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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-09-12

father. He played rings around me in the
field. But he wasn't as good hitter.
We lived in Fairfield. Ala. Is miles the
other side of Birmingham. There was about
10000 people in the town and most every one
of them worked in the steel mills.
NV father worked in one but he never
wanted me in there
"Stay out of those mills, Willie" he'd say
Once you get in you'll never get out"
But he didn't have to warn me about that
Baseball's the only thing ever really cared
about anyway.
It sure makes me laugh to read some stories
about how picked cotton as boy or worked
in one of the mills around home. Somebody
fooled with the truth in those stories. All
ever did since was six was play ball - except
for when was in the Army and one other time
That was when was Is, eight years ago.
got Job in cafe in Birmingham. washed
dishes. Folks there treated me gade-A. But
YOU know how long lasted? just one week
- then quit.
Now ask you, how're you going to con-
centrate on cafe work when all the time your
mind is swinging bat?
DouhleheaAexs Are Tough
SANE way when went 10 school. | got
through 18th grade at Fairfield Industrial
High School and graduated in $780, but all
the time my algebra teacher was saying, TX
EQUALS how much?" was thinking about the
next ball game.
never can understand when some players
talk about baseball being hard work. To me,
it's always been nothing but pleasure.
Oh, IN admit playing doubleheaders is
kind Of tough. You come to the ball park
mt 10 in the morning, leave at night and
your whole body feels draggy.
But don't forget you had a lot of fun, too.
Getting up to take your swings at the plate
and scooting after all those balls in that big
wide outfeld How you going to beat that?
even have plenty of fun before and after
the games. Batting practice is one example
That's when me and my roomie. Monte Irwin
play distance" One who hits the ball the
most distance wins all the pop he can drink
in the clubhouse. Loser pays for the pop.
We got one rule. though. A man must drink
his winnings the same day. Else he don't
get em.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-09-12
III PLAY FOR NOTHING
by WILLIE MAYS
as told to MILTON RICHMAN

In his first magazine article, the incredible
Giant star claims he's the luckiest guy i'm the
u. S. - he gets paid for doing what he likes best
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-09-12

bags, 60 downstairs for the papers and turn
off the radio. But if get more hits. I'm cap
tainof the room and Monte has to do that stuff.
Roy Campanella's another fellow always
kidding around with me. Every time come
up he'll get on me about something.
Look who we got with US now, the utility
man" campyTl say sometimes. Me and him
always carry on like that. But most of the
serious baseball talk do with Monte. When
| make success in this game I'd like to buy
a home for my family in Alabama and one for
myself around Orange. N. J., where Monte
lives.
Right now, live little ways in back Of
the Polo Grounds in the home of Mr.. and Mrs.
James COSBY. Mrs. COSBY is my god
mother and takes real good care of me. My
real mother died last year.
The day like to remember is May Is, 1851.
That's the day came to New York from
Minneapolis in the minor leagues.
When got into taxi. kept my head
Continued on page II
Evening star., 1954-04-15
On the Air
Hone Still Hasn't Made
Muny Concessions to N
By Harry Macarthur

if it isn't as polished as his next
Paramount movie. for which
you'll pay. The trouble with this
is that the Bob Hope we've seen
so far on televiSion doesn't Gre
Evening star., 1954-04-15
On the Air

