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.
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Return Trip on Ketch From
Tahiti Ends Near LA Harbor
West Covina, Calif. (U.R) A
gaunt bachelor, whose "dream
voyage" to Tahiti in a small
sailboat became a nightmare, to
day turned his attention to the
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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."
Portland (U.R) The State
Board of Higher Education has
approved final plans for Port
land State College's new laboratory-classroom
building and said
bids would be received August
20.
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Government Drops
Haymes Deportation
Washington U.R) The gov
ernment has abandoned its
long legal fight to deport croon
er Dick Haymes from the United
States.
A Justice Department spokes
man said the department, re
versing previous plans, had de
cided not to appeal to higher
courts in the controversial de
portation case.
That means the government
will accept as final a ruling
handed down here May 31 by
Federal District Judge Burnita
S. Matthews. She held that
Haymes, husband of film star
Rita Hayworth, is "not deport
able." 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.
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