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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-10-17
ILLINOIS
! Yates Fails to Dent
Dirksen's Lead

He can expect to add 100000
votes to that in the Cook
County suburbs of Chicago.
The Cook County Republic
cans, under a new chairman,
Hayes Robertson, are mounting
a forceful propaganda cam
paign against rising real estate
taxes. Their target is Chicago's
Mayor Richard j. Daley, whose
Democratic allies now control
the county board and the major
county offices. Republicans are
making a particular push to
win back the patronage-rtch
sheriff'S office and the chief
county judgeship, which con-
trolls the election machinery.
About Effort
But the very vigor of the
Republican drive has forced
Mayor Daley to mobilize the
powerful city Democratic ma
chine for an about effort.
This, in turn, benefits Mr..
Yates, even though the Senate
seat is not nearly so vital to
the machines future as the
sheriff's office.
Mr.. Daley suffered a humil-
iating defeat in a city school
bond election last April. His
term expires next April, and
he clearly does not want an
other defeat in the county this
fall.
To win Statewide, Mr.. Yates
figures he would need at least
a 350,000-vote majority in the
city. That seems a tall order.
President Kennedy carried Chi
cago by some 100000 votes, but
Senator Dirksen has always run
well among the ethnic groups
and even among the Negroes
who give the Democrats the
bulk of their normal pluralities.
He lost the city by less than
10000 votes in his two previous
races and, for this reason as
much as any, is favored to win
again this year.
G. o. p. Gain Seen
The current guessing is that
the Illinois House delegation,
now IA to IL Democratic, will
end in a 12-to-12 split between
the parties. Illinois lost one
seat through reapportionment.
Mr.. Yates old district was
merged with that of another
Chicago Democrat, and a new
Republican district was set up
in the suburbs.
In the only head : to = head
contest of incumbents, Republic
can Paul Findley is given a
slight edge over Democrat Peter
F. Mack, jr., in the new 10th
District.
The other incumbents are
currently favored for re-elec-
ton, although Democratic Rep
resentatives Pucinski and Ship
ley are in strenuous campaigns.
The death of the original Re-
publican candidate in the 18th
District has raised the posi-
bility of a write-in campaign
against his widow by another
Republican. If the split de-
velops, the Democrats might
have a chance in this normally
sane Republican district.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-10-17
SOME CHILDREN
USE FALSE TEETH
AT ; IN BRITAIN

LONDON (AP).-Britain
has 3-year-old children
wearing false teeth.
Jean r. Forrest, senior
dental officer at the Min
istry of Health, told the
Royal Society of Health:
Thousands of children
In Britain never seek or re-
ceive any dental attention
until their teeth are so
badly decayed that extrac-
ton is the only treatment.
Some 3-year-old chill
dren have had to have all
their teeth extracted and,
in the interests of their
general health, to be sup
piled with false teeth"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-10-17
18th Street Widening

Fifteenth street NV, be-
tween Irving and Sixteenth
streets, will soon be widened
from two to three lanes, the
District Highway Department
said yesterday. The widening
project is expected to cost 3d.
300 and will be done by the
Troxler Asphalt Co.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-10-17

A controversy between st
Adams Parish and the Cathe-
dral Heights Cleveland Park
Citizens Association, spanked
last spring over the associa-
tons inclusion of the word
white" in its membership re-
quirements, went unresolved at
last nights meeting because OF
a technical error.
About 100 members turned
out to find that the scheduled
vote could not be taken because
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-10-17

onstrated for New York au-
thorities, Stimulates some of
Manhattan's traffic conditions,
and suggests ways that COM
puters can speed up vehicle
movement.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-10-17
ILLINOIS
Continued From Page Al

