NEVADA: One Sound State

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The first white man to enter Nevada passed on through. That was in 1775. Most important people who have entered Nevada in the 162 intervening years have also passed on through. Last week in Carson City, smallest of State capitals (population 1,596), Nevada's Assembly seconded its Senate in a resolution designed to attract more substantial people to Nevada more permanently.

The joint resolution called for repeal of that portion of Nevada's Constitution which prohibits lotteries. When young Assemblyman J. E. Sweatt of Washoe County arose to argue against it, the measure's...

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