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Evening star., 1961-06-12

Dear DR.. Steincrohn:
What is meant by pericar-
ditis? What causes it? Is
there anything to dc for it?"
Mrs. S., Washington.
THE HEART is covered
by a strong membrane called
the pericardium. You might
call it a protective sac into
which the heart fits snugly.
When this becomes inflamed
we call the condition pericar-
ditis.
For example. when a pa
tient has coronary throm-
bosis with infarction Gin
flammation) of his h art,
this may spread to a por-
ton of the pericardium. 1t
is for this reason the doc
tor often hears a rough to-
and-fro murmur called a
"pericardial friction rub"
with each heartbeat. It dis
appears when the inflamma-
tion subsidies.
A common cause Of peri
carditis is rheumatic fever
Another, among many causes,
is tuberculosis, Treatment de-
pends upon the disease that
is causing this inflammation.
For example, in rheumatic
fever complicated by heart
disease, the pericardial in
flammation may be slight.
After rest, treatment with as
pirin and corticosteroids. the
pericardial membrane returns
to normal. However, there are
cases in which much fluid
collects in the pericardial sac.
With the aid Of a large need
lie and suction (parecenthe-
sis) the doctor removes this
fluid.
There is another form of
pericarditis in which, be-
cause of chronic inflamma-
ton, the pericardial sac
clamps down on the heart
muscle. This is called CON
Strictive pericarditis." The
only cure is operation to give
the heart room to beat in.
Whatever the cause, the
alert doctor always consid-
ers the possibility of pericar-
ditis when his attention is
directed towards the patients
heart.
For the past several
months my grandmother who
is 10 has had q series of
fainting spells which last
only q few moments. In be-
Evening star., 1961-06-12

DEAR ABBY: am so ag-
gravated I can hardly write
this, but l am going to get
it in the mail and pray it
makes your column if it's
the last thing I do. Today l
was invited to my FOURTH
shower for the same girl.
First her mother gave a
linen shower. Then her sister
gave a kitchen shower. Then
her first cousin gave a
greenback shower requesting
So toward the honeymoon.
And now her future mother
in-law is giving a grocery
shower" to stock her cup
boards.
If I go to this one, it will
have cost me SIG. And I am
not through yet because I
have to buy a wedding
present.
1 thought relatives were
not supposed to give showers.
Has etiquette changed? And
is this shower racket as dis
gusting to others as it is to
me? Please print your answer
in big, bold type, Abby. I
am sure it will interest many
others, as the season is upon
us again.
BLED WHITE
Etiquette has not changed.
Some people have. II is en-
tirely improper for q relative
to give a shower. It should
be a gathering of a girls
closest friends to surprise the
bride-tO-be with token gifts.
The gifts should be within
the means Of each invited.
The brides mother usually
determines the number Of
showers given. 1t is up to
her to avoid Implications of
the invited guests, since close
friends are invited to the
wedding, which requires
another gift. In my opinion,
to request cash" is crude
and nervy. There is only one
Evening star., 1961-06-12
WORD GAME

Find 26 or more words in
REC EIPT
meaning "act of receiving.
Average mark is % words;
time limit, IS minutes.
Rules Of the game. 1. Words must
be Of four or more letters. 2. Words
Evening star., 1961-06-12

For the past several
months my grandmother who
is 10 has had q series of
fainting spells which last
only q few moments. In be-
Evening star., 1961-06-12

The current season of Sunday
concerts at the National Gallery
of Art closed last night with q
recital by Enid Dale, an Ameri-
can pianist of unusual technical
gifts.
Miss Dale has her bachelors
degree from Hunter College and
a masters from Juilliard. She
was later the recipient of a
Fulbright grant in piano for
study at the Ecole Normale de
Musique in Paris. A year or
two ago, I heard her at the
Corcoran Gallery, and was i'm
pressed then, as I am now, by
her fluency and accuracy in
bravura passages in octaves and
chords.
These attributes of virtuosity
showed to excellent advantage
last night in her brilliant per-
formance of the GinasterG
sonata. She also projected the
three fantasies by William
Bergsma with power and
imagination and a lovely sense
of tone color.
On the contrary, her playing
of the familiar classics that
made up the rest of the pro-
gram left a good deal to be de-
sired, in an artist whose train
ing has been so thorough and
who has had so many oppor-
tunitieS to hear and to make
music. The Beethoven sonata
had moments of brilliance. but
was full of stretches in which
the balance between the hands
was unfortunate, especially in
the fugue.
The two Shubert impromptus,
which were the only subStitu-
tion in what was otherwise her
Town Hall recital of last No
vember, were played in a heavy
handed manner that lost a good
deal of the subtlety that Artur
Schnabel, for one, used to bring
to this music.
The opening suite by Bach
betrayed romantic conviction
that this music should not be
allowed to speak for itself, but
should be interpreted" with
rubato, with crescendi and di-
minuendi, and with extremes
of tempo.
For all that, Miss Dale is an
excellent pianist, and should
have a distinguished career.
She will be a better musician
when she learns to project a
simple melody, and when she
strengthens her fingers to the
point that her scales and rapid
figurations of single notes
such as those in the Schubert
A Flat-are commensurate with
her otherwise magnificent tech
nique. Not all the defenses Of
music can be taken by storm.
Evening star., 1961-06-12
DEAR ABBY
Grin, but Don't Bear 1t!
BY ABIGAIL VAN BUREN,

