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30 years ago

MARQUETTE — Paulita Korby of Marquette was thrilled when she told her husband Darryl they had matched nine numbers and reaped $2,500 in the Michigan Lottery’s new Keno game. But she read the numbers again and her husband found an error. “Gee, honey,” her husband said, “you missed No. 66 on the ticket.” That extra number added up to the grand prize of $250,000. “He couldn’t believe it,” Paulita Korby said, “and I started to cry.” The Korby’s will pick up their check, less taxes, at the Michigan State Lottery office in Marquette Thursday morning. Paulita Korby said the win is just starting to sink in and that the couple doesn’t have any plans yet, except the purchase of a new vehicle. Paulita is a secretery at Snowberry Heights and Darryl drives a truck for Our Own Bakeries.

60 years ago

PALMER — Paul Mathews, 15, will be honored at a Boy Scout court of honor Sunday evening when he will be presented with the Eagle Scout award. John MacInnes, Red Buck District Boy Scout executive, will present the award to Mathews during the ceremony, which will be conducted in the Kirkpatrick School. Mathews has been active in the Scouting program for four years, during which he advanced to First Class, Star and Life Scout. He belongs to the Order of the Arrow, a camping fraternity. He is now a junior assistant Scoutmaster to David LaChance, Scoutmaster of Troop 319. Mathews, sophomore in Negaunee High School, is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Harold Mathews. Also to be honored at Sunday’s court of honor will be William Nicholas, 17, son of Mr. and Mrs. William Nicholas Sr. An Eagle Scout who has received the bronze and gold palms to that rank, he will be given the silver palm award–one o f the highest honors attained by a Scout in this district in recent years. MacInnes also will present the silver palm award to Nicholas. During the court of honor, one Life, two Star, two First Class and three Second Class badges also will be presented, along with 27 merit badges. There also will be an investiture of Cub Scouts into Boy Scout Troop 319. Parents and friends are invited.