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Evening star., 1959-02-14
Butler Sets Record
As Johnson Wins

Bill Butler, a 6-foot-5 senior,
scored 30 points to break the
Walter johnson school record
by four. as he paced the
Spartans to a 1851 victory last
night at Montgomery Blair.
Butler also hauled down %
rebounds.
Evening star., 1959-02-14
High Point Clicks
On GoIdfude.n's 33

Suitland led High Point for a
quarter, but the Eagles clawed
back to win.' 87-6l. in a Mary
land Bi-County League basket
ball game at Suitland last night.
Dave Goldfaden set a school
scoring record with a 33-point
production for High Point.
Evening star., 1959-02-14
Spineorn Wins

Spingarn, the Interhigh
Leagues East Division leader,
used all Is players in running
up a 77-56 basketball victory
over Paige-J ackson from
Charles Town, w. Va. yester-
day in a non-league game at
CnipuorY1
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Jackson Advances

Luther Jackson pulled into Q
tie with Walker-Grant for
fourth place in the VIA Group
II District / basketball stand
ings with a .56-48 victory over
Walker-Grant last night at
Merriefield. Va. Both teams
have 1914 league records.
Evening star., 1959-02-14
Hoffman Grubs Leud

Hohman-BoSton moved into
undiSputed first place in the
Group II District / basketball
standings of the Virginia Inter-
scholastic Association with a
47-36 triumph last night at
Parker Gray. Hoffman now
has a 9-l league record and
Parker.CSrav 8-2
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la league records.

Totals IS IL AS Totals % 10 SO
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Splngarn
Maryland Wins

Maryland University SWIM
mers won all but two events
yesterday in defeating South
Carolina, $3.50, in an Atlantic
Coast Conference meet at
Maryland.
Evening star., 1959-02-14
Northwestern Wins

Northwestern played an all
junior five for the first half but
had to send the seniors to the
rescue in the second half to
defeat Oxon Hill. 54-45. in a
Maryland Bi-County League
basketball game at Northwest
ern last night.
Evening star., 1959-02-14

Senior Mike Northrop had
his best shooting day, scoring
% points, as Longfellow's baS-
ketball team defeated Quantico
Post, 56-37, at Kensington
| Ar,,. r,.,, ,,oekocJaS,
Evening star., 1959-02-14
Blair WrestIers Win

Montgomery Blair High
School won its. first wrestling
match in two years of varsity
composition by defeating Cal
thershurg. 26-l5.' yesterday at
Blair. ''s.o o. q. 20 .
Evening star., 1959-02-14
AnnonduIe Wins

Terry Geib broke open a close
game for Annandale with two
quick baskets at the start of
the fourth quarter as the Atoms
defeated winless Lee. 60-49. in
a. Northern Virginia Group I
no r,nn Ia CT tainhf of Lee
Evening star., 1959-02-14
Blades Take Lead

Bladensburg, now undlsputed
leader in. the Maryland BIZ
County League, defeated sur
prisingly tuogh Mackin. 53-46,
in a league contest at
Riadensburg last night.
Evening star., 1959-02-14

Fraser didn't pIay.
Evening star., 1959-02-14

Falls Church, down II points
at halftime. turned on the full
court press to overtake and
beat Groveton's basketball
team, 1894. last night at
Grovetnn
Evening star., 1959-02-14

Chamberlain kept Phelps at
the bottom Of the Interhigh
Leagues East Division with a
59-45 basketball victory yes
terdaY at Eastern.
Evening star., 1959-02-14

>Priory ran its season record
to Ills with an 8o-4e basket
ball victory over Charlotte Hall
last night at Priory.
Evening star., 1959-02-14
NO. VIRGINIA GROUP I
BY CARL SELL
Star Stah Writer

Hammond High Schools bas-
ketball team has finally broken
the logjam at the top Of the
Northern Virginia Group ]
League and, more important
mastered a possession-type. Of
play, that was almost unknown
Ito them, in a matter Of eight
minutes.
Evening star., 1959-02-14

Totals "a 1853 Totals 81 II
Halftime. .3l-30. Wheaton,
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Falls Church Rallies

Totals 12 73l Totals 12 .52e
Halftime: 23-19, Hammond.
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Armory yesterday

Totals l0l7a7 Totals 81 IA st
Halftime: 30-l0, Longfellow
Evening star., 1959-02-14
'CarroII's Guns Hit