way to stop this shower
racket. Decline politely.
4 =
DEAR ABBY: What do
you think of a father who
puts himself first in every
thing? He turns to the
channel HE wants to see on
television. and nobody in, the
family can say a word. He
buys candy and ice cream
for himself and keeps it in
the refrigerator and makes
other members of the family
BUY it from him.
He never misses church on
Sunday and sits in the front
row where everyone can see
him. Do you think a person
like this belongs in church?
QUIET WIFE
Can you think of anyone
who needs it more?
4
DEAR ABBY: Last Satur-
day l left the hot water on
and my father made me pay
him a dollar. This morning
HE left the hot water on,
and when I told him he
owed me a dollar, he gave
me a dirty look. Don't you
think he should pay ME a
dollar? I am 9 years old and
only get Csc a week allowance.
MISS TREATED
Your father should have
paid you a dollar. But don't
buck authority.
y =
Everybody has a problem.
What's yours? For a per-
SonGl reply, tDrite to Abby
in care of The EDening Star.
Be sure to inctoSe a stamped,
Selt-dddreSSed enDelope.
A louelg luedding need not
be eTpenSiDe. For Abby'S
pamphlet on "HoD to Hare a
LoUely Wedding" send SOC
to Abby, Boz 1865, Beverly
Hills, Calf.
distributed by
McNaught Syndicate, Incl
Evening star., 1961-06-12
NEWS OF MUSIC
Bach Concerto Is Gem
Of Chamber Program

Hindemith-like style, nicely put
together in a traditional way
1 wonder, though, if Mr.. Hunter
has not miscalculated some in
the Instrumentation. The quiet
recorder limits the amount Of
noise that the other players
can allow themselves to make,
and the small-scale perform
ance that inevitably results does
not always seem in keeping
with the music. A few dropped
notes Notwithstanding. the per-
formance was thoroughly in
gratiatinR.
Evening star., 1961-06-12

An estimable group of Wash
ington musicians played a pro-
gram consisting mostly of little
known music at the Phillips
Gallery yesterday afternoon, but
the single war horse of the
concert, the Bach Sixth Bran
denburg Concerto, was the jewel
and all else was setting.
This last of the Brandenburg
concertos is scored for an odd
combination: two violas, two
violas da gambia, to use the
Anglicized form favored by most
musicians, and a continue Of
cello, bass and keyboard. The
viola da gambia parts were
played on cellos yesterday, and
while the substitution has a
small but distinct adverse ef-
feet on the music, no one can
feel seriously put out by the
modernization.
The performance was an ex-
cellent one. True, there were
some dropped notes and some
Scrambling in the last move
ment and even a place where q
viola went absent without leave,
but the firm musicality Of the
playing far outweighed these
relatively minor defects. The
structure of the piece was clear,
and I have no doubt that the
players know what concerto
style and concerto form meant
in the late Baroque lexicon.
In the last movement. the
syncopations were played prop
erly with the accents where
they belong, a departure from
a dreadful modern tradition
that should bring JOY to the
hearts of all Bach lovers.
The afternoon opened with a
partita for two violas d'amore
and continue by Heinrich Biber
(1644-1704, a Bohemian who
spent his professional life in
Austria and Bavaria. The mu-
sic is certainly less interesting
than some of Biber's other
works, the famous Passion
sonatas, for example. but q
stronger and more subtly
shaded performance could have
aided it considerably. The
Clique movement seemed toe
slow, and both the Praeludium
and the Arietta variata "a
chaconne) were deprived oi
some of the grandeur inherent
in their rhetoric.
Louis Couperin died in 1861
seven years before the birth oi
Francois Couperin. the moSt
famous member of a musical
dynasty that rivals that of the
Bachs for size and Importance
Mr.. Townsend offered six of his
pieces, apparently selected on q
completely subjective basis, and
they proved to be fine little
pieces deserving of revival
They sounded delightful on Mr.
Townsend's delicate ChalliS
harpsichord, though I think
some of them might have gained
by a little more pomp, circum-
stance and detached phrasing
George Hunters brief trio
dates from 1947, and consider
ing the strange combination Of
instruments required must re-
ceive very few performances
1t is a conservative work in q
Evening star., 1961-06-12
NEWS OF MUSIC
By DONALD MINTZ
Contributing Editor

