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    7. The tremendous salaries paid by Entratter have occasionally caused a snag or two, but Jack views these problems as inevitable in a town where seven luxurious gambling casinos are scrambling for their share of the -?·ev2a million travelers who visit Las Vegas every year. Jack originally signed Johnnie Ray for $8,500 a week, for example, but had to postpone the booking because the hotel couldn't open on time. When Ray was later offered another date, he asked for $20,000 a week. MI didn't think he was worth that much,?╟Ñ says Jack, "and I told him to go somewhere else." Johnnie didi Rumors about Las Vegas salaries eventually got out of hand - thanks to certain press agents anxious to inflate their clients' value. ^Smien Milton Ber.le was erroneously reported coming to Las Vegas for $37,500 a week, columnist Louella Parsons rebelled and publicly'rapped all the publicists on the knuckles. The wild money talk has since subsided. IS ^But there is nothing spurious about Sir Bountiful himself. At the moment, he gives away $5,000 worth of whisky every week to gambling visitors in the Casino-, plus $800 in cigars and cigarettes, ?√ßmore-