NUHbiHucu EEUuu dSC "a
tial threats-incIuding the one
posed by the Kennedy visit.
an this State" one Republic
can leader said, lone side
doesn't win an election; the
other side loses it. Dirksen will
not lose. He is a well-known,
we'll liked figure, and no one is
mad at him"
Concerned Over Health
That contention is supported
by interviews with the voters.
But those same interviews show
there is concern about the Sem
ator's age and health. His
trips to the hospital in Wash
ington have been well publi-
cized, and his appearance
he looks thin-faced and very
tired-has drawn sympathetic
inquiries wherever he has been.
So far, however, there is no
indication he Is losing any votes
because of this. The typical
comment is that of a secretary
who said, II know he's getting
old and has not been well, but
he still has a lot on the ball.
We need a man with experience
to combat what's going on in
Washington"
The Senator seems likely to
eliminate the health issue as
long as further illness does not
interrupt his campaign sched-
ule.
Senator Dirksen's hopes for
victory rest on his ability to
duplicate his achievements of
1850 and 1956-rolling up a big
margin in rural, Republican
downstate Illinois and holding
down the Democratic majority
in Chicago.
Yates a ChicagOan
He has an advantage down.
state simply from the fact that
Mr.. Yates is a Chicagoan, while
Senator Dirksen halls from the
Central illinois town of Pekin.
Mr.. Yates has been trying
to combat this stigma by point
ing out that he has always sup
ported farm price support and
rural identification measures,
even though they obviously
we're not of direct benefit to his
city constituents.
He has repeatedly gained
ground in the depressed coal
mine country of far-southern
illinois by rapping Senator Dirk
sen hard for mis- opposition to
the area redevelopment bill.
But Republicans report that
in the rich corn-hog country
of Central Illinois, the Illinois
Agriculture Association, State
affiliate of the American Farm
Bureau Federation, is more po-
litically active than it has ever
been before. 1t is strongly OPP
posed to the Kennedy Freeman
farm program, which Senator
Dirksen opposed and Mr.. Yates
Also, small town medical as
sociations and chambers OF
commerce are giving the Re-
publican ticket an unusual
amount of help because of their
opposition to mediocre and
other domestic Kennedy pro-
grams.
Further, many downstate
Democratic organization lead
ers are feuding with Democratic
Gov. Otto Kerner over patron
age. The benefits Mr.. Yates
might normally have expected
from the State jobholderS may
not be forthcoming.
For all these reasons, g.
Dirksen plurality of at least
100000 votes in downState
Illinois is regarded by both
sides as likely.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-10-17

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Evening star., 1962-09-09
TWO WASHINGTON NEWSMEN
HAVE WRITTEN
A POLITICAL THRILLER

Mr.. Bailey says. IF people start looking for
identifications, it takes away from the
story"
Mr.. Knebel and Mr. Bailey collaborated
on another book, mo High Ground" a re-
port of the Hiroshima bomb, but neither
had tried fiction before.
Mr.. Bailey was entraneed when Mr.
Knebel described the idea, as were the
authors wives, when they were consulted.
They didn't want US to take all that time
away from them again for book that wasn't
going to be any good Mr.. Knebel says
The two men spent three hours together
talking about the plot; then each wrote
1OOpage outline. They took the best from
each outline and started writing Mr..
Knebel did the first draft of the book and
Mr.. Bailey edited it and, sometimes rewrote
whole sections.
The process was different from mo
High Ground" of which Mr.. Knebel wrote
six chapters and MIR. Bailey five, agreeing
beforehand only on the outline and begin
nings and endings of each chapter.
Il think Fletcher is better at initial
storytelling" Mr.. Bailey says. Il have a
little more patience with rewriting"
Two days after receiving the outline, the
middle three chapters and the epilogue, the
editors of Harper & Brothers called Mr..
Knebel and Mr.. Bailey to say, 'You might
have something big" At a later meeting,
they suggested Is changes
The editors said, for instance, that the
generals motives should be as good as the
Presidents, that one of the Joint Chiefs
should be holdout because nothing in
the United States is 100 per cent" and that
having meeting Of the International Asso-
citation of Chiefs of Police in Mexico City
the scheduled day of the coup would be too
great coincidence.
Il don't think there's anything in there
that's not possible" MIR. Bailey says, refer
ring particularly to the military base which
was set up with the knowledge of no more
than half dozen officers in Washington.
There are so many Of these things people
in high places don't know because they
don't need to know"
Mr.. Knebel adds, Time was when was
kid, if drastic action had not been taken by
the New Deal, some Huey Long would have
taken over"
The Soviet Union has forced the United
States to become increasingly an armed
camp, Mr.. Knebel says, and the role and re-
sponsibility Of the military have increased
correspOndingly. He believes that few
people are aware of the extent of this
change, but the sooner they become so, the
less chance there will be of a real Seven
Days in May"
Evening star., 1962-09-09

