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ROBY, Texas (AP) — Don’t ex
pect to see exotic sports cars zip
ping into Terry Gin’s gravel parking
lot or contractors building a subdi
vision of mansions, even if 7 per
cent of the townspeople are on
their way to becoming millionaires.
They’re thinking about sudden
solvency after winning a $46.7
million jackpot.
“Some of these people didn’t
know if they’d be able to farm again
next year,” said Peggy Dickson,
bookkeeper at the local cotton gin
and organizer of the spur-of-the-
moment lotto pool, which included
41 of Roby’s 600 or so residents and
two from nearby Sweetwater.
Many of the shareholders have
debts to pay. Four straight below-
average cotton crops and
abysmal cattle prices have de
pressed Roby and scores of Texas
towns like it this decade.
“I’ve seen two new pickups
around town,” said Rex
Beauchamp, who plans to dedi
cate part of his bounty toward the
Circle D convenience store he
opened last summer. “And once
we get all the paperwork done, I’ll
probably buy one myself.”
“It’s really better the way it
worked out,” Beauchamp said as
he rang up a traveler’s root beer
purchase. “Nobody really is rich
here. Just well-off.”
When Dickson decided Tues
day morning to create a lottery
pool in anticipation of the state’s
second-largest jackpot, 41 others
felt they had little to lose by chip
ping in $10.
Jim Carson, owner of Sweetwa
ter’s Longhorn Liquor Store, tossed
in a tenspot of his own and 20 ex
tra “good luck” tickets, giving 43
gamblers 450 chances to win.
No Texas town might have
needed this more than Roby, bank
vice president John Davis said.
“It’s kind of like good Lord
looked down and said, ‘Here’s 43
people that need help,”’ he said.
“It couldn’t have happened to any
better group of people.”
Thousands protest actions of Serbian president
I BELGRADE, Yugoslavia (AP) — Authorities
imuzzled two independent radio stations Tues
day and lashed out fiercely at the growing op
position to Slobodan Milosevic, even as more
ihan 100,000 protesters rallied against the Ser
bian president and sharpened their demands.
I Demonstrators hurled snowballs at the state-
||m media buildings in the 15th straight day of
protests against Milosevic and his decision to
ftnul Nov. 17 local elections that appeared to
ifp.r tpaJ- have been won by the opposition. Police still
I /l. 6GB/S®pt their distance, but one report said reserve
police officers were being mobilized nationwide,
isplay/terf Milosevic’s propaganda machine, which at
jst ignored the protests, went on the offensive,
■smissing the demonstrators as terrorists, van
dals and a “handful” of desperate people.
Minutes before the protesters were to be
gin their march through the capital Tuesday,
independent radio station B-92 and the stu
dent-run Radio Index went off the air.
A government ministry statement said B-92
had been shut down for operating without per
mission. The station, always critical of Milose
vic’s autocratic rule, had applied several times
— without success — for an official frequency.
Authorities began jamming B-92’s signal
more than a week ago. Radio Index, which
could only be heard in central Belgrade, had
its signal jammed on Tuesday.
The two stations had been the only ones to
broadcast direct reports of the anti-government
protests. Their silencing left many Serbians de
pendent on foreign short-wave services for in
dependent reporting on the demonstrations.
“Now Serbs are under a total media block
ade,” said B-92’s news director Veran Matic.
“Milosevic is afraid of the truth, and he’ll try
to hide it as long as possible.”
The station used its own Internet site to re
port the shutdown, and Matic said workers
also would print leaflets and set up loud
speakers to get out the news.
The station is negotiating with the Voice of
America and other international broadcasters
to carry its programming, he said.
Opposition leaders chose to interpret the
action against the radio stations as a victory
— evidence that in their stand-off against
Milosevic, the Serbian strongman had been
the first to blink.
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