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Supercoach Spring again, and another baseball season in which many an H&S dad undertakes to manage a Little League team. This year's coaches may want to ask Walter Bone of the Executive Office publications department for a few tips on managing a kids' team, because Walter's coaching record in football last fall is hard to beat. In fact, Walter's midget football league team in Wantagh, Long Island, New York, went through an eight-game season undefeated, untied and unscored on. And it wasn't because the coach had cornered ail the big, mean players, either. The teams in the town league are carefully balanced according to age (eight to ten years], weight (up to eighty-five pounds) and ability (determined by grading the previous season's performance or a complex tryout system for new boys), After the teams are formed the coaches draw their team assignments by lot. Asked for the secret of his coaching success, Walter modestly puts it all down to "getting the boys that like to hit." However, he put the team through seven weeks of pre-season practice, held three weekly workouts during the season, taught his boys about thirty plays and variations, and had his daughter shoot color movies of the games so the boys could see themselves in action. Of course, Walter had one advantage over the opposing coaches, in having his team quarterback living in his own home during the season. Before and after it, too—because the team quarterback was his own son Tommy, age 10, whose running and passing accounted for 44 of the 105 points the team scored. • Help and hope for $16 When Mrs. James Wilson ("Mac" to her friends) was watching television one evening, pictures of undernourished children flashed across the screen accompanying a plea to "adopt' one of them through Foster Parents Plan. "Sad little children always hit me" Mac said, "so I wrote for further information, and we decided to sign up" For the past year and a half. Mac and her husband Jim, partner in the Newark office, have been contributing $16 a month to the care and education of Adalberto Lima, an eight-year-old Brazilian boy. He stays with his family and all the members benefit from the Wilsons' help. "They were all suffering from dysentery," Mac said. "The first thing Foster Parents Plan did was buy them a water purifier. Now the dysentery is cured, so at least they have a healthy child to assist. It's remarkable what they can do with that $16 a month!' The boy can go to school now (schooling isn't free in Brazil]. He is adequately fed. Though the diet is wretched—mostly black beans and rice—they can now afford some fresh vegetables. And he is suitably dressed {formerly he had no shoes] and equipped with school supplies. "Jim says the organization must have good control and be well administered to manage so well" Mac continued. Officials of Foster Parents Plan say the organization spends nearly three dollars of every four in direct aid to the children and their families, Aid is in the form of direct cash grants, household supplies and special programs. About 25 per cent of the total contributions are used for operating three offices (one each in the U.S., Canada and Australia), and administering and promoting the program. It has been in existence since 1937. 20