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a (JbADCiTV TIMES jCM Thursday, Jury 30. 1998 Officials: No jackpot winner from Jowa But chances are about 90 that someone, somewhere has winning ticket h2mmessa rettes and went outside and waited for the 20 minutes it took us to run them all through," she said. I Only one other lottery garrje came close to the $295.7 million amount. Last year's Christmas lottery drawing in Spain named "El Gordo," or "the Fat One" had 'a $270 million purse, but the graid prize was only $2 million.1' 7 Chuck Strutt, executive diretfar of the Multi-State Lottery Association, said late Wednesday it wgs apparent earlier that the estimated jackpot would be exceeded. "We knew that we met our million mark toward the end business on Tuesday and we were actually thinking it might brEak $300 million, but it looks like it didn't quite do it.

But we didn't see any need to raise it either. I think $250 million was exciting enough." swollen by players from New York, New Jersey and more headaches Wednesday when lottery machines went off line. The glitch blamed on delays in balancing electronic books was fixed after several hours. "The line stayed where it was for two hours," said Patrick Leddy of Great Neck, N.Y., who waited with about 50 other people outside Ship-pan Candies in Stamford, Conn. "I was griping.

I was antsy. Everybody was pretty antsy." In Arizona, retailers sold stacks of tickets to players arriving from California and Nevada. Carolyn St. Mars, a store owner in Yuma, said one Los Angeles man spent $1,000 hoping to land a lucky ticket. "We gave him a cup of coffee and a chair, he bought a pack of ciga cent chance that at least one of the 150 million tickets expected to be sold by the drawing would hit the jackpot.

The actual ticket sales reached 210.8 million, 32 million in Connecticut, a record for any state. Numbers drawn at the 9:59 p.m. CDT drawing were 8, 39, 43, 45, and 49, with a Powerball 13. The jackpot, earlier estimated at $250 million, rose to $292 million by the time of the drawing, and later was updated to $295.7 million when one state updated its sales total. Long lines were reported at many of the 45,000 retailers in the 20 participating states and the District of Columbia, particularly in border towns forced to accommodate swarms of players from non-Powerball states.

Connecticut retailers, who had been coping for days with lines DES MOINES (AP) Giddily eyeing a world record $295.7 million Powerball jackpot, a nation of optimists coped with computer glitches and hours-long lines Wednesday on the tiny chance that six randomly picked numbers would change their lives. "If I win, I'll have a fight with my husband," said Lisa Youngblut of Indianola as she purchased a ticket for herself and 20 for relatives in Florida. "I want to invest it all, and he wants to invest it in playing every golf course in America." Iowa lottery officials said there was no jackpot winner in the state, although there was one 100,000 winner. With 80.1 million possible combinations, a player's chance of winning was remote. Still, lottery officials said there was about a 90 per Bill Wundram D-Day movie stirs painful memories in vets Behind every parent Every home should be a clearinghouse, the place where we are lessoned and made ready for life.

All the grim stories of child neglect and the passive attitude of too many Quad-City-Land parents reminds of a lesson told in this piece that hangs in our 'teacher-daughter's workroom. The author is unknown. "I dreamed I stood in a studio and watched two sculptors there. The clay they used was a young child's mind they fash-'ioned it with care. "One was a teacher the tools she used were books, music and art.

One was a parent with a sturdy hand and a loving heart. "Day after day the teacher worked, with touch that was deft and sure, while the parent labored by her side to polish and smooth it over "And when at last their task was done, they were proud of what they had wrought, for the things they molded into the child could'- be neither sold nor bought. "Each agreed she could have failed, if she had worked alone for behind the parent stood a school, and behind the teacher, a home." a Howzatt? 'Chain letter' $1 bills Life in the city: Making the rounds are $1 bills with message on the margin in pen. Chain letters of a sort, one can suppose. The message: "Bless, Saint Lazarus." Wording continues: "Any- one who receives this bill will be blessed with lots of money if they rewrite 'Bless, Saint Lazarus' on 10 other bills." (Lazarus was a poor beggar in the parable of the rich and the poor man.) Cryptic, eh? The bills and the writing on them remind of the i "short snorters," dollar bills signed for luck during World War fl i by flight crew members about to go on a dangerous mission, or GIs on some risky assignment.

A', While the landing at Normandy was not easy, "we knew what to do," he said. Soodhalter thought his work helping to plan the invasion would prepare him for the real thing. But it did not ready him for the terror of waiting in the dark in a trench above the beach, which was being shelled by German artillery. "If they would have moved in further, they would have killed us all," he said. That sense of terror was palpable in the film and created a tension among the audience that did not dissipate easily after the movie ended.

The opening scene was shot in a way that makes moviegoers feel as if they are dodging bullets in a morass of water, sand, bodies and blood. Was it really that chaotic? "It was worse," Soodhalter said. "I cannot forget that day. It's like a picture in my brain and it doesn't go away." If there is one lesson the two veterans hope the movie will pass on to the generations of Americans who follow them, it is this: Do not ever take for granted freedom and liberty. Always remember to vote and to give thanks to the veterans and those ho died in the fight to win and preserve our slices of white bread.

"That boy who was eating white bread, it must have fallen from the heavens," Muhs said. (We) ate just the regular Army rations." He also wondered why the movie showed soldiers ripping both "dog tags" from around the necks of their dead comrades. One of the identification tags always remains with the body, he added. The Omaha Beach on which Soodhplter landed was much unlike the movie version, hi said. Of the five beaches where Allied forces landed that morning, German resistance was by far the stiffest at Bloody Omaha, as it came to be known.

