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PINBALLS 1-1-1
The Fort Worth city counciltakes uniCr arisent
requests for rate hikes by the Lone Star Gas
company ant the city transit company, then
moves S to ri'i the city of pinball machines.
Complaints of parents, that school children are
ugfeeriing their allowances into the
marble machines has spurred the police
To-?a thconi
department into act
t instructs the city attorney to draw up an
ordinance which woull prohibit pinball machines
of any type, regard ess they are uses? for
gambling or amusement. Meanwhile, vice squad
officers continue the rains which began last
night when eight of the machines were
confiscates. At 3860 Hemphill, officers fine
over three nozen of the machines ani more
coming in. i Officers believer the
buil' ing was being user as a restaurant, but
finn it has been converted. to a storehouse for
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WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.). [News Script: Pinballs], script, March 18, 1960; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc907309/m1/1/: accessed July 11, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting UNT Libraries Special Collections.