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SIX MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Gambling in All Forms deceives Active Support From Italian Government Tuesday, July 2B. 1955 Crash Kills Woman; Dad Faints at Scene Rome URJ Gambling in al! its multiple forms is actively sponsored by the Italian govern ment. The most popular form of gam bling in Italy today is the weekly lottery called ' Goaco del Lotto," a system that originated in Gen oa in 1579 when residents of that port city started betting on elec tion returns. The betting continued after the elections with numbers, and the lottery spread throughout the peninsula. After the unifica tion of Italy in 1863. the state took the lottery into its hands. Official figures issued by the finance ministry for 1954 re vealed that during that year alone millions of Italians played a total of $45,700,000 on the "Lotto." Although the exact profit of the government was not given, it was reliably estimated that at least 80 of the money played was raked in by the state. The state also has an income of bil lions of lire every year from oth er means of gambling, but none can compare to this popular lottery. Every Saturday five numbers from one to 90 are drawn in the major cities of Italy. The first five numbers taken from the urns are the winners. Dream Books One winning number entitles the player of the ticket 52 times the amount played. But there are combinations. Two winning num bers pay 250 times the stake. Three winning numbers 4,250, four numbers 80,000 and a "cin quina," or all five winners, 1,000,000,00 times the stake. Millions of Italians, poor and rich play the "Lotto." The poor pawn wedding rings and furni ture in order to play. All of them have a so-called . dream book for guidance in choosing the numbers. This book is similar to a dictionary with numbers corresponding to per sons and things dreamed by the players who believe in the book implicitly. When a person dreams of something or somebody, he looks it up in his dream book and plays the corresponding number. The number of Pope Pius XII is 53. Nobody knows why. A dead man who appears in a dream and talks about anything is 47. Blood corresponds to 17 and fear is 90. Casinos, Too Perhaps the second biggest form of gambling is the "Toto calcio," the football lottery. Every week millions bet a total of about S720.000 in an attempt to pick the 13 winning teams. Prizes vary according to upsets, but sums has high as $224,000 have been paid to individuals. About half of the football take goes to the state for taxes. The other half is divided between the Italian National Olympic committee, to be spent on new sports grounds, and the rest to the special personnel which col lects the bets and checks the tickets. Three cities, favorite tourist spots, possess roulette tables in Italy. They are Venice, San Remo and Campione, a small island on the Lake of Lugano, belonging to Italy although completely en circled by Swiss soil. Rich Swiss industrialists, who have no casinos in their country, bet enormous stakes at Campione which is said to be the only ca sino in the world with sky-limit stakes. The state, of course, gets a fat slice on all betting. The income is so satisfactory that it is ru mored that new casinos will be opened at Riccione and the fab ulous isle of Capri, favorite hunt ing grounds of pleasure-seeking millionaires. Newport, Ore. (U.R) A young Newport housewife, who was expecting a baby, was kill ed instantly early yesterday when her automobile collided headon with a truck on highway 20 about 3 2 miles from here. The victim was Kathryn Kay Oakes, 22. Her automobile was struck by a truck driven by Ber nard E. Mafog of Toledo. Ma fog's son, James 15, a passenger in the truck, was slightly in jured. In an unusual sidelight to the accident, Lundy Woodson of Newport, Mrs. Oakes father, was recovering from severe shock in a Toledo hospital after he unwittingly came upon the scene of the crash. Woodson stopped to inquire what had happened, and when sheriff's officers told him the name of the victim he moaned, 'Oh My God," its my daughter," and fainted. His condition was listed as improving. Indonesia Cabinet Submits Resignation . Djakarta, Indonesia (U.R) Prime Minister Ali Sastromld jojo formally handed his cab inet's resignation to Vice-President Mohammed Hatta Sunday night. Hatta said he would start con sulting today with the 20 parties represented in parlia ment in an attempt to form a new government. Sastromidjojo resigned be cause he lost control over the army. He will continue as gov ernment head until a new cab inet is chosen. Dead line Sunday Classified is at noon Saturday: 10 a.m. Monday lor Monday: other days 5:30 orevious day. 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Synthetic soles, 3 styles and 5 colors in broken sizes. 414 - 9 1.88 SORRY NO LAYAWAYS ON SUMMER CLEARANCE MERCHANDISE! delights of home-cooking. Rolf Per Thorvaldson, 31, given up for dead weeks ago by his family, was discovered Sat urday by a fishing boat as he lay becalmed in a fog bank only seven miles off Los Angeles har bor. He had sailed his 28-foot jketch, Tahia, across 6,000 miles of stormy sea during a 130-day ordeal of adversity but didn't know where he was. "I hope I'm not fool enough to do that again," he said. "But I'm afraid I might. Now all I want to do is rest and eat." Lost Weight Thorvaldson said he lost "a lot of weight ... I don't know how much." But over a meal of hotcakes, syrup, bacon, bananas and apples he said he thought he soon would gain it back. His voyage to -Tahiti lasted 83 days and was uneventful. When he decided to return home he put aboard 60 gallons of water and only enough canned food to last to Hawaii. "I had moments of despond ency," Thorvaldson recalled. "But most of the time I just had to sit there and wait. It was pretty rough between Tahiti and Hawaii." He said the caulking in a bow seam broke loose during a storm and he had to bail water. The turnbuckles on the stays kept parting and made more work. Imposed Strict Diet The young accountant, who spent three years in the Navy as a quartermaster, said he wor ried about food and water "most of the way from the Hawaii area." He said he imposed a strict diet on himself as the days wore on. He saved rainwater to drink and developed a taste for the fish he caught. "I ate a little soup and some powdered eggs each day," he said, "and I had some lime juice and tomato juice." After he was reunited with his joyful family, Mr. and Mrs. Toger Thorvaldson, and sat down to a big meal, Thorvald son summed up his feeling: "These are things I dreamed of while I was out there." 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Judge Matthews threw out the government's contention that Haymes had left the United States when he pursued Rita to Hawaii in 1953 during their whirlwind courtship. She held that Hawaii is a geographic part of the United States. Moose Convention Elects Medford Man Astoria (U.R) Leonard Earls of Astoria was named new state president of the Loyal Order of Moose at the group's annual convention which closed here Sunday. Bend was named site of the 1956 convention. Vice presidents included Ches ter Skow, Corvallis; John Keen er, Medford, George Williams, Merrill and C. W. Altig, Portland. When baking fish, use a mod erate oven and cook until the flesh flakes easily with a fork. Avoid high heat or long cooking. About 40 percent ef world's tea goes to Great Britain. The first diesel engines wer constructed in 1895. INVESTMENT REPRESENTATIVE I IN MEDFORD This is an appropriate time to take a look at your in vestment program pres ent and future. 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