Of all the big-name comics
who have switched to television
Bob Hope has proved more re-
sistant to change than any
Groucho Marx is the only COM
edy star who has made fewer
concessions to the medium.
Groucho, as a matter of fact.
hasn't made any. The cameras
are turned on him while he is
recording You Bet Your Life"
for radio and that's that. Grou-
cho is a special case. however,
a word -of-mouth" comedian.
and he can get away with it.
Hope can't.
Jack Benny and Milton Berle,
TO cite a pair of outstanding ex-
amples, have proved resilient
enough to adjust to TV. Benny
has proved to have a great deal
of camera -awareness and he
employs purely visual comedy at
times. Berle has even gone so
far as to make over his tele-
vision personality. and with
success. But not Hope.
Several seasons ago. before
television intruded on his life,
Hope was here for personal
appearance and was asked about
his plans. What sort of show,
for instance. would he do when
he got into television?
THE same thing I'm doing
now" he shrugged. What else
could 1 do" That ended the
discussion of that. On the basis
of the evidence submitted so far
it may have been the last
thought the comic gave to max
ing a television star out OF Bob
Hope, radio star.
Now another season is on the
wane and Hope still has not
come to grips with television. He
again took over his regular
Tuesday hour on NBC-TV this
week on Berle's night of and
again fell with a dull thud into
the middle of the living room.
He had a pair of talented
guests aboard-Rosemary Cloo-
nev and Jack Benny-but even
they could not salvage this en-
terprise. Miss Clooney sang
fetchingly and Benny appeared
to be wishing he were somewhere
else. An understandable desire
on his part, it could not have
been shared by many viewers
The only truly comic moments
during the hour were made so
by Benny.
The evidence suggests that
Hope has been fooled the way the
uninitiated have been fooled by
the casual approach of Dave
Garroway and Eddie Albert to
conducting a TV show. This
can't be the answer, though
Hope is a professional comic o1
long experience and knows that
comedy doesn't just happen. II
is carefully planned and manu-
factured, on television as or
stage, screen or radio.
Whatever the cause, Hope, in
stead of achieving the casuaI
look, achieves q careless one. He
creates the impression that HI
feels he is doing you favor by
letting you watch him. You're
getting it free so don't complain
Evening star., 1954-04-15

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ate any great eagerness to see a
Bob Hope movie.
Oh well, a man with any sense
would have been watching 1.-The
Goldbergs" or reading the paper
while waiting for Danny Thomas.
4 X X \
EASTER PARADE - Easter
will be observed as usual by radio
and television, with one de-
parture from the pattern of past
obServances. Some network
executives apparently have de-
cided that one way to keep COM
mercialism from fouling up the
Easter parade is not to televise
the parade. Only one network
NBC-will turn cameras on the
annual gathering along New
York's Fifth Avenue. That they
will be color cameras hardly
needs to be added. At the mo-
ment the special events sched-
uled for Sunday are these:
9 am, WTOP-TV - Services
at Trinity Lutheran Church,
Germantown, Pa.
10 am, WTOP-TV - The
medieval mortality play, Every
man." on Lamp Unto My Feet"
II am, WTOP-TV-Services
at the National Cathedral in
Washington.
II am, WNBW-Services at
Christ Church, Cincinnati, Ohio.
II noon, WNBW-New York's
Easter parade.
IL noon. WTTG - Easter
drama about Thomas the
Apostle.
S pm, WTOP-TV - "Once
Upon an Eastertime," musical
Easter fantasy staged by Leon
Leonidoff, with a cast headed
by Bobby Clark, Gwen Verdon
and Doretta Morrow.
5 pm, WNBW-"The Story of
Ruth" on Hall of Fame"
8p.m., WTOP-TV-The Notre
Dame Glee Club, in guest ap-
pearance on Toast of the
Town"
8p.m.. WNBW-The new Hol-
lywood hymn singing quartet,
Jane Russell, Rhonda Fleming,
Connie Haines and Beryl Smith,
on ''The Comedy Hour"
8 pm, WTOP-TV-"Song Of
Easter" a Fred Waring special.
ON THE EARLY AIR-Sun-
rise services from various parts
of the country will be on radio
Easter Sunday morning. The
stations. times and locales a1e:
WWDC. z am, Walter Reed
Hospital; WRC. Z am, Radio
City Music Hall; WRC. 7:3O a m,
Arlington Memorial Amphithe-
ater; WTOP, 8 am, Hollywood
Bowl; WRC. 8 am. Davenport
Memorial Park, Davenport, Iowa !;
WRC, $3.50 am. Grand Canyon.
Evening star., 1954-04-15
HighIights
TeIevision Todoy.

