Herald and news., March 24, 1963, Page 18, Image 18

Plush Gambling Casinos Flourish
Despite Arkansas Law To Contrary
HOT SPRINGS, Ark. UPI -
,The Vapors Club is the plushest
of several casinos m this miner
al bath resort town in this state
where gambling is "illegal.1
' The Vapors has a distinct Las
Vegas atmosphere, although the
waitresses are more matronly
and the Negro waiters serving
free drinks in the gaming room
add a flare of the Old South.
Expensive entertainers trot
their stuff on a wide stage at
one end of the elegant, two
tiered dining room while the
drinking trade watches from the
S-shaped bar along one wall.
(Liquor also is illegal).
From the dining room and lob
by doors lead into a smartly
decored room with thick carpet
"and heavy drapes over its wide
windows. Slot machines line all
four walls and their jingling and
whirring is virtually incessant.
The felt-covered tables for craps,
roulette, blackjack and poker
also do a brisk business.
Nothing Sneaky
There's nothing sneaky about
the gambling here. The casinos
at the Vapors and several other
clubs the Southern, Belvedere,
Tower, to name a few are
about as ill concealed as the
signs outside which advertise the
current stage attraction.
Arkansas' anti - gambling laws
are ignored here with complete
impunity.
In fact, the municipal govern
ment collects a black market tax
known at City Hall as the
"amusement tax" on the big
gamming ciuds and lesser estab
lishments where one-armed ban
dits and card games proliferate.
"City employes call on gambling
places quarterly, collecting $500
a month from large clubs where
craps, blackjack, poker, chuck-a-luck,
rummy and other games of
chance are featured. Smaller
clubs pay $200 a month. Where
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GAMBLERS AT WORK Patrons try their luck at a table in a Hot Springs, Ark.,
qambling casino at naarly any time of day or night just as they do in Nevada.
The Arkansas State Revenua Department ttimated soma 400,000 customers bet mora
than $24 million during the last season's 43-day racing period. , UPI Talephoto
cards only are played, the tariff
is $00.
Any place where mixed drinks
are served kicks in $30 each
month, except for fraternal or
ionizations which pay $25. Slot
and pinball machines are taxed
at $5 a month each.
Building Convention Center
Since 1958, when the "amuse
ment tax" ordinance was passed,
the revenue has amounted to
about $350,000. The money is be
ing applied to the 4,000-seat, $1.26
million convention ccn'rr the city
is building.
Only on-track pari-mutuel bet
ting is legal in Arkansas and the
betting at Oakland park here last
year amounted to $24,112,900. But
local sources estimated "very
conservatively" that tha posh ca
sinos in Garland County did i
neat $2.5 million in illicit busi
ness. Newspapers and clergy speak
out frequently against gambling
and, on occasion, a politician
adds his voice of dissent. For
years now, none of the gambling
places has been raided.
In recent weeks, a federal
grand jury looked into possible
violations of federal gaming laws
wouldn't be handicapped in oper
ating the city but we would be
in making future improvement."
Wolf said he thought it might
he a good idea if Arkansas legal'
izcd gambling so it could be reg
ulated and taxed by the state
In the view of Chamber of
Commerce Secretary Mort Cox,
the citizens of this city who tol
erate, ll not approve ol, cam-
NEW BOOKS
By tailed Prrst late national
Catch a Falling Spy, by Na
thaniel Benchley 'McGraw-Hill
$4.95): Benchley, son of the late
humorist Robert Benchley, is a
gifted writer in his own right and
has produced many good novels
he offers a chillingly likely an
swer to the question: What would
nuclear war do to the world? Wy
lie envisions an all-out H-bomb
conflict in w hich t h e United
States and Russia, although at
some variance in their aims, sue-
including "Sail a Crooked Ship" ceed between them in virtually ob-
and The Off-Islanders." In this.literating the northern hemisphere.
spy story he puts his talents for
sharp writing and humor to good
effect. The spies are bumbling, the
plot is complex, things almost
never come out the way they
should, and the hero is faced with
the problem of finding a wife who
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A survey by the University of
Oregon Office of Student Affairs
shows that 83 per cent of the
students at tne university are
paying part of their own educa
tional expenses.
The survey was made by
means of a research card filled
out by students during fall term
registration. Replies were received
from 9,611 of the 9,621 students!
registered.
