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UPI Staff Writer
. WASHINGTON (UPI) - One
day a frustrated citizen, tempo-'
rarily In a state of involuntary,
bankruptcy, pasted this sign on a j
Las Vegas slot machine: "In case ;
of air raid stand beside this ma-!
chine. Nobody has hit it yet."
The man was over-stating the
case, of course, because some
body hits slot machines just often
enough to keep the customers
coming back. Gambling is not
only legal in Nevada, it is on
the level. The odds against a rou
'Ictte player are about five per
cent, but he knows that when he
goes into the game. When a
gambling house covers all bets in
a dice game, the odds against
the players are at least 1.4 per
cent. Just stay there long enough
and you will lose your shirt.
The only thing a legal gam
bling house has to worry about
is to keep enough cash on hand to
. tide itself . over when a high
rolling player gets hot. Sooner or
later the odds will begin to work
and the man who hasn't sense
enough to quit when he is well
ahead goes broke. The legend
about the man who broke the
bank at Monte Carlo is a pretty
. story, but it's fiction.
Bemoan Pari-Mutuel
v Horse bettors are a melan
choly breed of men, anyway, but
they complain loudly about the
injustice of pari-mutuel betting.
What it means is that it is legal
in many states to bet on a horse
' provided you are on the premises
of the track. It you walk a block
away from the track, betting is
- illegal.-
Now the horse players have an
other complaint. Several years
- nnn tha Tntnmnl llavaniiii CjirtMna
issued orders that any person
winning more than $600 on a $2
bet would have to identify him
self to collect his money. This
happens mostly in the daily
double. You pick horses in the
first and second races for the
' price of a single ticket, and if
usually are good
On Oct. 3, 1960, the rule struck
Belmont Park in New York with
some strange results. The daily
double paid $693 for every $2 tick
et purchased and the winners
were invited to collect their mon
ey by identifying themselves by
Social Security cards or driver's
license. The track announced that
the identity of the winners would
have to be reported to the Inter
nal Revenue Service.
He'll continue
his climbing
WASHINGTON (UPI) James
W. Whittaker, the first American
to reach the summit of Mt. Ever
est, said today he would continue
to climb mountains.
"I love the mountains and I will
continue to climb them," the 34-year-old
mountaineer from Red
mond, Wash., said in a shortwave
radio and telephone interview
from Katmandu, Nepal.
Poor reception and electrical
interference prevented the 6 foot
5 inch Washingtonian from com
pleting an answer to the question
of what other climbing feat could
match the conquest of the world's
highest mountain.
Oregon members of the expedi
tion could not be reached, but it
was learned they and other Pa
cific Northwest members of the
group expected to return home
in July.
CITATION ISSUED
City police Wednesday issued a
basic rule violation citation to
James Eldon White, Route 1, Box
202. Bail was fixed at $23.
players had gone home, the track
still had $46,477 unclaimed by
winners of the daily double. For
reasons of their own, the persons
holding the tickets preferred to
pass up the money rather than
identify themselves, and the state
treasury profited accordingly.
Recalls Series Fix
Tremendous sums are b e t on
sports events in the United States
and from time to time attempts
are made to fix the games. The
most notorious attempt was suc
cessfulgamblers got to enough
members of the 1919 Chicago
White Sox to allow the Cincinnati
Reds to win the World Series. The
White Sox may have been the
greatest baseball team ever as
sembled and the public made
them such heavy betting favorites
that the gamblers got attractive
odds.
College basketball scandals
have been common in recent
years, but a new element has
entered the wagering. The gam
blers don't ask an athlete to lose
the game but merely to "shave
the points". Team A is a six
point favorite over Team B. A
gambler takes Team B plus six
points and then bribes a couple
of athletes on Team A to insure
that they don't win by more than
five.
The recent suspension of Paul
Hornung of the Green Bay Pack
ers and Alex Karras of the De
troit Lions of the National Foot
ball League has raised the prob
lem on whether it is ethical for
an athlete to bet on himself or
on his own team. This issue is
hotly debated on the first tee of
many country clubs as soon as
the members of the foursome get
through putting up the bets on
themselves for the day's play.
