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WASHINGTON lt;AP -President Ford andCongress have lifted thelegal cloud which threatenedthe future operations ofoperamultimillion-aollar state lotteries.In the process, they also made it clear that lotteries must oDerate underrestrictions which some states had ignored in thepast.Ford signed into law Friday a bill which freesstate-authorized lotteries tocarry out heavy advertising campaigns within their own states But the bill in most.cases prohibits lottery advertising from crossing stateboundanM.SAXBK THREATCongress showed little interest in bills exempting the states from federal antilottery statutes until Atty. Gen William B Saxbe warned in August that he was considering legal actionCAN'T AFFORD TO FEED THEMDilemmaRancherBy JOHN EDWARDSDan Newsom, who has lost seven cows and two calves to starvation this winter, said he can’t afford to sell his cattle and can’t afford to feed them.“If I sold all my cows, I might get$7,000, and I owe $14,000 on them,”Newsom, both a young rancher and cotton farmer, said.Last year, both cattle and cotton brought him a good return. This year, Newsom, who farms and ranches at the end of Rock houseper pound this year, Newsom said Feed costs are up. though With the* rains not coming until the end of the growing season, Newsom mustfeed his cattle and feed them more inwinter to keep them warm Hay cost $1 50 per bale last year and $2 to $3 a bale this year. Grain sorghum has remained about the same, a high $6 a hundredweight, Newsom said.But, if costs are up and profits wn, Newsom still is managing tolild a new brick home The Far-Road, said he has made nothing from either.mer-rancher is doing some of the work himself.Everything but the price paid for cattle and cotton seems to be up. Diesel delivered to his place cost18 cents per gallon then and 30 cents now; and gasoline 28 cents then and 40 cents now. Newsom said. AAsked about the emergency 5 per cent loan being offered Howard$12,000 tractor last year equals a$24,000 tractor this year.Farmers got from 17 to 30 cents per pound for cotton last year and 60 cents this year, Newsom said Cattle which would be auctionedfor 30 to 40 cents per pound on the last vear bo for 10 to 15 centshoofCounty farmers and ranchers, New som said it is not enough.By the time 1 pay my cows and equipment off. I’m not going to have no money to buy f eed ’ ’Newsom anticipates no help from the* President, agriculture secretaryor Congress “It's going to be up to the ranchers and farmers to do something, or they’re going to dw indie and going togo quick.tMSPEAKING OF SIRICAIIWASHINGTON lt;AP — G. Gordon Liddy, sentenced toup to 20 years for his part in:anda 1, saysthe Watergate scanda he and U.S. District Judge John J. Sirica, who imprisoned him. are two men who think alike.I really can’t be too critical of John Sirica ...”what is necessary,” Liddysaid.Liddy commented in an interview with Mike Wallace, to be televised Sunday night on CBS' “60Minutes.complished. skillful liar.He said former President Richard M. Nixon was “insufficiently ruthless” in dealing with Watergate roblems towards the end ofI tBesides commenting on Sirica. Liddy called former White House counsel John W.Liddy said in an interview. ... he believes that the end• Ijustifies the means. He puts that into practice. He doesDean III a “stool pigeon, and former Nixon re-election committee head Jeb Stuart Magruder an “ac*• • •• • •••••••• .1 • • •• ••••••• •••••••••••••• • • • • • • ••••#•••• • • • • • • • • • • t • • • r# rt r# • •• • • i • •xReviewing the• •• •X• •• •xiBig Spring Weekx• •• •with Joe Picklexx• • •• • ••XXXXvX-X-X• • •Bank statements as of Dec 31, 1074 were surprisingly strong with deposits of $93,165,000, a new record by $1.6 million, and 11 per cent more than thecomparable date a year ago Total resources of $103,000,000 were up 12 per cent for the year. A year ago we were finishing a record yield-price cotton crop worth some $25 million, and the past year we had a total flop in cotton, so a decline might have been expected However, the sharp comparison may not showup until the Spring report because so many held cottonuntil 1974 to sell. Oil revenues, however, have of set some erf the cotton lossNew county officials, headed by Bill Tune as county iudse. took over Wednesday. There were severalis presidency.Liddy s wife, who participated in the interview at their suburban home described her husband as a hero for refusing to disclose for 24 years what he knows about Watergate She said he was “serving his country just as many of the militarymen have.“And I think of him and the kind of life we re living very similar to the POWs and the MIA wives who have had it so much harder than I’vehad it,” shetaid Liddy, free while one of his sentences is being appealed,was sentenced to 6 years 8months to 20 years for his role m Watergate, 18 months for contempt erf court and 1 to 3 years for his role in the Eiisbcrg conspiracy case. He served about 18 months before being released onbond.He refused during the interview, as he has in court and More congressional committees, to talk about what he knows of Watergate But he did describe Watergate as a justifiede;lt;th(nru oner-to stop the lotteries.In September, he met with representatives of the 13 lottery states and told them he considered the lotteriesillegal and was prepared to test the argument in court. But. Saxbe said, “we arenot in a hurrv to do this ifCongress is going to act’’ to remove tin* legal barrier Hegave the legislators 90 days. As department lawyerssaw it, the problem lay in the centurv-old federal lawsprohibiting interstate distribution of lottery material and banning the mailing of lottery information.Saxbe was particularly concerned that lottery states were spreading theiroperations into neighboring states where lotteries are illegal.State lottery officials feltwthe federal anti-lottery statutes did not apply to games specifically authorized by statelegislatures or voterreferenda.The lottery states are Connecticut, Delaware, Illinois, Maryland, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan,New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Ohio.Pennsylvania and RhodeIsland.Ixrttery revenue amounts to a significant portion of the state budget in all 13 states After Saxbe's ultimatum, Congress passed a bill very close to w hat the Justice Department wanted When Ford signed it, “whatever question of propriety there was in the utilization of the mails by state lotteries ... wasdissipated. said William Lynch, head of the department’s organized crime section.He said in an interview that now “it's perfectly clear that it is proper to mail within a state and to advertise w ithtn a state which has an authorized lotteryThe new law clearlypermits newspapers andbroadca*roadcasters to distribute information and advertising about state lotteries in their own states Broadcasters, but not newspapers, are permitted to distribute information and advertising about a neighboring state louery if there are state lotteries in both states.CAN BE AIREDFor example. New York and New Jersey both have state lotteries and New YorkCity broadcasters may carry information about the NewJersey lottery. Newark broadcasters may report on the New York lottery.But the New York newspapers apparently cannot publish lottery informationin mail editions distributed in New Jersey or any other state, whether or not the other state has its own lottery.And a broadcaster in a nonlottery state cannot distribute information about the lottery in another stateSimilar situations may crop up in other parts of the country where lottery states depend heavily on newspaper and broadcast advertising based in a big city across state linesLynch acknowledged that some aspects of the new law probably won’t become clear until tested in court.Al 1A♦ n.
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