Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-10-14
Photo Awards
Are Garnered
By virgiinians

y Virginians Of the Metropoli-
tan Washington area captured
six Of eight grand prizes
awarded in The Stars 1862
Amateur Snapshot Contest.
The u. S. Savings Bond
awards, ranging from $25 to
800, climaxed the 10-week
Competitions which began last
May. The eight top prize-win-
ners have been submitted in
the National Newspaper Snap
shot Awards to compete for
prizes as high as $1,000. Win
ners Of the national competi-
ton will be announced Novem-
Der 5.
7, The Stars grand prize-win-
ming photos appear today in
SUNDAY, The Star Magazine.
e Adjudged best of color en-
tries was a photograph sub
mitted by Mrs. Daniel Wheeler,
3l8 Stratford avenue, Fairfax.
Mrs. Wheeler's 6-year-old
daughter Martha was the sub
tect. The child was playing
solitaire one Sunday. The
scene appealed to her mother;
the natural lighting through a
window appeared just right; so
with the aid of a white photo
mount for backlighting, Mrs.
Wheeler snapped the picture.
An office manager in the
Washington area, Mrs. Wheeler
has been an amateur photog-
rapher in her spare time for Is
years.
Zoo Picture
The other 500 winner was a
hlack-and-white photo of a
prairie dog poking his head from
his burrow at the Washington
Zoo. The photographer. ap-
propriately enough, is a zoolog-
ist-Howard E. Uible. who until
his recent assignment in the
Malagasy Republic. was EN-
ployed at the Smithsonian In
stitution. Mr.. Uible relates he
had spent a couple Of hours
stalking" another animal in |
the prairie dog enclosure, when |
he noticed another Of the dogs |
giving him the eye. Mr.. Uible
quickly aimed his camera at
the watcher, and got his picture.
Second prizewinnerS, who get
$50 bonds, were Albert P.
Andrews, an Army Signal Corps
employee, Of 2713 Phipps street,
Woodley Hills trailer park, Alex
andria. and Joseph P. Banko, a |
naval architect Of 1905 Lawton |
street, Mclean, Va.
Shortly after Mr.. Banko and
his family came to Washington
last January, he took his
family - including daughter
Carmen, Ito the National
Gallery Of Art. Carmen, who
likes to draw, was fascinated
by the painting Of two happy
women peering from the can
vas. MIR. Andrews snapped his
shutter. and got a prizewinner.
Ignored Golf Date
The thing that Mr.. Banko
remembers best about his color
photo Of q spider web in his
back yard is that ut made me
late for q golf date" But, he
adds, he couldn't resist taking
time to photograph the lacy
network glistening in the early
morning sun.
THE $25 bond honorable
mention winners in color went
to DR.. Bernard Berman, a den
fist who lives in the Shoreham
Hotel, and r. Richard Baxter,
a. laboratory technician. of
1919 North Washington boule-
ward, Arlington. DR.. Berman'S
shot was Of a diver in mid-air
as framed in the foreground
by q life preserver, while Mr..
Baxter snapped a squirrel
Iiaunching peanuts at his back
yard bird-feeder.
The two black-and-white
honorable mentions were both
awarded to Everett c. John
son, q personnel officer, who
lives at 1924 Williamsburg
boulevard, Arlington. one
shows a horse and rider in a
"barrel race" in Fairfax Coun-
ty, both apparently about to
topple over making a turn (they
remained upright) The second
winner shows a man walking
along a rural road during a