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SUNDAY, MAY 21, 1978- HIE INDIANAPOLIS STAR SEC. 1-PAGE 23 '1 LIKE EVERYTHING ABOUT THE TRACK' May Is Vacation For This Race Fan J- V. "1 OA i I i 4 4 2. this place get bigger and better." In fact, Charlie takes the daily race reports over to "the tavern" where John and "a bunch of the guys" gather to hear the latest "before it's even in the paper." Charlie rolls the names of the drivers off his tongue. "I know A.J.

(Foyt), Rick Mears, Dick Simon, and I know the Unsers." "ON MY WAY to California I always stop in Albuquerque and say hello to Al and Bobby (Unser). I always helped make Ma Unser's chili, and I even poured the beer," he recalled. Although Ma Unser is dead, her sons maintain the tradition of making the chili for drivers and USAC officials sometime before the race each year. "I've gotta see Al or Bobby and find out when they're making it," Charlie suddenly remembered. "It'll be sometime this week." Asked about the people at the Speedway this year, Charlie said, "The crowd is more controlled this year.

They're much nicer than they have been," confirming what safety officials had been reporting to the media throughout the day. ii) 9L' mi jM "I US 'OH Charlie Jones is a pure racing fan. Forced to sit in his car during the 20-minute downpour at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway Saturday, the Ed-wardsport (Mich.) native talked about the subject he loves best. ve been coming here for 27 years," he said proudly. "I do sales work, but Ttake off the whole month of May and don't do nothin' else.

This is my vacation." THE FAN WITH the sun-reddened face, cowboy hat and boots, and stopwatches around the neck couldn't contain his enthusiasm for the track. i know a lot of the drivers, a lot of the owners," he said. "I even knew Tony Hulman." Pulling out a yellow envelope, Charlie displayed his garage pass and Speedway badge which he's been getting for years from race drivers and racing officials he's known. The credentials give him access to areas of the track off limits to the general public. "I like everything about the track," he said.

"The cars and the drivers. And the biggest show is the people." Although his station wagon carries Michigan license plates, he said, "actually I didn't come here from Michigan at all. I spend my winters in California and then I come straight here in May. I work when I want to." CHARLIE ARRIVED May 3 and has been staying at a motel at Speedway. But he's out at the track when it opens every morning, and he said he goes to the coffee house and eats breakfast with some of the drivers and their mechanics.

Then he sets up camp somewhere along the track and spends the day. Usually he chooses a spot somewhere near United States Auto Club observer Walter Loucks. with whom he struck up a conversation one day and has been friends with ever since. Because Charlie uses a cane to get around, Loucks started bringing him drinks and hot dogs, and they became acquainted fast. "We're such good friends and he helps me a lot, so I usually sit where he is," Charlie explained.

Often he is accompanied by John Hughes, 53, a Speedway resident he met several years back in a bar one evening, and who was with him Saturday. John has been coming to the qualifications and race since the end of World War II, but he said, "1 don't come here as much as he (Charlie) does." THROUGH THE YEARS, Charlie also has met people from Ohio, Florida, New York and Pennsylvania. They keep up their correspondence and try to arrange get-togethers at the Speedway in May. Yet even those racing fan friends aren't enough for Charlie, and he tries to convert others to the faith. "I'm trying to make racing fans out of all the people back East," he said.

"A lot of them have never even seen a race, except on TV" To excite their interest, he sends them daily newspaper clippings and Speedway reports complete with personal Jottings. "I love the race," he said. "I'd like to see I 'if 1 Traffic had flowed smoothly both in and out of the Speedway. Officials had estimated the crowd at 120,000, and there were no reports of trouble or rowdiness as in the past Even the notorious "snake pit" inside the first turn was calm. "I'LL SAY A lot of the people come for the picnic," Charlie speculated.

"A lot of them don't even see a car run." About the only complaint he makes concerns the motorcyclists who race their vehicles between the rows of cars. "I think they should not allow the motorcycles in the place. If they let 'em in, they should have a place to park them and then leave them there," he said. But Charlie isn't one to complain, and if he does it isn't for long. The brief shower had ended and the sun was coming out again, and he was all ready to renew his vigil along the backstretch.