Totals 20l757 Totals
Halftime: 1928, .peMatha.
Evening star., 1959-10-21
Loss to the City

The impending retirement of Walter
L. Fowler, District Budget Officer, will
deprive the District of one of its more
competent and valued officials. AS a
native son, Mr.. Fowler applied himself
to variety of difficult municipal tasks
with tireleSS energy and devotion born
of his desire to aid in the building of a
greater, more beautiful National Capital.
1t was his difficult job in recent
years, however, to try to reconcile plans
for city improvement with limited funds
available under the dual-f1nancing ar
rangement peculiar to the Federal seat
of Government. He performed this task
well, although in so doing he sometimes
was in conflict with other city officials
or with members of Congress-
Washington is fortunate in having
available as Mr.. Fowler's successor an
other veteran public servant, David P.
Herman, who has been Mr.. Fowler's
strong right hand in the Budget Office
for number of years. Mr.. Herman, too,
has evidenced his devotion to Washing
ton and his sure grasp of the city'S
complex financial problems. We wish
him well as he prepares to take over his
new responsibilities.
Evening star., 1959-10-21
Party Above Person

There has been much that is re-
freshing about New York'S Governor
Rockefeller since he committed himself
last year to politics. His attractive per-
Sonality, his care and skill at planning
and his vigor as campaigner were
major factors in the success of his first
bid for elective office-as chief execu-
tive of the Empire State. Installed at
Albany, he showed further skill and
considerable courage in his dealing with
the Legislature particularly on the
related issues of taxation and public
spending.
In the current phase of his thus
far short political career, he is display
ing again capacity for good judgment
and what appears to be a responsible
attitude toward his own Republican
Party. Mr.. Rockefeller is, of course,
widely mentioned as a prospective
G.O.P. presidential nominee-the only
rival, in fact, to Vice President Nixon.
In that status, Mr.. Rockefeller has been
subjected to persistent effort by news
correspondents, and to some extent by
other political figures, to commit himself
as presidential candidate. This he has
declined to do, and probably wisely so
at this time. He has, in addition, been
questioned with comparable persistence
for his views on Mr.. Nixon's qualifica-
tionS for the highest honor which the
party and the Nation may bestow.
In this area the New York Gov
ernor has displayed sense of fairness
and OF party responsibility. The nixon
can't win" theme that has cropped up
occasionally, just as similar tactics were
employed against the late Senator Taft,
has received no encouragement from
Mr.. Rockefeller. Most recently, at
news conference in Chicago, the New
York Governor expressed the opinion
that any Republican who conducts a
fortnight and courageous campaign
could win the presidency in 1860. He
added, then, that he expected" Mr..
Nixon would conduct such a campaign,
if nominated.
This does not mean, of course, that
Mr.. Rockefeller may not become a can
didate himself or engage Mr.. Nixon in
an all-out convention fight for the NOM
ination. 1t does mean that he is not
currently engaged in tearing down his
potential rival aEd perhaps, by so doing,
hurting his own party'S prospects of
retaining the seat in the White House.
Evening star., 1959-10-21
Cal Strikes Out

We are glad that the Senators will
remain in Washington for at least an
other year, and we hope that the team
will stay here for long time to come.
1t would be a shame if Washington,
the National Capital, were out of big
league baseball.
We do not feel quite the same way
about Calvin Griffith, the clubs presi-
dent. He will be in Washington next
year, not because he wants to stick
around, but because he has no place
else to go. The other club owners in
the league refused to let him move to
Minneapolis. What Mr.. Griffith does.
of course, is Mr.. Griff1ths business. He
is in baseball to make money, and there
is nothing wrong with that. But if we
were in his shoes we would be inclined
to sell out to someone VINO wants to
run ball club in Washington, and who
believes there is money to be made in
doing so. On the face of his own state
Evening star., 1959-10-21
Highway Storm Clouds

