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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-04-07
Shift Of Patterson-London
Gets Blast From Las Vegas
Moyl Bout Goes
To indianapolis
TV in Question

INDIANAPOLIS. April 7
(AP)-Promoter Cecil Rhodes,
jr., returns here today hoping
to tie together the loose ends
after suddenly switching the
May heavyweight title bout
between Champion Floyd Pat
terson and England's Brian
Lordon from Las Vegas, Nevr
to indianapolis.
Rhodes, q Crawford. N. j..
industralist promoting his first
fight, announced the switch in
sites yesterday. contending he
wanted TO escape rumors OF
gamblers backing.
The new site Of the fight,
first heavyweight title bout in
Indiana boxing history, is the
State Fair Grounds Coliseum
with a seating capacity Of about
1880.
Civic Leaders Irate
Rhodes, a 34-year-old Har-
ward law graduate, said there
weren't any gamblers backing
the Las Vegas fight, but added:
II don't want that kind OF
implication"
In Las Vegas, civic leaders
scoffed at the announced rea-
son for the switch.
President Tom Underhill OF
the Chamber Of Commerce is
sued this statement:
I'VE of Las Vegas strongly
resent any influence that this
title bout has been taken from
our community because of any
pressure or influence from Las
Vegas legalized gambling in
duStry.
IF the truth be known, Las
Vegas did not solicit this fight
in the first place. and it is now
being moved to Indianapolis be-
cause resort operators have re-
fused to give the financial sup
port requested by the fight
promoter"
Wanted Hotel Guarantee
Beldon Katleman Of the Ell
Rancho Hotel. contact man
here for Rhodes, said Rhodes
wanted leading hotels to put up
a money guarantee and become
part of tie mcmoSon.
But the hotelman turned him
down. They would furnish
press facilities and training
quarters. but no more.
Insiders said Las Vegas
wanted the fight, but it doesn't
want to become known as a
soft touch for promoters. The
town feels an attraction should
be able to make good on its
own merits, not require a sub
sidy from the hotels.
The first word civic leaders
| had of the switch was from
newSmen.
There was some question
about a television contract for
the fight, but AL Farb of In
dianapolis, co-promoter of the
fight, said he believed Rhodes
would have it worked out when
he returned here.
Rhodes said earlier yester-
day he believed the National
! See FIGHT, Page A-26
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-04-07
TODAY'S SPORTS
ON TELEVISION
Wrestling

From Connecticut, WTTG-5,
7:30 pm.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-04-07
BY BURTON HAWKINS
star stan Writer


The Senators, showing great
courage. have returned to town
at a time when a retreat To
Florida seemed strategic. Fur
thermore, they are promising to
show up Thursday at Griffith
Stadium to battle Baltimore in
the season opener, when all
their exhibition sins win be for
given If they win.
They concluded their tuneups
yesterday at Charlotte. N. c.,
where the White Sox dealt
them a ninth straight defeat
9-6. Since they ended last sea-
son with Is successive losses
the sensation isn't novel. nor il
II less CALLING to them. They'd
love to experience victory &C.
casionally, but by this time
they are wondering how it's ac-
complished.
It's possible that the Sena-
tors, to retain what is left Of
their shredded respect, viii
escort Roy Sievers to and from
the park in a Drinks truck, &C.
companied by a physician
nurse and Pinkerton guards. II
anything happens to that noted
slugger the Senators may look
like living corpses.
Sievers played in II Of the
Senator'S % exhibitions, OF
which they won eight. He
wound UP batting $40, slammed
five homers and batted in II
runs. He's precious to the club
be 1t ever so humble, as a mar
who may prevent complete
collapse.
Courtney Returns
But seldom has one mar
been asked to do SO much
With Clint Courtney returning
to the lineup-he caught the
entire game yesterday ater be-
ing out Of action since March
81 with a hairline fracture Of
the right leg-the team may
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-04-07
B. T. O'ConneIl Dies,
Father of Couch

DIES MONIES, Iowa, April Z
(AP). - B. T. O'Connell, So,
father of Tommy O'Connell,
new Drake football coach, died
at his home in Pompano Beach,
Fla, yesterday.
The elder O'Connell suffered
a heart attack about a week
ago. Burial will be in Chicago.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-04-07
Howe Snubs Offer
To Tour Europe