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BITE TEST One of the tastt for real cultured pearls
is the "biting test." Here Sanaa Nijo checks soma beau
ties in a strand. UPI Talephoto
Woman's Love Of Pearls
Creates Big Industry
NEW YORK (UPH-The fem
nine love for pear's plus man's
ability to turn oysters into mass
producers of the gems have com
bined to create a multi-million
dollar industry.
And, It grows larger each year,
says Joseph D'Elia. president of
the Cultured Peal Association of
America.
D'Elia (pronounced duh-lee'-uh)
said that exports Irom Japan,
which produces better than 90 per
cent of all cultured pearls,
totalled $47 million in l!W2, a gain
of 30 per cent over the previous
year. This is the wholesale value.
U. S. importers lake 52 per cent
of the culture pearl production.
There are about 80 importers in
all.
All of this big business is an1
outgrowth of something Uie an
cient Chinese learned, and the
Japanese commercialized.
I-arge Scale Traduction
A V. S. Fish and Wildlife Serv
ice publication on pearl culture in
Japan (it was issued during the
V. S. occupation! says that the
Chinese about the 13th century
K. D. found that an oyster could
be irritated into creating a pearl.
But commercial production of
the gems really began In Hie
early years of the 20th century
In Japan.
The Japanese to succeed first
with large-scale commercial pro
duction was hokichl Mikomoto,
and today the name Mikomoto
and cultured pearls are synonymous.
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UrKr and small producers.
D'Elia, whose firm deals in cul
tured pearls only, said the two
main growing areas arc the bay
waters of the Mie Prefecture and
since World War II, as demand
for Ihe gems has increased, the
waters around Hiroshima, Ky
ushu, and Shikoku.
Some also are grown by Jap
anese methods in Australian and
Burmese waters.
It takes an oyster from two
years on up to develop a pearl
and growers will sample beds to
see If the pearl has reached the
size they want before they start
a harvest.
After the harvest comes grad
ing and sorting, for form, color,
luster and perfection of surface
The cultured pearl has a special
texture. D'Elia said a woman can
give the pearl the tooth test to
tell Ihe difference hem ecu it and
the simulated one with glass or
piastic oeaa neneatn. Huh the
pearl against the front teeth
the Cultured pearl feels uneven.
not absolutely smooth. And of
course nothing rubs off.
Natural pearls aro formed In
exactly the same way. by the oys
ter as an art of self - defense
against some tiny, but accidental
Intruder.
D'Elia said that a cultured
necklace ceuld be purchased for
around $30-anything told as cul
tured pearls for less is "trash,"
he contended. And the price range
goes right on up, depending on
size, quality and matching of
pearls.
but failed to find any. And anibling, haven't lost a respect for
explosion written off as thelthe law,
work of a "drunk or fanatic"
did $125,000 damage to the Vapors
and injured 12 persons. Other
wise gambling has gone on quietly
ana prolitamy.
Need "Amusement Tax"
Mayor Dan Wolf won't say di
rectly he thinks gambling is de
sirable. He describes it as "a
situation we've grown up with."
About the amusement lax,"
he said:
'We'd be handicapped if we
didn't get it.
I'll be honest with vou. We
"It's simply a way of life
here." said Cox. "We've always
had it and I don t think most of
the people would like to see it
go.
State officials including Gov.
Orval Faubus take ths position
that gambling in Hot Springs is
a local matter. Before he was
.elected governor, Faubus said he
would have the gambling places
raided, but he since has changed
his position, saying he won't send
state police unless they're asked
ny local ollicials.
Dare Call It Reason, by Rich
ard M. Watt (Simon and Schuster
$5,951: This account lifts the veil
from one of the weirdest develop
ments of World War I. and one of
its best-kept secrets the mutinies
that nearly wrecked the French
army in 1017. At their worst, the
mutinies so disrupted the army
that it was barely able to hold
the line. The Gernjans could eas-
ly have smashed through to Par
is, but they never learned of their
opportunity. Revulsion against the
horrors of trench warfare was
the chief cause of the mutinies,
but they were actively encouraged
by leftwing subversives. A polit
ical climate of vacillation and
near-treason, most viciously exem
plified by ex-Premier Joseph
Caillaux's flirtation with the Ger
mans, set the stage for the mili
tary near-breakdown. It is remark
able that such a situation should
have arisen in a nation that had
been regarded as a proud and
potent military power: it is amaz
ing that the story could have been
so successkully suppressed. This is
the strange talc, an ably written
and scrupulously fair exploration
ol a nation's decay.
