House RollCall-Illegal Gambling
Votes Sunday as the House, on a 55-40 vote, approved a proposal to beef up enforcement against illegal video gambling machines in Indiana. Voting yes were 28 Republicans and 27 Democrats. Voting no were 21 Republicans and 19 Democrats. Not voting were Reps. Patrick Bauer, D-South Bend, Charlie Brown, D-Gary, Mae Dickinson, D-Indianapolis, Linda Lawson, D-Hammond, Paul Robertson, D-DePauw.
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Casino gambling information:
- In Paris, legislation prohibiting playing cards was passed in 1377, and in Italy, playing cards and dice were burned.
- At land-based casinos, both the player and the boxman need to be on the lookout for crooked dice in the game of craps. Each number when added together with the number on the side opposite it, will add up to 7. For example, 6 is opposite to 1. When the dice are crooked, they do not add up to 7.
- The current wave of legal lotteries started in New Hampshire, spread to other North-Eastern states, and then across the nation.
- 1941: The Strip gets its first luxury hotel. El Rancho Vegas sets the trend for many of the themed resorts that sprout along the Strip in later years.
1942: The first wedding chapel, the Little Church of the West, opens on the Strip in the Last Frontier Hotel.
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