John Tartaglia and Joseph Geo,
Townsend. harpsichord: Joel Wheeler.
recorder; Robert Graham, Harold
Z. Shaar and Hrant Tatian, cellos:
David Bishop, double bass. Phillips
gallery. Program: Partita for two
violas d'amore and continue, Biber
group of harpsichord pieces by L,
Chaconne in D minor, Canaries, Cha
come in D, Sarabande in d, Cha
come in @ minor: Trio for recorder.
viola d'amore and viola, Hunter;
Brandenburg Concerto No. 6, Bach,
Evening star., 1961-06-12
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tation, coati, coatins,. coin, coign
cogitant, Gotta, gain, gait, gang, giant
icon, incog, ingot, into, Intact, iota
tanto, tacit, tact, tang, tango, taint
tain, tinct, tint, titanic. ting, titi
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acting, action, aging, agog, agonic
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Evening star., 1961-06-12
ENID DALE SHOWS
PIANO FLUENCY
BY WENDELL MARGRAVE
Contributing CRITIC
Contributing Critic

Enid Dale, piano. National Gallery
Of Art. Program: French Suite No. 5
in q. Bach. Three Fantasies Q943,
Berssma; Sonata in A Flat, Opus
10. Beethoven: Impromptus in G
Flat and A Flat, Opus 90, Schubert;
Sonata 1852. Ginastera.
Evening star., 1961-06-12
BY Peter Loinq
BY WoIt Disney

which acquire four letters by the ad-
dition Of So, such as bats" cats"
are not used. 8. Only one form OF a
word is used. 4. Proper names are
not used.
Evening star., 1961-07-23

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Evening star., 1961-07-23
D. {. General
LaundryBurns

A short circuit in an electri-
cal junction box apparently
touched off a fire which caused
extensive damage at D. c. Gen.
eral Hospitals laundry build
ing yesterday, fire officials re-
ported.
Two laundry employees were
evacuated safely when flames
broke out in a second-floor at
tic at the laundry. Fire fighters
cut several holes in the roof OF
the building and brought the
blaze under control in IS min
utes.
Hospital officials declined to
estimate the damage until en-
ployeS Of the District Buildings
and Grounds Department sur
veyed the laundry. Unofficial
estimates, however, placed the
damage at several thousand
dollars.
Several hours after the fire.
hospital officials found that
hundreds Of damp sheets, need
ed for hospital beds, could not
be dried because the laundry's
flat-work ironer was knocked
out of commission.
Hospital Administrator Will
Evening star., 1961-07-23

chief Of detectives, that a man
came over, sat on a rock and
watched them. At one point
he called over to them and said
he knew a good spot" with
mice blue water" He said he
had an automobile and would
take them there.
The children, however, stayed
until -. park policeman. Pvt
o. D. Sydnor, drove by and
told them to stop swimming in
the creek. Pvt. Sydnor drove
off, remembering he had seen
a man watching the children
The children began walking
back through the woods. the
man ahead Of them. Then the
boys, Inspector Tolson was told,
doubled back to the creek. The
little girl followed the man.
Two boys, Emanuel Carr, IA
Of eos Longfellow street NV.
and Nicholson Brown, IA, who
lives q. few doors away at 93C
LongfeIlow, said they had beer
playing in the area Friday aft
Iernoon and had seen q white
Evening star., 1961-07-23
Knife Bondit I errorizes
Women in F St. Store

