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Area Construction Record

Construction contracts in the
Washington Metropolitan Area
totaled $45, 006, 900 in January,
highest on record for that month
and 70 per cent above the same
1854 month, F. w. Dodge Corp.
reported today.
Residential construction to-
tailed $25, 646, 600, a gain Of 80
per cent from a year earlier,
while non-residential construc-
ton of $13,388, 900 was SO per
cent ahead of a year earlier.
Heavy engineering construction
of $5,972,000 was 1853 per cent
ahnve q wear earlier.
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Insurance Sales Jump

January sales of ordinary life
insurance in the District of Co
lumbia totaled $12.029, 900, a
rise of q per cent from January
last year, the Life Insurance
Agency Management Association
announced yesterday.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-03-01

son to man
ager of its
w as h ington
a g ency to
S u c c e e d
aries P.
Rice, who has
been named
manager q t
N a S h Will e.,
Tenn.
Mr.. Aanen-
son has been
agency man.
ager at San
Antonio, Tex,
since 1853.
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C e n t from
$64,781,000 in
t h e previous
IL m on t h S.
Executive Vice
P r e S id e Mt
Harry M. Da-
widow report
ed yesterday.
yesterday.
Com p a n y
stores of the
a r e a a r e
downtown, at
Silver Spring
and in Ar
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-03-01

Mr.. Davidow said the year. to-
year gains of all three stores
were greater than the / per cent
increase recorded for all depart
ment stores in the Fifth Federal
Reserve District.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-03-01

dinner at the
M a y fl o W e r
H o t ell la S t
night.
He b g a n
his insurance
c a + e er with
Travellers In
surance Co. in
1909 and after
serving also
W 18th OF h e +
companies, he
became assist
ant to the vice
president of
the Washing
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-03-01
Another Million Dollars

For the fourth year in a row.
Samuel ]. Sugar Of Penn Mutual
Life Insurance Co., has qualified
for the Million Dollar Round
Table, by selling at least 81 mil
lion Of life insurance in 1854.
He is q Chartered Life Under
writer and has been active in
many insurance groups here.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-03-01
Sales Of Hecht Co.
Set Record in Area

Sales Of three Hecht Co. stores
in this area reached new high
of SCI, $50 in the year ended
January 81, a gain of "A per
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-03-01
Offer to Donate Eyes

Some 800 people in Johannes
burg and Pretoria. South Africa.
have offered to donate their eyes
after death to the Bureau for
the Prevention of Blindness. in
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-03-01
GMC Showing Scheduled

Truck dealers Of General Motors
Corp. from four States will
gather in Fairfax, Va, on March
% for a preview program and
showing of GMC Truck and
Coach Divisions 1866 line Of
trucks.
v. L. King, manager Of the
Philadelphia zone. said the pro-
gram will follow luncheon at
the General Motors Training
Center.
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WashingfonGasL
Reports January Net
We'll Above 1854
By DonoId B. HodIey

Net income OF washington
Gas Light Co. in January to-
tailed $1,050,284, compared with
$946.115 in January, 1854. the
company reported.
Results Of the first 1855 month
continued the unusually large
year-to-year gain resulting from
colder weather this winter.
January operating revenues
amounted to $6,001 .945. COM
pared with $5.286,144. while OPP
Grating expenses totaled $4.820,-
824. compared with $4,203.659
Meters in service increased to
1856. 1873 from 322, 345 a year ago.
As previously reported. January
gas consumption totaled 49,
628.717 therms VS.. 43,739,952.
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Linn Named Director

Arthur j. Linn, a vice president
of the National Bank of Wash
ington, has been elected a direc-
tor of Lyon. Conklin & Co., Inc,
it was learned today. 80
His election took place at the
recent annual stockholders
meeting in Baltimore.
The company has sheet metal
manufacturing facilities and
warehouses in both Baltimore
and Washington.
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many trail-blazing promotional
and sales programs. He has de-
veloped merchandising tech
niques which has become gen.
orally accepted.
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Agency Manager Shifted

Mutual Life Insurance Co. Of
New York today announced the
promotion of Quentin C. Aanen-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-03-01

Mr.. Rice has been active in
insurance organizations here.
He started with Mutual of New
York in Tennessee in 1929 and
served later in the home Office
in New York City. He became
manager of the agency here in
lo47,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-03-01
the Washing

ton company in 1926. He was
elected to the board OF trustees
in 1851 and became director OF
conservation.
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Nomed to Airlines Bourd

