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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-02-04
BEST OUTDOOR SPORT, THEY SAY
Hounds Boys Music
To Coon Hunters Ear
BY CHARLES COvELL

Roaming the countryside of both Maryland and
Virginia these winter nights is masked robber-a
fur-jaeketed marauder who can give farmer fits or
lick pack of hounds in short order
He lis the raccoon. Until last Saturday when the
season. closed in both States he was the quarry in
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-02-04

Guoronteed osoinst defects
in workmanship and mo-
terioIs regardless Of time
and miIeose on o pro-roto
bosis.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-09-17
Dionnes Plan
Baptism Of
First Grandson

MONTREAL, Sept. II (AP).
Mama and Papa Dionne made
plans today for the baptism of
the first child born TO one of
their famous quintuplets.
Cecile gave birth Monday
night to q chubby. black haired
boy. With the proud grand
parents standing as Godpar-
ents for the baptism next Sum-
day, the baby will be christened
Claude after a middle name of
his father, Philippe Langlois, a
television camera technician.
The baby weighed Z pounds
4 ounces as compared with the
quints' combined weight of 10
pounds IA ounces at their birth
"a years ago in Callandar, Ont.
Multiple births rarely occur in
successive generations but some
times come in alternate gen.
erations.
Philippe. who married Cecile
last November %, said she re-
ported the boy looked like him.
But Claude has lots of black
hair like Cecile," Philippe said.
The baby arrived by natural
birth, Another quint who is
a professional nurse, Yvonne,
was in the hospital delivery
room.
Yvonne is the only quint yet
unmarried. Annette was wed
last October IL and is expect
ing a child next month. Marie
was married quietly last month.
The fifth quint. Emile. died
four years ago during an
epileptic seizure. Cecile had
told friends that If her first
child we're a girl she would be
named for Emile.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-09-17
Arub PurIeY Slated

DAMASCUS, Sept. II (AP).
- Delegates from nine Arab
nations are to meet in Kuwait
next month to study means of
Tightening their seven-year-old
blockade against Israel. A
spokesman for the Arab League
boycott said delegates would
attend from the United Arab
Republic. Iraq, Saudi Arabia.
Yemen, Lebanon, Jordan, Lydia,
Sudan and Kuwait.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-09-17

PoneIs l6" wide, 66"
high. Gives complete pri-
Vocy to oreos you wont
shut off. Rosy redwood,
completely assembled
with bross hinges
mounted on panels.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-09-17
A-PorIey Is Wordy

GENEVA, Sept. II (AP). -
More than 2,400 scientific re-
ports were submitted to the
Atoms for Peace conference
that ended Saturday. At an
average of 20 pages per docu-
ment and 400 words per page.
that meant the conference re-
ceived more than 10 million
words.
Evening star., 1958-07-13
Harness Driver
Wins Sin Row

WESTBURY, N. Y, July IL
(R.-Jimmy Cruise, 40-year-
old native of Shepherdsville
KY, hung up a record for har-
ness race drivers to shoot at
tonight when he won the first
five races at Roosevelt Race
way.
Cruise started off by taking
the first with Mighty Signal at
$3.50. He completed a $233.60
daily double by winning the
second with Black 1 Win, who
pad $28.70.
In the third, he piloted Alta
Rod to victory at $36.70, took
the fourth with Widows Dream
at $3.50 and the featured
fifth, a Class AA junior free
for-all trot, with Something
Special at $11.30.
Other drivers have won five
races, including Stanley Dancer
at Yonkers Raceway in 1851,
but even the oldest of the old
timers could not recall when a
driver won five straight. 1t
never happened before at either
Roosevelt or Yonkers Race
ways, the Nations two major
harness racing plants.
Evening star., 1958-07-13
Swimmers Break
Ten Records in
Nearby Virginia