FLETCHER KNEBEL, Washington re-
n porter for Cowles Publications, was
walking by the White House one evening in
May of last year to pick up his parked car.
That day he had interviewed high-ranking
general in the Pentagon. The two images
merged and he wondered:
That general has great power. What
are the chances that someone like him, in
a time of stress, might try to take over the
White House?"
The United States has operated under
one constitution for nearly 200 years, but
since World War ii there have been % mill
tary cOups elsewhere. This also was the
time when the controversy over Mai. Gen
Edwin A. Walker and his program of in
dOctrinating troops with right-wing propa-
ganda was developing and when French
army officers in Algeria were threatening
to end the Fifth Republic
The result of Mr.. Knebel's pondering
that day is novel called Seven Days in
May" sort of political thriller which goes
on sale tomorrow. The novel, written in col
laboration with Charles w. Bailey II, an
other Cowles' Washington reporter, un-
ond look at relations between the civilian
and military leadership of the country, and
to keep them on edge all seven days.
The story opens decade from now,
when the United States has just signed a
disarmament treaty with the Soviet Union.
No one trusts the Russians, and grumblings
against the Administration are becoming
louder
A Marine colonel comes across evi-
dence of plot by three of the service
chiefs. Senator and others to depOse the
President and shut down the Congress the
next Saturday. The colonel tells the Presi-
dent, who in turn calls in six of his most
trusted friends Beset by doubts, they inves
tigate. They find a secret military base near
FL PasO, Tex, and pieces of the puzzle be-
gin to fit together.
The chairman of the Joint Chiefs, how
ever, has a strong case. II is found that the
Russians are assembling "a missiles in vio-
lation of the treaty. Besides he is the most
respected military leader since Dwight d.
Eisenhower.
Would the country believe the general
had planned a coup if the President fired
him? Or, more important could the Presi-
dent fire him?
The plot works up to the point when the
President confronts the general alone in
the White House.
Mr.. Knebel and Mr.. Bailey decided right
off that any resemblance between the char
acters in the book and real people would be
purely coincidental Its not roman clet,"
Evening star., 1962-01-14

MOnoger-Jomes B. Mickey Vernon
cooeh-Sidney c. (Sid) Hudson
Cooch-Georee W. Cose
Evening star., 1962-01-14

him not to worry, that I'd
swing at anything that looked
like a strike"
What happened?" Triandos
asked.
Il walked on four pitches, >
Nieman replied.
*%
And while on the subject OF
umpires, Nieman was mildly
complaining about the favorit-
ism shown Eddie Yost, formerly
OF the Senators, who still might
have a season or two remaining
with Los Angeles.
THE umpires believe all the
stories they read about Yost's
great eye," Nieman said, land
they've reduced his strike zone
to where it's no bigger than
this" He made a circle about
as big as a dinner plate with
his hands.
When I play against Los An
geles, tell the umpires that
my eye is just as good as
Yost's, and I want my strike
zone to be the same size as the
one they use for Eddie"
The concluding subject was
long-ball hitting, and somebody
mentioned the shorter fences at
Briggs Stadium in Detroit. Too
bad Jim Gentle doesn't play
for the Tigers" Triapdos said
of his teammate. IF Gentle
played 81 games in that park
he'd pass Ruth's record with
out the asterisk."
Evening star., 1962-01-14

the general manager of the Washington
Senator'S
ITS not going to happen while there
are two lOclub leagues" Burke prophesies
IF you are a student of schedules you'll
understand why. The day has got to come
when there will be two 12-team leagues or,
better yet, four Six-club leagues. Then
you'll have interleague play, you'll be able
to cut back to -game-maybe 148 or 150-
game ScheduleS-and things will be better
all around"
There aren't many more knowledgeable
baseball people than Burke, an invaluable
behind-t -the-SceneS guy in Pete QueSada'S
organization. He has a tremendous back
ground-minor leagues and now majors
and it's JoeS notion that four six-club
leagues eventually will come to pass. "1hen
you'd have North, South, East and West
Leagues" Joe reasons. That will involve
Semi-finalS to see which two clubs reach
the World Series, like three -out-of-five
games. You will cut down the travel ex-
penSeS, which are gobbling up these two
10-team leagues, and you will have inter-
league play"
Burke feels there are half dozen cities
that are ready now to sustain major league
ball. He lists 'em-Atlanta, Dallas-Fort
Worth, Toronto, Seattle or Vancouver
Buffalo and possibly Denver. Take four
and you've got your siX-club leagues" Joe
says. II could be wrong, but it's got to
happen-four leagues"
THE SIGNING OF Danny O'Connell
to a Senators contract for '62 calls up
day more than year ago when Danny,
free agent, applied for a job in Louisville
during the winter meeting. He was nearing
his middle 30s and the Pirates, the Braves
and the Giants already had tried him.
Il think I can help the Washington
club" Danno told Ed Doherty. He had
batted .312 in 143 games for Tacoma in go
a premonition of what he was about to get
in the expansion draft the following month
-Doherty signed the veteran.
OConnell didn't look like much in
spring training at Pompano Beach. He
acted as if his feet hurt and that they'd
stopped making razor blades. We asked
Danny one day, when things were looking
bleak, how he had managed that .312 at
Tacoma.
Il do that, or else I'm delivering milk"
O'Connell replied with his refreshing
candor. Look, I'm going to play for this
club. Maybe more than anybody thinks"
And so he did. He played 1873 games,
shifting from second to third base. He
scored more runs (61) than anybody and
made more hits G38). He led in two
baggers and he stole Is bases. In his
youth he never stole more than three.
He was voted, informally as the Sen
ators' most valuable player, even over Dick
Donovan and Woodling. "Darndest guy
ever saw on a ball club" Manager Mickey
Vernon quoth, admiringly Couple of hours
before a game there is O'Connell with his
nose stuck in a rules book. He figures there
must be a way to beat the other club, even
if he has to use the rules. What's more,
Danny does"
Evening star., 1962-01-14
Two Area Tennis Stars
Top Regional Rankings

