMI is THE Song from Moulin
Rouge" called where Is Your
Heart" in cooperation with Unit
ed Artist Pictures. A noted COM
poser, Kay has won numerous
honors, scholarships and fellow
shipS.-ANP.
The Miami times. [volume] (Miami, Fla.) 1923-current, 1953-04-18
WHY PAY RENT
penlng ceremonies

. - L ~ A"A!e1 W Mrs Williams hoStesses
.....s a~7 v'cT The Georgette Tea Room wishes
as:co by Mrs Maude thank ali viii helped the
tEe<ca Holmes Mrs. and affair a. success
Montana farmer-stockman., 1953-08-15
What does candlelisht mean to you?

WHAT GENTLE MEMORIES return with the magic of
candleight? Dinner for two? Your first big date?
Though candies fragile light traditional background
for romance it also thoughts to something quite
derent-to oil well pumping barrels of crude oil and
to the price you pay for gasoline.
Why? Because candles symbolic to hundreds of
other less romantic products-from industrial chemicals
to crab grass spray to highway asphalt derived
from petroleum. Some made from material that other
wise might have little commercial value AS just
example of the efficient and economical development of
byproducts in the refining process Standard Oil
from lubricating oil and it to make candles
And such activities only few of the many which
Montana farmer-stockman., 1953-08-15

1T MAY SEEM LIKE MAGIC that our gasoline is uniform
Iy dependable in quality wherever and whenever
you buy it. That is the result of the efforts of
than 81 900 emp1oyeeslof Standard Oil andEits sub
sidiary companies. Back of each employee-ike
Harold Brown of our Neodesha refnery-helping
each to produce more and earn more, is average
investment of over $34 900 in tools and equipment.
Montana farmer-stockman., 1953-08-15

help to keep the price you pay for gasoline surprisingly
low In fact gasoline sells today at about the price
that it did in 1925. Only taxes higher And two gallons
do the work that three did in 1925.
Steady improvement is vital when many oil compa-
MES competing for your trade Standard Oil in
years has plowed back two-thds of it's profits into ex
banded and better facilities of all kinds-exploraton drill
ing, research, refining, distribution.
And ifas remote byproduct of our larger Efforts
pretty girl looks preter by candleligh we're not
too big or too busy to be pleased.
Montana farmer-stockman., 1953-08-15

IT May SEEM LIKE MAGIC to find oil deep underground;
but it has taken months of work by biologists and
by engineers like j. G. Sanders, here surveying in
Louisiana. Drilling well in an improved area can
cost several hundred thousand dollars with the
odds heavily against finding oil in commercial
quantities. Despite this, Standard Oianditssubsidi
airy companies continually search for new oil fedas
Montana farmer-stockman., 1953-08-15

n MAY SEEM LIKE MAGIC that you buy gasoline
at about the same price in 1925, excluding the
tax-and that two gallons today do the work Of
three 1925 gallons Over 800 SCIENTISTS engineers,
and research people, like Robert Svetic of our
Whiting, Indiana, laboratories, work to improve
quality and to hold prices down by developing
efficient production and manufacturing methods.
Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1953-04-30
FRIENDLY NEIGHBORS CLUB
HOLD INTERESTING MEEING

Friendly Neighbors Home DEM
onstration Club held it's April meet
ing at the home of Mrs. Charles
Y. Dukes. Selection and Care of
New Fabrics" was discussed by
Miss M. Katherine Jones, County
Agent. Twelve members were
present during the meeting. $500
was donated to the I.F.Y.E. Re-
ports were read by Mrs. William
Anderson. Safety, Health, Mrs.
Orville Neunam; National Notes
and Publicity, Mrs. Lee David; Cit
izenship, Mrs. Fred Heinold; Ma
tional Home Demonstration Club
week will begin Sunday, May 3rd.
The club has asked the members
of the Townsend Club to attend
Church Services in Friendship
Church, Sunday, May Srd at $50
o'clock. Mrs. Fred Heinold, Mrs.
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land Jackson, Walter Justice, John
Martin, Charles Swain. Sharon
AIaloney, Elaine Walker, Margaret
Steele, Mary Sue salter, Deborah
Kennedy, Patricia Kane, Mary Vir-
ginia Hurd, Linda Gonce, Margery
Edge, Joan Dixon, Grace Davis,
Joyce Carey, Norma Blendt.
Grade z, Miss Kern. teacher
James Chase, Donald Davis, David
Dickerson, James Hess, Bobby
Spencer, Edward Turner, James
Walton, Barbara Robinson, Kath-
crime Mormon, Esther Loder, Dale
Loder, r. Marie Hestera, Naomi
Edge, Daisy Conner, Clara Burton.
9Th Grade, Mr.. Simpson, teacher
Elaine Carey, Evelyn Painter,
Mary Ann Stats, Donald Dixon,
Robert E. Hurd. Richard Johnson,
Paul Loder, Gilbert scheers, John
Scheers, Hope Steele.
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Clayton School
Attendance