$3.50, WNBW "a Justice:
Richard Kiley and Phyllis
Kirk star in "Keith's Case"
a drama about the reappear-
ance of CT husband re-
ported dead.
$3.50, WTOP f9l-Four Star
Playhouse: Ida Lupino heads
the cast of Masquerade" the
story of an attempted homi-
eide in the midst of the
Mardi Gras.
$3.50. WMAL tD-Where's Ray
mond?: A publicity stunt
backfires and Ray finds him
self back in the Army
900, WTOP t9)-Video The
ater: Phyllis Thaxter plays a
high school teacher and Gigi
Perreau a malicious teen
ager in 1.-The Girl Who
Couldn't Cry"
$500, WNBW ~ - Dragnet:
Detective Sergt. Joe Friday
seeks Photographic clues to
the identity of a thug who
beat and robbed an elderly
woman.
$3.50, WEIAL "a - Television
Theater: The comedy of
matchmaking efforts of
bachelor girls family is told
in "A Marriage Made in
Heaven"
$3.50, WNBW (4)-Ford Thea
ter: Irene Dunno stars in
Sister Veronica" the story
of a nuns aid to a couple
whose future is beset by con-
flicts.
1880. WTTG (5)-Facts Forum:
Representative Martin Dies
and Correspondent Sarah Nc
Clendon discuss Should the
Communist Party Be Out
lawed?"
1880, WNBW "a Your TV
Theater: The drama is Not
A Bit Like JASON" a domestic
comedy.
Rodio Today.
$3.50, WRC-Columbia Univer-
sity Glee Club: A special con-
cert in cooperation with the
Washington Alumni Club of
Columbia University.
$3.50, WASH-United States
Army Band: Major Hugh
Curry conducts the orchestra
and United States Army Band
Chorus.
500, WGMS-Student Recital:
Mezzo Soprano Irma Elm
heber and Pianist Michael
Cardovana are heard.
$3.50, WCFM-Middle East Re-
sources: Problems and Pros
poets: James Baster, former
Economics Adviser to the
United Nations Relief and
Works Agency, discusses de-
velopment of Investment
Capital Within the Middle
East"
S:35, WRC - Eddie Cantor
Show: Songwriter Harold Ar
len is guest.
, 1954-08-27
N OTICE

The attention Of taxpayers
is hereby invited to the fact
that after the close Of August
81, 1854, interest at the rate Of
$50 pa. will be charged on all.
arrears of Real Property Tax
es and Nightsoil Removal Ser
vice Fees for the year 1853, in
accordance with Section 81 Of
the Ordinance Of September
1896, p + 0 v d n 6 for.
the Assessment, Levy and
Collection Of Taxes upon Real
Property & Section 8 Of Ordi-
nance of September Is, 1913,
concerning fees for Nightsoil
Removal Service.
, 1954-08-27
Publication

It is hereby brought TO pub
lie notice that the Government
Of the Virgin Islands Of the
United States has authorized
The Reverend Thomas ], O.
Council, CSSR, Of the Roman
Catholic Church, st. Thomas,
to perform civil-religious cere-
monies in the Virgin Islands.
Government Of the Virgin
Islands of the United States
Charlotte Amalie, ST Thomas
August %, 1854
Charles K. Clsunch
Government Secretary
, 1954-08-27

DIVISION OF SAINT cRoIx AT cERIsT1ANsTED
IN THE DISTRICT COURT Of the VIRGIN ISLANDS Of the us.
In the matter of the Estate of Probate No. q = 1854
FAITH PRESBY deceased.
CITATION
TO: Clifford BraffIe, Harold Braffe, Gordon Braffle, Helen
Strom, Lucille Glowartz, Harriet Hansen, Hazel Butler,
Faith Norlng, Unknown heirs and next Of kin Of
Faith B. Presby, deceased,
@ ARE HEREBY CITED to show cause why the
written instrument signed BY Faith B. PresBy, deceased,
dated October 9th, 1850 should not be admftted to probate
as the Last Will and Testament Of Faith B, Presby, deceased,
at a term of this Court to be held at Chrstiansted, ST. Croix,
y. / on the 10th day Of September 1854.
Dated; August 18th, 1854 GEORGE "A. MENA
District Court Commissioner
The Northwest times. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1947-1955, 1954-02-24

PUYALLUP-Mrs. Arthur Yamaaa
p. O. Box III, Milton Wash.
PORTLAND-Tom Okaxaki
74O4 N. Denver, Portland, Greg.
rACOMA-Yasuko Hashimoto
I7I6 Fawcett Ave. Tacoma. Wash.
The Northwest times. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1947-1955, 1954-02-24
It's theg,.IAW
s~d y w. N = .Soua u"
HNFItU a 7 PUbl
SING N M
Q Do You Know Your Rights
In Court?