James w. Austin, vice presi-
dent Of traffic and sales for
Capitol Airlines. was elected q
director Of the company at a
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New Name Is Effective

Effective today, the Bank Of
Commerce & Savings became the
Bank of Commerce. The simpli-
fed wording was approved in
an amendment to the banks
charter by stockholders Janu-
airy 20.
President Thomas ~. Groom
said the shorter name more
closely Identifies the institution
with the Commerce Building at
Connecticut avenue and K street
NV, to which its main Office
will be moved next summer.
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Nettleship Is Honored

Frederick M. Nettleship, who
is retiring as director of conserva-
ton for Equitable Life Insurance
Co.. was honored at a testimonial
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When you get en- hot an
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Here's Family that knows the secret
OF speed cooking: an electric range and
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It's in the heating units
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The heating element inside these units,
the hidden wire that turns electricity into
heat, is a Nickel Chromium alloy. This
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Mutual Funds

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with Bill Leeteh

anglers, has found himself lack
ing just the right size of clinch-
on sinker or swivel sinker and
has had to improvise. The re-
suit is never too good. The En-
terprise Manufacturing Co., rec
ognizing this lack. has put up
three aSSortments of these
sinkers for anglers, which can be
obtained from your favorite
tackle dealer. They are packed
in assortments of varied sizes in
plastic boxes, and are very in
expensive.
Another gadget to be adver-
tised this spring is a new leader
put out by Newton Line Co. Of
Homer, N. Y. Called the Led
Head" it is a 3-foot length of
braided nylon with a lead core
and a hard plastic covering.
Weighing one-quarter ounce, it
permits long casts without the
necessity of false casts, can be
attached to your spinning line
with the "No-Knot" eyelets. and
is perfect for wet fly fishing.
Some of our readers may won-
der why we occasionally go on
a seeming binge of writing about
new gadgets. Well, we do it be-
cause like virtually all anglers
we are a sucker for every new
gadget that looks like 1t will
help us in our fishing and make
it more pleasurable. Those we
write about are culled from lit
orally hundreds Of every sort of
what-you-may-call-itb brought to
our attention. If you don't think
we'll of our idea, complain to us
and we'll lay off of all except
the sensational.
If you are the owner OF a farm
pond. don't scare off that grebe,
kingfisher or other fish-eating
birds that may hang around it.
They consume a lot of small fish
around the edges Of the pond
allowing those that remain more
space and food so they grow up
faster and into bigger fish. It is
good pond practice therefore to
encoura these piscivorous
birds. al the ornithologists call
them. TTS
Evening star., 1955-02-13
MARYLAND
CONTINUED from Page C-l)

time to throw the ball in before
it was over.
The Terps won despite tre-
mendous performance by Rosen-
bluth, the 6-foot-5 sophomore
from New York, who is among
the Nations leading scorers with
a 25-plus average. The unas-
Stunning, poker-faced deadeye
tossed in 81 points and was all
over the court with rebounds,
intercepted passes and his jump
shots. He gets off the ground
with the leap Of a high jumper.
But despite Rosenbluth's ter
rifle show it was Kessler who
won the game. Bob was a "a
point producer as he spanked
Maryland to it's 18th triumph of
the season against four defeats.
the best won-and-lost record of
a Maryland team at this point in
the season for more than 20
years.
KeSsler had his soft shot work.
ing as he made almost half his
shots and six out of seven from
the foul line. And he was on the
bench for about seven minutes
in the first half.
Carolina led only at 8-6 and
14-12 in the first half until 1t
scored the last five points of
the nalf to take $3.50 advan-
tage into the intermission
Maryland's biggest edge had
been 1914.
Carolina Adds to Lead.
Tony Radovich hit from the
side to start the second half
and Carolina led by three points,
its biggest lead of the night, al
though it had a 2-point edge
six times in the last half as the
teams traded baskets.
Maryland's starters played the
entire last half and all of them
had their moments.
O'Brien hit five times on deep
set shots, John Sandbower
clicked on two shots in a row
that never travelled higher than
the rim of the basket. Bob Ever
EFT came up with some big re-
bounds and eight timely points
and Dilworth appeared to have
won the game with his magnifi-
cent play on the swift pass from
keSSler.
Only one other North Carolina
player. Vayda. scored more than
seven points. He made IA. The
Terps spent most of the night
trying to set up Kessler and the
Tar Heels were trying to set up
Rosenbluth and usually did.
Rosenbluth worked hard under
the basket and the fans heckled
the officials, setting up a chant
OF watch Rosenbluth," as he
was trying to maneuver his way
between the Maryland players.
He had four fouls on him at the
end.
Rosenbluth made the feature
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CoIonioIs, 7erps and Hoyos
All Face Bio Games on Road

