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Evening star., 1961-05-12
Mvers-GeWirz

Mr.. and Mrs. Hyman My
ers Of Tallahassee, Fla, an
nounce the engagement of
their daughter Sarah Ruth to
Mr.. Bernard S. Gewirz, son
of Mr.. and Mrs. Morris &C.
wirz. A May wedding is
planned.
Evening star., 1961-05-12
ENGAGEMENTS

Dockry of San Diego, Calf,
and this city, and the late
DR.. Lyman Dockry. Miss
Kaczynski is also the daugh-
ter Of the late Mr.. Walter
Kaczynski. An August we'd
ding is planned.
Evening star., 1961-05-12
Lutterner-NeIson

Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Lat
terner announce the engage
ment of their daughter Letitia
Eugenia to Mr.. Ronald
George Nelson, son of Mr..
and Mrs. Orville Ramsey
Nelson of Bridgewater, Va.
A June wedding is planned.
Evening star., 1961-05-12
Moyer-HeImer

Mr.. and Mrs. William A.
Meyer Of Bethesda announce
the engagement Of their
daughter Harriet Jane to Mr..
Paul Dale Helmer, son of Mr..
and Mrs. Clair o. Helmer Of
TarrytoWn, N. Y.
Evening star., 1961-05-12

nounces the engagement Of
her daughter Nancy Sue
KacZynski to Mr.. John ].
Dockry, son Of Mrs. Lyman
Evening star., 1961-12-04

Life Is what you make il. The
"spinster" stereotype is deolt o
stunning blow with the reuIizotioi
that the single girl may be .
hold-out, not left-out. This Is
the subject Of todoy's Install
ment. the second article in a
series Of II condensed from the
best-seIIine Bobbs- Merrill book,
THE Single Women"
Evening star., 1961-12-04

dice games. and now he has
Scarne's Complete Guide to
Gambling. which costs $40 on
the chalk line. 1t covers every
thing from roulette to poker
to horse racing to betting on
the next hitter in a ball
game.
I hope he makes a few bob
on it. 1t runs to TIA pages,
which may be a good hunch
number. The thesis is that
the average bettor cannot
win over a long period. The
odds are always shaded to-
ward the house, or the book,
or the track. A short-term
gambler can become lucky.
Horse racing has always
been attractive to me. I have
my own system, referred to
by touts as Bishops Slow
Road To the Poorhouse.
Scarne talks of systems, and
says that none of them work
because. in a race, anything
untoward can upset the best
of calculations: An unruly
horse, a poor start, inter-
ference, poor jockey judge
ment, a horses personal feel
ings.
The only system which
might work is Martingale.
This Is also the oldest. The
Evening star., 1961-12-04
jim BISHOP:
REPORTER
Slow Road to the Poorhouse
Nj AND LOIS
FREDDY
THE BERRYS
MUTT AND JEFF
SCAMP

At Aqua Caliente, the lady
walked up to the Daily Double
window and presented her
ticket. She was Mrs. Ottillia
Alexander, a widow from San
Diego. She didn't appear to
be hysterical. She had just
won the biggest double in
history: $12,724.8G She
counted it carefully. right
down to the half dollar and
three dimes.
A REPORTER SAID: How
did you come to pick Slick
Trick and Rocklite, MADAME"
She smiled, Easy" she said.
The post positions are the
same as the first two num-
bers of my home address"
Well, each to his own system.
The smartest gambling
man in the world, I believe,
is John Scarne, a dark bomb
with a short fuse. He is a good
mathematician gone wrong.
Mr.. Scarne was in Havana
the last time I saw him. He
was standing outside a dark
ened gambling room which
Fidel Castro has just closed.
Mr.. Scarne came back to
the United States to try a
more notorious kind of gam
bling-writing books. He has
written about card games,
Evening star., 1961-12-04

