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Evening star., 1960-03-27
MORE CONTROVERSY EXPECTED
-.Foyorite Is Winner
Of Grond National

Grand National since 1854. A
year ago, two more killed and
only four of 81 starters finished.
Merryman II. A 1872 betting
favorite. is owned by Miss
w. H. S. Wallace. She rode
the 9-year-old black gelding by
Carnival Boy-Maid Marian in
Scottish hunt meets before en-
tering him in races. During the
winter, Merryman had a
mysterious foot ailment and
seemed crippled for life, But
the ailment disappeared as
mysteriouSly as it turned up.
Badanlock, who had bs tiled
for the Iced with Tea Fiend and
Merryman from the midpoint,
started at odds of 1907, and
Clear Profit was 20-I.
Injured in Fall
Tea Fiend finished fourth.
followed by Sabaria. Green
Drill, Aries and Skatealong. Mr..
What, the 1858 National win
ner. fell at the 22d fence. Dom
droSa was scratched from the
original lineup, cutting the
starting field to 26.
Jockey Scott, %, riding in
his first national, said he was
injured in a fall last week. He
admitted after today'S race
I'm still strapped up and feel
a bit sore" Scott said he
thought Merryman would fall
when he took the lead at the
22d, or Becher's Brook jump,
toughest on the course.
The time on a firm, dry
course was SASS, compared
with the course record of
9:202s set by Golden Miller in
1854 ana equaled by BogSkar
in 1910.
Merryman's victory gave
Trainer Neville Crump his third
National. He won with Sheila S
Cottage in l948 and Teal in
1852.
The victory was worth 1885,
IT'S to Miss Wallace. Badanloch
earned S4.440 for Lord Lever
hume and Clear Profit netted
S2.220 for Owner Bernard
Sunley.
British bookmakers estimated
Merryman'S victory will cost
them a million pounds, or S2.8
million.
Evening star., 1960-03-27
Trojans Take
Title in NCAA
Swim Meet

DALLAS, Mar. 26 (AP) -
Southern California won the
NCAA swimming and diving
championships tonight, giving
the West its first title in the
event.
Led by Charles Bittick, the
Trojans won seven first places
Records were set in 13 of the
IA eligible events. Records are
not recognized in the other two
the diving.
The Trojans dethrone d
Michigan as team champion.
It marked the first time that
any school, other than Yale,
Michigan and Ohio State had
taken the championship in the
81 years of the meet.
Michigan Second
Southern California scored
81 points. Michigan 70 and
Indiana SO.
Eight new NCAA, American
and meet records combined
were set. four meet records
were hung up, one NCAA and
meet record was equaled and
one American citizens record
was established as athletes
from 81 colleges went through
three days an dnights of SWIM
ming.
Bittick won two first places
and set new NCAA, American
and meet records in both -
2:00.1 in the 200-yard back
stroke and 54.4 in the l00-yard
backStroke.
Mike Troy of Indiana was
the outstanding individual. set
ting a great 1:57.8 record in
the 200-yard butterfly and 53.I
in the l00-yard butterfly and
beating the sensational sopho-
more of Southern California,
Lance Larson, in the latter. He
also led the 400-yard medley
relay team to victory.
Clark Tops Own Mark
Ron Clark of Michigan hung
up a new NCAA, American anc
meet record when he won the
200-yard breastStroke in 2:l7.6.
He was breaking his own rec
ord Of 2:19.8 set in the pre-
liminaries this aftern oon.
Charles Griffin of Navy was
sixth in the finals.
Dennis RounSaville of South
ern California pulled an up
set to win the 440-yard free
style. He beat out George Har-
rison of Stanford and Aubrey
Burer Of Southern Methodist,
who had jointly set a new meet
record Of 4:26.0 in the after
noon. Rounsaville whipped in
with 4:24.5 to set a new meet
and American citizens record.
The latter was set by Harrison
with his 4:26.0 in the prelimin-
aries.
Evening star., 1960-03-27
BASKETBALL
SCORES

HIGH SCHOOL
Eastern States Catholic Tournament
Finals
Carroll 80 Trenton IN. ~ SO
81. Helena's IN. u 63 DeMstha 81
Consolation Bracket)
AAU TOURNAMENT
Seattle 81 Bartlesville (Okla.) Is
Consolation
WOmen'S Division
Iowa Wesleyan SIS Platt CMo) 81
Third Place.
ST. Louis 40 Atlanta Blues SO
(ConsOlatlon)
Evening star., 1960-03-27
Flying Wheels Win