Another quake
jolts region j
SAN DIEGO (UPI) A sharp
earthquake, the second this week, '
jolted parts of Mexico. San Diego
and Imperial counties Wednesday
afternoon, seismologists reported.
Fred Robinson, a seismologist ,
here, said he recorded "a series ;
of quakes" starting 11 seconds be-1
fore the disturbance was reported
in Pasadena at the California In
stitute of Technology seismo-1
graphic laboratory.
Dr. Charles Richter of Caltech i
said the temblor had a magnitude
of 5 on the Richter scale and was 1
recorded at 3:15 p.m. He said
the tremor was nearly as strong
as one registered Tuesday.
Both quakes were centered in
the area of Baja California, Mexi
co. U.S. questions
commandos
MIAMI (UPI) U. S. author
ities today questioned a small 1
band of Cuban commandos who
claimed they badly damaged Cu
ba's biggest distillery, killed
many soldiers and sank a patrol
boat during a raid this week.
The 10 raiders were detained
Wednesday when they pulled into
the Florida Keys in a white-sailed
fishing schooner with two prison
ers and an anti-Communist sea
man who sought asylum in the
United States. They said they com
mandeered the boat after their
own cannon-loaded converted PT
boat sank during a sea battle aft
er midnight Tuesday.
Joseph Fortier, director of the
Miami customs office, said the
two Cuban soldiers the raiders
captured probably would be al
lowed to return to their home
land. The raiders face possible
charges of neutrality act vio
lations, according to Fortier.
President Kennedy calls defeat of measure
to aid unemployment areas as 'tragic'
WASHINGTON (UPI) Presi
dent Kennedy today described as
! tragic the House defeat of his
I bill to expand federal aid to com
' munities suffering chronic uncm
1 ployment.
i He said he will resubmit the
measure to Congress shortly in
hope of reversing the outcome.
I The House turned down the pro
posal Wednesday in Kennedy's
biggest legislative defeat of the
I year. Some viewed the outcome
, as part of the price he must pay
for his tough new civil rights
stand.
I Kennedy issued a special state
ment in which he said defeat of
the proposal "could not have
come at a worse time."
'This program must not be al-
foes. But a tight party-line stand . sota and southern Illinois were
by the Republicans against the
bill also contributed to its defeat.
In his statement, Kennedy said:
"The tragic defeat. . .could not
have come at a worse time. Un
employment persists, our dis
tressed areas need help and
scores of hard-hit communities in
Pennsylvania, Michigan, West
Virginia, eastern Kentucky, up
state New York, upstate Minne-
This program must not be al
lowed to die and it is my inten
tion to give the Congress another
opportunity to support it."
Result Of Vote
Voting for the bill were 189
Democrats and 15 Republicans.
Voting against it were 57 Demo
crats and 152 Republicans. Demo-
rTlt 1ia1ata had nni in( nn
the 71-foot schoone r Nordlys said about 20 Republican votes.
'Kiss' picture
taken at party,
diplomat says
LONDON (UPI) An Ameri
can diplomat said today a pic-
"The people of these and other , ture of his wife kissing Russian
affected states need more than 1 playboy- diplomat Capt. Eugene
speeches to helo their depressed Ivanov, a key figure in the Pro-
communities and jobless workers. fumo scandal, was taken in fun
Christmas party.
counting on an expansion of this
program
TO FILE CLAIM
ASTORIA (UPD-The owner of
Wednesday he planned to file
claim against the Oregon Highwaj
wi i .ml it 1 inin. ! Department after he lost the top
Uon to give tiie Congress another 20 feet of hls nlast and some ri8-1 votes, and possibly result in the
nnnortunitv tn sunDort it " Ken-; SmK ln a collision with the Inter- loss of some of the President's
nedy said.
The administration expected
that its tough civil rights stand
would cost some vital southern
By Five Votes
The unexpected upset of Uie de
pressed areas bill came on a
five-vote margin. Some southern
Democrats who had been counted
on to swing the issue in favor of
the administration voted instead
with the measure's Republican
Temperatures
Temperatures during the 24
hours ending at 4 a.m. PDT to
day. High Low
Bend 83 44
Astoria 63 45
Baker 83 55
Brookings 73 48
K. Falls 82 62
Mcdford 89 57
N. Bend 68 52
Pendleton 86 59
Portland 72 52
Redmond 87 48
Salem 77 48
The Dalles 83 60
Chicago 63 55
New York 66 55
San Fran. 65 55
Washington 70 62
state Bridge between
and Vancouver, Wash.
