Sport Gambling Grows Into Tough,
$50 Billion Point Spread Racket
NEW YORK UPli - It isn't
so much whether you win or lose
any longer; it's how you play the
point spread.
That's the tiling the gamblers
amateur and professional are
interested in these days and the
stakes have become monumental.
From penny ante private wagcrsi
among friends,, gambling on
sports has grown into an annual
business estimated at $.V) billion
by Itcp. Paul Kino, R., N Y.
The point spread is the reason
for tile vast growth
;Most of that money is not bet
on teams to win or lose. It s bet
on a team to win by a certain
number of points or a team to
lose by a given number of points.
That's why:
Thousands in Yankee Stadium
packed with 64,8(12 freezing per
sons howled for the New York
Giants to score a touchdown in
the dying seconds of their cham
pionship game against the Green
Bay Packers last month although
victory was out of tne Giants
reach.
Fans in Madison Square Gar
den vigorously booed Bob Cousy
of the professional basketball
champion Boston Celtics when he
dribbled away the closing sec
onds of a game which the Cel
tics already had safely won.
Book makers in New York
and Boston took the Packers off;
the betting boards after heavy
betting gamblers beat the point
spread on their games on suc
cessive Sundays.
The point spread is the name
of the game all right and it'si
bred a new type of fan who isn't
concerned with victory or defeat
for a team, only the point mar
gin by which the team wins or
loses.
So those who cheered fnr a
last minute Giant touchdown
were giving vocal support fnr
the hels they had made on the
Giants not to win, but to lose
by not lrs than six and a half
points. That was the point
spread
The Packers, in the gathering!
dusk of that December Sunday
SILENT STAR French pantomimist Marcel Marceau
appears in new sketch, "The Cage," during his current
four at New York City. Marceau said in en Interview that
such silent screen stars as Charlie Chaplin and Buster
Keaton were his inspiration to make silence a profession.
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Pantomimist Talks
In Five Languages
MJW YtlftK il'PI' - French
panlnmimist Marcel Marreau np
ened his mouth and spoke!
It wasn't so much what he said
as the (act that he spoke al all
rnr the image ol Marceau s si sels to assist his actions. I do
Icnl eloquence seems In rliimnatrj mil. I irly solely on tcsluie In
the need for speech. After nil, he1 bring to lite Ihe concrele and the
lias entertained audiences in 40 abstract at Ihe same lime
countries without uttering a sin- "I can make ihe visible mwi
gie word. I hie and Ihe invisible visible and
Rut thrie is nothing wronc wilh'crrate (or an audiriue Ihe illu
Ihe Marceau vocal chords ln,sion ol lime anil p,i, r. snr
(act, he siicak.s extremely wrll rounding them with t.imli.u oh
alHiul mime, one of the oldest yet: jrrts and experiences."
least practiced of Ihe thratt icali Speaks the lamgu,ii;e
ails and of which he Is (lie un j Marceau is a small, spam man
disputed master. land his expressive fare is framed
Manel Marceau s one man hy an uniuU mop ( wuv. daik
show is rurrenlly at New York s hrnwn hair He speaks sntilv and
lily irntrr. . His English nine ..f fur bulges M H'i)U .... i v. ,'i , if-'.")rl'fS.'iJ T tree"
A "New Dimension" hr speaks, .s onlv sl,khllv '. - I 'fVJ j-: , V ' K ' ' i "Al.. t l'." .da
One of (lie panlom.mes in thc;cented Even nunc unusual al V'v'f. f'J.J 'ifv i1 ".' V ,fi ?''-" t - ; Castro nn longer daies refer to, 1
new show is "Contrasts" in which; Frenchman and p.mlomimisi -is! f ."f f f y V U "-''' r i. '.'! -' t . ' -, ' Vw. 1 1'A ;; ; t Ihimsrir i!am "Mr. Castro" to
'"" " ." ""- i...H in conversation !'' t- fip v v J i i I"' v ' ,T.,' , ?' when talking l stranger on the
man experience from life louse of hand Gestures is minima! !'; 8 K1'' V i 'tlt'-.. v' 1, ' '. . . phone "Ttieie s aKvavs a pause. "
dcalli. switching Horn the gaiel Mime is Marceau's tile He he-' .;.- A- f 11 ? ' . -. ' " , '1 he said "Mlcr ail it couldn't be
ol Hie fairground In the horrors lines n lo he the most tmvw V . j( , t "Ji-.s,. ; .. v f.i, 'V V (. ' '4 ihat Mr. fasti o" I'.c
of war. the delights of love audi Ihrati leal (mm -j J, ' J A 'ci -'i V J ,Vii ' ', ' ' ' i'V' i ' f i ' i I "This is Betnairl Castio f 4-,kn
linauiy ol the tiring squad witli Miyone can undci si,m, u. n, 71 , , -fit,. ... '.-S V . rT - N ', ,v. .. .'.. 'i. Vi " -tro i'onvert.b'e.." he is careful to
an amaung lacinty. it is dtlticull matter now vounc. hnw n!d or .niJi. r - .. ji.i (V
for the spectator to keep track nf
the conflicting emolinns which
the mime inspires.