TRIUMPH, by Philip W'ylie
(Doubleday $4.50 1: Wylie explored
the possibilities of atomic war;
some years ago in a novel, "To
morrow!" Now, in "Triumph
Current Best
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Typical University
Student Pays Part
Of Way To School
men whose parents are meeting
all expenses have expenses of
$1,706. Women who are self-sup
porting have expenses of $1,140.
while women whose parents are
meeting all expenses have expens
es of $1,650.
Expenses for Oregon men are
$1,366, while the average for all
non-resident men is $1,695. Ex
penses for Oregon women are $1,-
172, while the average for alj non-
Other results discovered by the resident women is $1,769.
Students supported entirely bv
their parents spend considerably
more money for their educational
expenses than other students. Stu-
dents who are entirely self-supporting
spend the least amount
of money.
There are 32 per cent of the
students who are working either
full- or part-time while conduct
ing their studies.
There are 3,191 student cars on
Ihe campus, including 2,283 cars
driven to the university by off-;
campus commuters.
Of the 908 cars on campus. 774
are in the hands of men. Almost
one-half of all campus automo
biles are in the possession of fra
ternity residents.
There are 1,851 married stu-
idents at the university, with 35
per cent living in university hous
ing. Among the married students,
I here is less than one child per
family.
Details of various sections of
the report arc as follows:
Means of Support
About 10 per cent of the sin.
dents share expenses with then-spouses.
About 15 per cent are entirely
self-supporting.
About 22 per cent receive srhnl-
arships, loans, or other financial
aid.
Annul 38 per rent arc sharinc
expenses witn their parents.
Ahoul 17 per cent have all ex
penses paid by their parents.
uniy 12 per cent of the Orecon
siiKients ani only ahoul 10 ner
cm ni i ne Alaskan students have
their expenses paid bv their
parents, while more than 37 ner
of live California students
and more than 39 per cent of the
Hawaiian students have all their
expenses paid by their parents.
More than 18 per cent of the
men with cars and almost 10 per
cent of Ihe women with cars are
entirely self-supporting, compared
to 13 per cent of men without 1 m based
On-campus students with cars
report expenses of $40 a year
more than students without cars.
Off-campus women not living
with their families have expenses
of $1,241, while women in dormi
tories have expenses of $1,489 and
women in sororities have ex
penses of $1,641. Off-campus men
have expenses of $1,484, compared
to $1,445 Tor men in dormitories
and $1,373 for men in fraternities.
Working Students j
Almost 58 per cent of the stu
dents in married student hous
ing, 48 per cent of the students
living with their parents, and
more than 41 per cent of other
off-campus students have jobs.
This compares to about 13 per
cent of Ihe students in dormito
ries, almost 14 per cent of those
in sororities, and more than 23
per cenl of those in Iraternities
who have jobs.
rVmoiig those who work, men
students work an average of 18.4
hours per week, and women stu
ilents work an average of 15.8
hours per week.
Students with cars who work
spend more hours per week at
work than do working students
who have no cars. '
The university mean monthly
job income for women is $. and
for men is $in.
Student Cars
Of all women campus residents,
only slightly more than five per
cent have cars. Of all men cam
pus residents, more than 33 per
cenl have cars.
Nearly tvl per cent of Ihe stu
dents living at home drive a car
to (lie campus, as do 58 per cent
of Ihe students living in universi
ty married student housing and
4ft per cent of other olf campus
residents.
Tile proportion of students with
cars increases steadily from the
freshman through the senior class
Psyclwlogical ratines and rut-
(Compiled by Publishers' Weekly)
FICTION
Seven Days In May Flelcher
Knebel and Charles W. Bailey II.
Fail-Sale Eugene Burdick and
Harvey Wheeler.
The Sand Pebbles Richard Mc
Kenna. Raise High the Roof Beam, Car
penters, and Seymour J. D. Sal
inger.
A Shade of Difference Allen
Drtiry.
The Moon-Spinners Mary Stew
art.
The Cape Cod Lighter-John
O'Hara.
One Hundred Dollar Misunder
standingRobert Cover.
NONFICTION
Travels With Charley John
Steinbeck.
Silent Spring Rachel Carson.
Happiness Is a Warm Puppy-
Charles M. Schulz. .
