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Evening star., 1960-01-20
BASKETBALL
SCORES

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Catholic U. 66, Washington md 81
Delaware state 78, d. c. Teachers 66
Providence 76, Assumption CMassD a.
Worcester Tech 20
Long Island 1902 - Pace 20
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New Hampshire 6s Northeastefn 10
HaTtwick 81 southern Conn. u
Wake Forest S3 Clemson 81
Auburn 60 Georgia Tech 80
Virginia Tech 95, virginia Military 93
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Belmont Abbey 62
RsIlsTmine IS Union Sky;! Ky! 53
b GeOrgia Southern ~ Tampa rs
Jacksonville FlaD IL. ValdoSta ST. So
MIDWEST
Detroit SO ~ NOtre Dame 81
Essh;JsT EnsIinr GI.,, 81 "a Fem 'GSi0t RsSt Il
BSslsr 16s 81. yossphs GndJ %
DePauw 81 - Indiana State -
SSfthR.st.gn SoftRR IL Okla. ~. PhI!!ip. q. 8 g
a. o'''''''n 90 SOUTHWEST Nsn'on 90
Texas Ann 81 800 Rice ~
Arkansas College 30
southwestern (MemphlsD 81
81. MaTys (TeG.D 96
(overtimeI st. Edwards (TexD D3
Delta (MisSJ st. So, Arkansas A&M 81
Idaho 81 GOnZaga 81
Southern OREGON II, OREGON Tech 10
Fresno State 10 San Jose State 46
San Francisco Preside 10, HumbOlt SO
Redlands 86 Pomona 81
q Western Wash. SO
st. Martins (Wash.) 81
Evening star., 1960-01-20
Lentz Leads Majors

Marty Lentz, the areas lead
ing high school basketball
scorer, dropped in "a points.
mostly on layups and tap-ins
to lead Mount Vernon to an
87-46 victory over winless
Evening star., 1960-01-20
Herndon Is Nicked

Falls Church High School,
trailing lis at the end of
the first quarter, rallied to
dump Herndon, 1892, last
night in basketball at Herndon,
Evening star., 1960-01-20

James Madison last night at
Madison. The victory moved
Mount Vernon into a tie with
Mclean and Wakefield for the
Groun I lead
Evening star., 1960-01-20
MD. RI-CoUNTY LEAGUE
BY CARL SELL
Star Staf Writer

Star stan Writer
Bladensburg High School,
winner of seven straight bas-
ketball games since opening
losses to Carroll and DeMatha,
hasn't hit it's peak, AL Kyber
the Blades coach says.
I'VE still have a way to go,
Kyber explained yesterday
Evening star., 1960-01-20
markers

Totals % 62072 Totals 19 l6 "a
Halttlme: 1921, Blsdensburg.
Evening star., 1960-01-20
Wheaton Triumphs

Totals 90 949 Totals 2S 10 :.
Halftime 1928, Walter Johnson.
Evening star., 1960-01-20
Fifth for Northwood

Unbeaten Northwood High
School scored its fifth straight
wrestling victory of the season
yesterday, defeating High Point,
31-13. at Northwood. Jim Dom
aldson won his fifth match,
decisioning High Points Tom
Fink in the 127-pound class.
Evening star., 1960-01-20
Butler Scores "a

Totals "a 755 Totals l6 A.
Halftime score: 21-14, Hoffman
Boston.
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Group I lead
Stuart Stuys Hot

Totals 35 II 81 Totals l
Halftime. h1-2n. MI Vernnn
Evening star., 1960-05-09
Redhonded Is Rioht

