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Avoid Mellow Mood Over Bridge Player* By Alfred Sheinwold When you’re in a mellow mood and begin to think bridge players are sane, remember the case of Damon and Pythias. Damon Jones and Pythias Smith were bridge partners for many years—until they played the hand shown today. North dealer Neither side vulnerable NORTH 4 Q J105 O KQ J 106 WEST * A ^AST 4 63 4 A84 KJ 1032 <5? 965 04 O A932 4 96532 4 1087 SOUTH 4 K972
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such a squabble ever a hand in which they were both right that they stopped playing as partners and now barely talk when they meet. Do you still Hiinlc bridge players are sane? DAILY QUESTION Partner opens with one diamond, you respond one spade, and partner raises to two spades. It is up to you again, with: S-K 9 7 2; H-A 8 7; D8 7 5; C-K J 4. What do you say? Asnewr: Bid 2 NT. You have 11 points in high cards, and partner may have 16 points, which would give you a play for game. Partner can accept the invitation by bidding 8 NT or by jumping to game in spades. He can decline the Invitation by passing, or by bidding three diamonds or three spades.
Damon opened the singleton diamond, and Pythias took the ace and returned a diamond for a ruff. If Damon then returned a heart, dummy’s queen would win; and if Damon returned anything else declarer would win, draw trumps and discard his low hearts on dummy’s ex-
tra diamonds.
Declarer made ten tricks, of course, and Damon growled: “We’d beat him if you returned a heart instead of a diamond.” “What good would that do?"
The Man From The Banner
Large semi-truck stopping at middle cross-walk on Jackson street to let older gentleman cross the street to the courthouse .... Darrell Durham, teacher ad coach at Fillmore, received his notice to report for physical for the draft.... David Jordan discovered the wide circulation The Banner has. He advertised in The Banner, sweet
corn for sale and that night the
“I’d get a trick with the king raccoons and groundhogs de-
of hearts,” Damon shouted. “You can give me the ruff later by taking the first trump
stroyed his sweet corn patch as such animals can .... State Fair tickets selling well in
trick and leading a diamond. Greencastle. Farm Bureau sold But the only hope for a heart out last week and Donelson’s trick is to lead the suit right had a few left. . . . Baird Veraway.” j million (affectionately known LUCKY JACK as Bubber) and his wife cele“Look again,” Pythias inter- brated their 24th wedding annirupted. “If I return a heart he versary Friday evening at 7:00 puts up the ace and runs three p. m. Bubber’s anniversary clubs to get rid of dummy’s statement “I would do it again”,
heart. We can never get a heart
trick.” *
“Your play was still wrong.” Damon insisted. “If I had the jack of clubs a hearts return would beat him. The diamond return is a give-up play.” Damon was right because in theory the heart return might beat the contract and the diamond return could not. Pythias was right too. because in the actual hand the heart return would have done no good. Still, Damon and Pythias had i
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MAYDEN, Ariz. UPI— Two inmates escaped from the Arizona State Prison at Florence Monday, stole a pickup truck and then hijacked a train engine and caboose. They surrendered to authorities who waited until the engine reached the end of its track here, about 40 miles east of Florence.
By ROBERTA ROESCH It’* certainly not every working day that a columnist baa the superlative nerve to rewrite a line of Shakespeare without even batting an eye. But we all have our days when the world is ours—and when we will do anything. So since it’s that kind of day for me, first I am quoting that line we all learned while reading “Juluis Caesar”—“The evil that men do lives after them, the good is oft interred with their bones.” Hardly A Qualm Then I am re-writing Shakespeare with hardly even a qualm, and re-phrasing his well-known line till it reads: “The good women do lives after them and is not always buried and forgotten.” And the reason I feel I can do this is because of a story that came to me that definitely bears this out. The story concerns a ML Holyoke (So. Hadley, Mass.) graduate, who began babysitting in the 1940s to help raise scholarship money for a project then being sponsored by an alumni club. She charged the going rate at that time—50c an hour—and got along so well with her clients that her opportunities to babysit were almost unlimited. As * h e linked her life t o other lives and filled a community need, she did not work with such joy and devotion that when the scholarship project was over she decided to go right on babysitting. Eventually, she kept doing this work until the summer of 1962 when she retired at age 81. No Money Cares “She was completely selfless,” one of her clients said. “She never seemed to care about money and she managed to do a great deal of good wherever she went. “She entertained and enjoyed the children until they went to bed. and it never particularly mattered to her how late the parents came home.” Because of her devotion to them, the families responded in kind to her by giving her a big surprise party cm the day that she was 80. But a bigger surprise to the parents came after this woman’s death. The good she did indeed did live after her as was apparent after the extent of
had served by willing 82,000 to each of 16 children in homes where she worked. And only then did the parents learn that she had accepted their dollars just so she could give them back in abundance to the children to whom she had already given so much of herself. Can’t All Do Likewise Few of us will ever be able to provide that kind of a surprise when our wills are read. But we can take ax ample from this woman, and have “good live after us” by making it our regular habit—and out opportunity too—to do our work with devotion and joy while we link our lives to others and try to do what we can to make our comer of the world a better place for our having been there.
