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Evening star., 1960-05-22
big party

ing that makes for happiness and brings
undreamed-of rewards. Let me tell you
a marvellous incident that happened to
me back in the '30's. | had been living
in Paris for several months and had
made many friends. | met and liked
Ralph Beaver Shassburger, an American
businessman, and his charming wife.
They didn't know a soul in Paris so |
took them under my wing, presenting
them at court, ~ making sure they we're
invited to every fabulous social event |
could arrange.
EIso wos fiobbergossed
Two months later, after Ralph Strass-
burger had returned to the United States,
| received a telephone call from his
European agent. "Mr. Strassburger has
arranged credit for you at Cartier's in
Paris" he told me. ''You may make
any purchase you want up to $4,000"
was flabbergasted, though hadn't
the slightest intention in the world OF
cashing Mr.. Strassburger's gesture of
good will. However, it just happened
that shortly before that, Baron Edouard
de Rothschild had asked me to try to
hire the world-famous violinist, Fritz
Kreisler, for private party he was CIV
ing. | wired Kreisler in Germany and
asked his price. 1t was $1,000.
That's too rich for my blood" the
Baron told me. ri can't afford it.
Well, | had to manipulate this some
way. So wired Ralph Strassburger:
Would much rather have cash to buy
KreisIer than credit for jewelry."
Result: The seasons top party
Strassburger thought | was a bad
speller - and that | was asking for
Chrysler automobile. But he sent the
money. The result was one of the most
delightful parties of the season. l was
able to pay Fritz Kreisler $1,000 to come
and play for us.
What about the last two parts of my
fathers credo: laugh at yourself and
treat the serious things lightly? Oh,
haven't | laughed at myself! 1t would
have been disastrous if, for example, l
had taken my weight seriously. Good
heavens, can you imagine the type I'd
be if had? A backward, willing, shrink
ing wallAower with as much magnetism
as block of wood! But found myself
amusing, and by contagion, so did every
one else.
These are the eternal verities that
govern my life - come hell or even
higher taxes. The point is, they may
work for you too.
You won't find it easy to buck the
mainstream. But if you keep your
individualism ahoat, you'll be able to say
to yourself in your seventy-third year.
The old age of an eagle is better than
Ell
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1960-06-30

were scheduled for considera-
ton by a federal grand jury in
April, but the probe was delay
ed after county authorities an
nounced that the local grand
jury planned to look into the
incident. The indictment of the
Post was the result of the grand
jury investigation.
According to Pierson, the De-
partment of Justice continued
its investigation of Smiths
brutality complaint after an ex.
tended delay occasioned by the
local grand jury. However, he
said, the probe uncovered moth
ing to. warrant presenting the
charges to a federal grand jury,
He said he was informed by
the Department of Justices
civil rights division that latter
full consideration of the facts, it
is the view of the department
that the matter should not be
presented to a grand jury"
Smith currently is in the
Maryland House of Correction,
where he is serving a years
sentence, imposed by Peoples
Court Judge John B. Diamond
III. for his assault on Sergeant
Griggs.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1960-06-30

States Attorney Leonard T.
Hardy said he had requested
the postponement to permit
him and his staff time to pre-
pare formal answers to a de-
tense motion to quash the in
dictment, based on a Post edi-
torial critical of court proceed
ings connected with the assault
trial of Melvin w. Smith last
December.
The postponement C me
shortly after the Department
of Justice announced it planned
no further investigation of
Smiths complaint that he was
the victim of police brutality
after his own conviction on a
charge of attacking a county
policeman.
Leon H. A. Pierson, United
States district attorney for the
Baltimore area, said a proposed
federal grand jury probe of
Smiths charges had been aban-
doned after a full investiga-
ton" by the departments civil
rights division. He said he had
been advised that the investiga-
ton provided no grounds for
further action by the depart
ment.
Smith, a Negro, was convict
ed of punching Det. Sgt. Frank
Griggs during a melee which
erupted when his stepbrother
was convicted of a rape charge
in Circuit Court. He complain
ed he was beaten by Griggs and
three other officers as he was
being led, in handouts, from the
courtroom to the county Jail
after the fracas.
On the same day that Smith
was convicted of the assault
charge, Griggs and the other
three officers were acquitted of
beating him. The Post editorial,
entitled 'Lop- Sided Justice"
criticized the courts handling of
the two cases.
Smiths charges originally
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1960-06-30
Ten Selected
For Honorary
MIC Society