1t is true, as Mr.. KhruShchev rather
indelicately puts it, that the United
States has been caught redhanded"
in an espionage effort directed at the
Soviet Union. Only the naive and the
innocent will be shocked, however, by
this disclosure. For one of the in
escapable facts of life in the cold war
is that the United States, Russia and
most other nations are relentleSSly en-
gagged in undercover intelligence work.
However distaSteful espionage may be
to some people, it is imperatively neces-
sary to survival-especially in a time
when any nation may be destroyed by
surprise attack.
To explain away, or rationalize, this
incident, however, hardly serves to min
imize its injurious impact on the Ameri-
can position. Those who engage in spy
ing are not supposed to get caught. When
they are caught the consequences, as in
this case, can be painful
Obviously, Mr. Eisenhower will 60
to the summit under a cloud. For the
moral position of the United States,
a position about which we perhaps have
talked too much, has been prejudiced.
1t was nice of Mr.. KhruShchev to fully
admit" that the President didn't know
that plane was sent beyond the Soviet
frontiers and did not return. In his
strong propaganda position, he can af-
ford to indulge in tongue-in-ch gen.
eroSity. And what of the State Depart
ment'S assertion that Mr. Powers flight
was not authorized by any official in
Washington? This, we assume, is of
a piece with that fairy tale about the
oxygen trouble and the possibility that
the pilot might have crossed the frontier
while unconscious. If the authorities in
Washington didn't know about this par
ticular flight, they certainly knew that
this espionage program was in opera
ton. And If, as result, our moral
position at the summit must suffer,
there simply is no help for it. We will
have to do the best we can.
A second aspect of this affair has
to do with the effect on our allies over
seas, from whose territory intelligence
operations have been conducted. AS
Suming that the whole truth of the
O-@ AAOAu0lC AdS Oeen IO1u-dn as
sumption which may be unWarranted-
the plane took off from base in PAX
iStan for its flight across Russia, and
was supposed to land in Norway. Mr..
KhruShchev did not hesitate to threaten
countries which permit such operations,
and we must assume that his threats
will have some effect. At the least,
they will make such intelligence flights
as that of the U-2 more difficult and
more hazardous in the future. Still, as
a matter of elf-preservation, we must
continue our effort to learn about any,
thing the Russians are doing which
poses threat to us. And we should
remember that they will be doing the
same.
Evening star., 1960-05-09
Evoding the Draft

Republican officials of the Senate
had good reason, we think, to fire Will
liam R. Martin, the young Quaker who
has urged thousands of Washington area
youths to avoid military service by be-
coming conscientious objectorS.
There is an important distinction
involved in this situation. Mr.. Martin
was not dismissed from his Capitol job
because he is a conscientious objector.
He was not dismissed for urging other
conscientious objectorS to express their
adherence of war. Nor should the doors
of Government employment be closed to
anyone who refuses to bear arms be-
cause he has an honest religious belief
which makes military service repugnant
to him.
But in mailing letters, apparently
at random, to some $4,000 youths of
unknown religious belief, Mr.. Martins
organization, the Washington Young
Friends, went far beyond these limits.
The trouble with the letters is that
their youthful recipients might easily
gain the impression that it is all right
to claim religious grounds for the pur-
pose of avoiding the draft-whether
these religious grounds exist in fact or
not.
Regardless of the motives of the
Young Friends, this is the effect of their
letters And we do not believe that any,
one who contributes to this course of
action can properly claim a right to any
job in the Government-which would
be left defenselesS if the suggestion of
the Young Friends were to be generally
followed
Evening star., 1960-05-09
Tribute to Casualty

I enjoyed very much the
article in The Star on the
great progress Of Casualty
Hospital. I would like at this
particular time to tell what
the hospital has meant to
me. Last November my 13-
year-old son suffered a frac-
ture of the skull. We rushed
him to Casualty Hospital and
it seemed like every doctor
and nurse in the hospital
was on the scene immedi-
ately, doing everything in
their power to help. He re-
manned in the hospital six
days, and during that time
everyone was so very kind to
him. There was a TV brought
to his room for his enjoy
ment, and that meant so very
much to him. I especially
want to give praise to DR..
Joseph R. Young, who took
care Of him while he was in
the hospital and for several
weeks after his discharge.
Casualty Hospital and its
staff are of the best.
Mrs. Helen Boswell.
Evening star., 1960-05-09
Paying a Debt

The District Commissioners, it seems
to us, have firm obligation to make
available Immediately a parking and
storage area in Brentwood Park for the
National Capital Parks office - either
atop the Brentwood Reservoir or on some
adjoining city-owned tract.
Of the various possibilities, the res
ervoir appears to be the most sensible
location, especially in view of the Ma
tional Capital Planning Commission
opinion that this would not endanger
the water supply. Health officials con-
test this, but it should be no great prob
lem to obtain an engineering decision on
whether danger actually exists The
underground reservoir, as park officials
point out, was built with 10-inch- thick
concrete roof, covered with two inches
of soil, in accordance with clear under
standing that some such overhead use
eventually would be made of the tract.
Another possibility, if any doubt
about water pollution persists, is that
nearby recreationaI facilities might be
transferred to the top of the reservoir,
making the present recreation area
available to the park office. This would
be far preferable to still third sugges-
tion-that the parking lot take over a
site earmarked for a vocational high
school.
The irony of the situation-and the
reason the District has an obligation
is that National Capital Parks officials
now are suffering from their own gen.
eroSity. Thirty years ago, the entire AZ
acre area in question was park-owned.
Gradually, NCP yielded to the District
first the land for the reservoir, then for
the school, then for parkway, then for
Evening star., 1960-05-09
InequitobIe Tax