"Contrasts." says Marceau, is
HERALD AND NEWS, Klamath Falls, Or.
afternoon, had just kicked a field
goal to put the game on ice, lft-7,
with only one minute and 50 sec
onds remaining. But when the Gi
ants look the ensuing kickoff on
Iheir 27-yard line, you would think
from the cheers which rent the:
frosty stadium that the Giants!
had a final drive chance for vic
tory. That wasn't the case. Those
cheering thousands who had bet
on the Gianls would have won a
CONVICTED FIXER
Jack Molinas, New York
attorney and one time star
caqnr, has bean convicted
as the master fixer of 25
basketball games.
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(Hit full of money if tliey had
scored on that linal march. It
was stopped evcn yards short of
the goal line by the final gun.
The situation was similar in
that basketball game. The Celtics.
11 point helling lavoriles, were
leading 125-115 over the New York
Knickerbockers with 20 seconds
lo go. Cousy got (lie hall and
dribbled away those remaining
seconds as the Garden shook w ith
hoos from those who had put
Iheir money on the Celtics to win
by more than 11 points
don't know whv they were
i pari of the
iwhuh he has
"new duiicnsiiMi'
added to the world
I
of silence
"Thrnughnut liMnn
lie said,
j "the mime has iisrii pmps and,
what languase Ihcy irak," he
said, "because it's gestures deal
with life not o( one man. hut ot'
every man. " j
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honing," said Cousy later. When
told, he shrugged:
"I never pay any attention to
the point spread."
But the fans and the book
makers do.
Tlie latter look Hie Packers off
the board refused to accept any
more bets on them after the
Packers heat the Detroit Lions
and Minnesota Vikings on succes-,
sive Sundays in October.
Against the I.ions, the Packers
were seven point favorites and
the "smart money" was bet on
Ihe Packers to win by less than
seven points. They bet rigid, for
the Packers won hy only two, 9-7.
In the Vikings game. Ihe Pack
ers were favored to win by lfi
(joints and this time those same
bettors who had won a bundle on
the I.ions game went the other
way, wagering that the Packers
would win by more than 16
points. They did, by 24.
Figuring this gambling clique
had some inside information, the
bookies took the Packers off the
board until their Thanksgiving
game against the Lions. Inciden
tally, the Packers lost that one.
Belting on sports today is a far
cry from the old days. Then you
simply het on a team In win, re
gardless of the victory margin.
Of course, there were odds just
as there still are in some sports
such as the major league base-,
ball pennant races and boxing.
Now in football, basketball.
hasi'hali and hockey, it's the point
WORLD
HORIZONS
Christmas Eve Brinks Robbery
Nets $250,000 in Five Minutes
EDITOR'S NOTE: A gang n(
highly professional crooks last
month imlled one of Chicago's
slickest holdups In years the
precision - planned looting of a
drink's armored track. The loot
was In the hundred of thou
sands of dollars and the gang
escaped. Following Is report of
Ihe mechanics of a grand lar
ceny. Ily MORT J. SI'I.I.IVAN
I'nited Press International
CHICAGO UIPD - At 5.45
p.m. Christmas Kvc. a Brink's
armored truck pulled up in front
of a suburban howling alley on
its last money pickup of the day.