eled pigeonholes, forever seq
regated under such assorted
captions as "Outcast," Cast
Off" and others signifying
clinker. Sans Mrs, the fe-
male is a failure or a mis-
fit. and she also has adjec-
tives attached to classify her
further. Fearful" and "frus-
trated" are the two in widest
use for single women.
These steroetypes have
been stamped deeply upon
the public consciousness.
Even If our eyes deny it, at
the trigger word we all ex-
hume the same imbedded
image. "Spinster" summons
up a sibilance "a skinny.
sour. shrill and spleenful.
also sharp-nosed, nosy mis-
anthrope, the tyrant-teacher
type.
"Old maids" Of maiden
aunt persuasion. are flustery
and fuddle- Drained and alb
surd. Of course. but objects
Of our loving laughter. This
breed peers beneath the bed
for burglars.) Others sit with
cats in laps, heads cooked to
hear their Gagged canaries.
riding rocking chairs to no.
Evening star., 1961-12-04
How to
STOP KILLING
YOURSELF
Rheumatism Needs Dioonosis
BY DR.. PETER J. srEINcRoHh

The first is this: Don't call
1t rheumatism. This is a
wastebasket term. When you
use it Tor when the doctor
uses it, which he shouldn't
you dump all aches and pains
into a jumbled receptacle.
You've got to get down to
the true diagnosis. First, is
it arthritis? Many aches
that resemble those caused
by arthritis are really due to
inflammation of muscle-my-
ositis or inflammation of
nerves neuritis9 If your
doctor doesn't make the cor
rect diagnosis you are shoot
ing in the dark. This is es-
pecially true if you diagnose
and treat yourself. ~
Let's suppose it is arthritis.
Now the doctor must find out
what kind it is. The main
classifications are as follows:
Oste eoart hritis. rheu-
matoid arthritis, gouty ar
Thrills, joint inflammation due
to rheumatic fever - and to
other infections.
When you treat yourself
you only guess at the true
diagnosis.
For example. I talked to a
Evening star., 1961-12-04
BY Wolt Disney

player starts with a So bet. If
he loses, he doubles up. He
keeps doubling until he wins
and. even if the winner only
pays even money, the gam
bier has all of his money
back.
There is one thing wrong
with the system. To work it
properly, the player should
own the United States Mint.
If you lose IA bets in a
row-which is fairly common
in my league-your 18th bet
is for $32,768 and. so far,
you have lost $65,543. And
where would you place the
bet?
The only players who drive
the bookies daffy are women.
They seldom play favorites.
and they think a form chart
is something to be found
in a book of patterns. One
woman at a track won $500
by counting the pigeons fly
ing across the infield and
then betting that post posi-
tion.
Mr.. Scarne estimates that
there are 10000 female book
les in America.
THESE, OF COURSE, are
the smart ones. They take
the bets of other women and
drive brand new Cadillacs
and have slinky furs and
rich-looking gowns. Women
who work for other bookies
usually get so per cent of
the profit realized from the
bets they phone in.
One girl-a secretary to a
rich man in New York-used
to phone her boss's bets in.
They sometimes amounted to
thousands of dollars a day.
The girl played smart. Il
want 10 per cent of whatever
Evening star., 1961-12-04

Dear DR.. Steincrohn: I have
not seen a column by you
on the subject of rheumatism.
AS this is one Of the most
common maladies we human
beings are subject to. 1 am
surprised. OF course, it's pos
Sible I missed a column or
two, although I am a faith
full reader. Mrs. K, Florida.
IN A WAY, this column on
illness is like reporting the
score of a baseball game.
There's always someone new
tuning in. Nothing is more
exasperating than to tune in
on your favorite team in an.
important game and have
the announcer give you ev-
erything but the score and
the inning. I suppose you feel
the same way about not see
ing rheumatism discussed. AS
there are many others like
you who have tuned in late,
let me give you some import
ant fundamentals.
Evening star., 1961-12-04
DEAR ABBY
Quick Reply
By ABIGAIL VAN BUREN

