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Evening star., 1961-04-18
SHEINWOLD
ON BRIDGE
Nv ALFRED SHEINGOLD
Good Bidders
Pass the Buck
BY ALFRED SHEINGOLD

It's important to know how
to pass the buck. If you don't
have the facts needed for a de-
cision, don't take control; let
your partner have his say.
South dealer.
Both sides vulnerable.
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Pass - INT Pass
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Opening lead: Diamond king.
Most pairs bid this hand
foolishly in the recent open
pair championship in Denver.
When the South player bid two
spades, the partnership stopped
at part score; but whenever
the South player optimiStically
jumped to three spades, the
partnership reached game.
One bid was just as foolish
as the other. South didn't have
enough facts to make a deci-
sion.
/ After the overcall Of one no
trump, South knows that his
partner has about 16 to 19
points-just as though North
had opened with one no-trump
South's eight points show him
that the combined strength is
about "a to 26 points. This
should be enough for game il
North has a reasonable fit ir
spades or maximum strength
1t will not be enough if North
has only two spades and only
l6 points.
Uses Cue Bid
Soth can find out what he
wants to know by making 6
cue bid in the opponents suit
He bids two clubs, a response
that North cannot pass.
Even if North has neveI
heard of such a bid, he will
keep the bidding open. He viii
naturally show a major suit i
he has one, Otherwise, he vii
bid two diamonds.
In this case, North must biz
two diamonds. Now South bid
two spades. This shows a de
cent five-card suit, since Nortl
cannot have more than threC
spades and South wouldn't b,
safe in bidding a suit of fewe,
than five cards.
1t is also clear that SOutl
isn't strong enough to jump II
| three spades. But South wa
obviously too strong to bid tw,
spades right over one no-trump
In short, South shows a five
card spade suit with a hant
that is almost, but not quite
strong enough to demand 1
game: North can we'll affort
to raise to three spades will
XXX of that suit. If Nortl
had only XXX of spades, h
would pass at two spades.
Daily Question
Partner opens with on
spade, and the next playe
passes. You hold:
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What do you say?
Answer: Bid two clubs.
partner raises or bids hearts
you will know what to do.
he merely rebids the spade,
you can then bid no-trump.
(CopyriEht. 1861, Gen. Features Corp,
Evening star., 1961-04-09
Maryland Man
Is New Assistant
u. S. Attorney

BALTIMORE. April 8 (AP)
Daniel F. McMullen, jr., has
assumed duties as assistant
U. S. attorney in Maryland, the
first staff appointment of new
United States Attorney Joseph
D. Tydings.
Mr.. McMullen, a 30-year-
old lawyer from Cumberland,
was sworn in Thursday, a day
after Mr.. Tydings assumed the
post to which he was named
by President Kennedy.
Mr.. McMullen had been with
the civil division of the U. S.
Department of Justice at
Washington, a post he had
held since November, 1857.
Mr.. Tydings said one of Mr..
McMullen's first assignments
will be handling a pending
land condemnation case in
volving Andrews Air Force
Base near Washington, one of
the largest condemnation
cases ever brought in Mary
land.
Evening star., 1961-04-09

met her; people in 80 countries
have seen her.
Evening star., 1961-04-09
+ODAY'S WEATHER REPORT

District and vicinity-Cloudy
and cool, high near so today
Rain beginning this afternoon
and continuing tonight. Cloudy
tomorrow and bit warmer
with some rain likely in morn
ing.
Maryland - Mostly cloudy
and cool today; high, A to so.
Rain in west by afternoon and
east by night. Cloudy and mild
tomorrow with showers.
Virginia-Mostly cloudy and
cool today with rain in south
west spreading over east and
north by night. High in sos
except 40s in mountains. Mostly
cloudy and mild with showers
tomorrow.
Lower Potomac and Chesa-
peake Bay-Variable winds be-
coming east to south 10 to 20
knots today. Visibility 10 miles.
River Report
Potomac River cloudy at Harpers
Ferry and slightly muddy at Great
Falls. Shenandoah cloudy at Harpers
Ferry.
Evening star., 1961-04-09
Bin Boys Club
To Serve as
CityHeuds

