make the trek to Chicago for a first hand
look.
Bells have begun a general exodus in line
with the July 15th effectiveness of th e new
laws. Most of them will find th eir wav to
legal territori es and on shi ps out of c~ast
ports.
Familiar sight on local golf courses th ese
days is Harry Willi ams, CMI prexy, who
is spending some time on the Coast. Fre·
quent partn er is Bill Ha pp el of Badger
Sales who holds a pretty good score on th e
local greens.
Sid Bloom reports from th e East th at hi s
sales trip in behalf of th e new Oak Charm
vendor has bee n more successful than he
anticipated. He's booked a terrific number
of orders and th e factory will be humming
merrily for mon th s to come.
Woodie Leslie, Coan Mfg. representa·
ti ve, spent th e first half of May in San
Jose settin g up a new operation to be
known as the San Jose U-Select-It Co.
A Packard Manhattan phonograp h occu·
pied th e center of attention recently on a
Buster Kea ton program on television KTTV.
Entire show wa s ce ntered aro und th e musi·
ca l instrum en t.
Alpha Distributin g Co. reports a greatly
in creased sale of Pla-Mor Selec tors. Also
the sale of 30·wire Bronco ca bl e has better
th an doubled th e spool sale the past two
month s. Simmons says the production of
the boxes has been stepped up as of May
1st and he attr ibutes th e sp urt in cable
sales to the fact that many taverns are now
permitting operators to install bar boxes
where previously th ey ,vere not permitted.
Another reason, says Bill, is that many loca·
tions whi ch do not justify a brand new,
expensive phono are being taken care of
by placing the 24-record job in th e back
room and dressin g up th e front with remote
selectors. This hark ens back to 1938-41
when two 12·record phonos were teamed
up throu gh a Packard Beach Adaptor to
make a tan dum twin-twelve. It's easier to·
day because th e 24-record jobs already
have remote adaptors. Alpha is planning,
he says, to add a lin e of mod erately priced
speakers.
Desp ite th e sli ght lull, there h asn' t been
a dull mom ent in Paul A. Laymons' and
operators have been in from all over the
southl and. Among them were Al Anderson,
Shafter; John Ketchersid, Hom er Gilles·
pie, Ed Lyons and Charles Cahoone, Lon g
Beach; I. V. Gayer and William Shorey,
San Bernardino; Jack Neal and G. F .
Cooper, Riverside; Norman Christ, Lom-
poc; Les Jordan , Coronado ; Pete Th elan,
Ray Tisdale and Ben Korte, Glendale;
Jack Spencer, Big Bear; Alex Kol eopolus,
William Black and Mr. a nd Mrs. Fred
Allen, Bakersfield ; F. 1. Griffin, Pomon a;
Roy Jon es, Jr. , Inyok ern; Pop Burris, Whit·
tier ; P erry Irwin , Ventura; Lena Ko ch ,
San Diego; Clyde Denlinger, Balboa; Roy
Smith an d Cecil Ellison, Lancaster; Wil -
liam Volner, El Centro; H enry Van Stelton,
Whittier; Harold Sharkey, Huntin gton
Park; AI Zaboski , Gardena; A. G. H anso n,
San Fernando; C. E. Steph ens, Duarte;
William Bradley, Covin a; and Stanley
Tracy, Kingman, Ariz.
Wm. Schrader, ebullie nt sales manager
of Pacific Shuffleboard Bowling Co., at-
tended the ACMMA Convention and ex·
hibited his new bowling adaptor unit.
H. E. Hood has purchased th e American
Shuffleboard Corp., distributors for th e
Pacific Shuffleboard bowling unit.
W. R. Happel of Badger Sales al so join-
ing the throng to the Chicago Convention.
W. E. Happel will take a two weeks'
cruise on the deep and briny for the U. S. N.
Reserve. Ed Gunsteen will pinch-hit for him
when away.
George Seedman , Vee p of The Row e
JUNE, 1950
.(Jllk Follows fhronlh
)
-WITH THE NEW, SENSA TIONAL
MON EY-M A KI NG
CHARM KING
5c ALL CHARM VENDOR
Here is the b r a n d new merchand iser designed to
grab the nickels and make plenty of do llars in
1950. It·s never been done befo re. It has unlim-
ited possibilities. It opens tens of th o us a nds of
new locatio ns .
Never in the history of bulk vending has any
one machine m a de as much money for as many
operators as our famous ACORN Ic or 5c All
Purpose Bulk Merchandiser. Most of the gigantic
profits were made via the Ball Gum a nd C harm
combination. No w , with the new CHARM KING 5c
ALL CHARM vendor you can m a ke even bigger
profits in more locations.
