Tom Douglas, manager of the Yellow-
stone Specialty Co., is just back from Los
Angeles, where he has been on a business
and pleasure trip for the past month.
Flo Winewriter, formerly with Yellow-
stone Specialty has returned from Service
and is planning on taking up some Gov-
ernment-schooling before returning into the
business.
John Davies is also back after 2 years
in France and Germany and has taken
over charge of the City Service Department
for the Yellowstone Specialty Co.
They are receiving some Mills equip-
ment from the factory for delivery but
the quantity is small, Douglas states, and
the variety is not very great as yet; just
2 or three items, so far, but better delivery
is expected within the next thirty days.
However, they are now able to obtain
any type of parts for Mills machines, that
may be desired, which is a relief to say
the least after such a time of scarcity. Tom
Douglas leaves again within a few days
for Los Angeles for a short stay.
Sid Stewart of Stewart Novelty Co., is
on a combined vacation and business trip
to Wyoming and Colorado, it is reported.
This company is reported to have been
burglarized recently, entrance having been
gained through a balcony window. A heavy
iron grill normally covers the window but
it had been removed a few days previously
by electricians making repairs. A safe in
an office on the balcony had been tam-
pered with but the prowlers were unable
to open it. The door to the basement office
was forced by a bar after the lock had
been drilled out with a brace and bit.
The thieves ransacked the office looting
Manager Stewart's desk and forcing open
a steel cash box containing $771.82 in
cash. Then they evidently returned to the
main floor and broke into display cases, ob-
taining a good deal more loot.
H. E. Moran, manager of the local Rowe
Cigarette Service Co., reports they have
enjoyed a splendid winter and that cigar-
ettes are coming in good now.
John Moser of the Heminway and Moser
Co. has been recovering from a bad heart
attack, at Palm Springs, California this
winter, and is expected back home within
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a few weeks now, well on the way to re-
covery. Sales Manager Fred Murphy is on
a sales trip into Idaho currently.
Milo Nichansky, manager of the Canteen
Service of Utah, reports that his brother
Albert, recently returned from service
over-seas, just married Florence Kunkel
and the pair has left on a honeymoon
to Seattle.
Gene Gale, returned Veteran from the
Navy, and formerly with Canteen Service
here, returned and is taking care of the
Canteen service at the Naval Depot just
out of Salt Lake. Milo Nichansky is leav-
mg for a business trip to Los Angeles for
a couple of weeks stay. I;Ie reports also
that business has been very good excepting
for the lack of merchandise.
Milo's son Dwayne was recently inducted
into the Navy. He was in the shop here
for the past two years, and Mr. and Mrs.
Nichansky will visit him in San Diego
during their trip to the Coast this month.
R. F. Vogt of the R. F. Vogt Distributing
Co. is enthusiastic about the rush of busi-
ness that appears certain when some of
the new equipment arrives, which is sup-
posed to be very new in idea; even sensa-
tional, in fact. Several blind orders have
already been booked and as soon as sam-
ples are received it looks like tremendous
business, according to Rudy.
Viola B. Hutton
Seattle
Two eras: a study in contrast. Ft. Le'Yis
Reception Center, December 1942-The
country was building the greatest war
machine the world has ever known and
£rom the moment a rookie stepped off
the bus they didn't allow him to forget it
for a moment. There was more snap arbund
camp than in a pre-war elastic garter.
At 4:30 or 5 A.M. a punk corporal who
acted like God Almighty had ordained
that he should be Master of Men hauled
. the rookie out of bed, and before the new-
comer had a chance to completely awaken
he was being rushed through a long brisk
routine. Ft. Lewis was a beehive and the
little privates buzzed or got stung.
Ft. Lewis Separation Center, February
1946-This is still the Army, all right,
but not the same one. The dischargee
still hurried to wait but now he grinned
because this was the last mile to freedom.