Among political controversies brew
ing for the next session of Congress.
none is shaping up more clearly than
a fight over the future of the Nations
41,O0O-mUe system of Federal inter-
state highways. The fur began flying in
August, when Congress gave the pro-
gram only limited reprieve with a
penny-a-gallon gasoline tax increase,
and the tempo has picked up steadily
since.
The latest storm signal was hoisted
by Representative Scherer, Republican
of Ohio. In speech to the American
Association of State Highway officials,
Mr.. Scherer charged that a special
White House study committee already
has prepared recommendations to Sub
Stantially de-emphasize, if not COM
pletely eliminate" Federal funds for
highway construction in urban and in
duStrial areas. The Associated Press, in
a follow-up story which quoted Maj.
Gen. John S. Bragdon, the special pres
idential assistant in charge of the study,
indicated that the study groups precise
findings have by no means been de-
termined. But some cutback in urban
highway aid, according to the story,
apparently is one possibility under
study, along with such other alterna-
tives as 1) reduction in the 80 per
cent contribution the Federal Govern
ment now pays for interstate roads and
(2) lengthening of the goal to COM
plete the interstate system by 1872.
Most of these possibilities, of course,
are political dynamite. Urban areas,
for example, produce nearly half of all
the revenues which supply Federal
highway aid fund, so it hardly seems
likely that substantial cutbacks will be
made in this region. Since many States
are having rough time coming up with
even the 10 per cent matching money
it needed under the present formula,
there also will be strong resistance to
any change in this direction.
The fact remains, however, that
there simply isn't enough Federal money
to meet the ambitious goals that Con-
greSS set for the interstate program in
1856. It is for this reason that the
administration already has cut back
spending this year. The House Public
Works Committee believes there is
bound to be waste and extravaganza in
any program so huge, and it will launch
an investigation along these lines in
January. Any savings this probe turns
up, however, are not likely to be great
enough to sidetrack the main effort
a search for new sources of revenue.
A basic review of the programs
financing has always been contemplated
in 1861, and both Republicans and Dem
ocrats may welcome the opportunity to
postpone firm decisions in the 1860 elec-
ton year. But developments already
insure that highways will be major
political issue, contributing to stormy
session of Congress.
Evening star., 1959-10-21
NucIeor Collaboration

Chairman John McCone of the
Atomic Energy Commission has raised
at least glimmer of hope for a salts
factory exchange of nuclear research
data between scientists of the United
States and Russia. AS with so many
other efforts toward cooperation be-
tween the two nations, however, the
prospects in this case seem to hang on
willingness by the Soviet to yield as
much as it gets.
The hope, as expressed by Mr..
McCone after Today tour of Russian
research installations, springs in good
part from the apparent eagerness of
SOVIET scientists to participate in ar
rangementS which would make advances
in the peaceful uses of atomic energy
OF mutual benefit to both countries.
Nuclear research is, of course, an ex-
tremely sensitive field, and great care
would have to be taken to define limits
OF activity. Certainly neither side would
risk the disclosure of atomic secrets of
military Importance. But Mr.. McCone
believes cooperative exchanges of some
Kind may be worked out on a wide
range of basic research Negotiations
toward this end presumably will be
entered after a delegation of Russian
scientists makes return visit to some
OF our laboratories and research centers.
Mr.. McCone has made it clear, how
ever, that the Soviet'S tight restrictions
on nuclear data generally are definite
threat to collaboration" even at this
early stage. Both sides must have the
same ground rules in classification of
information so that free discussion can
take place in all facets of work." the
Acc director emphasized. otherwise
collaboration will break down."
The possibilities, however, are well
worth pursuing. Mr.. McCone reports
that a wide gap is not likely to be
opened between the two countries in
progress on thermonuclear energy con-
trol-aS has been opened in rocketry-
and that comparable numbers of scien-
lists are at work on several types of
basic research. 1t would be a great
achievement if Science-which has done
SO much to widen the gap between the
East and WeSt-could become a vehicle
for leSsening tensions and at the same
time producing positive benefits to man.
Evening star., 1959-10-21
Loyalty Plea

The loyalty oath is fiercely
opposed and denounced on
many an American univer-
Sity campus. Both the edu-
Gators and the students
claim that it is distaSteful
and insulting. Why?
Why should any good and
loyal American object to af-
firming such allegiance to
the Constitution of the
United States and all that
we hold dear?
At a time when the House
Committee on Un-American
Activities continues to amasS
new and shocking evidence
about Communist sabotage
against our country, Amer
lea today needs more dedi-
Gated, patriotic citizens than
ever before.
The greatest danger to
America today is neither in
f1ation nor the condition of
the national budget. 1t is
and will be international
communism, the m a jor
menace of our time!
Imants BalOdiS.
Evening star., 1959-10-21

ments, Mr.. Grifith has neither this
desire nor this belief
This could make things rough for
the Senators next year, since the fans
are apt to be as disenchanted with Mr..
Griffith as Mr.. Grifflth seems to be with
them. 1t would be senseless, however,
to make the ball club take the rap. The
Senators are going to be with us next
year, and probably for some years to
come. Consequently, those who want
big league baseball in our town should
do whatever can be done to boost the
morale of the team. 1t is going to be
low enough, at best.
Evening star., 1959-10-21
Labor Bill Lockinq

