European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - December 29, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 the stars and stripes monday december 29,1986 lottery winners resist big changes in lifestyle Chester c Naif. A Ivanell Kitchen does t Blush anymore when she walks through a store in this Serene Sierra Nevada town and hears someone Whis per there s the millionaire people in Northern California s forested High coun try admit they re still a hit awed by the sudden Fortune of one Folh Crown in the stale lottery but they Chat More about snowstorms and firewood prices than celebrities. Mrs. Kitchen who hit inc lottery for $4.4 million on feb. Is. Said she was 60 Miles from Home in Chico when a department store clerk gushed Are you the person who won the lottery it s great to know you shop  in interviews with the associated press others among the 10 biggest winners in the 15-month-pld stale lottery the nation s largest with about s2 billion in annual sales described Bright bul Brief turns in the spotlight. Generally the winners say they Are making Wise use of their windfalls and that More Security luxuries travel and time for avocations outweigh inc taxes fawning relatives hounding reporters and clamouring salesmen. They All say you Haven t changed a bit Why would we change said mrs. Kitchen 49, a retired beautician who says she still shops for bargains. Tom Kitchen 45, her husband of two years quil bar Cring bul still performs in a country Rock band and has taken up Oil painting. He fishes More Loo. A maid cleans the House now. The kitchens plan to escape the freezing Winters. But Chester a town of about 1,750 people nestled at 4.500 feet and ringed by mountains will remain their Home inc rest of inc year. The first of the $174,365 checks they la receive annually for 20 years the lottery deducts 20 percent for Federal income taxes was used to add stones 10 his wedding ring visit Arkansas relatives remodel their Home build a garage and buy a new Dodge pick up and a 1973 Lincoln Continental. They re also investing under a financial planner s guidance. Mrs. Kitchen says nobody except one relative asked for Money. There were break ins Afier they won but inc Kitch ens say they Don t understand winners who move and gel unlisted Telephone numbers. You can t be afraid of  says Kitchen. Our friends still treat us the same mrs. Kitchen ranks 10th on the top California lot Tery winners list which is headed by Gordon Pivar s3, of Ocean Side who won si7.9 million dec. 6. The clothing Salesman who received an initial instalment of $717,600, plans Only gradual changes in his life. He is the sixth ranking pottery Winner nationwide. Second on California s list is eve Spencer 66. And her husband Paul 64, of Saratoga who won $15.2 million in the big spin contest on june 21. Spencer says the Windfall has changed Little about their lives in Saratoga about 40 Miles Southeast of san Francisco. He says they invest More and contribute o charities and they have replaced their Cadillac Al Dorado with a new Jaguar. Our perspective has not changed a great Deal. Bul Quality has gone up a  the spencers say there were mixed effects from the publicity. It enabled us to reach people we had lost so thai was Joy. Otherwise i m sure we be had what All people who be had a Windfall run into schemes and pleas for help from total strangers. All the con men who have underwater acreage in the South Pacific have tried to sell land to  Laura Graney 34, of Pasadena who won j5.2 Mil lion on feb. 8. Making her eighth on the winners list says her Luck has Given her More free time for the Best things in life "1 started taking a screen writing class in june i m enjoying that immensely. I m spending my Lime with our four children Loo she says. If there is an emergency. I know i won t have to mortgage the  added Don t pack coupons for groceries any More. Bul i do still usually shop for clothes on Sale ten City erected for la. Homeless los Angeles Dpi organizers of a Lent City for the homeless have pitched a giant White Canvas ten on a vacant lot near cily Hall to shelter up to 300 skid Row people who arc among the Nalion s largest population of homeless. We re beaten battered and bruised but we re still Here organizer Ted Hayes said Friday after fail ing to gel the tent cily erected by Christmas. A Crew from inc Academy Tell and Canvas co. Took 2 i hours Friday 10 Pilch the 5,000-Square-foot circus Lent organizers rented for $1,200 after weeks of battling red tape and bureaucrats Hayes said. The rental Cost was for inc labor to put the tent up a company official said. Red Cross workers delivered 300 cols with blankets. The makeshift shelter is already equipped with eight portable toilets and volunteers will be serving meals for the hundreds of homeless expected to seek Refuge under the tent the temporary Camp was named Tell City 2 after a similar Lent City pitched on the same lot two years ago during Christmas to draw attention to the county s Esti mated 30,000 homeless the nation s largest such population. The biggest hurdle to the charitable Effort was a demand last week by the stale department of general services for $500,000 in liability insurance. By Christmas eve organizers had found both an insurance company willing to Issue the insurance and some one willing to pay the $2,500 Premium. Hayes mistakenly believed that the Marine corps had agreed to donate two Large dormitory style Lents and three smaller ones for supplies but they did not arrive. Once again volunteers began appealing for