! RANTOUL. H., Mar. 26 CAP).
4 The California Flying Wheels
eon the 18th annual National
Eheelchalr basketball tourna-
f1ent today, defeating Long
Island, N. Y, 48-43.
Evening star., 1960-03-27
Belly GuyWins Feature
In Howard County Hunt

hand at the racing game. John
Boslcy, III, who is a veteran
Of steeplechasing and also
trains race horses. He also has
ridden in the Maryland Hunt
Cup and is of an old Maryland
family, associated with runners.
His mount had hunted in Ire
land and was taken out briefly
with the Elkridge Hartford Hunt
this season.
Bishop Wins Co-Feature
The co-feature. an open tim
Der race over the same course,
was won by Charles A. Linton
on his own Bishop, represent
ing the Iron Bridge Hunt at
Laurel. Second was Lord Sal
isbury, owned and ridden by
John Grlswold, and third went
to an Arabian. Kristie Miller's
Afmaar. ridden by Fritz Burk-
hardt. Afmaar has participated
in Arabian endurance races at
Laurel and in Florida.
Alan T. Clarke, one Of Mary
lands most successful trainers,
saddled his first winner of the
year as he sent his daughter
postward on a l3-hand pony
named Blackie. The little girl,
9-year-Old Lillibet Clarke, won
the pony fiat race in her first
appearance in a race. The
pony is owned by Marilyn Reid S
family.
Dave HUFF took the Junior
fiat race on his Kitty's March.
Norman Fraley was second with
Harvey's Moon and Mike Ryan.
who happens to be a girl, was
third with Traveller.
Evening star., 1960-03-27
Impressive Record

Ben Schwartzwalder of Syra-
cuse has a 66-34-2 record in
coaching football.
Evening star., 1960-07-05
Miss Lucy Madeira

Few persons have left so indelible
an impress on education in the Wash
ington area as Mrs. David L. Wing, bet
ter known to generations Of local resi-
dents by her maiden and professional
name of Lucy Madeira The Madeira
School, nationally known and respected
preparatory school for girls, now located
on sylvan Virginia tract near Great
Falls, will be lasting monument to her
rare talents as teacher, headmistress
and counselor of many classes of young
women.
Miss Madeira'S was no ordinary
school, It's founder intended it to be
something special and made it so, from
its opening in 1906 until she passed its
administration over to trusted hands
upon her retirement in 1857. Miss Ma
deira insisted on high scholastic stand
ards and good discipline. She stressed
character-building along with develop
ment of the intellect. She once COM
mented that she would rather teach
a good C-plus student with character
that is with some sense, the beginnings
of what we call wisdom-than brilliant
student" Small wonder that her school
attracted favorable attention far and
wide. Her girls" old as we'll as young,
have cause to mourn her passing at the
age Of 81. for they owe her much.
Evening star., 1960-07-05
Water Bill

Now that the Senate has over
whelmingly approved it, the saline water
conversion bill ought to receive equally
sweeping bipartisan support in the
House when the legislators return next
month. For it is bill designed to serve
the best interests of all of us in a field
Of vital Importance to the future of our
country and the world.
AS enacted by the Senate, this al
together laudable piece of legislation
would speed UP and expand the work
of the Interior Departments ONCE of
Saline Water. It would do so by max
ing available $40 million over the next
five years to carry out an intensified
program of research and development
aimed at finding economical ways and
means of converting or "sweetening"
brackiSh and salt water into water good
enough for human consumption and for
agricultural and industrial useS-an OBJ
jective whose significance can hardly be
exaggerated in an epoch of fast-multi-
plying population and ever-growing in
duStry.
Our discrimination work, as mat
ter of fact, has already progressed to a
point where experts feel confident that
the conversion process can be made to
provide us with limitless quantities of
potable water from the sea at a cost
competitive with what most Americans
now pay for natural fresh water-an
average of about 80 or 40 cents for every
1000 gallons. Thus there is very good
promise that our country and the world
at large will be able to avert the critical
and even disastrous freSh-water Short
ages that would surely develop in time
If deSalting techniqueS and equipment
could not be perfected.
So the Senate-approved bill well
deserves to be enacted by the House
without dissenting vote. Certainly, as
Majority Leader Johnson has said, the
relatively modest outlays called for by
the measure would constitute one of the
best and most promising investments
Americans could make in the future.
Evening star., 1960-07-05
Mans Inhumonity