The new labor reform bill
is a good bill as far as it
goes but it doesn't go far
enough. For one thing the
bill says nothing about the
most important civil rights in
the employment fields, which
is the right to join or the
right to refuse to join a labor
union. AS long as a man must
join a union in order to work
to earn a livelihood for him
self and family and to go on
strike when ordered to do so
by a union, he is not a free
man.
The steel workers union is
displaying the power it has
over the working man. 1t has
tied up the steel industry,
which is the most important
industry economy-wiSe in the
country, for about three
months, breaking down our
economy and furthering in
f1ation.
A short time ago a union
was picketing a Federal Gov
ernment building in the Ma
tion's Capital. Unless a
stronger labor law is enacted
soon, the executive and legiS-
lative branches of the Federal
Government will have to join
unions or the pickets will be
thrown around their head
quarters. and they will be
forced to close up shop. The
handwriting is on the wall
and our vote-Seekers may just
as well face it. The only solu-
ton to curb these powerful
labor lords is to outlaw union
shops. NiSh Showers.
Evening star., 1959-10-21

I am in full agreement with
your view recently expressed
that the 1864 Worlds Fair
should be held in Washing
ton. The arguments for it
stand thus:
Cd Washington is the Ma
tion's Capital. 1t is therefore
just and appropriate that the
Capital should be the fair
site. The first Worlds Fair
was held in London in 1851.
Prince Albert, the organizer,
decided on London because it
was the British capital. Since
then worlds fairs have been
held in all important capitals,
like Paris, Berlin, Rome,
Moscow and Tokyo. but never
in Washington.
CD The District is very
tight on its budget. The fair
would bring it much-needed
income. New York, Chicago
and Los Angeles, the other
contesting cities, do not need
the money. We do.
90 The New York Daily
News said October 16 that
New York having lost the
American League pennant to
Chicago this year, should get
the Worlds Fair as compen-
sation. This is ridiculous.
They still have the U.N. They
can say we have the en-
bassies. But they have the
consulates. Almost every
country that has a chancel-
lery in Washington has a
consulate in New York. And
sometimes more work is done
in the consulates than in the
chancellerieS.
"a In Washington fair
visitors will see how our Gov
ernment works. The Presi-
dent lives here. The Congress
meets here. The Supreme
Court sits here. The fact is
that our democratic political
institutions are the best
things we have to offer the
rest of the world. All these
sights will be denied the visi-
tors if the fair is held else
where.
When our Capital City was
being built, George Washing
ton said that the Nation will
produce a city, though not
as large as London, yet with
a magnitude inferior to few
others in Europe" Why belle
his hopes in refusing us the
fair?
MOhammed A. Rauf, Jr.
Evening star., 1959-10-21

AS Armed Forces Day ap-
proaches, it may be well to
take a brief look at how one
of them, the Navy, reached
it's present advanced state of
evolution, which now pro-
ceeds with bewildering speed
as new weapon systems ap-
pear.
The modern Navy is a
young Navy. It's entire his
tory has taken place within
the lifetime of many officers
now living, including the
writer, and within the life
time of Admiral Arleigh A.
Burke and others who exer-
else high command.
The, organization of the
United States Fleet in No
vember, 1902, marked a real
revolution in the Navy. AS
signment of ships to scat
tered stations to protect
American interests" gave way
to organization of tactical
units charged with achieving
fighting efficiency. These
units in turn were organized
into a fleet under command
Of the Commander, North
Atlantic Squadron, who was
charged with assembling them
annually for feet maneuvers
and training.
The announcement of this
revolutionary new organiza-
ton and mission took place
in the Culebra area with
Admiral Dewey going to sea
in command. 1t was thus
that President Theodore
Roosevelt, when he sent word
to the Kaiser to stop coercing
Venezuela or he would send
Admiral Dewey and the fleet
down there, actually did, for
the first time in our history,
have such a feet to send.
Organization of the feet
Evening star., 1959-10-21
THIS AND THAT
By CHARLES E. TRACEWELL

