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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-03-21
BY DICK SLAY

The Washington region of the
Sports Car Club OF America is
contributing at least seven
drivers to the Sebring (Fla.1. l2-
hour race which begins Saturday
at 10 am.
Already in Florida for unof-
Ificial practice this week on the
5.2-mile course are Dick Thomp-
son. Charlie Wallace, Fred Wind
ridge. Steve Splitter, Bill Kin
Icheloe. Jim Robinson and Hap
Dressed. Also. Mike Cappiello
will drive an AC Bristol In Sum-
days three hour race at Sebring.
tStation wTOP will broad
cast a description Of the race
at three points during the
day, los. e:45 and 1920 p.m.J
Reports from the course several
days ago listed Thompson among
the group readying the Chev-
Irolet Coryettes for their second
serious try in the grueling event.
Never before has so much
secrecy surrounded any team
entry" said an Associated Press
dispatch.
Fitch May Drive
1t all has to do with an ex.
detrimental Corvette which pre-
sumably will be driven by the
famed John Fitch, who strug-
gled to bring home one Of these
cars last year.
For almost three weeks Cor
vette crew Of some 20 mechanics,
engineers and specialists have
been working behind closed doors
in the former Eighth Air Depot
at Sebring. Spectators are barred
from the hangar.
But Thompson - who with
Wallace and Kincheloe are the
Sebring veterans from Washing
ton--probably will drive one Of
the two stock Corvettes. The
District dentist may share the
wheel with Castor Andre, for
merly a crack Swiss driver, In a
new Corvette with fuel injection
and special brakes. Other Chew
rolet drivers are expected to be
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-03-21
Needles Ready to Oppose
Bardstown in Big Handicap
Burbizon Trails
As Gen. Duke
Wins in Rain

MIAMI. Mar. 81 (P).-The first
meeting between Needles, top
3-year-old of 1856, and Bards-
town, leading handicap horse of
the winter, is expected to draw
Gulfstream Parks biggest crowd
OF the season Saturday. Despite
some talk to the contrary, Needles
has been pronounced ready for
his test in the 100000 Gulf
stream Park Handicap.
(Station WTOP-Tv, Channel
8. will televiSe the race, cutting
in on Pick Temple at post time,
approximately 4:40 PM
Calumet's Bardstown likely will
be the favorite despite his $780,
pound impost. He won the
Tropical Handicap, was second
to Summer Tan in the McLen-
nan, then won the Widener
February % and the Appleton
last Saturday.
Needles, assigned 1875 pounds,
lost by a nose under the same
weight to Admiral Wee in 6l2-
furlong race on March 1l-his
only start as a 4-year-old. In
that race Admiral Wee packed
l19 pounds
Barbizon Poor Fifth
Meanwhile. racing circles were
buzzing about Barbizon's poor
showing in yesterdays $18,695
Fountain Of Youth Stakes. Bar
bizon, who was laid up with a
coughing spell early in the win
ter, wound up fifth, IL lengths
back of his stablemate, Gen.
Duke. who finished one-two with
another Calumet star, Iron
Liege.
The race was run on a sloppy
track in driving rain and the
victory stood up against a foul
claim.
The defeat was the third
straight for Barbizon, last years
2-year-old champion. Better
Bee, owned by w. S. Miller,
of the Illinois Racing
Commission. was third. The
See GULFSTREAM. Page Ais
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-03-21
BY the Associated Press

