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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-03-31

virtual cinch to realize his
Olympic ambition.
Last year, in the Southeastern
AAU championships at Atlanta,
Winnie entered senior competi-
ton for the first time. He didn't
place, but half a dozen col
legians trailed him, which was
accounted quite a showing for
a boy who a year later is only
a ninth-grader. freshman at
Falls Church High School.
Three weeks ago, Winnie maue
his best time for the metric mile
81 minutes and STD seconds.
This would have placed him with
the first five in last years Ma
tional championship.
Head for Showdown
Meanwhile, two of the worlds
great freestylers headed for a
showdown in the AAU champion.
ships. Ford Konno, Ohio States
diminutive Hawaiian, has passed
up defense of the 1,500-m-ter
championship he won last year,
aiming instead at retaining his
220 and 440-yard titles.
Challenging him in both events
will be Jack Wardrop of Michi-
gan. The 20-year-old Scot has
taken Konno's measure in the
220 IN both the Big Ten and Ma
tional Collegiate meets. They
meet in the 220 tomorrow and
440 Saturday.
Tonight's 1,500-meter event,
the opening and only event, an
apparent tosSup due to Konno's
absence, has attracted 81 entries.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-03-31
|CIAA Delegates
Open 43d Meeting
I oduy at Howard

Howard University is host to
the three day meeting. starting
today. of the Central Intercol-
legiate Athletic Association.
Thomas H. Henderson Of Vir-
ginia Union University. CIAA
president. announced an eight
point program. The first session
will be devoted to reports from
committees. The meeting to-
morrow win start at $3.50 am.
The 43d annual session will close
Saturday, following legislative
reports at 10 am.
CIAA members in addition to
Howard are Bluefield wv. Va,
j. c. Smith. Virginia State. Lin
coin pa. st. Augustine's. AIT,
North Carolina College. Hamp-
ton, Morgan State, Delaware
State. Winston-Salem State
Teachers College. st. Paul's. Vir-
ginia Union, Shaw. West Vir-
ginia State, Fayetteville State
Teachers College and Maryland
State.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-03-31

Totals so 26 1875 Totals "a 16 "a
Halftime score: 81 Al. Andrews.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-03-31
Candidates Sought

Boys interested in playing
baseball with Arlington Motors
of the Arlington Little Major
League are invited to register
at 9 am. Saturday at the Four
Mile-Run clubhouse.
The Motors, who finished Sec
ond to the Optimists last sea-
son with a 1872 record, are par
ticularly interested in signing
boys 9 and 10. However. all boys,
IL and under, will be welcome.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-03-31
FoIIs Church Boy, n,
Swimming in AAU Meet
BY ROD THOMAS

A i4-year-old. swimmer who
at the age of II declared his
hope of competing in the 1856
Olympics. will receive his first
major test tonight.
Winston Pendleton, son of Mr.
and Mrs. Winston K. Pendleton.
lit Westmoreland road, Falls
Church, is entered in the 1900
meter freestyle event of the Ma
tional AAU championships at
Yale University.
Opposing such swimmers as
Jimmy McLane. ex-Yale great of
Olympic proves. who won three
gold medals in the recent Pan
American Games. Winnie is far
from a title threat at this stage.
Rated as Top Prospect
But several authorities rate
him with the country's top pros
poets in distance swimming.
These include Army Col. Tay-
lor Drysdale, former University
of Michigan star and an Olym-
pic swimmer in 1886, and Bill
Armstrong. coach of the Am
bassador Hotel Swimming Club.
which Winnie represents.
Col. Drysdale, friend of
Winnie's father stationed at the
Pentagon. gave the boy almost
daily instruction for two years
before being transferred to Bal
timore
At IL the young swimmers
form was perfected. In the
water he seemed a miniature
Drysdale. He swan mile and
a half daily. starting at the age
of IL. and never has altered this
regimen.
Sets OIympics as Goal
With the discovery of his
talent, Winnie set the 1856
Olympics as his goal. He. Drys-
dale, Armstrong and the young
ster's parents huddled over a
long range plan. If Winnie.
they reasoned, could slice an
average of a minute a year from
his time in the 1900. he would
be Olympic caliber, rated against
winning times in past games.
At this writing, he is ahead
of schedule. His improvement
has been in constant ratio to
physical growth He stands
5-feet-6 and weighs 1870. So
great has been his improvement
that Armstrong rates him a
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-03-31
Alexandra Boy
Signed by Pirates
For Georgia Form