Three members of the Boys
Club of Greater Washington
have been elected to serve as
Junior Commissioners during
the celebration of National
Boys Club Week, tomorrew
through next Sunday.
The three, David John Davis,
9, of 1921 Twenty-eighth place
Sc; James Frank, IL, of 4O2
Sixteenth street Sc: and Je-
rome Gray, IL, of 17OO D street
Sc, will meet with the Dis
trict Commissioners at 10 am.
tomorrow at the District Build
ing. A proclamation will be is
sued officially opening Boys
Club Week.
The three boys then will in
spect the police and fire de-
partments, tour Municipal
Court and the D. C. Jail and be
guests at a luncheon.
Evening star., 1961-04-09

Army Engineers has given top
performance awards to Howard
L. Cook, Henry Weinkauff,
John GiSt, Carol Bershad, Rob-
ert Blakely, Blanche Buhrrman
and Althea King David
Pines of the Military District
of Washington and Quentin
Grant of the Corps of Engi-
neerS have been elected new
directors of the Gravelly Point
Credit Union. The credit
unions officers are Arthur
Newbury. president; George
Barritt, vice president, and John
Barry, treasurer The Gov
ernment Printing Office has
given beneficial suggestion
awards to Donald Buckle, Rob-
ert Burgess, Simon Clar,
Thomas Doehner, Fred Hardin,
Jerome Hartnett, Arthur Hunt,
William Kilcoyne, Leon Murphy
and Cline Mutersbaugh i
Commerce Department has
given the following meritorious
service awards :Office of Sec
retary, Mary T. Boyle, Forrest
Hockersmith, Chester Holden,
John Samuel Myers, Lawrence
Lathrop, Paul ziemer, Hilton
White, Mitchell Bushery; Patent
Office, Philip Arnold, Fred
Bear, Benjamin Bendett, Wal
ter Berlowitz; George Leo
Brehm, Frank Bronaugh,
Charles Duncombe, Laverne
Geiger, George Gorecki, Will
liam Ingram, Hazel Jeffries,
Albert Kampe, Sam Kingsley,
William Knight, Samuel Levine,
Lloyd McCollum, Jacob Man
ian, Irving Marcus. Emile Paul,
Kingsley Peck, Everett Reyn-
olds, Leon Rosdol, Robert
Rose. David Rubin, Eli Sax,
Mabel Spasoff and Frederick
Strader.
Evening star., 1961-04-09

Continued From First Page
tion of $50 employees of the
American Foundation of the
Blind she insisted on greeting
them all by their first names.
Evening star., 1961-04-09
Barber Shop
Songfest Today

Singing groups from the
Washington area will combine
their voices at 3 pm. today .on
the steps of the Capitol to
celebrate Barber Shop Har-
mony Week." sponsored by the
Society for the Preservation
and Encouragement of Barber
Shop Quartet Singing in
America.
The local singers are part of
the 650-chapter organization
observing the event through
Saturday.
The concert today will fea.
ture 400 singers from Alexan-
dria, Arlington, Fairfax, Ma
nasSas, Montgomery County
and the District. Included in
the program will be the Chorus
of the Potomac, the Singing
Capital Chorus, the Jubil-
Aires, the Alexandria Harmon
izerS and the Precisionists.
Evening star., 1961-04-09
KELLER
Strong Hand Shows
Kennedy's Character