A perfect attendance list of pu-
pills at the Clayton School is as
follows:
Grade 1, Mrs. Kennedy, teacher
Blendt, Robert Hestra,
Paul Mast, Marian Walton, Susan
Rittenhouse, Mary Ellen Voshell,
Doris Savin, Carolyn Ross. M. Will
kins, Robert Crossley, Dwayne
Dixon. Wayne Hackman, Donald
Reed, William Shockley, Edward
Spencer, Thomas Timmons, Rich
ard Chase, Henry Mast, Patricia
Diemicke, Daisy Gosser, Judy
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ATTENDANCE AT
PUBLIC SCHOOLS
Teachers of Smyrna Schools
Submit Their Honor List
to the Superintendent
HONOR ROLL FOR MONTH

The following students are on
the perfect attendance honor roll
at the John Bassett Moore School
for the month of March:
Grade IL, Mr.. Williams, teacher
Brooks Banta, Richard Comegys,
John Doughten, Charles Duff, Wal
ter Eierman, Karl Francis, Roger
Hudson, Bling Pusey, Walter Ram
sey, Josephine Brown, Marlyn At
Tx, Joyce Burris, Joyce Danes, Vir-
GINA Ennis, Margaret Everett, Lois
Lasch, Katherine Kish, Jane Pugh,
Shirley Phillips, Pauline Shockley,
Patricia Ryan, Ruth Tribbitt.
Grade Ill, Miss Bauer, teacher
Carolyn Carter, William Flem-
ing, Marie Gardner, Janice Hol1ett,
Jack knight, Raymond Saatman.
Grade 11-2, Mrs. Mendenhall.
teacher-Norman Alexander, Yer
onica Burke, Catherine Calhoon,
Mary David, Ann Graham, James
Parker, Carlton Seward, Theresa
Smith, George Takach, Lois Thorn
as, Dorothy Thompson, Marjorie
Virdin, Barbara Walker, Edwin
zippe.
Grade 10-1, Miss Brown, teach
er-Barry Attix, Hal Bodley, Hazel
Holland, Marion Maclary, Gertrude
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Grade %, Mrs. Vaughn, teacher
Andrew Jackson, Jerry johnson,
Lynn Thornton, Karen Hollett,
Margaret Hickman, Carolyn Dav-
is. Ruth Conner, Joyce Cole, Doris
Beverley.
Grade 8, Mrs. Smith, teacher
Donald Davis, John Hobson, Mich
ael Martin, Donald Massey, Frank
lin Reed, James Sylvester, Clar-
ence Conner, Marvel Lowman,
Louise Chase. Margaret Anne
Mast, Hannah Rodan, Josephine
Savin, Gertrude Smith.
Grade A, Mrs. Moore, teacher
John Davis, Larry Dickerson, DIV
er Ford. Herman Fortner, David
Gonce, Robert Robinson, Edwin
Scheers, Carolyn Knussman, Ar
lene Turner, Kathleen Straughn,
Rachel Simpson, June Johnson,
Anne Hynson, Margaret Ann Hurd,
Betty Jane Hestera, Louise Cole.
Grade 5, Mildred H. Mills. teach
er-Linda Diemicke, Betty Ann
Hurd, Mary Grace Justis, Bessie
Peterson, Leigh Robinson, Mary
Ann Scheers, Mary Jane Starkey,
Margaret Strughn, Vivian Virdin,
Deborah Rittenhouse, James An
tone, Bruce Ballard, Wayne Cole,
Charles Mast, Clark Ross, Harry
Spencer, Joey Walker, Raymond
Westrod, William Wiley.
Grade 6, Mrs. Hynson, teacher
Raymond Alexander, Robert Bow
en-, Roger Cole, William Conner,
Richard Hudson, Ronald Ivory, Ro-
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Langowski, Carolyn Marsh, Mary
Ann Norman. Robert Reed, Bar
bara Stats, Herman Stats, Ron
aid Stevens, Peggy Sylvester, Janet
Wickham.
Grade 1912, Mrs. McGill, teacher
Phillip Deamer, Jean Dixon, Joan
Funk, Eleanora Ellingsworth, AL
bert Krupka, Marie Relax, liberia
Simpson, Betty Jane Still, Steve
Szelestei, Phillip Voshell.
Grade 81, Mrs. Getty, teacher
Bill Virdin, Harold Wiley, Preston
Carey, John Clark, Roy Donovan,
Bill Fleming, John Fortner, George
Hyatt, Bill johnson, Jay Knight,
Charles Parker, John Poore, Albert
Schweitzer, Tommy Price, Faith
Houtman, Charlotte Boyer, Jean
Ivory, Carolyn Patton, Bernard