Joe Perry. l8-year-old right
handed pitcher from Alexandria,
has been signed by the Pitts
burgh Pirates organization and
assigned to the Brunswick club
of the Georgia FLORIDA League.
The former George Washing
ton High School star was given a
minor league bonus for signing.
Perry, who is 6-feet-3 and
weighs 100. worked out at the
Pirates minor league camp at
Brunswick under George Sisler,
Rex Bowen and managers of
several other Pittsburgh farm
clubs. Scouts said he showed
considerable speed" and was
very impressive"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-03-31
Sheppard Next
;or Andrews
In Tournament

ORLANDO. Fla. Mar. 81
tSpeciaD Sheppard Air Force
Base. Tex. and Andrews ALB,
the only unbeaten teams among
the six remaining in the world
wide Air Force basketball tourn-
ament. square of tonight to de-
eide the first qualif1er for Sat-
urday's final round. Andrews is
defending champion.
Both won games yesterday
and Andrews displayed power in
bowling over Lockbourne ALB,
Ohio. 1864. TO break its no.
point tournament record set
Monday night.
Leading only 5l-41 at half
time and somewhat irritated by
an overabundance of minor in
fractions in the first two quar-
tiers, the Rockets poured in 80
of 46 shots from the floor. in the
second half. lacking on Is more
points while three regulars hit
in the 30s.
Cliff Hagan's 80 points led
Andrews but Dick Knostman
showed the pest accuracy in
sinking 10 of Is shots on the
way to 81 points. Bob Rousey
contributed 80 points for An
drews while Bill Mccullum had
81 for Lockbourne.
Bob williams, 6-foot-6 center,
set a tournament high of SO
points in leading Sheppard over
Nagoya ALB. Japan, 94-64. yes
terday. The other two conten-
ders remaining are Furstenfeld-
bruck ALB, Germany. and KEGS
Ter ALB, Miss.
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SANTIAGO. Chile, Mar. 81
R.-Six persons were trampled
to death last night in the crush
of more than 10000 persons try
ing to jam into National Stadium
for the finals of the South Amer
lean soccer tournament. An Off
cial estimated 100 others suffered
minor injuries.
Among the dead were two
women who came from the city
of Chillan. about $50 miles away.
to witness the championship
finals between Chile and Argen-
tina. The Argentines won. 10.
The official attendance was
52.336, but at least $4,000 others
are believed to have forced their
way in.
When the doors to the stadium
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-03-31
Attempt to Swim
Strait Is DELAYED

VICTORIA, British Columbia,
Mar. 81 (R.-Continued bad
winter weather last night forced
another postponement of the
scheduled attempt of Janice
White to swim the Strait of Juan
de Fuca.
A weather conference found
that strong winds were still
blowing in the strait.
Because of the unsettled
weather. officials did not make
a new tentative date for the
swim.
The postponement is the Sec
ond for the 18-year-old Toronto
swimmer. Originally she was to
take off at 3 am. yesterday, but
bad weather forced postpone
ment until 4 am. today.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-03-31
Gu Getting Runqe

A building to be used as a
rifle range by the Air Force
ROTC at Catholic University and
the varsity rifle team is being
built at the south end of the
university's stadium.
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70 Teams in Tourney

CHICAGO. Mar. 81 P.-
Twenty-eight teams are entered
in the 18th annual Serbian ma
tional basketball tournament to-
morrow through Sunday.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1955-06-30

of Maryland Extension Service
publication, Fact Sheet 81, MARY
land Lawn Culture"
DR.. Kuhn points out in the pub
lication that poor soil is one com
mon cause of lawn troubles. Soils
that have a low moisture holding
capacity and soils which are poor
ly drained are not adapted to
growing healthy grass.
Some of the other causes of
poor lawns are close clipping,
poor quality seed, improper wat
ering, too much or too little fer
tiliZer and lime, too much shade
from trees and too much traf-
fic over the grass. Most home
owners who are having lawn
troubles can use these causes as
a check list and find ways to i'm
prove their lawn program.
Maryland Lawn Culture" can
be obtained without cost at coun-
ty agents offices.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1955-06-30
Time to Thin Fruit
Farmers Warned

