MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD. OREGON
t 1 THURSDAY. FEBRUARY 7. 1963
Nevada Is Week End Escape With Resorts, Entertainment
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By GEORGE SKELTON
United Pratt International
Reno, Nev. - CUPD - They say
there's one born every min
ute. And Nevada casino opera
tors are grinning all the way
to their vaults these days at
the thought of more being
born in California,
California soon will be the
nation's most populated. And
in Nevada this means only
one thing: M-O-N-E-Y.
Californians spend more
dollars in Nevada gambling
casinos than they pay their
state to build their highways,
conserve their forests or edu
cate their children.
The reasons are numerous:
Week End Escape
ivnvaHa ic n week end es
cape. It offers inexpensive
quality entertainment, restau
rants nnr hotels. It's a tourist
attraction. Many casinos are
near vacation areas sucn
as Lake Tahoe, where four
million are visiting this year;
and Lake Mead, a virtual sub
urb of Las Vegas.
But most of all: There's le
aaVnr ffamhlinff.
Most Californians wouldn't
dream of allowing big-time
gambling In their state. Yei
4M vhc thev sre wacering
$1.6 billion and losing $160
million across tne line in
vada.
Nevada's unique gaming
laws were spotlighted recent
ly when former President
Harry Truman teed off on
the state as the "black spot
of the nation" because it per
mitted casino gambling.
Truman Blattt
It was the second such blast
by Truman. During a Septem
ber campaign visit to Idaho
he startled Democrats by as
sailing a proposal to legalize
local-option casino gambling
In the state. The proposal was
made by Vernon K. Smith,
Democratic candidate for gov
ernor. Nevada estimates 18.5 mil
lion tourists more than tri
ple California's are enter
ing the state this year. Most
adults are playing some of
the 19,000 slot machines and
1,400 gaming tables. There
they are betting $2.4 billion
and losing $240 million, or
10 per cent. The state treas
ury is being fattened by $12
(million. And the tourists are
jpending an additional $600
million on non gambling
items.
Two-Thirdt Calilorniant
Of all these tourists and
U this money, about two-
thirds are coming from Call
lornia. And that's a pretty
"nefKhborJy" con tribuUon,
anyway you figure It.
Casinos woo tourists wild
free movies and baby silting,
reduced bus and plane fares,
and some of the most beauti
ful showgirls In the west.
"They come for the attrac
tions, such as the shows,"
says Edward A. Olsen, chair
man of the Ncvndii Gaming
Control board. "Then they
gamble. And it's the gambling
that provides the attractions
most come to sec."
Once inside a casino, the
gambling comes easy. Too
easy sometimes,
"It's a human trait," says
Olscn. "People like the idea
of getting something for noth
ing." Actually, the tax revenuo
from Nevada's gambling taxes,
which range from 3 to S'-i
per cent depending on the
size of the club, wouldn't
even dent the budgets af many
stales. California is a good ex
ample. Hor Racing
California expects to real
ize $41 million this fiscal year
from horse racing Its only
source of gambling revenue
Still, thut's more than triple
Nevada's gambling tnx take
and even slightly exceeds Ne
Disassembly Line
Used by Butchers
New York - IliPII - A mex
packing plant works like an
automobile factory in reverse
because meats are trimnvH
and cut on a moving bolt cal
led a "disassembly" line.
The American Meat InMt
tute says this system was per
fected by the packing indus
try years ago aflcr creation
of (he aNsonihly line techni
que by Ell Whitney, inventor
of the coiton gin.
Moat was trimmed and cut
as it rnrved along the bolt,
with each employee nn the line
a specialist in one part of the
processing. Auto manufac
turers do the samp In reverse.
Disassembly lines still arc
used in meat packing plants,
but they've been speeded up
so much that as many as 1,
000 dressed pork carcasses
can be processed In an hour.
Each goes through about 150
meat culling operations.
KITING TH ECH ANN E L
Calais, France - OiPli - Two
Frenchmen recently crossed
the English channel by kite.
Using parachute type kitet
towed by speedboats, they
crossed In opposite directions
one from Calais and one
from Dover, England in B5
nd 74 minutes, respectively.
vada's entire predicted rev
enue from state taxes.
Yet. racing revenue repre
sents only 1.5 per cent of Cal
ifornia state taxes, in Nevada,
however, gambling this year
is furnishing nearly 30 per
cent of the state tax revenue
and is the second biggest
money source. The difference,
of course is that California,
with 17 million resident, re
quires a $2.9 billion budget.
Nevada with only 305,000 per
sons, gets by on $39.4 million.
Gambling also is Nevada's
largest industry. It provides
direct or indirect employment
for one third of the working
force and furnishes 20 per
cent of the personal income.
Because of it, Nevada has no
state income and sales tax is
a below-average two per cent.
