recovered from a long and severe illness.
Tom Bushby, still with the Navy, and
formerly a well known figure in local
operating circles, was another visitor.
We understand that Johnnie Welch has
difficulty in dividing his time between his
music business and his large and beautiful
ranch on the Deschutes River in Eastern
Oregon.
Percy Drake is reported still aggressive
in the music operating field with Tiny's
Tavern and card room in Kenton on the
side.
Visiting local jobbers this month were
Sam Policar, who has been discharged
from the Army; and Don Landis, formerly
with the Coast Guard. Al Brun, former
music operator with Coast Amusement, is
discharged from the Army but still an·
xiously awaiting transportation .home from
Europe, according to Bob Allen, of Coast.
Al must be pretty impatient, for he has
yet to see. for the first time his six months
old son.
Bob Allen, incidentally, just
returned from a pheasant hunting trip in
South Dakota.
At Northwest Amusement, it is reported
that Harry Arnsberg has returned from
a two week excursion to Chicago. Harry
has been at the old stand since April 1st,
when he was released from the Coast
Guard. His younger brother, Max Arns·
berg, just returned from three years over·
seas, and is managing the Arcade at Fourth
and Washington Streets.
Budge Wright of Western Distributors
is a fortunate man. Most of us have
d,eams, but seldom do they come true.
This is not true in Budge's case, however,
for one of his dreams, that of modernizing
his establishment in order to give better
service, has come true. Now completed
is a program of extensive alterations and
modernizing, which includes a new en-
larged front show room, new lighting fea-
tures, a modernistic new front to the
building and: to get back to Budge's dream,
a completely equipped and efficient "one-
stop" parts department. Budge came back
last week from a two week's trip to Den-
ver, Kansas City, and Chicago. He was
met in Kansas City by Clayton Ballard,
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and it is rumored, but not confirmed, tbat
he may be taking on the Aireon line lo-
cally. Walter Solomon, Seattle Manager
for Western, was also in Chicago with
Budge, and we hear that the country boys
saw the sights. At Budge's establishment,
Alice Ballengrud continues as office mana-
ger, George Trambitas as Service Manager,
with Bill Scales, Warren Conant and Bill
Harris under his supervision_
E. Roland Allen, General Manager of
Columbia Music and Schoen Enterprises,
Rockola Distributors, reports that they are
about to lose one of their most able assist-
ants in the bookkeeping department, Kay
Hugan, who is to be married Dec. 15th
to Don Lewis, Montgomery Ward execu-
tive. Roland also reports that the Army
will not need Roland (Chuck) Jackson
after the first of the year. (His old job
is awaiting him.) The same E. Roland
Allen was recently in a tizzy for two days,
and the business suffered for it. This was
occasioned by his difficulty in deciding
on one out of a number of photograph
proofs, (his picture to be used in the
current issue of THE REVIEW. They were
all so good, but only one could be used_)
Roland is also the possessor of a new pair
of glasses, "the better to scrutinize the
trade," in preparation for the grand rush
anticipated on the appearance of "The
Phonograph of Tomorrow."
At the Jack R. Moore headquarters,
Jack (Major Moore until not very long
"1(0) takes a very optimistic view on the
future of the coin machine business. He
believes that there is promise of a new
era in the industry which will he brought
about by applications of numerous inven-
tions resulting rrom and developed by the
war, and that this, in turn will put the
indllstry on a higher plane, more useful
to the community. That Jack's prediction
is already partially evident to this cor-
respondent as witnessed by the emergence
during the past few years of so many
jobbing and operating firms from the dark,
dirty side street hole-in-the-walls, from
which they used to operate, to modern
quarters and better conditions.
Continuing at the Jack R. Moore head-
quarters are Helen Cusson. office manager
'Illd her husband, J. E. "Eddie" Cusson,
Supt. of Sales and Service. Their son,
Arthur, is out of Boot Camp and now is
a Seaman 2nd Class. A recent addition
to the Moore staff is Daniel V. Hugenin
as Director of Sales, until recently an
Army Captain, and formerly in the adver-
tlSlll/! business_ In the shop are two sea-
soned Navy Veterans, the two "Dons",
Don Shepherd and Don McLain, both of
whom served in the Normandy Invasion.
Sigmund "Trigger" Tragesser is the new
Shop Foreman. Charles "Chuckie" Howe,
formerly in the accounting department and
more recently a German prisoner for twen-
ty-two months, is back in "civvies" but sti11
resting up and taking it easy. Helen
Cusson among her many letters from serv-
ice men has one from Al Fish, former
Albany, Oregon, operator, in which he
encloses a number of interesting pictures
of India, from where he is now returning.
During the war Eddie Cusson served as
Commander of Company G, U. S. Coast
Reserve, and under him were 137 men.
He was recently disenrolled after four
years service, and emerges with a perma-
ent commission; Ensign T-U. S. C. G. R.
Among the citations and let_ters hanging
in his office of which "Eddie" is justly
proud, is one from Rear Admiral F. A.
Zeusler of the 13th Naval District, Seattle,
Wash_, and from which we quote in part:
"I cannot speak too highly of the exten-
sive aid which you have given to the Coast
Guard and to your country in performance
of your assigned duties ... I trust that in a
sense this letter will provide a tangible re-
ward for your priceless willingness to give
rather than receive . . . You and the men
under you have served many a lonesome,
weary, tedious tour of duty. You have en-
countered evidences of carelessness and
have prevented great losses that might have
come about through fires of careless ori-
gin . .. Not a single serious loss has been
suffered in any facility that has been under
the protection of the Voluntary Temporary
Reserve of the U. S. Coast Guard . . . As
you are separated actively from the Serv-
ice, we, of the peacetime Coast Guard, sa-
lute you!" (Signed-Rear Admiral F. A.
Zeusler.)
Jack plans to leave soon for Aberdeen,
S. D., for pheasant shooting, probably fly-
ing his new Stinson. (South Dakota pheas-
ants seem to attract Oregon coin machine
men).
Fritz Hall
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