Ten records were set and one
was tied in the Northern Vir-
ginia Swimming League yester-
day in Southern, Central and
Northern area meets.
Linda Reichardt of Dominion
Hills set an 8-and-under girls
record in the 25-yard freestyle
at 18 seconds and tied the Is
yard backstroke mark at 225.
Yesterdays results:
Northern Area: Poplar Heights, 125:
Chesterbrook, ia; Holmes Run Acres.
1873; Langley, 0s: Tuckahoe. lti2; Free
Central Area: Dominion Hills, 100;
Lee Graham, so; Woodley, Isl; over
lee, IS; Arlington Forest, 1914: An
Southern Area: Little Hunting Park.
1873: Holm Hills, 1O7: Dowden Terrace
600: Parklawn, 80; Springfield, 204;
RECORDS
Boys
s-and-under: 25-meter backstroke--
Tom ,Edmopson, Freedom Park 44.3
juniors: 50-meter freestyle-Dave
RinRwald, Holm Hills. 32.3 seconds.
Intermediates: 50-yard freestyle-
Brian Adams, chesterbrook, 27.2 Sec
onds
Seniors: 50-meter butterhy-Ed Har-
vey Woodley and Dick Graus, Holm
Hills, $50 seconds.
Girls
S-and-under: 25-meter freestyle-
Mickey Hibbs, Freedom Park, 1915
seconds: 25-meter backstroke--M Melinda
Shelton, Little Hunting Park, "a 8
seconds.
Juniors: 25-meter backstroke -
Brenda Jones. Tuckahoe, 400 seconds.
Intermediates 50-yard breastroke-
Margie Hodson, Dominion Hills, A d
seconds; b0-yard freestyle - Sue
Thompson, Dominion Hills. 32.6 Sec
onds.
Evening star., 1958-07-13
Wurrenton Girl
Scores Net Upset
At Congressional

Frances Farrar of Warren
ton, Va, seeded second in the
Congressional Invitational girl'
tennis tournament, upset top
seeded Bonnie Loving of Char.
lottesville, 3-6, 11-9, 60, il
the 18-and-under division sim
giles final yesterday at Congress
sional.
Carol Southmayd of Wash
ington won the 15-and-undel
title with a 6-3, 3-6. 6-l
victory over Cynthia Goeltz Of
Bethesda. In the only doubles
match completed, an 18-and-
under semifinab Betsy Parker
and Martha Barham defeated
Susan Southmayd and Joyce
Davenport. 8-6, 7-5.
Completion of doubles semi
finals in both divisions will be-
gin at 10 am. today, followed
Immediately by the final
matches.
Evening star., 1958-07-13
Potomac Boot Club Scores
In Middle Stutes Canoeing

first beat Philadelphia's 'Olym-
pic star. John Haas, in SEN
ior one-man singles. Frank,
Bill, Lou Gill and Jack Ruckert
were in Washington's title
winning senior four-man
singles. Gill won the junior
one-man singles.
Theodore Szekely won for
Washington in a 500-meter
girls race.
Tom Adkins and Stan Stan
kiewicz we're double winners
for Potomac.
Washington also won junior
one-man singles, senior one
man singles, tandem senior
doubles. girls doubles, four
man senior singles, and one
man senior doubles.
Potomac won tandem junior
doubles. four man junior
singles, one-man junior dou-
bles, tandem junior singles, and
tandem senior singles.
Evening star., 1958-07-13
FORE AND AFT
BY MALCOLM LAMBoRNE

The final heat will be at Ais
pm.
For<the SolomonS Island YC
regatta next week end the pro-
gram will be reversed-stock
outboards on Saturday starting
lat / pm. and racing outboards
and inboards on Sunday, OPEN
ing at 1:30 pm.
Dean Worcester, leading light
in the Short Course Outboard
Drivers Association, hopes to
have his big outboard. Queen
Maizie, ready for competition at
the Benedict Md Festival
August II. Dean is race chair
man and is linins up races for
stock outboard hydros, racing
outboards and JUS. This will
be an all-outboard event.
+ =
Some of those Washington
Sportsmen with a yen for an un-
limited hydroplane exclusively
for Washington-a AiSS Wash
ington, for instance-might be
interested to know that Hawaii
Kaf II. last years Presidents
Cup winner, can be had for a
price. Understand the tag is
$4,000 but there are q lot OF
extras. Like six Rolls engines,
no less.
The proposed Federal boat
ing act of 1858 has finally
gotten a rule from the House
Rules Committee and two hours
OF debate are set, possibly on
Wednesday. Reports are cur
rent that the much amended
measure will be subject to fur
ther amendments, some OF
| them rather restrictive. Bill
supporters hope to beat them
down and get the bill over to
the Senate for final passage
this session.
The adjournment fever viii
Evening star., 1958-07-13

