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DAILY NEWS, Los Aigiln TUESDAY, NOV. 1T54 am JAa. A hhaIm Pit. Hlque-for -theLos-Angelw- Exchange. Club tomorrow noon the Biltmore Hotel.

DEMONSTRATE' Navy artist Arthur Beaumont will demonstrate his painting tech- -f lony gave up tools for gambling Modernization seen as widespread need Hospital overcrowding Is a national problem, but Its solution does not necessarily depend upon the construction of new hospitals, the dean of the Albert Einstein College of Medicine In New York said yesterday Dean Marcus D. KogeL who heads the first Jewish sponsored Institution of Its kind In the United States, said modernization ffl omanse A fond memory of many local residents is the gambling ship Rex, which, during the 1930s, was anchored Long Beach. A person so inclined boarded a powerful speedboat on a pier and roared out to tea. Gaiety reigned, even on rough nights when apray dashed against the speedboat's canvas-covered sides. And It was always a thrill to approach the Rex, outlined In lights against the night, visible thus from the shore.

When you came alongside, a husky, young man helped you aboard and up some steps and suddenly, you were inside an immense, brilliantly lighted room full of craps, blackjack, roulette and chuckaluck tables. There was an air of wicked, illicit adventure about the trip, win or lose. After all gambling was considered naughty shoreside, the race tracks i JTK Six authors honor guests Six authors will be guests of honor at the annual Harvest Book Breakfast 1 Nov. 17 for the staff of the county library and its branches. County Librarian John D.

Henderson said yesterday. The authors are Arthur Marx, Tony La Vler, Richard Haydn, Mrs. Helen Doss, Flora Gregg Illff and Charlotte The breakfast will be held In the Terrace Room of the Hote Statler. DAILY'THRU DELTA-CAS AIR LINIS NATIONAL AIRLINES COOPERATION WITH INC. AMERICAN AIRLINES fOR KURVATIONI fkmt MAdisee 4-3911 af jm kwvwl mgml Announcing the an notwithstanding.

Baildes, the owner of the Rex and later the more luxurious Lux was a man named Tony Cornero Stralla. The word wis that Tony was a bad boy. Ills name somehow evoked vague underworld association. Times change. The gambling boats were ordered off the Long Beach seascape.

Tony, who very sharp legally, thought th ruling was full of holes but he went along. -Its foolish to flgh a trend, he says. In tho Intervening Tony has operate a fleet of ships carrying cargo to and from South America and the Orient Today Tony Is ths head of group building the Stardust which when It opens. In April will be one of the biggest, most palatial hotel-casinos on the famous Las Vegas Strip. It wil have 1032 rooms, parking for 2500 cars, but its gambling room will be the same size as those of other Strip casinos with only 250 rooms.

"Now either. Im crazy or they are, says Tony, but the way analyze It, the time has come for Las Vegas to settle down to reality. The black and grey market money. If there ever was any, gone. There are still quite a few people who can afford to blow $1000 or -more and no one blames the other boys for catering to them.

But we plan a place where people with only $20 or $50 or $100 can come and have a bal too. Tony, a grey-haifed, soft-spoken, keen-minded 80, thinks Las Vegas has yet to reach Its potential as the worlds gambling meccs. "Its not unusual any more, he points out, "for people to fly In from Denver or Dallas or San Francisco or Portland as well as Los Angeles and we expect to draw more and more Daily News phot. DR. MARCUS D.

KOGEL Mod mix hoipiteli of existing hospital -facilities sometimes can take the place of building a whole new hospital- -ANY HOSPITAL thats 21 years old Is inadequate for proper laboratory services unless It has been recently modernized," said Dr. KogeL former New York City Commissioner of Hospitals. The Albert Einstein College Is model Institution. Dr. Kogel said the non-sectarian school plans to make extensive use of color television and other electronic teaching devices.

Dr. KogeL in Los Angeles to inform doctors and dentists of his schools plans, spoke last night In the $everly Hills Hotel before a group of professional men. GOOD BYE COIUIS Eajoy quick niirf a ad apssdily remove -aching lag Or. SchuMa Ziao-pada. Coat hut a trifla.

Mrnyni! from these areas." II estimates tho Strip require $1,000 customers a day to operate successfully. As to his psst, Tony ssys "I dont caro what people say about me, Just so what they say Is the truth. Im not afraid of that. -Theres evidence that he has been a victim of guilt by association, that ho has taken some beefs (that be-longed elsewhere. But fie doesnt rtmiplain.

He considers himself a businessman, a believer In free enterprise. If people Insist on gambling, he' likes to be around to hold the stakes, promising an honest shake. "I made-my decision after the first World War when I threw away my tools," he says. "I was an expert mechanic on the old Marmon. I knew Id be a slave to those tools If I didnt 31-a-r-a-h-r-e A hoarse bearing a flower-bedecked coffin was parked at the side of the Harbor-rfreeway near the Eighth St cutoff the other day and the driver was standing, hands on hips, looking disgustedly at a flat ttre.

Since seeing It, Paul Price has been haunted by the obvious chain reaction. What about the mourners waiting somewhere at a chapel, the minister, the gravediggers? However, he passed the Item along here because he didnt know how to spell macabre. No beware It happened once. It could happen again. Two men rame to a home In a poor section and told the resident his roof needed water-proofing, a Job they could do for.

$15. lie said OK but when It came time to pay they said the price was $1.58. He hadnt signed anything but when he protested one-man said, "If you dont pay well put a lien on your house. You know what a lien Is, dont you? Well Just Jack up the whole thing and haul It away." Frightened, the resident paid, although Inspection reveals, the men merely, smeared the 'roof with crankcase oil. Sllseellauy A typographical posy to who- ever is responsible for the clever cartoon-type Ford TV ads For.

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