Monday, June 28, 1999
Powerball bouncing toward $130M
Lines show how deep is the dream
BY TOM O'NEILL
The Cincinnati Enquirer
Herein lies news both good and bad.
The bad: If you haven't already checked, don't bother. You didn't win Saturday's $112 million Powerball jackpot.
The good: Neither did anyone else.
Lines at Powerball outlets Sunday were a testament to dreams quickly jump-started again.
Wednesday's jackpot is expected to reach $130 million.
Twenty winners in Saturday's drawing will collect $100,000 each by matching the first five numbers, but not the Powerball. Two each were sold in Kentucky and Indiana.
“It's always somebody in some oddball place who wins,” Jeff Byrd, 38, of Colerain Township, said Sunday as he clutched $10 worth of Powerball tickets at a BP station in Covington.
“I figure, it's worth 10 bucks just to dream.”
Jillian Dipple of Fairfield and her husband, Terry, also bought $10 worth of dreams. Mrs. Dipple said she'd want to establish a scholarship at St. Rita School for the Deaf, to help families who have the need but not the money.
Interviews Sunday suggest ticket sales in Northern Kentucky were brisk, with dreams ranging from the material to the charitable.
Or, in Cliff Yancey's case, a little of both.
Mr. Yancey, 37, of Covington, estimated his odds at “about the same as getting hit by lightning.”
He mentioned charity and savings but also a new Mercedes — the 300 series.
Powerball is a twice-weekly drawing played in 20 states, including Kentucky and Indiana but not Ohio. The highest jackpot ever is $295.7 million. It was won by a group from Columbus.
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