Mary Wade fimm it CHARLIE JONES (RIGHT) WITH FRIEND JOHN HUGHES Ready To Use Stopwatch At "500" Trials BETTING FUTURE ON ROLL OF DICE? New High-Stakes Game Coming To Town; Is Atlantic City Ready? the entire nation is wondering if the proud, old Boardwalk of the rolling chairs will become an extension of the garish Las Vegas strip. THE RESORTS International casino-hotel, which used profits from its Bahamas casino to lead a four-year fight to legalize gaming in New Jersey, said Saturday that everything is ready to roll for a grand opening Friday. Late last week, Gov. Brendan T. Byrne looked the place over, peered into the innards of a slot machine and pronounced it as fine a casino as he ever had seen.

The state Casino Control Commission will hold several meetings before issuing a certificate of operation to Resorts International, but that is expected to come before the end of the week. "IF EVERYTHING is in order, it will be issued Thursday," said Benjamin A. Borowsky, spokesman for the commission. "We are ready to open," said James M. Crosby, chairman of the board of Resorts International.

But is Atlantic City ready? In many respects, the dowager queen of Atlantic coast resorts seemed as jittery as an old maid about to take a husband. With 60 million people just a tank of gas away as Crosby likes to point out police were wondering how to handle a mob that some say could reach as many as 400,000 over this Memorial Day weekend. New Jersey state police may simply close off the town. COL. CLINTON L.

Pagano, head of the state police, said last week that Atlantic City could handle about 110,000 people. If the crowd grows larger than that, and traffic comes to a standstill, he has a contingency plan to close off the highways and divert visitors elsewhere. Once cars get into town, there are few places to park. Public transportation is Sneva Continued From Page 1 L'SAC technical boss Jack Beckley, Foyt was informed that the valve was, indeed, in perfect shape. Chief Steward Tom Binford then told Super Tex that he'd have to go to the back of the qualifying line with one strike (you get three) against his Gilmore Special.

"I did it myself, I Just goofed," explained A.J., who'll be shooting for one of the remaining 13 positions in Sunday's final six hours of qualifying. ANOTHER FAVORITE missing from the front of the field is Mario Andretti, but he was assured a starting spot, thanks to the efforts of Mike Hiss. While Andretti was in Belgium winning the pole for today's Formula One race, Hiss was putting his Penske-Cosworth in the middle of the third row with an average speed of 194.647 mph. Mario, whose lap of 203 482 was the quickest practice go-around of the month, will be back to run in his 14th tndy show but because he didn't qualify the car himself, he'll have to start in 33rd position. And Hiss, the 1972 rookie-of-the-year, will be a spectator.

PAST WINNERS Johnny Rutherford, Al Unser and Gordon Johncock comprise the second row as the V-8 motors occupy five of the first six spots. Rutherford, a two-time Indy victor who practiced at 201 839 in his number one McLaren-Cosworth, opted for his backup yesterday morning and was "greatly disappointed" with his four-lap average of 197.098. Even though he hot-lapped at 201-plus, R. could get a top circuit of only 199.778 out of his First National Travelers Checks Special. Al Unser, who survived a grinding crash last month at Texas, rebounded with a nice drive of 196 474 in Jim Hall's Lola-Cosworth to take the center of the second row.

JOHNCOCK, WHO was leading last FBI Continued From Page 1 with immunity, in an earlier gambling trial. Some of this information now has surfaced quietly in a behind-the-scenes FBI controversy reportedly centered on Special Agent Charles E. Egger. EGGER HAS HIRED a lawyer in the wake of a series of events apparently related to his efforts to investigate "protection" for the gambling rackets under a federal law which has a 10-year statute of limitations and therefore would allow past FBI evidence to be used. However, sources said Egger was transferred from the organized-crime squad, suspended, and now has been transferred to Chicago, because of the gambling investigation or matters related to it.

With Egger and his attorney clamming up and government officials wary of more than abbreviated comment in the face of a volatile situation, only pieces of the complicated situation can be ascer Hotrod Pooch Runs Lincoln Off Road Horicon, Wis. (AP) Police shook their heads, took a paw print and filed their accident report. Puddins, a poodle owned by Kathryn Washchow, was the only occupant of a 1977 Lincoln Continental that backed down the main street here, jumped a curb and struck a restaurant. Mrs. Washchow said she left the car, with the engine running, in front of a bar she and her husband operate while she unloaded groceries.