DR.. Linus Pauling believes
that humanity is more i'm
portant than geographic or
racial barriers. We made a
lot of noise about the way the
Soviets treated Boris FASTER
max. How many Boris Paster-
naks are there in the United
States? A citizen may not
believe in peace, or universal
brotherhood, or control of
atomic power.
AS a respected. reliable
family newspaper, you know.
during the depression years
(so-called), it was only the
alleged "leftistS" who were
against persecution of the
foreign-born and advocated
integration at a time when
such policies were considered
radical theories born and
bred in Moscow, rather than
in the briar patch of conser-
vative America. Now, we have
lunch counter sit downs,
which is, of course, a pressure
action brought by a color
group, that has nothing to
do with democracy, but is
disturbing to the status quo.
The question is: In the near
future, how are you going to
tell a radical from a Demo-
crat or Republican? Will the
Attorney General put the
sit-downers on a subversive
list? He doesn't so list the
American Nazi Party.
], Wilbur Potherby
Evening star., 1960-07-05
Jopon's True FeeIinu

The results of the two prefectural
elections just held in Japan serve as very
strong evidence that alarmists among us
have injected more than touch Of hy-
perbole into their interpretations of the
recent Communicated mob demonstra-
tions in Tokyo.
Summed up in somewhat oversim-
plif1ed terms, these interpretations have
made the following points, among 9TH
ers: Q) The mob's actions, which forced
President Eisenhower to cancel his plan
ned visit to Japan, ought not to be pooh
poohed as rejecting the temper of only
small minority. (2) Actually, the demon
StrationS have shown that there is deep
and widespread opposition over there to
the new Japanese-American mutual
security treaty. And (3) this opposition,
even If it does not represent clear-cut
majority, has expressed itself in a way
that has diSaStrously damaged the pres
tige of the United States.
Naturally enough, on his current
visit to Austria, Nikita Khrushchev has
been repeatedly quoting these views of
American pesSimists to back up his own
propaganda, which is aimed at libeling
Mr.. Eisenhower and undermining our
country's leadership in the world. Ac-
cordingly, it is of more than passing
interest to note how the japanese over
the past few days, in contests roughly
comparable to our State elections, have
overwhelmingly supported candidates
belonging to Prime Minister Kishi's Lib
eral-Democratic Party. And they have
done so against Socialists and extreme
left-wingers campaigning primarily on a
platform bitterly and mendaciously at
tacking the treaty and all other ties be-
tween our two countries.
If this suggests anything at all, it
certainly suggests that the average
Japanese citizen, far from indorsing the
sentiments expressed by Tokyo'S Red
manipulated mobs, is decidedly in favor
Of fostering and maintaining the closest
possible ties with our country In any
case, it seems clear that the weekend
electoral conteStS-since they have in
volved specific pro-and-con debate on
this matter must be regarded as
highly impressive indication that Japan's
vast majority wants to be allied with us
and that our country's reputation has
not been nearly so mauled as the alarm
lists have said.
1t is true enough, of course, that
events within the past month or so have
not gone well for our side. The reverses,
however, ought not to be made to seem
Evening star., 1960-07-05
Younq Mans Reply

Senator kennedy'S answer to Mr..
Truman was best summed up in a
single sentence: II do not intend to
step aside at anyone'S request"
In support of this position, he denied
that the Democratic convention had
been fixed, as charged by Mr.. Truman;
he dismissed Mr.. Truman's accusation
that delegates had been subjected to
improper pressure by Kennedy sup
porters, and, finally, he argued with
some eloquence that he is not too young
for the White House-that, In fact, the
times require man who is young and
vigorous.
On the basic factual issue-Mr.
Truman'S charge that delegates had
been preSsured-Senator Kennedy noted
that mot one concrete example has
ever been named" This is correct. Mr..
Truman said he was speaking up be-
cause II would hope that many of the
delegates who have been stampeded
or preSSured into pre-convention COM
mitmentS against their better judg-
ments-and I know at first hand of
such instances-will have a chance to
exercise further judgment"
This flies in the face of Senator
Kennedy'S general denial of the charge.
If Mr.. Truman really knows at first
hand of delegates who have been pres
Sured, he should be willing to identify
them. Otherwise, the accusation, in
the light of the Kennedy statement,
is less than fair to the Massachusetts,
Senator
The basic Kennedy position, how
ever, was stated in these words: "I
was the only candidate to risk my
chances in all the primaries-the only
one to visit every State. I have en-
eountered and survived every kind of
hazard and opposition-and I do not
intend to withdraw my name now, on
the eve of the convention"
This is true, and it is the hard core
OF fact with which any stop-Kennedy
effort will have to contend.
Evening star., 1960-07-05
Edward Cafery
Fair Trade Unfair

