Thursday, July 01, 1999
$145M Powerball fuels frenzy here
But winning ticket was sold in Minnesota
BY TERRY FLYNN
The Cincinnati Enquirer
COVINGTON — The lines formed early Wednesday at lottery outlets around Northern Kentucky as people fueled their wildest dreams by purchasing tickets for the $145 million Powerball jackpot. Alas, the winning ticket was sold hundreds of miles away.
One winning ticket for Wednesday night's drawing was sold in Minnesota, officials said
today. The winning numbers were 5 - 20 - 40 -10 - 12 - 3.
“We have averaged about 100 people an hour buying Powerball tickets from 7 a.m. right through the afternoon,” Betty Schulz, the manager at Howard's BP Service Station in Covington, said late Wednesday afternoon while dispensing lottery tickets.
“It's been steady all day,” she said of the lottery sales at the station on Fifth Street just four blocks from the Interstate 75 bridge. “We were ready. We had additional employees coming in, and we printed out tickets ahead so we could sell them as people came in.”
Jean Ross, who was handling the lottery sales duties at the Service Center IGA store in Crescent Springs off Buttermilk Pike near I-75, said the computer had been spitting out Powerball tickets nonstop since 6 a.m. Wednesday.
“And it hasn't been just local customers,” she said. “We've had a lot of people in here from Ohio and Indiana.”
Odds of winning the Powerball jackpot are 1 in 80 million.
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