"The beach was different, the obstacles were different. There was none of that stuff that we had to encounter." Still, "It was a good movie. It shows people that war is horrible," he added. "I recommend the movie to people who want to see a good war movie." "I thought it was' pretty impressive," added Muhs, who landed at Utah Beach, the other American target. As a first'lieutenant in an engineering combat unit, Muhs already had made landings in Sicily and Italy before he reached France.

Continued from Page IA have the expertise or medical supplies to save them. "I held a buddy's hand," Muhs remembered, looking off into a distant past. "I said, 'You'll make He said, 'No, I He went back as a corpse." That happens in the movie, too. And it is an emotionally devastating moment because Steven Spielberg's film makes the audience care about the individual soldiers. They become the moviegoers' bud- dies, dying in their arms." The movie's depiction of wounded men crying out for help stirred a painful memory for Soodhal- ter.

"After crawling like a little rat across the beach to a wall, I found all these'wounded. That's where they were bringing these wounded. The MPs were shouting for us to move on," said Soodhalter, then a 28-year-old chief warrant officer in the Army who had been intimately involved with the plan- ning of the invasion months before D-Day. Each' man was: quick to point out inaccurate details in the movie that stars Tom Hanks as a heroic unit leader, Capt. Miller.

In one scene, 'a soldier grabs a sandwich made of thick' slabs of meat stuffed between equally thick Mayor, civil rights director remain at odds l-H Major and minor mentions DAVENPORT'S city fathers, asking jjwhat the home folks want done with Fejervary Park, have had requests for only two things in particular: revival of Monkey Island and resurrection of Mother Goose. Anyone should know that! A POSTCARD of Remsen, Iowa, from inveterate biker Carter LeBeau, back from RAGBRAI: "Funniest comment on the trip from a New York biker who said he noticed all the small towns were named after their water towers." ft ductive" for her to address them privately. She and Yerington were scheduled to meet last week, but that meeting did not take It was not clear Wednesday night when they might to discuss their differences. 1 i Meanwhile, one person who wrote a letter to Yerington itfiupport of Drew-Peeples said he did so of his own accord, not at her request. Jim Slavens, the president of -Northwest Bank and Trust, said he saw a news report about the controversy and decided to write.

He praised her for an ability to "take an issue and see both sides and to. work toward a mediation." He also criticized Yerington's choice of Saldivar for the commission, given the man's past felony conviction. "Surely amongst a population of 100,000 or more people, we would be able to select individuals other than convicted felons." he wrote. Saldivar was convicted of voluntary manslaughter in 1984 in connection with the death of an Illinois Continued from Page IA have not initiated a campaign. I am just trying to do my job," Drew-Peeples said, adding that if people have called the mayor, it may be a reflection of the public's interest in the office.

The memos were sent two weeks ago, while Drew-Peeples was in Connecticut attending a conference. In one of them, dated July 15, she said Yeririgton's appointment of jsaldivar the commission was proof of a "witch hunt." She noted that documents signed by Saldivar describing a training session she had conducted and he had attended were defamatory and "perhaps even sexist, racist Saldivar, a Yerington campaign supporter who is also a member of the mayor's Diversity Committee, wrote in the minutes of the group's June meeting that training provided by Drew-Peeples was "not what was expected." "Issues were sugar-coated, sidelined and not returned to," he wrote, summing up what he said was the committee's consensus. "We need a qualified facilitator for diversity and sensitivity training," he also wrote. Saldivar said Wednesday that he shared some of those feelings, but simply signed the minutes as secre: tary to the commission. Saldivar also -said he holds ho grudge against Drew-Peeples because of the rights complaint he once filed.

"I don't hold vendettas," he added. Those meeting minutes, however, apparently upset Drew-Peeples, who' said the training session she provided was of high quality. She particularly was rankled, the memos show, by the suggestion that she was not qualified to do the training. "At what point is an African American woman, with 20 years experience, 15 years of which have been dedicated to civil rights law enforcement and related issues at what point is such an individual considered a 'qualified' she wrote. Drew-Peeples declined to answer questions from the Quad-City Times about the memos, saying they were meant to be internal communications and that it would be "more pro man.

Saldivar testified that the man made a pass, at him and tried to prevent him from leaving a room. The mayor, meanwhile, has said Sal-divar's background is an attribute because he has overcame adversity and is dedicated to serving the community. Saldivar pointed out his numerous affiliations with civil rights organizations and said he is "qualified" to serve. "They don't know me," he said of people who have questioned his appointment. In another development, a former commissioner said Wednesday there is concern that the infighting might get in the way of the commission's business.

Mike Bawden, the former chairman who recently resigned because he moved out of Davenport, said he has talked with Drew-Peeples supporters, Saldivar and others and wants to see whether he can help resolve the situation. "Let's not let this spin so out of control that we lose sight of what we want to do," he said. Mother Goose has welcomed generations of chll- -dren to Fejervary Park Zoo Joke of the weak: II Two hicks are bungee jumping. The first guy says to the know, we could make a lot of money running our own bungee 'jumping service south of the border." The second guy thinks this a great idea, so they sell their hounds and snow tires and pool their money and buy everything they'll need to get into the bungee business. They drive to Juarez in their pickups and begin to set up.

As they are constructing the tower, a crowd begins to assemble. The first guy jumps to test the equipment. He bounces at the end of the cord, and when he comes back up, the second guy notices that he some few cuts and scratches. Unfortunately, the second guy isn't able to catch him. The guy on the cord falls again, bounces and comes back up.

This time, he is bruised and bleeding. Again, the second guy misses him. The guy falls again and bounces back up. This time he is nearly unconscious. The second guy catches him this time and asks, "What happened? Was the cord too long?" The first guy says, "No, the cord was fine, but what is a pinata?" i 1 n- 1, 1 ifj Iowa Lottery $100,000 Cash Iowa Pick 3 7-3-4 Cash 4 Life: 19-33-82-95 Powerball Wed.

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