The Vicksburg Post from Vicksburg, Mississippi (2024)

May 19, 2003

Publication:

The Vicksburg Posti

Location:

Vicksburg, Mississippi

Issue Date:

Monday, May 19, 2003

Page:

10

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A10 Monday May 19 2003 The Vicksburg Post Powerball drawing delayed when official stuck in traffic DES MOLNES Iowa (AP) A traf fic jam kept Powerball players wait ing for nearly two hours to see if they won the jackpot A security official with the lottery got stuck in traffic Saturday on the way to a computer site in Clifton NJ that helps ensure the integrity of the draw the Multi State Lottery Association said The official is responsible for overseeing security for the comput er system which contains lottery numbers while 'the balls come up in West Des Moines He made it to the site just before midnight Sunday allowing the draw to proceed after a delay of about an hour and 45 minutes said Chuck Strutt the executive director is more important than being embarrassed about delaying a Strutt said The security backup fill in because he was on active military duty Strutt said Powerball the largest lot tery is played in 23 states the Dis trict of Columbia and the US Vir gin Islands Each state that participates in Powerball has two computer sys tems which must confirm they have identical records of numbers The Clifton computer system pairs up with one in the Virgin Islands New Jersey partici pate in the lottery In a further glitch in draw the Clifton system had dis crepancies with the Virgin Island system meaning the number of winning tickets be immedi ately announced The problem was being resolved Sunday and expected to hold up future drawings Strutt said No one correctly matched all six Powerball numbers in drawing which were 5 13 18 42 50 and Powerball 4 A journey EUI TOIpi Mr I MgiiRv nWgsi The Associated Press Norman the beagle gets a checkup from veterinarian Martha Thomas left and Brandy Kirwan in Auburn Ala Dog walks from Kansas to Alabama AUBURN Ala (AP) Stray dogs show up all the time around Auburn University They usu: ally belong 800 miles away in Kansas But that was the case with Nor man a beagle who wandered off from his owner in Solomon Kan one day in March and showed up riday outside an Auburn Universi ty computer repair shop think much of it found dogs out here said Daryl Waites digital repair manager just some student lost Waites a dog lover and owner coaxed the beagle into the repair shop where he and receptionist Cindy Darby checked the col lar The dull brass tag was inscribed: 2003 Citv of Solomon KS Darby called City Hall in Solomon a small town located 90 miles west of Topeka and gave the tag number and a description of the dog sounded like a description of said an astonished Tallie Baetz city clerk Norman belonged to neighbors Tim and Jennifer Cross two local schoolteachers they had named the chubby dog a wed ding gift from Tim to his bride after the character on said she had our dog but no idea how he got there" Jennifer Cross said was crying too hard to teach after she called I ran to tell Tim but he believe it was No one knows how Norman came to arrive in Alabama Stretches of interstate and railroad alike run through both Solomon and Auburn If he walked he would have had to average about 20 miles a day going to take a vacation this year but it looks like going to make a drive to Alabama to get Norman" Jennifer Cross said Waites plans to keep thedog until the Crosses can make the trip Sri Lanka floods leave 200 dead helicopters search for survivors RATNAPURA Sri Lanka Air force helicopters and police teams searched for survivors in remote villages today after a weekend of floods and landslides that killed up to 200 people in south central Sri Lanka officials said orecasters have said more rain was on its way which would make the plight of about 150000 people left homeless even more difficult is a very grim said rehabilitation minister Jayalath Jayawardene have been told that at least 200 people have died and still there are people unaccounted In Ratnapura home to 1 million people about 40000 homes were damaged by the floods and land slides forcing people to take shel ter Much of the area was without electricity and telephone as the landslides damaged overhead lines Today tens of thousands of refugees housed in temples schools and public buildings were being given buns bread and sugar by volunteers and relief agencies Bush rolls out pomp glitter for Philippine president WASHINGTON Philippine President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo is getting ver sion of the royal treatment a state visit featuring a day full of pomp and glitter that President Bush reserves for courting the most crucial of friends The visit is designed to maximize exposure to the White House spotlight rom the moment Arroyo steps out of a limousine bn the South Lawn at midmoming today until the state dinner enter tainment in late evening the news media will be in tow In between the schedule includes an Oval Office meeting a news conference an official greeting ahead of the black tie dinner and a photo opportunity before the meal Body found near Corpus may be that of Texas woman ORT WORTH Texas Authori ties are wajtjng to see if a body found on the sand dunes near Cor pus Christi is that of a missing Texas woman The mother of Meagan Mcarlin 22 of Rising Star last heard from her on April 2 Meagan Mcarlin had called on that day and said she was in San Antonio with 26 year old David Wammack a man who she had been in a troubled NATION WORLD By The Associated Pressl relationship with since the end of last year said her mother Denise Mcarlin of Stephenville Authorities say two men Wammack and 23 year old Dirk Little of Brownwood have admitted involvement in the killings of Mcarlin and Jennifer Atkinson 29 a woman whose body was found along a Louisiana high way on May 7 political balance shifts at top of ticket NASHVILLE Tenn While the nation generally remains closely divided the balance has shifted at the top of the political ticket with President Bush showing surprising strength in states Democrats will need in 2004 pollsters say Democrats are counting on the attention shifting back toward the troubled economy with the war in Iraq over but far from clear that shift automatically will work to their advantage postwar bounce should fade in another six or seven months said pollster Larry Hugick of Princeton Survey Research Associates Before the war with Iraq standing was return ing to levels before the Sept 11 terrorist attacks But Hugick acknowledged that new international crises or an eas ing of economic problems could halt that downward trend Belgian voters back liberal socialist coalition BRUSSELS Belgium ree mar ket liberals and socialists moved to put together a new government in Belgium today after a resounding election victory gave them a strong mandate to continue eco nomic reforms and tax breaks The win returns to office Prime Minister Guy Verhofstadt whose center left coalition over the past four years has also pursued con troversial social policies such as legalizing gay marriage euthana sia and marijuana But this time he will likely be without his former junior coalition partners the Greens 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