Daily Herald (Newspaper) - August 20, 1983, Chicago, Illinois WEEKEND SHOWCASE WEEKEND LEISURE THE T Edition Year 310 Paddock Publications August 5 Cents Lots of try for record Lotto payoff by Pete Nenni Herald writer Frank DiCostanzo never played the Illinois weekly Lotto game but the prospect ot ning a whopping 25 million grand prize had him filling out a handful ol the computer cards million wasn't enough to get said DiCostanzo a Palatine dent on my fourth card When I run out of birthdays and anniversaries convert into lottery thats when I'll stop Attracting droves of bettors to State Lottery computers is the largest grand in the history of the Illinois Lotto a prize that pay a single winner mere than j cool a year for the next or could be split among multiple winners Roy Hay ley account executive tor the Aver public relations firm that represents the estimated that a record million in tickets had been sold as of adding another million to the jackpot that began the week at 25 million THE WEEKLY LOTTO jackpot starts at but because no one lias won the grand prize in four the amount was rolled over Hay ley said The Lotto is a so the jackpot depends partly on the amount of money bet during the week Participants must fill out a betting slip that features eight sections with numerals one through 40 in each tion For the player six numbers fit m each of two sections and can play up to all eight sections on the slip tor a of The gran i prize winner or winners must select all six of the numbers di awn and will win all or a share of 50 percent of the prize pool People attr by the chance of ning i lillion should also ber the odes against it Based on the al calculations of correctly guessing a of six random- Heat wave electrifying by Debbe Nelson Matt Sweltering Chicago area residents cranked up their air conditioners and set a record for electricity demand Friday as the heat built to a climax The mercury stopped short of the temperatures predicted by the National Weather but still tied the all-time high for that date Local residents flocked to park district swimming pools and jammed into air-conditioned Woodfield Shopping Center to beat the ing a burner forecast by the weather experts Although signs on banks boasted those marks were falsely high The steamy weather prompted Chicago officials to open city hall to people without air and one case of heat exhaustion was re- ported in the Northwest suburbs Temporary relief from the heat wave is forecast for with staying in the 80s Saturday and Sunday FOR THE MOST people coped with the boat by staying inside But that meant air conditioners were in record and Commonwealth son reached a record peak of 14.517 million kilowatts by midafternoon It is the fifth time the utility has surpassed 1 4 million kilowatts this year a mark reached only once in history previous to 1983 Eleven days of temperatures and an increasing number of air conditioners have contributed to the unparalleled electric demand issued a peak alert asking customers to minimize their ity use But spokesman James Toscas can't tell people not to turn their air conditioning because they'll drop To meet the the utility had all seven nuclear power its coal plants and its costly oil plants in operation Even its peak essentially jet engines that run on expensive jet were generating electricity we had was Toscas said THOSE WHO ventured away from their air conditioners for too long on Page Crews sweat out work in hot spot by Al Cubbage HaraM writer As he squinted into the sun and picked his way carefully across the scorching Dan Johnston concentrated on not spilling any of the degree tar he carried in two buckets Johnston and his fellow crew stripped to waist and labored Friday on the roof of Stonebridge Village apartments in Arlington laying a fresh coat of hot tar you start working with hot it adds at least 20 degrees It can get up to 150 up here on the said foreman Dan Peterson you can do is drink a lot of The four men from Valley Roofing Inc of St Charles were among the unfortunate individuals whose jobs required them to be out in the brutal heat Friday While some outdoor workers simply called it quits because of the others continued despite the scorching sun and winds GET INTO this business you can make a pretty good but on a day like you earn said Ken Larsen foreman of a Peter Baker and Son Co road construction crew working on Rand Road in Palatine on Page lerald photo by Scott Sanders WIPING HIS BROW as he pauses for a Dan Johnston struggles with the heat as he works on the of the Stonebridge Valley apartments in Palatine Johnston was among the who had to work outside in Friday's recc rd neat SATURDAY IN THE HERALD White Sox Rangers Braves 5 Cubs 3 Sting 3 T America 0 Soviets blast U.S Andrei returned home to the Soviet Union Friday and the Kremlin fired off a sharp protest to the United States charging the boy's human rights had been violated in Washington Page 11 Index on 2 1 billion 11 dead in Alicia's aftermath From Texas Gov Mark White flew over Hurricane Alicia's billion path of destruction shuddering at the sight of the massive cleanup by crews battling power looters and shrinking w ater pressure The death toll from Alicia rose to 11 with the drownings of three people who were caught in swirling waters caused by rain from the storm In relatives found the ies of two Channelview people who went swimming in a bayou Thursday A