Col. H. F. Palmer of Honolulu
said the span was not raised high
enough to let his boat pass
through.
The boat continued to Astoria
for repairs and planned to depart
for Honolulu Friday, about a
week behind schedule. Col. Palm
er said he would file a claim for
the cost of repairs and overtime
for his crew members.
Portland : other high priority legislation.
But they had not expected to
lose the expansion of the de
pressed areas program which
would have raised to $835 million
the ceiling on the aid program.
The surprise blow came after
administration forces had easily
turned aside on non-record votes
GOP attempts to curtail the scope
of the existing program and to
slash the extra funds the bill
would authorize.
at a
The Daily Sketch published the
photograph in this morning's edi
tion. The man was identified as Ivan
ov, former assistant naval attache
ct the Soviet Embassy here, and
the woman as the wife of Capt.
Thomas Watson Murphy, assistant
naval attache at the U. S. Em
bassy. Murphy said a picture like the
one printed by the Sketch was
taken of his wife and Ivanov dur
ing a dinner party in December,
1961, at the Elizabethan Room of
London's Gore Hotel.
The dinners in the room are
eaten according to the style of
Shakespeare's day. Utensils in
clude a two-handled cup.
PHIL PHILBROOK
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To please Pop
give him some !
:item of clothing
, By (ray rauiey
UPI Staff Writer
NEW YORK (UPI) To please
Pop on Father s day, give him
some item of clothing preferably
shirts, socks, ties, pajamas or
handkerchiefs in that order.
A survey of what the man who
runs the power mower wants on
his day June 16 found the prefer-
t -1.1U! llituu. In
one over any other wishes. That
is, clothing, unless money spent
was no object.
Then, father would like say a
new car, new house, or a boat
Pipes and cigarettes, often pic
tured as synonymous with
' Father's Day presents, were way
down in popularity. Only one per
cent of the men surveyed put
them on the most wanted list.
The Father's Day study is
part of a continuing look at the
national gift market, done by
' Tie-Tie, Chicago, which calls it-
' self the country's largest maker
of gift wrappings.
The company reached its con
clusions from "several hundred"
' interviews in Chicago, Philadel
phia, San Francisco, Dallas and
Atlanta.
It estimated that close to $1
billion would be spent on gifts
for Dad. It did not estimate how
much of the bill fathers eventual
ly would foot themselves for the
gifts.
And, it found that 16 per cent
of the husbands Interviewed did
not receive Dad's Day gifts last
; year.
The researchers concluded that
the '"avpraee" father will receive
two presents worth a total of $19
come bunoay. iney aisu uei-mcu
fa(hor are nleased easily 97 per
cent said they were completely
, satisfield with what they received !
last year.
In clothing items, here was
how the preferences were listed:
-'Shirts, 42 per cent wanted;
socks, 25 per cent; ties, 21; pa
, jamas, 21; handkerchiefs, 21; un
derwear, 18; shoes,. 6; hat, 5.
' In accessory items:
Leather goods, such as belts
- and wallets, 24 per cent; cuff
1 links, 18; sport coat. 14: lounging
robe, 8; tie clasp, 6; special ac
cessories such as a fancy slice
horn, 5; and key chain, 3.
In the non-clothing category,
' the- fathers listed sports equip
, ment including golf clubs, gun,
fishing tackle, bowling ball, ping
pong table. 15 per cent; camera
and camera equipment, 10: tools,
7; television, radio or phonograph
6: car, 5; jewelry Including watch
es. 4; money or bonds. 2; pipes
and cigirs, 1; and books, 1.
WORKER KILLED
. ESTACADA (UPI1 A mechanic
was killed Wednesday at a log
ging site 13 miles east of here
when a bulldozer slipped off a log
and struck his head.
The victim was Maynard C.
Be vers, 44, of Gladstone.
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