The Bridgeport Telegram from Bridgeport, Connecticut • Page 20

Expert Predicts City-Run Betting Success in N.Y. fue'sc wiiard of predicted bling will he dealt a knockdown blow by the city's offtrscfc betting program. "Then you can really Jnpck their heed off by moving Into sports betting generally, and putting out parlay cards on basketball "end football," ihe )ai6wn Nevada price maker told a neira' conference of the New York City Off-Track Betting Corp. With Howard Samuels, president, of the corporation, sitting at his elhnw, Snyder said off-track betting, would stimulate interest in' horse racing and contrary to. the bclirf of.

the track's. multiply their business manv fold. going, to bet with a bookie when you can get better edd's with the city?" he sair. think the track people-are' crazy to this project. 'They'll, grow Suit' Pending The harness tracks a suit pending which chai'e'nges' offtfatk betting, Siiyder, who has became a national institution as oddsmoker for sporting contests ahd' political races, was summoned io New York- by'Samiie's to lend Eoine of "his know-how" to the.

city's off'track' betting opera-' tions, scheduled to begin early" next year. "We want the best brains, we can' get," sad Samuels, a 51-year-old miliionairB and unsuccessful candidate for governor in this year's' Democratic primary; Samuels announced that hoped to have the first four Or five-batting' parlors in operation on Jan. one at Grand Central Statimv others In Queens and Brooklyn. 'After thai, his aim is to. open six to eight sites' a month.

"Wc don't expect to make anything the first year," Samuels said. "We hope to be making -perhaps SIM million "by the second year." Only horse betting is permitted the city under the current plan. A state 'Constitutional amendment would' be necessary to get the city info the business of taking bets on football and basketball games. This could require as much as three years, "We have two aims," said Samuels. "We want to enlarge our operations" tn include all sports betting.

And we want a change in the rederal code which would eliminate taxes on gambling gains. This is a double tax. No where else in France, England or do they have this tax'." It's estimated that as much as billion is bet yearly on racing and 'spDl-t5 events. Three of every four dollrs is said to be bet on sports even's other than the horses. "It has to succee'd," Snyder said 'of the offtrack betting pro Lone Gunman Hijacks Arab Airliner With 14 BEIRUT, Lebanon "(AP) A lone gunman Tuesday hijacked a Saudi Arabian airliner carrying 10 passengers and fmiT crew members to Damascus while an a flight from Amman.

Jordan, to Saudi Arabia, Itadio Damascus reported. hijacker, who was not Identified, was detained in Damascus for questioning, while the plane and the passengers were allowed to conu'nue to Saudi Arabia, two. hours and 15 minutes later, the radio said- the' broadcast quoted the director general of civil aviation in Syria as. saying that the pilot on orders from the had Damascus airport he was making an emergency landing. Only after the plane landed, in Damascus il become known that a hijack was involved, the radio said.

It said the plane, a DC3, was hijacked half an hour after taking off from' Amman airport. A Jordanian' official said Hie passengers were six Jordanians, and four Saudi Arabians. ject; I flsure lt Will cost rail-lion, a year to-operate. That's a That means you would'only have to do 56M.00O a day's business a profit. In this city.

of 10. million to. 15 million, it should be many times that." Snvder is a daoner public re- lalitfns who figures odds largely as has no link, he insists, with bookies and gamblers. "I didn't know gamhling was illegal until I was 25," he said "Then I quit." He is in his mid-405. Snyder' saiti people would BRIDGEPORT TELEGRAWT, 'WEDNESDAY, 1970 start' (looking to the parlors once they realize they can just step In and make a bet.

exposure wijl be tremendous," he added. "It looked bad for pro football first. Then will be the same for facing. "More people will go to the tracks because they will come to enjoy the sport. They will make legal bets because thsy: can get better odds.

The bookis pro But give only 16-1. In a legal came along and they boomed. 11' bet, you may get 50-1 or ItH-l." Vatican Announces Common Market Ties VATICAN, "CITY. (AP) The Vatican announced Thursday that it is estahlshing diplomatic relations The Holy See named Archbishop' -Itino or ambassador, to the-comm-uhi- an -Italian. prelate now stationed ty, which comprises the' markel, jn Brussels, will be entile-Coak and Steel- Community voy to the community and.ob-and atomic en- servet' at the council.

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