At 5:50. the truck was looted
of $2."iO,tKiO in Christmas Eve col
lections. What happened in those five
minulos? The Federal Bureau of
Invest igalion. Brink's, the Cook
County sheriff's police and the
Chicago Police Department are
still trying to find out.
Who did it? Police don't know
except that the hooded bandits
who commandeered the armored
truck, handcuffed veteran driver
Frank Nenhiircer, 57, and
whisked .17 money bags into a
waiting car were "all stars."
They were Hie lop men in their
chosen held of crime, investiya
tors said Hie nne-shnl-lnr-a-big-scote
breed. Anil investigators
fear their gamble mav have paid
oil.
The Christmas F.vc heist ranked
as Cliu aco's higcest bracking in
recent yeais. In precision and
plannini;. invcsligalors compared
it In Ihe $1 5 million Plymouth,
Nlass, mail tiuck rohliciy last
1 ug. 14 and the bisini ic $1 1 mil.
Jimi Huston lliinlvs rubbers' in
t'l.MI.
Cluitmas Eve aiounil Chicai:n
last month was a snnwv. hlusterv
1 " wm: Hi' ii i i l l ill 'I ma mil i i .. . , i i ,
. w i - - u- : j
..J , . w '"-""f J The cood name of Castro
HIJACKED This Is the Brink's armored t uck that was hijacked bv a oang of masked
gunmen near Chicago, robbed ol $250,003 and abandoned in a brickyard. F. Neu-
berger, one of the Brink's guards was found handcuffed in the back sat of the truck.
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spread which governs gambling
It works like this:
Team A is a seven point favor
ile over Team B. If you bet on
Team A and it wins by eight
poinls or more, you win; if it
wins hy less than seven points,
you lose: if it wins by exactly
seven poinls, there is no bet and
you get your money nacK.
However, If you bet with a
bookie, you have to lay odds. No
matter which way you go on
Team A to win by more than
seven points or Team K to lose
hy less than seven you have to
lay $11 lo win $10.
Because they are sure of get
ting their "take" from that odds
percentage, the bookies are the
last persons in the world who
want to see a game fixed unless
they are in on it.
Tlie point spreads arc set by a
central headquarters, which shilt
from city to city. During the last
season, the lootball ana Basket
ball spreads were set in Milwau
kee and Houslon it used to be
in St. Louis and Min.ieaixilis. In
baseball, the spread was set in
New York and Iiuisville it used
to be in St. Louis.
In the baseball point spread.
the belting is based on runs
scored. A team is favored by so
many runs and that's what you
have to spot tlie opposing team
if you want lo be on the favorite.
If you bet on the underdog, you
are spotted that number of
runs.
day. 11 was a busy one for New-lopened suddenly. Too suddenly,
lunger, a Ciuagoan, and his: "All in a flash," Ncuhurscr told
partner, William Link, 40, of sub
urban prospect heights.
Their armored truck wound
methodically through northwest
Cook County suburbs and the
nnrlhern fringe of Chicago, sjop-
ping al at least two banks and
40 business places.
Neuburger, w ith Brink's 19 1
(years, pullcrl the steel plalcd,
I bullet-proof truck to a stop in
front of the lliver Hand Bowling
Alley in Dos Plaines. Neuhurgcr
..iii..a 1.....L- it,- a..:....-... ,
.vnini tint k in iiic miii:i oLti 1 1
. ... , I
ami si aiuicii I ill- iiassum inioim , .vellum lci Him i.iiiiv tniiiii mi -u ' , . . ,,
, , , , ,., . , '.. . , ,, ui 104.000 stale pavrollers are pro
of last minute t hnstmas shoppers their accounts of the rohfoerv. , , . , r v.- i i
liw-tml Intm iw,lili,il Hitmiucal
Ullllol i,,L- 1,1. mm H,u,. I..I, tl,
ir,L- ' '
All three doors of the vehicle
nm r - iiwiy . .a w wnwi
EMPTY TRUCK Brink's guard William Link loolci into
his empty armored truck after i) wa robbed of $250,000
near suburban Del Plaines last December.
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Fumed Author Mow
(EDITOR'S NOTE: On Jan.