DETROIT, April z (AP)-
Gordie Howe Of the Detroit Red
Wings has turned down an in
vitation to tour Europe later
this month with the Boston
Bruins and the New York
Rangers.
II talked with my doctors
about my injured ribs" Howe
said. land he feels I should
rest them as much as possible.
Too. we have a new baby girl
and I'd rather spend the time
lat home"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-04-07
Injury 10 Witt
PutsCIOud on
Pirates Hopes
b. the Asaoclated Press

For a new line on Pitts
burgh's chances for the Ma
tional League pennant. forget
those exhibition linescores and
cock an ear for the medical re-
port on George Wits trouble
some arm.
The young Highlander, q
pitching sensation as a rookie
last season when he shrugged
of arm trouble and won seven
straight for the longest string
of the year in the National
League, was sent on to Pitts
burg last night for an exami-
nation by the club physician.
The trouble centers in a
painful elbow, which the red
head thinks was strained origi-
nally when he tried to develop
a slider two years ago in the
minors. The trouble popped up
again yesterday and Witt was
forced from the mound after
one inning as the Pirates fin
ished their stay in Florida
with a 2-l victory over Kansas
City at Fort Myers.
Witt had a 90 record and
a l.61 earned-run average last
year.
Giants Outlast Tribe
In other games, the Giants
went II innings before beating
Cleveland, SO, on Don Taus"
sig's home run. The Red Sox
belted the Cubs, 11-3; the
Tigers defeated the Cardinals,
To; the White Sox beat Wash
ington, 9-6; Spokane defeated
the Dodgers. 80. and Cincin-
natl smacked Savannah. 1872,
Harvey Haddix, Ron Black
burn and Fred Green took
charge of the pitching after
Wits quick exit and kept the
Athletics blanked until tie
ninth as the Pirates won their
fourth in a row for a 1912
spring record.
1 Blackburn, working in his
first game since returning from
service, was the winner as Ro-
man Mejias squeezed in the
winning run in the seventh
inning. George Brunei was the
loser for the AS, who scored
in the ninth on Harry Simp-
sons home run.
Is Hits for Red SOx
Taussig's two-run shot of
Hal Woodeshick was one of five
home runs by the Giants al
Topeka. Ed Bressoud hit his
sixth and seventh of the spring
while Danny O'Connell and
Felipe Alou each counted once
Curt Barclay won it, after
Minnie Minoso's 10th-inning
homer. his fourth hit, tied II
for the Tribe.
The Red Sox socked four Cub
pitchers for is hits. handing
Joe Scheffernoth the loss in a
See BASEBALL, Page AIS
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-04-07
z N. Y. Races
Sure 10 Affect
Field in Derby
Intentionally Set
For Further Tests
In Gotham, Wood
By the Associated Press

The winner Of the $75.00(
added Wood Memorial at ia.
maica April Is may not 60 OF
TO a Kentucky Derby triumph
two weeks later In Louisville
But things are shaping uT
among the 3-year-olds at the
ancient Long Island racing
plant and the next two Satur-
days will give the New York
customers and the network TV
onlookers q lot Of the answers
The Brookfield Farms In.
tentionally, one Of the better
Triple Crown prospects. made
his 1859 racing debut in q 6.
furlong sprint at Jamaica yes.
terday and won impressively b.
6la lengths. He led all the way
On March %, the Elkcan
Stables Atoll captured thu
Swift Stakes at Jamaica JUS
as easily, whipping Inescapable
another Brookfield Farm colt
Last Friday Open View. anothel
Elkcam Stable colt. won a mile
and-one-sixteenth race at ia
maica.
First Landing Missing
The SIS, Oo0-added Gotham
Stakes, also ct q mile and one
sixteenth, will be run Satur'
day with. about ten 3-year-old
expected to start. The onl.
big name Derby horse in New
York not nominated for tn
Gotham is c. T. Chenery's FRS
Landing. the 2-year-old cham
pion of 1858. The Gotham tel
evision time tCBS) is 4 to 4:S
pm.
When Intentionally, Atoll
Open View, Reginald N. Web
ster's Royal Anthem, the Kin
Ranch's Black Hills and other
tangle in the Gotham. it shoul'
be a thriller. At the same time
it will point up not only FRS
landings opposition in tn
mile-and-one-eighth Wood Me
mortal, but should indicat
who has enough class to rat
a trip to Louisville from tn
New York area.
C. v. Whitney's Silver Spoor
the f1lly that trimmed the colt
in the Santa Anita Derby. ais
must be reckoned with. s
must Jim Norris Easy Spul
who won the Florida Derb
Saturday.
But the railbirds at Jamaic
swear that this year the Ken
lucky Derby horse is comm
straight from Long Island t
grab the roses.
Shoemaker Impressed
Willie Shoemaker may hay
made UP his mind about
Derby mount after his rid
aboard Intentionally in yester
days Hampstead Plains Purs,
The colt is the best Maryland
owned 3-year-old since Nativ
Dancer in 1853.
He did everything right.
Shoemaker said. "He was read
for the break and came out q
there running. He went alon
evenly and you couldn't b
See RACING. Page Az
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-06-21

