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2 THURSDAY. MAY IS, 1863 MEDFOHD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEOFORD, OHEGOM . Sweepstakes Set Up Dn Conservative Mev Hampshire . ' .. ..,, , u... j..:jj , ., ,. . nn io i nr inmm. i ...i in-ai i Hnmnhlr i no thn mail, tn I hmakins hv knowinalv bell-1 the . lottery would not an-1 commissioner Frank S. Giles . establish either state or na By JAMES V. HEALION United Preie International Concord, N.H (UPIl From the eolrf denarius to the mod' em dollar, man and his money have almost always been parted by the simple prospect of a lot-tor-a-little. Ancient civilizations, in cludina the Roman and other earlier ones, recognized man's willingness to bet. The lottery is as old as that. It Ls not too surprising therefore, and certainly not uniaue. that one of the SO Accident Causes Power Outage in Hamrick Rd. Area Two automobile accidents Involving Pacific Power and Light company poles were in vestigated by valley police Tuesday. One on Hamrick rd. about 9 p.m. caused a power out age to about 4S0 customers in the area. According to state police, the power pole was sheared off when hit by a car operated by Donald Lee Twedell, 17, of Central Point. The car was southbound on Hamrick rd. when the driver lost control of it, hitting the pole, officers . said. . Twedell, who had 'several teeth knocked out in the im pact, was taken to Crater f Osteopathic hospital by his parents. Power Is Restored I PP & L officials said the 1 majority of the customers had : electricity restored within the I f hour, but about 20 customers ' closest to the accident were :' without electricity for about 1V4 hours. . A power pole near 'the in : tcrscctlon of 10th and King sts. was not damaged when it , was hit by a vehicle about 2 p.m. after automobiles oper ated by - Margaret Cortland Guisti, 37, of San Francisco, and Donald Lee Bryan, 45, of ' 1090 Shafcr lane, collided Ileal uy. : According to Medford police, ' Margaret Guisti suffered a : cut behind an ear and a pas ' sengcr In her car, Louise ! Charlotte Misnen, 52, of route 1, box 47, Gold Hill, was '; treated by her doctor for a '; whiplashcd neck. . ' states has decided to set up a public sweepstakes to raise needed revenue, What is surprising is that the slate is New Hampshire, a conservative Yankee region that is predominantly of Pro testant faiths whose clergy. men are strongly opposed to gambling. Lotlery Opposed The sweepstakes approved by the New Hampshire legis lature and signed into law by Gov. John W. King April 30 is the first public sanctioned lottery in the United States in this century. The last one was in 1890 In Louisiana and it folded after two years in a welter of corruption. King, a Roman Catholic and the first Democratic gov ernor here in 40 years, has vowed this will not happen to New Hampshire. Here is how this state's sweepstakes would work: Tickets would be $3 each with a limit on the number to be sold any one person. There would be two races annually to be run at one of the state's three race tracks. The prize in each race would probably be about 150,000. The proceeds, estimated at between $4 mil lion and $8 million annually, would be used solely for edu cation and could be distribut ed to local communities. No Sales Tex What does the sweepstakes mean to the New Hampshire resident? If revenue estimates are accurate, nis properly taxes, now very moderate, will dip even further. There Police Investigate Prospect Burglary State police are investigat ing the burglary of Mill Creek Falls cafe at Prospect and the attempted burglary of Cove Motor company Fly ing A service station at Shady Cove. Thieves took approximately $90 in cash from a cash reg ister and Juke box in the cafe some time between midnight Monday and 3:15 a.m. Tues day. They entered by prying a rear door, police said. Thieves attempted to pry the front door of the service station In Shady Cove, but were unable to gain entry, state police said. The two in cidents may be related, they added. are no sales taxes or Income taxes in New Hampshire. The state relies heavily on reve nue from liquor sales, cigar ettes and racing to finance its operations. Much of this money comes from out-of-state. King must appoint a com mission to work out the de tails of the lottery and this task promises to be extreme ly difficult. Enactment of the sweepstakes into law opened up a trunk of troubles that will take months to straighten out. Here are the main diffi culties: The Protestant clergy, a powerful force in the state, is mounting a vast campaign aimed at forcing repeal of the law. The Federal government has pointed out a myriad of laws which if obeyed would keep every New Hampshire sweepstake ticket within the state's boundaries. The state must find some way to deal with counterfeit lottery tickets and racketeer ing. 1 Voters Must Approve The earliest the sweep stakes can get under way is next year because of a local option section in the enabling act. The tickets can only be sold in New Hampshire's 49 state-operated liquor stores or at the three racetracks. But the sale of tickets in any of these places is subject to ap proval of the voters in the community where the store or race track is located. The Protestant clergy, led by the Rev. Hartley T. Gran din, executive secretary of the New Hampshire Council of Churches, may try to cripple the sweepstakes through a pulpit campaign designed to take advantage of