VOA标准英语2011--Does a Fortune Await You?

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Each year in the United States, hundreds of millions of dollars' worth of unclaimed property - especially stock certificates, jewelry¹ left in safe-deposit boxes, and seemingly forgotten money in checking accounts - are turned over to state governments by banks and companies that cannot locate the owners. The states, in turn, try to find these people.
The mid-South state of Arkansas even makes a game of it. It calls it "The Great Arkansas Treasure Hunt."
Each October, every newspaper in the state publishes a special section. There are no stories in it. No photographs. No advertisements. Nothing but page after boring page of names and people's last known addresses. State auditor² Charlie Daniels and his staff hope that people identified in that list will contact them and claim their cash and personal property.
Arkansas State Auditor's Office
The folks in Arkansas are serious about getting you your money -- if you're entitled to it.
Last year, that unclaimed treasure trove³ of everything from cash to diamonds and guns was valued at $22 million.
Charlie Daniels' office puts the cash in the bank and the valuables in two big safes in the capital of Little Rock. It even holds onto some items that have only sentimental⁴ value, like World War Two medals, that are starting to turn up regularly, now that so many veterans of that war are dying. The state has even been known to hold onto false teeth and urns⁵ of cremated⁶ human remains⁷.
sander_123, Flickr Creative Commons
What does the State of Arkansas consider to be valuable. Quite possibly, these!
The right of the owner - or that person's lawful⁸ heir - to claim this property or money never expires. Each year in Arkansas alone, about 15,000 families who join in the treasure hunt discover that they have inherited valuables they never knew existed. No lottery⁹ ticket anywhere can match the Great Arkansas Treasure Hunt's decent odds¹⁰ of paying off - sometimes quite handsomely.