They can call him the Great
Gutierrez or the Mighty Valdes,
but it makes no difference to
Manager Walt Aston of the
Brooklyn Dodgers. All Aston
knows is that the skinny 6-foot-3
Cuban with a smoking fast ball
may be around Flatbush a lot
longer than most people thought
Rene Gutierrez y Valdes, who
had a 22-8 record with Portland
last season. displayed some more
of his classy hurting yesterday
as the Dodgers edged the st
Louis Cardinals, 81, in an IL
inning game at Vero Beach
Two errors let in the winning
run.
Rene added three more hitless
and scoreless innings in his Sec
ond appearance as a Dodger
He walked two Cardinals and
another reached base on an
error, but none got past first.
In his debut Sunday Valdes
came to the mound with the
bases loaded and none out in the
Eighth against the Detroit Tigers.
Five Of the Tigers popped up
and the sixth bounced back to
the box as Valdes preserved a
80 victory.
]. Uses Both Names
Valdes is known in Latin
America as the Great Gutierrez.
which Is his fathers name. At
Portland it was the Mighty
valdes. his mothers maiden
name.
The Dodgers signed him in
1851. With Juarez Of the Arizona
Texas League he was 1913 in 1852
and 1915 in 1858. In 1854 he
had a 2-l record with Pueblo
of the Western League. and 1874
with Bakersfield in the Cali
fornia State League. The next
year at st. Paul he was 1919 and
he was purchased by Portland,
which had q working agreement
with Brooklyn.
Now Valdes is signed to q Los
Angeles contract. Brooklyn's new
Coast League farm club. but II
he keeps up tbs kind of pitching
Rene could become an Ebbets
Field inhabitant.
Larsen Roughed Up
Meanwhile. the Yankees took
the wraps of Don Larsen, but it
was far from an suspicious be-
ginning for the big Highlander
who hurled a perfect game in
last falls World Series.
Making his first start since his
history making performance
against the Dodgers, Larsen was
pounded for six hits and five
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-03-21

CHICAGO. Mar. 81 Especially
Norman Smith, classy feather
weight from Washington, D. C.
was disappointed on two counts
today.
First, Norman dropped a spill
decision to Brown McGhee OF
Montgomery. Ala, last night in
the East West Intercity Colder
Gloves at Chicago Stadium
And second, he just missed get
ting TO fight before a national
teleyision audience.
The first four bouts we're tele-
vised but time ran out just be.
fore Smith and McGhee went al
II in the fifth fight OF the
program.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-03-21
DRESSER LIKES CUBANS NEW SWING
Griffs Give Becquer
Trial as CenterfieIder

Dresser wanted to rest Pete Run.
nels yesterday. he installed Bee
quer at first base. Julio re.
sponded with a single and a
double in five chances.
Even if he doesn't make it in
center, he looks as If he'll be
handy to have around" Chuck
said. IF anything happens to
our second baseman, I can shift
Runnels to second and use Bee
quer at first"
Sch0Onmaker Falters
Chuck has been hoping that
Jerry Schoonmaker would click
Until yesterday Schoonmaker had
been a 500 hitter with seven hits
in IA chances, but he struck out
twice and failed to get the ball
out Of the infield in four at
tempts. Jerry's inexperience is
operating against him, with Dres-
sen doubtful that the green
youngster would benefit by being
subjected to the pressure of play
ing regularly.
Karl Olson has shown Dresser
nothing and Whitley Herzog, an
other centerfeld candidate, has
two hits in II attempts, getting
one of them yesterday as a
pinch-hitter. Herzog probably
will stick. since Dresser feels
he's a better hitter than he's
shown. Whitley is a fine base
runner and can play first base
in addition to the outfield. Sam
Hill, a semipro last year, is
dropping out of contention.
The desperation test Of Bee
quer follows an unproductive
meeting between Cal Griffith
and Hank Greenberg, general
manager Of the Indians. Green
berg wanted to make q seven
player deal. Griffith said. but the
Senators president didn't dis
play even remote interest.
Greenberg wanted Third Base
man Ed YoSt. Outfielder-First
Baseman Roy Sievers and one of
the Senator's reserves. The four
players he offered Washington
didn't include Shortstop Larry
Raines. currently sidelined with
See SENATOR'S, Page Ais
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-03-21
GEN. DUKE FAVORED
AT So FOR DERBY

Aqua CALIENTE, Mex,
Mar. 81 Pl. Calumet
Farms Gen. Duke has been
made the favorite over Bold
Ruler in the Caliente future
book on the Kentucky
Derby. Gen. Duke is quoted
at 5 to 2, while the Wheatley
Stable ace still is 3 to /.
Barbizon, originally CO.
favored with Bold Ruler,
now is 4 to /. and Iron Liege
also from Calumet, is s to /,
along with Federal Hill and
Round Table.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-03-21
Espinosu Keeps Title

TOKYO. Mar. 81 R.--Leo
Espinosa. Orient bantamweight
champion from the Philippines,
retained his title yesterday with
a decisive victory over Masakazu
Otsuka of Japan in a l2-round
bout.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-11-05
FAMOUS FABLES
BY Z. L. EDGAR