The Points of My Compass
E. B. White.
Renoir, My Father Jean Re
noir.
Final Verdict Adela Rogers St.
Johns.
O Ye Jigs and Juleps! Vir
ginia Cary Hudson.
Letters from Ihe Earth Mark
Twain. Edited by Bernard de Voto.
Smaller Rooms
Pose Problem
NEW YORK (UPD - Smaller
(oom sizes are making it In
creasingly difficult io get proper
proportion in interior decorating
schemes, according to a New
York interior designer.
Designer Jay Dorf makes these
suggestions to cope with de
creased space:
Bring Ihe eye down and keep
it there. This means low scale
low-backed chairs, lew tables, low
everything.
Create an illusion of height by
using vertical lines, placing pic
tures lower on the wall and hang
ing light fixtures low.
Use diminutive accessories
low and petite flower arrange
ments, short candelabra and can
dles and small-scalej lamps.
Sculptured works and other
art objects should be delicate and
unobtrusive.
Use area nigs to focus the
eye on a small area, while still
leaving a good deal oi floor space
snowing.
The book is concerned mainly
with the fortunes of the people
who are probably the only surviv
ors in the battle area 14 Ameri
cans who are able to sit out the
catastrophic conflict because of
a wonderful, $150 million shelter
prepared by a benevolent tycoon.
This group includes two Negroes,
two Orientals, two Latins, two or
phans and a Jew. '"Triumph" can
not be described as great fiction.
Wylie's characters are two-dimen-tiona)
and his dialogue is best
described as quaint. It is an inter
esting and provocative book, how
ever, because of the author's ex
tensive knowledge of nuclear wea
ponry. Santos-Dumonl; A Study in Ob
session, by Peter Wykeham (Har
court, Brace & World $5.75): Al
berto Santos-Dumont was one of
aviation's great pioneers whose ex
ploits are not well-known outside
his native Brazil. His Brazilian
biographers have hailed him as
the first man to fly a powered
airplane. But Vice Marshal Wyke
ham of the British air force says
his research confirms that the
Wright Brothers were first. "San
tos flew in October, 1906, there's
no question of thai." he writes.
"The first field of inquiry there
fore lies in the claim of the
Wrights to have flown at Kitty
Hawk in December. 1903. Though
the legal evidence is scanty it is
enough. The claim has been ac
knowledged, and December 17th,
1903, is accepted by nine-tenths of
the world as the occasion on which
the first true powered fight by
man took place. But if anyone
doubts this there are the Dayton
(lights of 1905. And here there
can be no doubt at all. Wyke
ham also challenges the Brazilian
biographers on the aviator's death
He writes that his suicide was
not mentioned and the events sur
rounding his death were glossed
over. But. Wykeham is no de
bunker. "My respect and admira
tion for him (Santos-Dumont) have
been increased tenfold by the
writing of this book. I would
want his admirers to believe this
and to realize that because he
w as a great man, the truth cannot
hurt him. He was unique, and his
place in history is assured, and
that should be enough.
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HERALD AND NEWS. Klamath Falls. Ore.
Suaday, March J4, IK
Family Homes
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Read Books
CHICAGO (UPI) - Americans
have more than doubled their
book purchases during the last
decade. Book sales have climbed
to $509 million each year, proof
that reading is taking up a good
share of American leisure time,
say industry sources.
Where to read is the question
in the compact, sound-filled house
hold of today. Only the few have
the space and traffic areas for a
library.
Many homemakers with growing
families solve Uie peace and quiet
problem by using their bedroom
as a library retreat. Even a moderately-sized
room can accommo-'
date hanging wall shelves for
books, a comfortable lounge chair
with an ottoman and a table be
side it with a good reading light.
For bedtime bookworms, libra
ry shelves now are built into cab
inet headboards, hung above the
head of the bed, or erected in
slim cabinets flanking the bed
stead. Some headboards have arm
rests that drop into place, others
have panels lhat turn into slant
ed back rests.
Large, triangular foam rubber
pillows also are available for
propping the reader lo a com
fortable position.
Sometimes the dining room can
he used effectively as Ihe library
center of the home. Hanging
shelves of books alternating with
attractive ceramics or collectors'
items can be decorative and func
tional if extended along one wall.