runs out. Besides. / can wear
tall hats. something those
with lots of height can't do"
Another GWHS teen-ager.
Paul Freidson. wouldn't
change his 4-foot-10ha-inch
height for anything. Because
of my size. I was the cox
swain of the junior varsity
crew at school," says Paul.
And I like my size for
roughing around. I can slip
through the bigger boys legs
and they can't catch me. My
size is good for hiding. too.
like in shallow holes If some
ones chasing me-"
Ellen Garfield,~a 58-inch
Falls Church High graduate.
says people jump to help her
carry packages and open
doors for her because her size
makes them feel she's help
less. II Just love being short"
says Ellen. Its an attention
getter."
Jeanette Puryear. a Sur
rattsville High 10th grader.
states her case for being
short this way: II never have
to duck my head. especially
on school buses. And l can
duck under the bleachers for
friends II anyone drops
something"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-06-21
What It's Like to Be Short

though Kathy Berthrong Of
Herndon High points out
she can buy a ballerina dress
and on her 4-foot-10k2-inch
stature it's full length.
For some of the boys.
there's the embarrassment of
having to buy pants in the
children's department of the
store in order to get a 1T.
There's the discomfort Of
cricked necks from looking
up at tall people. There's the
cutoff circulation that
comes from feet that can't
reach the floor when short
teen-agers sit at their school
desks. During exams Kathy
Berthrong stacks books UNI
der her feetD
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-06-21
Movies and Cars

There's the problem of
finding an aisle seat or sit
ing on ones coat in order to
see at the movieS-and the
need to sit on a pillow when
driving a car.
There's the big problem Of
looking younger than your
age-a problem that belongs
exclusively to teen-agers.
people think I'm H." says
15-year-old Janet Perry,
because I'm little"
II couldn't get into the
hospital to see my sister be-
cause no one would believe
I was over 16." explains
Ellen GARFIELD. Paul Freid-
son says teachers tell him
he's in the wrong school and
then point the way to the
elementary school.
But these handicapS. along
with putting up with nick
n a mes like Shorty"
shrimp" Half Pint"
Tiny" and Squirt" owe
know people are only teasing
and we're used to IT," they
say, don't make the shorts
long to stretch upward.
Cathy Campbell, a 4-foot-
8-inch immaculate junior.
even claims short people have
better posture, on the whole.
than tail ones. Short peo-
pie make every inch count"
she says.
Herndon's Kathy Berth
rong agrees, recalling the
time she dated q boy 8 feet
3 inches tall: II had to
stand on the steps to kiss him
good night"
Which just proves that
short people can always rise
to the occasion.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-06-21

Continued From Poee !

Continued from Io9e
caught because I'm so short
the teacher doesn't see me-"
Janet Perry. a 5-foot
Gaithersburg High junior.
doesn't want to add lot of
inches to her stature either.
I'm a cheerleader-the
shortest of course-and it's
easier for me to jump
around" says Janet. And
when 1 watch games. people
always let me stand in front
of them because I'm little"
Anyone would envy Car
oline Kehoe. a 4-foot-5-inch
Mount Vernon High sopho-
more. Il can't reach the
kitchen sink so I can't wash
the Dishes" she says.
There's a lot to be said in
the case of Bobbie parzow.
too. Bobble, q Montgomery
Blair junior. can get into the
movies on a child's ticket
without kneeling at the cash..
ier's window, AT Is, she's 4
feet IL inches tall and
weighs rs pounds.
Another Blair junior. Lorrie
GoldStein, likes her height Of
4 feet 7 inches. when I
dance. I'm light on my feet
because I'm usually flying
through the air. And I don't
mind sitting on telephone
books. It's handy when I
have to look up a number.
No, I don't get tired looking
up at people. / make them
sit down"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-06-21
Spikes at Graduation

Kay Johnson. an Alice
Deal Junior High graduate.
is happy that she is only 4
feet Ga inches tall. II got to
wear spikes at my gradua-
tion," Kay recalls. "a lot Of
the girls couldn't because
they didn't want to be taller
than the teachers or the
boys"
Naturally. the short teen
ayers have some things to
squawk about.
There are the dresses the
girls have to hem-even
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-06-21
Conversation Piece