SUPERSTITION: Like most
actors. British Star Alec GUM
ness is superstitious.
In 1851 he appeared IN Ham
let in London On opening
night he arrived at the theater
too early. To kill time he went
around the corner to the Gar
rick Club and read the papers.
AS he was about to leave he
came upon the newly installed
bust OF Actor Sir Johnston
Forbes Robertson. He reached
up and touched it for luck. He
headed for the door, then no.
ticed the bust of Sir Henry
Irving, another of his illustri-
Gus predecessors. He touched
that, too.
1t then occurred to him that
these things ran in threes, Sc
he went over to touch the bust
of Shakespeare. The bard. how
ever. was on a higher pedestal
Guinness pulled a chair over
and stood on it. Still he could
not reach the bust. He got OF
the chairs arm. Lettering pre-
cariously. he got on tiptoe ano
managed to touch 1t.
Satisfied that the fates were
now on his side, he returned tc
the theater and gave his per-
Torrance, which proved to be
the most resounding flop Of his
ssreer. y
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-11-05
BY PHIL YEAGER and
JOHN STARK

The old-fashioned speed law
which set out a fiat limit. say
so or go miles per hour. beyond
which cars could not legally
travel, has almost disappeared
from the American scene in
the past few years.
Like nearly everything else
in this modern life, highway
speed laws have abandoned
their black-and-white. yes-or-
no aspects in favor of flexible
but more complex formulas.
Perhaps the most recent ex-
ample occurred a few days ago
when the Maine Turnpike
Authority decided to junk its
fiat so mile per hour limit on
the States l06-mile express
way from Kittery to Augusta.
The limits imposed now are
70 m.p.h. in the daytime. IS at
night. The reason given for
the change by Maine authori-
ties was that motorists drove
that fast anyhow, and since
the highway could handle the
higher speeds the old limit was
unrealiStic.
This is typical of the dispo-
sition nowadays to apply OPEN
country traffic speed limits in
relation to the circumstances
existing an any given time-at
least within certain specified
limits.
Thus most States today have
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-11-05
NEWS OF MUSIC
College Group Offers
Unusual Program

than the piano-voice arrange
ment heard last night, but Neil
TilkenS did remarkably we'll at
the keyboard, all things con-
sidered.
Performance-wiSe, Elizabeth
Jetfries took the palm with her
singing of the Chausson. Miss
Jefferies has a good natural
contralto voice and her intelli-
gent Interpretation of the
Poeme transcribed what were
clearly limitations in her vocal
technique.
Soprano Marian Kennehan
was less happily cast in the
Bach cantata. This is a piece
which demands the greatest
teachnical virtuosity, and Miss
Kennehan just is not up to it.
That is not greatly to her dis
credit, as it is doubtful if there
are many sopranos singing to-
day who would be able to give
a first-rate account of the can
tata.
In the Purcell, the sumptu-
GUS muSic-a sheer delight-in-
Spired instrumentalists and
both singers, and the result was
a performance more adequate
than one would have really be-
lieVed possible.
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were unaffected by 1t all; that
being fat didn't bother them.
This is a protective mechanism
When the fat child gets to be
a teen-ager, she is not only a
wallflower; even her girl friends
and classmates don't want to be
seen with her. Unfortunately,
the more an overweight child
feels inferior and inadequate.
the more she eats. Perhaps that
is what is happening with your
daughter. Mrs. E. H. Until you
can stop her from munching
and milling she will continue to
add poundage.
I suggest that you call in con-
sultation a doctor who is in
terested in metabolic diseases.
Your doctor will cooperate. In
addition to the purely medical
approach. your daughter should
have the benefit of the psyche
logical one. In other words, I'M
til she can be convinced it is
she who wants to lose. no
amount of medicine will do
much good.
She should have a metabol-
ism test. Her thyroid may be
underfunctioning. However, low
thyroid activity in itself is
hardly ever the cause of obesity
But thyroid extract, when in
dicated, often helps in con-
junction with other treatments
Under a doctors supervision,
she should not hesitate to take
dexedrine or a similar appe-
tite-blunting drug. They are
harmless. Your doctor will
make up a diet list of foods to
Shun and those to eat.
AS a parent you need to show
patience and understanding
When the child realizes your
concern and how much weight
loss means to her happiness,
she will sometimes overnight)
develop the will to lose.
released by The Bell Syndicate, Inc
Tomorrow: Don't toke suicide threats
tnn l,AhkIu
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-11-05