Radio direction finders
(RDF) have made great ad-
vances in the past few years
Now, anyone able to tune q
radio and read a compass can
keep his boat on course. Fur
thermore, positions can be
fixed at any moment by taking
croSS-bearings on radio bea-
cons, the same ones used by
the airlines.
In the early days of RDF,
the operator had to be a skilled
technician. and even then
there was always some doubt
as to whether the signals were
being interpreted correctly.
The system in use then was
to tune in on the desired fire.
quency, and when the signal
was at its strongest point. it
was assumed that the position
was correct.
Now, the more accurate
method Of the null" signal, OF
no signal at all, has proved
far more accurate. It's the
reverse of the sound" system
in that a constant signal is
delivered by the instrument
until the desired beacon is
located, whereupon the signal
ceases altogether (nullif1esJ
In these days of more and
more small craft taking OF for
Evening star., 1958-07-13

PHILADELPHIA, July IL
(Special. ~ Washington pad
dlers scored a sweep of the
Middle States canoe champion
ships, staged in a heavy rain
here today.
Potomac Boat Club won the
championship when its paddlers
came back after a stop in the
regatta due to heavy rain and
took two four-man races, the
Anal events.
Final point score was not an
nounced, but Ted Alteneder,
former commodore Of the Amer
lican Canoe Association. an
nounced that Potomac won the
championship, Washington Ca
noe Club was second and Phila-
delphia Canoe Club, third.
Potomac won seven races and
Washington six.
Olympic canoeists Frank
and Bill Havens figured in
Waehington's sweep, as Frank
Evening star., 1958-07-13
BALTIMORE
RESULTS

FIRST RACE-Purse, $500; pace;
Majors Son lQuinn) $50 400 800
Beach Head CEyler) $50 $50
Black Trooper tHayman) 400
Darn Handsome: Boss Windsweppt
nal. Time, 2:1S
SECOND RAcE-Purse, $500; pace;
C classified; l mile.
Tips Son tMyer) 10.4O 1.S0 60
Dusty Sue tFreyl 600 l.20
Shadydale Sister. Hi Los Songster
Brooke Chief, Eddie's Mr.. York. Time
DAILY DOUBLE G-2) PAID $3.50
THIRD RACE-Purse, $500; pace; c
FinEo's Boy webb $40 4.eO $40
Joanna II. CFleming) 800 ESQ
Velvet Hanover tIubbard) $50
Rhythmn Greed, Homestretch Morris.
Eta W, Return Dividend. Donald Orr.
Time, 2:lS.
FOURTH RACE-Purse, 81, 600; trot;
B classified; / mile
Caprice Hanover BE see 800 $50
Carrie tMcClennyD 600 $3.50
Carries Bonney (Robins0n) $50
Undertaken, Jinnah, Thtstles SON
Jackie Eden, Julian Nathan. Time,
2:l6@
FIFTH RACE-Purse, $500; pace;
c classified; one mile.
Easter Dream tChiek) $50 40 500
Majors Star Crank $50 4 80
Hal Law (RathbOnel 800
JEFF Dillon. Hot Flash, league, Ker-
mel Don, Time, 2;2O4s.
SIXTH RACE--Purse, $4,000; trot;
Glass IA conditioned The Glen
Frysie ROseer'ft GFrgl 7.4O 40 $50
Mister Gallon (HyIan) 1910 $40
Poplar Perk (Hayman) 2.4O
Lockhesrt Royal Nesco, Overture
Time, 2:lS.
SEVENTH RACE - Purse, 81 1000;
pace; B classified: / mile
C'rnT Gr'tfn tCh'r'x) 1920 $50 2.60
Captain Ellis NJ. (Riddickl $40 $50
Prudence AdiOs Crank 40
Linda Joan. Falconridge Peter, Siliko
Direct, Sequin Hanover. Time, 2;ls.
EIGHTH RAcE-Purse, 81 500; pace;
A classified; ! mile.
H'dgew'd Fingo (W'rs) $40 $40 $50
Irving Guy (Riddick) 800 ESQ
Cbestertown Boy (Wilcutts) ESQ
True Bear, Sure Con, Parker Hawk,
Jenny L. Time, 2:15%.
NINTH RACE-Purse. $500: pace
C-classifled. one mile
Sandy McElIen (W'bb) GEO $40 go
Worthy Streak fRuffinOl 500 100
Twilight Star (Iones) 3.20
Red Marvel, Sheratan Pick, Valen-
tine Direct, Shamrock Bobby Time
2:199S. Standardization Boy.
Evening star., 1958-07-13
l4-Yeur-OId
Sea Scout IS
Sail Winner
BY MALCOLM LAAIBORNE
Special writer For The star