the local option provison. "You can bet we aren't going to take this sitting down," the Rev. Mr. Grandin said. "This fight has just be gun and we plan a strong comeback." Perhaps the federal govern ment may prove to be an even greater roadblock in the path of the sweepstakes than will those who object on moral grounds. Banned by Mails It was immediately pointed out that no lottery tickets can be sent legally through the mails. Neither can New Hampshire use the mails to advertise the sweepstakes or notify winners. It is also a federal offense to carry a lottery ticket, sold or unsold, across a state line. Thus, under the law, no lot tery tickets may leave New Hampshire. Obviously, this would be difficult if not impossible to enforce and that is why the state and the U.S. justice de partment are destined for many more discussions. Attorney Joseph A. Milli met, legislative counsel to Gov. King, talked with fed eral officials before the gov ernor's decision to sign the bill. Milllmet says it may be ne cessary to establish deposi tories of some type in the state so visitors who purchase tickets can then leave their tickets in New Hampshire to avoid violating any federal laws when returning to their homes. . Repository Planned Informed sources here be lieve some type of depository will be established to satisfy the letter of the federal law. The state then cannot be ac cused of being a party to law- Religion in America Real Meaning for Existence Believed Man's Deepest Need By LOUIS CASSELS UPI Correspondent For half a century, Freud ian psychiatry has tried to in terpret human life in terms of the instinctive drives which man shares with the beasts. 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" What mat ters is not the meaning of life in - general but rather the specific meaning of a person's life at a given moment . . . Life ultimately means taking Hie responsibility to find the right answer to the very real and concrete problems which are constantly being set be fore us as individuals." Dr. Frankl flatly repudiates the basic Freudian doctrine that man's main concern is to "gain pleasure and avoid pain." He contends that the real primary urge is the "will to meaning" and that it is powerful that "man is even ready to suffer on the condition that his suffering has a meaning." He tells of an elderly pa tient who was overcome with severe depression because of the death of his wife. Dr. Frankl asked him what would have happened to the wife if her husband had died first. The patient replied that it would have been "terrible" for her. You see," Dr. Frankl re plied, "such a suffering has been spared her and it is you who have spared her this suf fering, but now you have to pay for it by surviving and mourning her." "He said no word," Dr. Frankl recalls, "but shook my hand and calmly left my of fice. Suffering ceases to be suffering in some way at the moment it finds a meaning, j such as the meaning of a sac rifice." v Rejects Freudian Notion Dr. Frankl also rejects vig orously the Freudian notion that human love is "a mere side effect, or sublimation, of sex." Love is as primary a phe nomenon as sex, lie de clares. "No one can become fully aware of the very es sence of another human being unless he loves him. By the spiritual act of love he Is enabled to see the essential traits and features in the be loved person; and even more, he sees that which Is poten tial in him ... By his love, the loving person enables the beloved person to make these potentialities come true." Freud' warnings against "In hibitions" and "repression" have been -died by many years as an alibi for free in dulgence of sexual appetites. But the man who now ranks as Europe's leading psychia trists is no friend of liber tines. "Sex," says Viktor Frankl. "is sanctified as soon as - but only as long as - it is a vehicle breaking by knowingly sell- ing tickets that will go across state lines. What is more important, both federal and state offi cials feel, is to prevent racke teering in connection with the lottery. Legal officials plan to map a program to prevent this. There were reports from Washington that U.S. Atty. Gen. Robert F. Kennedy would try to block the sweep stakes before it gets under way. Yet prior to his signing the bill into law, King appar ently was not pressured by the Kennedy administration. There can be little doubt that New Hampshire is de pending on out-of-state money to make the sweepstakes a success. New Hampshire has only 600,000 residents and if even 50 per cent of them pur chased a sweepstakes ticket, the . lottery would not ap. proach the anticipated revenue. There ar about 1 million visitors to the state each year. Since New Hampshire is both a winter and summer vaca tionland it is hoped the twice-a-year "stakes will not lack for bettors. No one has come up with a solution to the problem of counterfeiting. The only state law against duplication of the tickets by unauthorized per sons concerns "public docu ments." The penalty for this is a seven-year prison term. Legislation will be needed, therefore, to establish penal ties for sweepstakes counter feiters. What happens if the tickets are counterfeited out-of-state? This is another unanswered problem. Massachusetts public safety was particularly concerned. He feared professional gam blers which Boston does not lack will take over the illicit sale of tickets in Massachu setts. 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