Montgomery County sentinel., 1951-06-21

"A story OF Rockville boy VINO,
almost year ago, won "slew" of
gifts on a New York radio pro-
gram, tells all about it in his own
words. He is Neal Winning, 16,
of 318 Park Road, who has been
physically disabled since birth and
gets about by way of wheelchair.
Neal is enrolled in Home Instruc-
tion for the physically disabled
children of Montgomery County.
His very interesting story fol-
lows:
"There used to be a radio pro-
gram called Chance of Life
time This program had a part
on which people wrote in a letter
why they, or someone else, de-
served a Chance of Lifetime.
About a week after | was fif-
teen, mother wrote why she thought
| deserved my Chance of Life
time, and | wrote in why l thought
she deserved her Chance of Life
time. We didn't expect that our
letters would be accepted, but last
August while | was in the Mont
gomery County General Hospital
recovering from an operation, the
president of the Montgomery
County National Bank of Rock
vile called our house and asked
mother all kinds of questions about
me, but he wouldn't give her his
name. He talked to dad when he
went to the Bank that weekend
and about a week later someone
called from New York and asked
if it would be possible for me to ap-
pear on the program by August 81,
1850. Mother said, Yes but
mother and dad didn't tell me until
| came home from the hospital.
81 had been nome only four days
when | started on my trip to New
York on the Both of August. We
had to have someone go along with
us. So dad got a tall, husky six
teen year old friend of mine, be-
cause | had to be careful as |
wasn't healed yet.
"The Lions Club of Rockville
paid all the expenses to and from
New York. The Rockmont Motor
Company of Rockville had a chauf-
feur with brand new 1850 Buick
take dad, Gordon, and me to Union
Station. When we arrived in New
York we stayed at the Park Sheri-
dan Hotel.
master of Ceremonies was John
Reed King. On the program there
is big blue and gold board with
the alphabet on it. Under each
letter was button. If, when you
pushed a button a bell rang, you
got chance to win a prize worth
$500 to $1,000. But if a buzzer
sounded, the prize was worth only
500 to $500. | was asked to pick
out three lucky letters 50 | picked
out H. r. and n. II. is for my
mothers name, which is Helen r.
for my fathers which is Richard
and N. for my first name which is
Neal.
when they pushed the button
under the II. a buzzcr sounded and
they played the song Going Fish
ing by Arthur Godfrey and asked
me, "Who wrote that song For
answering correctly, won an Ever
hot 900 electric roaster oven and
a set of Club Aluminium. When
they pushed the button under the
r. a bell rang and they asked me,
How many continents are there
| said, Six but Nick Kenny, an
lrishman, made everybody laugh
when he said, There really are six
but there should be seven, because
Ireland should be one For this
answer | won a dinette set and
Universal Mixmaster. Then they
pushed the button under the letter
N and a buzzer sounded and they
asked me, Who is Beck Thatcher's
sweetheart said, Tom Sawyer
and won a Universal nine cubic
foot refrigerator and a Tele King
television set with 1914 inch screen,
"We left New York right after
the program. We missed the 4:30
train SO we had to wait an hour