Beneath them, a space-saving.
built-in reading bench can be con
structed of plywood covered with
removable cushions cut to meas
ure. Urge wall bolsters or scat
ter pillows will turn Die bench in
to a comfortable divan. A carpen
ter easily can build It, with stor
age doors for linens and dining
accessories.
DESIGN 166
721 Sq. Ft.
, 20,303 Cu. Fl.
Home Offers
Much Space
A colonial design is always
popular, offering plenty of living
space especially for the large
family. This home is no excep
tion. Upstairs are three large bed
rooms, a hath, four wardrobe clos
ets plus a linen closet. ,
You will notice that from the
exterior, the second floor is can
tilevered. This allows additional
space for Ihe two front bedrooms
and when constructed of wood sid
ing, adds contrast to the lower
part of exterior which is faced
with ficldstone. The cantilevercd
second floor also protects front
entry.
Entry is made private from the
rest of the home and contains a
coat closet. Upon entering the
front hall, you have access to
living room, kitchen or to stairs
going to second floor.
In keeping with colonial style of
this home, there is a large bay
picture window in the living area
and a natural fireplace at one
side. To the rear of the floor
plan is a separate dining are's
with doors opening onto a cov
ered concrete terrace. Next to
dining room is the kitchen. These
tnree areas, dining, terrace and
kitchen are planned for function
al efficiency.
During warm months, the home-
maker will have no trouble ar
ranging meals out on the terrace
and for the evenings when guests
overcrowd the dining area, the
terrace is again a most logical
extension of the dining area.
mere is also ample space for
a breakfast table in the large
square-shaped kitchen. Another
convenience of the first floor plan
is tound in the lavatory placed
near work areas and just oppo
site are stairs leading to the full
basement. A large broom closet
is also located to one side of the
kitchen.
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Studies Plan To Make Homes Quieter
QU-I-I-I-E-T, please.
The staccato b-r-r-r of a pneu
matic hammer, the w-h-o-o-o-sh
of a jet exhaust and dozens of
other annoying sounds are giv
ing rise to a new breed of scien
tists concerned with making
things more quiet.
A leading dc-noiser is Leo L.
Beranek, whose consulting firm
of Bolt Beranek and Newman in
Cambridge, Mass., has been
awarded a contract by the Fed
eral Housing Administration lo
develop a tentative noise control
standard for the United States.
This is a "backward nation" in
terms of acoustics and noise con
trol, Beranek maintains. Common
noises, such as plumbing, foot
steps, radio or television and con
versation have unhappily become
all too common annoyances he
said.
Gets Many Calls
The FHA has been receiving a
great number of such calls from
people in FHA-mortgaged build
ings for multi-family use.
They are getting tired, it
seems, Horn sounds ol loottalls,
kids dropping toys. Mom drop
ping a pan on the floor, or some
body banging on Uie wall next
door.
The FHA wants to tighten up
this "impact" area of noise con
trol and make it one that has to
be met before its mortgages will
be approved.
Beranek claims Uie noisiest city
in Uie United States is New York,
where traffic and construcuon
noise, poor building acoustics and
airport jets wrack the sound
waves.
Chicago is a close second, he
said, with elevated trains in par
ticular contributing to the prob
lem. Then, in order, come Bos
ton, Pittsburgh and St. Louis be
cause of traffic noises.
Noise can never be completely
eliminated, Beranek believes.
"But it can and should be better
controlled."
Many Sound Tests
He said manufacturers sound
test such tilings as refrigerators,
air conditioners, fans, toilet fix
tures, dish washers, washing ma
chines, power equipment, automo
biles and lawn mowers. But this
does not mean they are made suf
ficiently quiet.
"Manufacturers in most cases
understand the noise problem,"
he said, "but Uiey do not neces
sarily know how to reduce Uie
Canada accounts for about
three-fourths of the world's nick
el producing capacity.
noise at low cost. Where Uie cost
is sufficienUy high, Uie manufac
turer often believes that consum
ers will not pay the extra cost
for quieUng and hence the pro
duct remains noisy."
cars and less than four ner cenl
of the women without cars who
are self-supporting.
Educational Expenses
The campus average for year
ly educational expenses is $1,448.
Men who are self . supporting
on previous school
have expenses
of $1,277.
work were not complete at Ihe
time of Ihe survey. For those with
completed ratings, fewer of the
men will top preparatory rat
ings have cars, but for women it
is lite reverse, as those with cars
in Ihe top ratings exceed those
whileiwithoul cars.
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