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By NORMAN KEMPSTER
United Press International
OLYMPIA. Wash. (UPI) - A
man with sporting blood and a
minimum of advance informa
tion can place a bet with a pro
fessional or semi-pro gambler
in almost any town in Washing
ton State.
In most cases, the wager will
have to be a small one. Five
cents in a pinball machine that
pays off across the counter is
a rnmmnn venture.
I Rut there is a nossihilitv fnr
faster action as well. Many
towns have cigar stores or tav
erns which double as headquar
ters for football and baseball
pools. And a number of private
clubs hold "Members Only"
gambling parties which include
dice tables, roulette wheels and
blackjack games.
Of course, it is all illegal. But
most towns have what is called
a "tolerance policy" under
which the authorities look the
other way while the money is
changing hands.
Games Pay Taxes
It is a comfortable pattern.
The games are small and their
operators usually pay taxes and
license fees to local authorities.
The revenue from the gambling
is the difference between a bal-
anced budget and deficit spend
I ing for some towns.
Officials usually say license
fees with a set rate are prefer
able to under the table "protec
tion money" and bribes.
Then Mayor Gordon Clinton of
Seattle rocked the boat. He told
the city's police to enforce the
anti-gambling laws which had
been on the books for years.
Clinton's order shut down pin
ball machines, removed punch
boards from tavern counters,
closed up bingo parlors and pad
locked cardrooms in the state's
largest city.
(iambling Closed
It also started a chain of
events which made gambling
and the tolerance policy the hot
test political issue in the stale.
In chronological order, here
is what happened after Clinton's
edict went into effect Jan. 1,
1963:
The legislature passed a
bill legalizing pinball machines,
punchboards, pulltabs, c a r a
rooms and bingo games.
Dr. Homer Humiston, s
ohvsician and former city coun
cilman from Tacoma, the state's
third largest ciy, launched
referendum campaign aimed at
knocking the gambling act off
the state s lawbooks.
Humiston collected 82,955
signatures on referendum peti
tions. That was far more than
the 48.K10 signatures needed to
place the issue on the 1964 gen
eral election ballot.
On June 21 the petitions
were stolen from a locked vault
in the State Capitol building
here.
Petitions Stolen
The theft of the petitions
shocked Washington's citizens
"Tift ClJ ta
WANTS LAW ENFORCEMENT
Mayor Gordon Clinton of
Seattle is shown in a photo
taken in 1959. He has told city
police to enforce anti-gambling
laws, which have been on the
books for years, and as a re
sult has introduced the gam
bling issue into the 1964 cam
paign. (UPI) -
from Gov. Albert D. Rosellini
down.
The public generally assumed
the documents had been stolen
by supporters of the new law
who hoped the action would
keep the issue off the ballot.
The thieves cracked the safe
with an ease which investigat
ing officers said could come
only with years of practice. Po
lice assume the petitions were
taken by professional bank bandits.
The criminals are still at
large. The petitions are assum
ed to have been destroyed.
Washington law requires a
careful name-by-name check of
signatures on referendum peti
tions. Only the signatures of
registered voters can be accept
ed. If a person signs a petition
twice, his name is removed both
times and his signature is not
counted at all.
The check had not been made
before the petitions were stolen.
However, Secretary of State
Victor A. Meyers certified the
referendum to the ballot any
way. He said the stolen petitions
were certain to have contained
enough valid signatures to quail
fy the measure.
Supporters of the controver
sial law protested that Meyers
had no legal authority to take
the stand he did. They took the
case to court.
Meyers Upheld
Movers won the first round.
Superior Court Judge Charles T.
Wricht ruled that tne certinca-
tion was legal. He said if the
referendum did not appear on
the ballot it would "place a
premium on the commission of
a felony."
Wright's decision was an-
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When the city ot Seattle put
the lid on the tolerance policy,
the effects were immediate and
economic.
To begin with, the city treas
ury lost about $400,000 which
gamblers had paid each year
for tolerance policy license fees.
Operators of pinball machines,
card rooms and bingo games
were forced to go underground
or go out of business.
Cigar stores and lunch coun
ters which had depended on
pinball and punchboard reve
nues to operate at a profit were
hurt. So were the mechanics
who service pinball machines.
Council Unhappy
The city council was unhappy
because of the lost revenue.
Mayor Clinton issued his decree
over the opposition of a major
ity of the council members.
The Teamsters union, which
represents pinball mechanics,
was unhappy. So was the re
tail clerks union.
City officials in towns which
had a tolerance policy and
wanted to keep it became
alarmed. Clinton's order was
strictly a local one, of course,
but other towns were afraid the
fuss in Seattle might force them
to begin enforcing the state's
anti-gambling laws too.
Together, city officials, unions
and gamblers made a powerful
lobby.
The legislature listened.
A gambling bill was drafted
and rushed through the Senate.
It attracted little attention until
it reached the Upper House
floor for debate during a Satur
day afternoon session.
The measure was approved
by a 32-15 vote although Sen.
A. L. Rasmussen (D-Tacoma)
protested that "even two-bit
gambling" was a million dol
lar illegal business.
Invites Crime
The bill attracted headlines
when Seattle Police Chief Frank
Ramon told a House committee
that the measure was "an open
invitation to syndicated crime
to come into the state."
Ramon added, "I know it will
take advantage of that invita
tion." The committee which gen
erally favored the bill adopted
a set of amendments which
Chairman Ed Morrissey
(R-Yakima) insisted would meet
Ramon's objections.
However, opponents of the
measure like Rep. Don Miles
(R-Olympia) insisted that even
the amended bill would pave the
way for "wide open gambling."
- The bill passed the House by
a 62-36 vote on the next to the
last day of the regular legisla
tive session. The Senate ap
proved the House amendments
less than an hour later and sent
the measure to the governor.
Rosellini said he didn't like
the bill and would not sign it.
But in a deft exercise of politi
cal fence-sitting, he permitted
it to become law without his
signature.
Regret Voting
Most of the 94 legislators
who voted for the bill now wish
they had stayed in bed the day
the proposal was on the calen
dar. The theft of the petitions
has convinced a great many
citizens that opponents of the
bill were right when they
warned of organized crime.
The gambling issue is sure to
be the most explosive of the
1964 election campaign and
many lawmakers are afraid
their careers may be destroyed
by the blast.
Just how much the history of
Washington State will' be
changed by the chain of events
which started in Seattle, nobody
i Knows now. hui most seasoned
politicians fear the flashing
lights of pinball machines will
dazzle the voters and keep
them from seeing anything else
next fall.
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SPRINGFIELD. Mass. (UPI)
Former teacher Walter Eng
lish has problems in his new
job as intcrgroup relations spo-
; cialist for this western Massa
chusetts city.
A letter requesting him to
speak to a youth group asked
that he make the problems of
; juvenile delinquency, alcoholism
and illegitimacy "more real to
us" because "they haven't hap
pened much here.
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