European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 23, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Pago 4 the stars of id  bookies offer Beffer Odds state lotteries tabbed a bad bet Washington m i slate lotteries Are a bad bet. Says a professor who directed a federally funded study of Gam bling. The local by okie or numbers runner can offer you better Odds for winning the study showed. In a report issued sunday Robert Blakey of Cornell University said slate gambling operations pay out Only a Small share of the total betting Revenue m prizes to winners because states use the games to make Money for government sen ices. Illegal gambling operations pay a much higher proportion of the take to winners. Blakey reported. Apart from the question of legality or morality no one but a foul would Gamble with state run  he wrote if the state is willing to forego its Revenue raising objective then perhaps state Lotte Ries or books making could compete on unequal basis with to illegal numbers  and bookmaking. But the numbers operators and bookies who Don t worry about taxes can always give customers better  the report was issued by the Law enforcement assistance administration which financed the two year study with $75.805. The 934-Page report traces the his tory of gambling and the Laws regulating it from the 1 he Century to the  the past 14 years the i United slates dipping into the show Cones Rebecca rider and Unda Lander Dis cover a new game taking turns tasting each other s Snow comes to compare the flavors. The playmates Are enjoying the Cool and tasty thirst quenchers on Ahot Day in Austin Tex. Uf1 photo retired Gen. Walker fined $1,000 Dallas up ultraconservative activist Edwin a. Walker former command ing general of the 24th inf div in Germany and onetime candidate for governor of Texas has been convicted of Public lewd Ness for pro positioning a policeman in a Park rest room. He was fined $1,000 and placed on Proba Tion for one year. Walker an orator and author on behalf of extreme right Wing political causes pleaded no contest to one of two mis Demea nor Public lewdness charges. Judge  Entz of county criminal court no. 4 accepted the plea found Walker guilty ordered the Fine and sentenced him to 30 Days in jail but suspended the sentence and put him on probation for a year. Walker was convicted for the first Inci Dent of lewdness last tuesday but the Case escaped Public attention until late last week. Walker. 67. Wai arrested june 23, 1976. By a plainclothes Park patrol officer in the men s restroom of a City Park. The officer said Walker made sexual advances to him. Walker was arrested a second time for Public lewdness on March 16 this year at another City Park. A second plainclothes officer said Walker made comments with suggestive sexual overtones to him in the men s rest room. The Case has not come to  punishment for a Public lewd Ness conviction is a year in jail and a $2,000fine. Entz said Walker s punishment was in line with the state s recommendation. Walker s Green 19th Century style Man Sion Here sits behind a Large billboard bearing political slogans which Are changed every few months. Jimmie Rodgers sex wife Dies Granada Hills Calif. Up the Coroner s office sunday was investigating the death of Colleen dodgers 40. Former wife of Folk Singer Jimmie Rodgers who died in route to a Hospital after falling unconscious at her Home. Authorities said Rodgers who was divorced from the Singer in 1970 after a 13-year marriage was found unconscious at her House Friday by her 13-year-old son.  was pronounced dead on arrival at Granada Hills  s officials said cause of death was not immediately known but that she had a history of an ailment that had once caused her a serious fall and resulted in a fractured spine investigators said the woman s death May have been from natural causes Walker once emblazoned a Star spangled message saying Sodom gomorrah or Wallace his Way of comparing the 1972 democratic and Republican presiden tial candidates to the biblical cities of sin and corruption while urging support of Al Obama gov. George Wallace. Walker entered the National political Rena in april 1961. When he was pressured into resigning As commander of the 24th inf div in Germany. He resigned rather than obey orders to cease political involve ment and for alleged political indoctrination of . Soldiers in Germany. In the past several years. Walker has toned Down his firebrand oratory but he maintains a recorded Telephone message for communication with his conservative admirers. He occasionally sends cryptic letters to reporters often containing references to the 1983 Dallas assassination of president John f. Kennedy. He ran for governor of Texas in 1982 but lost. China Mission Down under Canberra Ltd _ a 10-Man Good will Trade Mission from China has arrived in Australia. The Mission will slay there 10days, Neville Blyton president of the Australia China business cooperation com Mittee said. Has been experimenting with Legal state operated lotteries As a Means of raising stale revenues while avoiding tax increases. The 1.1 staus now operating lotteries an new Hampshire. Connecticut Dela Ware Illinois Maine. Maryland. Massa Shii Zeits. Michigan. New Jersey new Yirk. Ohio. Pennsylvania and Rhode Bland the report said. For several decades Many states have permitted parimutuel betting at race track which the slates lax and regulate new York City and several other areas in new York state also operate off track bet Ting corporations All forms of gambling have been Legal in Nevada since 1931. And the slate regulates gambling operations but runs none of its own. And new Jersey plans to allow Casi nos to open soon in Atlantic City. Discussing state lotteries. Blakey said although bettors win lottery prizes on occasion the Only entity which consistently wins is the state. It wagers nothing but sets the rules of the game. Compared to other forms of gambling the slate lottery pays out in winnings Only a Small portion of the total  he said sports bookmakers generally pay out 95 5 cents on the Dollar Slot machines. 75 cents to 95 cents and numbers games. 60 cents to 70  those forms of gambling arc illegal in most places. The stale lotteries by statute pay Only about 40 cents to 45 cents into the prize fund for every Dollar wagered the report said. Llla key concluded that lotteries Are an undesirable form of taxes and an inefficient Way for states to raise Money. In  the report said persons in lower income groups have the most incentive to Purchase lottery tickets. Lead ing routine lives for Lack of Money they derive comparatively More Benefit from the lottery s excitement and potential prof its than do the affluent. Although contrary evidence exists it appears that Many of those who play the lottery Are those who can least afford  in addition the lottery May be an uneconomical Way to raise Revenue because its profits Are so unpredictable the report said. Connecticut for example ran up a f8.5 million deficit in 1972 because lottery prof its were not As High As officials had anticipated the report said. Noting the trend toward legalized Gam bling. Blakey said the nation seems to be heading for the worst of both worlds. Illegal gambling will flourish in a Twilight zone Between formal prohibition and half hearted enforcement by its Side there will develop Legal games first lotteries then off track betting Al Nally perhaps state run or at least state regulated casinos. Gambling policy will have changed in a Hope to increase lax revenues and Reform Law enforcement comparatively Little income will endure and the corruption and inefficiency of Law enforcement and the obstruction of the courts will  Best Sellers fiction of Toner Jon  Mcvary enc feg to Tara off a me a do Jerrt Thorn Birds   Jonn mco0ion  to tort Ludlam Tennity lean urn  Sunn h0uho to s4, c Faitro it  or