Since the poodle didn't have a driver's license, police had the dog affix his paw print to the bottom of the accident report for identification. Larry Dickson will move from the inside of the fourth to the outside of the third. LIGHTIN LARRY, USAC's winning-est sprint shoe, brought a smile to owner Russ Polak with an average of 193.434 mph in his Penske-Cosworth. Dick Simon and Roger McCluskey fill out the fourth row. Simon, after grazing the wall in practice, came back to post a 192.967 in Rolla Vollstedt's machine, while Mr.

McCluskey made his 17th Indy lineup on a 192.256 reading in his AMC-powered Spirit. Teammates Sheldon Kinser and Tom Bagley are sandwiched around steady Steve Krisiloff in row five. Kinser, the '77 USAC sprint champ, got 192.051 out of A.J. Watson's and Gordon Barrett's latest creation. Krisiloff put Bignotti's other Wildcat in at 191.255, and Bagley, at 190.941 in his Kent Oil Eagle, became only the second rookie in the program.

JANET GUTHRIE, without much fanfare, did another smooth job and made her second straight Indianapolis lineup with a run of 190.325 in her Texaco Wildcat-Offy. Joining her in the sixth row are teammates Spike Gelhausen and John Mahler Tom Bigelow accepted the day's slowest speed at 189.115 for the 19th starting spot, but because he was in the original "first-day line," he's still ahead of two-time winner Bobby Unser on the grid. Unser, who passed up a chance to be the 10th man out because he wanted to go with Dan Gurney's new Eagle, turned in a 194.658 average but because he was at the break in the qualifying line he's in the middle of the seventh row instead of the middle of the fourth row. Rain interrupted the action for about 90 minutes late in the afternoon and Bobby U. was the only qualifier to get in before the moisture closed the track for good at 5:30 p.m.

gambling club in the old Antlers Hotel which was smashed by the FBI in 1969. In fact, Naum had coordinated that investigation, Boalbey testified for the government, and The Star last year claimed Mitchell played a previously secret behind-the-scenes role in the club. Green was quoted in the information as having claimed that top political officials had given the "green light" for gambling activities. IN ADDITION, other information was provided about Mitchell, several local union officials, Mitchell's friendship with Boalbey, and another Teamsters business agent, William T. Roberts, who has strong police connections.

Although the information was a mixture of first-hand knowledge and hearsay, the FBI deemed it worthy of investigation and a proposal was made to the Department of Justice in Washington. It was turned down, to the chagrin of the FBI, and the matter was dropped. Some agents were aware that Green in 1971 reportedly had asked Bulen to intercede with Mr. Nixon in Hoffa's behalf during a concerted union effort to have the imprisoned union leader paroled or pardoned. Hoffa was in prison at the time for jury-tampering.

In late 1971 he received executive clemency from President Nixon, but with the provision that he could not re-enter union affairs until 1980. Hoffa, however, was becoming increasingly noticeable in union influence when he disappeared from a Detroit suburb in 1975. Authorities believe he was murdered. WHILE GREEN previously acknowledged friendship with Mitchell and Boalbey, he denied any impropriety, and Mitchell and Boalbey both have refused to talk to reporters. In 1974, Naum coordinated an investigation of police corruption triggered by allegations in The Star, but no federal prosecutions ensued and most of the material developed by federal agents was turned over to the Marion County prosecutor's office, with Noble R.

Pearcy, a Republican, prosecutor at the time. In the meantime, sheriff's detectives had started an Investigation of the allegations on Green, the Teamsters and Mitchell, and developed a series of interviews which also were turned over to the prosecutor's office. IRONICALLY, most of those statements obtained by the sheriff, it has been learned authoritatively, then were given to the FBI, where they were filed once again. limited mostly to buses from New York and Philadelphia. While some commercial airlines are planning regular flights, only an Allegheny shuttle to Philadelphia is presently in service.