DEAR ABBY: We are twins
Cl6) who read your column
every day and respect your
opinion greatly. So do our
parents. Our parents forbid
us to date boys out of our
religion. We don't intend to
get serious about these boys,
we Just want to date them.
Isn't it better to 10 with
them and get it out of our
systems than not be able to,
and think we are missing
something?
THE TWINS.
The following letter was
received the same day yours
came. IT'S as good an answer
as I could give. And it's
from a girl your age: Dear
Abby. I have been wanting
to write this letter for a long
time. I read your fabulous
and l do mean fabulous
book, Dear Teenager.' 1 fol-
lowed your advice on person.
ality and dating out of my
faith. As a consequence, 1
am now going steady with
the most wonderful boy in
the world. He Is Of my own
religion and he treats me
like q queen. He has never
asked me for anything more
than a kiss. Abby, please 60
right on telling girls to stay
with boys Of their own faith
and they'll stay out of diff
cult situations. Thank you
with all my heart.
NEVER HAPPIER.
DEAR ABBY: I want to ask
you in all seriousness-how
can a man know If his pro-
spective bride Is virtuous or
not? SERIOUS.
Ask her!
Il 4
DEAR ABBY: Please tell
Suckers Wife" my husband
used to make himself avail
able for help all over the
neighborhood while I had
trouble getting him to fix
things at home.
One day I took my baby's
broken high chair to a neigh
boris and got her to call my
husband and ask him to fix
1t. She called him and he
ran right over and put it in
first-class condition. After
wards, I told my husband
and we all had a good laugh
about it. Ever since then 1
have had no trouble getting
things fixed at home. G. A.
4 4 Il
distributed by
McNaught Syndicate, IneO
Evening star., 1961-12-04
BY Al Smith

my boss loses to you" she
said, "or I'll phone the bet
elsewhere"
The bookie agreed. In one
year, the boss lost 100000,
and the $75-a-week secretary
took $4,000. I'm no DOPE"
she told the bookie. You have
to pay me-" The bookie
grinned. Later. he said: I'm
glad she's smart. She de-
mands 10 per cent of his
losses, and she's entitled to
so per cent"
Copyright, 1861,
King Features Syndicate, IncO
Evening star., 1961-12-04
BY PHYLLIS I. RosENTEUR

Cultures change from age
to age, and ours is one in
which the married are re-
garded as the quick and the
unwed as the walking dead.
A husband is the key to
Heavens Kingdom, which
abode OF bliss is also called
Suburbia.
The husbandless are laid
away, while still alive, In lab
Evening star., 1961-12-04

friend the other day who has
been having pain in his back
for months. Did he have X
rays taken? No. Did he 60
to a doctor? No. why spend
all that money!" he said. Il
think the trouble is in my
feet. I've just bought two
special pairs of handmade
shoes and inner arches. They
cost me SIS but I hope they'll
be worth it."
In most cases it turns out
cheaper when you spend your
money for correct diagnosis
and stop tinkering with your
own joints. All my friend is
doing is guessing and hoping.
We can't help all cases of
arthritis even after we've
made the diagnosis. For ex-
ample, many osteoarthritics
continue to suffer: so do
many rheumatoid arthritics
and others. Nevertheless. even
in these diseases. you will ul-
timately be better off with
the true diagnosis.
Many a case of gout suf-
fers needlessly for years be-
cause the diagnosis wasn't
made. Likewise. when the
doctor finds that your lower
back trouble is due to a pro-
truding disc between the ver-
tebrae, he can often help.
But if you go on taking as
pirin and applying heat and
just hoping, you have nobody
but yourself to blame.
These, Mrs. K, are some of
the things I have said in pre-
vious columns. Of course, you
understand that I can't pos
sibly cover the entire subject
today.
"A Bell Syndicate Featurel
Tomorrow: Old Hobits
Evening star., 1961-12-04
Contributions Drop
In Heart Cumpuiqn