Sharon Philippe. q George
Washington High junior.
likes the advantage her A.
foot-9-inch height gives her
with boys.
II can date all size boys
the tails and the shorts"
says Sharon. MY height Is .
conversation piece II the talk
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-05-24

''Creat Wheels" are to be no less than seven feet
apart and the passenger compartment between
them IS six-and-a-haH feet high. ThereT be no
crouching and groselling to set into this = the
faceforward doors reach nearly TO the roof. Three
comfortably wide seats are set side BY side with the
driver handling tiller, not steering Wheel in the
middle. Such is the head room that passengers
might well be a pair Of six-foOt-six Buckingham
Palace guards complete with bcsrskin hats
This CO has runnins bo~ds
Visibility should be wonderful, for from point
over the drivers head down to his knees the entire
front Of the passenger compartment IS to be Of
some transparent material Even the doors are
transparent right down to the running boards =
yes, this car has running boards!
IL You think that the Great Wheels" might cut
down your view TO the sides, you haven't reckOncd
with Mr.. Wright, for he proposed that large round
holes be stamped in - Continued on page IS
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-05-24

wheels, which geared to the engine, no less
than Ix feet in diameter. One wheel is an IN
hated rubber sphere and only one is the sort Of
wheel you're used to having on your car.
The two Great Wheels" as Mr.. Wright called
them, are set roughly amdship with the engine and
transmission between them. The spherical wheel
is in front (some nine feet in 'FRONT.', and the
mal-sized wheel which pivots, and thereby steers
the car, is wen aft line drawn through the points
where the wheels touch the road would give
diamond-shapcd figure instead of the prosaic rec
tangle that your cars wheels make. The two
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-05-24

VWE late Frank Lloyd Wright has been hailed in
Il newspapers, magazines and over the air for his
great and often revolutionary contributions to the
art of designing houses, factories and public build
ings. He has also been praised for his bold think
ing about the furniture that went inside his build
ings, and the highways approaching them.
But few people are aware that this modern Leo
nardo da Vinci also had some highly original ideas
about automobiles. Above is a drawing of the car
Wright designed and discussed in his last book,
''The Living City"
Six-eoos wheels!
Like other automobiles, this one has four wheels,
an enclosed place to sit in and an engine. But if
you think that Mr.. Wright going to put the
four wheels at the four corners of his machine and
then dispose the other autOmotive viscera in amy
stodgy normal fashion, you're wrong.
In the first place, the four wheels are of three
different types and sizes; two Of them, the driving
The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1959-12-18

The Hilltop Record
West SIDE News
South Side Leader
RuTGl-U Urban Meas
Eastern RegieW
RegnoldSbarg Record
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1959-12-25

III Of the 1857 civil-rights bEIl-
the part which would have given
the federal government power 10
enjoin school-segregation practices.
1t adds up to this: tOday's Demo
cratic Party leadership does not
lead 30 much as It Is pushed. and
to pass a civil-rights bin means
that Democratic liberals win sinp-
ly have to exert more pressure on
the leadership than do the Southern
Democrats. At the outset Of the
first session Of the present Con-
gress, the heat" for civil rights
seemed to be on, and the Senate
Majority Leader did introduce q
civil-rights bin Of sorts. But as
soon as the steam went out Of the
liberal drive for a real piece Of
legislation, even the thin measure
introduced by the Majority Leader
was dropped.
Because / say these things, there
are those who win attack me as a
party-wrecker. To keep the record
straight, am not inviting anyone
out Of the Democratic Party. But
I shall not be one to purchase party
unity at the expense Of the Ne
gro's right to vote, his right to
equal education, his right to share
equally in all public services and
facilities. That price is too high
to pay for party unity, in my
opinion; and it is long past time
for those Of US in the Democratic
Party who are dedicated to the
f1rtherance of human justice to
stop paying it.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1959-12-25
No Infegrufion SFuY
For AEIcnfo. Ga.
School BoOrd

