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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.
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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."
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