2.1 one of the world's best known
and most successful papular
writers, Somerset Maugham,
will be 89 years old. His works
are legion, many have become
I' . if
i r v in
I OBSERVES BIRTHDAY W.
week observed his 89th birthday. In a reflective mood,
the
the
famed author is taking a sentimental journey to
many places on the globe he once lived and worked.
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ifVtfWv'!,
investigators later, some men
grabbed him, pushed him lo the
floor, handcuffed his arms behind
his hack and put a gunny sack
lover his head,
The next thing he realized was
i 1at u was ,,ui0t. After some
squirming, he managed to get the
sack off his head. He was in a
brickyard.
in., niu..
mile from the bowl-
.... , . , ,,, ,. ;
It look less than three mm-
, .
utcs. he said.
I : -an: I U,U .
ii.-i.- mi i imuni ni m,,,,'
. . j.i ,
i,ll ll'SI cflllllllllMI'I m in uuiiii
Neuburger and Link confirmed
V..itllr nf ihrm h:l -vol- hi--n
L;ii h-ir , ...r .iH ,:l,avins ony
gun in anger.
legend. . ."Of Human Bondage."
"The Painted Veil." "The Moon
and Sixpence," "The Kazor's
Edge," "The Constant Wife,"
"Cakes and Ale," to list just a
few. As Maugham approaches
Somerset
New Pennsylvania Governor
Task Groaning Under Spoils
HARRISBIIRG, Pa. "UPI I -Appearing
in offices throughout
Pennsylvania's ornate Capitol aft
er the November election was a
poorly printed card which said on
its cover: "A message from Gov.-
elect William W. Scrantnn."
State employes who opened
read: "You're fired."
The greeting was unofficial and
the work of practical jokesters
hut its message was a sharp re
minder to thousands of stale
workers that because their party
lost the gubernatorial election
they would probably lose their
jobs.
When Scrantnn is inaugurated
as Pennsylvania's lO.trd gover
nor Tuesday (Jan. 15) he will
inherit a host of problems but
perhaps none as politically vol
atile as the question of what to
do with 55.0(10 state jnhs which
have traditionally been filled
through the patronage system.
In contrast to Pennsylvania's
vast spoils system, onlv 1,23.1
.. r . ' .
of California s fulltime stale em-
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I""J" s aic iiiiiii mc im u, tivii
I x - I
. . ,
service. In New lork, more than
' "M,l,lrtl
B.WW jobholders-
commissioners and deputies at
one cm! of the stale and corn
mon laborers at the other vul
'nerable lo firing with a change
jof administration,
j "Almost every oiher major
j slate in the nation has long since
adopted an elfective system of I
civil service." Scranton said dur-
ing the campaign which was to
catapult him to national political
prominence.
"We can have hisyer and bold
er political machines or we can
have better stale services. . .vve
cannot have bolh." he added J
"Pennsylvania slale government
Igi-oans beneath the worst spoils
system in American political his
lory."
Harsh Facts, Figure xlitiral jobs. More than half of i Pennsylvania stale government ' the party in power. 1 nder the
The words were harsh, hut bc-Jtlie Democratic county chairmen: run: 'provisions of the law a new Ex-
hind them were these ecniallyjaio currently nn Ihe slale pay-; Of the approximately R2.0U0 per-rcutive Board may remove rov
harsh fads and figures: roll. .sims on the payroll, only 27.0fln!eraee from previously designated
Almost three out of everyl The announcement came after are covered by some form of civil: positions.
Good Name
NEW 'OIK 't:PI This is called, a tronp nf anti-Fidel wom
the saga of a man named Castro. jCn paraded near his Times Square
Not Fidel, but Bernard, presi- siore here and "our people were
dent of the Castro Convertible
Couch Co.. a long-established furn-
iture chain in llie northeastern
I nited Mates yelled: 'This is the good Castro.' "
"Evervone knows that this ., .