Ten outstanding students
have formed the nucleus for a
new chapter of Phi Theta
Kappa, national honorary schol-
astic society, formed recently
at Montgomery Junior College.
The 10 were named as char
ter members of the chapter as
formation of the unit was an
nounced at the annual sophie
more-faculty dinner. Sponsors
of the schools branch of the
society are DR.. r. c. Jones,
member of student personnel
services and director of student
activities, and Allen Jones, head
OF the English department.
The initial members are Mari
mel Avis, Jacqueline Porter,
Kenneth Burrhus, Robert OAR
win, David Meroney and James
F. Saunders, all of Silver
Spring; Patricia Breen and
John j. Houston Ill, Bethesda;
Sheila Cox, Kensington, and
Tamas Hirsch, Takoma Park.
IAN additional honor was con-
ferred on the charter members
through the fact that keys and
pins Of the new organization
were given to them by the Stu
dent Council of the college.
Phi Theta Kappa is open to
young men and women whose
scholastic average at the end of
their third semester is "B" or
better.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1960-06-30

Columbia for treatment at Blue
Plains. 31
The new facilities will boost
sewage capacity in the area
from less than / million gal
Ions to about 8 million gallons
a day,
In its growth announcement
the commission said 3.770 new
water connections had been
made during the first five
months of 1860. This compares
with 3,441 new connections dur
ing the same period last year.
A total of S,615 new connec-
tons went into service between
June /, 1859 and May 81, 1860,
indicating a stable jump in
new homes and new families in
M on e merry and Prince
Georges Counties. During the
same months in 1889, there
were $3.50 connections.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1960-06-30
Variety
Needed Here
In Housing

The need for more diver
sified housing to prevent
development m o n o t ony"
was emphasized this week
before the Suburban Mary
land Builders Association.
The organization was host at
a session devoted to Better
Planning for Suburban Mary
land" in the Indian Spring
Country Club. Approximately
$50 persons attended.
Emphasizing the desirability
of different kinds of housing,
including garden and elevator
type apartments and "attrac-
tive" row houses, was Carl
Norcross, executive editor of
House and Home magazine.
Urging broad scale planning
in place of localized thinking,
Norcross predicted that status
quo" coming will have to be
replaced to provide better COM
munitieS.
Another speaker, James H.
Scheuer, urban renewal de-
veloper in Southwest Washing.
ton, supported carefully
planned apartment develop
ments to meet the needs of ex-
panding population.
"The trend is inevitable" he
declared, adding that more
open space will result with
higher density use covering
less land.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1960-06-30


sion.
The commission also released
figures showing that suburban
Maryland is growing faster
this year than it did during the
same period in 1859.
One of the major sewer prof.
ects in the Gaithersburg area
a force main and gravity sewer
from the commissions Muddy
Branch sewage pumping station
lis expected to get underway
soon. A $319,337 contract for
this job has been awarded to
John ]. Smarge Co., Inc, Col
lege Park.
Two other contracts for ex.
tension of the Rock Creek and
Mill Creek sewer lines are ex.
pected to be awarded as soon
as final approval is received
from the Federal Government,
which is contributing to the
projects. These will cost more
than 100000.
When all of the work is fin.
ished, the commissions sewage
treatment plant along Muddy
Branch will be closed down,
Sewage from the area then will
go through the Rock Creek
trunk sewer to the District OF
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1960-06-30
Judith Davis Is Ideal

Judith Ann Davis, Wheaton,
has won the Ideal Secretary
Award of the Washington
School for Secretaries. The Ma
tional Office Management Asso-
citation Award went to Linda
May Ordey, Silver Spring.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1960-06-30
Libel Case Delayed
Government Drops
Smith Case Probe
Libel Case Delayed

Circuit Court hearing of criminal libel charge
against the Washington Post postponed this week
the heels of by the Justice Department
that it plans further investigation of the incident that
prompted the charge against the newspaper.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1960-06-30
SelUer Lines to Spur
Gaithersburg CrolOth

Completion of sewer construction work by the end
of the year will clear the way for intensive housing and
commercial development in the Gaithersburg area,
cording to the Washington Suburban Sanitary Commits
Evening star., 1960-09-04
ST. LOUIS
SAN FRANCISCO

Championship Game: Dec. 76 or Jan. 1,
on feld Of Western Conference winner.
Evening star., 1960-09-04
CLIP THIS PAGE
FOR REFERENCE
DURING SEASON