Every spring when blossom
time comes along the home fruit
gardener is gladdened at the
heavy bloom on his fruit trees
and is even happier when the lit
tie apples, plums and peaches APP
pear
Almost invariably, the trees set
too many fruits. But the home
gardener figures upon having
enough fruit to share with the
insects, birds or any diseases that
may occur. 1t is difficult to i'm
press upon the home gardener
the importance of thinning some
of the fruits from his trees, but
it is a sound, logical and bene-
fetal practice.
Of course, nature may take
care of the thinning job if the
trees are not to be properly spray
ed for insect and disease control
as the fruits will drop heavily
from the trees before maturity.
Thinning of fruit allows the
grower to take off the blemished,
worthless or crowded fruits early
in the season. 1t lightenS the
tree load and prevents limb
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1955-06-30
COntented Actors
By Ron NesSen,
Staff Reporter

An afternoon at Olney Theater
watching the confusion of the
final week of rehearsals eXplodes
lot of myths: these actors do
NOT Starve in garretS, the stars
are NOT tempermental, the di-
rector does NOT strut about in
sun glasses and white polo jacket,
these summer stock performers
do NOT make up in drafty COW
stalls, and at heart they ARE
country folks"
Olney's first play of the season,
"You Never Can Tell" opened its
two week run Tuesday, starring
Margaret Philips. Four other
shows will follow.
The stampede that follows the
dinner bell a frying pan
pounded with a spoon dis
proves myth number /. Three
neighborhood women, Bernice
Awkward, Carrie Addison, and
Mary Brown have been cooking
for the young actors for several
years. Company manager Tom
Hitchell drools, 1--WE haven't had
the same meal repeated twice.
Fried chicken, spare ribs, roast
beef, those gals can really cook"
One actress thinks she's in HeaV-
en-; on her last summer theater
job they fed her "beet sand
WicheS."
A huge, rambling old white
house next to the theater is re-
served for the company of 30,
which includes Players, Inc, the
guest stars, and the 10 appren-
tees who pay room and board.
When the ten rooms in "Olney
House" get too crowded some ac-
tors live in a small cottage on
the grounds and others stay on
the nearby farms of Richard
Thomas and Thomas Hefner.
Some visiting stars have lived at
Heritage House" down the road.
Manager Mitchell hopes to fill
a swimming pool behind "Olney
House" soon "for those few spare
minutes the kids have" During
past seasons a man-made pond
down the road has been used for
dips" Around the house runs
a wide, enclosed porch used not
only for dining but also for re-
hearsals, televiewing, ping pong
and chose wild bridge games
which are our favorite indoor
sport"
In addition to Miss Philips, who
has starred frequently on Broad
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breakage. 1t reduces the num-
Der of fruits in proportion to the
number of leaves which will nour-
ish these fruits. Thinning assures
more food and moisture to make
larger, sWeeter and well-colored
fruits. Leaves make sugars and
these sugars cause fruit color.
Fruits may be removed by
chemical sprays applied at a GER
tain period following bloom. The
time of application and the con-
centration of spray varies with
the variety of fruit. Apples have
responded we'll to chemical thin
ming. Present research is show
ing favorable results with peach
es. However, hand removal of
the little fruits is most practical
for the home gardener.
To thin properly break off each
fruit to be removed with the fin
gers. Peaches are thinned so
that fruits are 6 to inches apart
along branches and twigs. APP
pies should be about 4 to 8 inch
es apart after thinning. Also,
apples should be thinned down to
one fruit per spur. Plums should
be 2 to 3 or 4 inches apart after
thinning, depending upon variety.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1955-06-30
Don't Give Up Hope
On Your Lawn

Disappointment and disgust are
the only rewards a lot of Mary
land home owners get for the
labor and money spent on lawn
care. These, of course, are the
home owners who have spotty,
sickly or weedy lawns.
Some of these folks have given
up hope for their lawns, resigned
to the belief that nothing they
can do will make grass grow well
in their yards. But in most cases,
it is possible to have good lawn
if certain principles of good lawn
care are followed, according to
DR.. Albin o. Kuhn, head of the
University of Maryland agrono-
my department..
He lists the principle causes of
poor lawns in a new University
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1955-06-30
Heated Air Held
Essential to Drying