NEW YORK, Dec. 4 (AP).-
The National Heart Association
says $26, ,437,931 was contributed
to the 1861 heart campaign.
The drive was conducted by the
association and its affiliates
last February.
Donald c, Power, the ma
tional campaign chairman,
said yesterday the general pub
lie increased it's donations. but
the amount raised from all
sources was lower than the
1860 total Of 26,663,324.
Evening star., 1961-12-04

where never. Another, more
neurotic strain is sanctimo-
niouS and stingy.
Old Portrait Fades
Parodies today, perhaps
these once were valid por-
traits. In the past, a normal
woman always married.
When the pioneers were strik-
ing out across the plains, a
girl was almost worth her
weight in gold, and for a
long while after, women were
so scarce that only the ex-
tremely ugly. stupid, sick or
crippled ever had to do with
out a husband.
Evening star., 1961-12-04

Choosing to stay single was
unheard of, since choice i'm
plies an alternative and. at
the same time. there weren't
any worth a second, or a
seconds, thought. In fact,
there just plain weren't any.
Marriage was a woman's des-
tiny, and she was all too we'll
aware of it. With no other
avenues to travel, she was
forced to take the bridal
path. Those who failed to
make the trip were thought
to be inferior or odd" and
they often shared the worlds
opinion of themselves.
When only marriage spelled
Evening star., 1961-12-04
Church Fund Record

DALLAS, Dec. 4 (AP) What
church officials believe to be
the largest local church budget
in the history of Christendom
has been oversubscribed by the
First Baptist Church Of Dallas.
The record $1,218,600 budget
was oversubscribed by $15,210.
Evening star., 1961-12-04
THE SINGLE WOMEN ~y.@zs,
'Spinsterf Fades Into Career Girl

success, Miss" became a
mark Of shame. These days,
the single girl is as likely to
be a hold-out as a left-out.
Recently, for instance, she
was told about the tests Of
high-school graduates which
prove that single girls possess
"better emotional adjust
ment, greater self-reliance, q
greater sense Of personal
freedom and fewer withdraw
ing tendencies" than their
married sisters. According to
the American Sociological
Review, they were also seen
to have more social savoir-;
faire and fewer anti-social at
titudes.
The dry-stick spinster ster-
eotype is dealt another stun
ming blow by a series Of
reports. typified by this one
from The American Institute
of Family Relations: One
quarter Of all the single wom-'
en- I interviewed" writes
Richard Kelmer, Ph.D., were
easily better looking than any
of the married women. AL
though there were some who
certainly wouldn't win any
beauty contests, the group as
a whole was above average.
All but about 20 per cent
had had one or more mar
riage proposals"
The truths are finally
trickling out.
Career Girl Myth
But as "old maid" slowly
fades away, the equally for
bidding figure of career
girl" gains an ever-stronger
outline. The career girl
may not wish to marry; more.
often, though, the men don't
ever ask. They've been in.
doctrinated to believe that
activating woman's brain is
detrimental to her body.
Lamentably, the single
woman is susceptible to such
myths, too. If she's afraid
to be herself and fight alone,s
she seeks companionship
within the clan that comes
the closest to her own es-
sential bent. BY adopting the
identifying earmarks of the
free-and-easy bachelor girl or
crisp careerist, she can kid
herself into a sense Of kim
ship. Society has made her
feel that just a fortnight
single female is a cipher.
It's in the shift from Miss :
to Mrs, though, that some :
thing magical supposedly oc- :
ours . rather, she imagines, .
like the transformations T"
touted in Before and After T.
ads. But in reality, Mrs.
works no miracles, and people /,
are intrinsically the same be-
fore as after.
Housewives today consume c
more tons of tranquilizers
than any other portion of the b
populace. More nervous
breakdowns are endured by
unfulfilled young wives and
mothers than by any other
faction. A whole new slew OF ;
housewives syndromes" has :
appeared in recent years to :
puzzle doctors and intrigue.
the analysts. =,
Though neuroses were sup
posed to rise from spihsters'
Incompetence" it now ap-,
pears that marriage in an age
of change may summon up
the bumper crops of cpn1pli-
cations. ,
AS Greta Garbo said, when
asked If she enjoyed her "sin<..
gle-blesSedness":: If you're
blessed. you're blessed-mar-
ried or single doesn't matt
ter" ~
(From The Single Women" Conn
right 1861 by Phyllis l. RosenteuE
reprinted by special permission of
the publishers. The Bobbs- s-Merriii$ :
Company, Inc -frss
THE Single Women" "a "a
Tomorrow: Matrimonial foirys
tules. Love end Ioneliness-AthS
pressure to conform. st'
Evening star., 1961-05-11
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Evening star., 1961-05-11
FIRST LADY
WILL VISIT
LONDON

