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Newspaper
Southern Illinoisan
Location
Carbondale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
May 23, 1985
Page
7
Imogene Gottl won the Illinois State Lottery's 1 Million Cash instant game. Her husband or stand-in accepted the prize on her behalf due to illness. She will receive 775000 after taxes within six weeks. Officials said this was the first U.S. lump-sum 1 million payout.
In Chicago, Circuit Judge Norman Eiger accepted a forklift operator James L. Wagner's offer to give 15 percent of his take home pay to support the 3-year-old daughter he says he fathered. The custody battle involves Linda Erber and Donald Erber of Harwood Heights. Wagner, 23, intervened claiming paternity from a 1980 encounter in Waukegan prior to the Erbers' marriage.
A group of dissident Midway Airlines shareholders including two co founders has filed with the SEC to replace the board and restore a low fare no frills orientation. The 5.8 percent stake is held by the Shareholders Committee to Revitalize Midway Airlines and includes Kenneth Carlson William Owens Nathan Simat Gerry Levenberg and Dr Alan Kaufman. The management called the move misguided. Reagan nominates Anton Valukas for U S attorney in the Northern District of Illinois succeeding Dan Webb.
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