The vigorous denunciation of the
personal property tax voiced before the
Fairfax County Board of Supervisors by
Robert G. Gotten, board member, was
wholly justified. AS Mr.. Gotten said, the
tax is "unquestionably the most unfair,
inequitable and diSproportionately bur-
densome tax on the record books Of
Fairfax County" The same criticism
holds wherever this tax has been ap-
plied-in Virginia or elsewhere.
The trouble with this form of taxa
ton is that it leaves to the individual
taxpayer the evaluation of his posses
Sions-a system which invites evasion
and outright dishonesty. Otherwise, in
some areas, he pays a percentage based
on the value of his home. Under the
former plan the honest taxpayer pays
far more than the careless or the dis
honest one-a penalty on honesty that
diScourages forthrightneSs. The alter
nate system also results in inequitieS.
II Virginia had adopted a sales tax,
as recommended by Governor Almond,
the increase in revenues coming to the
counties might have led to abolition of
the personal property tax in some coun-
ties. And the sales tax would have fallen
equally on all taxpayers in proportion
to their purchases. But with this SEN
Sible source of new revenue rejected by
the Legislature for at least another two
years, the taxpayers of Virginia must
reconcile themselves to getting along
with the discriminatory tax on personal
property for that period. For, with
rising costs of government, it is not
feasible to do away with any existing
source of revenue until a new and better
source is available.
Evening star., 1960-05-09
Health and Politics

In summarizing their lengthy study
of the economic problems of the aged,
the majority of Senate Labor Subcom-
mittee wrote that "the challenging task
is matter of joint responsibility, uti-
lizing all levels of government, pri-
vate organizations and individuals. Only
through this partnership approach can
we hope, in time, to solve the problems"
As 1t happens, the administration is
applying this very formula of part
nerShip approach" in its proposed Fed
eral-State program to help provide med
ical care to the aged. BaSically, this is
voluntary program in which the aged
of limited means (thoSe whose income
does not exceed $4,000 yearly would
have several choices. BY one, for ex-
ample, participants would pay an annual
fee of $24 in return for which they would
be eligible to receive, after the first $3.50
of charges, 80 per cent of the cost of ten
different categories of health and medi-
cal services. AS an alternative, qualified
persons preferring to buy their health
insurance through private organizations
could draw so per cent of the premium
for such insurance, up to maximum of
$50 yearly, from the Federal-State fund.
Elderly persons on public assistance rolls
would be eligible for the health benefits
without payment of fee, and those who
so chose could remain outside the SyS-
TEN entirely.
Not surprisingly, the administration
plan is being attacked from both ex-
tremeS of the liberal and conservative
camps In brief, the former complains
that the plan does not offer enough
that, instead, a massive program of
health insurance should be grated onto
the existing social security system, fl
nanced through additional taxation on
all covered employees (and their employ
erS) regardless of need or desire to par
ticipate. From the other extreme, there
are familiar complaints about welfare
state" programs and assurances that the
aged really are quite able to take care of
their own problems if left alone.
Affecting all the discussion, unfor-
tunately, is the mood of a campaign year
and the realization that the subject has
become red-hot political issue In the
light of the actual needs of the aged,
however, it will be great shame if the
partnership approach" is sacrificed en-
tirely to partiSanship.
Evening star., 1960-05-09
'Mdgnificor

Herman Warner Williams
decision to use color slides of
pictures submitted to the Sc
lection jury of the Corcoran
Biennial this year should
come as no surprise. He has
used excellent judgment, as
a matter of fact, and in so
doing will enrich the Cor
coran Gallery treasury by
many, many thousands of
much-needed dollars.
In fact, properly promoted
by the paint and art supply
industry, maybe a couple of
hundred thousand canvas
walloperS over the United
States will be separated from
a fee. That's good business.
A bit tawdry. and commercial
for the misty-eyed avant
garde, but still good business.
Evaluation of the fairness
Of the method is unimportant
inaSmuch as few of the
standards of good painting
are observed and novelty is
the prime objective. More
over, what a whale of an op-
portunity to lay out the whole
show-theme against theme
and color against color, ad
inflnitum, right in the pri-
vacy of your own office.
May I offer a fitting ending
to this plan that will further
simplify the problems Of
handling, shipping and hang
ing?
Get sizes of pictures from
each artists to complete-cut
plain white boards to size
individual projectors to pro-
ject each slide on the board!
Presto! No shipping - no
handling-no hanging! Mag
nifico!
Francis C. Peters,
President American Art
League, Inc.
Evening star., 1960-05-09

