Baer To Pursue Themed Casino - 2004-01-01
Former TV star and Lake Tahoe resident Max Baer Jr. promised Tuesday to pursue development of his “Beverly Hillbillies”-themed hotel and casino in Carson City, regardless of resistance from his neighbors in the shopping center site.

“I am reasonably persistent,” Baer told a group of about 100 Carson City Rotary Club members. “My intention has always been to put that project there, and I am going to do it. I own the property and I will put nothing else there.” Plans for Baer's $54 million project, to be called Jethro's Beverly Hillbillies Mansion & Casino, include 240 hotel rooms, a theater, restaurants and a 200-foot-tall flaming oil derrick at its entrance along U.S. 395 at the Southgate shopping complex.
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Mississippi no longer requiring casino workers to wear licenses - 2004-01-01
A complaint from a coast casino employee has brought on a change in state Gaming Commission policy.

Mississippi casino employees will no longer have to wear gaming licenses that state their full names.

Larry Gregory, executive director of the Gaming Commission, issued an industry letter on Wednesday, a day after Cathy Netto, a blackjack dealer at Grand Casino Gulfport, presented a petition signed by more than 250 co-workers asking that employees no longer display their badges.
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