Two of your news items
on June 20 fascinated me.
Both involved Federal Dis
trict Courts.
On page AT, "The Justice
Department yesterday filed
suit at Kansas City, Mo-,
charging Union Carb i'd e
Corp. with improperly con-
trolling retail prices for
Prestone, its antifreeze pro-
duct
On page C-22, johnson &
johnson has obtained a con-
sent injunction permanently
prohibiting the Dart Drug
Corp. of Maryland from
violating the company's fair
trade prices ="
Thus an attempt is being
made to condemn one COM
pany for a practice which
is legal for another. This
appears to be another ex-
ample of how the Maryland
fair trade law is out-of- step
and of how it restricts free
enterprise.
Fair trade laws are unfair
to the consumer and should
be abolished.
Wilson Rowla nd
Evening star., 1960-07-05
Picks His Leader

In times like these, the
leadership of our country
must be put into the best
hands. This Nation cannot
afford recklessness in the
highest office.
When at the age Of %
Lyndon Johnson's career
started in Washington, and
he has been in public life
ever since, his chief opponent
for the Presidential nomina-
ton today was a IA year old
boy in a wealthy family.
We need in the presidency
a man of rounded experience,
of soHnd judgment, and in
grained carefulness. Such a
man is Senate Majority
Leader Lyndon johnson, one
of the most competent men
in public life during the past
half century. Let us use
him where he can help us
the most.
Ada, Okla.
Evening star., 1960-07-05
DoubIe-Heoder Session

In at leaSC one respect, the drSt part
of the doubleheader session of Congress
just ended was reversal from the usual
order of things. For despite its meager
record on national affairs, Congress
chalked up accomplishments of the first
magnitude for the Washington area
Foremost, and by all odds the most
gratifying, was the historic conStitu-
tional amendment which will permit
Washingtonians, hopefully by 1864, to
vote in presidential elections OF i'm
measurable Importance to the region as
whole, Congress recognized for the first
time that the Federal interest in the Ma
tion'S Capital extends beyond the city
limits. The brightest hopes of area off,
cialS that this recognition would be
translated into action were realized by
the $25.2 million Chantilly sewage solu-
ton and the formation of a Federal
agency to develop an area-wide rapid
transit system. Nor were the physical
needs of the Federal City ignored; the
last-minute approval of more than $10O
million worth of Federal building prof.
ectS was the most notable step in years
to modernize the Capital
Much, of course, still remains to be
done on the local front when Congress
returns next month, including a final
resolution of the Districts budget mess
and the completion of urgently-needed
urban renewal legislation.
But the job of polishing off these
local bills is insignificant compared to
the staggering pile of unfinished ma
tional business that will confront the
House and Senate after the conventions.
One thing is Sure-the merits of such
legislation as housing, school construc-
ton, medical care for the aged, the min
imum wage and foreign aid appropria-
tions will be involved to an unprece-
dented degree in partisan politics. And
the biggest political question of all is
whether the Democrats will be able to
make legislative record that will bolster
their chances in November.
1t seems obvious that Congress
could not possibly have disposed of this
load before the conventions. Accord
ingly, we do not believe the recess was
called in order to permit Senate Majority
Leader Johnson to use his influence over
the pending bills to blackjack votes for
himself in Los Angeles. Since this
charge has been made, however, the
actions Of both Senator johnson and
Speaker Rayburn during the next few
weeks will be under close scrutiny.
Evening star., 1960-07-05
How to Fiqht Reds