.- , , lliisiness Not Hurt
I astro is tlie unod (astro, said
Ihe baldinc Sicilian of M. "Thei rleinard started his company
less I see his name. Ihe betterH,ln ' x"XsX ''"P"31 "f m
j 1, j
in5
Bernard said, ami business today:'" P"M"c 'r'y ior oim now.,
.4 stores in 1". states' is heller hp V'"H s''' ,,ho-v M ,l,st
:than ever. But he revealed the
coincidence in names has hern Thai Castro ha not hurt husi
rmharrassiiu "lo a certain rl,..ness. Bernard emphasDed and "if ;
! My wife has In av Thu is
:Mts Bernard ( a-iro of I astro
Convertibles
I Thiee months ajn, Castro re
his With year, here is a eloseup
of him by a reporter who ob
served his activities in Europe
for many years.
By ROBERT Mt'SEL
t'nitrd Press International daughter of Syrie tiled suit
All the world's a stage and fnr,blocking the transfer to New
nearly 70 years Somerset Maugh- York of 229.581 pounds sterling
am observed it from a seat on ! 1 SB42.U2W which Maugham oh-
the aisle extracting from its play -
ers what he needed ot triumph
and tragedy and smiles and sor
rows to compose his novels and
short stories.
Then, about a vear aco. he
laid down his pen and w ith it the
role of observer that made him
one of the most famous story
tellers in the world.
Some of his friends are sad
dened that he ever left tlie de
tachment of his aisle seat to
climb on the stage. For on the
eve of his 90th year he has be
come personally involved in the
kind of situation that in earlier
days might have struck him only
as the plot for a work o fiction.
If there is a budding Maugham
watching the old man as once
he shrewdly observed others
for a novel still unborn, there is
no lack of material. In fh past
year or so the great write has
been party to a flourish of sen
sations: Denies Father
He denied that he is the father
of his daughter, Lady Elizabeth
Hope, 47. and attempted to dis
inherit her.
Ile sued her for the return of
various gifts totalling more than
$1 million.
He adopted his secrelarv. Alan
Searel, 58, as his son and heir.
He permitted publication of part
four stale employes many of
them professionally trained ca
reer workers have no merit
system protection of any kind
Those who are protected come
under a checkerboard pattern nf
no less than five different civil
it service systems.
The Pennsylvania Stale Coun
cil of Public Employes (AFL
(!IO, which claims to represent
25.000 commonwealth workers,
places a price tag of $50 to $B0
million on the lost services and
retraining necessary to replace
each politically sponsored Demo
crat with a Republican.
The problem has become so
acute that 19 statewide organiza
tions ranging in their political
views from tlie state Chamber of
Commerce to Americans for
Democratic action recently
banded together to present a pro
gram of civil service reform to
the incoming administration.
But on the other side of the
issue are powerful elements ot
t 1 , . ,
he Republican party who he beve
... ' .... .....
tis inn itmui i us wiii'ii inrs
ea me into power eipht years ao
that the ri-ht to fill those thou
sands of jobs belongs to the vic
torious party.
Scran Um, in his postelection
Rlatcmpnls, han Insistrd that he
Intends to carry out hi cam
pnisn pledge that "at the end
of my administration. Pennsyl
vania will nn longer provide the I
worst example nf the spoils syv ,
trm In the t'nitrd States.' 1
He has designated two hiah-
ranking aides to work with citi-'but the governor-elect refused to
zens groups in planning a enm-jbe swayed,
prchensive reform and has others: Hugus remained as countv
working on lesislatjon which he
plans to submit lo the current
general assembly,
Lowers Boom
Last month he declared that
Republican countv chairmen whoUhe complexities of the svstem
, wished to hold major state pnsi-;bul
lions would have to give up their
Of Castro
adaid they might bieak a win-!
dow."
1,,-tcad. they slupin-d and!
-ri.U an.t built it into nn organi-
raiinn annua, iy grossing mnrej
I ban svn million torlav. But a
cuv nurI us
did. we'd take some steps to
snmeth:ng about it." j
VVL.n in,, r,,r !. I.,r s.,r'
hui'd up a name, you're not
gome to let a guv like t astro
L,,ws.-lr a.... -
There are main t'd Casiros.l
maid asserted "s tar as I
iw. the name sin-s haik more-
than 4ito years. It s a Ij'in word:
meaning Castle and can be adopt
ed in any Latin country. There are
.Ms o( C?!rn m Italy, Spam and
Soulh America"
, And in he f. S , ton, he said
89 Years Old
of an autobiography originally I the Salvation Army and in prisons
intended to be published only las a visitor. Belore he took up
after his death in which he' writing as a career Maugham
frankly dissected the character;
of his late wile, Syrie.
