European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 11, 1981, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Doily Magazine lottery Luck one in 50 Trilton by George Esper associated press have you dreamed of hitting the lottery big and solving a lot of your problems your chances of winning million Are one in 10 according to the Massachusetts state to win you would have to beat Odds of five million to Arthur who had never won anything in his beat both those incredible Odds on a total investment of a Little More than the Odds against winning both Are about one in 50 trillion that trillion according to William mathematician and director of the Massachusetts and its the first time it happened in the nine year history of the states Hoener won i million in May last october he hit again for but the lifestyle of the 51yearold Hampshire College Art teacher Hast changed he int throwing Money its hard to break habits of 30 i still go to the Gas stations where i can buy the cheaper in terms of my style of i was doing pretty much what i wanted to be doing when i won the million so that i did not take off and go and do the thing i wanted to do because i was doing i enjoy teaching and in pretty Good at it so the idea of just Stop teaching Doest Appeal to me at but he did put enough Money aside to take a years leave of absence from his Job to go to Connecticut to paint and work on a his winnings Are being paid Over a period of 20 years in instalments of up to annually after Federal income tax deductions of 20 he says that right now he is investing in Arthur and putting the three older children through College at a total Cost of up to a although he would have found a Way to do it even if he haunt hit the there Are two other children in the 14yearold twins Donna and who Are in Junior High Hoener Hast yet increased their he says with a they Are great they do a lot of baby sitting and they actually dont need an Hoener sent his parents in Hasbrouck on a trip to something they had always wanted to he bought a new station Wagon to replace the old one which was dangerous to drive because the Bot torn was rusted out and fumes were coming up under the his guess is that the whole family is better although he Doest always look at the prices on me he scan the newspapers for bargain sales and recently picked up a Staple gun for it just Doest make any sense to throw Money does it economic Freedom is an important it Means you can think much More freely about your of Hoener is a native of he turned Down football and Art scholarships at a number of opting to study graphic design at tuition free Cooper Union in new York because he Felt it was the his parents were trying to put three sons through College at just about the same while he was at he worked in the advertising he earned bachelors and masters degrees in painting at taught at Boston University and ran an advertising Agency and design service in Boston before coming to Hampshire College 10 years he and his bought a 15room Home in Northampton built at the turn of the Century with a big barn behind it for his painting and land for Bis organic he has it 7 percent mortgage and says that because it is so paying it off Doest make much while he had never won anything he says he has always been Lucky in family and if by Luck you mean i won a Turkey eight times and a not that kind of but Lucky to be Able to do at different Points in my life what i anyone who is Able to do what they want is despite his Good there have been disappoint he lost in the Stock Market when he was in the and on third of it his own the rest in paper Ive run into failures that everyone runs he the thing i find most frustrating is Asim working along and in doing some fairly Good i get that feeling that the next ones going to be i go at that with a very different Type of then you sit Back and look at it and you realize that its not so Hoener estimates he averages Between and 000 a year additional income from Art since his winnings became there have been the usual Crank and the insurance salesmen and Stock he gets rid of the stockbrokers quickly by re minding them of the he something in not bothered but apparently the kids get a certain amount of Gaff from their colleagues so that their enthusiasm is always somewhat he i walked into the House one Day and i heard Donna on the phone what do you mean its not fair so obviously the girl on the other end was giving her some difficulty Over the fact i had won the lottery for the second and she was getting somewhat she did your father buy a lottery ticket then he cant Hoener started buying season lottery tickets when he took an economist at his word while listening to a talk show on the the economist being interviewed was asked by one of the people who called in How that person should go about Arthur Hoener after winning million in Massachusetts lottery drawing in investing some that was the time of a very Uncertain Market in the Middle of the and he said that Given Market conditions you might just As Well go to Las vegas and enjoy gambling because he didst see the Market As anything else but a wild Gamble at that and i had just finished a very Small design i had an extra Hundred dollars so i bought four season tickets on the lottery and that did he didst win anything the first but renewed his tickets and now buys 20 a year at a Cost of in not greedy about he i dont sit Here and i want to win i want to win in a pretty Lucky Guy and with that kind of you could just throw it and the other which bothers my conscience a Little is that i really Haven invested much in this whole it really requires an awful lot of people to buy tickets for someone to i guess i feel rather strongly that there just has to be some payback into that second time Winner Hoener with Check in Boston last january 1981 the stars and stripes Page 9