The Fresno Bee from Fresno, California • 13

Pineos'1 hard for something Mr Pineo has fallen into good fortune all his life and recently had a sweepstakes ticket worth $150000 practically forced upon him Mr Pineo gave up the search for an Irish Sweepstakes ticket Less than 24 hours later Leonard Collinge entered his store and said: got one ticket left Will you buy The ticket netted Mr Pineo $80800 He 1 felt he could do better for the wages were small but let things slide Some weeks later a traveler said to him: A store in Calgary Alberta wants a salesman I believe you copld handle the job Pretty good salary for a young man too Figuring that this was his luck working Pineo went to Calgary and got the job A year later he began to yearn for promotion but suppressed every desire to force the issue Then without warning he was transferred to a better job in the firm's branch at Edmonton Alberta Several months passed and the Edmonton store burned down The ashes were scarcely cool when Pineo was offered a position as traveling talesman for a large rubber company He accepted In few weeks he itched to get back into store and made several attempts to land a job of that sort in the various towns he visited Pineos: Willene Pineo Lester Pineo Pineo The dark-haired 15-year-old daughter Willene will put the Pineo luck to its severest test soon when she departs for Hollywood and a try for movie fame So Pineo has run his own shoe store for several years and it is prospering He will continue to operate it but set aside part of the sweepstakes money for enlargements snd new home TT was while he lived on the Canadian prairie that Pineo was given a wrong office address when he started out to make a business call In the he was captivated by the winsome smile and contrived to meet her again Some months later they were' married was my luckiest day when he called at the wrong says Mrs Pineo "Mipe says her husband "Luckier than the day youwon the he was asked "Far The Pineo luck appears to have descended to his two children Tho son Lester 21 realizes that he is scarcely old enough for the spell to have exerted much influence as far as he is concerned but he believes in it And now the willowy dark-haired daughter Willene Pineo 15 is going to put the family tradition to its severest test She plans to invade Hollywood soon financed by part of the sweepstakes receipts During the past few months Willene having a bit of a flair for acting centered her thought on Hollywood The youngest member of the family and the most susceptible sha believes more implicitly in the Pineo luck than even her brother and parents Not long ago she performed in a charity performance although she had just arisen from a sickbed' In the audience was a Hollywood woman Mrs Elhelyn Belt-Hamlin who was visiting friends in British Columbia Mrs Hamlin is motion picture chairman for tha Canadian Clubs of Los Angeles and holds various other club positions in California She is a prolific writer of motion pictura material Regarding Willene as a distinct type Mrfc Hamlin went to the dressing room believe a place for you in she remarked the Pineo luck? said the girl wished it and what fha Pineos wish always Comes interest money $2300 But Midday Sun loped in first at the Epsom Downs derby and the ticket was worth His defiance of the Pineo luck cost him nearly $70000 His half-interest plus the syndicate's $5800 netted him $80800 Mr Pineo laughed it off good-naturedly a fortune is better than none he said In 1906 Mr Pineo left his birthplace in Dcrwick Nova Scotia for Nelson British Columbia to seek a surveying job' He was 1 6 There was no job available Frantically he sought any kind of work for six weeks -Every effort failed Suddenly he remembered his school how success always came when he didn't try Discouraged not knowing where the next meal would come from he sat down in a hotel rotunda and waited An hour later a farmer entered looked around walked over to young and said: nred a hand Good board but no Pineo accepted Daily he heaved huge rocks off a stone-boat He wanted a better job but tned for none In two months the Pineo luck resumed operations A gas buggy broke down near the farm Pineo helped the Had Midday Sun not finished in the the ticket would have been worth whole hearted believers in the Luck of the Mr and Mrs Claude driver who said: to "I'm going to Oregon Want PINEO went The motorist let him' out on the main street of Hood River in front of a store In the store window was a -sign: "Youth Wanted" Five minutes later die sign was removed and Pineo was at work 1 By Sian Beck VANCOUVER CLAUDE PINEO a shoe merchant of New Westminster British Columbia is a shrewd and levelheaded business man but he does not need these qualities to achieve success In fact they are detrimental for he it pursued by a strange fate Friends in his home town call it Lock of the In important matters every effort Mr Pineo exerts ends in failure But if he expresses a wish and does nothing about it Lady Luck promptly dances attendance and the wish is mysteriously and quickly fulfilled The same uncanny charm seems to hover over the other members of his wife son and daughter Mr Pineo discovered this peculiar and invisible influence at and it apparently never has left him Whenever he strove desperately to pass exams he flunked MTies ever he let things slide he passed school tests with flying colors Answers that he thought he did not know flowed from his pen "When he began hi work at 16 he encountered the same obstinate dilemma Desirous of carving out some kind of a career for himself he faced a blank wall at every turn until he quit trying Immediately the mysterious influence exerted itself as if some unseen force were determined to shape his life to its own will Whenever he tried to get a job no job was available As soon as he quit trying a job would fall into his lap The same element persisted in his later business Early in 1937 he decided to buy a ticket in the Irish Hospitals sweepstakes Vainly he hunted for someone who sold them In a week he gave up the search Leu than 24 hours afterward one Leonard Collinge entered his store and said: got one ticket left in the book nobody seems to want it Will you buy Mr Pineo bought it and in a few days forgot about it In June he received a cable from Ireland that he had drawn Midday Sun Jubilant he forgot the Pineo luck Insiead of sitting back and waiting he accepted a Sait Francisco syndicate's offer of $5800 for half- Four Pineo went to Vancouver and immediately got a job with the firm mentioned By this time Pineo had begun to visualize bigger things He wanted to manage a store -but kept his yearning secret A month after working in Vancouver his employer said: opening a branch in New Westminster Want to manage For eight years Mr Pineo managed the New Westminster store and desired notlving else His salary was sufficient his home life was harmonious and there seemed nothing else to wish for But one day he became possessed with the idea to open an establishment of his own He told Mrs Pineo and they started figuring the amount of capital required It was far beyond their means For more than a month Pineo sought to interest capital but deaf ears met his pleas Then he said to Mrs Pineo: hopeless We'll stay as we Less than 48 hours later an old friend'called at the store and in the course of conversation said: you ever feel like opening a store of your own Claude finance Pineo said: didn't know you had any money" T've just inherited a tidy was the reply Every effort was rebuffed So he gave up the idea Three days later a fellow-traveler on the train casually remarked: you like to live in Pineo replied: His companion named a large Vancouver shoe-house that was expanding and might need extra hands Confident that his luck was still guiding him (Copyright lilt by Every Week Usisilni).