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California Voters To Decide Lottery
SACRAMENTO, Calif.—(UPI)—A something-for-nothing appeal is being made to the California public.
Voters will decide Nov. 3 whether they want to follow New Hampshire along the lottery route—with one big difference.
Private promoters have put an initiative on the ballot to create a privately-run, state-controlled lottery—and give the private operators a percentage of the take.
The promoters say it would be a "painless tax"—a happy way to enrich the state's public school fund, 3,000 prize-winners a month, and, of course, the promoters themselves.
The lottery measure, proposition 16, was placed on the ballot by the promoters via the initiative route.
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It would authorize the American Sweepstakes Corporation to conduct a monthly lottery under the supervision of a state lottery commission. The public would buy $2 tickets from vending machines for the monthly drawings.
OPPONENTS FROM Gov. Edmund G. Brown on down are denouncing it as a "gold-mine" for the private promoters at the expense of the poor, and as an invitation to crime.
Of each $2, 26 cents would go the corporation for expenses and profits, 44 cents to the commission for expenses and prizes, and $1.30 into a special state education fund.
The grandiose plan—opponents call it a scheme—is the child of corporation president Robert W. Wilson, a 38-year-old grandfather who says disgust over rising taxes on his home led him to an interest in lotteries.
After the legislature refused repeatedly to put an all-state lottery on the ballot, Wilson, who takes note of man's "urge to gamble" in his ballot argument, decided to see what he could do.
HE ESTIMATES the total business of his lottery would be $500 million a year, thus providing an automatic $325 million for schools.
It is, he says, an attempt "to help solve the California tax burden and defray the skyrocketing cost of education in California."
Brown and others scoff. They say experience in countries with lotteries indicates the total would be nearer $50 million a year. And they say the lottery would be more likely to increase taxes than to reduce them "because of the increased welfare and police costs" it would necessitate.
Most of the leading opponents are on record as opposing lotteries in general—state or private—on grounds that they tax the poor, exploit weakness and invite crime.
But in this campaign, they are concentrating hardest on the private feature of the proposed lottery. A campaign statement compares the proposed California lottery to New Hampshire's and finds that the California plan provides for a large-sized "private rakeoff" and almost no state control.
The initiative would write the lottery into the state constitution, and give American Sweepstakes exclusive rights to conduct it for 10 years.
There is considerable disagreement over just how much the shareholders of American Sweepstakes stand to gain. Wilson estimates that, after buying some 30,000 machines and paying other expenses, the dividends would come to only about $2 or $2.5 million a year.
Opponents say 10 or 20 times that sum is more likely.
Wilson and other backers of the lottery defend its private enterprise aspect. They say they have made a risk investment to get the lottery going, and will operate on one of the "smallest margins in the world."
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MOSCOW — (UPI) — The Soviet government budget for next year will reach 100 billion rubles ($110 billion). First Deputy Finance Minister Vladimir Sitin said today.
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TOKYO — (UPI) — A solitary American sat at a sidewalk shoe-shine stand Sunday on the Ginza, Tokyo's famed shopping and amusement thoroughfare. A tide of oriental faces swept past.
A man and wife from Lakeland, Fla., approached their fellow countryman as it reaching an oasis.
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Tokyo Prepares For'64 Olympic World Visitors
Such is the bewilderment of some newcomers to the Olympic Games opening next Saturday. This world's largest city can swallow an event like the Olympics without a gulp.
Last Saturday, a rehearsal of the opening ceremony filled the 72,000-seat national stadium with Tokyoites unable to get tickets for the real thing. The black market is in full swing with $22.50 single tickets for the first day being offered at $225.00
The 5,500 athletes already here are living in the "Olympic Village," formerly a barracks for U.S. occupation troops and their families known as Washington Heights. They are fenced off from the avid Japanese public who swarm around the area.
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But the Japanese are going all out to make the first Olympics staged in Asia the most colorful and memorable yet. The interlocking, five-ring Olympic pennants flutter on hundreds of streets alongside the flags of the 98 nations competing.
Of the night life, old Asia hands tell you that you should have seen the Tokyo of a few weeks back before prestige-conscious authorities put a midnight curfew on cabarets and clamped down on "bath houses" with girl attendants.
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Taxis are cheap — 28 cents for the first mile. Tipping for any service is rare. But that is about all that is inexpensive.
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WASHINGTON — (UPI) — Ray-mond L. Wyngaard, a long-time criminal who escaped from his guards on his way to a Detroit court, has been placed today on the FET's list of 10 most wanted fugitives.
Wyngard was being taken to his arraignment for armed robbery when he broke away from his guards on July 24. He eluded them by slipping through an empty courtroom to the street.
Avery, a lifelong resident of the little rural community of Wakefield, holds a degree in political science from the University of Kansas.
Tuesday, Oct. 6, 1964
Avery's ready smile, quick handshake and fantastic memory for names and faces long ago earned him a reputation as the most polished practitioner of the political art in Kansas.
He has a winning way with the voters, as evidenced by his five consecutive terms as congressman of the 2nd District of Northeast Kansas.
He served two terms in the Kansas legislature before being elected to the House in 1954.
TOPEKA—(UPI)—Exactly one month from Sunday Kansas voters go to the polls to choose the man who will guide the destiny of the state for the next four years.
Kansans To Vote With Good Choices
HE LEAVES a choice spot on the important House Rules Committee plus a high seniority rating among House Republicans to seek the governorship.
Laying aside party labels and the hoopla of a campaign for a moment it is not hard to see that the wheat state has a "quality crop" at the top of the ballot.
Both gubernatorial candidates are genial, easy-going men with a history of service in public life unblemished by the slightest touch of scandal.
ONE HAS PUT in 10 years in the Congress of the United States, climbing the ladder of seniority to positions of responsibility.
The other has served eight years on the Kansas Corporation Commission (KCC) as first a majority member and later a minority member, proving his ability to work with both parties.
On Nov. 3 one of them will win and the other will lose—but veteran observers say the state of Kansas won't lose in either case. The candidates and their stories follow:
Avery seeks the governor's chair on a promise to bring Kansas into
WILLIAM H. AVERY—This 52-year-old farmer and stockman won the GOP nomination for governor in a tight, hard-fought battle with seven other men.
HARRY G. WILES-This 48-year-old western Kansas attorney has maintained diplomatic relationship with state government for the Democrats during a four-year drought for their party.
When Republicans swept the statehouse in 1960 and again in 1962 Harry Wiles was left as the only Democrat in a key position —that of member of the Kansas Corporation Commission.
His ability to work with Democrats and Republicans alike was pointed up by the fact that he owes his most recent reappointment to GOP Gov. John Anderson.
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THE ST. JOHN DEMOCRAT first sought major political office in 1956 when he was his party's nominee for attorney general and lost.
Wiles was born in Stafford County. He holds his bachelor's and law degrees from the University of Kansas where he was on the dean's honor list and was an outstanding athlete.
In 1957 Democrat Gov. George Docking named him to the KCC and in 1959 reappointed him to a four-year term. In 1963 Anderson reappointed Wiles as the only Democrat on the three-man board that governs utilities.
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During World War II Wiles was a naval intelligence officer specializing in oriental languages.
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Wiles seeks the governorship on a pledge to prove that state government can be handled economically.
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