Is heated air necessary in con.
nection with crop-drying sys-
TENS? Yes, in many cases, an
swers A. V. Krewatch, extension
agricultural engineer at the Uni
versity of Maryland. when wea-
Their conditions are perfect, most
crops can be dried with unheated
or natural air." he says. How.
ever, the first cutting of hay is
often difficult to dry without
heat because of high humidity
Legumes such as clovers particu
larly give trouble during the first
cutting even on hay drier."
During midsummer with the
second cutting, unheated air is
usually satisfactory. Ear corr
can be cured using unheated air
during favorable seasons. Shell
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1955-06-30
Milk Supplies
Keep in Step
With Demand

Montgomery County dairymen,
in company with other dairy
farmers throughout the nation,
have produced a plentiful supply
of milk and dairy products for
consumers during the 1855 OBJ
servance of June dairy month.
This situation is not unusual
in fact, a plentiful supply of
healthful dairy foods is taken for
granted by most consumers.
That is taking quite a bit for
granted, when one considers the
tremendous increase in the coun-
try's population during the past
few years. For example, in the
10-year period 1945-1954, national
population increased from 141.S
million to 164.5 million.
Dairy farmers met the chal-
lenge of supplying milk and dairy
products for this increasing pop
ulation, and at the same time met
the even more difficult challenge
of steadily rising production
costs.
Figures from the Maryland
Crop Reporting Service gives
the tip-Off on what happened
during this 1O-year period: in
1915, there were 17.9 milk cows
!, per 100 people; in 1854, there
were only 1873 milk cows per
100 people. This source also
reveals that milk production
was about percent greater i'm
1854 than in 1915, in spite of
10 percent decrease i'm milk cow
numbers.
Specialists i'm the University
of Maryland department of ag-
riciIltural economics explain
that dairy farmers are prOduc-
ing more milk per COW now
than ever before because they
have improved i'm all phases of
production, from breeding to
marketing.
And" the specialists also point
out, "this trend toward greater eff
ficiency is certain to continue
Farmers are meeting the chal
lenge of needed improvements to
day Just as they have in the past
This great progress being made
by farmers gives the entire dairy
industry confidence that it car
continue to meet consumer de
mand for milk and dairy pro
ducts"
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1955-06-30
Play Program
To Be Held
In 9 Areas

A summer program is being
planned for nine recreation areas
in Rockville this year, according
to Ralph Williams, Chairman of
the Parks and Recreation Com
mittee.
In his report to the Mayor and
Council recently Mr.. Williams
listed the following areas: Twin
brook, EIillcrest, Calvin, Mary
vale, Rockcrest Forest, Lincoln
Park, West End Elementary,
Rockville Junior High and the
Billiard property.
AT the same time he submitted
the master plans for these neigh
borhood Fairgrounds along with a
budget for the needs in these
areas.
A total of $33,O7O.T0 is needed
to completely equip the nine play
grounds with black top, water
and toilet facilities, storage shell
ters and play apparatus. Five
thousand, two hundred thirty five
dollars of this sum has already
been made available from the
1954-55 budget.
Mayor Dickran Hovse p n
promised that land acquisition in
he Lincoln Park section would be
must" next year. He also gave
top priority to the negotiations
with the school board for use of
land in the West End
The committee pointed out that
It has not attempted to cover the
entire recreation needs of the
City. Large central installations,
such as a community house, a
main public park, municipal golf
course and one or more public
swimming pools are long1term
projects which should be conSid-
cred.
The Mayor commended the AID
vistory Committees work as one
more example of Rockville citi-
zens' community enterprise. Com
mittee members are Joseph Fur.
mage, Daniel Gather, Dake Gull
William Haycock, Gordon Mac.
Eachen, Mrs. Mary Mccarthy
| Mrs. Barbara Rudd, Mrs. Isabel
| Simmons, William Vaughan and
DR.. Lyman Wynne.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1955-06-30

way and televiSion, three guest
stars will appear in Olney's first
production: William Window,
George Turner, and Mary Farrell.
1--WE don't have any temperament
here" explains Mitchell. Our
stars blend very nicely with our
resident company. He don't have
any bigwigs." Miss Philips prov
ed this. After rehearsal dressed
in dungarees she sat on a table,
chatting, then went to play ping
pong with one of the noviceS.
Leo Brady is directing you
Never Can Tell" He is short,
balding, intense AT last Fridays
rehearsal he was dressed in pair
of old pants and a stripped tee
shirt. Scenery designer James
Waring and coStumer Joseph
Lewis were equally inconspicu-
ously dressed,
In addltlOn TO gOOu IOOd, vi
ney Theater offers its staff eX-
cellent working conditions. The
phrase "the barn circuit" is lit
orally true of some summer theat-
ers but not Olney. In the clean,
pine paneled theater the audience
watches the large stage from
comfortable seats. Back-stage ac-
tors think they're on Broadway.
Three or more seats can be con
structed at once and rolled on
and off stage on system of
tracks. The overhead "flys" and
the lighting board make com
plicated staging effects simple.
Behind the stage the actors and
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1955-06-30
agriculture Needs
Well Trained People