A Washington seascout who
at II Is an old hand at Potomac
River racing. yesterday won the
junior sailing championship for
this area.
Ted Weihe, q Corinthian-
Capital Yacht Club scout.
scored three firsts and q sec
ond in a round-robin series
sailed in the Seascouts' Tech
dinghies. His score was the
best of five junior teams which
we're competing for the honor
Of representing the Potomac
River region in the Chesapeake
Bay championships to be held
July % at Corsica River. Md.
Ted and his able crew. Van
Frey, IA, we're never at a loss
in the wet and sometimes
rough sailing OF Cofinthian
Yacht Club. Ted was runner
up in the same series a year
ago and is a second generation
skipper. His father owns a
36-foot ketch which bases at
Corinthian.
His closest rival at the end
of the series was Brian Cotter,
son of Comdr. Ed Cotter, a
leading Penguin skipper. Brian
had two seconds a third and a
first while compiling i0A
points, Ted's total was 1874.
Another second generation
sailor was Owen Oakley, jr.,
who wound up third with eight
points.
The bay championships will
be raced in Penguins, which Is
going to put Ted and his crew
very much on their mettle.
Evening star., 1958-07-13
Picard and RevoItu
Skip PEA Tourney

HAVERToWN, Pa. July IL
tP1.-Two former champions,
Henry Picard and Johnny Re-
volta, have withdrawn from
the Professional Golfers Asso-
citation championship at Liam
erch Country club starting next
Thursday.
The withdrawal Of Picard, of
Cleveland, and Revolta, of
Stoke, H., came with that Of
Cliff Whittle, Twin Falls, Idaho.
Evening star., 1958-07-13
Miss Ashley.
Takes HOnOrs
In Pony Show
BY ANNE CHRISTMAS
Special writer for The star

TIMoNIUM. Nd. July Ia
Rebecca Ashley, 16. of Airing
ton, Va. qualifaed for Madison
Square Garden today by win
ming the SPCA horsemanshir
trophy in the second section
of the country's largest junior
event. the Maryland Pony
Show, which ends tomorrow.
Becky, q senior at Wakefield
High School. rode Tom Corco-
rams Northblen, also from Ar
lington, for the major victory
which makes her eligible for
the finals Of the SPCA at the
National Horse Show in New
York.
Not only did Becky win over
last years equitation champion,
Joannah Hall, but also she won
two other blues with Northblen
to put him on top in the race
for the children's hunter cham
.pionship. Northblen won the
hunter appointments and open
jumpers in his division for a
comfortable lead over his near
est competitors.
Pat Daigh's Bonne Fire from
Silver Spring won the children's
handy hunters to earn five
points in the same division.
Only the weather was a mega
tive factor in today's session,
as in yesterdays, with severe
heat broken by a steady down.
pour Of rain.
With 235 ponies making q
total Of over 1000 entries, the
show was assured of success fol-
its beneficiary, a Baltimore
hospital for crippled children
Bill Stubhlefield of Potomac
Md, sent out Sunny to win his
second important ribbon for an
impressive pile of points in the
small pony division. where rib
bons have been so widely scat
tered that no one has a lead
in points. Sunny, ridden by
Cathy Dowd. had 6 points to
612 for Misty Princess, the
leader.
Bobbie Gardner's Moonbeam
earned a major ribbon when
she won the large pony hunter
appointment class for her
Washington owner. Barbara
Batterton's Over She Goes,
who led the division in yes
terday's session, could do no
better than third in that class.
Evening star., 1958-07-13

was at these quarries that an
other unfortunate drowning
took place in the last few days.
There are two quarries. Free
man said. a large one fire.
quented by swimmers and a
smaller one in which the skin
divers fish.
Though there have been
many arguments as to the
depth of these quarries, Free
man said the larger one is go
feet deep and the smaller, 7S
feet. He has been to the bot
tom of both and measured them
with q depth gauge.
Evening star., 1958-07-13

