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D-16 FRIDAY, MAY 22, 1008 GENERAL NEWS 0 Illinois couple toasts Powerl3all LANCASTER. NEW ERA D-16 FRIDAY, MAY 22, 1993 GENERAL NEWS i' Illinois -k, A i couple toasts Powerball ,00.... 4, ir I ii- -IS .,01 1 Treat the house at tavern after claiming to have $195 million ticket 1 ff -4 1 '11 41 '4 l'': I. it -Ot li, 1 4 I 0 :4,, I 111:4 'I 4' i''4' A.4i 4 4 -ea ci las .4 'ri :11: l'Obe' il 1, si 't 41 ol of (te 4,1 0 lix 111- di ir car," Young love said of the jackpot. "They deserve it." The Capacis avoided a crowd Thursday evening by staying at Bill's tavern, where they are regulars.

"I've got a lot of friends today," Frank said as he looked around the smoky and crowded bar. "I still don't believe it." The previous biggest jackpot ever won in the United States was $118.8 million in the California lottery in 1991. But that was split 10 ways. The odds of picking the winning Powerball numbers were 80.1 million-to-1, and patrons of Bill's seemed genuinely to enjoy the proximity to such good fortune. "I'm glad somebody I know hit the dang thing," said Bernie Szydlo, who was one of the 15 from Bill's who bought tickets.

"I feel I was a part of it." Sherry Olejniczak is another Bill's regular who purchased a ticket. "It couldn't have happened to a nicer couple," she said. "I love them. We're like family here." But the Capacis will only be sharing the jackpot with their real family. Powerball.

Two bartenders from Bill's drove to a Wisconsin grocery just north of the Illinois state line Wednesday and bought tickets on behalf of about 15 customers, including the Capacis, said their son, Brian Capaci. The $5 tIckets were passed out in sealed envelopes Thursday afternoon. Brian Capaci said his mom telephoned with the news. "At first I didn't believe her, but then she started crying," he said. "I didn't know what to do.

I was shaking and crying, too." Capaci, 67, and Mrs. Capaci, 62, were a bit overwhelmed by their sudden fame and fortune. Asked what he was going to do with the jackpot, the burly gray-haired Capaci said, "I don't know yet. I ain't never been a millionaire before." Lottery officials said they would arrange for the Capacis to bring in their ticket for verification. "The news just spread like wildfire," said Prato, a neighbor.

"They're very nice people. I'm so happy for them." Bob Young love said he moved into the neighborhood about the same time as the Capacis after he and Frank returned from fighting in the Korean War. "I heard it on the radio and almost fell out of my STREAMWOOD, III. (AP) Frank and Shirley Capaci are comfortable indulging their friends a bit. The Capacis bought drinks for the house Thursday at Bilrs on Bartlett, a tavern and pizza hangout where a day earlier the retired electrician had paid a bartender $5 for a chance at winning the nation's largest lotteryjackpot.

Although lottery officials had yet to confirm the results, the Capacis said they held the winning Powerball ticket. It's worth $104,3 million because the winner chose a lump-sum cash option rather than the jackpot payoff of $195 million in 25 annual checks. "If I don't have the winning ticket, this bartender has a hell of a tab," Capaci said. They haven't said what they would do with the money, but Mrs. Capaci, a retired secretary, hinted that no lavish lifestyles or wild spending sprees were in the works.

Neighbors decked out the Capacis' modest single-story house with signs and green streamers to celebrate their apparent good fortune. "(This neighborhood is) very middle-class. Everybody's hard-working. So it's good to see something nice happen to someone," said Patrice Prato, who lives down the block. Illinois is not among the 20 states that take part in 1 AP photo Frank and Shirley Carpool celebrate winning the Powerball lottery, Thursday, at a tavern in Streamwood, "We are going to keep on living the way we normally do," Mrs.

Capaci said. I 1, PEOPLE IN THE NEWS This is 'Great Bear' is a terror-filled coaster! Lawyers push for Chapman release by Sara Barton New Era Staff Writer re 1 .1 ,0..., 1, ,,.101.11. .40, ..11, 1 "4.4 A i ee--7 0-44; 41 7 4', 'N. 1 V. i Ir.