Total gambling taxes-collected
by local, state and federal
governments hits $20 mil
lion. In addition, the federal
government stands to col
lect another $6 million from
Keno If a recent Internal Rev
enue Service ruling holds up.
Do visitors get a fair shake
for their gambling money?
The state says yes.
Nevada gambling is closely
scrutinized and regulated by
two agencies the Gaming
commission and Gaming Con
trol board.
And there's a third major
factor that keeps the casinos
in line: competition.
It has been said there's a
slot machine within arm's
reach of everyone in Nevada.
That's an exaggeration, but
only slightly. Few public
places from restrooms to
drugstores-are without one.
How do you tell a "good"
machine from a "bad" one?
It's simple. You put coins in.
Otherwise, it's impossible.
"I can't spot a good ma
chine," says Olsen, "and I
doubt if anyone else can. Ex
cept, of course, the mechanic
who put it there."
'Rigging' Legal
'Rigging" a machine is per
fectly legal. A casino operator
may set t!,e machine to pay
off once every minute or once
ever decade. But it has to be
mechanically able to payoff
as advertised. If it can't it's
"bugged." and that's illegal.
We haven't discovered a
bugged machine in four or
five years," says Olsen. "In
Nevada, because of the com
petitive situation, most ma
chines retain less than 10 per
cent of the coins played, and
many hold as little as 5 per
cent."
Contrary to popular belief,
Nevada does not establish
maximum house winnings on
slot machines or any other
game.
Most everyone has his own
opinion on the "good" and
"bad of gambling.
There's little doubt it's
"good" for Nevada. Gov.
Grant Sawyer, campaigning
for re-election, recently esti
mated "90 per cent of the
people would vote to retain
gambling if it were to be put
on the ballot."
But one prosperous Lake
Tahoe casino adds this free
advise:
"Have fun at our games
win if you're lucky-but don't
go off the deep end."
It's only money.
Psychiatrists Check Aptitudes 01 Astronauts
Houston - (UPD - The Na
tional Aeronautics and Space
administration likes its space
probing adventurers, the
astronauts, to be down to
earth in their home lives.
That's why, when screening
applicants, psychiatrists at
the Aerospace School of Medi
cine in San Antonio ask more
than 800 questions, many aim
ed at the candidate's domes
tic affairs.
There are 566 questions
that can be answered yes or
no. Some questions are ask
ed more than once - some
times in different phrasing.
Some are double checks
against others.
So far, all the astronauts
are married men. The psych!
atrists also are interested in
the space men's wives.
"Ask a man enough ques
tions about himself and you
find out all about his wife,"
say the psychiatrists.
Here are some of the ques
tions picked at random.
- Did you like school?
- What worries you?
Do you panic if closed up
in a small room?
- Do you often feel guilty
or inadeaquate?
- Do you occasionally cry?
- Are you much more or
derly, precise and perfection
istic than most other people?
- Does criticism upset you?
- Do you have spells of un
controllable laughing?
- Do you bruise easily?
- Are you sometimes dis
satisfied with your relation
ship with your wife?
Do you have frequent fi
nancial worries?
- Are you troubled with
hiccups?
- Have you ever had any
supernatural experiences?
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MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. OREGON
Men Still Resist
ish-doing Chore
Addison, 111. - (UPt - A stub
born 28 per cent of Ameri
can husbands absolutely re
fuse to help their wives with
the dishes, reports a survey
made public here.
The survey, made by Jen
sen - Thorsen Corporation
which manufactures kitchen
sinks, found that:
- Seventy-two per cent of
the American husbands help
their wives with the kitchen
detail sometimes.
- Only 14 per cent make a
nightly duty out of the dish
washing bit.
Telephone Racket In Brazil Sends Prices Sky High
THURSDAY. FEBRUARY 7. 1963
By GARY J. NEELEMAN
United Prett International
Sao Paulo, Brazil - IUPII -
The increasing demanu for
phones in Brazil has opened
the door for a new scheme
telephone racketeering.
Today a phone in any of
the capital cities will sell for
as much as $500 on the black
market. And no satisfactory
solution is in sight.
Throughout the country, in
dividuals and business houses
have phone requests dating
back IS years, with little hope
of obtaining one for at least
another 15.
There was a time when it
was so difficult to obtain a
phone connection between
Sao Paulo and Rio de Jan
eiro, residents would fly the
265 miles for a single but
urgent "yes" or "no" answer
on a pending business deal.
In this city, there are 252,
873 standing requests for
phones and in Rio de Jan
eiro another 206,319.
Phones Are Scarce
Brazil is a country of in
creasing industrial might and
spectacular development. It
has had phones since 1899. But
there are only 1,060,000 of
them today for a population
of over 70 million.
