LOTTO JACKPOT, FEVER GROWING\Big prize could hit $45 million.Byline: Mary Schubert Daily News Staff Writer Lotto fever is spreading again. By Saturday, SuperLotto players are expected to form long lines In communications, circuits that are capable of handling transmissions over long distances. to claim an estimated $45 million jackpot, the largest since a $56 million prize Aug. 30, California Lottery lottery, scheme for distributing prizes by lot or other method of chance selection to persons who have paid for the opportunity to win. The term is not applicable when lots are drawn without payment by the interested parties to determine some matter, e.g. officials said Thursday. In Wednesday night's drawing, no players picked all six numbers to claim $27 million, forcing the prize to roll over a fifth time, said Norma Minas Minas may refer to:
"A single winner of a $45 million jackpot will receive approximately $2.2 million per year over 20 years, before taxes," Minas said. In Port Hueneme Port Hueneme (wī'nē`mē), city (1990 pop. 20,319), Ventura co., S Calif., on the Pacific coast; founded 1870, inc. 1948. It has an artificial deep-sea harbor and is the site of a huge naval construction-battalion (Seabee) center. , one of the state's top lottery ticket sellers said he'll have extra staff on duty to handle the crowds attracted by every big jackpot to his store as if it's lucky. "We should see everybody in town this weekend. For $45-plus million, some folks who don't normally gamble will gamble," predicted Glenn Sanders San´ders n. 1. An old name of sandalwood, now applied only to the red sandalwood. See under Sandalwood. , owner of Allan's Wine and Lotto. In the past decade, the store - one of 13,000 ticket retailers statewide - has sold five winning SuperLotto tickets, most recently in March 1994, and that record attracts ticket buyers, he said. "It's just like going to Vegas. You try to (gamble) where the odds are the best," Sanders said. The sum pales compared to the state's biggest bonanza Bonanza saga of the Cartwright family. [TV: Terrace, I, 111–112] See : Wild West , a $118 million jackpot in April 1991 that was split among 10 winning tickets, Minas noted. Ticket sales cease at 7:45 p.m. Saturday, she added, noting SuperLotto machines tend to be at their busiest in the two hours leading up to the twice-weekly drawings. |
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