The FomiIy Council consists Of q Judge
q psyehiotrist, three clereymen. q
newspaper editor, o women's editor
and two writer's. Eoch article is q
summary Of on oetuoI cose history.
The council reports on problems thoi
hove been deolt with by responsible
uQencies.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-11-05


Some highly unusual music
was presented last night in
Balch Memorial Hall where a
group of singers and instru-
mentalists from the Washing
ton Missionary College was
heard in a concert sponsored
by the Presbyterian congrega-
ton in Georgetown.
The program was so unusual
that / do not recollect live
performance of any of the three
works offered during my years
of listening in Washington.
The program opened with the
Bach Cantata No. 81. an ex-
tremely brilliant work for So
prano solo, strings and trumpet
which was a particular favorite
of Albert Schweitzers. Espe-
cially notable is the concluding
alleluia. which is virtually a
miniature concerto for trumpet
and voice.
The group then turned to
Henry Purcell's magnificent 20
Dive Custos Auriacae Domus,
a duet written in the last year
of the composers all-toO-brief
life as an elegy for the death
of Queen Mary. This most i'm
preSSlve music is the very cpl
tome of profund and genuine
lamentation. and it is certainly
a masterpiece of the highest
order.
The evening concluded with
reading Of a forgotten monu-
ment of French romantic art
Ernest Chaussons fragrantly
atmospheric "Poeme de l'AmoHl
ct de la Mer" The striking
beauty of the work made one
wish for a performance in the
original orchestration rather
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-11-05

to face the problem courage
ously.
They should find out from
Sylvia's doctor all that can be
learned about her illness and
the possibility of hereditary
mental disease in the family.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-11-05
Ez7uRs Rcz
How to
STOP KILLING
YOURSELF
Childhood Obesity Is No Joke
By DR.. PETER J sTElNcRoHN

Dear DIR. SteincrO h n /:
Trouble wears many faces.
And i suppose 1t is true that
what Is considered misfOr-
tune by one would be eagerly
exchanged by another who is
suffering.
For example, consider me.
] am a happily married young
mother of three: two boys
and a girl. Yet I. too, have
a problem. My little girl Of
IL is overweight. Let me
put It in word that's hard
to use: She's fat!
I've asked her to watch her
diet but it's difficult in a
family when the two brothers
are thin and can eat ice
cream, candy, drink sOdas,
etc, without gaining an
ounce. Naturally she will not
fOregO food.
But the problem is here
and needs solving. That's
why / am asking for your
advice. ] can tell she is I'M
happy. She is a wallflOwer
at school dances. Her class
mates shun her although she
is as friendly as a puppy.
Even her own brothers call
her Fatso. I haye the hard
est time buying anything
that will fit her.
i have had her to our doc
tor but he says she will grow
out of 1t. He talked to her
and put her on a diet, but
she has gained instead of
losing. MRS. E, H.
You are so right! Obesity il
a child is no joke. 1t scars som,
psychologically for life
1t may change their entire per.
sonality and make an ugly pat.
tern for the rest of their exist.
ence.
Fat children are left out o.
sports, games and dances. They
stand by. heartbroken, looking
on. And unless you really knew
them. you would think they
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-11-05
A STUDY IN COMMON SUFFERING

They may find there is less to
worry about than they believe
But if they find there is much
to worry about, their children
should know when the proper
time comes. They may be able
to avert tragedy in their own
lives if they know the facts.
Daniel and Helen should also
discuss with the doctors the
problem of taking Sylvia into
their homes for occasional
visits. Here again, they may
find there is little to worry
about.
Whatever answers they get,
however they should remem-
Der their attitude toward the
situation will leave the most
lasting impression on their
children. They should try to
display courage and loyalty
rather than fear and selfish
ness.
(Copyright 1857.
General Features Corp)
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-11-05
SECURITY FOR YOU
Study RefutesL
OfHeoIth, Retirement

same age group who had con-
tinued to work.
The second method involved
actual physical examinations
by doctors who rated the health
Of a number of the men who
had been questioned. This was
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-11-05
BY RAY HENRY