Martin.
Grade 90, Miss Williams, teach
er-Robert Burge, Dorothy Con-
ner, Mathew Fischer, David Hout-
man, Karl Gebhart, Kendall Hud-
son, Clementine Pratt, Charlotte
Pryor, Rodney Reynolds, Louise
Schweitzer, Rene Stevens, Isabel
zippe.
Grade 9-3, Miss Reed, teacher
Ruth Carey, Beverly Carter, Flor
ence Conley, Shirley Everett, Dor
othy FORMER, Pamela Gibe, Betty
Lou Hurd, Betty Jean Liefer, Joan
Loose, Ellen Peters, Sandra Poore,
Janet Shane.
Grade 81, Mrs. Smack, teacher
Boyer, Frank Daniels,
Robert Heating, Richard Nelson,
Solloway, John Urian,
Larry Bailey, George Wilson, Bar
bara Deamer, Beronica Dixon,
Faulkner, Barbara Hahn,
Morris, Patsy Smith, Ger
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winter, and Mrs. Raymond Sayer,
president of the Associated Coun-
try Women of the World.
Plans for the future were start
ed at the Kent County Home DEM
onstration Council on April 10th.
Every club in the county is rep
resented in this group, which plans
county functions, such as, Achieve
ment Day, sponsors tours, makes
suggestions for the county pro-
gram, and does many other things.
The officers who attended are:
Mrs. Phillip Jacobs, wildwood Club,
president; Mrs. Arnett Potter, Vic
tory Club, vice president; Mrs.
Jehu Camper, Harrington Club,
secretary; Mrs. Frank L. Mckee,
Oak Grove Club, treasurer, and
Mrs. John S. Farrow, st. Jones
Club, director.
You will hear more news about
their activities from time to time.
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will be attending church in a body.
Some Clubs are holding an open
House" or are having some other
special activity.
The State Home Demonstration
Meeting, a part of the weeks cele-
bration, will be held May II. Other
articles in this paper tell you more
retails and more about the speak
ers, who are Vaughn Fox, Della
wares IFYE delegate to India last
Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1953-04-30

G. Arthur CHM and Mrs. Elmer
David have finished making two
United Nation flags. Monday even
ing, May End, in Blackbird Com
munity Center, one flag will be
presented to the President of the
Taylors Bridge Community Center
and one to the President of the
Blackbird Community Center, where
they will be used in the Centers.
The May meeting will be at the
home of Mrs. Walter Hills, near
Smyrna. Mrs. Thomas Short and
Mrs. Helen Raab will be the lead
ers. Planning and Preparing Meals
for Freezing will be the subject.
Everyone interested is invited.
Letters were read by Mrs. Thomas
Short from the Womens Joint Leg
eslative Committee.
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Kane, Dianna Redman, Bonnie Ma
loney.
Grade 2, Miss Jones, teacher
Ronald Birmingham, Jay Pratt,
George Straughn, Jackie Swain,
Lee Wheatley, Rebecca Wiley
Dorothy Walker, Sandra Turner,
Mary L. O'Day, Susan Hynson,
Hope Hutchinson, Loretta Dixon,
Bessie Alexander.
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w e e k during
which C ! u %
members t e IL
others a b o u t
the Home DEM
onstration pro-
gram. You will
see window ex-
hibits and artic-'
les in the news
papers. Groups
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Quaker Membership Reported
In 1852 there were 113, 543 Quak-
ers in the United States, the Amer
lean Peoples Encyclopedia research
service reports.
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h ent Home DOings
BY: Charlotte L. Swanson Home Demonstration Agent