IN THE BACKGROUND, the Mafia also waited a bit nervously, knowing that the FBI, state police other investigatory agencies were on the watch. During the myriad public hearings held by various agencies, it was warned that the mob was itching to get its tentacles into the support services such as linen, cigarettes and food. The State Commission of Investigation warned that Mafia dons in New York and Philadelphia already were making their moves. Angelo Bruno, the chieftain for eastern Pennsylvania and southern New Jersey, told an SCI agent he did not want to own casinos he wanted to supply them. MEANWHILE, back at the casino, specially invited guests have been gambling with play money during dry runs of the opening.

Friday night, they started pulling the handles of the 1,200 slot machines with real money. There will be only one casino operating in the first year under rules which allow gambling on a highly restricted basis. It won't be a Las Vegas East yet, nor will it be a Monte Carlo. Instead, hotels with at least 500 rooms may run a casino in a section set apart from the rest of their operations. THERE WILL BE leggy showgirls on the chorus line, but no bare breasts, according to the commission's rules.

Another distinguishing feature will be no drinks on the floor of the casino. An unemployment rate of 26 percent, its urban center crumbling and businesses fleeing the city, casino gambling was approved in a referendum as the last hope for Atlantic City. Now, it's only a wait-and-see situation. 5mm 7mm Reg. Sale Reg.

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60. 95.. 76. Qualifying Lineup 1. Al Loquasto, No.

86. 2. Jerry Sneva, No. 30. 3.

No driver, No. 77T. 4. Jerry Karl, No. 88.

5. Larry Rice, No. 35. 6. Phil Threshie, No.

47. 7. Bill Puterbaugh, No. 27. 8.

Graham McRae, No. 34. 9. Jimmy McElreath, No. 26.

10. No driver, No. 7T. 11. No driver, No.

14T. 12. Larry Cannon, No. 85. 13.

A.J. Foyt, No. 14. 14. George Snider, No.

84. 15. Gary Irvin, No. 92. 16.

Gary Bcttenhausen, No. 98. 17. Bill Vukovich, No. 93.

18. Joe Saldana, No. 69. 19. Bubby Jones, No.

18. 20. Roger Rager, No. 97. 21.

Bobby Olivero, No. 78. 22. Cliff Hucul, No. 29.

23. Bob Harkey, No. 42. 24. Salt Walther, No.

77. 25. Pancho Carter, No. 8. 26.

John Martin, No. 28. year's race before breaking eight laps from the finish, was first in his class by putting George Bignotti's 4-cylindcr Wild-cat-DGS on Unser's right flank with a 195 883 clocking. On the third tier are Wally Dallen-bach, Hiss and Johnny Parsons for the time being. Dallenbach gave Jerry O'Connell's McLaren-Cosworth a good 195.228 ride, and Parsons, who practiced at more than 200 mph yesterday morning, put Lindsey Hopkins' Lightning-Offy solidly in the show at 194.280.

When it's officially announced that Andretti is replacing Hiss, Parsons will move into the middle of that row and tained. But at some central point is the role of Morris Mitchell, a former bondsman who was identified last year by The Star as a reputed organized-crime contact man in Indianapolis at the same time he functioned as a confidant of Bulen, former Marion County GOP chairman and powerful national committeeman for the state at one time. THESE DEVELOPMENTS were learned from authoritative sources: Approximately in October 1973, a Teamsters employee gave Special Agent Dean G. Naum of the organized-crime squad a detailed description of Green's alleged involvement in the operation of several massage parlors. Green, who is prominent in GOP politics, has denied the allegations.

The statement to the FBI also contained a variety of other information, including descriptions of the friendship between Green, Mitchell, and Boalbey. Boalbey's forte is poker games and he was one of those reponsible for the "I feel that I have been vindicated because even Sen. Dennis DeConcini, who saw fit to vote against me, said he found no basis for the accusations." THE ARIZONA Democrat was the only dissenter when the Judiciary Committee voted 13-1 in Washington last Tuesday. Afterward, the senator, who headed the committee inquiry into charges involving Collins, said only that he felt Collins was not qualified. The Senate confirmed his nomination the next day and Collins heard about it on an evening television newscast.

