Denver
COIN
MACH/NI
REVIEW
78
H. E. Walker of the Walker Vending
Machine Co., reports that Clarence E. Berg
formerly in the employ of the company, i~
now back in his old job after three years
in military service.
In a former item concerning the Kings·
U·Select·It Service, your reporter stated
that this company, operated by Mr. and
Mrs. D. J. King were "representatives of
the Co an Stettland Co., Madison, Wis." The
machines operated by Mr. and Mrs. King
are owned exclusively by them outright
and operated as their own property. The
machines are installed in numerous loca·
tions and the task of servicing all of them
is a full·time job.
Wolf Reiwitz, of Wolf Sales Co., is vis·
iting his son, A. C. Roberts, who is gradu-
ating from OCS at Camp Lee, Va. Mrs.
Reiwitz is spending the winter in Califor·
nia with their daughter.
A. A. R oberts is out of the city selling
new merchandise for fu ture delivery and
making arrangements for -expansion of the
Wolf Sales organization. He will probably
return to Denver about December 1st.
The company's new salesman, Frank Ne-
gri is also on the road, visiting operators
and discussing new merchandise.
Modern Distributing Co. (formerly Mod-
ern Music Co. ) is now loca ted in new
quarters at 1810 Welton St. Remodeling
and decorating have not yet been com-
pleted, but we expect to have a full story
on this next month.
France8 Conrey
Seattle
It t akes two- to make a bargain and two
FOR.
DECEMBER. houses of the legislature to pass a bill. An
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announcement- that Congress intended to
reduce excise taxes to the 1942 level was
met with cheers from the pin-garners. The
House started the ball rolling by passing a
measure to cu t taxes on cabarets and bowl-
ing alleys but the Senate blocked passage.
That set the precedent, and the lel!;islators
never did get around to the pin tables.
The annual excise ante was raised from
$50 in 1942 to $100 in 1943 where it has
remained ever since. Never one to say die
while a s~ark of hope remains, Joe Ivers,
legal adVIser to the local associations,
<.:hecked with the Senate's Finance Com-
mittee while in Washington D. c., last
month and reports that a cut in the im-
mediate future is highly improbable.
Coin Row's one-time Sunshine Kid has
become Coin Row's Hard Luck Kid. Bob
Chamberlin, the happy-hearted lad who
spread smiles where scowls lurked, was
victimized by fate in the far Pacific and
again betrayed by the same fickle force in
Honolulu. Trained as a cook in the army
air force, Bob landed wi th his company on
Ok inawa during the bloodiest days of
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fighting. So high were the casualties and
so desperate was the need for front-line
troops, that cooks were drafted as litter-
bearers. For days Bob dragged the wounded
to safety, but there came a time when a
Buddy dragged him out of the hellish fire
-with four bullet wounds criss-crossing
l;1i5 back. Evacuated from the island, Bob
headed for Honolulu-the first big jump
on the hop home. His wife eagerly traveled
to San Diego to meet him. And that's when
fate fickled. En route, his eyes began to
pain. Diagnosis showed tropical poisoning.
He's now in a hospital at Honolulu while
his wife waits in San Diego.
- Here's a gasper for Ripley : During the
days of our most acute cigarette shortage,
Earl Heroux sold one-half million dollars
worth of puff·puffs in eleven months ! Block-
long lines for two, five or ten packs were
every-day events at his White Center candy
and cigar store. Where this scarce stock
item was procured is a closed trade secret,
but Earl didn't operate arcades for fifteen
years without making a few jack-potty con-
nections. With the cigarette crisis nothing
but a sour memory, Earl is spending ten
thousand dollars rebuilding his establish-
ment into a sporting goods center. Arcade
pieces are in evidence and will continue
to be because there is no love like first
love.
If Bert Beutler receives an offer to ap-
pear on "Information Please" or any other
question-and-answer program, he will prob-
ably figure it's all in a day's work because
Bert is receiving Quiz Kid training each
and every day. "I've been kept busy an-
swering two questions," he says, "when
will new games arrive and what new games
will arrive."
When Joe Besk, the former Heberling
phono man, walk,ed into the separation cen-
ter, he wanted two things more than any
other: a job and reunion with his wife and
son. The first half was happily consum-
mated when Clark Distributing payrolled
him; reassemblage of the family takes place
the first of the year when the steamer from
- Australia casts anchor and the seed planted
Down Under takes root Up Yonder.
