Casinos open Friday at Atlantic City
Atlantic City prepares for the first East Coast legal casino opening as Resorts International tests 1,200 slot machines and 82 tables. Local leaders foresee rapid expansion with up to four casinos by 1980 while noting early glitches and mixed public reaction.
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Fla
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Resorts International Hotel- Casino
Disney World
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Resorts International
Youths held for kidnapping 49-year-old Belleville man
Two 19-year-old men from Illinois were arrested near Springfield and held on possible federal kidnapping charges. They allegedly abducted Joseph Clifton of Belleville, robbed him of 16 dollars, and placed him in a car trunk before Clifton was released unharmed near St. Louis.
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Springfield
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Belleville, Ill
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Madison County
Ill
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St. Louis
UAW chief ridicules GM salary cuts amid price fears
UAW president Douglas Fraser mocked General Motors salary cuts as inadequate for a company paying top executives near one million dollars yearly. GM chairman Thomas A. Murphy eyed staying under Carter's 5 percent pay cap but warned executives could still gain over 45,000 this year. He pledged cost cuts and possible model-year price changes, with a hope for moderating prices in 1978.
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General Motors Corp
Carter
Thomas A. Murphy
UAW
Douglas Fraser
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Fraser
Elliott M. Estes
Murphy and Estes
Worms Dominate Iowa's Largest Bait Store Operation
Aileen Crane operates Iowa's biggest bait house in Des Moines with 10 years of experience alongside her husband. The couple stocks a full range from worms to licenses and beer, handling up to a million worms yearly sourced from Minnesota and the South. They emphasize care to keep nightcrawlers alive four to five weeks, noting weather as fishing's main hurdle and a tight market with many closures among peers.
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Des Moines, Iowa
UPI
Aileen Crane
Iowa
John Crane
Seek slayers of two Chicago teen-agers
Police search for two assailants who abducted Northwest Side teens Mary Stevens 17 and Christopher Novak 18 after forcing entry into a parked car. Stevens was wounded twice in the stomach and once in the left cheek and remained hospitalized. Novak was treated and released. The attackers robbed the couple of 10 dollars, drove the car for hours, and attempted sexual assault after tying Stevens.
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Chicago
UPI
Mary Stevens
St. Mary of Nazareth
Christopher Novak
Novak
Miss Stevens
Miss Steven
House tackles college tuition tax credits and energy bills
Congress races toward Memorial Day with a House floor debate on a tuition tax credit up to 250 per student in 1980 and potential private school credits. A long-awaited natural gas pricing compromise appears near, as energy talks resume in a House Senate conference.
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Senate Energy Conference
Jackson criticizes Carter on inflation issue
Washington report quotes Rev. Jesse Jackson of Operation PUSH criticizing President Carter for not slowing inflation. He urges stronger action against apartheid in South Africa and calls for broader black involvement in politics, labor, and education while praising some cabinet choices and Africa policy.
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Meet the Press
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Legislator backs bid for competitive bidding on notices
State Rep. James C. Taylor of Chicago criticizes Gov. Thompson for opposing a bill to allow competitive bidding among legal notice publishers. The Illinois Press Association opposes the measure, saying it would end price fixing. Under current law, notices cannot be printed below 20 cents per line.
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UPI
James C. Taylor
Dchicago
James R. Thompson
Illinois Press Association
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