actl. .
'ently AFM brags of a
)QO.
membership 0 '
Evidence of
J i:isa tisfaction of the
public at large ha . '-0.!1. voiced editorially
in countless newspapers' ;'r om coast-to-coast.
Said one paper: "Certainly large numbers
of men are out of work in music, but legis-
lating against the automatic phonograph is
li ke having a taxi company pass legisla·
tion to keep people from walking, or hav·
ing the telephone company try to abolish
the post offices. Automatic phonographs,
traveling bands, and what they imply have
proved their worth-the public wants them
and should get them. And quite frankly,
they are responsible for a higher level of
musiciansh ip th an was ever to be found in
the old days of the supreme authority of
the local and its officers."
.
Summed up, it is evident that th e battle
lines have been drawn for a nasty fight with
Prexy Petrill o and his none-too-sympa thetic
membership on the unpopular side of the
fence.
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1942
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a shiny 1942 cabinet-but better not wait
too long, because heavy sales and low stocks
are tough hombres to lock horns with ...
After receiving assurances that he would be
stationed on shore patrol, Thelma Oliver's
three-month-long naval husband was trans-
ferred to an aircraft carrier-which typi-
cally illustrates the uncertainty of the days
we live in.
Long may the Beauty Banner wave-
Wilma Larsen, replacing Gertrude Reese at
Puget Sound Novelty, and Pat Harrington,
in for J uanita Anderson at Countner's, are
stimulating to the eye and fast on the type-
writer. . . . In casting off office life for
home life via Matrimonial Road, J uanita
Anderson became the third casual ty to
Danny Cupid at the Coun tner Husband
Trappery .. . . After a short in terim, North -
west Sales are once again Rock-Ola's
Washington State distributors, fea turing the
Commando.
,
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Topeka Sets Licenses
TOPEKA, Kansas-A $5.00 per year li-
cense fee has been placed on automatic
phonographs by the Ci ty Commission. Here-
tofore the machines were license free.
Marble tables, out of the city for four
years, have been restored to operation with
a tax of $10.00 per table, per year. Vending
machines operating on a dime or more will
be assessed $5.00 per year, and vendors op-
erating on less than ten cents draw a $2.00
license. Penny Arcades will be issued a
license at $50.00 per year.
Girls At Rock-Ola Plant
CHICAGO.-Most of the fron t page of
the metropoli tan section of the Tribune for
July 19th was given over to a story on
how 3,000 girls will soon be at work at the
huge plant of th e Rock-Ola Manufacturing
Corp. making weapons of war for their
husbands and sweethearts in the fron t line
trenches.
Piece was embellished with seven photos
showing comely young gals operating var-
ious pieces of intricate machinery.
1157 Post Street
SAN FRANCISCO, CALIF.
Record Maker Shelved
CHICAGO-How a $50,000 machine-an
elaborate affair reminiscent of a cartoon-
ist's imagination-was wall ed up for the
duration by Rock-Ola Mfg. Corp., was re-
vealed here Aug. 6th.
The big machine, which daily turned out
about 50,000 steel records for home record-
ing, had been in use only 3 months, when
the war ended its operation.
The brain child of David C. Rockola, the
machine took sheet steel into its intricate
mechanism, stamped out round discs, gave
them three coatings of a recording lacquer,
put them through a baking oven, and fina lly
sen t them forth ready to receive record-
ings.
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