are the ones expected to produce
the fireworks.
George Washington has two
Southern Conference ga m S
earlier in the week before visit
ing West Virginia. but figures to
win those. meaning that the
winner Saturday night should be
the top-seeded team in the con-
ference tournament next month.
That's an important con-
sideration this year, because the
No. l team will have compara-
lively soft shedding to the final.
while the No. 2 and teams
tangle in the SemiflnalS.
GW's earlier conference games
this week are at Virginia Tech
tomorrow night and at WASH
ington 65 Lee Tuesday night.
The Colonials already have
trimmed VPI, while W&L is one
of the leagues lesser lights this
season.
Maryland's visit to N. c. State
will find the Wolfpack really lay
ing for the Terrapins. A month
ago at College Park the Terra
pins nosed out N. C. State. 1854,
and the Wolfpack is just aching
to catch the Terrapins at
Raleigh.
There's no revenge motive at
Navy regarding Saturdays game
there with Georgetown. since the
Middies handled the Hoyas
rather easily last year, 110-75.
This weeks schedule.
MONDAY
George washington at, Virginia Tech
American U. at Roanoke.
Mson MGSoa f Teaehers dsls at a. Mnsr
Virginia State At Howard.
Seton Hall at Georgetown.
George Washington at WASHINGTON 81
Clemson at Maryland.
American U. at Randolph Macon.
Monfs0"erSw SwHEpSSEssb6AG2aa & q AG2all'udet'
GettySburs, at Navy.
Johns HoDkips THuRs66asY.o n 6astholi' o.
Howard at Morgan
FRIDAY.
Hampden-sydney at. American o.
Lynchburg at Catholic U.
Montclair at Wilson Teachers.
GeorVetown at Navy.
asPygsnS asG5gs a SefR e. c.rss T STgn sta.
Howard at Hampton.
Lynchburg at Gallaudet.
Evening star., 1955-02-13

t'Ah
amusing and instructive 24-page
booklet entitled Spinning Is
Dangerous . for Fish" Drop
them a line and give them
your name and address, espe-
cially if you are a spin
fishing enthusiast or want to be-
come one. Fly casters probably
will find it dull reading. Then
there's a new booklet on hunting
and fishing in North Carolina
which is available upon request
from the Department Of Con-
servation and Development, Ra-
leigh, NC.
One of the best booklets yet
issued on spinning tackle is by
George Thommen of Thommen,
Inc, 752 Whittier street. Bronx
SO, N. Y. Entitled simply Spin
ming Tips" it carries a maxi
mum of tips for spin-casters,
with a minimum of advertising,
and is free for the asking. One
manufacturer claims more than
a million anglers have become
converted to spinning during the
past year, and that by the end
of 1856. some eight million more
will have succumbed to it. Judg-
ing by the scramble Of every
tackle manufacturer to get
aboard the bandwagon, this con-
cern could be close to the truth.
y
Many, many times your scribe,
together with q host Of other
Evening star., 1955-02-13
Catholic Twin Bill
AT Carroll Today

st. Johns and Carroll, tied
for second place in the Catholic
League with 81 records, play
teams far down in the standings
in the league double-header to-
day at Carroll.
Priory and DeMatha each have
won only once in four tries to
share sixth place at this juno
ture in their seven-game league
seasons
Priory beat Georgetown Prep
a week ago Friday in a mild up
set but is given little chance Of
turning the trick against St.
Johns in the 2 pm. game today.
The second game, at about
3t:45 o'clock will find Carroll a
heavy favorite over DeMatha,
which beat winless st. Anthony
for it's only league victory two
weeks ago.
Evening star., 1955-02-13