Recently I stopped for a
conference with my sons
fourth-grade teacher. After
a very satisfying discussion
I remarked that I hoped my
other son, who is a year be-
hind the older one, would
have the opportunity to be
in her class next year. She
said she was afraid not, as
she was leaving to accept a
position in Maryland.
She gave me several rea-
sons, but they all pointed to
one-money; about $700 a
year, to be exact. I had no
idea there was such a diff
ference. She told me a male
associate was also leaving
and, since he had more serv-
ice behind him, would re-
ceive nearly $1,1OO differ
ence.
I knew we we're losing
teachers to industry but had
no idea that Maryland and
some parts of Virginia were
siphoning off our best. I do
not know the man I speak of,
or his work, but I do know
the woman and what she has
done for my older son.
If we lose our best teach
ers to other areas, surely
more and more teachers
desks will be filled by un-
qualified personnel. What are
we, the people with children
of school age who must or
who choose to live in the Dis
trict, to do?
Mrs. Paul Enright.
Evening star., 1960-05-09
Electoral History

In a recent issue you pre-
sented a most interesting
STUDY of Election History"
However, in one particular
your compiler fell into what
might be termed a technical
error.
Your quiz asked: Has the
electoral vote ever been dis
tributed among more than
three candidates? The an
swer given cited the elections
of 1860 and 1924.
AS a matter of fact, at each
of the first four presidential
elections the electoral votes
were distributed among more
than three candidates. The
record is-as follows:
1788-George Washington,
SO; John Adams, "a; Samuel
Huntingdon, Q; John Jay, 9;
John Hancock, 4; Richard
Henry Harrison, 6; George
Clinton, 3; John Rutledge, 6;
John Milton, 2; James Arm
strong, /; Edward Telfair, l;
Benjamin Lincoln, /; a total
of twelve.
1792-George Washington,
1872; John Adams, II; George
Clinton, so; Aaron Burr, /; a
total of four.
1896 - John Adams, II;
Thomas jefferson, SO; Thorn
as Pinckney, SO; Aaron Burr,
80; Samuel Adams, Is; Oliver
Ellsworth, II; John Jay, 5;
George Clinton, 7; Samuel
johnson, Q; John Iredell, 8;
George ashington, 2;
Charles Cotesworth Pinckney,
/; John Henry, /; a total Of
thirteen.
1900 - Thomas Jefferson,
73: Aaron Burr, 70; John
Adams, IS; Charles CoteS-
worth Pinckney, "a; John Jay,
/; a total of five.
Of course all these votes
were cast under the original
plan by which each elector
voted for two candidates for
President, and the one receiv-
ing the highest vote became
President and the one receiv-
Evening star., 1960-05-09
Inspired by Reds?

I never thought the day
would come when 1 would
agree with Harry Truman.
Recently, at Cornell Univer-
sity, when asked whether he
thought the Negro sit-down
demonstrations at Southern
lunch counters were commu-
nistic inspired, he was quoted
as saying Il wouldn't be sur
prised," to which 1 say
Amen" 1t would seem a very
appropriate time TO ascertain
whether there is a Commu-
mist conspiracy involved.
Nish Showers.
Evening star., 1960-05-09
Lioht Sentences

I read with interest a news
item in The Sunday Star
concerning comments by
FBI Director j. Edgar Hoover
on weak penalties given to
vicious criminals in some
courts. In his statement. Mr..
Hoover quoted an ex-con-
vict as saying that light
sentences for serious crimes
tend to encourage law-break-
ing. Speaking from my
recent experience and as a
law-abiding citizen, I agree
without reservation.
One evening last week,
when I was painting the
hallway of a house I own in
the 10th precinct, I was put
in fear of my life by a
slightly inebriated, itinerant
Puerto Rican. He was caus-
ing a disturbance and de-
manding money from me
and the house manager. We
both indicated we had no
money and when I threat
ened to call the police, he
suddenly charged at me with
a long -bladed kitchen knife
and said, "I'll stab you If
you call the police" 1 was
shocked and scared. to say the
least, but repeated I had no
money and then walked down
the stairway and out to my
car with him following. still
carrying the knife. I entered
the car, locked the door and
drove off leaving him stand
ing on the curb. I notified
the police and about an hour
later he was apprehended.
The next day in court, I
testified against him. and
during the trial it was
learned that in January.
1860. he was convicted of as
sault with a knife but given
a suspended sentence of lSO
days. His record also re-
vealed he had several lesser
charges against him. In this
case, he was charged on four
counts of which two were
drunk and disorderly, and
assault with a prohibited
weapon. He was found guilty
on all four counts and re-
ceived a sentence of only 1870
days which could have been
reduced to about 100 days
If a certain amount in fines
were paid. This, in my estl-
nation is a small price to
pay for what could have
been murder-mine.
ArlO Darby.
Evening star., 1960-05-09
WSTAS IN SCIENCE
Cars That Float on Air Highways
BY THOMAS R. HENRY