Most criminals have a good idea
of their rights in court, but the rest
Of us have little knowledge of the
projections provided for us
Every man is innocent until pro-
we'd guilty 1t is up to the prose-
cutting authorities to prove that the
person on trial is guilty. not the o.
litigation of the person accused to
prove that he is innocent The pro-
Secution must prove your guilt be-
yond a reasonable doubt, or you
will be acquitted
1t is your right to have witness
whose testimony you need subpoe-
naed to appear in court and testi-
fly. Most people are reluctant to go
to court and unless you had a means
for compelling their testimony you
often would be unable to prove the
facts necessary for success in your
case. The courts can and do en-
force attendance in court and the
giving of testimony.
Courts Provide Safeguards
You are not required to testify a.
gainst yourself A person may re-
fuse to testify in any proceeding if
he has a reasonable belief that his
testimony could be used as a basis
of criminal proceeding against
him. This does not mean that a
confession given freely and volun-
tarily cannot be used in evidence
But it does mean that an accused
cannot be compelled to take the
witness stand nor can his failure to
testify be commented upon by the
prosecution
Nobody can force you to plead
guilty, nor can anyone require you
to go on trial for either minor vi
olation or serious crime until you
have had a reasonable time in which
to get ready. Every person charged
with an infraction of the law has
the right to consult counsel before
any plea. The law provides
that if an accused person cannot
afford to pay for legal counsel and
desires it, thecourt must appoint a
lawyer to assist him in his case, if
he is charged with a felony.
This column is written to in
form, not to advise Facts may
change the application of the law }
The Northwest times. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1947-1955, 1954-02-24
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY "a 1854
Main Bowl to Floor 1871 Nisei Team
In National JACL Bowling Tourney

CHICAGO Ill Feb. 24-Schedule
for the National JACL bowling tou-
rnament which will be held from
March 5 20 7 inclusive follows:
o Friday, March 5-Men's sweep
er
Q Saturday, March 6-Men's dou-
bles event. mems team event
q Sunday, March MEMS sin
giles event.
Seattle's Main Bowl will sponsor
a five-man team consisting of Dick
Osaka G76) Fred Takagi G75) Jim
Kuanishit178) George Otap78),
and Johnny Asahara 184
Osaka Ota and Asahara are S T
Produce stars. Takagi is a member
of Beppu's strong Westlake Chevro-
let. And Kuranishi, who was al
ways a good bowler when he was in
Seattle will join the outfit in Chi
cago where he now resides
The Main Bowl team carries 89l
average.
Some of ex-Seattleites participa-
ting in the National JACL bowling
tourney are Chicago-ShuZo Ku-
mata. Hiro Uchida, TAX Hiyama,
TAX Ozima Dyke Miyagawa, Tome
F'ujii Spud Tsuji; and Minneapo-
lis-Steve Iwago, Harry Takagi.
The Northwest times. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1947-1955, 1954-02-24
Takai and Nasal
Win Pin Honey

SACRAMENTO, Calf. Feb. "a
Yulene Takai and Hugh Kasai. two
well known Nisei bowling stars in
the Pacific Northwest. finished in
the money in the sixth annual Sa-
cramento JACL handicap bowling
tournament recently Takai who
is in Sacramento, placed 18th in the
singles with a GA scratch mark; his
40-pin spot gave him 654 total
Kasai now in the armed forces
paired with Spider Yuto of Berke-
ley, Calf to finish ninth in the
doubles with their 1859.
The Northwest times. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1947-1955, 1954-02-24
Lotus Mercury
Captures NWYBL
Cage Crown

