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About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (May 30, 1957)
o o J MgPfORg (OHJECON) MAg. THIBTTWg Thuniay. May 30, I95T Truck Driver Who Blew $64,000 Question Back To TV Quiz Wars; Sadder But Wiser KCW Tont B Al Einfrani, lair-weather friends. Ii I win anything now, my relatives can j go to hell I'd rather rive the ! th LW Anjelea true driver 1 money in charity first ,he blew he 484 000 question,! AJ, a 57-year-old truck driver rtumed to the TV qjiz warsj . this .ee With his wife oa hisj- 'rlZ7Z::z iScven Girls Elected lost his relatives, his friends and, he thought, his wife last Jan uary hn he missed the top question0on CB5-TV 3 "The 584, 000 Question,'". He even had to nfui his Cadillac consolation prize to help pay off ome drjts. This Sunday, Al came back to TV as a contestant on Th $64,000 Challenge." Hij " wile came back, too an Saturday. oTime ran mut bepr Einfraak CRot a question to answer Sunday gtight. He ll retorp aet weelt to the ch.llefe. ' "I wis th.jonelisf oiao in the woCid ater I miss? that ques tion." anid Al today. "But even though. I lot the money, 1 lost (f bfeaclfof hungry relatives and To Reign at Festival Brookings Seven Brookings girls have been elected to reign over the Aiaiea Festival beine i held June 8 and B, in Azalea I State park in Brookings. ! Queen's coronation will be t.eld Saturday, June 8, followed by a smorgas board luncheon and a ball Saturday evening. Outdoor churah cervices on Sun day morning will be followed by boat races on the Chetco river and a barbecue in Azalea State park. There will be a flower and art Show and a gern and mineral show both days. Other events are also planned. for Douglas Aircraft whose take home pay is S65 a week, reached the S32.000 level on "The S64,- 000 Question" last Jan. 1 after knocking off a series of ques tions on geography. On Jan. 8, he decided to go for the big one. "You should have seen all the relatives that turned up at that show," said AJ, "all of them looking for a handout. People 1 hadn't seen in years. That last week, I didn't get any sleep, I couldn't eat, they wouldn't even let me go to the bathroom. "They all kept hollering 'Quit now, Al. Quit while you got S32.00O. Don't be a fool. Al, can you spare rae S500?' "They kept stepping on my toes, poking me. I got sore, mad, disgusted and sick at heart. Tive brothers were after me and 18 other in-laws. I think there were 63 relatives after me. Even if I won, it only would have meant 51000 apiece." When Al got into the isolation booth, he didn't care what hap- pend. "I went in that booth dis turbed and when I missed that question. I said to myself "I'm glad, I'm glad,' " said Al. "My relatives all got mad at me and my wife wouldn't speak to me. But all I could think of was now, nobody will get a dime." Al sold the Cadillac for 88000. He gave $500 to his wife, S500 to Approval of Liquor Permit Requested Approval of a liquor permit has been requested of the Jack son county court by W. L. Leonard, owner of Bill's club on Highway 68 south of Ash land. The court set Wednesday, June 19, at 10 a.m. for a pub lic hearing on the request. Judge Rodney Keating said that "the court will listen to those interest ed in appearing before June 19 in the court chambers iA the courthouse. the Hungarian freedom fighters and: paid off $2500 worth of debts. He nought a second hand Oldsmobile with .the remainder. He drove home alone. "People all across the country were wonderful to me," said Al, "but I got real sick in Tucson, Ariz., and had to be put in an oxygen tent, in' the county hos pital. Hypertension, said the doctor. It was like a volcano had blown up in my heart. Ia-Laws Silent "I left the hospital after six days and drove back to L.A. and got my old job back and the guys at Douglas were just great. But not one word from my rela tives or my fair-weather friends. And for four months, not a word from my wife. felt sick inside. "But I had misconstrued about my wife. She was just taking care of our daughter and grand children and . son-in-law outside of Washington. They were all sick. "So whe I got word last Thursday that I was going to be on 'Challenge,' I called her up and said 'What goes? Who's more important after 33 and a half years of marriage me or my son-in-law?. She cams into New York on Saturday." Al doesn't care if he ever wins $84,000 again." Listen, if I win $8,000 I'll be happy this time," he said. "All I want is a little house with a garden, a little dog and my wife. My daughter and grandchildren can come visit me anytime. "But the rest of that fair weather bunch. Well, they know what they can do." KXPZRT DIES Lausanne, Switzerland 0 Dr. Edgar Goldschmid, an in ternational expert on medical history, died Wednesday et the age of 75. Frozen orange juice is appear ing in a new form. Several com panies have experimented with orange juice packed in dehy drated crystal form. PATIENCE PATS QFP Mr, Robert Hull, IT Qft& fe fcisssd by. her mother, Sirs. Cornelia ftopj, Jlt ljais$ told that she is in goo$ conditiod $2t&0Ugl 1m Keart Mopped for 2H hours dmriBg 3& epersiism If ay. I in Los Angeles. She i liva today becaus U urjeon continued maasagin her heart for fetfig Jft?r t doctors would have 4jivEtt op. c o y- ' 0.. . ' , J-a P" it : : ;- .'" -: ' ( '.'.:.. y - - ' ' . ... A $Ztl( I A view of the new stadium at Camp White shows the main grandstand, press box and part of the bleachers at either end of the structure. The stadium will seat 1,200. Modern dressing rooms and showers, as well as facilities for a concession, are housed in the stadium building, and a special ramp, visible at right, has been built for wheelchair patients. The lighting system for the field has been installed at a cost of about S25.000. Total cost of the ball park was $117,500, which was available through the "post fund." DON'T MISS THE... DedicafiOBu Today of the New Richer Field Stadium at the V.A. Domiciliary at CAMP WHITE The impreMiva ctremenie will fellow the wsucl Mmor1 Day exereites the Cmp White cemetery today, so be sure t drive out this afternoon for th kiying of Hw cornerstone. The t'rtitens ef Medferd and the Rogue River Volley share, with veterans t the V. A. Domiciliary at Camp White, tie pride i is flee sjtorts installation. Following the dedica tien there will be m boeeball gome at the fine aw licker PieM. PEPSI-COLA BOTTLING COMPANY of MEDFORD UPON THIS FINE NEW SPORTS CENTER! Congratulations CAMP WHITE V.A. Domiciliary ON YOUR NEW STADIUM AMERICAN STEEL & SUPPLY, MEDFORD, INC. 703 S. GRAPE ST. P.O. BOX 1346 SPring 2-7181 MEDFORD, OREGON STEEL - PIPE - FENCING INDUSTRIAL SUPPLIES S Congratulation CAMP WHITE ON YOUR NEW STADIUM BRUCE BAUER LUMBER CO. 765 S. Riverside Ph. SP 2-621 1 DON'T MISS THE DEDICATION CEREMONIES TODAY From the Bakers of ) FAMOUS VARIETY BREADS SINCEREST Congratulations to th. V. 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