A dark shroud of mystery encompassed
Fred Fields' trip to Kansas City. Upon
reaching his destination, the former Wurl·
itzer representative rush-phone·called John-
ny Michael in Seattle. And just as mys-
teriously, Johnny left for Kansas City. The
enigma deepened when Fields returned and
decided to buy phono routes.
The bowling alley owner first thought a
miniature earthquake had struck, but on
clear inspection discovered it was just
Strong Man Rudy Peterson rolling a game.
Reinforced floors, strengthened pins and
shock-proof balls should be on the order
list unless the owners don't care about
having their' place debrised.
More for Moore : Two new employees
swelled the post-war fold last month-Sec·
retary Esther Erickson and Mechanic Loren
Kirkland. "This is my first job in the coin
machine business," said the new sec. "One
of the nice things about it is that I get to
hear music while I work. The other day
a woman vocalist was singing, "Let Me
Call You Sweetheart," when the needle
caught on "Sweetheart" and kept repeat-
ing. If it had been a male singer I would
have almost swooned." Kirkland returns to
the Northwest after a sojourn in Santa
Monica, where he worked in an Arcade.
The war's over and the boys are com-
ing home, but if you value retaining your
skin close to your bones, don't whisper a
word of it to Low-pointer Bob Bard. Owner
of a music company in Los Angeles by
the same name, he's now on furlough from
Fort Lewis preparatory to taking the long
ride across.
"It was wonderful educational training."
So enthused ex-Heberling operator Staf-
ford Lewis after navying it 39 months as
second-class radio technician. Back in pin
stripes and gabardine, Staff is close-eyeing
the field for an opportunity to make ,his
training unload a litter of green lettuce.
,Re-coin-versions-There must be gold in
these here hills; last month featured it
one-firm invasion by the Coin Machine Ac-
cep tance Corp. Robert M. Waggoner, presi-
dent, G. 1. Grady, traveling auditor, and
Howard W. Pretzel, sales representative,
blew in on the wings of a storm. . . .
Back from Chicago after a two-week-Iong-
lookie, Joe Hart says: "No new phono-
graphs till spring" . . . Everett-born Ed
Harrison made the hop from Sunny Cal
to Unsunny Wash and is on the make for
a service connection.
After an absence of several years, Yak-
ima,s top ops finally coaxed their war-worn
tires and panting motors into Elliott Aven-
nue for a long·delayed visit: Mike Kukay
and associate Fred Noel, B. T. Beason,
John Schuler, and Charley Eccleston . .•
Crisp, immaculate white service men's coats
are mushrooming out all over the row . .. .
Kenny Kemp is back at his work bench
after a month's hospitalization.
Nick Foisy of Prosser and about a hun-
dred other optimists have been on the prowl
for new games. . . . George Heberling's
brother-in-law, Othmer Towe, unkhakied
just in time to open the new Heberling
paint shop . . . . Puget Sound Novelty will
soon stretch the welcome mat for Lyle Ten-
ney, returning from a Minneapolis per-
sonal-affairs visit . . . . Owner of two music
routes, Tacoma's Dick Frayne will sell one
to the guy inking the most digits on a
check.
It's a hit! Off to a fast sales start goes
Chicago Coin's "Goalee". . . . Ex-Coast
Guardsman Walter Solomon, a pretty fair
carbon copy of Pop Solly, teamed up with
Curly Gohr in the Western Distributor's
shop about the same time Solly was Chi-
cago-and-new-game-bound . . .. Sum.up on
shortages: Difficulty in procuring cabinets
Is kayoing the production of Consoles, while
the printing strike in Chicago is delaying
descriptive literature on new equipment.
Representatives for Capitol Records, con-
templating opening a local branch, have
been scouting likely sites for a distributing
warehouse .. .. It must be wonderful being
a civilian again-but not all the boys want
out. Chet Heberling's son, Ensign Don, with
the Navy Supply Corps in the Pacific, is
seriously considering re·enlisting. . . .
Sybil Stark, who made the merchandising
grade with punch boards and novelties, now
specializes in toys for the retail trade in
her uptown emporium.
Puget Sound Novelty reached down a
thumb and pulled out the "Pre-Flight
Tiainers" plum. The firm exclusively dis-
tributes the game in Montana, Idaho, Brit-
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