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THE GAMECOCK News January 25, 1985 - Page 3
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By Associated Press
Sen. Ryan Shealy waved a petition
with 700 signatures in the Senate
yesterday and said it represented unsolicited
support for his state lottery
bill.
The petition contained the names of
people from Spartanburg, Greenville,
a Travelers Rest and Greer, and Shealy
^ said it arrived in the morning.
"I was surprised to get it," the Lexington
Republican said.
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for the establishment of a five-member
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million that would be repaid within six
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fund the rising cost of indigent health
care.
Opposition to the legislation has surfaced
with the Baptist Courier, a South
Carolins Baptist Convention publication,
calling on its readers to begin a
letter-writing campaign.
"We can stop this gambling bill
dead in its tracks as we stopped the bill
on the pari-mutual gambling bill a year
ago," wrote Courier editor John
Roberts in an editorial.
Shealy, who is having more legislation
prepard that would call for a con
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could vote on the issue, said South
Carolinians already participate in out
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"CIVIC-MINDED organizations
use raffle tickets; how can they object
to a lottery?" he said.
The bill was sent to the Senate
Judiciary Committee fro study but
whether it makes it thrugh the General
Assembly depends upon whether other
backers actively support it like those in
Greenville and Spartanburg, he said.
"If they do not do that it will not get
out because we are sensitive to the
wishes of the populace."
Shealy denied the Baptist Courier's
contention that a lottery lures only
weak and vunerable people.
"THE TRUTH of the matter is the
state of Washington was about to go
bankrupt in 1982, caled an emergency
session of the legislature and instituted
a lottery," he said.
A subsequent 12-month study of the
people who played the lottery "showed
that the majority were over 40 years
old and earned more than $30,000,"
he said.
"True, some of the indigents will
spend a dollar on this, but they will get
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be generated by a lottery, Shealy said if |
it was only $30 million, South Carolina <
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contention the lottery would generate j
funds to pay for health care for the
poor.
"The lottery takes an impoverished
gambler's dollar, tossing back a few
cents, perhaps a dime or so-for health
care. (Shealy) says a lottery might raise
$60 million to $75 million for health
care. That would mean over $500
million wasted on lottery tickets with
the biggest portion taken out of the
state." he said.
"A more realistic figure would be
$20 million for medical care with $100
million to $200 million siphoned off by
the gambling operatives."
But Shealy denied the organized
crime alegation.
"THE MOB is not interested in a $1
lottery ticket, and there is no way that
skimming can be done," he said.
"There is no room for the mob in a
state lottery. It's just not the kind of
thing that organized crime is interested
in."
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egislators give first approval
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The South Carolina House of Representatives gkve
preliminary approval yesterday to a bill that woutd take
lame duck school board members out of office more
sickly. i '
Rep. Dill Blackwell, D-Grecnville, said his bill changes
the date an elected school board member would take office
from Jan. I, to one week after certification of election
results. '
Blackwell, who is from Traveler's Rest, said the will of
voters should be implemented as soon as possible. ;
The bill was prompted by an Incident involving a Greenville
County school distrie board about two years &go* he ''
said. f
The school board negotiated the contract of Superintend
dent Floyd Hall shortly before a new board took office,
Blackwell said. . v kh . ^ r
"Who is to say what the new board would have done?
The point is, the people have changed the.composition of
the board in the election/' he said. Richard
Pace, chairman of the Greenville County School
Board, said he doesnft believe the lqpslatton Wou$;havfa
great effect on the board's operation. v p 3 r
Third-reading approval is usually routine in the House.
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