Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 61, Number 142, Decatur, Adams County, 17 June 1963 — Page 6

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Illegal Gambling Rampant In Entire United States

By HARRY FERGUSON United Press International WASHINGTON lUPD — One day a frustrated citizen, terhporarily in a state of involuntary bankruptcy, pasted this sign on a Las Vegas slot machine: "In case of air raid, stand beside this machine. Nobody has hit it yet.” The man was over-stating the case, of course, because somebody hits slot machines just often enough to keep the customers coming back. Gambling is not only legal in Nevada, it is on the level. The odds against a roulette player are about five per cent, but he knows that when he goes into the game. When a gambling house covers all bets in a dice game, the odds against the players are at least 1.4 per cent- Just stay there long enough and* you will lose your shirt. The only thing a legal gam. bling house has to worry about is to keep enough cash on hand to tide itself over when a highrolling player gets hot. Sooner or later the odds will begin to work

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and the man who hasn't sense enough to quit when he is well ahead goes broke. The legend about the man who broke the bank at Monte Carlo is a pretty story, but it’s fiction. Bemoan Pari-Mutuel Horse bettors are a melancholy breed of men, anyway, but they complain loudly about the injustice of pari-mutuel betting. What it means is that it is legal in many States to bet on a horse provided you are on the premises of the track. If you walk a block away from the track, bettipg is illegal. —-■ Now the horse players have another complaint. Several years ago the Internal Revenue Service issued orders that any person winning more than S6OO on a $2 bet would have to identify himself to collect his money. This happens mostly in the daily double. You pick horses in the first and second races for the price of a single ticket, and if your selections win the odds usually are good.

On Oct. 3, 1960, the rule struck Belmont Park in New York with some strange results. The daily double paid $693 for every $2 ticket purchased and the winners were invited to collect their money by identifying themselves by Social Security cards or driver’s license. The track announced that the identity of the winners would have to be reported to the Internal Revenue Service. At twilight, when all the horse players had gone home, the track still had $46,477 unclaimed by winners of the daily double. For reasons of their own, the persons holding the tickets preferred to pass up the money rather than identify themselves, and the state treasury profited accordingly. Recalls Series Fix Tremendous sums are bet on sports events in the United States and from time to time attempts are made to fix the games. The most notorious attempt was successful—gamblers got to enough members of the 1919 Chicago White Sox to allow the Cincinnati Reds to win the World Series. The White Sox may have been the greatest baseball team ever assembled and the public made them Such heavy betting favorites that the gamblers got attractive odds. College basket ball scandals have been common in recent years, but a new element has entered the wagering. The cambiers don’t ask an athlete to lose ■the game but merely to “shave the points”. Team A is a sixpoint favorite over Team B. A gambler takes Team B plus six points and then bribes a couple of athletes on Team A to insure that they don’t win by more than five. The recent suspension of Paul Hornung of the Green Bay Packers and Alex Karras of the Detroit Lions of the National Football League has raised the problem on whether it is ethical for an athlete to bet on himself or on his own team. This issue is hotly debated on the first tee of

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Society. NURSE’S ASSOCIATION MEETING POSTPONED The monthly meeting of the Adams County Nurses Association that was to be held Thursday, June 20, will be postponed until June 27. The meeting will begin,at 8 p.m. in the home of Mrs. Robert Moser, 765 Indiana Street, Berne. There will be a $1 birthday exchange at this meeting. Swimming Program To Open Wednesday Carl Honaker, summer recreation director at Adams Central, this morning announced that a bus from the Adams Central recreation program will leave the Pleasant Mills school building at 8:45 a. m. Wednesday to transport students to the swimming program at Pine Lake. The price will be 30 cents per lesson. There is no charge for transportation. Held For Driving Under Influence Dale E. Faus, 24, route 4, Bluffton. was jailed by Bluffton police on a charge of driving under the influence of alcohol after he demolished his car in a three-veheile "cFiSheafljF Saturday' - morning at Bluffton. Faus, who was driving a 1962 Corvette, struck a parked car, skidded 275 feet and struck another parked car. He told police he was driving 35 miles an hour when the accident occured. He was treated at Bluffton Clinic hospitl for a cut above his left eye. Local Lady's Father Dies At Terre Haute Mr. and Mrs. Byran Trout returned Friday evennig from Terre Haute, where they attended the funeral of Mrs. Trout’s Father, John Weust, 56, who died folowing a long illness with heart trouble. many country clubs as soon as the members of the foursome get through putting up the bets on themselves for the day's play.

