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R £ N 0 — Nevada’s gaming industry is proving an
and of stability in a sea of national economic difficul-
es but not without effort and cost.
Revenues from gaming, the state’s No. 1 money ear-
r rose more than 20 percent for eight consecutive
barters before this year, sending gross revenues for
+ . If 1979-80 to $2,275,750,000.
g myself b ^ y earj {Re rate of climb dropped to 12-14 percent.
1 , S () Were lait 5 n d the casinos are having to put more and more of their
, , oss into tour packages, junkets and promotions to
dge Ed tourists to come to Nevada.
They don’t have the movement of people by auto-
bde they used to have because of gas prices and the
onomy,” said Jack Stratton of Nevada’s Gaming Con-
1 Board. “So operators are having to put out a lot of
jney to bring people in.”
And one of the things the clubs are putting that money
to is bus tour packages. A good share of casinos rent
ilf or more of their rooms to “bus people” each
jokend.
‘‘A lot of people want to come by bus now because of
ie energy crunch,” said Tom Engelman of MGM
rand, Reno.
Just how much casinos depend on the bus trade is
nphasized by the fact some casinos pay drivers to stop
their establishments. Pam Carter, bus tour coordina-
rat the Sands in Reno, said the going rate is $1.50 per
passenger for a bus that wouldn’t normally stop at a
given casino.
Some have questioned the ethics of paying drivers to
bring in customers, but a district attorney’s spokesman
said it doesn’t appear to be illegal as long as no contract is
being broken.
“We wouldn’t survive if we didn’t have the bus
trade, ” said Ben Hathaway of the Red Garter Casino in
Virginia City.
The junkets are high-class plane tours in which
rooms, food and beverages are taken care of by the
casino if customers agree to bring along a certain amount
to gamble, sometimes up to $10,000. Stratton says,
however, he’s seeing some evidence a number of casinos
are cutting back on junkets.
“They’ve looked at the bottom line and found it isn’t as
profitable as predicted,” he said.
Bob Martin, vice president and general manager of
Harrah’s, Reno, said business has picked up this fall with
the opening of a new casino section downtown. That
addition includes a new bus terminal and Martin said
some 500,000 bus customers are expected to arrive at
Harrah’s this calendar year.
Casinos combine subsidized bus tickets with special
room rates, meals and gambling coupons and numerous
other promotions designed to draw customers to a casi
no and keep them there.
ines of $500,000 expected;
icket volume ‘ridiculous’
By JENNIFER AFFLERBACH
Battalion Staff
Texas A&M University Police
m>te 118,000 traffic tickets last
chool year for a total of $365,000, an
mount the director of security and
ic called “kind of ridiculous”.
It is estimated that $500,000 in
raffic fines will be collected this
n ear, Col. Thomas Parsons said at
[he Residence Hall Association
; on it," dec meting Tuesday night
malfeasanctii He attribut 1 ed the hi S her esti mate
his year to the increase in parking
iolations from $5 to $10 and in mov-
ng violations from $10 to $20.
“I was in opposition to that in-
irease in fines,” he said. “I didn’t
hink it was needed.”
1 J | The money raised from traffic tick-
1 C P 5 goes into a Parking Facilities Re-
J. iJ {serve Account. That money is used
for the construction of parking lots
and “has nothing to do with salaries”
. , tin the police department, Parsons
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ie., oneo ei% There are 17,000 parking spaces
on campus for the 26,000 parking
said, because that number includes
night permits and motorcycles,
which don’t always take up parking
spaces.
“At any given time, I could show
you a legal parking space,” he said.
“We have available spaces but no
convenient ones.”
Parking is available in the lots at
the baseball field which Parsons said
he has never seen full.
“There really is no additional
space available for parking on the
main part of the campus, ” he said.
In other RHA business, a policy
was discussed requiring dorm stu
dents to turn in their room keys dur
ing the Christmas break.
Ronald Hilton, Coordinator of
Housing Services, said the policy
would eliminate key losses and im
prove residence hall security during
the break. The chances of someone
finding a lost key and using it to get
into a vacant dorm room would be
reduced, he said.
An RHA member argued that stu
dents would just have extra keys
made, which would mean more keys
around to be lost or stolen.
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OCA hears input
on transcripts, bars
By USCHI MICHEL-
HOWELL
Battalion Staff
Off-campus support for a stu
dent government proposal to rec
ognize a minor field of study on
transcripts was solicited by the
Ward II student senator Tuesday
night.
Senator Kenzy Hallmark said
the proposal will be voted on a
second time in the student senate
tonight and asked for student re
sponse to the proposal.
Another off-campus student
senator also asked students to
give their input to the pending
suggestion to sell alcohol in the
Memorial Student Center base
ment and the Northgate crowd
ing problems.
The bars at Northgate have
drawn attention recently, be
cause customers crowd into Uni
versity Drive, obstructing traffic,
student senator Sue Vito said.
In other business OCA re
minded attendants that parking
annex 62, behind Kyle Field, still
needs to be filled with day stu
dents’ cars, in order not to be lost
as a day student lot.
OCA will have a fundraiser for
their recently formed apartment
councils. Under the motto ‘cell-e-
brate’, all students are invited to
attend a party at Cellblock 5 on
Nov. 6.
Since bonfire cutting
weekends are getting fewer,
OCA asked for cooperation.
“More help is needed for bonfire
cutting ”, bonfire coordinator Phil
Suter said. He offered to take in
terested students to the cutting
site Sunday. The meeting point
will be behind Duncan at 6:15
a.m.
In other business, OCA re
ported a third place in the campus
blood drive which won the orga
nization a keg of beer.
Kim Lawrence, director of the
Miss Texas A&M University
pageant, invited all off-campus
women to take part in the com
petition. Deadline for application
is Nov. 3.
Leaking Portland oil well
won t be controlled soon
United Press International
PORTLAND, Tx. — Up to two
months and between $2 million and
$3 million may be needed to drill a
relief well to stop gas feeding a burn
ing well west of this south Texas city,
the operating company says.
Richard Phillips, of Phillips and
Spradly, said Monday, work should
begin this week on the relief well.
The well began leaking last
Wednesday and ignited Friday. A
road near the well has been closed as
a safety precaution.
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Giant Armadillo Captured
After a week-long rampage through central Texas, the
now-famous GIANT ARMADILLO has entered the COL
LEGE STATION area.
The giant beast has ravaged Lone Star Beer’s brewery
and warehouses since Thursday, swallowing kegs of beer
whole. Authorities have been unable to explain this
armadillo phenomenon, but have now come up with a
viable explanation.
It seems that the giant armadillo had planned on coming
to College Station from the beginning. It’s a well-known
fact that AGGIES AND LONGNECKS make Texas the
great state it is. Add to that the fact that the armadillo
snatched the now-famous band, THE MAX, when he
ravaged San Antonio, and the beast’s final stop in College
Station becomes certain.
Apparently the GIANT ARMADILLO wants to culminate
his adventures across Texas with a celebration on Satur
day. While the THE MAX plays their own brand of Texas
music, the armadillo plans to liquidate his stock of ICE-
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