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Doctors were awaiting results of blood tests to determine what drug the star of "Wall Street" and "Platoon" took, though hospital officials confirmed he was being treated for an overdose. His father, actor MARTIN SHEEN, appeared overwrought at a news conference. "My son is here because of a drug overdose," Sheen said, choking back tears as he stood alongside his wife, Janet. Los Angeles County paramedics rushed Sheen, accompanied by his personal trainer, to the hospital. He was admitted early Wednesday, conscious but complaining of tingling in his hands and difficulty walking.

While speaking with reporters, Martin Sheen referred to the March 1995 death of actor CARROLL O'CONNOR's son, HUGH, who killed himself after a long battle with cocaine addiction. "I'm sorry Carroll didn't get the chance that we have," the elder Sheen said. "This is not an easy moment in our lives, but it's a necessary one. Our hope is that he will accept recovery and be fine." Charlie Sheen has a troubled past dating to 1990, when he checked himself into a drug and alcohol rehabilitation facility. HERSHEY The Great Bear roars when it runs, and its passengers scream.

They scream because they are trapped in plastic chairs hanging from a thin metal track, with nothing but 120 feet of air between their feet and concrete. They scream because their bodies are treated in ways nature didn't intend: plunged to the ground in one instant and hurtled toward the moon in the next. They scream because their internal organs are flipped and frazzled and slung this way and that, like greasy gray burgers at a truck-stop diner. "You've got that look," the guy next to me said, as the 'coaster cars pulled into the station for unloading after my second time around. I was shaking and sweating and my throat was so dry it hurt.

I shut my eyes and gritted my teeth and prayed my conversational co-rider wasn't about to find out what I had for dinner. But we'll come back to that later. The Great Bear is the new, mega-expensive, mega-terrifying roller coaster at Hershey-park. It opens on Saturday and if you ride it you are insane. The fine, fine folks out here in candy-land have spent $13 million to scare people out of their minds and that's kind of sick, if you ask me.

The Bear is inverted, which means the cars slide along below the track instead of riding on top of the track like a nice, normal 'coaster. I rode The Bear twice during media day Thursday night and I can tell you: It is not nice and it is not normal. It gave me a hangover. I woke this morning with a wicked thirst and a pounding headache. Flashbacks from the night before ran through my head like newsreel from a horrible war, and my stomach flip-flopped like a dying fish.

Speaking of flip-flops. You can't wear them on The Bear because the ride is so violent, they would be flung off your feet. You have to take them off and sit on them. Also, a cheerful, creepy, disembodied voice tells you as you wait to board, "hold on to hats and if you wear glasses we advise that you take them off or otherwise secure them on the ride." And, the voice chirps, "Hersheypark is not responsible for items lost or damaged on this ride." "Does that include my HEAD?" I screamed to myself, as I waited calmly in the cattle New Era photos by Richard Nedster When the Great Bear reaches its top speed, 60 mph, a camera captures it as a blur. The 'coaster is inverted, so the limbs you see hanging from its cars are not arms.

They are feet. Do investigators have enough evidence to keep Thomas C. Chapman III in jail on charges that he murdered a woman found dead in Cocalico Creek Monday? Lancaster County District Attorney Joseph C. Madenspacher said this morning they do. In an interview with police, Chapman admitted to strangling 20-year-old Heather A.

Greth, although he immediately recanted the confession. However, prosecutors have asked that Tuesday's preliminary hearing on the criminal homicide charge against Chapman be delayed. A preliminary hearing is held to decide if prosecutors have enough evidence against a suspect to go to trial. Attorney Scott Oberholtzer, one of two public defenders appointed to represent the 19-year-old Chapman, wonders about the delay. "It's our position that if they had enough evidence to charge him, then they have enough evidence to do the preliminary hearing," Oberholtzer said this morning.

"Either you have enough evidence or set him free." Oberholtzer said he and fellow defense attorney Patricia Spotts planned to file a habeas corpus motion in county court this afternoon. After it is filed, a judge could schedule a hearing to determine whether there is enough evidence to keep Chapman in Lancaster County Prison. "Every day an individual sits in jail is irreparable could ever give you that back," Oberholtzer said. "If they're going to ultimately not proceed against him, then he ought to get out now." Madenspacher said he would oppose releasing Chapman. "At the present time, we feel that we have sufficient evidence to hold him," the district attorney said.