1t is suggested that read
ers save this page Of 1860
football schedules for handy
reference during the sea-
son.
And for complete foot
ball information, stories.
scores and gossip, read The
Star.
Games of national and
local Importance will be
covered by such Star staff
writer's as Charles M. Egan.
Francis Stann, Lewis F.
Atchison, George Huber,
Merrell Whittlesey. Burton
Hawkins. Bill Fuchs and
Dick o'Brien. In addition.
the sports pages will carry
the complete coverage Of
the Associated Press. in
cluding the Wirephoto serv-
ice Of important out-of-
town games. plus special
articles by well-known syn
dicated writers and football
experts.
Evening star., 1960-04-26

from 10 to IS pounds, except
one small one.
Those clouds could spoil the
fishing" he said. 1T was sunny
late this morning and ! could
see them we'll"
Bright Day Needed
A bright day is necessary be-
cause carp stir up so much mud
that it's hard to spot them even
in only a foot or two Of water.
Every now and then a carp,
possibly in a playful mood,
would swirl on the surface or
leap high. to return with a loud
splash. 1t was easy to build
up excitement.
Stepping out cautiously in
ankle deep water, we got lesson
No. /. A swirl of mud 10 feet
away and a carp was heading
for far places.
Sure are wary" we said.
Yes, best to stand still and
wait for them to come to you,"
Norman advised.
While we peered into the
murky water, he circled the
swamp, found a likely place
and waited. Soon a carp flirted
its tail a little too close and
found a barb in its flesh.
No Mean Antagonist
That's where hunting changes
to fishing. A big carp on the
end of a line however stout
lis no mean antagonist and it
often ends with the hunter
trying to keep his footing on
slippery, soft mud while he
chases the fish.
! Norman soon had the carp
gilled, however, and hauled it
ashore. Not long afterward he
had two more.
Come on over" he called
from the other side Of a row Of
small trees. There's some with
in 6 feet of shore.
Taking q station, we waited.
Suddenly yellowish tail flirted
near the surface and we
fumbled with the bow. Too
slow.
Spotting a carp splaShing in
a nearby cove, we circled widely,
inched into the water and then
made one incautious move. A
swirl of mud and it was gone.
Finally, as we stood quietly
and disconsolately, we felt a
bump on a boot but could see
nothing except more mud.
Oh, well, it wasn't our day.
Evening star., 1960-04-26

were hauling in both bass and
bluegills.
Largemouth bass fishing is
said to be very good at Plum
Creek Pond and Frazers and
Linchester Lakes on the East
ern Shore of Maryland.
First catches of black drum
have been reported from the
Eastern Shore of Virginia.
Eugene Parker of Oyster
boated one weighing As pounds
and another tallying 35 at Sand
Shoals Inlet. He was using
fresh clans for bait.
Later. two 25-pounders were
taken by Burlie Tapman of
Capeville in Smith Inlet.
\
First report of croakerS comes
from the Ocean View area of
Norfolk where net fishermen
took several in their hauls last
week. COVELL.
Evening star., 1960-04-26
HUNTING AND FISHING
Blue Marlin Taken off Hutteros

Boating of the first blue mar
lin Of the season of Cape Hat
teraS Saturday Is the earliest
a marlin ever has been caught
in those waters. Last year the
first blue marlin was taken on
May 9.
The 231-pound billtiSh was
caught by Curtis Sims of 1909
Marbury road, Bethesda. while
trolling from Capt. Edgar Sty-
ron's cruiser Twins II skippered
by Sam Stowe. 1t took Sims
As minutes to bring it to gaff.
Channel bass and bluefish
continue to bite heavily In the
surf and inlets between Kitty
Hawk and Ocracoke.
+ 4
Warm weather apparently
has started the bass to biting
Good catches are reported in
the Potomac near Seneca and
an angler who visited Lake
Brittle in nearby Virginia over
the week end said fishermen
Evening star., 1960-04-26
COMPLETE GUIDE
TO AREA FISHING
NOW AVAILABLE

The recent series of fish,
ing maps and articles car
ried on the Leisure Sports
pages have been incorpo-
rated in a new and COM
plete Washington Area
Fishing Guide Just pub
liShed by The Star.
The book contains 80
maps and advice on where
to go and how to catch
fresh-water fish in Mary
land. Virginia and West
Virginia as we'll as salt
water species in Chesapeake
Bay and the ocean as far
south as Ocracoke Island,
N. c.
An important addition is
water depths to all maps of
bay and ocean which will
help to guide fishermen but
should not be used for
navigational purposes.
The complete Fishing
Guide is being distributed
as rapidly as possible to
newsStandS, sporting goods
stores and m arinas
throughout the Washing
ton area. 1t also may be
obtained by writing WASH
ington Area Fishing Guide,
Room AIS, The Evening and
Sunday Star, Second street
and Virginia avenue Sc,
Washington 3, D. c. Inclose
81 plus 10 cents for ham
ding and postage.
Evening star., 1960-04-26
TENNIS TALK
By A. c. SMITH