Continued From First Page
ton of $50 employees of the
American Foundation of the
Blind she insisted on greeting
them all by their first names.
No Lines From FrOwnS
If Miss Keller could look into
a mirror she would see a face
with no crease lines from
frowns, a face that lights up
when she smells a rose or
stands next to an orchestra and
hears the music through her
feet, hands fluttering to keep
time.
1t is impossible to imagine
this gentle, handsome woman
as the half-wild creature who
as a child made her wants
known only by crude gestures
and cultural noises and in one
of her many RACES knocked out
the front tooth Of her teacher,
Anne Sullivan Macy.
She has often said the great
est day in her life was when.
at age seven, her teacher held
her hand under a running
spout, at the same time spelling
waiter in the other hand.
The First Word
For the first time Miss Kel-
Ter caught the connection be-
tween the signals tapped into
her hand and an object. She
touched the ground and asked
its letter-name. Before the day
was over she knew 80 words
and their meanings.
She was only 20 when Mark
Twain in 1900 linked her with
Napoleon as one of the nine
teenth century's two most re-
markable people"
Since then she was graduated
cum laude from Radcliffe and
has written more than a dozen
books and countless articles in
spring people to look around
them, to "use your eyes as if
tomorrow you would be strick-
en- blind"
She has received honorary
degrees from six universities,
one of them Harvard in 1855.
Yesterday Harvard alumnus
President Kennedy told her he
was in the audience that June
day six years ago.
She is an honorary Lions
Club member and an honorary
Pawnee Indian. Kings have
Evening star., 1961-04-09

IlleC neT, people III 81 countries
have seen her.
DevOtes Life to Blind
One Of the founders of the
American Foundation for the
Blind. Miss Keller deVotes her
life to this work. Last night
when she received the Annual
Humanitarian Award from the
Lions Club District 22-C, she
stressed that $4,000 blind chill
dren are going without educa-
ton a distressing number
of mentally normal blind chill
dren are in homes for the
mentally retarded where they
should never have been sent
at ALL"
In her Westport Conn. }
home there is a steady tapping
of her typewriter as she writes
letters to Congressman, Sena-
tors and others who might help
with legislation and grants.
All her household staff, even
the visiting gardener, have
learned the manual alphabet
and she talks often with them
She loves boating and always
walks in her garden. How
love the smell of the roses and
the cool green"
Truck Drivers Breakfast
She gets up early and eats a
breakfast fit for a truck driver
friends say she always enjoys
food. Yesterdays breakfast
was liver and bacon, orange
Juice, toast, coffee.
Then she goes upstairs to
work. picking up the mail
which is always waiting on the
second step, translated into
Braille.
When thinking out an article,
speech of book, Miss Keller uses
her Braille typewriter so she
can go back to feel her
thoughts; otherwise she uses a
regular typewriter.
She often plays with her
dogs, "Tinka" and Bounce, :"
the latter a Labrador retriever
puppy, recent gift from ac-
tress Katherine Cornell.
She favors print silk dresses
She wears a pearl necklace:
never any rings or polish, but
makes her nails gleam with an
old-fashioned buffer.
Reads Constantly
She reads constantly-phi-
losphy. current events, fiction
She has just finished a book or
Africa.
Her personal secretary, Mrs
Evelyn Seide. is always busy
with requests for books trans
lated into Braille. Last veal
Mrs. Keller asked for Uncle
Toms Cabin" which she hadn't
read as a child when she used
Braille books under the covers
to read after she was supposed
to be asleep.
Grief came with the death OF
her constant companion, Polly
Thomson, last year, but Miss
Keller still entertains many
friends. She has just returned
from a visit with her sister
Mrs. Mildred Tyson of Ala
bama, and her brother, Phillips
Keller, in Texas.
Miss Keller makes few If any
concessions to the fact that she
will be 81 June 27. She scorneo
any suggestions of coming tt
Washington by train.
For Helen Keller the only
possible way was jet.
Evening star., 1961-04-09
Legislators Cots
Reached After Climb

DES MONIES, Iowa CAP).-
Members Of the Iowa Legisla-
ture can get 40-wink snoozes
at MONDAY if they wish, but
they have to climb 40 steps
to do it.
Cots have been provided in
an empty room above the
Statehouse House chamber.
One legislative employe OBJ
served:
You'll really need a rest
after the climb"
Evening star., 1961-04-09
DID YOU KNOW?