Club Schedule Telephone 3-2121 Society Editor Calendar Item, for each day's publication must be phoned in by 11 a.m. (Saturday 5730). MONDAY Adams County Home Demonstration Club Chorus, Monroe Farm Bureau Building, 7:30 p.m. Kum Join-Us class of the Bethany E.U.B. church, annual picnic, Hanna-Nuttman shelter house, 6:30 p.m. Academy of Friendship, Preble Gardens, 6:30 p.m. TUESDAY St. Mary’s Sodbusters, Dr. CarToll, 7 p.m. Decatur Garden Club, Mrs. Cal Yost, 2 p.m. Merry Matrons Home Demonstration Club, Mrs. Wm. Boerger, 8 p.m. Delt Theta Tau picnic, Mrs. Forrest Dryer, 6:30 p.m. 39'ers carry-in dinner, Community center, 6:30 p.m. C. L. of C. C. L. of C. hall, 7:30 p.m. The Rose Garden Club, Mrs. John Floyd, 2 p.m. Beta Sigma Sorority, Preble Gardens, 8 p.m. Flower Garden Club, Mrs. Ella Scherry, 8 p.m. The Women’s of Pocahontas, Red Men’s Hall, 7:30 p.m. Monroe Better Home demonstration Club, Mrs. Claude Laisure, 6:30 p.m. WEDNESDAY 0.N.0. home demonstration club, Mrs. Don Jeffery, 7:30 p.m. Emmaus Guild of Zion Lutheran Church, carry-in dinner, 6 p.m. THURSDAY Pleasant Mills Methodist W.S.C.S., church, 7:30 p.m. Lois Circle of Decatur E. U. B. church, Mrs. Pauline Fisher, 9 a.m. Rainbow for Girls, Masonic Hall, 6:45 p.m. Friendship Village, Home Demonstration Club, "St. Mary’s Conservation Building, 1:30 p.m. Trinity Bible class, E. U. B. church fellowship hall, 7:30 p.m. Decatur Home Demonstration Club, C. L. of C. Hall 1:30 p.m. FRIDAY The Golden Age Group of the Methodist Churcn, Mrs. Ivy Gilpen, 2 p.m. Locals Elias Caciano, Jr., son of Mr. and Mrs. Elias Caciano, Sr., 716 Meibers street, Decatur, left from Chicago by jet Friday morning for San Diego, Calif., to enroll at the aviation school of the U. S. Marine Corps. He is a 1963 graduate of Decatur Catholic high school. Mildred Miller underwent surgery for an injured knee at the Parkview hospital in Fort Wayne. Her room number is 548. Gerald Wayne Christener, son of Mr. and Mrs. Roger Christener. left Sunday morning to begin four weeks of boot training at the Great Lakes Naval training station at Chicago, Hl. He will leave for two years active duty following his graduation from Decatur high school next spring. Mrs. Martha E. Clem, formerly of Santa Cruz, Calif., has been visiting her nephew and family, Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Ahr, for the past week. The Ahrs entertained with a family supper Friday night. Those attending beside the honor guest were Mr. and Mrs. Tom Ahr, Stephanie and Rick of Fort Wayne, Mr. and Mrs. David Owens and Eric of Miami, Fla., and Dennis Ahr. Mrs. Clem will be visiting with her niece, Mrs. William Barber, for a few days before leaving for Rocky Hill, Conn. Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Arnold had as their dinner guests Mr. and Mrs. Donald Arnold, Erlande, Ky., Mr. and Mrs. Roger Schook, Ohio City, O. Terry Arnold, son of Mr. and Mrs. Donald Arnold is spending two weeks visiting his grandparents, the Floyd Arnolds.

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READY AND WAITING— Some of Decatur’s more anxious swimmers showed up early to wait in line for the opening of the swimming pool Thursday afternoon.—(Photo by Mac Lean). CHE STRAIGHT AND NARROW— Jim Hain, son of Mr. and Mrs. Simeon J. Hain, 206 Stratton Way, pauses for a moment before a dive into the Decatur swimming pool, which opened Thursday. — (Photo by Mac Lean)

Hospital Admitted Master Gary Koenemann, Hoagland: George Foor, Mrs. Maude Gilbert, Mrs. Gordon Cregg, and Lawrence Ehrsam, Decatur. Dismissed Amos Thieme, Mrs. Ronald Secaur and baby boy. Miss Nancy Roston; Decatur: Thomas Kiracofe, Wren, O; Miss Sharon Klinetob, Mrs. Joseph Heimann, Decatur; and Mrs. Lester Sheets, Monroe. Births Thomas W. and Janet Everhart Torson, 5616 Plaza Drive, Fort Wayhe, are the parents of twin baby boys born at 12:45 a.m. and 12:59 am. Saturday, weighing 7 pounds, 3 ounces and 7 <x»unds and 14 ounces respectively, born at Parkview hospital. Fort Wayne. A baby girl weighing 7 lbs, 6 oz., was born to Chester and Phyllis Mattax Smith at 12:15 a.m. today at .the Lutheran hospital in Fort Wayne. The grandparents are Mr. and Mrs. Louis Mattax and Mr. and Mrs. Alonzo Smith of Monroe. At the Adams county memorial hospital: Grover and Patrica Hartman Caudle of 934 Indiana, Decatur, became the parents -of a baby girl born Sunday at 5:23 a.m., and weighing 6 lbs., 8 oz. Gerald and Ada Wass Germman, of Fort Wayne, are the parents of a 6 lb., 12% oz., baby girl born at 1:05 p.m. Sunday. If you have something to sell or trade — use the Democrat Want ads — they get BIG results.

LAUNCH BATTLE (Continued from Page One) lack’s decision," he added, "I have been advised that the act is constitutional in every respect.” Welsh said it is “vital to the state's fiscal position as well as to the orderly transaction of business in Indiana that this issue be resolved immediately.” He said the decision jeopardizes the entire school system of the state’. Border Patrols Are Doubled By Reds BERLIN (UPI) — Communists doubled their border patrols and blocked at least two escape attempts on the 10th anniversary > today of the East German “bread and freedom” revolt, West Berlin police said. Extra border guard patrols were joined by East Berlin firemen with barbed wire and crowdcontrol hoses, apparently in fear of disorders on the anniversary of the June 17, 1953, uprising. The revolt was crushed by Soviet troops. > However, no East Berlin demonstrations were expected. One man was arrested shortly before midnight in an attempt to get over the anti-refugee wall into the French sector district of Wedding. A second man broke away as the Communist border guards approached and fled through a rail yard back into East Berlin. West Berlin police could not see if he, too, was ckptured. Bonfires burned on the EastWest border through the night as a symbol of solidarity and unity with East Germans.

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