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St. Louis
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Frank Pfister, operators of University City,
Mo., who received final notices in Febru-
ary. Both will go to Camp Robinson,
Arkansas, and are wondering whether the
government would be interested in allowing
them to set up a pinball route among the
camps around Little Rock.
Visitors around coin machine distribut-
ing houses in February included some of
the foremost manufacturing figures of the
industry. Seen at several firms were George
Moloney and George Jenkins of Bally Mfg.
Co.; I. F. Webb, Rock-Ola vice-president in
charge of phonograph sales; John Chrest,
Exhibit Mfg. Co.; and Emery J. Riszak,
Detroit distributor for International Muto-
scope Reel Corp. Sol Silverstein of Chi-
cago Coin Machine; and Sol Gottlieb of
D. Gottlieb Co. were visitors to Olive Nov-
elty Company.
Harry Hoppe and Harold Baker, Baker
Novelty Company, were in St. Louis this
month to watch progress of Baker's
Pacers on its introduction to St. Louis.
"St. Louis is actually the hub of the coin
machine industry," Hoppe told this re-
porter, "because it has been the experience
of ourselves and other manufacturers that
whatever machine shows good acceptance
here will go anywhere else in the nation." ♦
their returns and gave us much valuable
advice on the subject.
WE HOPE THAT NO OLD MEMBERS
WHO FAIL TO COME TO THE MEET-
INGS ARE PENALIZED
BECAUSE
THEY FAIL TO COMPLY WITH THE
NEW INTERPRETATION OF THE LAW,
when by coming to the meeting they
could have availed themselves of the valu-
able advice freely given by other members.
Another new member, Mr. Y atter,
brought in a very good suggestion which
we will pass along concerning slugs. It
seems that le merchandise vending ma-
chines in the vicinity of many 5c and 10c
stores are slugged with many small iron
washers which are either purchased or
stolen from the dime stores by kids and
deposited in nearby le vending machines
which have no slug protection. Mr. Yatter
has found that upon request many dime
store managers have agreed to take the
offending washers off the counters as they
are not a large profit item and could be
supplied upon request. This removes the
temptation from in front of the young-
sters and maybe oldsters who would use
the washers for the purpose of slugging
machines. Try this suggestion on some of
the dime store managers near your loca-
tions and see if it will help relieve your
slug receipts.
Illustrating that a person is never too
old to be progress ive and active, one of
our ex-members, C. F. Pease, now well
past his eightieth year has recently com-
pleted patent application for a new and
very different type of merchandise vender,
the plans for which came from his ex-
periences as an operator.
M. I. SLATER, Secre tary
♦
Report of the
Western Vending Machine
0 perators Association
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Meeting of February 25th , 1941
It was with deep regret that the Associa-
tion learned of the untimely passing of
one of its most loyal members and a very
fine man, Nicholas Cosin, who was recent-
ly found dead in his home by an employee.
Cosin was a native of Rumania and a
naturalized American citizen; he was wide-
ly known as an authority on rare books,
and his collection of first editions was .' l
revelation to us all who did not really know
of his wide accomplishments and interests
until after it was too late. We never know
what fine personalities we have among us
frequently until after they are gone.
The new ruling on the Federal Income
Tax Law making it necessary to file re-
turns on the basis of gross income rather
than net earnings will catch many oper-
ators napping we are afraid. The law says
that a person must file a return whether
they finally net a profit or not under the
classifications as specified. New members
of the Association, Al Smith, and H. Paul
Kegley gave us valuable information on
the various ramifications of the law and
deductions possible to make. Johnson, one
of our old timers, is devoting much of his
time to aiding various people in making
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Keeney VELVET ........................................ 97.50
Pike's Peak (counter>.. ............................ 32.50
Daval 21, (counter) ................................ 19.75
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1 TOPPER .................................................. 17.50
1 SCOOP ............................................ ; ....... 20.00
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Wurlitzer, Model 41, 1940, like new.................................. 92.00
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