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Terms-One-third Cash- Bala nce C.O.D.
SUPREME PRODUCTS CO., 333
by
B. K. ANDERSON
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COIN
MACHIHIE
IIE'IIIW
KANSAS CITY, MO.-Vacations, sev•
era! bi g turnovers in automatic music and
new tax situations hea dline th e late summer
newsfront in th is vicinity.
Automatic music again makes th e biggest
news with Central Distri buting Co mpany as
its fo cal point. According to Tim Cru m-
mett, co-owner of Central, a new branch of
this operating- distributin g firm has been
opened in Wichita, Kansas.
This new branch, Crummett says, will not
enter the operatin g phase of the business in
this Kansas area but will confine its activi-
ti es entirely to the sale and distribution of
Wurlitzer Phonographs.
The Wichita office wi ll have Ralph Ma-
son, brother of R . F. Mason, as its resident
ma nager, at 607 West Douglas.
According to Crumm ett, the reason for
this expansion can be lai d directly at the
door of good busin ess. "1939 is going to be
our bi ggest year," he sa id. " It wouldn' t
surprise me if we do $200,000 worth of
business this year."
Among th e larger tra nsactions in auto -
matic music duri ng the last month he r e-
ports th e sales of large blocks of fifty or.
more machin es both to th e Imperial Music
Co mpany, Kansas City, and Art Myers of
Chillicothe, Mo.
Another reportedly "bi g deal" between
Central and Norman Stevens, who head-
quarters at Sedalia, Mo., was also an -
nounced. Again th e equipment involved
was automatic music.
In summing u p the vast im po rtance mu-
IMING DEVICES
Electrical or Mechanical
For eve ry coin mach ine need .
W e supply leading manufacturers.
ELLMAN & ZUCKERMAN
Chicago, Ill.
119 S. Jefferson St.
sic operation has assumed in th e. Hea~~ of
Ameri ca pictu re, Crummett said :
We
pioneered bi g scale mus.ic di stribution a.nd
operation in thi s area m 1934. W e tn ed
more or less unsuccessfully for several
years to interest other operators in thi s
phase of the business. Strange as it. ~eems
their objection at fi rst was th e stability of
phonograph operation.
"In the past two years music has made
its greatest advances locally, :which poi~ts
to a strengthenin g of the en tire operatmg
picture. It mea ns that operators no longer
expect the first month's profits to pay fo r
th e machine. They a re willing now to take
a fair year- in•and•yea r•out profit, free from
the uncertai nty of other lin es even if it
means a larger initial outlay fo r equipment.
Num erous recent sales of job lots of auto•
matic music machin es means that this type
of operation intends to keep th e gains it
has made."
On the tax front the Kansas State Sales
Tax mills have given way to a scale in
which pu rchases in small amounts are n.ot
taxable. Th e mills have fad ed from th e p1c•
ture the small est amount of th e tax now
coll;ctibl e bein g one cent. This action lifts
a load particularly from the operators of
cigarette vendors in th e "Sunflower State."
The Missouri Sales Tax is giving coi n
machine distributors in this area no end of
troubl e. Accordin g to legal advice advanced
at the time this measure was adopted, dis-
tributors were not required to collect th e
tax because they sold to operators in a
transaction th at was then considered enti re•
ly a wholesale deal. So in most cases no
tax was collected.
Now, it seems, the State has decided dif.
fer ently and has set out to collect the tax.
Several distributors have been required to
pay tax made on certai n sales sin ce 1936
and representatives of th e sales tax offi ce
are now goin g over the sales books of oth er
coin machine di stributors.
Big Profits
3 Bar Jackpot
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Takes $82.00
Average Payout $48.69
Average Profit $33.31
A FLASHY BOARD with tickets bearing sym•
bols printed In seven colors.
We defy competition. Daily we meet
and beat quotati on s from any and all
pri nting plants in t he west. G ive us a
cha nce t o save you money on you r next
job.
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Chas.A. Brewer&Sons
CHICAGO, ILL.
CHICAGO- Althou gh billed as the Bally
Employees' Annual P icni c, th e outin g at
John 's Grove, Roosevelt Road and Route 59,
August 12th , resembl ed a general co nclave
of th e co in•clan, for in addition to severa l
hundred Bally fac to ry and offi ce employees,
scores of promin ent coin-machine men and
sup pliers attended.
The first picni c bus, departin g from th e
Bally Mfg. Company plant, arrived at th e
Grove about 9 a. m., and th ereaft er crowds·
conti nued to arrive by bus a nd priva te auto•
mobile fo r a day and prolonged evening of
old.time picnic fun. Highlight of th e day
was a baseball game, married men vs. sin gle
men, whi ch ended in the tenth innin g with
a score of 9.3 in fa vor of th e bachelors.
F oll owing this and an excitin g horseshoe
pitchin g contest, the field was given over
to a va ri ety of races and athl etic events
ra ngin g from th e sprint fo r children und er
fi ve years of age to the women's tug•of•war
and climaxed by a greased pig chase. Danc-
in g und er th e stars continued until a late
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hour.
PRINTERS TO THE
COIN MACHINE TRADE
BRINGS THE PROFITS
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Industry Attends
Bally Picnic
Pl6ihti119
CF-5240)
6320-32 HARVARD AVE.
It is expected tha t th e sales tax of two
per cent will be coll ected on most sales in
the futu re.
Vaca tion tim e is still in full swin g. Man-
ager Carl Hoelzel of United Amusement
Com pa ny has just return ed from an exten•
sive tri p through th e Rocky Mountain Park
reg ion.
Iva n Nelson has embarked on a motor
trip that will take him to Minnea polis, Bos•
ton a nd the World's F air. He is accom-
pa ni ed by Mrs. Nelson.
Finlay Mason's wires to hi s home office
from Rocky Mountain points awake envy
da ily in th e eyes of Central's employees.
Ti m Crumm ett rea ds his pa rtn er's wires
a nd spea ks with en thusiasm of a winter va•
cati on on th e Florida Coast, whi ch he in•
tends to take.
We bea r that Frank Schrogl is in Joplin,
Mo., which city bord ers th e Ozark Reso rt
area, and th at Johnnie Johns is out of
town , a nd tha t A. E. San dhaus of Coloni al
Sales Com pa ny is just going or just coming
fro m a trip down So uth , and so it goes. ♦
HOLDSWORTH PRINT SHOP
PRICE U .16
128 S. Al ma St.
Los Angeles, Ca l.
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