This column began on
July 8, 1924.
It had been preceded by
four years by the Heard and
Seen" column, which the late
Earl Goodwin relinquished
when he went to the old
Washington Times.
The writer here has been
able to do but two things in
this world, read and write.
We have read millions and
millions of words, since the
age of 8 years, and written
millions of words from the
age of 8 on.
It is easy to see now, that
living things were what in
tereSted us from the start.
This urge caused us to go to
the Zoo every Saturday, as a
child, and to compile scrap
books made from small filters
in The Evening Star about
animals.
The philosopher side came
from reading all the great
works of the ancient philos-
ophers, from the age of IL
years on, Greek, Roman and
Christian.
Illness in childhood made
reading (and eating animal
crackerS) mandatory.
The essay style comes nat
urally, perhaps, to anyone
with a slightly pedantic
mind. The tinge of pedantry
is saved by interest in people
and animals, birds, fishes and
insects, germs and viruses.
An interest, in other words,
in living things.
Our kind correspondent
seems amazed to find the
man whom Diogenes searched
for in vain 1000 years ago.
No doubt it was just as un-
usual then as now to find
someone with no axes to
grind and no propaganda to
put over.
Evening star., 1959-10-21
How Our American Navy First Weighed Anchor

groups OF f1rSt claSSmen. Al
most coincident with the
establishment Of the fleet,
wireless was invented and
the Wright Brothers flew an
airplane; planes were soon
used by the Navy.
One feature necessary to
fleet operation was still lack
ing. The Secretary had no
responsible professional ad-
wiser. In 1909, in the Taft
administration, Secre AIRY
Meyer appointed four aids, Of
whom the senior was the
Aide for Operations. Rear
Admiral Wainwright was ap-
pointed to this post and ac-
complished wonders in the
development of the fleet and
it's supporting units. In the
next administration. how
ever. the new Secretary had
no sympathy with the aide
system and would have let
it die had not Congress be-
come convinced of the value
of the Aide for Operations
and made the Office statutory
with the title of Chief OF
Naval Operations. Admiral
Burke thus fulf1lls in a meas
ure the function first ably
performed by Admiral VAIN
wright. He deploys his forces
over the seven seas; he main
tains them for long periods
away from home ports and
he strives constantly to arm
them with the longest range
and most powerful weapons
as they become available.
Today's feet is. thus. the
same fleet established in
1902, governed by the prin-
ciples then set forth. Its
potency is the product Of
evolution to fit changing
times and technologies.
d. E. Cummings,
Capt, U.S.N. Ret.
Evening star., 1959-10-21

@. How many States have
the cardinal as their State
bird?-M. r.
A. Seven States thus honor
the cardinal, which is not
only a beautiful bird but is
useful to man in helping con-
troll the cotton boil weevil
and the codling moth. The
States are Illinois, Indiana,
Kentucky, North Carolina,
Ohio, Virginia. and West Vir-
ginia.
@. Where can I find B. Y.
Williams poem that begins,
Take what God gives"?-
G. A.
A. The late Bertye Young
Williams three-stanza poem
Your House of Happiness"
may be found in her boob
House of Happiness" (1928,
and in the Harper anthology.
Masterpieces Of Religious
Verse" 1t begins, Take what
God gives, o heart of mine I
And build your house. Of hap
piness."
Evening star., 1959-10-21

did not take place without
preparation. In the middle
eighties Chief Engineer King
was sent abroad to report in
detail on the materiel of the
more advanced European
navies, and thereafter steel
ships, modern guns, and
modern engines were de-
signed and built, to replace
our obsolete old Navy. Naval
materiel improved progress
Sively.
Concurrently new ideas
for naval employment were
developed. The Naval War
College was established and,
feebly at first, worked to-
ward naval progress. The
Naval Institute served as a
forum for the officers, among
whom 1t. Richard Wainwright
began his long series of preg-
nant articles on how the
future Navy of the United
States should be employed in
wars. 1t was his thesis that
the Navy should be employed
as a fighting force as far
away from our own coasts as
possible, using the longest
range and most powerful
weapons available.
The new fleet thus began
its career with fine new guns.
steel ships and sound doc
trineS. Us first task was to
learn how to use and improve
what it had. Fifteen years
we're spent learning how to
shoot to attain tactical prof.
cheney and to learn to keep
the engines running for long
periods away from home
ports. The battle fleet for
this purpose was sent around
the world.
Before 1902 there was a sub
marine at the Naval Academy
which was visited by the
Superinten n dent and by