On Wednesday,, April 18th,
one Of the truly sroot retail
soles events will toks place
ot Whsoton PIozo.
This special event is new
in this MetropoIiton Areo.
but for decades this hos
been on annual sole oil
over the uritsd Stotss.
Eoeh year. rstoiI history is
made when Montgomery
Word buyers pull out the
stops" for Ward Week.
Months before Ward Week,
Words buyers have worked
with the notions lsodins
manufacturers. They have
bought millions Of dollars
worth Of apparel, furniture.
eorpetins. dropsriss. house.
wares, appliances and many
other items at rsmorkobls
SovineS for Word customers.
This is q lo-doy event. when
all America shops and saves
on latest styling and sU-
perior qUoIity. You owe II
TO yourself - not 10 miss this
Soles event.
REMEMBER THE DATE
Wednesday. April 18th. thru
Saturday. April 22nd., ot
Wards. Whsoton Plozo.
Evening star., 1961-04-09
Quukes in Ecuador

GUAYAQUIL. Ecuador, April
8 (AP.-A series of four strong
earthquakes shook several Ecu
adorean cities Friday night.
There were no reports of casu-
alties or heavy damage but
hundreds in Guayquil fled into
the streets. The quakes were
also felt in Quito, Ambato,
Portoviejo and Cuenca.
Evening star., 1961-04-09

retirement fund is going bank
rupt.
But they do say it points up
the urgent necessity of improv-
ing the financing of the fund.
The Kennedy administration
has urged Congress to provide
additional financing of the fund
on an indefinite, permanent ap-
preparations basis which would
automatically provide for addi-
tional money whenever needed.
Chairmen Johnston and Muir
ray of the Senate and House
Civil Service Committees have
introduced bills to carry out the
administrations request.
At present, Federal employees
contribute 612 per cent of their
salaries to the retirement fund
and the Government matches
this contribution. But the
funds deficit keeps growing
and retirement officials en-
phasize that further financing
is needed.
Besides their equity in the
fund in regard to receiving
their annuities upon retirement,
Federal employees have another
stake in seeing that the retire
ment fund is put on a finan-
cially sound basis: Any further
liberalization of retirement
benefits can hardly be hoped
for unless the fund becomes
financially sound from an ac-
tuarial viewpoint.
y
OFFICIAL REGISTER-Re-
publican Senators Javits and
Keating of New York have
sponsored a bill to resume pub
lication of the Official Register
Of the United States. The Reg
lister, which contained the
names and salaries of top Gov
ernment officials and career
employees, was discontinued last
year after 144 years of annual
publication.
AUTHORIZED POSTAL EN-
BLEM-Postal employees who
are not required to wear uni
forms have been given permiS-
sion to wear a Post Office en-
blem at work if they wish. This
would include postal clerks,
supervisors, postmasters, etc.
Wearing Of the emblem will
be strictly on a voluntary basis.
Employees must pay for the cost
of the emblem.
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CAPITAL ROUNDUP
Navy's Bureau of Supplies and
Accounts has given the follow
ing awards: Superior accom-
plishment. Frederick Melhem,
Mrs. Genevieve Pemberton; |
beneficial suggestions, Donald
Comm, Harold Colen; 30 years
service, Mrs. Florence BranSon,
William E. Moore; 20 years.
William Powell, Charles Mon
day. Grace Hartman, Oscar
West, John Martin, Harry
Dickinson, jr, Michael Gray,
Carol Helmick, Daisy johnson,
Wilton Brewington, John Mat
tos, Ella Ryan, Edward Cynar,
Michael Schiavetti, Charles An
derson, George Matthews, Helen
Baggett, Carol Anvil, Evelyn |
Caldwell, Fred Meissner, Ed
ward Herman, Louis Williams,
Faye ESpenschied, Emma Croft,
Mary Duncan, James Nc
Kenna, David Miller, Edward
Fitzgerald; Red Cross blood
donors, John Robson, Mrs. Al
berta Arts; 1000 hours sick
leave accumulation, John Ver-
ban, Roger D. Smith, Mary
Clapp, Thomas Ramsey, Metro
Shaternick and Fred A. Walker.
The Office of the Chief of !
Evening star., 1961-04-09
THE FEDERAL SPOTLIGHT
Retirement Fund
Liability Increases
By JOSEPH YOUNG
Star staff Writer

