DENVER
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handles all popular brands of cigarettes and
maintains a well equipped service depart-
ment.
King's U-Select-It is now operating under
the name King's Candy & Popcorn Service.
They are doing a thriving business in sell-
ing ice cream in bulk and cones. Candy
bars and ice cream offer a big attraction
for the youngsters as well as adults.
All popcorn for servicing the machines
and for trade at the store is provided by a
specially contrived corn popper which pro-
duces in quantity.
Mrs. Lovelace, who operates the popping
device, has been called to Nebraska by the
death of her mother.
H. E. Walker, of the Walker Music Co.,
reports that business has begun to pick
up in the past week or two and that every-
body keeps busy getting ready for more
deliveries and increased activity.
Recently, considerable time has been re-
qufred in figuring out the Federal amuse-
ment tax on machines, which is quite a job
in itself. However, he says it i's now all
finished in his office and ready to send in.
He much prefers to be early rather than
wait for the July 31st deadline.
Frances Conrey
0
Salt Lal.e City
COIN
MACHINE
REVIEW
86
FOR
AUGUST
1946
The Stewart Navelty Co. has recently
moved to new quarters at 1361 S. Main St.
A new office manager has been appointed in
the person of Marvin Beadles.
Manager Sid Stewart of Stewart Novelty
has just returned from a trip to Yellow-
stone National Park. His brother Dan B.
Stewart visited here the past week from
his Reno headquarters in Nevada where he
operates the Casino. Sid and Dan have
opened two new Pladiums-one at West
Yellowstone and one at Lake Tahoe-plac-
ing as managers for these establishments
Joe Reese at Yellowstone and Ross White
at Lake Tahoe, according to Eleanor AI-
dritt of th e office personnel in Sa)t Lake.
Eleanor is planning a vacation trip for
August into Idaho.
B. E. Moran, manager for the Rowe Cig-
arette Service just came back from Cali-
fornia where he and Mrs. Moran, accom-
panied by their young son Johnny, spent
about two weeks, also taking in Bryce
Canyon, th e Grand Canyon and Zion Can-
yon, enroute home, In Los A~geles they
visited with H . W. Skelton, president of the
company. Moran states that equipment is
coming in a little better and he expects
things to be good by the end of summer.
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LOS ANGELES--Two prime favorites in
the foreground in the showrooms of Paul
A. Laymon are Kontest Bomber and Baily's
Surf Queens.
"They're both good games although en-
tirely different in appeal," said Paul in
talking of the two. "First is a brand new
legal skill game we introduced last month.
Game has been approved for th e ci ty of
Los Angeles and operators have been quick
to snap up our deliveries and get them out
on location. Earnings have been good and
repeat orders are now being booked.
"Second hit-of-the-month is the five ball
novelty Surf Queens by Bally. Reports
show this sparkling novelty game is bring-
ing the slowest spots back to life in a big
way. It combines all of Bally's time-tested
money-making feat ures together with some
new play-provoking angles."
R. F. Jones, Jones Distributing Co., now
located in beautiful new quarters at 127
East on 2nd South St., is enroute back from
Chicago where he has been on a combined
business trip and vacation, according to
C. M. McMurty of the local office personnel.
Rainbow has taken the distributorship for
Utah Southern Idaho and Western Wyom-
ing for Packard phonograph and music
equipment for lntermountain distr.ibution
formerly handled by Geo. Cusick. Man-
ager Holt will have Packard phonographs
on display soon and reports that his com-
pany is very busy currently.
Jimmy Landsford was looking over new
products and paid a visit, to some of the
boys here.
John Moser of the Hemenway and Moser
Co. is considerably improved in health and
has gol)e to Flat Rock Club in Idaho for
part of th e summer. He recently returned
from California where he and Mrs. Moser
attended the gra duation of their daughter
from Scripps College at Claremont.
L. W. Cracroft recently joined the org-
anization as purchasing agent. L. W. is the
son of Ralph, well known Secretary and
Treasurer at Hemenway and Moser.
Fred Murphy in charge of the cigarette
vending machine department for this com-
pany, is currently in Idaho. Hemenway and
Moser has changed the trade name under
which the retail stores in Idaho operate,
now calling them the Evergreen Stores, Inc.
The management and personnel remain the
same, according to Ralph Cracroft.
Milo Nechansky, operator of the Can-
teen Service, has been vacationing in the
Northwest as has AI, his brother, the north-
west being the boys' former home and the
home of their moth er.
Lloyd Bjornn of Canteen Service was
married recently. Dave Horne also married
about three weeks ago. Horne is a -shop
man here and is on furlough, scheduled to
report back to th e Presidio soon for more
medical treatment, it is announced.
Manager Irving Monsey, of the Atlas
Specialty Co., has been on a trip out of the
city during the hot months.
Andy Stevenson, manager of Co nsoli-
dated Music Co., reports equipment is com-
ing in pretty slow this time of the year, as
is the general opinion.
R. F. Vogt, of Vogt Distributors is still
waiting to get merchandise and has been
expecting shipments from Keeney Co. for
several weeks but as yet very little has
shown up.
Viola Hutton
New Game Bowling 'Em Over
LOS ANGELES- First deliveries of Uni.
versa! Pacific Sales Co.'s sensa tional pre-
cision-perfect bowling game, Strikes n'
Spares, have been placed on location ~nd
demand has already commenced battlmg
production. Opera tors Roy Jones of Los
Angeles and Ivan Gayer of San Bernardino
received the initial shipments, while Bill
Leuenhagen took delivery on units for op-
eration a t Gittelson's Golf Courses.
Outstanding feature of Strikes n' Spares
is that it is an exact replica, albeit scaled
down proportionately, of a regulation alley,
and experienced bowlers have gone 'on
record as saying that it is comparable to
playing on a regular alley.
Vending Vandals Outwitted
WASHING TON - Dealing a forceful
counter-attack to vending machine vandals,
Samuel F. Roth, president of National Dis-
tributors, Inc., has perfected a defense
system which calls for bolting a number of
machines together in certain locations to
prevent the units being turned topsy-turvy
and succumbing to pilferage of merchan-
dise and coins.
"Formerly we solved the problem by
weighing down the machines with sand-
bags" says Roth. "But bolting several ma-
chin;s together proved a better defense.''
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