RS4 AON.
It was estimated that some
participants rolled 12H2 tons Of
balls down 19 miles of lanes.
To quote Life Magazine: ut
was enough to wear anybody out
and it did. Though some of
the competitors looked like ballet
dancers it was not grace but
sheer strength that pulled them
through. Just the thought Of it
caused the defending women'S
champion to lose her appetite a
month ahead. The mems cham
pion hopefully ordered a steak
during the competition, then sat
looking at it, unable to eat a
bite. I'm living on SOUP he con-
feSSed."
Next month, the duckpin ver-
sion of the tenpin world series"
will be held at Colonial Village.
with 80 men from seven States
competing. They earned places
in the tournament through ex-
haustive tests.
Those who reach the eight
man finals will roll 40 games in
three days. These will be the
top eight in a 16-game prelimin-
airy. The finals will be round
robin, winding up with a posi-
tion" round.
With three days-March 18.
19 and 20-to roll 40 games, the
duckpin classic is not calculated
to be physical ordeal such as
the tenpin affair. For one thing,
there will be no strain on the
fingers such as imposed by the
tenpin grip. But stamina may
prove to be a vital factor in de-
terming the winner.
Some authorities, who have
bowled both tenpins and duck
pins extensively, hold that the
little ball game is the more
Evening star., 1955-02-13
SkIar's Meets JETS
As Prelude 10 FACING
Warriors Next Week

The Sklar's Stars pro basket
ball team takes on the Philadel-
phia Juniata Jets this after
noon at Turner's Arena, need
ing a victory to keep them un-
beaten for their important game
with the Philadelphia Warriors
in a Mile O. Dimes benefit a
week from tomorrow night.
Today's games starts at 3
o'clock with a 1880 preliminary
between Civil Service and Snug
Harbor. The latter has such
former high school stars as Stan
Herman, Bill Breen and Jerry
LeCompte.
Although discharged from the
Army at nearby Fort Belvoir
last week, Dick Groat still is
playing with Sklar's Stars, and
will start at guard this after
noon along with Ernie Warlick.
Cliff Hagan, former Kentucky
star. and Dick Knostman open
at forward, and Lou Tsioropou-
los, also from Kentucky, will
be at center.
The Stars have a strong bench
and likely to see action are such
other well-known players as Ell
lott Karver. Chuck Newton,
Bones Taylor. Leroy Ishman and
Jay Peterson.
The Juniata Jets led the Stars
for quite a while before losing to
them several weeks ago and have
strengthened their lineup since.
Five of the visiting players are
former LaSalle players, Jackie
Moore, Dick Adair, Fred Iehle.
Jack Haggery and Buddy Dom
nelly. Also on hand will be
Larry Hennessey, 6-foot-4 former
Vjllanova player. who scored 80
points against the Stars in their
! first meeting.
Evening star., 1955-02-13
BY the Associated Pres,

LEXINGTON. Va, Feb. 12.-
Classy VMI showed its heels to
the opposition in winning eight
of the IL events and piled up
64A points here tonight to re-
tain its Virginia Big Six indoor
track and field championship.
simultaneously. powerful Roa-
noke made a similar rout Of the
Little Seven indoor meet with
seven firsts and a 67-point total
that was greater than the COM
bined scores Of all its rivals.
Virginia Tech claimed second
place in the Big Six show with
231a points. Virginia. with 1s
points, nosed out Richmond fol
second place. William & Mary
was fifth and Washington g. Lee
failed to score.
After Roanoke in the Little
Seven runaway were Lynchburg
20: Bridgewater, 16; Hampden-
Sydney, IA, and Randolph-Ma
con, IL. Emory and Henry and
Richmond Professional Insti-
tute, the other members of the
Little Seven League, did not en-
ter.
Evening star., 1955-02-13

the boards at the right moments
tonight to lead Dartmouth to q
1910 upset of Penn, the Ivy
League leader, in the first game
of a double header at the Pal
estra.
Villanova defeated Boston Col
lege, 100-75, in the nightcap.
CAMBRIDGE, Mass, Feb. IL
(R.-Ike Canty and Phil Haugh-
ey led Harvard to its first home
basketball victory of the season
tonight, a 69-57 trouncing Of
Princeton. Canty scored 2C
points and Haughey 10.
ITHACA, N. Y, Feb. IL (P.-
Jack Sheehy poured in "a points
tonight to lead Cornell to a
1859 victory over Yale. The
victory was Cornell's sixth in
Ivy League play against three
losses. 1t was Yale's sixth loss
in eight games in the league.
BUFFALO, N. Y, Feb. IL up,
st. Bonaventure rallied in the
last four minutes to upset
Niagara, 75-71, in the first game
of a Memorial Auditorium double
header tonight.
Manhattan took an early 49,
point lead and went to whip
Canisius, $3.50, in the second
A crowd of 1887 saw the twin
hill
Evening star., 1955-02-13
n. {. State Rallies
To Whip Gamecocks;
ShavIik High Scorer
By the Assoeiaied Press