The next step in the sailing
life of Linda YoungS, the Ches-
apeake Bay women's champion
is the regional championship
at Babylon, N. Y, August 5
and 6. If she wins, then the
national finals will see the
Alexandria skipper. trying for
a crown she has had her eyes
on for years.
Linda, 25-year-old Air Force
secretary, won the bay series
last week on the Severn River
with a crew of Mary jolly and
Mrs. Helen Dodge. The same
9io plans to race at Babylon
1t was Linda's third time as
bay champion, and this time
she did it in Hampton One
design sloops. Linda grew up
N Penguin dinghies but she
knows how to handle all sorts
Of boats. Note: the Babylon
keries will be run in Lightnings
and the Nationals in Luder l6s
n
Capital Power Boat ASSocia-
lions regatta between High
BAY and Lincoln Memorial
Bridges is only two weeks
Sway. and regatta buffs are
teady to go. CPBA Commodore
Art McDougall says boats will
be coming here from six States
3pr the popular midsummer
event.
The July 26 program opens
1t 1880 am. with outboarc
racing hydros running for near.
~ two hours. Then inboard:
take over at 1880 until the
Eindup at Sis. The Sunday
program starts at noon and vii
Ne, devoted entirely to stocl
funabouts and stock hydros
Evening star., 1958-07-13

soon be taking hold and some
good bills have a way of being
stranded in the final rush
Here's hoping that that H.R
l1078 will not be among them
The next focus is the Senate
Interstate and Foreign Com
merce Committee, headed by
Senator Magnuson of Wash
ington. That's the State where
the Gold Cup has been resid-
ing for so long Eastern speed
boat drivers wonder if it won't
soon parallel the Americas
Cup.
The later prize has been in
United States hands since 1851
Evening star., 1958-07-13
NEW SPORT
Divers
IfGet Fish
/. .BySpeor
BY CHARLES COvELL
Outdoor Editor

OatuooN EuAtuf
When midsummer heat
clamps down and you begin
TO think longingly Of cool, green
depths. how about a little
spearfishing?
Maybe you'd like to dive
deeply and spear yourself al
fat carp. Or perhaps some !
founders or tautog. or even |
wrestle q hammerhead shark
Ga big sea turtle.
Spearhshing is a sport widely
INDUCED in by the Chesapeake
Bay Skindiving Association, one
Of the several groups Of skin
divers in the Washington Area
The association is headed by
Mike Freeman, a pro who has
been skin diving since he was
in the Marine Corps in World
War II. Its headquarters are at
his home, 4726 Winslow road,
Kirby Hills. Md. Vice president |
is Doug Scheible of Wynne,
Md, and secretary-treasurer,
Dewey Sprinkle Of Washington.
Week End Outings Held
The membership is made up
Of persons in many occupations
who dive whenever and wher-
ever they get the chance.
Scheible, for instance, is q
young fishing captain, operat-
ing a charter boat for his father
out of Smiths Creek.
Besides diving at various
points on the bay, the group
has weekend outings at
abandoned quarries in the
Washington area and at Ocean
City. Md. where members dive
both in the inlet and offshore.
y outings also are planned at
Rehoboth Beach. Cape HATTIE
raS, Barnegat Bay and at quar-
ries in West Virginia. In the
fall members go to the Florida
Keys.
Freeman said that on a re-
cent Ocean City outing in
which a dozen members took
part, $50 pounds of sea bass
and tautog were speared in the
inlet and of the north tetty.
Fifty pounds Of founders also
were taken, all Of which fur
missed tasty fare for a fish fry
at the skin divers camp on the
beach at North Ocean City.
81 q
!, 14-POund Founder Speared
Occasionally they 60 out to
sFenwick Shoals where the wa
ter is 35 to so feet deep. A IA
pound founder was speared
there last summer.
21 Sometimes members are
called upon to rescue swimmers
or to recover bodies after a
drowning. Such an emergency
arose during an Ocean City
outing over the July 4 week
end.
A 17-year-old summer visitor
sank in Sinepuxent Bay near
the inlet. Cries from nearby
fishermen brought a skin div
ing team headed by Freeman.
With an Aqualung, Mike dove
80 feet and found the youth
trapped at the bottom.
The strong current had swept
the swimmer into an accumula-
ton of debris and this had to
be pried loose before one leg
could be freed. Freeman said
he brought the youth to the
surface 8 minutes after he had
gone down.
Unable to Revive Youth
Artificial respiration applied
by the skin divers on the beach
and later by Coast Guardsmen
with a reSpirator failed to re-
vive the youth, however.
Club members taking part in
addition to Freeman we're Ray
mond Tucker, Everett and Gar
rett Dulin, Lee Nicholson and
Clarence Evans.
Recently members speared
four big carp in Dickerson's
quarries at Darnestown, Md,
is miles beyond Rockville. 1t
Evening star., 1958-07-13
PEA All Set to Test
Medal PIoyfor Title