SPOKANE, Wash. Feb. 24(Spe-
cial to Northwest Tines -Seattle's
Lotus Mercury last weekend copied
the basketball championship at the
tournament held in conjunction
with the NwYBL convention Sc
cond-place honors went to Tacoma
Championship Mercury members
are Tom Deguchi Osa Edamura,
Gaylord Twasaki Jits Oyabe, Jim
Yasui, Shox Tokita Jim Koyasako,
George Mano. Joe Jinguji Bobby
Yasunobu and Blotz Sryama.
Other quintets in the cage meet
were Lotus Vikings Spokane, wapa-
to and Portland
In an exhibition game the Alder
Ia YBA All-Stars defeated Spokane
The Northwest times. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1947-1955, 1954-02-24
ROkka SkierS Eve
Stevens Pass Trip

Rokka Ski Club will hold its next
meeting at 7:3o pm Wednesday.
March 3, at Collins fieldhouse.
Plans for a caravan or a bus trip
to Stevens Pass, tentatively set for
Sunday. March 81 will be discussed
A special movie obtained from
the Aspen Co. of Aspen, Colo. will
be shown The film will depict the
1850 FIS championship races.
The public is cordially invited to
attend the meeting and the movie
The Northwest times. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1947-1955, 1954-02-24

Our Girls Basketball Champion Allons
persons happy They they members of
the champion the front left bright
Waanabe Coach Hold Oani Dorothy L
wasak also left right Marianne
Urakawa Gloria Hkda Gloria Hyodo Naoko Ha-
segawa and
Evening star., 1954-05-16

He buys fresh flowers each
day in the District markets,
but during the growing sea-
son some flowers are cut from
the White House gardens.
After big receptions, dinners
or state occasions, when q
great profusion of flowers are
left over, they often are sent
to hospitals.
"All the Presidents wives
have wanted 1t that way"
Mr.. Redmond says.
Over the years, the land
scaping around the house has
changed considerably. Two
of the best known spots are
the rose garden, outside the
Presidents Office, where about
IS varieties of roses are
grown, and the perennial
flower garden in the east
grounds. Mr.. Redmond uses
only tried and found true
methods Of cultivation to.
keep them thriving.
In the early years, no rec
ords were kept of the trees,
but perhaps as many as 100
have been removed for one
reason or another. There are
more American elms than any
other, and probably the Oldest
is one planted during John
Quincy Adams administra-
ton (1825-29). The most
romantic are the magnoliaS
which President Jackson
brought here from his estate,
Evening star., 1954-05-16

the Hermitage, in Tennessee
and planted in memory Of his
wife, Rachael, who died Just
before he took Office in 1929.
The trees are fed with
fertilizer injected into the soil
at their roots and only COM
monty known fertilizers are
used on the lawn. Just as you
and I, Mr.. Redmond has his
Evening star., 1954-05-16
Buxton's
z for /
Special

Buy them the bill
fold and we'll give
them the patented
key toiner free OF
choree. BilIfold
features Flickbor.
enabling them to
odd to or reploce
worn windows. S.
Colors.
Sc, OF =. $500
Evening star., 1954-05-16

troubles growing grass in
shady areas.
Tall and straight as a ram
rod and with a jovial smile
that hides his Al years, Mr..
Redmond still lives in Alex
andria-at 8 West Maple
street. Yes, he has a we'll
kept lawn and flowers there,
too.
Evening star., 1954-01-08

Lanier place correspondent Is Wor-
ried about Saturday nights.
why" he wants to know, "are con-
cert managers, musical artists and or
chestral conductors averse to the per-
forming of good music on that hight?
There seems to be surfeit of concerts
on Sunday. Why is there total alb
Sence the night before?"
Saturday night!
To many persons over so years old.
the phrase will bring up, not concerts
or the lack thereof, but visions of
long-loSt kitchen with the blinds down.
It was bath night in the long ago.
Today's vogue for personal bathing.
based on the British model. was un-
known to thousands of persons in and
before the '90s.
One bath a week was deemed sufh-
cent.
For the feet it probably was. Today's
addiction to athletes foot is due, at
least in part. to supercleanliness.
The sweaty acids of the feet are
carefully washed away now, leaving
the feet, especially between the toes,
prey to wandering fungi. s..
We try to replace the acids with
such things as sodium propionate and
undecylenic acid, members of the chain
of fatty acids closely resembling those
Of perSpiration. And it works. The
old folks took care Of this, although
Evening star., 1954-01-08
By Charles E. TroceWeN

