European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 14, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                He followed up his blockbuster Best seller with another successful Book How to Slop worrying and Star i living. Carnegie was among those who lost his shirt in the crush of 29, an experience thai made him less Apt to equate Success with Money his first Royalty Check for the Book totalled $90.000. He waited three Days to Deposit it. For three Days he just sat there looking at it says Crom finally he said this would have mean so much to me years ago. When i could be helped my parents now in does t mean so much " years later Dale Hill a Carnegie course instructor in san Francisco who owed the company a sizeable amount of Money received a note from the Boss telling him the debt had been forgiven. Crom recalls or. Carnegie simply told him thai he d made enough Money that year and did t need any  his ambivalence toward Money coupled with his. Faith in humanity occasionally led to poor investments. He had such a belief in other  says Crom. A sad Story or an enthusiastic one would prompt him to reach into his Wallet. He was always a soft  Dorothy Carnegie whom he married in the mid 40s, had All the business acumen he  says Crom. With her help Carnegie began building the organization that now employs Between 250 and 300 people at its Homey Headquarters in Garden City by and its vast distribution Center for course materials in nearby Hauppauge. Both Are on new York s Long Island where Dorothy Carnegie still lives. A photo group of factory worker who won $13.7 million in the new York state lotto Are at on the Assembly line. Lotto Luck and the american dream new York times year later not much has changed. Joe Smith William Jon Ming Willy lao Luis Ramos Kevin Fleming Walter Sobolak and the others big Lime lottery winners now Are still on the Assembly line at the Hantscho Plant in mount Vernon . From 7 am. To 4 30  half an hour for lunch Brown bag or takeout from Paul s Deli nearby they work Side by Side at the same Gray tables under the same fluorescent lights making Small parts for offset printing presses. With overtime it brings them each about $25,000 a year. A year ago they got a piece of the $41 million new York state lotto Jackpot the largest in the nation s history when one of the 21 $1 tickets they had chipped in to buy came up a Winner. With two other winning tickets held by a waitress from Troy. N.y., and a computer consultant from Brooklyn the Hantscho workers take was $13.7 million or about $650,000 apiece the annual instalments paid out Over 20 years come to about $24,000. After Federal withholding taxes for each of the 21. I consider myself  said Ramos 33 years old from the dominican Republic who still lives in the same $500-a-Monlh apartment near the grand concourse in the Bronx with his wife and tour Small children. I got my kids my wife and a couple dollars. In a couple More years i la retire and go Back to my  Ramos and the others Are proudly known As the Lucky 21, two mount Vernon natives and the others immigrants from a dozen different countries. They have been immortalized in a lotto television commercial and a lotto subway poster with the slogan lotto made our american dream come  but they Are still in Many ways the men in subassembly a Bunch of hard working Guys who know How to watch a Buck in the words of Paul Leek vice president for personnel at Hantscho inc. With the exception of Fleming 32, the Token Bachelor the members of the Lucky 21 All have wives and children to support. Their lottery checks have made them More secure they say but hardly millionaires. And while they have opened tax shelters and some have bought new cars and nicer Homes they Are still living in the same neighbourhoods of Yonkers mount Vernon. The Bronx and new Rochelle. Jon Ming his wife and their 13-year-old son still Call Home the same $450-a-month, two bedroom apartment in mount Vernon near the Railroad tracks. And Jon Ming still goes to work in the same 1977 Dodge Van. People say How a doing millionaire " he said. You still driving thai old beat up Van " Steve Yung 32, irom China gave up his Post lotto plan to move his family from their two bedroom apartment near Pelham Parkway in the Bronx to Yonkers. House prices Are too  he said. But he says he is grateful for the lottery prize Hal made in possible for his wife to quit her Job As a seamstress in a downtown Manhattan factory and stay Home with their year old son. If the lottery has transformed anyone s Lile it is certainly Kevin Fleming s. Fleming the other mount Vernon a live had been to put it mildly Down on his Luck. I did t have a checking  he said i had a savings account if you Call $100 a savings  his one credit card had been withdrawn he was driving or More accurately not driving a 1979 Chevetta that needed repairs he could not afford everybody thought it was the biggest piece of junk  he said i was bumming rides to work Riding my bicycle when the weather was  moreover he was still recovering both emotionally and financially from the deaths within in months of each other of both of his parents. The first thing Fleming bought after he hit the Jackpot was a Chevrolet Van with custom Interior that Cost almost $20.000. He moved from a $450-a-month dump in mount Vernon As he Calls it to a modern two bedroom apartment in Yonkers for $513 a month. He bought a Var opened his first checking account and an Ira hired an accountant and started thinking about reapplying for a credit card. He wrote a Check to the american cancer society in memory of his Mother who died of cancer. He made the longest flight of his life to California to visit one of his four Brothers Kenny whom he had t seen in 12 years. Winning the lottery was second to seeing him he said. While Fleming is going into his ninth year at Hantscho and has no immediate plans to leave his lottery win Means that he is no longer tied to the factory As he once was. He gets two weeks and three Days vacation time five sick Days and 11 holidays annually. Now he says he can afford to take occasional personal Days without pay and turn Down overtime something his late father Edward Fleming who put in 18 years on the night shift at Hantscho could never do. The lottery Fleming and the others say has also brought a mostly Welcome attention and respect for 21 men who Felt they were working their lives away in near oblivion. The members of the Lucky 21 have their own in House press agent the enthusiastic Jon Ming. He is a Man with plans. He would like to get the Lucky 21 a Beer commercial. 4,1986 the stars and stripes Page 15