National Home Demonstration
Weekday to 9. This is the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-05-28

Ken Marriott Of Baltimore,
winner of last weeks 25-lap fea-
ture, will be out for his second
straight victory in the sportsman
car races at West Lanham
Speedway tomorrow night.
Marriott can expect stiff COM
petition from the Lanham vet
Grams as well as from three new
corners, Charley Creager and
Vince Conrad of Allentown, Pa,
and Ralph Moody of Rehoboth
Beach, Del. Each won 10-lap
heats last week, while Moody set
Lanham record for the season
and just failed to overhaul Mar
riott in the feature.
A good many of the Lanham
drivers, including Marriott and
Bob and Preston Welsh of Silver
Spring, will travel to Manassas
Saturday night for the modified
stock car races at the Old Do
minion Speedway.
Pomonkey Speedway will pres
ent it's weekly double feature
starting at 2 pm. Sunday.
The regular stock car races
will feature such drivers as Gene
Merhol of Lexington Park, Md,
a newcomer who beat out the
favorites in preliminary events
last Sunday; Bill Prunier, last
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Coolidge and Anacostia Mines
Must Win 7 tomorrow to Survive

Coolidge, defending champion
in the Interhigh baseball league,
and Anacostia must win their
games tomorrow in order to get
into the playoffs next week. East
ern, Western and Roosevelt have
sewed-up berths.
The Colts will play Tech and
Anacostia will oppose Eastern.
the latter leading the league with
a 6-1 record. Other league
games tomorrow will pit Roose-
veit against Chamberlain and
Wilson against Bell.
Anacostla moved a step closer
to the playoffs by defeating Tech
yesterday, 40. Dick Butler with
three hits and Ed Gatewood with
two led the Indians attack.
In a Montgomery County Class
A game, Bethesda-Chevy Chase
beat Blair, 10. Willis Byrd hit
a homerun in the seventh and
Frank Funk pitched five-h1t ball
and struck out nine for the vic
tory at Blair. AS a result B-CC
and Blair. are tied in the title
race at one win each.
In the Northern Virginia
League, Mount Vernon squeezed
out a 4-3 victory over George
Washington last night when
Tom Meiklejohn, GW's top
pitcher, working in relief, walked
in the winning run.
George Washington's catcher,
Bill Morton, an all-State basket
ball player last year. was elected
from the game in the sixth in
ming when he engaged in brief
scuff1e with a spectator over a
foul ball hit into the stands.
The fan, Connie Hoffman. a
basketball player at Mount YER
non High School. suffered head
injuries when he hit an iron rail
in falling. Hoffman was taken
to Alexandria Hospital and is be-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-05-28
FBI Wins lis Fourth
To Continue LEADING
Departmental LEAGUE

The Federal Bureau of In
vestigation baseball team in the
Departmental League, nearly al
ways the team to beat for the
championship, is not changing
that pattern this season.
FBI defeated Atchison and
Keller, IA, yesterday at the
Ellipse to stay on top with Al
record. Atchison and Keller
now is second with 80 record.
Another team with a Al rec
ord is Phillips TV, currently
leading the Industrial League.
Phillips won its fourth victory
yesterday by trouncing Williams
Chevrolet, ISL. Dick Ptomey
and Billy Cam combined for a
tWo-hitter for Phillips. George
Ashton paced the winners at bat
with fou" hits in five tries.
Pete Holcombe limited Jack
Pry to five hits and struck out
II as he pitched Swift Electric
to a 90 victory. its fourth with
out defeat in a Anacostia Recre-
alton League game.
In games today, Union Printers
will meet Hicks Chevrolet in a
Departmental League game on
the Ellipse, Bonat's Cafe will
meet Heurich in an Industrial
League game, also on the Ellipse,
and Marine Barracks and Snug
Harbor will meet at Anacostia
in a Recreation League game.
All games will be at $50 pm.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-05-28

ing held for observation. He is
not believed to be Seriouly hurt,
but will be examined by a brain
specialist as q precautionary
measure.
Despite the loss George Wash
ington, along with Washington
Lee, will represent the Northern
Division in the State champion
ships at Mount Vernon next
month. Washington-Lee will
play Falls Church at 8 o'clock
tonight at WI.
In one other game yesterday
Dunbar defeated Carver of
Baltimore, 1873. Donald Brown
hit home run in the third with
two on and Vincent Edmonson
hit a round-tripper in the
fourth, also with two on, for
Dunbar.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-05-28
44O-Y0rd Record Smosher
Leads Wilson Into Finals
Wilson High School, defending

