Boat owner, laid off machinist
finalists in $1 million lottery
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OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) - Charles Davis, laid
off from work as a Boeing Co. machinist last
August, says having a shot at the first $1 million
grand prize in the Washington state lottery "is the
second-greatest thing that's happened to us.”
Davis, 27, of Tacoma, was one of 10 finalists
selected Saturday in a splashy preliminary draw
ing by lottery director Robert Boyd in front of
lottery workers, auditors from a certified public
accounting firm and about 100 reporters
“The greatest thing was the birth of our
daughter Ericka, 8," said Davis
He and his wife, Peggy, have been improving
and furnishing a new home they bought four years
ago, but their only income is his unemployment
compensation and her pay as a housekeeper at
the Executive Inn in Fife, said Davis.
"If we win the million, I’m going to retire,”
Davis said. “I won’t be a hotel maid any longer I’m
going to stay home.”
Boyd pulled the winning names from a
revolving drum containing 6,240 3-by-5-inch
cards, each bearing the name of one of the first
validated $100 winners in Pot O’ Gold, the first
lottery game.
In the final drawing Friday, to be televised live
at 7:30 p.m. around the state, the grand prize
winner gets $50,000 a year for 20 years, the
runner-up gets $50,000 and the rest each get
$10,000
Finalists in order of selection were Claus
Oefler, 37, Vancouver, Wash ; Jana Page, 30,
Walla Walla; Mark Freeman, 48, Seattle; Christa
Maiuri, 24, Walla Walla; Warren Harvey, 61, Gig
Harbor; Phyllis O'Hair, 44, Kennewick; Darleen
Garwood, 43, Vancouver, Wash.; Davis; Robert
Swanson, 55, Mountlake Terrace; and Clyde
Overman, 30, Wenatchee
“I knew I was going to be a winner,” said
Freeman, operator of Fremont Tug Co. “My sister,
Merry Stoppelman, predicted it.
"When she heard I had a $100 ticket winner
and would be eligible for the big drawing, she said
I was certain to win I don't know how she could
predict it.”
Freeman owns five tugboats and moorage for
90 pleasure craft and commercial boats and 65
houseboats on Lake Union He said he got the
lucky ticket at the urging of his son Erik, 12, who
saw a lottery advertisement at a restaurant
The youngster isn't getting any reward, how
ever Instead, Freeman says, the money will go to
improve the tugboats or, if it’s the grand prize, to
buy a new one
100 Portlanders
urge NATO not
to deploy nukes
PORTLAND (AP) - Demon
strators urged Sunday that NA
TO reverse its decision to de
ploy U.S.-made long-range nu
clear missiles in Europe
About 100 people attended a
rally outside the federal building
in Portland despite steady rain,
police said. Rally organizers put
the turnout at closer to 200
The demonstration marked
the third anniversary of NATO's
decision to deploy cruise and
Pershing-2 missiles in late 1983
or early 1984, organizers said
U S. officials say the missiles
are needed to prevent the
Soviet Union from leaving the
United States at a disadvantage
The demonstrators said they
were acting in solidarity with the
European peace movement
"As things now stand, the
missiles are going to be de
ployed," organizer Norman
Solomon said. "There's been
no action by Congress to inter
fere with deployment It's going
to take a groundswell of oppo
sition in the United States to
prevent deployment."