Automatic Age

AUTOMATIC AGE, $1.00 per year. Published bi-monthly by Automatic Age, Inc., 4021 N. Melvina Ave., Chicago. Entered as
second class matter February 20, 1943, at the Post Office at Chicago, 111., under the Act of March 3, 1897. Printed in U .S.A.
C o m m it t e e
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P r ic e s
The Office of Price Adminis­
tration (OPA) r e c e n t l y an­
nounced the appointments to
membership of committee that
will advise on matters pertain­
ing to the pricing of coin opera­
ted machines. This body will
be known as the Coin-Operated
Machine Industry Committee.
Its members are all nationally
known men of many years as­
sociation with our industry, and
represent each of the m a j o r
divisions — manufacturing, dis­
tributing, and operating.
Primarily, the duties of this
committee center around their
consultation with and advising
the OPA on coin operated ma­
chine pricing. This work is a
result of the Maximum Price
Regulation No. 4 2 9, promul­
gated by the Office of Price Ad­
ministration, which was fully
reported in the previous issue
of Automatic Age.
Articles of durable g o o d s
covered by this regulation com­
prise an extensive list, and in­
clude: coin operated vending
machines for cigarettes, candy,
beverages, etc., and coin opera­
ted weighing machines, music
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machines, pin ball machines,
and other a m u s e m e n t ma­
chines. The regulation s e t s
forth some sound yardsticks on
the matter of pricing. With an
outstanding “steering” commit­
tee, such as the one named by
OPA, the industry may be as­
sured that this important de­
velopment will be h a n d l e d
soundly and in the best inter­
ests of the entire industry.
Following are the members
of the Coin-Operated Machine
I n d u s t r y Co.nmittee as an­
nounced in Washington b y
OPA:
Ben Axelrod, Olive Novelty
Company, St. Louis, Mo.
A. W. Blendow, Internation­
al Mutoscope Corp., Long Is­
land City, N. Y.
Jim E. Broyles, R u d o l p h
Wurlitzer Co., North Tonawan­
da, N. Y.
Don W. Clark, California
Simplex Distributing Company,
San Francisco, Calif.
Dennis W. Donohue, Mills
Novelty Company, Chicago, 111.
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Al J. Goldberg, C h i c a g o
Simplex Distributing Company,
Chicago, 111.
Robert Z. Greene, R o w e
Manufacturing Company, Bel­
leville, N. J.
Howard L. H u 11 z , Spring­
field, 111.
Sam Kresburg, Miami Beach,
Fla.
Nathaniel Leverone, Auto­
matic Canteen Company, Chi­
cago, 111.
W. S. Redd, Redd Distribut­
ing Company, Boston, Mass.
J. A. Stevenson, Salt Lake
City, Utah.
Roy Torr, Philadelphia, Pa.
The above members of the
Committee will c o n v e n e in
Washington in the near future,
at which meeting other mem­
bers of our industry will be
present. Officers of the Commit­
tee and other organizational
matters will be an important
first order of business.
The wholehearted coopera­
tion of the e n t i r e industry
should be given to the decisions
of the Committee. Only in such
r e a d y cooperation can prob­
lems be solved for the good of
all. An important f a c t o r to
keep in mind is that according
to the measure of cooperation
given in this matter will come
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