Trustees for I.ady Elizabeth
!tained by the auction last April
of nine works from his celebrated
collection of modern art
Today, as every day, Maugham;Scarle says the Nice suit is main-
will v.nder alter breaklast
the beautiful gardens of his moor
ish-style villa. "La Mauresque"
at Cap Ferrat near Monte Carlo,
listening to the song of hundreds
of exotic cage birds, tending the
prize roses which are his special
pride.
But, according to Searlc, he is
a broken man.
"He is far from well," Searle
said recentlv. "It's old age. You
have a lot of bad days when you,
gel to his age. And. of course,
he feels badly about this busi
ness. How sad it is that in the
last years of Mr. Maugham's life
that he should he made absolute
ly miserable.
Searle, who looks far vounger1
than his years, met Maugham initiative Italian cuisine as well as
1929 when he was asked lo fill n French and English food. He long
at a dinner party for someone! ago cultivated the habit ot alter-
who had cancelled out at the last
moment. He was sealed, by I
chance next lo the guest of honor
who was Maugham.
"Soon after that evening,'
Searle said, "we started out oi
a journey together and we have
been on that journev ever since." i
I hoy were drawn together, he'hgure, he said:
said, by their mutual respect for "If you are small, dealh may
the poor. Searle had worked withl quite likely overlook you."
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JOBS TO FILL When William W. Scranton, above,
was inaugurated at Pennsylvania's 103rd governor he
inherited a host of problems, chief of which is the quei
fion of. what -to do with the 55,000 state jobs which
traditionally have been filled through the patronage
system. UPI Telephote
Allegheny County GOP Chairman
Paul Hugus reportedly asked,
M-rantnn to consider nim inr tne,
post of insurance commissioner.
Hugus had delivered the tradi
tionally Democratic County j
which includes Pittsburgh and
many of its suburbs into the
Scranton column in November,
chairman and the insurance post'iud are given the protection be
went to another man. Icause the federal law requires it
Definite figures Bre difficult tot The stale Executive Roard lias
obtain, bolh because of the politi-! th power to place positions under
cat consolidations involved and civil service and has thus desic-
according In best estimates.
here is what currently makesMhe governor and controlled bv
Embarrassed By Castro
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loi r '.-. AVsa? I f J 1
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V, -" ';
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GOOD AMERICAN NAME
can
as well at Cuban name, and Bernard Castro. 58.
president of the Castro Convertible Couch
turally an.lous to let people
wnose gooa name nas been
says the Castro south of the
"
was an obstetrician and delivered
more than Ml babies, many of
them free cases. Despite the dif
ference in age they were perfect
companions as I noted myself
when 1 last visited Mauham at
"La Mauresque."
Destined For Charily
If Maugham recovers any prop
erty from Lady Elizabeth and
in.lv to gel back ownership of "La
Mauresque" it will eventually
20 into a charity he has set up
I in his w ill to help w riters w ho
are in trouble or sick or old.
Searle estimates his own inher
itance from the estate at 500.00(1
sterling i$l,400.ooiii hut il is only
a life interest and alter his death
it goes lo charily.
"Iidy John Hope inherits the
bulk of Mr. Maugham's fortune
whatever hapens." he said.
'That is irrevocable.'
Maugham says he docs not
come from a particularly lnnj
lived family yet his brother. Lord
Maugham, lived to (12. His ap
petite is good and his cook.
Irene, prepares dishes from her
lunch siesta which his good friend
Sir Winston Churchill, B8, also
practices.
When I asked him about his
long life some years ago Maugh
am used a phrase worth repeat
ing as he reaches his 89th birth
day. Looking down at his slight
Inherits
System
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Si-: f-.
3
i service, according lo Ihe slale
civil Service Commission.
Some 1.1.000 employes enjoy
"legislative civil service" under
terms of a law enacted in 1941
which provides the firmest pro
tection. Another 3.000 employes are un
der "contractual civil service."
Most of them are working nn fed
eral projects or with federal funds
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