Mrs. Kennedy will go to
London for two days fol-
lowing the state visit she
will make with the Presi-
dent to Paris May 81
through June 3.
The First Lady plans to
stay with her brother-in-
law and sister, Prince and
Princess Radziwill who re-
side in London, on June 4
and 5.
At his White House press
briefing this morning,
where the announcement
was made, Assistant Press
Secretary Andrew Hatcher
said, there is no indica-'
ton at this time that the
President will go" to Lon
don also.
Evening star., 1961-05-11

ing at 1870 Saturday at
Evans Farm Inn, in Mclean.
The chapter is newly
formed from the Washing
ton group. Mrs. w. H. Davis
will be in charge of reServa-
Evening star., 1961-05-11

tions for the meeting, the
chapters annual luncheon.
The program will include
election of officers, and the
schedule for 1961-62 will be
announced.
Evening star., 1961-05-11
Orchestra Players Feted
Edward GurnneI Only Original Symphony Member
BY AMELIA YOUNG
star Staff Writer

Two 25-year members of
the National Symphony Or
chestra, one of them the only
remaining original member,
enjoyed some special atten-
ton yesterday from the
women who keep their outfit
going.
The exceptional fund pro-
ducing Women'S Committee
OF the orchestra turned its
annual business meeting into
a silver-jubilee party for Mr..
Lloyd Geisler, associate con-
ductor and first trumpet, and
Mr.. Edward F. Gummel, per-
sonnel manager and bass
trombonist.
The latter has been with
the orchestra for all but a
few years since its founding
by the late DR.. Hans Kinder
in 1881.
Mr.. Gummel said he well
remembers the lean days of
getting it off the ground, the
pre-Wemen'S Committee era
when there were no regular
salaries and one had to keep
a steady job on the side to
SubSiSt.
A BacteriOlOgist
Mr.. Gummel worked as a
bacteriologist at Children's
Hospital in those days.
At the luncheon in the
National Press Club Ball
room, he and Mr.. Geisler
were placed in the honor po-
sitionS at the head table, in
troduced with eulogies by the
outgoing president, Mrs. Ma
thaniel Finney, and given
inScrib e d silver cigarette
boxes to mark the occasion.
They also were treated to
a dessert concert by the Ly-
wen Quartet, composed Of
four Of their symphony COL
leagues-Werner Lywen, vio-
lin; Virginia Harpham, vio-
lin; Richard Parnas, viola,
and John S. Martin, cello.
Eventually the women did
get down to business, Just
long enough to unanimously
elect Mrs. Chauncey j. Blair
president for the coming sea-
son.
Elected with her were Miss
Cecilia P. Dulin, honorary
vice president; Mrs. Samuel
Carpenter, first vice presi-
dent; Mrs. Christopher T.
Bever, End vice president;
Mrs. w. r. Hunnicutt, jr.,
3rd vice president; Mrs.
Charles Warner, treasurer;
Mrs. Everett A. Corey, re-
cording secretary, and Mrs.
Pat Munroe, corresponding
secretary.
Mrs. Blair. who helped to
organize and once headed
the suburban committee in
Arlington, has worked on the
Ticket Sales Committee for
the past three years. She is a
member Of the Junior League.
Conductor Attends
DR.. Howard Mitchell, the
symphony's conductor, and
Mr.. Carson Frailey, president
of the National Symphony
Association, attended the
luncheon, as did the wives of
the two honor guests and
some of their fellow musi-
clans.
1t was revealed at the
meeting that DR.. Mitchell
will leave tomorrow for
Buenos Aires, Argentina,
where he will open the sea-
son Cf the Orquesta Sinfonica
Nacional as guest conductor
May 20.
Seven days later he will
launch the concert season in
Montevideo, Uruguay, with
S.OD.R.E.. the national or
chestra, and he'll spend the
next two and a half months
guest conducting throughout
the two countries.
Evening star., 1961-05-11
Virginia AIunnoe
Plan Meetinq