i. 9niid*. ^WASHINGTON .111*11*1 W MARCH of events
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IS L B J's LEGISLATIVE PROGRAM FOUNDERING?
The President Control ever Congress lost
POPULARITY UNDERMINED BY VIET NAM, INFLATION? By HENRY CATHCART
Central Press Washington Writer
Xv 'ASHIXGTOX—This election-year Congress shows every \V sign, of being through insofar as consideration of significant legislation is concerned. The members who are up for election—and that includes the entire House and a third of the Senate—feel an undeniable urge to return to their homes do
some much needed fence-building.
President Johnson sees his legislative program foundering. He deeply needs some dramatic demonstration of his leadership abilities to divert public attention away from the issues that are undermining his popularity— Viet Nam and inflation. However, he has loot control over Congress, at least temporarily. In past administrations, similar situations have caused presidents to cat down their demands on Congress, knowing defeat may bo in the offing. There have been instances in which presidents have actually worked behind
the scenes to hasten Congress’ departures
Johnson, however, is made of different stuff. His own inner drives compel him to try to hold Congress’s feet to the fire and to wrest the last possible piece of legislation firom that
august body.
it would be Ironic, indeed, if future events should prove Congress to be the Achilles’ bed of the President’s plans to succeed himself, for it was Congress that was the vehida by which John* son was eventually elevated to the Presidency.
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• ANGRY CONSTITUENT—Rep. Robert G McBwen, R-H.Y, read with increasing concern a letter Snout an • 1 —Umflj Inti* female* constituent. The lady went into great detail In fUantttng iMrno^ptiGRd expenses and concluded by asking Urn what ha was going to do •bout helping her meet tha rising coat of living. Just as he was beginning to puzzle out fbo kind of teplf fhBC should bo sent, he came to the PA It nads *Ifc’e letters UkB these that really liven your day, cb. Fop?* The letter was ggaed fey Ms dntfbfcr SBagB
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• AID TO ALL COMERS—Being a iBgMatnr fleeted to Gm» gross from a nearby state baa its advantages, but it has some disadvantages, too. For tnwtanm: Sen. Joseph Tydings^ D-MtL, has so many calls from nearby constituents for unusual help that his office calls it M Opemiion Night Court.* In Tydings’ office has recelvod,sQCh phone calls as: A man Baying he thought ho had takm an isg pills. The office contacted a rescue squad who rushed the man to 4 qbA atomach pump. An irate housewifB who stfB dfeo had short-weighed on 4
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To Meet With N. Viet Envoy PHNOM PENH, Cambodia UPI — French President Charles de Gaulle will meet with a representative of Communist North Viet Nam during his visit to Cambodia, a well-infor-med source said today. De Gaulle, en route to Phnom Penh by Jetliner, was due in the capital late this afternoon. The source said De Gaulle would confer, probably Wednesday, with Nguyen Truong, the newly appointed diplomatic “representative” of the Hanoi government in Cambodia. De Gaulle planned to make a major appeal for peace in Viet Nam during his stay in Phnom Penh. It was expected that De Gaulle would praise the “neutrality” of Cambodia chief of state Prince Norodom Sihanouk, who served diplomatic relations with Washington 15 months ago. He scheduled a major speech for Thursday at the 80.000- seat Phnom Penh city stadium. The 75-year-old French leader’s number one Gaullist.” De Gaulle in turn has had warm words for Sihanouk’s official policy as a neutralist. U. S. officials have maintained that both Communist i North Viet Nam and the Viet ■ Cong have for several years used eastern Cambodia as an infiltration route across the border into South Viet Nam and as a sanctuary for Communist troops chased back across the frontier by Allied forces. De Gaulle completed the African leg of his three-week, 30.000- mile world tour late Monday night, departing from Djibouti, French Somaliland, on the eight-hour flight to Cambo-
dia.
Mayor Meets With Negroes WAUKEGAN, HI. UPI—Mayor Robert Sabonjian planned to meet with Negro ministers today in an effort to restore calm to a 35-block area of Waukegan’s south side, scene of four straight nights of racial dis-
order.
