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Trinity Launches Interim

Queen Of New Orleans

The first casino boat to operate on the Mississippi at New Orleans was launched by Halter Marine,

Inc., a subsidiary of Trinity Indus- tries. The Queen of New Orleans is a 245-foot sternwheeler which will have 20,000-sq.-ft. of casino space and will carry up to 1,500 passen- gers. When completed this Febru- ary, it will dock at the Poydras Street

Wharf behind the New Orleans

Hilton Riverside Hotel.

Hilton Hotels Corp. will own the vessel and manage the casinos; New

Orleans Paddlewheels Inc. will be the marine operator. The 245-foot vessel will serve as an interim boat until the larger 322-foot, 2,400 pas- senger permanent Queen of New

Orleans is completed. It is under construction at Trinity's Equitable

Shipyard and is planned for delivery in November, 1994. At that time the smaller vessel will be renamed and moved to another Hilton facility.

John Dane III, president of Trin- ity Marine Group, saidhis company's success in on-time deliveries of pas- senger vessels makes Trinity at- tractive to casino boat owners. For additional information on the ca- sino boat building capabilities of

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Launching of Trinity-built Queen of New Orleans

Star Casino Distributes Tax

Revenues; Showboat, Inc. To

Increase Its Ownership

After 30 days of operation, Star

Casino, Louisiana's first riverboat casino, turned over $1.5 million in tax revenues to the State of Louisi- ana, the City of New Orleans and the Orleans Levee District. Star

Casino paid $ 1 million to the state in gaming taxes based on "total win" from Nov. 8, 1993 through Dec. 8, 1993, and $250,000 each to the city and the levee district in boarding taxes.

The riverboat's owner, Louie

Roussel, III presented checks to

Governor Edwin Edwards, Mayor

Sidney Barthelemy and Robert

Harvey, Sr., president of the Board of Commissioners of the Orleans

Levee District at the Star Casino.

Showboat, Inc., which owns 30 percent of Star Casino, Inc., an- nounced plans to acquire an addi- tional 20 percent of the Showboat

Star Partnership. Showboat will also assume responsibility as man- aging partner as a result of its new 50 percent partnership.

The additional equity interest in the partnership is subject to ap- proval by the Louisiana Riverboat

Gaming Commission and the

Riverboat Gaming Division of the

Louisiana State Police.

Bally Opens Casino

In Mississippi

Bally Manufacturing Corp. offi- cially opened Bally's Saloon & Gam- bling Hall, the company's first wa- ter-based casino docked at Mhoon

Landing in Tunica, Miss.

The opening of Bally's Saloon &

Gambling Hall brings the number of casinos operated by Bally's to four.

Lady Luck Receives Gaming

License For Mississippi

Lady Luck Gaming Corp. received a gaming license from the Missis- sippi Gaming Commission to oper- ate a casino in Biloxi, Miss.

Lady Luck Biloxi will be a 40,000- sq.-ft. two-story dockside facility with 21,000-sq.-ft. of gaming space.

Lady Luck Biloxi will have 660 slot machines and 40 table games.

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