He declined to say whether there is evidence other than man's confession. Madenspacher pointed out that in addition to Greth's death, police are investigating the unexplained death of her boyfriend, 22-year-old Craig A. Bowers, whose body was found in the creek Tuesday. The two had gone to the creek Monday morning to walk Bowers' dog, family and friends have said. Autopsies found that both died of drowning, but neither death has been ruled a homicide, according to the county coroner.

Madenspacher said he asked for the preliminary hearing to be delayed so investigators could "focus all of our resources on the investigation as opposed to re-focusing for a court hearing." A spokeswoman at District Justice Jene Willwerth's office in Ephrata said the preliminary hearing would be rescheduled, and a decision on a new time would probably be made on Tuesday. The defense's request for a habeas corpus hearing is a separate issue and has not yet been ruled on by a judge. Oberholtzer said the move is meant to accelerate prosecutors' decision about how to proceed with Chapman. The district attorney said investigators searched the area around the creek near the border of Ephrata Borough and Ephrata Township again Thursday. Madenspacher said they were "looking More EPHRATA on C-8.

1.. 4 1 it 2', 1 ii'l '2 i 1 l''' n''. A'A i 1 4 r'' 4' ,..1, 4:, i ,..7 ,:.,) 7 i' 1, i 1 .1 1. A av I 4t 1 I ,4 ,1 4 tit, or, 144...... 1.,,, i tt, i -1 i I -04 I-- I 4,4, A lie' 1 1, 1., I '1----: 7 i I- I Ihrin --'s i ') :7 i 5-- i John Derek 'critical' after heart surgery Movie producer JOHN DEREK, husband of actress BO DEREK, was in extremely critical condition today after heart surgery.

Derek, 71, underwent lengthy surgery early Thursday at Marian Medical Center in Santa Maria, a day after he was found unconscious in his Santa Ynez Valley home. A nursing supervisor confirmed his condition this morning. DR. LUKE FABER, the cardiac surgeon, described Derek's condition as a spontaneous catastrophic injury to the heart and aorta, which carries blood to the arteries for distribution throughout the body. Mrs.

Derek, star of the film "10," was at his bedside. Derek, an actor-turned-producer, suffered a mild heart attack in 1986. He appeared in such films as "Knock on Any Door," "All the King's Men" and "Exodus." His productions have included "Tarzan the Ape Man," which starred his wife. A couple of crazy clowns from the Ring ling Bros. and Barnum Bailey Circus prepare to ride The Great Bear.

The circus is playing in Hershey. The 'coaster opens to the public on 2 'Cash 5' players share jackpot More COASTER on C-8 HARRISBURG (AP) Two players matched all five winning numbers drawn in Thursday's "Pennsylvania Cash 5" game and will share a jackpot worth $127,757, a lottery official said. Each winner will receive $63,878.50. Lottery director Daniel K. Cook said 138 players matched four numbers and won $387 each; 4,808 players matched three numbers and won $12 each; and 57,562 players matched two numbers and won $1 each.

Sinatra will leaves $3.5 million to wife LOTTERY RESULTS May 21, 1998 DAILY NUMBER BIG 4 7-4-1 I 1 3-0-1-8 I Nancy will receive $200,000 each plus undivided interests in a Beverly Hills office building. The children already had been given rights to much of Sinatra's lucrative music catalog. Mrs. Sinatra was to receive up to $3.5 million of any assets left over after all the wilrs specific bequests are made; any surplus above $3.5 million would go to the children. Just how much would be left after Sinatra's other instructions were carried out had not been determined, Silbert said.

"Nobody knows what the kids are getting. There's $3.5 million to Barbara and the rest to them, and that could be substantial," Silbert said. "And then there's the trust, There are very substantial assets in the trust." A living trust is similar to a will, but is not subject More SINATRA on B-3 LOS ANGELES (AP) Frank Sinatra's wife gets the homes and up to $3.5 million. The entertainer also added $1 million to a trust established for his two grandchildren. The details were laid out in Sinatra's will, filed Thursday in Superior Court.

That covers only a portion of Sinatra's estate, most of which was apportioned before his death through a living trust, said his attorney, Harvey Silbert. Barbara Sinatra, the singer's wife of 22 years, was left most of his real estate holdings, including the 1 couple's desert horse ranch, their Beverly Hills 1 mansion and a Malibu beach house, as well as rights to market his name and likeness. Mrs. Sinatra also was given the late entertainer's interest in a few of his early recordings, referred to as the "Trilogy" masters. fi Son Frank Sinatra Jr.

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