Northern Virginia Alum
nae of Trinity College will
hold their first official meet
Evening star., 1961-11-14
PRAISE FROM NINA KF1RUsHCHEV
D.C.Women Get q Pen Pal

Mrs. Nina Khrushchev, the
wife of Soviet Premier Nikita
Khrushchev, has written to a
group of Washington house.
wives that their campaign for
peace has a noble" and truly
motherly goal"
The three-page letter from
the Soviet leaders wife was de-
livere dtoday by Russian Off
cials in Washington to leaders
of the November l Strike for
Peace" in which hundreds of
Metropolitan area women rail-
lied at the Washington Monu-
ment grounds.
After the rally. the crusoding
women marched to the White
House and to the Soviet En-
bassy. leavin gcopies of letters
to Mrs. Jacqueline Kennedy
and to Mrs. Khrushchev.
The letters pleaded with Mrs.
Kennedy and Mrs. Khrushchev
to join the crusade to move the
world back from the brink Of
war If humanity is to survive"
This morning Soviet officials
delivered an English transla-
ton of a letter signed by Nina
Khrushcheva."
Evening star., 1961-11-14
81 Dead
After Storm
In Mexico

ACAPULCO, Mexico. Nov. IA
(AP) The estimated death toll
climbed to 81 today from a
fierce weekend tropical storm
which ravaged the coast north
of this resort city.
Officials said 80 died in the
area of Nuxco and Tecpan de
Galeana and five more in San
Marcos. Five other persons
were missing.
Towering waves swept over
Nuxco and destroyed the town
built on a sandbar between the
sea and a lagoon. A river left
its banks and flooded part of
Tecpan. Acapulco itself was
lashed by heavy rain, but was
not seriously damaged.
Damage to crops and live
stock is reported heavy. Health
officials are working around the
clock to prevent an outbreak
of disease from contaminated
water and food.
Troops were rushed from
Chilpancingo and Acapulco
with jeeps and trucks loaded
with clothes, food and medi-
cine. But the coastal highway
along the area was under water
at several places, and the floods
also prevented military planes
from landing food and medi-
cine at some points.
Evening star., 1961-11-14
StoIin's Statue BIitzed
Out of Berlin in Storm

BERLIN, Nov. IA (AP).-
Communist East Germany
staged a blitZ discrimination
during the night, remaining
East Berlin's showplace boule-
ward and removing its statue of
Stain and countless other me-
MORALS to the late Soviet die
tAtor.
The work in Stalinalee began
about midnight in a driving
storm of rain and sleet. East
Berlin police cordoned off the
boulevard for blocks and closed
the nearest subway station.
Scores of workmen turned to
on removing street signs and
went to work on the statue
with pneumatic hammers and
drills. A crane stood by.
Neues Deutschland announced
the removal of the statue but
did not say where it was taken
to.
This morning only workmen
and debris remained as bull
dozers cleared the square where
East Berlin's bronze Stain
statue had stood shince shortly
after World War II.
Stalinallee, the broad, three
mile avenue that is East Ber-
Inns main street, had fresh
name signs-Karl Marx Alice
for half the length and
Frankfurter Alice for the rest.
Frankfurter Alice was the
streets name before the Rus
slams occupied East Berlin.
Stalinstadt, a major East
German iron and steel town
on the Oder River, was re-
named EisenhuettenStadt, or
iron foundry town, according
to- a small front-page an
nouncement in Neues Deutsch-
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