HAVERTOWN. Pa, July 10
tB.-The Professional Golfers
Association undertakes a big
experiment. next week TO learn
whether q new formal win re-
store the faded prestige Of its
national championship tour
nament.
AS a match-play event, the
PGA championship has lam
guished in recent years. Many
of the top players Stunned II.
Attendance was skimpy and II
became increasingly hard to
persuade clubs to put up the
$4,000 guarantee.
Last winter. after several
years of pickering between
touring players and stay-at-
home professionals. it was de-
cided to make the PGA a four
day, 72-hole medal-play tour-
nament instead Of a week-long
series of head-to-head strug-
giles.
1t will be played that way
for the first time next Thurs
day through Sunday on the
compact, 6,7l0-yard. par 35-35
10 Llanerch Country Club
course on the outskirts Of
Philadelphia.
Real Test of Golf
To some, the change meant
the PGA championship would
become Just another stop for
the touring pros, who play the
same type of tournament every
week. To others, it meant the
championship would be a real
test of golf instead Of an af-
fair in which luck meant. as
much as skill.
The tournament will retain
some Of its unique flavor be-
cause the bulk of the field OF
about ITO will be made up OF
the club pros who seldom play
in big tournaments.
The defending IN a m pit on
Evening star., 1958-07-13

Pairings for the first two
rounds of the six Middle Allan
tic qualifiers:
$40 Thursday and 1919 Friday
Andy Gibson, &C OF Maryland In
Baltimore with John Serafin Of Pitts.
ton, Pa, and Bob Kay, Hartford
Conn.
k12:12 and s:35-walter Romans
Baltimore &C. and Jack Isaacs
Langley AFB, Va, with Bill Ezinicki OF
Lynfield, Mass.
1:29 and 9:59-Charles Bassler
Rolling Road in Eatonsville, Md, with
Mike Krak, Morgantown, W. Va, ano
Phil Friel, Nashua, N. H.
2:04 and 10:27-chandler HARPER
Portsmouth, Va, with Bob Toski
Miami. and Dave Douglas, Clayton. NJ
2:32 and 10:55-Clare Emery
Washington G&cC, with CLYDE Usina
Palm Beach, Fla, and Bob Moore
Fairfax. Calf.
Evening star., 1958-07-13
LEISURE
OPORTSMAN
NOTES on BOATS
EIectronic Aids for Small Boots
By BOB JONES

the deep blue yonder, .ac-
curate navigational equipment
has become highly desirable.
Up to now this has presented
IA problem for small boats be-
cause Of the lack of space and
the greater chance for expo
sure to the elements. Radio
equipment has had to be de-
signed to meet these chal-
lengeS. AS a result compact,
portable units have been de-
veloped for use on small boats.
Further, there is equipment
available which not only is
portable, but is absolutely wa
terproof and will operate COM
pletely submerged on its own
power for two years.
One set, about the size of a
building brick, can be mounted
anywhere on the deck. usually
within reach of the helmsman,
while the compass-bearing unit
connected to the receiver by a
wire can be carried up forward
by one of the crew and operated
from the bow.
There are merits to this
method. A hand-held compass
can be kept in q level position
while taking q reading. giving
a more accurate reading than
the fixed compass. There is also
the advantage Of having an
extra compass forward to use
as a check on the permanently
installed compass.
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On small boats where space
is limited, compass accuracy
can be sensitive to the influence
of cameras. binoculars and
other metallic objects left near
by. The general rule, of course,
is to have the compass cor
rected- for local influence. But.
where space is at q premium,
and even on large ships, a tool
box set down within a foot or
so Of the compass. If that is
not its usual position, can
cause an error Of as much as
10 degrees.