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Lottery fraud alleged
SALEM (AP) — Charges have been filed against a Coos Bay
man who allegedly altered a state lottery ticket in an effort to collect
a $5,000 “instant winner” prize, lottery officials said Wednesday.
It was the first known incident in which someone has tried to
alter a ticket to make it appear to be a winner, according to Sue Bur
ton, the lottery’s marketing director.
Max Ward, 31, was arrested Wednesday at his home in Coos
Bay and was being held in the Coos County jail on two charges of
forgery and one count of attempted theft.
Bail was set at $13,650, officials said.
Lottery spokesman T.L. Fuller declined to describe how Ward
had allegedly tried to doctor the ticket, but said Ward altered it to
show “that there were three $5,000 play symbols on the ticket.
Ten to spin for jackpot
SALEM (AP) — A Washington resident is
among the 10 contestants who now have a shot
at Oregon’s first lottery jackpot prize after
Wednesday’s drawing at lottery headquarters.
Don McLean of Spanaway, Wash., who
won his $100 on the lottery’s opening day, was
the eighth person drawn. He and nine Orego
nians now have a chance at an estimated $2.5
million jackpot.
Oregonians won millions of dollars in the
Washington State Lottery before Oregon
started its own April 25.
The 10 winners will converge in Salem to
spin the jackpot wheel for a chance at riches
and a sure win of at least $1,000 at a drawing
tentatively set for May 15.
Other winners included Oregonians from
LaGrande, Klamath Falls, Salem, Corvallis,
Wilsonville and the Portland area.
Debbie McLane, a Salem ticket retailer,
drew the 10 plastic cannisters from a drum.
State police and an auditor monitored the
drawing, with five spins between each pick.
Based on mathematical statistics, the
jackpot will be won once every 100 spins, or
1.6 times in the 160 spins created by the 16,
10-person finalists in the game of about 40
million tickets, lottery officials said.
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American learning a ‘disaster
WASHINGTON (AP) — If Thomas Jefferson
came back to modern-day America, he d be
delighted with the machinery but dismayed by
writing that emits "the authentic stink of the syn
thetic prose of a technological age, an honored
scholar told a Washington official on Wednesday
night.
Cleanth Brooks, professor emeritus of
rhetoric at Yale University, declared that the state
of learning in America "amounts to a disaster,
and one of Pearl Harbor dimensions."
Brooks cited studies that show four 17-year
olds in 10 cannot comprehend ordinary
documents, 23 million adults are functionally il
literate and only 20 percent of high school seniors
can write a coherent essay.
Brooks, 78, a native of Murray, Ky., is the
author of textbooks which introduced generations
of Americans to prose and poetry.
The lecture is delivered to an invited au
dience of dignitaries and the selection of the lec
turer by the National Council of the National En
dowment for the Humanities amounts to the
highest honor conferred each year by the federal
government for achievement in the humanities.
‘i shall have to be blunt.” Brooks said in his
text. “Neither reading nor writing flourishes in
our blessed United States... In important
respects, we are an illiterate nation. A large sec
tion of our population cannot read at all, and
many of those who can read do not read books.
A bad Cupp of coffee?
SALEM (AP) — Hoyt Cupp, one of Oregon’s top prison
officials, was due to be back at work Thursday after being
hospitalized for problems caused by drinking coffee that had
been adulterated by inmates, officials said.
Corrections Division spokeswoman Marlene Haugland
on Wednesday said Cupp Was “feeling great” and was to be
released from Salem Hospital late Wednesday.
Officials have been unable to identify what substance
was put into the coffee, though it was thought to be kitchen
soap, she said.
Cupp, the former superintendent of the Oregon State
Penitentiary, and three other prison officials experienced
nausea, cramps and diarrhea Monday morning after drinking
coffee together at the prison.
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