RALEIGH, Feb. 12.-Seventh-
ranked North Carolina State
shot from behind midway in the
first half and rolled to a 93-71
win over South Carolina in an
Atlantic Coast Conference bas-
ketball game tonight.
1t was States ninth win
against two losses in conference
play. For the season its record
is 21-4.
South Carolina jumped into a
1913 lead after five minutes and
extended this to 20-13 before the
fast State team switched to a
full court press and the tide
turned.
In rapid succession. State got
four goals to go ahead, 21-20, in
cluding two by Vic Molodet and
one each by Cliff Hafer and John
Maglio. From there on the Wolf
pack was out front. At the half
Coach Everett Cases crew was
ahead, 1875.
Ron Shavlik was the big point
maker for State, bagging %. For
ward Joe Smith sparked South
Carolina with 18.
FAYETTEVILLE, w. Va, Feb.
IL (P).-West Virginia Univer-
sity bolstered its grip on first
place in the Southern Conference
tonight with a 96-85 victory over
Washington & Lee.
Rod Hundley, who eventually
got % points to lead West Vir-
ginia scoring. rode the bench
until II minutes was left in the
first half.
WILLIAMSBURG, Va, Feb. II
P.-Johnny Mahoney connected
for "a points here tonight as
William & Mary copped it's sixth
Southern Conference basketball
victory with an 1856 rout of
VMI.
Bill Coupland paced VMI's
scoring with II points while Jack
Mcdowell added IA and Bob Will
hanson had II.
Evening star., 1955-02-13
Duquesne Pressed
In 55-53 Victory
Over Westminster
BY the Associoied Press.

NEW WILMINGTON, Pa,
Feb. 12.-DuqueSne Univer-
sity, the nations fourth
ranked collegiate team, had
to go all out tonight to down
upset-minded Westminster
CPa.), $3.50, for it's eighth
straight victory.
Si Green, the Dukes high
scoring forward, hit for %
points to spearhead the vic
tory.
The Dukes, who are
headed for the National In
vitation Tournament, led 27-
% at the half. 1t was their
18th triumph against three
defeats.
Duquesne whipped the
Titans, 70-56, earlier in the
season.
Evening star., 1955-02-13
GaIIaudet WrestIers Win
Over Baltimore, 1872

James Flaherty's decision over
Bo Eibner in the unlimited class
gave Gallaudet the final bout
and an 1912 victory yesterday
over Baltimore University in a
MaSon-Dixon Conference wres-
tling match at Gallaudet.
Gallaudet now has a SO rec
ord and is assured of no worse
than a tie for the champion
ship with Baltimore. which now
has a 81 record. Gallaudet has
one match remaining. with Tow
son Teachers. Baltimore has
two matches left in the confer
ence.
Evening star., 1955-02-13

strenuous. with the aid OF
gravity, the ball does the work
in tenpins: the body does it in
duckpins," they say
X II Il y
Personally. we want no part
of any argument on that score,
not with the likes of Matt
Bennie and Biff Rodgers around,
Bennie, a director in the Ameri-
can Bowling Congress, is the
No. tenpin promoter In these
parts. and Rodgers is president
of the Washington Tenpin Asso-
citation.
To the writer Biff is something
of a bowling wonder. A wiry
little guy, he handles a 16-pound
tenpin ball like it was hollow
with more ease and grace than
some people roll duckpin balls.
The smoke Rodgers generates
is amazing, considering his size
He brings the ball well back and
delivers it with slinglike sweep
One gets the impression that il
Biff's thumb got stuck he would
wind up in the pit with the ball
The night I watched him
Rodgers was experimenting. ]
was told, with a SLOW" ball.
Hes cut down on speed.
Bennie said, "to get more hook. "
"Yeah?" skeptically.
yeah" positively. "They tell
me he threw a really fast ball
before his back was broken dur
ing the war"
Seems that Biff, an artillery
man, was asleep on the deck OF
naval vessel headed for the
South Pacific when a signal
sounded to man the guns. A
bloke in a hammock above him
leaped for the deck and lit in
the middle of Biff's back.
The effects of the injury, we're
told, still bother him occasionally
after a four or five hour
stretch on the mapleways. The
fellow seems tireless.
n X
Jack Bentley, the old New York
Giants pitching star, was talking
the other day about how strenu-
Gus duckpins can be.
About 10 years ago." said
Bentley, who keeps in good
physical trim, II went to a bowl
ing alley for a workout. They
gave me a fast pinboy, and ]
kept him busy for IA games.
"Then I fainted-completely
blacked out. thought it was a
heart attack. But I didn't need
a doctor. What I needed was q
psychiatrist."