If you're hunting for gooc
reasons to keep from retiring
here's one you should avoid:
I'm sure to have more trou-
BILE with my health if I retire
than if I keep on working"
You should avoid it. because.
generally, it isn't true
At least that's the conclusion
of a study just completed by
Cornell University on how re-
tirement affects a persons
health.
The study shows that, COM
pared to working, retirement
has no significant effect on
health; that if your health gets
worse after you retire, it's prob
ably due to some other cause
than retirement.>
There's even a suggestion in
the study that, as a general
rule. a persons health actually
improves some in the first years
after retirement if he retired in
good health.
Thus the study contradicts
the popular impression that re-
tirement leads to a decline in
health.
This impression, according to
the study which started in 1852,
has two causes:
. Everybody knows of at
least one person whose health
has gone bad or who died sus-
piciously soon after retiring.
So what has been observed in a
few cases by number of peo-
pie has created a common
belief.
. Some students of old age
have backed up the common
belief. They've reasoned that
when a person gets used to GER
tain habits it's hard for the
body to change. Having to
make the changes due to retire
ment has caused a strain on the
body and brought on poor
health. Further, the mental
changes which must come with
retirement have added to the
strain on the body causing more
physical problems.
The people in charge of the
study. DR.. Wayne E. Thomp-
son and Gordon F. Streib, agree
that the number of deaths
shortly after retirement seem
to add evidence to this i'm
preston
But. they think this is false
evidence.
They feel that the deaths
among recently-retired people
have nothing to do with re-
tirement; that it was bad
health which forced them to
retire in the first place. Thus,
if they die. retirement wasn't
the cause, but the poor health
they were in before they re-
tired.
In arriving at their conclu-
sionS, Thompson and Streib
used two methods of investi-
CATION.
The first method involved the
questioning of a group of men
before and after retirement
about the condition of their
health. Then, they compared
it with similar information
from a group of men in the
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THE DETAILS

THE DETAILS
Carol FL am an unmarried
woman of 40 and I have a
problem which seems to get
worse as the years go on.
I have youngser sister
whom l love dearly and who
has been in a mental institu-
ton on and off for the past
IL years. The doctors seem
to feel she is cured. and then
she breaks down again and
again under the strain OF life
outside the hospital.
When she is well, Sylvia
comes to live with me and
when she is sick, I am the only
one who goes to visit her. Our
parents are not living and my
married brother and sister will
have nothing to do with her.
I myself am not very well
physically and it is a great
strain for me to undertake all
the responsibility for Sylvia.
I only ask that my brother
and sister go to see her &C.
casionally and take her into
their homes at times when she
is feeling better. Is this too
much to ask?
Daniel F.-Carol makes out
she is asking only a trifle, yet
she understands how big that
"trif1e" is.
My sister Helen and l are
married and have families. We
can't keep Sylvia in our homes
with the children when we don't
know what can happen. The
children now know nothing
about the whole thing except
Aunt Sylvia is i'll and in a hos
pital.
Carol seems to feel we are
monsters and have no feeling at
all for our unfortunate sister.
That isn't true. but we must
think of our own families first.
We want our children to marry
and live normal lives without
having the stigma of mental
/ illness attached to them.
AS far as we know there have
been no other instances of in
sanity in the family and it is
unfair the children should Suf-
fer because of this.
'THE COUNCILS VIEW
No. it is not a "trifle" that
Carol asks. 1t is big and diff
ficult thing to do-and Daniel
and Helen are not justified in
evading that big and difficult
thing.
Morally. they are wrong to
abandon their mentally Ill sis
ter and they are equally at fault
in foisting the entire RESPONSE
bility on Carol. The fact she is
single is not quite enough iusti-
fication for their using her as
a kind of dumping ground for
the family skeleton.
From a practical point Of
view. Daniel and Helen are
equally wrong. Family secrets
like these seldom remain hid
den. Skeletons choose difficult
moments to pop out OF the
closet and frequently create
havoc when they emerge.
Daniel and Helen owe it to
themselves and their family