Lents and out of desperation got out the yellow pages and started making Calls Hayes said. The permit for the Lent City expires tuesday but organizers Are campaigning to keep it running longer. Despite a Long struggle by activists few shelters or programs exist for the homeless and most end up sleeping in alleys and Parks. The tack of programs to help the county s swelling homeless population prompted activists for inc needy to erect the first tent cily two years ago As a Way of focusing attention on the Issue. Stateside hostage s gifts will stay under sister s Yule tree Cleveland Al Holiday gifts for Terry Anderson one of inc american hostages in Leb anon will remain under the Christmas tree at his sister s Home until All the Needles fall Down she  say whose brother was kidnapped in Leb anon in March s5, said her family Hung a Stock ing for Anderson and bought him the presents in Hopes he would be released for Christmas inc Plain dealer newspaper reported sunday. Anderson. 3u. Chief Middle East correspondent for the associated press remains a captive believed held by the pro iranian group islamic jihad. Elephant Given by Gandhi Dies at Honolulu zoo Honolulu up a s a year pid Indian Csc Phanel Given o the Honolulu zoo in May by Indian Leader Rajiv Gandhi has died zoo officials said zoo veterinarian or. Patrick Lead Cater said a bacterial infection probably killed the 5-fool, 1,700-Pound elephant named Jyoti. She had been in Good health officials said bul on Christmas eve Yoli showed signs of lethargy. Her death stunned look opera. There car mainly was no indication prior to this it was a very sudden appearance Lead Cater said. He likened her Fata illness to toxic Shock syndrome. Budget shortfall forces Job freeze in Philadelphia Philadelphia a mayor w. Wilson Goode. Citing a projected $44 million budget Short rail has ordered a hiring freeze and lightened spending urn1 in june 30, the end of the fiscal year. Under the order City departments cannot fill vacancies buy supplies and equipment or hire outside consultants without approval from finance director Carlo r. Gambit la. Goode said inc projected deficit was primarily due to the loss of Federal Revenue sharing. The City has had an informal hiring freeze in effect since july i and is offering delinquent taxpayers a 65 percent discount on penalties if they pay up before Jan. 31. I Don t know if we re going to make it up gambit la said. We re going to do the Best we can. We be got to Start  67 skiers rescued in no. After lift Breaks Down Gilford , a a ski lift Cable slipped off its track saturday stranding 67 skiers who had to be lowered to the ground one by one in a 45-minute procedure authorities said. It was sunny and warm and there was no wind so it was a Good Day if you had to do something like that said David Buckman marketing d i Rector of the Gunstock ski area. A safely device caught the Cable when it Slid off a Pulley wheel. Ski patrol members threw lines Over the Cable and raised seats to the skiers Buckman said. Gunstock set up a hot chocolate brigade for the rescued skiers and gave them free lift tickets. Course puts hideous9 singers in tune with music Seattle a Eloncia Cooper teaches Only the worst off key warblers. To enrol in the University of Washington music professor s evening class prospective students Musl audition and sing a barely recognizable rendition of America or god save the Queen both of which have the same tune. I Only work with inc ones in the worst shape said Cooper who started the class nearly eight years ago in the belief that with inc right teaching any one could sing. A lot of us were just terrible Bob Jackson a letter Carrier said in describing the beginning of the weekly class which costs j68 for the semester. Hideous agreed Monica Woerfel. Jackson said his goal is to be Able to drive Down the Highway one Day and keep in tune with the songs on his radio Cooper starts simply teaching inc class the do re i scale and a hand Symbol for each note then she goes on to rhythm and to Reading music. She has a real Knack for drawing people out without making them self  Jackson said. But she does t let you off the Hook either. And there s lots of positive reinforcement you feel like you be really accomplished something if you sing one note in  while Cooper thinks the answers to Why some people can sing belter than others May be partly physiological she believes psychological and social factors also figure into the equation. Most Uncertain singers can Lell you in which Grade he teacher first told them to carry the Flag instead of singing the National Anthem she said. People in their 60s or 70s can still remember this. It s a very emotional  the students pass through several stages on their Road 10 tuneful singing Cooper said. First they can do their own thing and feel no pain she said. Next they become aware when others Are singing out of tune. Then they realize when their own voices Are off. At the fourth stage they distinguish whether they Are singing Sharp or Flat. At the fifth they can respond to hand gestures or verbal commands to sing higher or lower. Finally the students can match a Given pitch on their own. One Man a professor had a Lovely Tenor voice Cooper recalls. We were singing an Irish Folk song. He was in the Middle of in like he was singing for years when he realized in was Beautiful. Everyone did. And tears just welted up in his  this semester s final goal a proper rendition of Happy  " it s probably the second hardest song losing after the Star spangled Banner " the teacher said