complishment last year went to
T. BraXton HorSley of Rich
mond, retiring MALTA presi-
dent, Henry Classic of the
Chevy Chase Club was elected
president.
The proposal to establish
the Greater Washington area
as a fourth district joining Vir-
ginia, Maryland and West Vir-
ginia was tabled until next
years meeting when a vote
will be taken.
The rankings:
Mems sinples-l. Donald Ralph.
George stewsrS. g. 3, hdf Buddy raps, GoeItz g.
$, C; ". shackelford. o. Donald Floyd.
10, Wilbur jenkins.
Women's Singles-l, Carol South
haney 4, Anne Gray. ), Nina Russell.
=, cynthia Goeltz. 7, Charlotte Decker.
s, Carol Wendell. O. Doris Harrison.
. Mems Mems D2u!bleS-Il Ralph -McNair.
A. Harvey-Volks. ), Hall-Rutedge.
j, Women,s Doubles-l, Jones-Gray.
hanev. - ''''''" : '''
Mems. Seniors - !, Donald Floyd.
>, Bob Atwood 3, John Irish. 4. Char
lie Brooks. .. Frank Roberts.
Mems Senior Doubles-l, Alphonso
Henry Barclay s. Ted BurweiI-Nick
Powell 4 John Edgar Lee. ),
Smokey Miller Henry FoSS
man, 3 o. II. Parrish, ), jim i'm" B1sick. S'
4, John Santrock ,, Richard Kolker.
Junior Girls Singles-l, Peacfv
Betty Anne Murphy. a. Natalie Pace
D, Cynthia Goeltz
Junior Boys Doubles-l, Ron Gold
John Williams
Junior Girls. Doubtless, Peachy
Kellmeyer-Natalie Pace. ., Janet Irish
lee Weir.
Boys 15-and- Under singles-l. Bob
Goeltz. .. Dick Dell. 3, Raymond Buck
Girls 15-and-Under singles-1, ia
net Irish. =, Sharon Highstein. 8,
Boys 13 and Under Singles i,
JACK Stevenson. >, Jack Burrows. g.
Girls 10 and Under Singles Il,
anne Love. >, Pam Taylor. 3, Lee Price.
rather and Son-l, Hugh Lynch II
sh9 Gill N. = John and Tony Thompson.
D. William E. and William T. Miller.
Evening star., 1962-01-14
NxX LOSE OR DRAW
Anyone for Games and Stuff?
BY FRANCIS STANN