Meanwhile all 10 courts at
18th & Kennedy and the six
courts at Pierce Mill are open
for play.
Although the loss of the
Hains Point tennis courts at
the height of the season will be
a severe blow to tennis en-
thusiasts in the area, the D. C.
Recreation Department oper-
ates lis courts in the District.
Use of these courts is free at
all times. However, a permit to
play is required. This permit,
good for a season, is obtained
by writing to the Permit Divi-
sion, D. c. Recreation Depart
ment, 3149 10th street NV,
The largest block of courts
operated by D. C. Recreation
are the 10 clay courts at the
Mall, 4th and Pennsylvania
avenue NV.
II y u
The 1860 tournament season
officially opens this week with
the 2lst Annual Friends School
interscholastic championships.
This event could be called the
Pop Wannan Tournament"
Wannan, director of tennis at
Friends School and one of the
strongest boosters of the game
in the Washington area, has
run this event from the start.
This year Friends will be de-
Tending the team trophies won
in both the 1S and under and
Is and under divisions.
Entries close at noon tomor-
row. Play is restricted to sim
giles with each school limited
to three entries. Winner of the
team trophy this year is uncer-
tain. Episcopal has beaten
Friends and Friends has beat
en- st. Albans. Landon is also
firmly in the running.
4
The Friends InterScholastic
will be followed by the Arling-
ton County championships
mems and women's singles and
doubles and mixed doubles.
The tournament will be held
at the -Four Mile Run Courts,
beginning May 7. Entries will
close Tuesday, May 8. The Ten
mis- Shop CNA. 8-5165) is ac-
cepting entries.
Evening star., 1960-04-26
OLYMPIC OUTLOOK
By RALPH c. CRAIG

The many scholarships Of
fered by American colleges to
foreign students have caused
q welter of words both here
and abroad. Coaches and ath-
lletic authorities in schools
which do not have foreign ath-
letes have tried to ban them
from intercollegiate competi-
ton or, failing in that, to limit
the age of the competing ath-
letes.
In other countries much the
same hubbub has been raised,
but in reverse. There the at
tempt has been to bar their
nationals from accepting schol-
arships or to have the sports
governing body declare such
men to be ineligible for COM
petition.
It is all part OF the amazing
mess which many colleges have
caused by unethical recruiting
h of star athletes. 1t all began
with football and the need for
filling bigger and bigger stadia
to provide the money which
would carry the rest of the
athletic programs.
4
Today a really top high
school football or basketball
star is literally bounded by re-
cruiters. Sometimes as many
as 40 or more offers will be
made. The boys life is made
unendurable and he gets little
schoolwork done.
The practice has spread to
other sports in minor way so
far as Olympic sports go, it is
confined to track. swimming
and hockey. Coaches can't find
good football or basketball
prospects in foreign countries,
In those three Olympic
sports, good foreign athletes on
scholarships are common in
many colleges. Some of our best
collegiate hockey players come
from Canada, top swimming
Evening star., 1960-04-26

stars come up from Australia
and in track they come from
all countries. The Big Ten in
door track championships were
pokingly dubbed the Caribbean
championships because of the
many men from those coun-
tries who won events.
=
Among the many track stars
from other countries are Aus
tralia's Al Lawrence. who Just
set a new world 3-mile record.
at Houston; Mel Spence, the
800-meter man Arizona: Jamai-
cas- George Kerr, another 800
meter man, at Illinios; Tony
Seth of British Guiana, who
was third in the Pan Am 800
meters. at Michigan; Armin
Harry, a top German sprinter.
at California, and Hank Wiser
from Holland, who can broad
jump IS feet 634 inches, also at
California.
Ron Delaney, who has grad
uated, is an outstanding exam
pie. He won the 1900 meters at
the 1856 OlympicS for Ireland
because of his American train
ing.
John Macy at Houston is a
tragic example of red tape. He
is a bona flde refugee from
Poland who sought asylum in
this country. He is seeking his
American citizenship, but he is
enmeshed in the red tape which
will prevent his competing at
Rome.
Tom Robinson, a top sprinter
from the Bahamas and Les
Bird from Antigua, both at
Michigan, are other examples.
Las can broad jump over 25
feet. And so it goes.
y
Fortunately the have not"
coaches did not prevail. Ameri-
can colleges have entertained
foreign students on scholar
ships of all kinds for too many
years to begin to put on limi-
tations now.
We may lose places in the
Olympic Games to men who
owe their excellence to Ameri-
can training, but we cannot
throttle our college scholar
ships, nor can we discriminate
against foreign boys just be-
cause they happen to be ath-
letes.
Evening star., 1960-04-26

