Cherokee bingo bonanza pays six women as $16,667 winners
About 2,400 players attended a 60 game, $1 million prize bingo in Cherokee where no state laws applied. Six women, including Helen Truxell, won $16,667 apiece after the final G-58 call, with travelers from Canada, Iowa, and Florida. The event drew bands of locals and tourists for a 12 hour session, boosting area economy during winter.
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Cherokee
N.C
Canada
Iowa
Florida
Dan McCoy
Cherokee Tribal Council
Virginia Beach
McCoy
Great Smoky Mountains National Park
Tennessee-North Carolina
Jimmy Morris
Cash
Roof Collapse At Magic Mart in Bolivar Injures 52
Investigators examine twisted beams and asphalt debris after a thunderstorm collapses a half football field sized flat roof at the Magic Mart Discount Department Store in Bolivar. Fifty two injured. four hospitalized. Supervisor cites long standing roof problems. owner disputes.
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Harlan Thomas
Don Clifton
Little Rock, Ark
Clifton
Memphis
Pressure valve blowout suspected in carnival ride drop
Anderson Indiana officials say an elevated carnival ride dropped six feet injuring nineteen people. Insurance engineers will inspect the ride with private engineers and police speculating a pressure valve failure caused the accident.
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Raymond E. McCaslin
Anderson Free Fair Board
Atlanta donor gives 5000 to fly boy home in coma
An anonymous donor from northern Atlanta contributed 5000 to fund a pressurized jet ambulance to transport 10 year old Anthony Williams, in a coma since a June swimming accident in Atlanta, back to his Chicago family. Jackie Jones, hospital PR official, said the donor learned the needed amount after a call to arrange the medical flight. Williams arrived in Atlanta with 13 schoolmates on a music trip when several youths swam underwater. he failed to surface and was rescued by a motel guest.
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Atlanta
Chicago
Jackie Jones
Southwest Community Hospital
Anthony Williams
Ms. Jones
Anthony
Frank Cook
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Cherokee Bingo Management Inc
Helen Truxell
Peninsula
Ohio
Loraine Anderson
Theresa Yost
Oak Lawn, Hil
Joann Tyler
Louisville, Tenn
Teri Kelley
Decatur, Ga
Anne Bliven
Tampa
Fla
Madeline Strohl
David Howell
Hardeman County Emergency Medical Service
Dan Davis
Davis
Bolivar Community Hospital
Howell
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Fairmount Fair
Shoppingtown
Williams Boy
Indiana
Kentucky
Tennessee
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Lady Manhattan
Fairmount Fair and Shoppingtown
Flairs Shoppingtown
Dewitt
Jean Paul Germaine
Calvin Klein
Chaps
Fairmount and
Shappingtown
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