Like all federal judges, his appointment is for life. It is a long way from his days as a lawyer on the civil rights legal front. Collins, a father of four, Is pleased by his special status as the first in the South. "When my name was first submitted the news stories said I would be the first black (federal) judge in the South since Reconstruction," he said. checked that with historians.

They told me there are none in the records, and if there had been one there is no doubt he would have been in the history books. I am the first." Atlantic City, N.J. (UPI) Several generations of Americans learned at a young age that Boardwalk and Park Place can turn big bucks, depending on the roll of the dice. But surely Charles B. Darrow never envisioned that the legal tender of international high rollers would replace the play money of children when he invented the game of Monopoly back in 1930 and used the names of streets in this fading resort by the sea.

NONETHELESS, the real people who live and work and invest in places with Monopoly names are betting their futures on a roll of the dice. A new game is coming to town this week and the stakes are high. Sorry, no children allowed. In an unusual social and economic experiment, the roulette wheels are expected to start spinning Friday at a spiffy $50-million casino-hotel, a reincarnation of the distinguished old Chalfonte-Haddon Hall Hotel. Casino gambling is moving east and Deadline Extended Washington (AP) The Treasury Department is extending Monday's deadline for public comment on its proposed firearms regulations.

The department said Friday it wanted to give people a greater opportunity to express their views "because of the high volume of comments received and great public interest in the proposals." It said it already has received more than 150,000 written comments and decided to accept additional reaction through June 30. Secret memoranda examined by The Star shows that the statements collected by the sheriff were shipped to Naum by Leroy K. New, chief trial deputy for Pearcy, who, at the same time, was acting as attorney for Teamsters Local 193. Although the police probe was dropped, federal authorities branched into an investigation of package liquor permits which focused on Bulen and his law firm, and Naum coordinated the investigation. As part of the probe, investigators learned that one permit under investigation which went to a Bulen client first was issued to a woman later identified as Green's mother.

And records of several permits issued to Mitchell or his friends and relatives also were examined by a grand jury. THE END RESULTS were fraud indictments against three partners in the Bulen law firm and a liquor store owner which since have been dismissed and reinstated. According to knowledgeable sources, the current controversy in which Egger is embroiled centers in some way on a statement from another informant, provided in 1974, which made several allegations against Boalbey, provided other general intelligence on organized crime and gambling, and reportedly characterized Morris Mitchell as the gambling "godfather." Part of that information, though with no mention of Mitchell, was turned over to the prosecutor's office as part of the police probe, it was learned. SOURCES NOW SAY Mitchell was a paid informant for the bureau. Yet the information about Mitchell and the others came from a former gambler who claimed to have inside information, and he ascribed to Boalbey an increasingly large role in the gambling rackets.

Regular weekly appearances of Boa! bey and Roberts together at local auto dealerships also were revealed, but the purpose of these visits was unknown, it has been learned. Naum recently was cleared by the Department of Justice of any impropriety in testifying as a character witness for a vice squad lieutenant, on trial for brib ery, whom Naum previously investigated. Egger worked for a time on the organized crime squad but was removed dur ing a gambling investigation that was reassigned to others. FBI officials have declined to confirm reports of Egger's transfer, disciplinary action and other bureau matters. First Black U.S.

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44. Hers His New Orleans (AP) A man who once crawled through a cornfield to escape police who used tear gas grenades to break up a civil rights rally has been named the first black U.S. District Court judge in the South. This niche in history for Robert F. Collins, 46, didn't come easy.

Now a magistrate for the state Criminal District Court, his bid for a federal judgeship survived accusations that he was paid to supply votes or plied with prostitutes. CLYDE VIDRINE, a former aide to Louisiana Gov. Edwin Edwards, said he told FBI agents that he delivered (40,000 to Collins and other black political leaders "to buy votes" in Edwards' 1971 campaign. All involved have denied the charges. The New Orleans States-Item reported that the FBI was also investigating allegations from an unnamed prostitute and a lawyer's former secretary that Collins was provided prostitutes In return for favors from the bench.

Collins said the accusations, which led to a full investigation of his background and qualifications vfor the Senate Judiciary Committee, were a racist attack. Regular and budget accounts. American Express, Master Charge, Visa. (Illustrations enlarged.) 514 78 Say it with a Rost box. Downtown, N.

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