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Slot Machine Cheaters Cause Trouble Tom Harrison
SuKy Presidency
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Nevada "There are a thousand and one theaters, a bright light Is rigged
don't worry about, the angles to this business and the to flash at the first sign of tampryMcm players at the fumblln
crocks are thinking up new ones ering.
tables it's the top mnrhine che.it-rr- s all the time," says Bob Adair,
Most of the slots, however, still
who give them a full house of hlef slot machine
mechanic for are pushovers for clever drillers.
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Harolds Club.
Wires are Inserted through the
Despite vigilant guards behind
Although slot thieves face a tiny drilled holes and the pay
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windows and on the floor, penalty of one y?ar Jn Jail and levers are tripped
repeatedly unchange girls, and other sharp-eye- d a $1,000 fine, the burden of pro- til the
machine's coins are exemployes, fast buck artists tecting the
bandits hausted.
manage to bilk Nevada casinos of from the
variety rests
Drillers usually work in
considerable sums annually from largely with the clubs themselves. or threes, with one or two pairs
men
the Mots.
Law officers are more Interested providing cover for the actual
The machines account for abont in keeping the casino operators cheater.
20 percent of the near-20- 0
honest.
milAnother worry of the gamblers
lion dollar annual rambling
Harolds Club, which has 750 are bogus and foreign coins, many
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In this state, where gambling in of the 13.000 slots operating In of them closely matching U.S.
a legal butlnr.
Nevada, has designed a new type coins. However, federal law procaMros

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Cheating methods range from a
chewing gum wad Jammed up the
pay blot for later reaping
to
elaborate drilling equipment and
long rods called spoons, used to
pike the pay levers.
Some clubs have magnets In
their machines to catch slugs, but
they don't detect wooden discs.

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Tom Harrison was elected president of SuKy at a meeting Monday night.
Others elected to office were
Roger Minton, vice president;
Marjorie Hadden, recording secretary; Myra Tobin, treasurer;
and Jo Ann Styles and . R3id
Bishop,
managers.
David Fryman was elected to
represent SuKy in Student Congress.

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of metal slot case with two layers hibits using counterfeit coins, and
a state law prohibits playing slots
of steel to frustrate the drillers.
"And the new case is as spooner-proo- f with foreign money.

Part of the problem of cheaters
as they come," says Adair.
and not just on slots is the
The pay chute has two sharp
angles, making It impossible to pu'clij altitude toward gambling.
insert anything up the chute and Otherwise honest people feel a
gsu.iUer is a legitimate mark
still keep leverage.
oi the nature of the busi- If all this doesn't stop the
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The arrow shows where the hole
to
tap the slot machines.

is drilled and wire inserted

Law Group
Has Election
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Breckinridge Inn of Phi Delta
Phi, international lesal fraternity,
has elected officers lor next year.
The officers are E. David Marshall, magister; Richard W. Spears,
exchequer; John W. Collis, historian; and James II. Jeffries, III,

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The fraternity has pledged the
following men:
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Caudill. Foster J. Collis, William
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Spooning tools like these are used to cheat Nevada's slot machines.
Farmer, John Wilson Fish. William E. Gary III, Kenward K. Harris.
Frank N. King Jr., Charles M.
Layton, B. Read Miller Jr.; William R. Patterson Jr., Ronald G.
Polly, Whayne C. Priest Jr., Larry
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Jackson W. White.
to:, tribute $754,000 over a seven-- :, Economics.
The UK announcement
said,
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"working in cooperation with local SUB Employee Dies;
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citizen groups, existing organizaiiKie than 30 Eastern Kentucky tions and agencies, the UK team Served Seven Years
(ililitH s.
will seek pockets of opportunity
Mrs. Cammye Brayfield, an emFiank G. Dickey. UK president, in such areas as industrial loca- ployee at the SUB cafeteria for
aU the Kellogg
contribution tion and development, community seven years, died at Good Samariwould be combined with state sup-po- :t improvements and planning.
tan Hospital Wednesday morning
in an intensive program aimCareer guidance and job place- of a heart ailment.
Mrs. Brayfield. a widow, is sured at improving economic condiment; soil, water and crop mantions confronting the more than agement; meat, poultry, and milk vived by her daughter and two
residents of the area. production; horticulture, forest sisters.
She was a native of Carlisle.
I'nder the program, a team of management and utilization, mar10 specialists from L'K will be keting, and transportation.
available to work with local resi"It is hoped the new program
dents and guide a bloc of govern- will provide guidance for the esmental services seeking to provide tablishment of state and national
new economic opportunities and policy for aiding such regions,
alleviate unemployment.
which, in the nation, involve some
The UK team will be directed by five million people," the announceDr. Frank J. Welch, dean of the ment said.
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Jane Hasekien, associate

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campus when she was attacked on
.vnr of Romance languages, stif- Broadway near
Fourth Street.
le ml a fractured arm when she
Two young Negro men struck
v.abeaten and robbed Monday
times, grabbed her
niht, according to Lexington her seveil
purse containing $10, and fled east
police.
on Fourth Street, said Dr. Hasel-deIt was thought that Dr. Hasel-ch- n
had received only bruises and
cratches but further examination
at the Good Samaritan Hospital
Look Better
Tuesday revealed the injury.
According to police, Prof. Hasel-tle- n
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was walking toward her car
with
following a program at McAlister
Auditorium on the Transylvania

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