quire a great expenditure OF
power and would be rather
noisy. The Army is waiting
on the engineer and fAS
ventor.
The value of such a device
for future combat hardly can
be overestimated, Gen. Tru-
deau says. There is every rea-
son to believe that infantry
will have as important a part
as in the past. Tomorrow'S
battlefield probably will be
much more extensive than
those of the past and a means
of a rapid concentration OF
troops at vital points is of the
highest Importance. Require
mentS will be far beyond the
two or three miles an hour at
which marching foot soldiers
can move on an average over
countryside.
Due largely to the spur of
urgent need, Gen. Trudeau
explains, there is little doubt
that something of the sort
will be forthcoming in the
not distant future.
The infantry to float" in
the device will be regular
doughboyS, not paratroopers
Of any sort.
Field troops of tomorrow
can almost be assured of a
constant supply of fresh wa
ter systems.
1t will be a long call from
the canvas bags of chlori-
mated water used in the two
world wars.
Water from the muddiest,
most-contaminated rivers can
be converted into pure drink
ing water in a few minutes
in whatever amounts are
needed in the field where the
water supply is likely at any
time to become a vital prob
lem.
Developed by the Corps of
Engineers, the apparatus has
a capacity of approximately
1900 gallons an hour and
probably five would be as
signed to a division. It will
operate efficiently in about
any climate, down to 40
degrees F., and has been sue
cesSfully tested on the Green
land ice cap.
After the river water IL
passed through a filter of di-
atomouS earth, foreign par
ticles causing turbidity are
reduced to about one part per
million, according to an Engi-
neer Corps demonstration.
and approximately SO per
cent Of all bacteria are re-
moved.
The water is disinfected
again when it is moved from
the nylon rubber-coated tank
where it is produced. The
likelihood of anything apt to
cause disease is almost COM
pletely eliminated.
The whole apparatus. ac-
cording to the demonstration,
can be moved easily by
marching troops from place
to place and is completely
reliable under almost any
imaginable circumstances. An
adequate water supply, the
Engineer demonstrators point
out. always has been a major
problem for field commanders.
Evening star., 1960-05-09
THIS AND THAT
BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL

many as much as the strong
cardinal of the male.
&&&
The most recent researches
have tended to show that not
all male birds are the most
colorful.
Sometimes. in any one
species, the female will excel
in coloration.
This does not happen
often, according to the find
ings, but may happen any,
time. Evidently nature is not
as determined in this matter
as she seems at times.
Mostly, however, we may
rely on the old statement,
that the male of the average
species is the most colorful,
the Show-off, as it we're.
The personal approach to
birds is a great deal like that
to flowers.
One person will instinc-
lively be attracted to one and
f1nd nothing much in an
other. Nothing can be done
about this, in an argumenta-
tive way. AS the old Romans
put it, there is no arguing in
questions of taste.
y So
When a person finds. as
our correspondent did, that
he has been missing a bet,
when it comes to beauty, the
experience should lead him
on to a general survey of his
personal reactions.
How many beauties has he
been missing?
A little personal "look, see."
may do a great deal toward
Furnishing his appreciation
Of bird beauty.
Take the common sparrow.
Here is a boastful little
fellow, when it comes tc the
male. But the female is COM
monty disregarded.
AS a matter of fact, she is
the real beauty of the family,
in the same quiet way in
which the female cardinal
may outshine her mate.
The female sparrow much
resembles a quiet little old
lady in brown and gray. The
blending of the colors is per-
feet, and the general air,
which counts so much among
the ladies, very graceful and
right.
Let us, in our seeing, see
beauty wherever it is.
Evening star., 1960-05-09

ing the next highest vote
became Vice President.
The election of 1904 was the
first in which the electors
voted separately for President
and Vice President.
Borden H. Mills.
Albany, N, Y.