$60 MILLION LOTTERY JACKPOT LURES DREAMERS IN DROVES.Byline: Dana Bartholomew Staff Writer The odds are impossible, the money unimaginable. Yet on Tuesday, San Fernando Valley San Fernando Valley Valley, southern California, U.S. Northwest of central Los Angeles, the valley is bounded by the San Gabriel, Santa Susana, and Santa Monica mountains and the Simi Hills. residents scrambled for a 1-in-41-million shot at tonight's SuperLotto Plus jackpot. The prize: $60 million-plus. Enough to run a midsize city for one year. Or produce a blockbuster hit with two big stars. Or pick up a dozen beach-front Malibu estates. And nowhere were residents more hopeful than at Fulton Liquors in Sherman Oaks, two years ago one of the state's top 100 lotto earners and home of $200,000 and $600,000 lotto winners. ``It's a winner,'' said Sal Acquisto, 60, of Burbank, clutching his golden ticket. ``It's the winner,'' countered Stan Shur, 68, of Sherman Oaks. ``I won last time - $1.'' California Lottery officials touted the SuperLotto Plus bonanza Bonanza saga of the Cartwright family. [TV: Terrace, I, 111–112] See : Wild West as the nation's biggest prize currently. Since Sept. 17, the SuperLotto pot has rolled over seven times and has generated 100 million ticket sales. ``It's very exciting that the California Lottery has the highest lottery jackpot in the nation, even higher than the multistate mul·ti·state adj. Of, relating to, or involving several states: a multistate environmental campaign. games like 'Powerball' and 'The Big Game,' '' said lottery director Joan Wilson in a statement. A single jackpot winner of $60 million would receive 26 annual payments starting at $1.5 million. Or winners could opt for one lump of cash - minus taxes, about half the jackpot. By noon Tuesday, Fulton co-managers Ken and Naiyana Ngarayawongse had stamped almost 600 tickets. By nightfall, they expected an additional 1,000. Gimme gim·me Informal Contraction of give me. adj. Slang Demanding material things or especially money; acquisitive: today's gimme society; tired of gimme letters. n. the cash, most ticket buyers said. For Terry Maltby, 46, of Sherman Oaks, paying debts and his first vacation in nine years would do just fine. For Ann Parker, 71, of Sherman Oaks, who would split her bounty bounty, payment made by a government bounty, amount paid by a government for the achievement of certain economic or other goals. It often takes the form of a premium paid for the increased production or export of certain goods. with her best friend, Eadie, a San Francisco San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden house ``three times larger than a bungalow'' would do just as well. And for Cindy Weaver, 36, of Sherman Oaks, a graduate student in philosophy at UCLA UCLA University of California at Los Angeles UCLA University Center for Learning Assistance (Illinois State University) UCLA University of Carrollton, TX and Lower Addison, TX who'd just plunked down $22 on lotto tickets, giving most of it to charity would do for lack of anything better to do. CAPTION(S): Photo: Ken Ngarayawongse, left, co-manager of Fulton Liquors in Sher man Oaks, sells a chance at the huge jackpot to Sal Acquisto. Gus Ruelas/Staff Photographer |
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