European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 12, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse Let us pause a few moments to pity the poor folks who by John Harbour associated press Oney. You will be Happy to know in t everything. Infant if you listen to some of America Slucky lottery millionaires it in anything. I sure you can quit your Job move to Florida. Take a trip with the wife pay off the old Bills buy new clothes help out mom and dad and sister sue give to Charity pay off the old mortgage buy a new House invest in stocks and Bonds and real estate buy a car and pay Tor it in Cash Hunt and fish when you want to. Visit the old country spoil the Chil Dren Cement the marriage increase the Alimony and buy More lottery tickets. It Ain t what it s cracked up to be says Nettie Abbink of Skokie iii., seven months after she won 190,000 a year for 20 years in the Uli Nois state lottery. People get jealous your friends get jealous an Uncle Sam takes All the Money. It too ods like a lot of Money All people see is a big Dollar sign. It Ain Worth it.1 her attitude though a trifle extreme mirrors the feel Ings of Many of the lottery winners in a nationwide associated press Survey. Their biggest Surprise after the Surprise of winning was the tax bite. They found themselves hiring lawyers and accountants they never needed before. The Telephone would t Stop ringing As friends and strangers badgered them for monetary favors and got Nasty when they re fused ror Many it got so bad that they switched to unlisted numbers. It s a Rotten Deal. There s hardly anything left to the Check when the government gets through with it says Joseph t. Rowan of Lynn. Mass. Rowan a retired shoe factory maintenance Man won his state s lottery in 1973 in 20 instalments of $50,000 each. After Federal and state taxes he got $36.200. Now he says Uncle Sam is taking another $10.000 in Advance payment on next year s taxes William e. Walker 3t, of Strasburg. Iii., was a truck Driver until he won the lottery a year and a half ago. He took a leave of absence and has not returned to work. I never snowed what a lawyer Mas really be nays. Now i m paying $3.000 and $4.000 a year to lawyers and Pas. Uncle Sam takes � per cent Oil be top and the government takes a lot More in ways i never knew. So far this has been More head aches than Happl Neu. To a Guy woo worked us whole Lite Lor every Dune i Ever bad. Now this is a Complete different Deal rat race but i think i la get it straightened out soon. People think you got a million Bucks in the Bank and Are living off the inter est. Everybody thinks i m a banker or a loan com Pany. They borrow Money from me and they Don t think to pay it Back. There Are so Many shyster around i can t believe perhaps worse is the notoriety. People focus on Rich Folk and winners. I used to sit around with the boys drinking Coffee an telling them about having a different woman every night while i was on the Road Walker says a Little sadly now when i Tell the same lies the word is All Over Townie is Bill tronic 48. Of Beaver Falls. Pa., could have watched the drawing in which he won his $1 million be cause his Little league game was rained out. But his second hand to set was broken. Now he has four to sets in the six bedroom Home he bought from the state s lieutenant governor for $37,000. It serves his wife and five children Well. The furniture that the loan company was threatening to repossess has been replaced. His wife drives a new ear and they Are think ing of remodelling the Kitchen. Tronzo made less than $5 an hour As a welder look Home some $7,000 a year. He never wrote a Check. Never had any Money in the Bank to write a Check on he says. Now his income after taxes is some $39.000. And his Bank wants to limit his Cash expenses to $1,000 a month about twice what the family spent when he was working. My kids never really bad anything Trozza says. But they never complained. They lust thought that was the Way people lived. My Bank has been trying to slow me Down. They want me to Start thinking about saving something for my kids