The government Tennis Lea
que has selected officers for
the 1860 season and will be-
gin play April 20 at 18th and
Kennedy streets N. w.
Bernard Stickney of the Pa
tent once, has been named
president; Gordon Barnes, of
Agriculture. vice president; Ted
of Treasury, has appro-
priately been named Treasurer,
and tireless efficient C. E. Hos
kin, Of General Accounting, has
been reelected secretary.
Again this year the Govern
ment League will consist OF
A and B Divisions. Competing
in the A Division will be Navy
Army( Air Force, Internal Rev.
enue, Federal Aviation, Naval
Ordnance Laboratory, National
Security Agency and State
USIA-ICA.
Fighting for the B Division
title will be General Services,
Bureau of Standards, Federal
Power, Patent Office, Agricul-
ture, General Accounting Mari
e-Naval Weapons Plant. Of
flee of Secretary of Defense
Federal Reserved Government
Naval Ordnance Lab. and Army
MOL and Army are entering
teams in both divisions.
Competition last year was
unusually keen with Navy and
State-USIA-ICA ending the
regular season in a tie. In the
playoff, Navy routed State
USIA-ICA to win the title.
Play in the Government Lea.
que consists Of five doubles
matches. In both A and B Di-
visions, each agency team
meets every other twice during
the season.
National Capital Parks has
assured General Services that
the Hains Point tennis courts
will not be torn up before July
l and perhaps even August /
On this basis, Douglas Love
tennis manager for General
Services, has a team of men re-
conditioning two tiers of courts
He hopes to have these IL clay
courts playable by Saturday
May 7. Until the clay courts
are in shape, Government
League matches scheduled fol
Hains Point will be played or
the hard courts.
Evening star., 1960-04-26
BOAT SUPPLIES

Nepe; l1se foot; anti-toulinE paint
ehork oars. chains. Are sxtinSuishers.
$3.50; canvas tarpaulins, pumps, nv.
lon rope. &i1e foot. J. II. GICEEER.
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Evening star., 1960-04-26
Gu NetmenC chalk Up
9th STRAIGHT Victory

Catholic University yesterday
scored its eighth straight ten.
mis- victory by downing Mount
st. Mary's. "a, in a Mason
Dixon Conference match at
Gu.
Bill Mccarthy, Mount st
Mary's unbeaten No. / man
had little trouble beating
Stewart Neill, 60, 6-l. In
the top singles match. Gu is
TO in conference play and
Mount st. Mary'S 0-4.
Evening star., 1960-04-26
BOWLING
WITH ROD THOMAS

DOWN TENPIN LANE-ThiS
is the last stroll for this season,
but we'd appreciate a call from
anyone with piece of bowling
news of general interest.
It's been big season for ten
pins here, with its number of
participants having doubled
within the last year, according
to American Bowling Congress
statistics. Greatly responsible,
keglers by and large will agree,
Is Matthew R. Bennie, the ABC
director for this region who,
in the opinion of this reporter,
hardly could be surpassed in
devotion to any sport with the
objective of inducing others to
enjoy it as he had.
Altruist Bennie, a planner
in the Naval Gun Factory, will
become president of the Amer
ican Bowling Congress, the
worlds largest sports organiza-
ton, seven years hence, by ro-
tation of office. He came to
Washington from the Middle
West during World War II
when the game of tenpins here
virtually was dead. He and
others famed an ember, but
Bennie blew the strongest. To
him and the others duckpins
was a novelty, yet-and this is
something for you tenpinners
to ponder-years before the ad-
vent of Bennie tenpins had
been run out of town" by
duckpins.
At one time Washington was
all" tenpinS. In the early
l900's duckpins was introduced
as a novelty. 1t became a fad
then a vogue, and eventually q
sport, with with standards as
rigid as those of the American
Bowling Congress, after which
they were fashioned.
1t might be said that ten.
pins or just bowling owes some
thing to duckpins. in a way
Because of the smaller ball
women took to duckpins, ano
women, nobody can deny
made the game as you know
it now" The thought of lift.
ing a tenpin ball used to scare
many women. but no more
The truth is that it's easier tt
ROLL a tenpin ball than it i.
70 THROW a duckpin ball anc
to throw the smaller ball il
necessary in most cases t
score consistently well.
A classic example of the diff.
ference was the great endur,
ance feat of Harry KrauSS o.
this city. now in his middl,
70's, who in 1908 average l9I
(correct) for "a hours Of con,
tinuance tenpinning. Kraus