Charles Malik of Lebanon
has the indispensable dyna-
mism of an effective anti
Communist. One who grasps
that the way to fight COM
munism is to fight it every
where, at every opportunity,
by every means-and keep
on fighting until it gives up
the ghost. He understands
that there is no such thing
as a Communist encroach-
ment that is mot worth
fighting over" In this, he is
second to none among such
veteran battlers as Chang
Kai-shek, Conrad Adenauer,
etc.
DR.. Malik delivered an ad-
dress at Williamsburg, Vir-
ginia, June II, 1860, which,
quite appropriately, is carried
in the Fourth of July issue of
U. S. News & World Report.
II is a must" for all who
would learn to read, without
moving their lips, in the
book of our foreign relations
and are not afraid to face the
uncomplimentary facts of
our situation. An honest
study Of DR.. Malik's speech,
I firmly believe, should dis
abuse us all Of the school,
girl notion that diplomatic
skill (even if we had the
finest) could ever take over
the burden of a grim peoples
determination to prevail over
the forces of evil.
Instead Of praying for
peace" we would do better
and be more Christian to
pray for the character to
make sacrifices for our pos
terity and the enlightenment
to know what sacrifices to
make to secure their freedom.
These are some of the things
the Western world can learn
from DR.. Mahk.
Evening star., 1960-07-05
THIS AND THAT
BY CHARLES E. TRAcEWELL

feeding stations and takes it
away to hide in the crevices
of the bark of trees.
Perhaps it is too much to
say that he does this to help
other birds, but certainly that
is the end result. The big
bird never goes back to his
cache, but leaves it for small
er species to find, as they do.
This is doing good, indeed,
in a wicked world.
1t also affords the bird
much happiness, an observer
may be sure, because each
time he flies away, he gives
a great Squawk of satisfac-
ton. 1t is not at all difficult
for a watcher to read into
this bold call something Of
the satisfaction the bird must
feel at doing what comes
naturally, as the song said.
-
1t is impossible to under
stand why any one should
dislike the blue jay, but GER
tainly some people do.
They are often the same
sad folk who hate the squir-
rels, the common sparrows,
the starlings, and above all,
the pigeons.
Perhaps there may be
some excuse, we feel, for them
to dislike the last three. but
when it comes to the blue
jay, they have little to stand
on except their spleen.
We had a man in our
neighborhood, once. who
wrung the necks of several
jays before he could be
stopped.
Later he fell down, and
broke his own neck, the
neighborhood heard, and all
of us agreed that is was fate,
or something.
The admirable old Greeks,
who had a word for every
thing, thought up the one
we know as fate" and made
a big thing of it.
Fate was always lying just
around the corner, to spring
out at you whenever you
tranSgressed the better
known laws, regulations and
commandments.
We have a different idea
about it, now, but we still
understand what is meant
when we hear it stated that
the way Of the transgressor
is hard. We know then that
fate is just around the cor
ner, waiting patiently for the
guy who is lacking in ordi-
nary good manners, who is
mean in spirit, and ugly in
thought and action.
He can't escape, and we are
glad.
Evening star., 1960-07-05

We hear a great deal these
days about our lost pres
tige." We are told that it
has never been so low: that
it has struck rock bottom.
Let us ask ourselves, as
American citizens. what we
have done to bring this
about and what we have
done to restore the prestige.
Even as these lines are
being written, there appears
before me the caption ~. S.
Prestige At New Low; in
other words, another note
to Mr.. Khrushchev that he
has been able, not only to
put us where we belong. but
to succeed in keeping US
there. We are telling him
that his unconscionable con-
duct and discourtesy toward
our President and our coun-
try are paying of: that he
would not so conduct him
self If he were not justified
in doing so. We are giving
him the green light.
After all, it was neither
President Eisenhower nor
his administration who laid
the groundwork for our
present ''loss Of prestige, ;"
if such it be. 1t was not Mr..
Eisenhower who placated
and pampered Stain. It was
not President Eisenhower who
spoke of Good Old joe"
The effects of this nearly
forgotten groundwork are
President Eisenhower's by
inheritance.
If our politicians were
more concerned about the
welfare of our country, as
they would have us believe
they are, than about their
own election to Office, our
prestige would take care of
itself. Certainly, it must be
music to Mr.. KhruShchev's
ears to hear these same
people apologize for our
blunders in our efforts to
bring about peace in the
world.
I suggest that we aban-
don this lost prestige" wall
bury it without eulogy-
and stand up as Americans
should when Mr.. Khrushchev
struts across the stage exud-
ing superiority.
Ada NJ. Wentz
Evening star., 1960-07-05
Big Stepin Education

Montgo cry County
schools for their summer ses-
sions this year have estab-
lished one school as a math
center, another school as an
En- glish center, another
school for reading, etc., etc.
A student taking more than
one subject thus will have
to be chauffeured from one
class on one side of Mont
gomery County to be pres
ent for the second class in a
school located at the other.
The intellectual or intel
lectuals who have made this
convenient arrangement are
deserving of a medal for
their progressive thoughts in
education.
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