“I will meet with ministers but not with violators or demonstrators,” said Sabonjion, who called most of the 115 persons arrested since Friday “hopheads, narcotic addicts, drunkards and just plain scum.” Thirty-five persons were arrested Monday night, most for violation of an emergency curfew placed on the area by order of the mayor. Several young Negroes were seized making molotov cocktails, police said. About 130 riot-helmeted police armed with carbines cor doned off the area before the 7:30 p.m., curfew went into effect. Incidents were scattered and unorganized as police equipped with tear gas and gas masks roamed the area clearing the streets. The only serious incident occurred before the curfew actually went into effect. As Mayor Sabonjian toured the deserted streets a Negro man threw a bottle at his car. Sabonjian pulled out a pistol and the man fled. “Those people arrested are local hoodlums with police records and are not the true story of Negroes in Waukegan,” Sabonjiam said after a meeting with City Council Monday
night.
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Drunken Driving DALLAS UPI—Bobby James Pinkston, 29, was charged! Monday with drunker driving, j Authorities said he drove two 1 blocks down a parkway and across a supermarket lot, I knocking down a speed limit! sign en route. At the time of his alleged offenses, Pinkston was reportedly driving a plane.
Written Especially for Central Press and This Newspaper THE NEW math already is old hat to American parents— but what about the new social sciences, the new reading, and a host of other new programs which are around the next educational comer? They all are coming, and much of the pioneering for what eventually will be a totally new education for grade and high school students is being carried out in Cleveland by the Educational Research Council (ERC). Since it was formed in 1959 the council has developed a program in the new math which is now used by some five million youngsters in 50 states. It is the official program in several states, including California. * * * NOW WORK is progressing in courses in “new” social sciences, reading, the humanities, physical education and other subject fields. Most of the material would seem strange indeed to parents who studied under the traditional system. ’ Dr. George Baird, president and founder of ERC, sees the mission of the council as the total reorganization of the school program from kindergarten through the 12th grade so every youngster studies the area of knowledge necessary to the development of a wellrounded human being. Basic to the operation of the council is Dr. Baird’s conviction that “children can learn a lot more, & lot earlier than most people are willing to believe.” Thus in the 32 school systems which participate in ERC programs, pupils in the first few years of elementary school learn the fundamentals of geometry, and are introduced to the rudimentary principles of economics, political science and philosophy. First graders read of the great voyages of discovery from Marco Polo to John Glenn. * * * ERC IS financed by grants from Cleveland area foundations and industrial leaders, fees from participating schools and royalties from published materials. It is staffed by 90 professional educators and operates on a budget of $2 million a year. Most of the member schools are clustered in the Cleveland
Initial teaching alphabet introduced in kindergarten helps a first-grader read a relativaly complicated passage in a textbook that presents a complata plot and character development.
suburbs, but ERC also services systems in Michigan, Minnesota, Massachusetts and New York. Involved are some 250,000 pupils in all types of American communities. There is little of the “ivory tower” in ERC’s operation. Ideas that grow from the search for better ways to educate must face the ultimate test of workability in the classroom. • ' * * THE COUNCIL begins development of a new course by bringing in outstanding educators from many universities to serve as consultants in outlining the basic concepts which must be covered. The work is hammered into classroom material through hard debate among the scholars, council staff members, experienced teachers and administrators from participating school systems. The new materials are put to use in the classrooms. Then the council seeks criticism from teachers and uses this feedback in a continuing revision aimed at the improvement of everything from textbook presentation to teaching techniques. The largest current project is the “new” social sciences program, which has been devel oped through the fifth grade.
•What we are striving for,” Dr. Baird said, “is the development of realistic judgment in social matters through an interrelated study of history, economics, political science, sociology, anthropology, psychology and philosophy.” All of the subjects are included in one course, which has, as a major aim, the encouragement of a growing understanding of the central values and workings of a free society through a contrast of our governmental system with those of other lands. * * * THESE are samples of the work underway at ERC. Along with this goes an intensive program in teacher retraining so that the new materials can be presented with the newest techniques. Other services provided by ERC include consulting aid and studies for school administrators and help in scoring tests, scheduling, and keeping records through the ERC’s data processing equipment. The fast-moving pace of ERC has sparked some criticism, but it hasn’t bothered Dr. Baird. "Anyone who proposes programs finds a certain amount of concern,” he said. “Anyone who proposes changes frightens someone.”
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She Began To Babysit To Aid A scholarship Money Project her selflessness was expressed in the terms of her will. When the provisions of that document were announced, the woman astounded everyone she
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