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High Official Feels All Three Deme Candidates Wil Lose Kefauver Expected To Stop Stevenson Early in Campaign By LYLE C. WILSON United Press Correspondent Washington (U.R) A cred ible witness holding high office in the Eisenhower administra tion reports Lvle C. Wilson that he was offered a bet of 10 -to -one that none of the three most widely discus sed Democrats would be nom inated for president this year. The three are Adlai E. Stev enson, Sen. Estes Kefauver and Gov. Averell Harriman. He took the bet,, putting up one dollar to collect $10 if all three strike out. The other bettor argued it this way: . Kefauver is likely to Vound Stevenson's chances fat ally in one or more of the presi dential primary contests in which they will oppose each other. They will meet in New Hampshire March 13, Minnesota March 20, Florida May 8 and California June 5. Having disposed of Stevenson in the primaries, the bettor con tinued, Kefauver would be knocked off, in turn, by the com bined opposition of the Steven son element, southern conserva tives and the old guard. The Democratic old guard is mostly Harry S. Truman, Independence, Mo. Harriman in Line ' The form chart at that point suggests that. New York's Gov. Harriman, with Carmine De Sapio up, would gallop around the convention track for an easy, win. That is the strategy of the Harriman organization as chart ed by De Sapio, the new look boss of modern Tammany Hall. On the record, Tammany ap pears to have changed just about everprthing except its name. The - last Tammany boss of any con sequence prior to De Sapio was Charles F. Murphy who's been dead some 30 years. Most of them were lean and hungry years for the Tammany Tiger. . Tammany is eating high off the payroll again with a solid Democrat . as mayor. . of, N.ew York. He is Robert F'. Wagner Jr., son of the late senator who was for many years a sachem of Tammany Hall. And Tam many has a nutritious joint in terest in the state government through close association with Harriman's election as governor in 1954. The bettor who put up $10-to-1 against any of the three front runners making it this year is7 convinced that Harriman also will be cut down in the nomin ating convention. This bettor argues that the Tammany tag will be a serious disadvantage, despite evidence that De Sapio is a reform boss. Tammany ' was founded by Aaron Burr and is almost as old as national elections. But it be came evil and corrupt beyond belief in its middle age, marked 'through most of the first quar ter of this century as a hard boiled and suspect political ma chine. Tammany's reputation nationwide is bad. De Sapio's reform must continue long to im prove it. ' - That is rated as a strike on Harriman's candidacy. Two more strikes could be fired past Harriman by southern Demo cratic pitchers. Harriman was Balloon-Borne Device Used in Study of Smog Los Angeles (U.R) A balloon borne, "diamond-studded" device is science's latest gimmick to study smog. The device, known as a mete orograph, was developed by Don T. Hilleary, University of Cali fornia meteorologist. ; The heart of the instrument, carried aloft by ballons, is a tiny railway car drawn by a clock mechanism at an inch-an-hour pace. A smoked glass plate is carried by the car to plot data against time.. Three mech anisms in the instrument register temperature pressure and hum idity while a recording arm with a diamond point etches the responses. a 100 per cent New-Fair Deal presidential candidate four years ago and presumably is so mind ed now. . Thereby, Harriman is in close alliance with labor leaders who are not loved by conservative Democratic politicians. More im portant, Harriman is an unusual ly vigorous supporter of the pro grams of minority groups, espe cially racial integration consid erably beyond the school room. The South might accommodate itself to Stevenson who has been talking of political "moderation" and balk at Harriman or, for that matter, Kefauver. Anyway, that is the way it is argued by a man who backs his judgment with long money odds. Medford Tribune Second Section MEDFORD, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1956 Pages 1-6 Legal National Lottery in U.S. Not Expected To Become Reality Washington (U.R) It looks like a sure-thing bet that you'll never see a legal national lot tery in the United States. 1. The legislative obstacles, federal and state, are great. 2. Congress has refused sev eral times in recent decades ev en to consider lottery legisla tion. . 3. America has had lotteries and has outlawed them as a social evil. Still it's an equally safe bet j that the pro-lottery, people will keep trying. They say: This is the gamblingest coun try in the world. But it is one of the few in which the govern ment doesn't take its cut. In a dispatch Dec. 27, the Unit ed Press summarized the argu ments for legal lotteries. What are the arguments against? 'Insidious Menace' - The National Council of Churches of Christ, representing the Protestants of America, has denounced gambling as "an in sidious menace both to personal character and social morality." According to the National Ca tholic Welfare Council, the Catholic church in . the United States, has not taken a national stand on the subject. What is at stake in the lottery pros and cons? For one thing, many billions of dollars. The academy study estimated that the gambling turnover in 1949 was $15,000,000,000. - The senate committee estimat ed it at $20,000,000,000 in 1951. Rep. Paul A. Fino (R-N), author, of a pending lottery bill, put it recently at $30,000,000,000. Nice Figures These are huge figures and ob viously can't be proved. Com pare them with a provable fig ure, the 1955 tax on individual income. It was $34,000,000,000., Fino and other lottery advo cates say people will gamble, come what may. The other side says legisla tion of gambling never has driv en out the racketeers and crooks. They also deny that the federal take would be enough to have any appreciable ' effect on the modern budget. They do agree that there is such a thing as the "gambling urge," the "lure of something-for-nothing." But they say that is not the point. James J. Carool, a St. Louis bookmaker, asserted that gambling satisfies "a biological urge." Sen. Estes Kefauver (D Tenn.), chairman of the Senate Crime committee, retorted: "The sex urge is a stronger urge; and not a person would advocate the repeal of laws against rape." . - Search Fails To Find Cougar Near Portland Portland U.R) A thorough combing of the west Portland hills has failed to turn up any trace of a cougar spotted in the area Sunday. Patrolman Loren Parcher of the state polie game enforce ment division said he would look again today, but thought the animal was probably long gone. Two experienced cougar hunt-ers--Mart Melgard and Gerald Warnock of Portland failed to spot the swift cat yesterday, but saw tracks that indicated a mother cougar and her kitten might have been in the area. They agreed with Parcher, however, that the animal or ani mals were probably far away by now. ' v DINNER SPEAKER Vancouver, Wash (U.R) Howard, Pyle, administrative as sistant to President Eisenhower, will address the Clark county Washington, Lincoln-day dinner here tomorrow night. End of Tillamook Lighthouse Eyed Portland (U.R) Abandon ment of historic Tillamook light house and replacement with a lighted whistle buoy was pro posed yesterday in a notice post ed by the commandant of the 13th district of the Coast Guard. Rear Adm. L. W. Perkins said excessive cost of maintenance of the famed light, built in 1881 .was the reason for the proposal. A public hearing on the plan will be held at Astoria city hall at 9:30 a.m., March 1. Tillamook rock rises 100 feet above the ocean and the light itself is 134 feet above the wat er. It was built in 1881 after two years of effort. A similar plan of abandonment was drop ped in 1948 after it aroused a storm of public protest. Adm. Perkins said "to con tinue the station will soon in volve large public expense to replace some of the old equip ment and to repair and modern ize the structure . . . ".He added that "supplying fuel, water and stores, as well as transporting personnel to and from the rock, is a hazardous operation at best." He said annual cost of the op eration is more than $15,000. 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