Maybe there was a reading from
Tennyson or Grimms' fairy tales, or
some poem of the everyday. by that
new poet. James Whitcomb Riley.
And this Saturday night was re-
peated all over America. at perhaps
that very moment, in hundreds OF
thousands of farm and small-town
homes, where only the banker as yet
had bathroom with running water.
The baths were given to the light
of the old coal oil lamp, wick trimmed,
burning nicely. giving what was felt
to be very fine and proper light.
The cook stove burned wood, perhaps
coal.
The bankers bathroom was the
reigning sight" of the village.
Regularly conducted tours went
through it, and soon everybody who
was somebody felt the urge to get
bathroom of his very own.
So in time the bathroom came, and
soon was no novelty, but a regular
part of the Nations life. Those long
walks in the cold at unreasonable hours
were never to be repeated by millions
of Americans, and nobody can regret
them, but still, sometimes, on Saturday
nights, fond memory brings up pic
ture from that long lost day. the round
ringed tub standing on the piece Of
oilcloth in front of the kitchen stove.
the blinds drawn, the tub steaming,
the white cake of soap triumphantly
floating.
Evening star., 1954-01-08
AWeIcome Qualification

Both the Republican and the Democratic
Party platforms in 1852 recommended national
as well as local suffrage for the District OF
Columbia. President Eisenhower did the same
thing yesterday, and coupled his recommended
tions for prompt action in this field with a
welcome reference to the provision of needed
public works improvements" for the National
Capital. AS the Budget Bureau has approved
the public works program, the President will
doubtless amplify his recommendation, in THIS
respect, in the budget message now scheduled
for January 81.
It is highly gratifying to great many peo-
pie in Washington that the President took the
opportunity in his message yesterday to clarity
first state-of-the- Union message-on local suf-
frage. In that statement he recommended only
that serious attention" be given to developing
through legislation system to provide an
effective voice in local self-government." And
to that he added the proposal for two more
District Commissioners, which happily died
aborning.
In The Stars opinion there can be no effec-
tive voice for the people of Washington in self
government without the right to representation
in Congress and in the choice of President and
Vice President. Home rule. so called, or the lin
tied suffrage exercised in choosing local city
council and board of education, would not
provide an effective voice in self-government
Washington, as the Nations City, will always
be governed by Congress. We will have no voice
in that government until we have voice in
Congress- s@
Evening star., 1954-01-08

this Christian principle has been vivid
ly displayed by President Eisenhower
magnificent proposal that the weapons
of death be converted into instruments
for the betterment of standards of
living of the world. His sincere en-
deavor merits more than commendable
appreciation. 1t deserves thorough un-
derstandng and profound moral sup
port by the inhabitants of the entire
planet This can be done if all of U.s. both
individually and collectively, through
more interest and less apathy in our
destiny, address the United Nations
organization in the form of a New
Years resolution with a warm appeal
that the delegates thereof cease fruit
less debates-which prolong the cold
war-and embark upon a constructive
plan for the establishment of an en-
during peace. The effect of such an
emphatic action stemming from the
four corners of the earth and demon
strating the ardent desire of the people
for a genuinely peaceful society will
undoubtedly be so immense that the
inmates of that organization will shake
to such an extent that they will ulti-
mately be forced to radical change.
If the u. NJ is inundated with spon-
taneous messages having the nature of
a universal plebiscite voicing demand
for peace. we will not only witness in
the near future a transformed world.
but the hitherto axiom that history
repeats itself. and therefore wars are
inevitable, will remain a myth.
Nick c. Louis.