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I do want to make one other statement". Mr.
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Pressman has referred to it already in regard to the
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New Hampshire lottery. I hear him reading from the
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Baptist Standard which is the Baptist state paper for the
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State of Texas. Dr. E. S. Jamas is the editor. This
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is from the February 16, 1966, issue of that paper. He
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quotes Religious Hews Service saying that the New Hampshire
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Sweepstakes, the only state-operated lottery in the
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United States, was a flop this year. Opposed by
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protestant leaders and sponsored by Governor John H.
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King, the lottery system was legalized with the predic-
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tion it would produce great revenues and reduce the real
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estate taxes of the people. In the second year of its
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operation, it produced $2,487,000 in taxes instead of the
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$5,000,000 predicted by the Governor. The lottery take
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for the state amounted to $24.15 per school pupil.
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There was one other thing here I think that
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we need to mention in connection with this that Mr.
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Pressman did not mention in regard to the state-operated
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lottery system. That is this: That the state-operated
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lottery system did more than fall flat on producing
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