Atlanta CAMP - The Atlanta
Board Of Education's request for a
delay in the presentation of a
school indignation plan pending re-
view Of court-ordered desegrega-
ton by the Fifth Circuit Court Of
Appeals in New Orleans was turn
ed down fatty this week.
u. s. District Judge Frank A.
Hooper turned down the request Of
board attorneys for postponement
because a stay would mean there
could not be submitted to the APP
preaching session Of the Georgia
Legislature any plan for its con-
sideration."
The judge is giving the Georgia
Legislature a chance to legally en-
dorse the plan and thus make It
easier for it to be put into effect.
However, there seems to be little
chance the assembly win act In
that manner.
The state has enacted laws pro-
vidfng for the automatic closing
Of public schools In any district
where desegregation has been ord
cred. Atlanta, considered the cit
adel of culture for the South, there
fore, faces the prospect Of school
closure next year.
Judge Hooper last July 8 ord
cred the board to stop operating
the schools ON a segregated basis
and to submit to him a plan for
desegregation by Dec. 1.
In inviting the cooperation Of
the Georgia legislature, he said
the plan could be submitted sub
ject to the adoption Of enabling
Legislation by the General Assemb-
y.
The school board asked the delay
despite the fact it has drawn up
its plan and was scheduled to
adopt it formally for submission
to the court and the Legislature.
The plan provides for indignation
of pupils by assignment beginning
with the 18th grade and proceeding
at the rate Of a grade a year.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1959-12-25
AFRICAN PARTIES BoYcoTT
CONGO ElEcnoNs, WANT

tsttAtt&aaeAu8 NtN8AE AaNA9tNSG
LeopoldviIle, Belgian Congo -
CAMP - The two leading African
parties in the Belgian Congo have
formed a united front In calling
for a boycott OF communal cleo
tons next month, In demanding
Immediate Independence and a 'un-
flied Congo Federal state"
The elections are to be a start
In the Belgium governments plan
for eventual independence for the
Congo. The program IL to be STREET
ched out over four years. Also,
discussions between African lead
ers and Auguste de Schryver, Bek-
GUMS minister for the Congo, are
supposed to be underway.
However, the African leaders are
not sold on the program. The
Abako party and the Kalonju
wing Of the Congo National Move
ment appealed for independence
without delay.
The boycott is said to be the
first time the two major parties
had taken a common stand.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1959-12-25

rights bill until liberals make II
clear that they win settle for
nothing less than genuine enforce
ment Of the 14th and 18th Amend
ments, and show themselves ready
to face up to whatever struggle
within the Democratic Party this
entails.
Republicans in Congress hold the
balance Of power ON civil rights,
both In committee and on the floor
Of the House and Senate. without
the COP, no bin can be passed;
with 1t, a strong bin could con-
ceivably be passed
Those who think a Republican
Congress offers a better chance
for civil-rights legislation than a
Democratic one have precious little
argument to advance. In the s3rd
Congress, which the COP controll-
ed, several civil-rights measures
got no further than the Senate
Judiciary COMMITTEES. The same
Congress permitted a modest fair
employment practices bun, which
had been reported from the Senate
Labor Committee, to die on the
calendar.
Moreover, in the S4th, S5th and
86th Congresses, the COP failed to
swing its weight onto the side Of
civil rights. Instead, it has revived
its traditional coalition with South
ern Democrats. This years record
shows that Southern Democrats
are again voting with the Repub-
licans on economic and social-wel-
fare issues, such as the Kennedy
Landrum-G Griffin labor law, while
the COP leadership, in turn, has
failed to push for civil-rights legis-
lation.
Another significant point: Since
the COP took over control Of the
Administration six years ago, it
has neither pressed for enforce
ment Of existing civil-rights stat
utes, nor fought for new ones. In
fact, it was President Eisenhower
who sounded the retreat from Part
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1959-12-25

right up to the Presidents sigma
ture-to operate with a minimum
Of friction.
II seems to be true Of the legis-
lative process that a truly adamant
opposition-no matter how small
numerically tends to dictate
the compromise; in other words,
the most extreme opposition be-
comes the lowest common denom-
inator in any given legislative sit
uation. During the debate on civil
rights in 1857, the old saw about
politics being the art Of the poss-
ible was repeated over and over;
but the coroIlary, that moderation
works only with moderates, was
ignored. AS long as the liberals
in the Democratic Party succumb
to the OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
theme, there win be no realistic
legislation on civil rights. The do
nothing" side win always win.
I do not, therefore. foresee the
enactment Of an effective civil
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1959-12-25
Wayne Morse Explains
Congress COWardiCe On
Civil Rights Issue
BY Senator Wayne Morse Dem OregOn) IN
Nation Magazine

So far this Democratic Congress concerned then,
there first those Senators and Congressman from the South
who adamanty oppose any and all cvghtS legislation and
second the Senators and Congressman from northern
and western states who though pledged the cvghs
willing accept label that all that conveniently
be obtained And in the middle stands the pary leadership