University Daily Kansan / Wednesday, November 18, 1987
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Lottery is a hit, officials say
Ticket sales surpass state's projections in first full week
The Associated Press
TOPEKA - The Kansas Lottery generated more than $4 million in gross ticket sales in its first five days, exceeding the agency's expected sales for its first full week, lottery officials announced yesterday.
Rough estimates put ticket sales between $4 million and $4.5 million, based upon the number of people who won the top "instant-win" prize of $5,000 and the odds of winning the prize. Twenty-five people won $5,000, with odds set one in 180,000.
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Tickets for the first state-operated gambling game in Kansas history.
"Up and Away," went on just after midnight Thursday, and legal officials reported gross sales of almost $2.1 million during the first 36 hours the lottery was in operation.
Lottery officials had projected gross sales of $3.1 million during the lottery's first full work, and $1.1
during its first game, which is scheduled to last between eight and 10 weeks.
"By the end of the week, we may double what our projections are." Lottery Director Larry Montgomery said during a news conference.
"The Kansas City regional office has already run out of tickets three times," Montgomery said.
Although he could not say exactly where sales are the heaviest, Montgomery said indications were that they were especially brisk in the Kansas City area and in other border areas.
People play the game by purchasing $1 "instant-win" tickets, which have latex patches. The buyer scratches away the lazte patch, revealing a list of six prizes. If three are the same, the buyer wins a prize ranging from a free ticket to $5,000.
The game will end with a $100,000
jackpot drawing, but lottery spokeswoman Nancy Zogleman said lottery officials still are working out the details. They have said people can enter the drawing by sending five losing tickets in an envelope to the lottery's Toneka headquarters.
"We've already received — it's amazing — gobs and gobs of envelopes." Zoogel said. "I think the post office is going to kill us."
Zogleman said lottery officials have ordered 25 million tickets from British American Bank Note, the company it hired to print them. If the agency runs out of tickets, the first game will end sooner than planned, she said.
Montgomery credited the 2,862 retail outlets that sold tickets with helping to create the higher-than-expected sales. He also said the agency has been contacted by more retailers interested in selling tickets and has "applications out there we just can't handle."
Problems of poor get nationwide reactions from citizens, officials
The Associated Press
Concerned citizens and political leaders in dozens of cities held rallies, town meetings and other forums yesterday to draw attention to the plight of the poor during "Justice for All Day."
In Detroit, local officials called on political leaders to recognize poverty as a critical problem and to pour resources into programs aimed at helping the poor.
"President Reagan has turned his back on the poor. Our own state government has ignored the poor." Commission Chairman Art Carter says.
Detroit City Council President
Ernie Henderson said, "We forget so
easily when we have a bellyful that there are people who are hungry."
More than 100 people turned out for an all-day series of seminars on poverty at the Brooklyn, N.Y., campus of Long Island University, according to university spokeswoman Carol Feinman.
Seminar topics included "The Politics of Poverty," "The Economics of Hunger," and "Homelessness and Statelessness."
"Growing poverty, homelessness and hunger — in America and in the world — force a re-examination of our collective "quality." organizers said in a statement.
A Florida coalition said that state leaders could not claim that winning
out poverty is their top priority while one in four Florida children is classified as poor and elderly shut-ins hoard free meals to eat later.
"The poor may be out of political fashion, but they are not without human needs," George Sheldon of the National Association of Social Workers said in Tahallassee. Fla.
In Owensboro, Ky., residents were asked by a local group to drive with their car lights on all day to show their concern for the poor.
"The rich in this country are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer." Chet Holmquist, president of the Lexington, Ky., chapter of the National Association of Social Workers, said at a press conference.
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