Wilson High School, defending
champion. has Is qualifiers in
today's finals of the seth an
nual District Interhigh track
meet at Tech. starting at $3.50
o'clock.
Jack Ingley. 16-year-old Will
son junior, led the Tigers in
trials yesterday with 440-yard
meet record. His time of 50.2
seconds broke the previous rec
ord of 81 fiat set by Paul Ostrye,
also Of Wilson. in 1916. Ingley's
best previous time was SOC Sec
onds. Today he will attack the
880-yard mark of 2:02.6 set by
Monroe Sheehan of Tech in
1917.
The Tigers failed to pick up
any points in the only event
completed yesterday, the pole
vault, dominated by Tech. Steve
Bolen and Joe Provost tied for
first place at 10 feet 6 inches,
picking up nine points for Tech.
Jack Straub of Anacostia was
third. for three points; Jack Sui
Ivan of Eastern fourth for two
and Dave Carpenter, Roosevelt.
fifth for one.
Trailing Wilson with qualifiers
were Roosevelt. 10; Tech, 6; Ana
costa. S: Coolidge. 4; Eastern,
and Western, 3 each.
Results:
Final.
Pole veult-1 (tiel Bolen CTech) and
| Provost (Tech); 3, Straub "a; 4, Sui.
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Marlboro TO Test Lights
With Motorcycle Races

Marlboro RaceWay will test its
new lighting system with a
motorcycle racing card starting
at 8 o'clock tomorrow night.
Dick Beatz of North Carolina,
one of the top motorcycle riders
in the East, and three brothers
from Pennsylvania will head a
large field. Don, James A., and
Jim Klunk are the three brothers,
while other top drivers expected
to race include Edwin Fisher,
Johnny Hood, Steamer" Smith,
Charley Zerphy, Billy Hubert,
Ted Bundy, Bill Rain and
George Sabine.
This will mark the second of
a series of motorcycle races at
the Marlboro track, which again
will present stock car races Sun
6aV
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-05-28
Bill 10 Give Baseball
Control Of Broadcasts
Gets Senate Backing

A three-man subcommittee
has unanimously approved a
Senate bill to give organized
baseball the right to regulate
radio and television broadcasts
Of its games.
This action, sending the meas
ure on to the full Senate Com
merce Committee. was taken
yesterday by a subcommittee
headed by Senator Johnson,
Democrat. of Colorado.
Senator johnson, who intro
duced the bill. is president of
the Class A Western League.
The others who joined with him
in approving the bill were Sena-
tors Bricker. Republican. of
Ohio and Schoeppel, Republican,
of Kansas.
In testimony before the group,
baseball spokesman generally
favored the bill, while broadcast
ers generally opposed it. The
legislation is aimed at boosting
attendance at minor league
games through restricting radio
TV broadcaSting Of major league
games.
Senator johnson said the bill
is needed because the Justice
Department has ruled that. under
existing laws. organized baseball
cannot impose radio-TV restric-
tions without violating antitrust
laws.
Harold Fellows, president Of
the National Association OF
Broadcasters, told the subcom-
mittee Senator JohnSon's bill
amounted to granting baseball
an exemption from the require
ments of the antitrust laws. u
He predicted promoters of other
sports would seek to follow suit
Branch Hickey, general man
ager of the Pittsburgh Pirates,
testified that unrestricted radio
TV broadcasting would cause
minor leagues to fold up-"a
quick destruction of ourselves. u
The Justice Department took
no part in the hearing and re-
fused comment.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-05-28
100 Air Force Stars
In Track Meet Here

More than 100 Air Force track
and field stars converged on the
Georgetown University track to-
day for the Northeast Area Air
Force Conference track meet.
Included in the field represent
ing 10 Air Force bases were Jim
Gathers, 1852 Olympic dash man.
and Fred Johnson, former sprint
and hurdle star with Michigan
State.
Time trials got under way at
10 am. with the finals scheduled
for 2 pm.
The "a top performers will
compete in the Air Force World
Wide meet June II and IL at
the Kirkland Air Force Base, AL
buquerque, N. M.