European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 09, 1968, Darmstadt, Hesse The problems of winning $100,000 the tax Man put his Handon my shoulder his buddies Call pfc. Louis Caputo Rocky now. Pfc. Louis Caputo s Bride has been up on Cloud nine Ever since her family hit the $100,000 Jackpot and Shell be airborne for real june 3 when she jets to Frankfurt Germany to join he Soldier husband. I be talked to him three times by phone and he tells me he s already Fundus an apartment near his base at Karls Ruhe said Lena Caputo the i Cook s 21-year-old Bride. When i called the first time to let him know we won he must have mis understood the message he got from his co Louie had just gotten out of bed and he said How come you put in transatlantic phone Call just to let me know we won $1,000? " but Caputo also 21, and assigned with the 249th engr in soon got the message straight and agreed that $100,000 was fit sum to justify Long distance dealing. And from that moment on the Caput shave been making More plans than a blueprint factory. In fact Lena s whole family Al partners in the winnings is Busy plan Ning ventures which were Only Idle dreams until March 20, when they won the top prize in the new York stat lottery. Created around the Kitchen table m their third floor apartment 10 theorem Noim Section of Brooklyn Lena Ner parents or. And mrs Peter Tafuno her brother Frank and a sister mrs. Sfu7, Monteverde happily told what Ortu be 0 c0me u 0 Sud Len l�,000 the big effect of winning is that it As seeded things up for us said 5T Tufano a 19-year-old College Stu-jj5 tchln8 to pack his bags for a first r,?0 eur Peall of us Are going to has we probably would get to even Way Only with the Money we can do them sooner like but n8 Money has t really any of u8 " a ded mrs Nettie Lolly per on who Lau is easiyx10 obviously could do so Long be a $1p� 000 Windfall. We Are stills were Appy 80lucky Bunch we Al la Mai Mil things Nave changed Amo Ngiem the Tufano family phone nun Ber thursday May 9 1968 by Walter Hennessey is new York Bureau we had to get an unlisted one explained mrs. Tufano because the phone was going Day and night with people wanting to sell us something wish us Well or ask a favor. There have been securities sales men insurance salesmen All kinds of people with plans for us to buy into and callers who got our number out of the Brooklyn Book. They get you on the phone and say you Don t know me those seeking the secret of the Midas touch had Best Contact Louis Caputo Lena s i husband. Back in february while Home on leave from assignment at it. Dix n.j.,he and his Bride to be went to the Bank to arrange the last payment to the wed Ding caterer. While they were there Caputo bought a pair of lottery tickets for $1 apiece making one out for him self and other he bought for the Tufano family because Lena explained Louie said it would be the last time my name would be it turned out to be sound thinking since the lat Ter ticket one of Over 5 million sold eventually took the $100,000 prize. Lena and her father Peter Tufano a 48-year-old sewing machine Mechanic recalled How they had gone to the final Penn station drawing amid the prayer Sand Good wishes of their Gree Point was soaking wet said Lena s father because even before the opened the winning envelope i Felt sure we were going to win the $100,000. When they picked the envelope out of the fish bowl i grabbed my daughter s Arm and said Lena we be won he started to jump up out of his seat and i tried to pull him Down Lena laughed. "1 was so embarrassed it was t course Lena s embarrassment turned to astonished Delight a moment later when it was announced that the Tufano had indeed won. That was the exact moment that the new York state tax Man put his hand on my shoulder and introduced himself said Tufano still amazed at How the Revenue got to him so fast. Since then the Tufano have huddle with a lawyer Over the various fed eral state and City tax bites. Al though the winnings will be spread among the Capitos the Tufano their son and the other daughter and he husband they said an estimated $40,000 would go for taxes. A Caputo bought winning ticket while making final arrangements for wedding the stars and stripes hot a that wonderful remainder. It has everyone planning planning planning. First Lena her brother and father will Fly to Frankfurt june 3 in route Toa family reunion with the recent Bride Groom. Lena and Louis will set up housekeeping in the Karlsruhe apartment for about a year. Then Lena intends to re turn to the states and do some House Hunting before her husband is separated from service on sept. 9, 1969. Closer to Home mrs. Tufano has her Eye on a new refrigerator and maybe a trip to Florida later her daughter Maria Monteverde who lives with her craftsman husband a Block or so from the Tufano apartment said they would like to go to Mexico on vacation perhaps in the new car the Monteverde just bought to replace their old one which was stolen. Lena said that her husband who worked As a meter Reader for Consoli dated Edison for a couple of weeks prior to being drafted will probably spend some of his winnings on musical instruments. He used to play weekends at a local club she explained and could Usea new sax clarinet and flute. When Louie is around this place really swings. He should lift everyone s morale Over the re in Germany said Lena noting that the Cook with the Midas touch had just been promoted topic. His buddies nicknamed him Brook Lyn when he first went into the army but they Don t Call him that so much anymore. How they Call him Page u