Dallas was swept away in a storm sewer Another person is from an ocean-going tug that sank Wednesday in the Gulf of Mexico A Coast Guard helicopter Friday rescued four sailors who survived Lt Daniel Cronin said the four were spotted in a life raft 30 miles south of Texas They were taken to John Sealy Hospital in where officials said they were in good condition Cronin said the four swam to the life raft while the fifth tried to make it yards to an offshore oil platform IN four refinery ers burned Friday as they at- tempted to restart a refinery closed down because of Hurricane an official said Fred president of Eddy Refining said the flash fire Ignited in a boiler unit about p.m Chicago burning the four ers Whose identities wen i i Hi ii Two were isted in critical condition and two table condition with burns By late F the remnants of cia had slipped into southern ma after d nearly 6 inches of rain on Texas Winds had dwindled to less than 25 mph Presides Reagan signed a tion of disa iter for the making a broad rangi of federal aid available to those an aide to Sen John R-T said Insurance officials and a weather spokesman estimated damages would reach bil ion White said destruction in n exceeded his tions anything like ly selected numbers out of a possible 40 the odds of winning are 1 in 3.98 million lot of people are saying Why I think they feel chances are as good as anyone said Ruth who along with her band owns the Super Discount Center at 43 S Dunton Ave in ton Heights GRIFFITH SAID SHE has seen a lot of people playing the game for the first time and estimated that Lotto ticket sales at her store this week are almost double the normal volume Most of the people lined up in store waiting to buy Lotto tickets said they were playing and anniversary dates and tried to tune j positive attitude about their chances despite the high odds anybody s luck and I feel 1 m going to said June Jensen of Mount Prospect am I going to do with the 111 probably drop dead if I Economy takes off From newt services WASHINGTON The economy grew at a 9.2 percent annual rate in the spring the fastest since 1978 and the nation's corporations posted their highest quarterly profit gain in eight the government said Friday But a separate report gested a slowdown is in the works Economic growth in the second quarter as measured by the gross national product was half a point stronger than the 8 7 percent pace the Commerce ment had forecasted just a month ago In the first the GNP climbed by only 2.6 percent and fore- casters wondered at the beginning ot the year if the second quarter could achieve a 5 percent growth rate Economists generally consider a 4 percent growth sustained over several necessary to cut ly into the unemployment rate In its first estimate of ter corporate the department said after-tax gams rose at an annual rate of 14.7 to an estimated billion per after falling 4 7 percent in the first quarter and 2.6 cent in the fourth quarter of last MANUFACTURING ACCOUNTED for most of the increase in profits The industry was the best performer in the financial accounting for most of the billion gain in that area of the my was quite a sterling said Robert the department's chief economist explosive advance was far above the gain for the first two quarters of prior postwar Commerce Department tary Robert said White House spokesman Larry with the vacationing REAL GNP Grots National Product Value ol the nation's goods and services sold al home and abroad 1982 quarterly ill 1983 quarterly change from previous quarter adjusted annual rale 4 All 1982 dent Reagan in said the re- port the recovery is well in gear The inflation picture is more than we thought The covery continues to build and pick But a report issued later in the by the Commerce Department that orders to manufacturers lor durable goods big ticket orders factory from cars to tell 36 percent in July TSe decline could portend a slowdown the recovery late this said Record deficit seen without tax budget cut WASHINGTON The federal deficit will hit a record billion this nearly double the record set in and stay that high for years unless Congress cuts spending or raises the Congressional Budget Office said Friday If Congress does enact all of the spending cuts and tax increases called for in its recent budget the deficit would dip to billion in cal which begins Oct and gradually drop to billion in CBO chief Alice Rivlin said at a news conference Congress does not implement the budget then there will be continuing deficits in the range of billion for the next several for as far as the eye can Rivlin said High deficits would mean higher in- terest slower economic growth and an end to the current economic re- she said IN AN ATTEMPT to slash the the 1984 budget resolution proved by Congress earlier this called for billion in tax increases during the next three years and lower military but fewer spending cuts wanted Reagan is adamantly opposed to tax increases Congress plans to deal with the politically sensitive issue when returns Sept 12 from its summer re- cess The in an economic and budget deficit for the fiscal year ending Sept 30 will be billion billion higher than it in February In fiscal the federal budget deficit was billion also a record The CBO said that if the 1984 budget is implemented by the cits would range from billion to billion in fiscal billion to billion in 1985 and billion to billion in 1986