1T MUST BE WONDERFUL to be merely
40 years of age or such, with the spring
juices already a-running, We talked to
Gene Woodling on the phone from Rer.O<n
Corners, Ohio and there was almost, but
not quite vision of pennant flying over
the new D. c. Stadium.
Jim Piersall?" echoed the Old Pro of
the Senator's I'm 100 per cent for him.
JimS darn near the best defensive out
fielder in baseball" CThere was horrible
connection-later a complete break off
and we never did learn who was better)
That wasn't such bad ball club we
had last year." Old Pro said. Our pitching
was cur strong point . l think it will
be again. We need little snoring up here
and there, but we'll make the grade,
eventually.
Let me tell you something, voluntarily.
1 never really knew Mickey Vernon until
last season. You know how it is . you
are kind of Skeptical about a new manager
Well, I got to know Mickey and he did a
helluva job He called some smart plays
1t wasn't Vernon's fault we fell apart in
the middle of the season . . we just weren't
enough ball club"
1t seemed appropriate at this point
the phone connection was becoming in
creaSingly worse -. to ask why The Leader
happened to be the first Senator to sign for
'62. Usually it's a rookie or borderline
guy who's first, not veteran of nearly 20
years in the majors and a 313 batting
average to flash.
The money was right" snapped the
Old Pro from Remsen Corners.
1T IS A NICE GESTURE the Redskin
Alumni Association and the Touchdown
Club are making toward easing the monu-
mental hospital and medical bills of Gene
Brito, who perhaps was the finest defensive
end ever to play in a Washington uniform,
pro or college. Brito, as you must know,
has been stricken with form of paralysis.
Every defensive player who ever played
for the Redskins since Gene 0951-1953 and
1955-1958) owes the ex-Loyola of Los An
geleS star debt of gratitude. Brito, it was,
b who pointed up the Importance and the
heretofore unappreciated art of stopping
the other side.
1t reached point when Gene, as he
= entered game to stem tide, was cheered
as vigorously as the offensive unit, includ-
ing such quarterbacks as Sammy Baugh,
Eddie LeBaron (mostly) and Ralph Gugli-
elmi. When Brito spoke of retiring after
the 58 campaign a couple of hundred fan
rushed onto the field after the final home
game and carried him off in admiration.
If Brito had been bit bigger-say, like
Gino Marchetti-he might have gone down
as the greatest defensive end in National
Football League history. AS it was, Gene
merely is remembered as one of the greatest
Which brings up the point: If you feel
there's a loose buck in the pocket, shoot it
along to the Gene Brito Fund, Touchdown
Club, 1414 1 street NV.
IF YOU'VE WONDERED why the major
baseball leagues seem reluctant about inter
league play-all games to count in the team
Standings-hear out Joe Burke, assistant to
Evening star., 1962-01-14
Eastern Table Tennis PIuy
Nav Attract Field of 200

About 200 are expected to
compete in the Eastern regional
table tennis tournament, Sec
ond largest event of it's kind
in the country, January, 2O-21
at the Sheraton-Park Hotel.
Heading the list will be Erwin
Klein of Chicago, top-ranked
in mems singles, and Dick Miles
of New York, nine-time ma
tional champion. Also entered
is Leah Neuberger of New York,
top-ranked woman in the coun-
try.
Thor Hazi, area mems singles
champion, and Barbara Chaim-
son, No. l woman, head the
local contingent.
Starting time the first day
will be at noon, with the mems
Evening star., 1962-01-14
BY STEVE GUBACK
Star Staff Writer

Two young Washington area
tennis stars, Don Ralph and
Carol Southmayd, are ranked
No. l in the fastest rankings an
nounced yesterday by the Mid
die Atlantic Lawn Tennis AsSo-
citation.
It's the second straight year
at the top of the list for Ralph,
who recently graduated from
Notre Dame and plays out of
the Edgemoor Club. He was
ranked sixth three years ago,
but climbed to the top of the
list with back-to-bac MALTA
mems singles championships.
Miss Southmayd, an l8-year-
old freshman at Duke, moved
up from last years No. 2 spot
on the basis of her 6-1, 6-1 vic
tory over Anne Gray in last
years MALTA title match. At
that, it took an unusual rever-
sal of the rankings committee
yeserday to put her there.
Mrs. jones Heads List
Mrs. Raymonde Jones, who
won the Army Navy and Ken
wood 1nvitationalS but was
forced to default in the MALTA
semifinals with leg cramps, had
been top-rated by the rankings
committee. The delegates voted
to switch the top two places
after hearing that the MALTA
winner in the past had always
been given the No. | ranking.
John Southmayd, Carols faith
er, made the point and was
supported overwhelmingly by
those who said they wished to
reinforce the Importance of the
MALTA event.
Two Richmonders. Bruce
Sylvia and Eddie Phillips, fol-
lowed Ralph in the mems sin
giles rankings. Sylvia, former
Atlantic Coast Conference
champion from the University
of North Carolina, is the Rich
mond city and Virginia State
champion. Phillips was run
nerup in the State. George
Stewart, the public parks
champion from Washington,
was ranked fourth.
In Women'S singles, Olga
Mahaney and Mrs. Gray were
ranked third and fourth. Mrs
Mahaney, Greater Washing
ton champion, was top-ranked
in the MALTA last year, but
lost in the semifinals to Miss
Southmayd.
Trophy to HOrsley
The CORTLAND D. Ferguson
Trophy for outstanding ac-