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is a tough little cylinder lock, specially designed
to resist picking and forcing. ILCO specialized
in Coin Machine Locks before the war - and
will be ready for your business after the war.
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FITCHBURG , MASSACHUSETTS
Branches in all Principal Cities
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before the $50.00 federal excise tax was
imposed? A. 1,000.
8. How many phonographs are operated
in your city, county and state? A. City,
2,000; County, 2,500 (city included);
State, 12,000 (county included).
9. How many amusement devices, other
than marble games, are operated in your
city, county and state? (Arcade equipment
included) A. City, 500; Co.unty, 600 (city
included); State, 3,000 (county included).
One has oilly to study these figures and
see wh'al':a convincing argument they ' pre; .
sent. Like reports have been received from
a great .number of individuals giving fig.
ures on various key cities, counties and
some states and AOLAC has voiced the
~!ea that other ,operators and groups for.
w:;i', d their figures ' at once to the Associ·
aliim offices at 1351 West Washington Bou·
levard in Los Angeles, California, as soon
as possible.
Presenting the operators' case before the
House Ways and Means Committee will be
Samuel L. (Curley) Robinson, managing
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director of AOLAC, and Arthur Mohr, at·
torney for the organization. In addition
several Associations in various parts of the
nation, and leading jobbers, distributors
and operators, have promised to have rep-
resentatives on hand or appear themselves
to bolster the arguments presented by Rob·
Inson and Mohr. The Arcade Owners Asso-
ciation has I put its shoulder to the cause
and will have representation in Washing-
ton ' also to assist in the presentation be·
fore the Committee.
. At press time ' i10 definite ·information was
available as to :when the appointment be-
fore the Commitee will come up but it is
believed it may be three or four weeks
away.
Alaska .To Be Good : , . ;
SEATT1E~B. F. Kane,whochas ,operat-
ed in Alaska for a number of yaars'" ilhd
headquartered in Juneau,' ' predicts,>, that'
. Alaska shduld bea very good :lerritory;Cfu.'r ..
coin·operateif ·devices after the war.
Kane is now , in Seattle with the E. W.
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PENNY ARCADE HEADQUARTERS SINCE 1895 •
Manufacturer. of Pllotomatlc and Otller Fa mous Col" Operated Equlpme"t
44·01 ELEVENTH STREET, LONG ISLAND CITY, NEW YORK
Elliott Co. and is in the Personnel De·
partment hiring men for the new Alaskan
Highway.
Laymon Conversions Click
LUS ANGELES-Victory Game Conver-
sioDS(are the hit of the year at Paul A. Lay·
mon~s':where Paul and Bert Beutler are sell-
ing all the Conversions they can get as rap·
idly as they arrive.
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"It's the McCoy for the ·boys,'" declared
Paul. "Easy to install, and priced ridicu·
lously low the Victory Game ·.Conversions
are a veritable .shot in the ami for sick pin
games for they completely rejuvenate the
table and,give:.it brand new player appeal.
Right now we have five knockout Conver.
sions 'we are offering operators. Each of
them has a definite war theme in trend with
the present popularity of such ideas."
Atlas Man to Army
CHICAGO-Business friends and close
relatives of Irving Ovitz gathered at the
Bledim Stratford hotel here on May 20th
for a farewell dinner before Ovitz left for
military service.
Dinner was sponsored by Morrie and
Eddie Ginsburg of Atlas Novelty Co., as a
farewell tribute to one of iheii former em-
ployees. While at Atlas Irving built a nine·
year record of outstanding service to Atlas
customers.
I!l addition to several laudatory speeches
Irvmg was presented with a gift by Morrie
and Eddie Ginsburg, a gift by Harold
Pincus on beha,lf of the Atlas organization,
and still another gift by Phil Greenburg
Pittsburgh.
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C. Walters Liquidates
LOS ANGELES-The firm of C. Walters
and Associates is being liqui'dated and
Walter C. Bogenberger who has ' operated
under that fictitious name in the past will
continue the business at the same ad'dress
on Beverly Boulevard.
Since we insure hundreds of your present and prospective loca-
OPERATORS!
tions as Insurance Supervisors for the Southern California Tavern Association, is it not
good business fo r you to insure with us?
Ask the Operators Who Do So!
Zeigler Insurance Agency I 'Inc.
541 S. Spring St •• MIch igan 096 1
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Los Angeles. Cplil.
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