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COIN MACHINE
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PAUL W . BLACKFORD
1113 Venice Boule vard
Yiiew
FItzroy 8269
EDITOR a n d PUBLISHER
Los An qeles, Calif.
Publishe d at Los Angeles, California, on the l Oth of each month for d istrib u tion to operators
of c oin-controlled equipment from c oast~to -coas t a nd with an inte nsiv e coverage of the eleven
states west of the Rocky Mountains.
SHOW DATES SET
• Annual Chicago conve ntion s et
for Hotel Sh erman January 11-14.
CHICAGO.-The Hotel Sherman at Chi-
cago again has been selected for the annual
Coin Machine Exhibit and Convention.
Dates for the 1937 Show have been defi-
nitely announced by the NACOMM Com-
mittee in charge as January 11, 12, 13 and
14.
At a recent committee meeting N. Mar-
shall Seeburg was elected chairman. This
wil be the third year that the Coin Ma-
chine Show has been conducted under the
direction of NACOMM, and the third year
that Mr. Seeburg has served as chairman
of the Convention Committee.
Operators, jobbers and distributors, as
well as exhibitors, will be interested to
learn that the committee is considering
plans to restrict admission to the exhibit to
actual prospective buyers, as advocated edi-
torially by THE REVIEW. In past vears the
admission of the general public to the Show
has resulted in such a crowded condition
that the operators have fou,pd it difficult
to inspect the displays as carefully as they
would like.
CAMOA
PARTY SUCCESS
o
Cleveland Adopts Pinball Ordinance
• Automatic check payout e q u ipment. race qames included under $2 monthly
license fee: Sportlands are e ncouraqed.
Oscar Now Ready for
Jumping Frog Derby
SAN FRANCISCO. -There was ex-
citement qalore at the Wynne Nov-
elty Co. when Oscar went ·on the
loose aqain.
Oscar was qiven to Wynn Den-
ton, head of the firm, by Operator
and Mrs. lack Kirby of Marysville
but he just wouldn't stand hitched.
Oscar is a bull froq, built alonq the
lines of the heroes of the Anqels
Camp Jumpinq Froq Derby, and
hopped out of pin qame crates, pho-
noqraph crates and everythinq else
that was tried as a container.
So now Oscar is in temporary cus-
tody of the cop on the beat a n d the
operators are all lay inq it on the
line that he'll win the next Derby
without any arqument.
500 opera tors and quests in a t-
tendance a t a n nu a l party.
LOS ANGELES.-A gala evening's en-
tertainment was enjoyed by approximately
500 members and guests of the California
Amusement Machine Operators Association
at their annual dinner party at the Ship
Cafe in Venice June 2nd,
Charles W. Cradick, executive secretary
of CAMOA, Inc., was introduced by Newell
H. Stearns, member of the board of direc-
tors, who welcomed the operators and their
guests. The gay affair attracted leading
coin machine operators from all parts of
Southern California and adjoining territory.
One of the many highlights of the eve-
ning was the free skate ride given to Joe
Orcutt, Charles Cradick and George Hunt.
Tom Jones, master of ceremonies, was
well received in a number of vocal selec-
tions. The floor show included the Gillette
Girls Revue; Louis Arley and the Oliver
Sisters in a European novelty act; Oper-
ator D avey Jamieson and Louise in dances
of yesterday and today; Passeau and Adele,
comedy skating act; Caprino Sisters, vocal-
ists; Gifford and Pearl, hilarious puppet
comedy; the Three Hong Kong Boys, sing-
ing a group of Hawaiian and popular
songs, and the Keene Sisters with Vic and
LaMarr in an acrobatic dance.
NAB SLUG MAKER
SAN FRANCIS CO.- The arrest of Clif-
ford Welch, alias Harold Leach, has saved
operators the grief of finding their ma-
chines filled with slugs. Secret Service men
arrested him on charges of making plaster
molds for counterfeiting nickels.
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EXCLUSIVE LICENSE
• Oregon city gives e xclusiv e auto-
matic contract to two opera tors.
GRESHAM, Ore.- Approximately $1,000
a year will come into the city coffers as a
result of the passage of an ordinance licens-
ing pinball games and slot machines.
The ordinance gives an exclusive license
to Operators Fred Grohs and Earl Wurz-
weiler of Portland to operate the machines.
They will be assessed an occupational tax
of $200 for the operation of slot machines,
$100 for pinball games and $50 for punch-
boards. In addition they' will pay $20 on
each slot machine and $15 on each pinball
game.
Revenue also will come from the loca-
tions, which are assessed $1.50 per month
per machine. The new ordinance becomes
effective the first of August upon the expi-
ration of their present license.
CHANGE OF ADDRESS
Subscribers should report any
chanqes in address DIRECT to u s.
The Post Office Department will no
lonqer permit the delivery of mail
incorrectly addressed and second
class mail will not be forwarded.
NOTIFY US at once of any error in
your address or if you wish to
chanqe your address.
COIN MACHINE REVIEW
1113 Venice Blvd.
Los Anqeles, Cal.
CLEVELAND, O .-The long drawn out
controversy over an ordinance licensing pin-
ball machines has at last come to an end
when the city councii voted 24 to 8 to
license all machines of the amusement type.
Automatic check payout machines were in-
cluded in those approved for licensing.
The ordinance passed was an improve-
ment upon the successful Cincinnati pinball
game ordinance. Mayor Burton announced
he would follow the majority opinion of
the council in signing the ordinance.
Councilman Anton Vehovec, instigator of
the ordinance, and pinball representatives
led the successful campaign for passage of
the ordinance. Vehovec said : "If an ordi-
nance had been passed when I first put one
in, the city would be several hundred thou-
sand dollars ahead.
"You fellows are always hollering about
playgrounds for children, and you get told
there is no money for the children. Well ,
if you'll go along with this we'll get in
about a $125,000 this year, and we can
use that money for playgrounds for the
children. People play these games for
amusement, and they ought to be willing
to have some of the money used so the
children would play at something tbo."
The ordinance calls for a license fee of
$2 a month per machine. A flat license
fee of $25 is provided for locations that
have 35 or more machines, encouraging
establishment of Sportlands. This was add-
ed to the ordinance upon the request of
representatives of Euclid Beach Park, who
said that the $2 a machine license fee
would run their penny arcade out of busi-
ness.
A barrage of amendments was to be in-
troduced at the next council meeting by the
council president, Joseph Artl. These
amendments include: transfer of responsi-
bility for issuing licenses from City Com-
missioner Joseph E. Cassidy to the police
department; to bar the machines from the
vicinity of school buildings and remove
from the ordinance its present exemption of
license fees for devices in amusement parks.
The ordinance forbids the offering of
prizes by store propnetors on the skill
games which have no automatic devices for
the return of tokens.
It specifies that owners must secure li-
censes and must file detailed specifications
of the machine with the license commis-
sioner, who is virtually made the "czar" of
the slot machine industry by the ordinance.
The legislation makes it unlawful to per-
mit anyone of 18 or under to play the slot
machines, except in an amusement park or
amusement place.
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