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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 24, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 12 the stars and stripes sunday. January 24,19bb replaces bartender s mistake Worth $ 10 i on from press dispatches a bartender won s10 million in the Illinois lottery after Hilt int the wrong Button on a computer and dispensing Iso Worth 01 unwanted tickets. A t Zera 47. Was working a Ollic s tavern in the Southern Illinois Community of Columbia when a customer ordered j50 Worth of tickets for inc sat urday loud drawing. She mistakenly pressed the Button for wednes Day s lotto 7 drawing and found herself with 50 lottery tickets the customer did t want. She was forced to buy All 50 chances herself. Although she later managed to sell 20 of the is tickets to friends Zara said she Felt she had lost j30 until thursday morning. Lottery officials called tavern owner Ollic Hoock to Tell him the winning ticket had been sold in his bar and Zera found she hid won the j10 million Jackpot. I broke Down and cried she said. I said Ollie come Check these i think i be got them 1 was crying so hard i could t set the numbers by then. She declined 10 identify the customer who refused to buy the so lotto 7 tickets. Zura will get s5qo.ooo a year for 20 years. After Federal and state tanks. That should work out to s38 7,500 a year lottery officials said. Hoock will receive j 100,000 because the business that Sells the winning ticket gets i percent of inc Winner s share. Her in slant wealth did not change Zera s morn ing. She worked at the bar As she has for the past seven years saying to can t say a quit and leave nobody Here to  Gas promotion s a fief Scott Fem indu normally fills his Gas Lank quickly at muck s convenience store in fryc Borg iii., but with Gas Selling far 19.9 cents per gallon in a promo Liona Campaign he had to wait in a line stretching for blocks. In fact Fernandez had to wait so Long his pickup truck ran out of Gas. So he hitchhiked to nearby Smithlin filled a Gas can and then returned to Wail in the line which was three blocks Long. This is the fourth car i be had to fill up today Fernandez said. The cheapest i be Ever gotten be fore was 50 cents. I m ecstatic. I can t believe  the Sale was scheduled to last from 7 . Until 11 ., but eager customers began lining up for the Gas about 5 30 . Huck s philosophy is to look at the Long run and gel people in said Charles Martin regional director of Huck a we be sold Gas As cheap As 25 cents. Life in the cause of greek Independence from the turks porn Star faces trial Milan s Deputy stale prosecutor has initiated step to bring italian Deputy and porno Star Iloni Stiller to trial on obscenity charges his office reported.  Faitella applied 10 he italian parliament for approval to try he hungarian bom Starlet better known As Cic Cotini who was elected in parliament on inc Radical party ticket last year. Under italian Law. Parliament May reject requests for investigating and trying elected members. Conn sources reported hat Cie Ceplina could face charges of performing obscene acts in Public during her stage show in a downtown Milan nightclub last fall. Before her election Stiller often faced charges of obscenity and twice received suspended sentences in court. Suf Zera continues to Terve up bowls of Tittl after winning $10 million in the Illinois lot Tery. And one Lime in san Diqiu 1il, we gave it  Byron fans Brave weather lovers of Jori hymn s verse braved wind rain and sleet in London Friday As they celebrated the 200th birthday of the Greal English romantic poet. About 20 members of the Byron society Assem bled at 8 . For inc anniversary ceremony beside Hii statue at London s Hyde Park Corner. A Little fancy footwork was in order though As the celebrants were forced to dash about catching wreaths whipped away by the wind. Lady Elizabeth Longford s umbrella was a own inside out three times but she said she was delighted to be there. It s the greatest event of the year and i be been looking Forward to it Hough not for 200 years said the countess whose 16 books include a biography of Byron. I have loved Byran s poetry since i was a student at Oxford More than 60 years ago she said. Byron died Young at 36, in 1824. Sacrificing his fast food is hip despite what their mothers would say fast food caters View themselves As More sophisticated and adventurous than make in from scratch traditionalists according to a food Industry study. Frequent buyers of take out food differ not Only in age sex and education from occasional buyers they also differ psychologically according to the study by the food marketing Institute and the Campbell soup co the Survey found that from 41 percent to 55 per cent of heavy buyers defined As eating take out food twice a week or More described themselves As Vad Ventrous Modem up to Dat successful Carter oriented pressured and  Only 23 percent to 39 percent of infrequent fast food buyer identified themselves As possessing these qualities preferring the Iclef image of less har ried conservatives who refuse to eat dinner out of a  buyers More than heavy buyers View themselves As Home entered old fashioned traditional and tired said the 1987 study. The Institute a Wuh inglut  Trade association represents supermarkets thai Are Selling Deli sandwiches salads and partially cooked steaks in Competition with fast food chains and ethnic restaurants said Timothy m. Hammonds senior vice president. The study of s14 households Over a four week period found that take out food has became a Way of life in american society purchased by eight out of 10 households surveyed. The Saga continues in nine Short stories by superlative writers the companions confront wizards and dragons magical spectacles and daggers possessed and survive memorable encounters with the minor races of Brynn. Plus a rollicking new Novella by Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman chronicling the outrageous fortunes of the next generation of heroes. The dragon Lance Saga with three million copies sold continues dragon Lance vol. 2 is available in paperback for $3.95 at a stars and stripes Bookstore near you  
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