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Alaskan farmer wins $42,000 pool prize details
Des Moines reports Bill Otcheck and family of eight won part of a $42,000 Nenana pool in Alaska after his mother bought 20 chances. The family previously homesteaded 160 acres in Matanuska Valley near Anchorage. Otcheck, disabled in 1953, plans to buy more land as they prepare to return to farming with new machinery.
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