Small Oregon town lands another lottery jackpot

Sunday, September 17, 2006 posted 02:23 AM EDT

JACKSONVILLE, Ore. - For the fourth time since 2001 this former gold mining of 2,500 has landed another major lottery winner.

The Megabucks ticket worth $7.4 million was bought for the Sept. 6 drawing, although the winner has not come forward, said Chuck Baumann, spokesman for the Oregon Lottery.

"Jacksonville's the place to buy your ticket," Baumann said. He declined to say which of the town's two lottery retailers--Ray's Food Place or the J-ville Tavern sold the ticket.

"We won't know until the winner claims their prize," said Ray's manager Randy Lewis.

The seller gets one percent of the prize $76,000, in this case.

Baumann cited two reasons for winners delaying coming forward.

"One is that they don't know they won," he said. "The other reason is they're out getting legal advice. We like it to be the second reason. That means they're coming in with a plan. We like to see that."

the winner has a year to claim the prize.

Wayne Reavis won the $8.75 million Megabucks jackpot in 2001 after purchasing a ticket at the J-Ville Tavern, and Steve and Carolyn West and Bob and Frances Chaney won $340 million Powerball jackpot on a ticket bought at Ray's Food Place last October.

In the same Powerball drawing, another Jacksonville couple won more than $850,000 on a ticket also purchased at Ray's.

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