Last year, the issue made
world headlines when Brazil's
left . wing Governor Leonel
Brizola seized the I T & T
subsidiary in the state of Rio
Grande do Sul.
This caused an uproar in
American congressional cir
cles. Many piominent pro
American Brazilians angrily
protested the "ignorance" of
U.S. congressional leaders,
and their failure to under
stand the why's and where
fore's of Brizola's action.
To some Brazilians, what
Brizola did was not entirel.'
a matter of politics, but rather
an effort to find a solution to
a problem that simply must
be solved.
Brazilians feel strongly
WAX FOR SPEED
Racine, Wis. -(ITD- Tobog
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ed before put to use, accord
ing to wood specialists at S. C.
Johnson & Son, Inc., here.
They said waxing means more
speed because it fills wood
pores and provides a smooth,
dry surface that reduces drag
and releases snow more read-lly.
about the fact that they can
not have a phone and Brizola
obviously saw this as a gold
en opportunity.
To thinking Brazilians, the
seizure was obviousl a stunt
by a clever and opportunistic
governor, who planned to
emerge from the clamour
some sort of peoples' champion.
Dry Wells Result Of Slant Drilling
7
By WILLIAM CLAYTON
United Press International
Austin, Tex. - (UPD - Oper
ators on a Shell Oil company
well in the rich East Texas
field were astonished one day
in April, 196', to find their
well suddenly producing mud
instead of oil.
The discovery that their
well had been pierced by an
other driller trying to slant
his well into a producing pool
was the first drop in a gusher
of scandal that has flowed
through several of the state's
oil fields. The investigation
into the oil piracy is far from
complete.
The "Hot Oil Scandal of
1962" quickly involved state
and federal investigators in
a widening probe that indi
cates hundreds of millions of
dollars worth of oil has been
produced illegally in Texas
through slanted-well drilling.
Only A Fraction
Texas Railroad commission
members, who control oil pro
duction in Texas, emphasize
the amount of "hot oil" Is but
a fraction of total Texas pro
duction. But the illegal directional
drilling is important enough
to have become one of the
top issues to face the 58th
legislature when it convenes
in January. Some commission
employees have resigned or
been fired, scores of persons
have been sued, many slant
hole operators have been In
dicted. The invesugation remained
largely with the Railroad com'
mission until April, 1962,
when the commission asked
the Attorney General's office
to direct the Investigation.
The first investigative step
after that was declaration of
a receivership for a drilling
firm whose books Atly. Gen.
Will Wilson wanted to check.
Agents Restrained
In subsequent months, some
operators restrained the com
mission's agents from running
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slant-well surveys on their
leases, so the commisiinn
turned to Wilson for advice.
investigators then began the
pattern that would character
ize the probe obtalninp or.
ders to keep operators from
plugging or ruinine their
wells to prevent surveys, then
me surveys themselves, fol
lowed by penalty suits or
criminal indictments.
Assistant attorney general.
commission workers, under
cover men with the DeDart-
ment of Public Safety, Texas
nangers and local enforce
ment men combined in the
biggest oil Investigation of the
state's history. By May, more
than 100 slanted holes had
been discovered. Now that in.
tal has doubled.
Can Be Legal
Drilling a slanted wp11 ran
be a perfectly legal and de-
siraDie pnase ot on welt drill
's. A directional well can
ike advantage of offshore
production areas mnr effi
ciently. A legal slanted hole
is often needed to avoid geo
logical obstructions. Drillers
Kick their wells into a slant
by Inserting a "whipstock,"
an elbow device nlareH nn fha
drilling bit to make it slant
in xne oesired direction.
Illegally, a well ran h. an.
gled from a drled-up zone into
a nearby producing zone. Op
erators have 11. Oft nlautim
equipment to evade metal de
tection devices. Operators can
change a slanted well into a
"granddaddy well," tied into
other wells on the lease to
give all the appearance of be
ing legally producing wells.
Sometimes, illeoal wnlli
slant off at an angle of more
than 50 degrees from vertical
to reach oil production.
Demand for legislation to
correct the situation makes
the oil scandal one of the
top Issues of the 58th Legis
lature, in addition, the com
mission itself has changed its
rules to require more close
cneck on drilling methods.
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Women Naturally
Shed More Tears
Chicago - (UPD - Ween some
more, milady - when you're
watching those tear-jerking
flickers.
In fact, you can weep big
ger and better tears iX you're
under 30 - and science will
understand.
The free-flowing tear drops
are Just another sign ot being
a normal girl, say researchers
for an eye drop comparry.
Research shows females cry
quite naturally. But women
from age 18 until about 30
have more tears than others.
Far more than men in the
tame aae bracket.
Beyond age 30, the tearful
battle of the sexes ceases.
Males weep as much - or at
least at the same rate - as females.