A masked bandit with a
butcher knife and a small can
of liquid lye terrorized three
women in a daring daylight
holdup yesterday in a women's
downtown hat shop.
The victims were employees
of the Sample Hat Shop at 912
F street NV. They told police
the bandit entered the store
about 4 pm. wearing a I1ylon
stocking mask and pointing the
knife.
"ThiS is a holdup. I want
your money" Mrs. Ethel Sulli-
van, acting manager of. the
shop, quoted him as saying.
| Others in the store were Mrs.
Edith Welsh, the cashier, of
5409 Shadyside avenue Sc,
and a clerk, Mrs. Irene Clark.
1886 Eleventh street NV.
Man Threatens Cutting
Mrs. Sullivan, of 22O Douglas
street NE, said she screamed
and the man threatened tn cut
her. He threatened Mrs. Welsh
with the lye.
The women moved toward the
rear of the store and the man
rifled the cash register. Police
said about $3.50 was stolen. The
bandit missed about $125 which
MRS. Welsh had put into a bag
earlier for deposit in a bank.
The bag was in another drawer
There were no customers in
the store. Raymond Baker, A,
of 1918 East Capitol street, told
police he was passing the store
when he saw the bandit emerge,
pulling off a stocking mask.
Before I could think, he ran
north across F street and then
toward Ninth street." Mr.. Baker
said.
Woman Faints
Police said Mrs. Clark was so
frightened she tainted. She was
given emergency treatment by
a fire department ambulance
crew.
Police said the holdup man,
In his early 30s, was colored,
5 feet II inches, about l6G
pounds. He wore green military
fatigue pants and q white T.
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GIRL .1,..
Police Still Seekino
Missing Child Clues
GIRL
Continued From First Page

Continued From First Page
Q white, long -sleeved blouse and
brown and white checked shorts
and pink sandals.
There was a blue ribbon in
her hair.
Friday night and yesterday,
l60 police and citizens picked
their way through the park in
the heat and dark. but found
no trace of the girl.
Sixteen dogs from the canine
corps took part in the search.
Three of the dogs, after
shifting the pajamas the child
had worn Thursday night, each
followed at separate times, a
path which led from the play
ground, down through the
park, to a parking area on
Beach drive, about a half-mile
south Of the intersection Of
Beach drive and Military road,
overlooking the creek.
Yesterday. police questioned
Herbert and three Of his.
friends, Marvin Jones, IL, Of
14l0 Delafield place NV; Louis
Bemon, 8, of 1905 Emerson
street NV, and Desi Curetoe,
8, Of 1900 Emerson street NV.
Children Go to Park d
By mid-afternoon, Herbert's
version of what happened had
clfanged-unde derstandably. Y
Originally. he had told police
Hattie had disappeared from
the playground. Later, he said
she had gone swimming with
him and the three boys.
Friday afternoon, police were
t6Id, Hattie and Herbert, with
aMnch packed by their mother,
walked about six blocks from
tnsir home to the playground.
There, they met Marvin. Louis
and Desi. Somebody suggested
asWalk down to the creek.
The children went down. to
the creek and began splashing
around in shallow water, y
sThey later told Inspector
Aubrey M Tolson; assistant
Evening star., 1961-07-23

Of the International Christian
Women's Fellowship today.
Mrs. Cole will serve foor
years succeeding Mrs. William
K. Evans of Austin, Mimi, as
head Of the women's organiza-
ton for Christian Churches in
the United States and Canada
Disciples Of Christi.
The five-day convention will
close tomorrow with a sermon
entitled Christ or Chaos" by
DR.. Perry E. Gresham, presi-
dent of Bethany College in
Bethany, w. Va.
Evening star., 1961-07-23
Two Youths Held
In Rope of Girl, II

Two teen-agers were charged
with raping a 12-year-old girl
Friday night near her home in
Cedar Heights, Prince Georges
County police reported.
The girl was told by a friend
to go inside a house to meet a
playmate, police said. They said
once inside she was grabbed
by the youths and raped in a
bedroom.
Detective 1t. Earl j. Huber
said the suspects. aged 10 and
10, are being held without bond
pending a hearing Monday in
HyattSville Police court. The
victim and the accused are
colored.
Evening star., 1961-07-23

man and q colored girl walk
ing down the path. At one
point, they told police, the
man had stopped, stopped
down and pointed out his car
to the child.
Late yesterday, Police
guessed the man and Hattie
had walked down the path
which the police dogs later
followed to his car parked
above the creek.
AIl-Night, An-Day Search
Herbert came home late in
the afternoon, expecting to
find Hattie. Police were called
and the search began. Deputy
Chief George r. Wallrodt
headed the all-night search.
In the morning. he said, 1--WE
will stay with it until we find
this child"
All day long they looked,
from Blagden avenue to the
Zoo, then back again to the
Maryland line. Nothing. Po-
lice from six precincts Joined
in.
BY late yesterday, police had
received q report that q man.
answering the same descrip-
tion, had been seen placing a
little girl on the front seat of
a 1857 or 1858, blue Plymouth.
Parents Keep Vigil
The car, which had been
parked on Beach drive near the
Military road intersection, had
driven south on Beach drive.
The report came as the Jack
son family sat silently in their
living room.
The couple had been up all
Friday night. With each pass
ling car, each noise coming up
from the street, Mrs. Jackson
would look out on the peaceful
trees until the chance Of some
word Of her daughter had
passed and the waiting had to
be resumed.
Mr.. Jackson, who operates a
lphotoStat at the Weather Bu-
reau's Suitland (Md.) office,
spoke in clipped, low tones. He
said Hattie was not the wan
dering type. She had never
been lost before. She went to
Truesdale Elementary School,
he said.
And then he said he had said
Iall there was to say.
Evening star., 1961-07-23
The FEDERAL SPOTLIGHT
!: Monroney Would End Rocket
]: In Getting Key Career Jobs

