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MENUS PLANNED FOR BASIC HEALTH REQUIREMENTS, will be the opening presentation Wednesday at Century's new Five Towns Theater, Woodmere, L. L. PLEASING VARIETY AND WISE MARKETING By ALICE PETERSEN BREAKFAST LUNCH OR SUPPER DINNER i FRIDAY By ROBERT SYLVESTER TODAY'S CROSSWORD ANSWER Cream of Tomato Soup Hard Rolls Olives Pound Cake Milk Apple Juice Ready-to-eat Puffed Cereal Three-minute Eggs Whole Wheat Toast Marmalade Coffee Tea Milk Shrimp Curry -Fluffy Rice, -Green Peas Chinese Cole Slaw Quick White Bread Prune Whip Coffee Tea Milk 'A Wanna Bet? Well, here we go again. Offtrack betting. It will be offtrack betting that will bring the city a hundred and fifty million dollars a minute or is it a hundred and fifty billion? and soon the city will be so rich well be eating strawberries jnd cream in the winter and the mayor will be able to cut his salary, welfare costs will go down and, generally speaking, it will be Christmas every day.

All because of offtrack betting. Abe Beame even brine up that stale old question, "Why is it legal to bet on one side SATURDAY Salami Sandwiches on Rye Bread Sweet Pickle3 Tangerines Milk- Ham and Mushroom Noodle Casserole Harvard Beets Pea Onion Salad Pineapple Cheesecake Coffee Tea Milk nf a fence and not on the other? You re right on the beam, Beame. Now tell me why it is legal to play dice in Nevada and not, say, in Vermont. And why should there be open gambling, in a resort like I'uerto Rico (under American 'to make V-HERE (Puzzle on page 62) HOTELS A RESTAURANTS Grape Juice Ready-to-eat Rice Cereal Crisp Bacon Toast Apple Butter Coffee Tea Milk Bananas Ready-to-eat Glazed Cereal Scrambled Eggs Danish Pastry Coffee Tea Milk Cranberry Juice Cooked Oatmeal French Toast Hot Syrup Coffee Tea Milk protection) and not at a resort called Miami Beach in the State of Florida? Or why, for years, did the state allow gambling at Saratoga and not in Greenwich Villa ere. for instance? However, these are not the rai questions.

Here are a few I would like to hear the mayor and Beame expound upon: 1. Why. when Gov, Rockefeller s-nt two junketeering and faithful Republicans on what amounted to a tour of the world "study" offtrack betting, did they come home and hardly have anything at all to say on the subject? 2. Why did the gimmick fail in Europe? 3. If we are going' to have offtrack betting parlors for the davtime flat races, surely we SUNDAY Spaghetti with Tomato Sauce Italian Bread Tossed Green Salad Canned Plums Coffee Tea Milk MONDAY Tuna Sandwiches on White Toast Mixed Pickles Baked Custard Milk TUESDAY Clam Chowder Rusks Carrot Stick3 Brownies Milk WEDNESDAY Pizza Olives Pears Milk Fried Chicken Candied Yams Italian Beans Orange Onion Salad Fudge Sundae Coffee Tea Milk Grilled Hamburgers French Fries Buttered Cauliflower Tossed Green Salad Cottage Pudding Coffee Tea Milk Braised Pork Chops Frenched Green Beans Fried Apples Lemon Chiffon Pie Coffee Tea Milk Knockwurst Baked Beans Broccoli Crisp Cole Slaw Walnut Roll Coffee Tea Milk Veal Stew with Potatoes, Onions, Carrots, Peas Tossed Green Salad cannot deny the same blessing to the night-time trotters, which race Cooked Prune3 Instant Wheat Cereal Frizzled Bologna Coffee Cake Coffee Tea Milk Halved Grapefruit Shredded Wheat Scrambled Eggs Toast Strawberry Jam Coffee Tea Milk practically all year.

Shall we have 12 noon to 1 a.m. betting parlors? That means about three sets of mutuel clerks. 4. To be a real betting parlor, will a city establishment also take bets on out-of-town tracks and out-of-town trotters? How big a betting hall will be needed? he armories? 5. Has anybody at City Hall disgraced himself far enough to talk to any veteran bookmaker? No? I'll tell you what they say.

The say that if you don't wire the play back to the racetrack, the bookmakers and high players will bankrupt you in a month if you THURSDAY Sardine Sandwiches on Pumpemickle Sliced Tomatoes Coconut Pudding Milk Orange Juice Ready-to-eat Corn Cereal Fried Scrapple Maple Syrup try to lay our own betting parlor odds. There is more Pineapple Upside-Down 6. If you do wire the take bark to the racetrack mntuel machines, hat is to stop the. state from taking its cut off the top and the track bugar Buns Coffee Tea Milk Recipe will appear doing the same, and then where will the city millions come from? Coffee Tea Milk on day indicated. in The News 7.

You are not going to give credit, you say. Show me a street better who dtiesn't operate on credit and I'll make peace with Mao Recipes for Pineapple Fruit Cup, Pear Crisp, Raspberry Tarti and 23 other personally. And if yon don't give credit, the losers will lust walk dishes make up the leaflet, rruit Desserts, tor your copy, send a stamped, self down to the corner and find a bookie who is not going to pay a dime addressed envelope with the name of the leaflet written on the inside flap to the to the city. HJUU UI1IUK. THE HtWb, T.O.

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Their purses come, generally, from admission money. If anybody needs to go to the track to bet horses, where are the admissions? The Horse Meyerson Quits State II Buffalo, Jan. 28 (AP). Martin Meyerson resigned today as president of the' State University at Buffalo to become president of the University of Pennsylvania. He will succeed Gaylord Harnwell, who will retire in September.

men Benevolent Protective Association is mad enough at manage ment already to have pulled two strikes. There are horse tracks all over America. Why should they stay in New York and race for peanuts? 9. What makes yon think the State of New York will agree to lose its multimillion-dollar income from the flat tracks and the trot trr through diminished racetrack attendance and betting which will result from all those mobs of New York City gamblers using the HOTELS REST AU RANTS Drop Anchor Tonight at the city bnokmaking shops? 10. Since the big tax-producing racetracks are either within city limits or at least within county limits, why not just scream and holler for a bigger slice of the money they send to Albany? The city Mermaid deserves it a damned sight more than the state does.

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