OR DER TO DAY FROM ANY O F OUR A UT H O RIZED DISTRIBUTORS!
IMMEDIATE DELIVERY!
DISTRIBUTORS!
A Few Choice Territories Are Still Open. Write-Wire-Phone .
OA K M tG . C O. Inc.
11411 Knig htsbridge Avenue, Cu lver City, California
Western and Pacific Coast Distributors
OPERATORS VENPtNG MACH tN E S UPP LY CO .. t023 S. Grand Ave .. Los Angeles
Eastern and Midwest Distributors
AMERtCAN DISTRIBUTORS, 1349 5th Ave .. Pittsburgh. Pa.
Service Corp. , is in New York winding up
his affairs prior to taking over local opera-
tions. He will be back by th e first and will
address the NAMA Regional meeti ng in
Oakland on Jun e 2nd.
J . C. De Graaf, Fruit-O-Matic sales
manager, attended the May Show at Hotel
Sherman where he di splayed hi s new
vendor. De Graaf pl ans to tour several
eastern citi es with a sampl e machine and
to return end of nex t month.
Co an Mfg . Expands
Sa les and Service
MADISON, Wis.- The Coan Manufac-
turing Co. has entered on a vigorous new
enlargement of its well-known poli cy of
helping QperatoTs of V-Select-It machines to
make more mon ey. The regional sales or-
ganization h as been enlaq1;ed, and also
plans made with th e objective of giving
operators, no matter how far fr om th e
fa ctory, th e same servi ce assistance th ey
could get if located in ru e fi rm's hom e town.
A new fi eld se rvi ce department .is in
operation a nd in charge of Clarence Coan,
and he is assisted by Charles Martin. Th e
firm has purchased a fleet of new pa nel
tru cks, has painte'd them a beautiful white
which has the sanitary anpearance in keep-
ing with all U·Select-It machines. Th e
trucks will be used ex clusively by the field
servi ce departm ent.
Th e field servi ce will ca rry aid right to
th e operator's door, giving him help ~ n all
the ramifications of the business, whether
mechani cal, operational, location aid , buy-
in g merchandise, administration, or any
other problem, a nd right on hi s own home
territory.
Frank Q. Doyle, a pioneer in the Industry
and general sales manager for the firm,
says it is Coan's policy of many years that
th e manufacturer should do all possible to
make and keep operators of their equip-
ment successful. Coan believes that in the
lon g run th e firm will gai n by h elpin g its
opera tors to be successful, even though the
service departm ent will be quite costly to
th e compa ny.
Doyle announced th e followinl!; as re-
gional sales managers with th e followin g
territory assignments:
Woodie Leslie, 3151 E. Colorado Blvd.,
Pasadena, Calif. Territory : California and
Nevada. Woodie Taylor, 2729 Tillar St.,
Ft. Worth. Territory: Texas, Oklahoma and
Arkansas. Fra nk H erbenar, 3707 Bliss St.,
El Paso, Texas. Territory : New Mex ico
and Arizona, Utah and Colorado. Harry M.
Han sen, 65 West 54th St., New York Ci ty.
Territory: New York, New Jersey, P enn syl-
vania, Ohio, Maryland, Delaware, Virginia ,
West Virginia, and District of Columbia.
J. G. Chalcraft, 364 Washington St., Mo-
bile, Ala. Territory: Alabama, Louisiana,
Mississi ppi, Georgia, Florida, North and
South Carolin a. C. W. Brown , 160 W.
Meyers St., Salem, Oregon. Territory : Ore-
gon, Washin gton and MQIltana, Idaho and
Wyoming. Carl Milter, 85 Strong St., New
York City. Territory: Maine, Massachu-
setts, Connecticut, New Hampshire, Rhod e
Island and Vermont. W. P. Punton , 118
Long Lake, Route 5, Kalamazoo, Mi ch.
Territory: Mi chi gan (except Wayn e Co.
and Detroit) , Wisconsin and Minnesota.
V. R. Middlemas, 112 Thayer Ave., W .,
Bismarck, N. D. T erritory; North and South
Dakota and Nebraska. R. W. Merriam, 3017
47th St., Des Moines. Territory: Iowa. T. Z.
Ja ckson, Nashville. Territory: Tennessee.
H. A. Rea, 910 Olive St., St. Louis. Terri -
tory: Mi ssouri (except St. Louis) , Kansas,
Illinois, Indiana and Kentu cky.
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