Thousands of June graduates
of Maryland High Schools are
now looking for jobs with a fu-
ture. They will do well to con-
slider agriculture as a career, says
Paul E. Nystrom, Director of In
struction of the College of Ag-
riculture at the University of
Maryland.
Over the Nation there are more
than 500 different kinds of jobs
in agriculture requiring $4,000
new college graduates each year.
But at present sthe agriculture
colleges are turning out only
$500 graduates each year. So
there are two jobs for every
graduate, says DR.. Nystrom.
Recent surveys indicate great
needs for well trained people in
the eight major fields in agricul-
ture. \These are farming, re-
search, agriculture industry
business, education including eX
tension, communications, conSer
walton and agricultural sciences.
r Will it pay boy or girl to go
to college? They are now able
to get $40 to $50 per week fresh
out of High School," says DR.. Ny
strom, But these conditions may
be only temporary. It's pretty
well established that college
graduate can expect to earn ir
a lifetime $4,000 more than the
average high school graduate"
Any interested young people
can obtain on request from DR.
Nystrom at College Park, a book
let CAREERS AHEAD" which
explains how young people may
build their futures in agriculture
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1955-06-30
COnented Actors
7heater Troupe at Olney Says
County Ladies Can Really Cook

actresses don their costumes and
makeup in a long row of neat,
white, well-lighted dressing
rooms.
What do actors do on their day
off? Manager Hitchell explains,
well, usually they have to spend
it doing routine things they
haven't had time for all week:
washing clothes, cleaning rooms,
writing letters. Sometime they
take a busman's holiday and go
see a play at Carter Barron. The
trouble is that the lack of trans
portation out here makes ii diff
ficult to get to Washington and
back"
With no place TO go and no
way to get there, many of the
young stage aspirents have TAX
en- to visiting nearby farms. And
it was on one OF these barnyaru
trips that they acquired the theat-
er'S maScotS two baby
skunks! THE farmer had just
shot their mother and was about
to shoot them" explains actress
Connie Schneider. 1--WE couldn't
stand that. We grabbed them up
and ran. We had to bury our
clothes. Now they're de-skunk-
ed" Connie has been feeding
the baby skunks with a nipple
bottle.
Their names? Taboo, after
the perfume" and Rose, after
the one Shakespeare said would
smell by any other name"
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1955-06-30

ed corn in most cases requires
heated air for satisfactory dry
ing. Heated air is essential to
the batch or wagon methods for
curing hay. These methods are
preferred when the hay crop eX-
ceeds 100 tons or so.
Natural air drying takes con-
siderable time, often as long as
two to three weeks, and the har-
vest is too fast to permit drying
of one lot before the next is
ready.
Heated air drying, says Kre-
watch, has these advantages: %
Crops can be brought in at a
higher moisture content, CO
there is less loss of leaves or risk
of storm damage, and CD gives
insurance against damage or loss
of crop during long periods OF
rain or high moisture.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1955-06-30
Homes Team Leads

Gene Atwelps Metropolitan
Homes team is currently leading
the Rockville Midget Softball
League with a nine win, one loss
record. The Michnick DeMaio
team, with seven wins, lost its
first game to Metro last week,
6-5.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1955-06-30

AS County farm folks know,
it's the early bird that gets the
worm. And that's certainly true
of Identification of the SENTIN-
ELS Mystery Farm.
1t was 8:15 am. last Thursday
when Joe Boland informed the
SENTINEL that last weeks Mys-
terry Farm-No. 24-was that of
Joe Harris off Glenn Road. And
it was 9 am. when Edward Tharp
gave us the same Identification.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1955-06-30

A few minutes later, Donald King
of Gaithersburg called with the
same identification to complete
the trio of winners for last week
Others who tried successfully
but bit late included: John Carr,
Murphy Poss, Leonard C. Burns,
Roberta MeSSer, Mack Thrift
twho supplied the additional in
formation that the farm is now
owned by Mrs. Helen Harris with