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New Millionaires Go to Work Anyway

From Times Staff and Wire Reports

A group of factory workers who were preparing for impending layoffs reported to work as usual, even after a lottery ticket they bought won a $46-million jackpot. Shirley Johnson said she and her 16 previously unlucky co-workers would continue “to work until we get our pink slip.” Kellogg Industries Co., a surgical and orthopedic supplies plant in Jackson that was scheduled to close in June, notified its 85 workers in November that it would move to California.

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