European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 7, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 a the stars and stripes saturday september 7, 1991 a Ronald Gwyn puts up a sign in front of his Metairie la., nightclub announcing his lottery ticket Giveaway. At Louisiana begins first lottery since crooked game of 1800s new Orleans apr Louisiana the state that gave lotteries a bad name a Century ago with a wildly crooked game that lined the pockets of politicians and other rascals is trying again. This time organizers said the game s squeaky clean. A i was kind of surprised. They be done this very professionally. It s Good to see something run by the state working efficiently a said Jimmy Brothers jr., who runs a pharmacy in new Orleans with his parents. Brothers pharmacy is among 4,500 drug stores filling stations and other outlets that began Selling tickets Friday for Louisiana s first lottery since 1893 a when fed up voters outlawed a private lottery after a 25-year run greased with bribery and patronage. The Post civil War game had honest a if infrequent a drawings supervised by luminaries such As Confederate heroes . Beauregard and Jubal Early. But thanks to political payoffs Only a Small percentage went out in prizes. Quot the people of All states Are debauched and defrauded. By the Louisiana lottery Quot president Benjamin Harrison told Congress in 1890, under the 25-year contract bought with bribes the Louisiana stale lottery co. Paid a $4< ,000-a-year fee to the state. That was fat Money at a time when Many labourers earned a Dollar a Day. But the lottery was fatter by far. The Louisiana state lottery co. Dispensed $300,000 in bribes in its first seven years. Payoffs were for Protection not Only from moralists who wanted to eliminate All lotteries but also from a proposed state run lottery. Ticket Sellers were chosen on the basis of politics. A by the time it was put out of business in the 1890s, it was a $28 million business with $8 million net profits a said Jerah Johnson a history professor at the University of new Orleans. Times have changed. In october 1990, voters overturned the lottery ban by a 2-1 margin. Opponents decry the new version As a Quot bloodsucker a but supporters say it will help rejuvenate the economically depressed stale. The lottery will be managed by a quasi governmental corporation under a lottery Law that allocates 35 percent of All proceeds to Louisiana s Treasury. It features bar coded $1 scratch off tickets designed to prevent fraud. A the Only thing fixed under statute is the 35 percent that is returned to the state a Louisiana lottery corp. President Michael Carr said. A having said that i can Tell you that we re paying 50 percent Back a a Little better in this game a to players 10 percent to overhead operations and 5 percent to  the game is expected to bring in $300 million in the first year Carr said. Police Hunt vicious animal Boulder Colo. Apr police on thursday searched for a Man believed to have raped a woman stabbed her More than us times left her for dead along a dirt Road and returned to Stab her again. The 20-year-old woman crawled along the Road and flagged Down a Motorist on nearby Colorado 119 More than four hours after she w As abducted. She was in serious condition at a Boulder Hospital after undergoing surgery for Stab wounds in her Chest Abdomen legs Throat and head. The attack occurred near Nederland about 15 Miles Southwest of Boulder. Authorities said the attack Early wednesday was among the most vicious they had seen. A the left her to die Quot Boulder county sheriff George Epp said. Quot somebody out there knows this Guy and they a  him in because he is one vicious animal Quot said sheriffs it. Steve Prentup. Quot what the victim did in this Case was nothing less than heroic. We want to find the Guy who did  the woman was abducted from a Thornton convenience store by a Man driving a yellow pickup truck with a ladder rack on top cup said. Last suit Over initiation injury settled St. Petersburg Fla. Apr a Man paralysed when bounced on a Canvas Blanket during a masonic initiation has settled the last of his lawsuits Over the Accident but he says the total of $8 million he will get offers Little Consolation. A you can take All this Back and give me one Good leg a said Vern Johnson who was permanently crippled by the rite eight years ago when he landed in the Blanket on the Back of his neck. Johnson 34 at the time blamed paramedics an ambulance company and doctors for poor care. Attorneys on the other Side said Johnson was at least partly responsible they said he refused to Tell medical personnel what had happened because he had sworn never to Tell anyone about the secret ritual of the masons. On tuesday Johnson a attorney reached a settlement with one of the doctors who treated Johnson at St. Anthonys Hospital. It was the last of several settlements totalling $8 million and guaranteeing him an income of $8,500 a month for  officer cleared in videotaped beating from wire reports fort Worth Texas a grand jury ruled thursday that a police officer accused in the videotaped beating of a car theft suspect did no to use excessive Force. Jurors threw out the Case against officer Edward Parnell Iii 32, who was videotaped july 3 striking Ernest Anderson several times on the Roadside on interstate 30. Parnell was arrested two Days after the incident. He was charged with aggravated assault. The officer began beating Anderson with his police Baton when he tried to escape from the moving patrol car by kicking out a rear window police reports said. Parnell said he struck Anderson to subdue him. A woman videotaped the incident from a Back Yard near the Highway. Grand jurors were shown photographs taken of Anderson shortly after the incident. The photos showed the most visible wounds on Andersons body were cuts on his feet made when he kicked out the  May be endangered Washington the fish and wildlife service on thursday proposed listing a Small songbird the coastal California gnatcatcher As an endangered species. Much of the coastal Sage scrub where the gnatcatcher lives from los Angeles into Northern Mexico has been removed to make Way for subdivisions or Farmland. There will be a 90-Day Public comment period before Public hearings in Southern California. The final decision must be made within a  is top candidate Washington a Deputy transportation Secretary Elaine l. Chao is the leading candidate to be the next director of the peace corps administration sources said thursday. Chao 38, the highest ranking asian american in the Bush administration would succeed Paul Coverdell who announced his resignation this week to prepare for a Republican Senate race from Georgia. She has been Deputy Secretary of transportation since 1989, Chao was Deputy administrator of the departments maritime administration from 1986 to 1988 and chairman of Federal maritime commission from 1988 to Early 1989.encephalitis outbreak Atlanta a the Federal centers for disease control reported 24 cases of St. Louis encephalitis thursday in the area around Pine Bluff Ark. It was the second outbreak of the Mosquito borne disease listed by the Agency in the past month. The cd said a neurologist in Pine Bluff detected the first two hospitalized cases and investigators later identified 22 other confirmed or probable cases in Jefferson and surrounding counties that occurred Between july 14 and August 17. One patient with leukaemia died. Local and state health officials issued recommendations for the Public to curtail evening outdoor activities and to apply insect repellent when outdoors. Symptoms Range from fever and headache to meningitis or encephalitis which is an inflammation of the brain or spinal Cord. Drug ring focuses on Ltd Alexandria a. A a drug ring dealing mainly to High school students in this washing i Crl suburb so a More than 100,000 doses o Ltd Over the past two years according to a Federal grand jury indictment. A 16-year-old student who was a customer of he drug ring wounded a Fairfax county va., to ice Ottimer in june while the student was under the influence of the illegal drug said . Attorney Kenneth Melson r9�.unty pal Cen who turned the investigation Over to ederal agents after the officer was shot said the Rug was so powerful that Many users had Quot bad trips. �1hiie a a acid was a Type we Hadyn seen and re  my re re Luent overdoses and brought s Bowen a a Chat said police capt