The unnded liability of the civil service retirement fund
has risen to than $31 billion the Civil Service Commission
reports
This compares with mfunded liability of S27 billion
In 1859.
say there is no reason to assume that the
Evening star., 1961-11-28
Hunt Stepped Up
For Horse-D Doping
Ring in Britain

LONDON. Nov. 28 (AP).-
Police and private eyes" today
stepped up their hunt for a
mystery woman and her gang
of racehorSe dopers after dis
covering another top class
British steeplechaser wa S
drugged before a big race.
The latest horse proved to
have been doped is Fresh
Winds, a fancied entry for
next years Grand National
Steeplechase. Fresh Winds was
found half asleep in his box
before a race at Uttoxeter No.
vember 16.
He could not stand. His
hind legs were paralyzed, !"
Trainer Roy Winston said. The
horse is the 10th to have been
doped in the last two months
after visits to stables by a
mysterious woman who speaks
with a French accent.
Fresh Winds was an odds-on
favorite to win the November
l6 race. He did not run.
Evening star., 1961-11-28
BY the Associated Press

Alabama goes against tradi-
tional rival Auburn Saturday as
the Nations No. l college foot
ball team-but only by a mar
row margin.
The Crimson Tide, unbeaten
and united in nine games, sat
out an open date last week end
and lost considerable ground in
the Associated Press poll to
Ohio States Buckeyes. who
walloped Michigan. 5000.
The next to last poll showed
Alabama slipping from 80 first
place votes last week to only &c
this week among the 49 sports
writer's and Sportscasters on the
AP panel.
The Buckeyes, finishing an
8-0-1 season in strong fashion,
increased their first-place draw
from 6 last week to 81 this
week.
Louisiana State is third,
Texas fourth, Mississippi fifth
and Colorado sixth, each NOV
ing up one rung.
Minnesota, third last week,
dropped to seventh after losing
to Wisconsin, 1921.
Michigan State is eighth, Ar
kansas ninth, and Missouri, the
only newcomer to the rankings,
Evening star., 1961-11-28
Fishing to End
At Reservoirs

The 1861 fishing season will
close at the Washington Sub
urban Sanitary Commissions
Triadelphia and Rocky Gorge
Reservoirs at sundown Thurs
day. Opening date in 1862
again will be March /.
The commission annually
closes its two lakes through the
winter for safety reasons and
to permit maintenance opera
tions which cannot be taken
care of during the fishing sea-
son.
For several months. the COM
mission has been gradually
lowering the level of Rocky
Gorge Lake to permit painting
of the gates on Rocky Gorge
Dam after December l. The
gates are located about 13 feet
below normal level and have
to be painted every four or five
years.
Evening star., 1961-11-28
Heavyweight Bouts Dec. a
Won't Be Heard on Radio