The bustle was no more. Enlisted men
compiled their points and length of service
for the nth time, stared at · the calendar
with the same concentrated intensity that
a woman surveys a mirror, and went about
their chores with about as much enthusiasm
as a prisoner-at-hard-Iabor assaults a gran-
ite rock. Rows of empty barracks attested
more clearly than words that the "heat"
was off. For the dischargee, the irksome
details had disappeared. The stiff military
brush was now a soft mushy pulp. The
saluting, the marching, the rigors of camp
life-gone with the atom.
Even the Orientation Offiper caught the
spirit of changing times and unlaxed suffi-
ciently to mix generous slices of humor
with his talk. Example: the louie was
talking about life insurance, and the cost
of funerals and about the expense of a
vault. "These vaults," he said, "are made
to keep out worms and water. Which re-
minds me of the story of the two romantic
worms. One of them said to the other:
'Let's make love in dead Earnest.''' And
again: "I don't want you men to hold
grudges against your first sergeant after
you get out. I know a chap who was
being processed for discharge, and his
top kick said: 'I guess you dislike me so
much you'd like to spit on my grave.' Said
the dischargee: 'Hell no. After I get out
I don't want to stand in line for any-
thi!lg.' "
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From North, from South, from East,
from West they came to Western Dis-
tributors-in time for the Aireon curtain
raiser. Two color-spangled phonographs,
flown from Kansas City, occupied the
center of interest. While the new models
tempted the order pad, succulent roast
beef and ham tempted the appetite. A
check-up of the guest book showed A. C.
Carlson of Port Alexander, Alaska as the
visitor farthest from home.
She said, "I do," and he said, "Me,
too," and then they were pronounced man
and wife. Decca's Marion Waham walked
the fateful steps with Emil David on
March 2.
Manufacture of Ken Shyver's multiple
and multiphone music units are going at
top speed, but it will require two and
one-half years before production meets
demand. Ken is not selling his new prod-
ucts but merely turning out enough to
cover his spots. Scarcity of speakers and
motors in the U.S.A. is not stopping the
wily inventor, who is importing quantities
of material from London.
Down from Victoria, B.c., Vic Little
hi-spotted The Row in the hope of un-
covering some pin tables and phon os.
The Better Business Bureau stepped
in and called a halt to the sharpers who
wljre dumping vending machines on un-
suspecting veterans. The fraudsters adver-
tised modern machines on location but af-
COIN
ter the contract was inked, the vet found MACHIHE
they were neither on location nor modern,
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but a cheaply assembled variety that no
one would want cluttering his basement.
Remember Mickey Hannon, the ex-pug
who made good in Anacortes? Mickey is
now guiding light for Hannon Distributing
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1946
After more than three years in the
Army, Ron Pepple and Northwest Sales
are picking up lost ground-but swiftly .
Two sure-fire lines-Hart Novelty's Master
and Junior Changers, and Mills Novelty-
have catapulted volume into pay propor-
tions. Omar "Putt" Kincaid,: an ex-Marine
is traveling Washington, Idaho and Mon-
tana for the firm.
To break tpe monotony of his face
and to filter pure air into the recesses
of his mouth, Bob Walker has been grow-
ing four-day mustaches.
Discovered: the reason for that drooly
look on the faces of the phono ops when
they pass Clark Distributing. The first car-
load of Wurlitzers · has arrived, but to
prevent imminent outbreak of civil war,
E. J. Horiskey is leaving the first ship- -
ment untouched until such time as enough
machines arrive to allocate the boys more
than l/lOth of a unit each.
If you hear anyone around Puget Sound
Novelty say, "By George," it is not an
exclamation but the credit line for an-
other coin chute built by Ancel George,
the new shopman. Ancel hails from Stock-
ton, Calif. where he sheet-metal-worked
for Fraser Furnace Co.
Vern Preston merely smiles wryly when
someone advocates putting his best foot
forward. Neuritis, an aftermath of the flu,
settled in Vern's left foot when he took
off for Kansas City. On returning, the
pain switched to his right foot. Now he
has to think twice to decide which Size
11 is the best one to put forward.
All candy ops still puzzled as to what
happened to a little item known as stock
are requested to see the new OP A film
release "What's Happened to Sugar." In
a couple of years there will probably be
a sequel titled, "What's happened to the
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