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PARTLY CLOUDY A 20 percent chance of widely scattered showers today. Highs will reach the low to mid-80s WEATHER, 2A FUN IN THE SUNFEST ALL WEEKEND LONG A JAZZY PARTY AT THE LAKEFRONT THAT'S TUCKET! RESULTS OF FIRST LOTTERY DRAWING INSIDE CHECK YOUR LUCK DAILY WITH SPECIAL BOX ON 2A LOCAL, IB The Palm Beach Post SATURDAY, APRIL 30, 1988 FINAL EDITION 3 98 PAGES 25 CENTS Burt And loni wed among the Stars Lottery off to fast start Computerized game may set national sales record TifMJ tfl JOHN J. LOPINOTStaft Photographer Loni Anderson and her new husband, Burt Reynolds, wave just after the wedding ceremony Friday afternoon. Acujr Jim Nabors (bottom 4 Wre both thrilled to be newly weds' Meanwhile, back at the ranch gate, fans say Jupiter wedding takes the cake "i By MICHAEL ROMANO and THOM SMITH Palm Beach Post Staff Writers JUPITER Actor Burt Reynolds and longtime companion Loni Anderson exchanged marriage vows Friday while five media helicopters circled in tight formation around the actor's 160-acre ranch west of Jupiter. A crowd of 65 guests including such celebrities as Perry Como, Ann-Margret and Jim Nabors attended the simple ceremony, which began at 1:53 p.m.

in the cream-colored chapel built for the occasion on Reynolds' horse ranch and feed farm. Afterward, the couple rode a motorized stagecoach to a reception in looked up By SCOTT G. CAMPBELL Palm Beach Post Staff Writer Although there were 1,000 fewer Florida Lottery vendors than expected, people snapped up new numbers game tickets at a pace that could set a national record, officials said Friday. A combination of human and technical difficulties gave the lottery some problems. Only 2,100 computers were on line Friday morning out of the 3,100 expected, said Jim Oman, lottery director for Palm Beach and Martin counties.

The first number drawn, at 7:57 p.m. in Tallahassee, was 806 in the new Cash 3 game, which has a top prize of $500. The first winning numbers in the six-number Lotto game which will have a $2 million jackpot will be drawn May 7. Tickets for the new games went on sale at 7:30 a.m. Friday, and sales by 4 p.m.

totaled $545,428. That put the lottery on a pace that would mean more than $1.5 million in sales in the first 24 hours. The sales pace didn't come close to matching the mania surrounding the introduction of instant scratch-off tickets Jan. 12, when there were sales of $20 million, breaking almost every national lottery sales record. But Lottery Secretary Rebecca Paul has said numbers game ticket sales always start slowly before eventually outselling the scratch-off games.

The national record for numbers game sales in the first 24 hours apparently belongs to California, with $1.2 million, according to lottery officials elsewhere. Bob Taylor, a spokesman for the California Lottery, said Florida's sales numbers were impressive because the state, with 12.5 million people, has less than half the population of California. "That's sounds like a fairly ambitious program that Florida's engaged in," he said. Computer problems, however, plagued Paul at the lottery's opening ceremony. The symbolic switch activating the games was flipped at 7:25 a.m.

outside Florida Lottery headquarters in Tallahassee. Smoke puffed from behind the giant switch plate, and scores of balloons floated to the sky, but the computer was si- Please see LOTTERY 12A blue sky' The Associated Press KAHULUI, Hawaii Spattered by blood and buffeted by debris after their plane's roof blew off high over the Pacific, the frightened passengers aboard Aloha Airlines Flight 243 helped one another into life jackets and waited calmly. A stewardess was blown out of the Boeing 737, and 60 of the 89 passengers and remaining crew of four were injured before the plane made a safe emergency landing Thursday. "I heard a loud explosion, and I saw my bag from under the seat in front of me fly right out of the aircraft," said David Kupihea, who was in the first-class section at the front of the plane. A piece of conduit ripped loose from the plane and punctured Ku-pihea's arm.

"I kept my head down; I pulled out my life vest; I used it as a cushion. You can see the wind blowing in your face," he said. Sources said a structural failure and not a bomb may have caused the "big bang" that ripped open the jet. The aircraft, which was cruising at 24,000 feet on an island hop from Hilo to Honolulu, flew about 15 minutes with 20 feet of its upper fuselage just behind the front passenger door torn away to the floor. Witnesses said one engine was on fire.

The possibility of a bomb having exploded aboard the aircraft has been ruled out, said one Washing- happens in Hollywood, but for once, Jupiter takes the cake." She didn't mind standing for more than three hours in the fire ant-filled dirt across the road from Reynolds' horse ranch west of the city in Jupiter Farms. "For Burt to take the big plunge, it's definitely worth the wait," she said. Please see FANS8A By SHARI LAIACONA Palm Beach Post Staff Writer JUPITER She was among the first to arrive at the white iron gate, hoping to catch a glimpse of a -famous face or a star-studded smile. 1 -1 But all Judy Sypniewski got to see was the back Loni Anderson's blond hair as the white Ford van carrying the actress rolled by the gate and onto the ranch where she wed actor Burt Reynolds Friday. "Am I disappointed? Are you kidding?" Sypniewski of Jupiter asked.

"They say everything Aloha passenger: 'I right) looks up at helicopter. a flower-bedecked airplane hangar, dining on seafood and salmon and sipping Dom Perignon champagne while a five-piece orchestra played 1940s-era music. "We're both thrilled to be newly-weds after being together for 6V2 years," Reynolds said, 52, through spokesman Peggy Gossett. "I love to be a newlywed at my age." Reynolds and Anderson, who met in 1981 during a Merv Griffin talk show, planned a five-day honeymoon in the Bahamas aboard The Golden Eagle, a yacht owned by St. Louis beer baron August Busch, Gossett said.

Please see WEDDING8A and saw THE ASSOCIATED PRESS A Win At Last For Baltimore The Baltimore Orioles finally snapped the American League's longest los-fng streak with a 9-0 victory Friday over the Chicago White Sox. After 21 games, the team finally opened the three cases of champagne, kept on ice in the clubhouse. SPORTS, 1C ML0 rv V. I -J Ht.J Inside Bridge 1 ID Business 7B Classified Ads 1-28F Comics 11D.12D Crossword 9D.11D DearAbby 2D Florida News 18A Dave George 1C Horoscope 1 1 RayHuard IB Ann Landers 2D Letters 2E Bill McGoun IE Obituaries 6B Stocks 10-15B Theaters 8D TV Listings 10D Vol. 21 No.

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