Whirlpool donates prizes to booster club bingo

MARION - The Marion County Athletic Booster Club will be giving away a refrigerator, donated by the Whirlpool Corporation, in addition to regular prizes during Monday’s bingo night at 1701 Marion-Bucyrus Road.

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Wed, May 23rd, 2007

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  • During the 1950s, the Senate Committee to Investigate Organized Crime in Interstate Commerce held a number of hearings on criminal influence in the casino industry. The committee was chaired by Senator Estes Kefauver, and the committee is also known by his name.
  • The second oldest casino hotel resort on the Las Vegas Strip was the Last Frontier and it opened in October of 1942. It had 105 guestrooms and the property was made to look like an old western town. The first casino hotel resort opened just 18 months earlier and was called El Rancho.
  • The age of electronic games began in 1964 with the Nevada Electronic's solid state "21" machines. The most successful of these was the Dale Electronics' Poker-Matic, which could be found in most Nevada casinos.
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