Word: slots
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...mayor of the city of Jerome, characterized by your [March 2] article as a "neon-lit, slot-machine satellite town . . . outside Twin Falls," I am greatly incensed over such a farfetched . . . description of our town. I would like to give you a few facts: Jerome was incorporated as a village on the 15th day of July, 1909 . . . It was made the county seat of Jerome County . . . in 1919. It serves a large agricultural area with a population of approximately 11,000 people . . . It has a modern 50-bed hospital . . . 17 churches, four public schools, two parks, a swimming pool...
...city of Twin Falls, which, from your article, is the parent city of Jerome . . . is situated 14 miles south of Jerome . . . True, Twin Falls is the wholesale center of this entire area, including Jerome, but to label Jerome as its satellite slot-machine town is just plain poor reporting to put it mildly. I feel that your article was written by an anti-slot-machine propagandist...
This year Scherer has fenced in epee at the number two slot behind ex-captain George McNair. He began fencing here, won his numerals as a freshman, and has fenced on the varsity for the last two years...
...memorandum was posted calling for tarring and feathering of a member of the EA (Elements of Administration) faculty and a general march on the Square, and advertising a 9 p.m. "debacle" at the slot...
Those whose papers had already passed the slot formed applauding lines at the deadline drew near, and the last to arrive, running, with their "damnably complicated" eight pages on finance were heartily cheered. The tarring and feathering and the march did not take place...