Coin Slot Magazine - #V8N8 - 1983 - April [International Arcade Museum]
NEWS & VIEWS
nounced by Herbert Be'rtel, legislative
counsel for the NCMI.
Commenting on the development
Tom McAuliffee of Time Out Amuse
ment Centers said, "Because of the
number and scope of the problems
besetting family amusement center
operators* the formation of this group
is vital to our survival and future
strength."
Mr. McAulifee said that a second
meeting of the NCMI Family Amuse
ment Center Division is scheduled
for the afternoon of Thursday, March
A Midwest regional council of local operators' associations has been formed by
NCMI to help deal more effectively with industry problems. Attending the first
meeting were, seated left to right, Walter Maner, Michigan Coin Machine Operators
Association; Elmer Schmitz, President, Wisconsin Amusement and Music Operators
Association; Walter Bohrer, President, Milwaukee Music Operators Association.
Standing left to right, Herbert Beitel, legislative counsel, National Coin Machine
Institute; Paul Corey, Executive Director, Ohio Amusement Operators Association
chosen to head NCMI's Midwest Regional Council; Alex McConnell, President,
Illinois Coin Machine Operators Association; Ken Thorn, President, Associated
Buyer's Club, Chicago; Joe Phillips, Executive Director, Wisconsin Amusement and
Music Operators Association, Milwaukee Music Operators Association; and Alan
Mount, President of Mount & Nadler Incorporated, public relations counsel for The
National Coin Machine Institute. Not shown is Richard George, President of the Ohio
Amusement Operators Association, who will co-chair NCMI's new Midwest Regional
Council with Paul Corey.
NCMI forms regional midwest council
The National Coin Machine In
stitute, Inc, serving street operators
of cigarettes, music and games, has
formed a regional council of leading
local operators' associations to help
deal more effectively with the pro
blems confronting the industry in
the Midwest, it was announced.
At a meeting held here in Chicago,
Paul Corey, Executive Director of
the Ohio Amusement Operators
Herbert Beitel, legislative counsel
and Alan Mount, public relations
counsel of NCMI, discussed the
ways the National Coin Machine
Institute could interface with the
local associations, providing materials
for local legislative battles, public
relations assistance, and also helping
to organize operators where there
are no active state and local as
sociations."
Association, was chosen to head
the council committee of Midwest
Association executives to interface
with NCMI to develop strong local
programs
that will "aggressively
Family Amusement Center
Division formed
Representatives of leading family
24, 1983, in Chicago, "to develop
details of our programs and organiza
tion. We urge all interested family
center operators to attend this
meeting to work with us in developing
and implementing these programs"
The division, Mr. McAuliffe added,
has already developed objectives
for a 1983 action program that
include: Working at their state and
local level on zoning, regulatory
and legislative matters affecting
family center operators; establish
ment of spokespersons to present
the viewpoints and facts about family
center operations in all public relations
areas; development of a code of
operating standards and ethics as
a uniform presentation of family
amusement center operations; im
plementation of a campaign to es
tablish with Internal Revenue Service
accurate, equitable and uniform rules
governing depreciation practices
for coin operated amusement equip
ment
It has also been reported that the
Family Amusement Center Division
of the NCMI will have its own member
ship and elect its own Officers and
Board of Directors "to insure that
specific programs for family center
operators are implemented." The
Divison will also have a voting
sociations of operators by providing
membership on the board of NCMI
to share in setting NCMI policies,
and to insure coordination with the
Midwest Regional Council with Paul
Institute's overall programs.
For further details of the March
meeting and information concerning
the new Family Amusement Center
Division, contact the National Coin
Machine Institute, In a, at 2455 East
Sunrise Boulevard, Ft Lauderdale,
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