centive awards to Marion
Fisher. Rever Gurley, William
Langley, william Paulishak,
Thomas Farrelly, Francis Leim-
bach, Joseph Dunich, Verne
Carter. James Lander and
John Carrick. The Military
District Of Washington has
given incentive awards to Mrs.
Alice Bass, Mrs. Florence
Wright, Raymond Cerato, Mrs.
Rose Mary Ditoma, Mrs. Rita
Reed, Frederick Kraus, Rose
Deskin, Eleanore McConkey,
Donald Dahlquist, Mrs. Mar
garet Radhe, George Simpson,
Mrs. Barbara Rosinski, Harold
Kilgore, Mrs. Virginia Bowers,
Mrs. Edith Hudson, Robert
Riedel, Alvina Prosser and
Robert J. Wood. =. The Ma
tional Gallery of Art has given
superior performance awards
to George Egan, Stanley Man
ger, Paul Poulin. Joseph Liner,
Frank Evridge, Casimer Cmiel,
Frederick Berkley, Fred DAM
brosio, Willie Nance, p. j. Wat
son. George Smith. Robert
Hans, Ellsworth Shaw, Willie
Jackson and George johnson.
The Bureau Of Naval Per-
sonnel has given incentive
awards to Mrs. Virginia Cobb
and Mrs. Naomi r. Smith.
Twenty-year service awards
went to Mrs. Elizabeth McDan-
iel, William Blasingame, Viola
Burroughs, Victor Chandler,
John Hisey, Mrs. Jean Seewald,
Mabel R. Smith, George ].
Walsh, Evelyn Watson and
James Whitaker. st. EIiz-
abeths Hospital has given in
centive awards to the follow
ing employees: Roswell Smarr,
DR.. William TomkinS, Gilbert
Haas, Mrs. Virginia Mistr,
Wallace Danielson, Mrs. Bar
bara Dudley, Mrs. Mary Love,
Mrs. Carolyn MeiggS, Mrs. Mil
dred Galgas, DR.. Elizabeth
Strawinsky, Mrs. Isabel Pun
frey, James Poppleton, Mrs.
Estella Rost, William Bort,
Charles Doan, James Jackson
and Herbert Weifenbach.
Evening star., 1961-07-23

To the argument that the
Government Form 81 is notori-
ously complicated and detailed
and difficult to fill out. Sen
ator ,Monroney said that If 9
person can't do it by himself
then he obviously isn't fit, for
an administrative or executive
job, ssr,..,
- y II 4 .svt.
ANOTHER ANGLE-Senator
Monroney also is dissatisfied
with another aspect in Govern
ment promotions and appoint
ments. In regard to super
grade and other important
career jobs, he feels that spe-
cial panels composed Of per-
sonnel experts should inter-
view candidates personally for
the position before the appli-
cant is approved.
Senator Monroney declares
that all too often a person is
promoted or appointed to a
top career job now solely on
his written job description
form, without any attention
paid to his personal character
istics, personality, etc. Only
an oral interview can give a
complete picture as to the type
of individual the person really
is, Senator Monroney declares.
At present, he contends, the
| job description form is often
Skillfully tailored to make the
candidate appear to be the
logical candidate for the job,
when in reality he is not,
Summing up present Govern
ment promotion and appointive
procedures, Senator Monroney
said that all too often it is "a
professional snow job"
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CAPITAL ROUNDUP-Treas-
ury's Bureau of Customs has
given superior performance
awards to Evelyn Anderson,
Glenn Dickerson, Edward Gil
more, George Heidbreder, OAR
rell KaSt, Paul Mccarthy, Will
liam Mccullough, jr., Floyd
Pomeroy and Howard Sheppe
Commences Coast and
GeOdetic Survey has given in