MARKETPLACE
NEJi#aii:TJST JO, 1975
The re's no better way to gauge income that could be a s compared to income that is than,
a t t he end of the day, when you're in your office or your home, to add up the collection
s l i ps for that day and subtract to asc e rtain actual net income. For example, we have a
note from H. Lipschultz who did just that on his pocket adding machine. It was after din-
ner and, while his family viewed a favorite TV program, he sat in his den adding up the
amounts on the collection slips that his men had turned in that evening. Like almost all
operators he, too, has to push hard to meet his bills.
" I 'd just finished reading about your proposed 1/ 3 - 1/ 3 - 1/ 3 commi ssion idea the
other night", he advises, "and while I'm adding up the slips, the tho't occurred to me
how much difference would there really be in this collection on that basis. I just press-
ed the subtract button and, even tho I knew the difference was 16 2/ 'Y%, I wa s a mazed by
what this actually means in dollars and cents. I don't know how others feel about it", h e
conc ludes, "but to me it's the difference of being able to meet bills on time and coming
up with a better profit."
(What he learned can be likened to an old, old fact. Anyone can handle a double-bar-
reled shotgun, have fun with it and point it about crying, "Bang. Dang." But looking
down those double barrels when a mean looking robber is pointing that same shotgun at
you, is certainly an awakening difference. It's simpl e and easy to think and/ or talk
about the difference between 50/ 50 and 2/ 3-1 / 3. But when the total amount is separated
into two stacks and placed on the barrelhead before your eyes, the difference becomes
a very great awakening.
Sing out "Happy Birthday" to: Zollie Kelman, Great .P alls ,Mont.; Carl Hoelzel, Kansas
City,Mo.; Bob Fogle, Ludlow,N.Y.; Bill Morrison, Houston,Tex.; Gene 1''ord, Pittsburgh,Pa.;
Mike Hammergren, Cross Lake,Minn.; Bill Poss, Aurora,Ill.; Harland Beach, Moorhead,Minn.;
Scott Foster, Okla City,Ok!a.; Burt Blatt, Miami,Fla.; Howard Riley, Tulsa,Okla.; Roy
Bazelon, Hollywood,Fla.; Clarence Miller, Irvine,Ky.; Lou Thompson, Goldsboro,N.C.; Joe
Soule,Jr., Baton Rouge,La.; Jesse Lagge, Kalispell,Mont.; Bob Fabian, Chicago; Howard
Ellis, Omaha,Neb.; Glenn Jenkins, Denver,Colo.; David s . Bond, Boston,Mass.; Wm. Blatt,
Miami, Fla.; Tom Greco, Glasco,N.Y.; Gerald Goudeau, Lafayette,La.; Jim Jackson, Grand-
view,Mo.; Irv Kempner, N.Y.City; Warren White, Grand Rpds,Mich.; Marie Pierce, Brodhead,
Wis.; Bill Whipple, Lakeport,Cal.; W.L.Groover, Atlanta,Ga.; Bill Miller, Plant City, Fla.;
J oe Abraham, Altoona,Pa.; John Porter, Asheville,N.C.; Bill Veseth, Wolf Point,Hont.;
Mauric e Terry, Ft.Worth,Tex.; Ellen Brown, Chicago; Frank Coubal, Bloomer,Wis.
L.A. "Red" Sabo of Mesa,Ariz., writes, "I see where the gov't is planning to issue ~o
do llar bills again. Heck, I tho't we already had them, only we call them tens nowadays ••••
Dr . Daniel Hoffman of Peoria,Ill., offers the following names for new machines t o help cele-
brate the Bicentennial year of 1976: Old Glory, Stars & Stripes, Spirit of '76, Valley Fo:ge,
Liberty Bell, Bunker Hill, Yorktown, Thirteen Colonies •••• John L. Walsh, chairman of Mirco,
Inc .,Phoenix,Ariz., mails copy of "offering circular" dated July 2,'75 , for 81 ,004 sh~res of
the f irm's capital stock priced at S7.50 per share. Very interesting info regarding Mirco~
contained in this "offering circular" •••• John Chaudhry, president of PSE _(Project S':1p~:t
Engineering) Sunnyvale,Calif., believes the test equip't for video game lo~ic boards his firm
is marketing, "was designed to have the capability of testing not only PSE s games . but.those
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of other mfrs as well." PSE merged with Tam Specialty Co. ,Sunnyval:,cal., t~ pro;,ide ~~use
capability for cabinetry and plastics forming". First PSE releae~ 7s tab~e video . Scand~a •
Old timer Ernest "Hap" Nowell of Phoenix,Ariz., restored a Mills Violano Virtuoso _single
violin to mint condition. Collectors have been calling on "Hap" offer~ him e~erything includ-
.
the kitchen sink to buy it. (May have a picture to show Hap's achievement in ?,ext issue
~"Marketplace") ••• Attention: George E. Laibe, Ketchum,Idaho, please contact Marketplace •
Mention of your historical effort attracted person who wants to talk to you. ••• Operator
advises he wrote 10 distribs across U.S. seeking stock of good used pinballs. "None of ~hese
even answered my letters", he reports. (No use answering, friend, when they ain't go;. )here
are ve , very few firms in the industry with "a good stock" of any kinda used equip t.
ry
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