NEW YORK, Nov. % CAP) -
Neither the heavyweight cham
pionship fight between defend
ing champion Floyd Patterson
and Tom McNeeley at Toronto
December 4 nor the Sonny Lis
ton-Albert Westphal heavy
weight bout from Philadelphia
the same night will be on radio.
However, the title bout and
the 10-rounder from Phila-
delphia will be televiSed over a
closed circuit to theaterS and
arenas in 100 locations in the
United States and Canada.
Bids for the radio rights were
passed up by Irving B. Kahn,
president of TelePrompTer
which has the ancillary rights
for the two fights, because he
did not consider the price "fai1
and consistent with established
values"
The radio rights for the three
Patterson-Ingemar JohansSor
title fights brought 100000
Evening star., 1961-11-28
UNANIMOUS SELECTIONS
Ferguson, Stephens,
Bell Head AII-Biq Ten

CHICAGO, Nov. % (AP).-
Fullback Bob Ferguson of Ohio
States unbeaten champions is
unanimous choice and the
only repeater on the 1861 ALI
Big Ten football team named
by the Associated Press.
Other unanimous selections
are Quarterback Sandy Stephens
and Tackle Bob Bell of runner
up Minnesota.
In addition to Ferguson, an
outstanding candidate to repeat
AS an All-America, the Buck
eyes also landed Guard Mike
Ingram on the first lineup.
Two places each also went
to Michigan State and Purdue
Wisconsin, Michigan and
Northwestern got one berth
while Iowa, Indiana and Illinois
were blanked.
The 217-pound Ferguson was
the mailed-fiSt thrust that led
the Buckeyes to the conference
title and top yard-gaining
honors. In six Big Ten games
he drilled 627 yards for a So
average and scored 10 touch
downs. In three years Fergu-
son was thrown for a loss only
three times for a total of
yardS-a 3-yard setback as a
sophomore, p yard as junior
and 2 as a senior.
Stephens is an excellent
triple-threat back who was in
dispenSible for Minnesota az
the core of its attack. He gained
394 yards rushing, 757 passing
Evening star., 1961-11-28
Count Fleet Gets
Honor at Lost

NEW YORK, Nov. % CAP)
Count Fleet, winner of horse
racing's Triple Crown in 1943
has been added to the Hall OF
Fame in the National Museum
of Racing at Saratoga, N. Y.
it was announced yesterday.
The addition of Count Fleet
who swept the Kentucky Derby
the PreakneSS and Belmont
Stakes, rectified an oversight
in the original balloting, said
John c. Clark. chairman OF
the Hall of Fame Committee.
Count Fleet had a short but
meteoric career, winning 10 OF
IS races as a 2-year-old and
capturing six as a 3-year-old,
His career ended when he
struck himself during the run
ming of the Belmont. He won
that race by Is lengths.
Evening star., 1961-11-28

should receive the same number
Of extra days if any are handed
out to the small tracks.
Adding to the excitement at
Annapolis will be a bill spon-
sored by the Maryland breeders
which would increase the mu-
tuel take from the present IL
per cent to 13 and channel the
per cent to a special fund
for additional purses.
The legislative session could
be more interesting than bat
ting the weather at Bowie in
February.
SHORT SPRINTS-It didn't
make the hackers of Sweet Eve
MIN, 8-5 disqualified favorite
at Pimlico Saturday. feel any
better, but Jockey Johnny Sell
lers was exonerated of blame
by the stewards yesterday and
escaped a suspension When
Sweet Evenin' was disqualified
and placed fourth for interfer-
ing with Princegret, who fin
ished fourth, Mikenike became
the winner at $500 The
stewards said Sellers was un-
aware tn at Princegret and
Jockey Braulio Baeza had
rushed up alongside him and
that they held Sellers blame
less.
There was another disquali-
fication at Pimlico yesterday
when Bill Huey was set back to
fourth in the second race after
finishing second Many OBJ
servers thought the stewards
should have posted an inquiry
instead of waiting for a foul
claim from the rider as it ap-
peared that Bill Huey lugged in
badly on Likely Miss in the
stretch The disqualification
did not affect the daily double
of Big Bird and Legal Gain,
which paid $26 Oddly, the
payoff was the same as the
winning numbers-two and six
Yesterdays crowd of 1861
wagered 1869, 800