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Turner Gets Third Term as President,
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T H E C OI N M A C H I N E J O U R N A L
March, 1933
Lane Retains Office
• The regular annual meeting of the
Automatic Merchandisers Association
of Michigan was held Saturday, March
18, at the Detroit-Leland Hotel, De­
troit, Michigan, with about forty mem­
bers in attendance.
C.
C. Ingersoll, chairman of the
membership committee, reported that
approximately thirty new members
had been secured for this association
during the past six months.
President Turner gave a full and
complete report on the activities of
this association during the past year
to allow each member present to know
of the various problems that had con­
fronted us, and the action taken by
this association for the benefit of those
connected with the automatic coin ma­
chine industry.
Sketches of seals, or membership
labels for machines, were submitted.
No action was taken on having any of
these printed, but the matter was to
be turned over to the new executive
committee, to be elected today, to act
upon. The delay in having these
printed was due to the number of the
old style labels on hand being used by
17 of the members present.
The following officers were elected
for the ensuing year: president, F. E.
Turner, Detroit; vice-president, C. C.
Ingersoll,Detroit; secretary-treasurer,
L. L. Lane, Grand Rapids.
Directors: Gerald Ensing, Grand
Rapids; Charles L. Yuille, Pontiac;
G. E. Clark, Royal Oak; C. C. Huff,
Detroit; R. S. Johnson, Detroit; A. J.
Ruwe, Detroit; James Ashley, Detroit.
L. V. Rohr, Detroit, was elected
chairman, and A. N. Gaspard, Detroit,
was appointed assistant secretary-
treasurer, for the Detroit group of this
association, for the purpose of holding
meetings of the Detroit members with
the intention of confronting problems
that may arise in the future affecting
the Detroit area.
Immediately following the meeting,
a banquet was held for the members.
The banquet was in charge of L. V.
Rohr, chairman of the entertainment
committee, and accordion music was
furnished during the banquet.
Frank Vogel of the Columbus Vend­
ing Company, Columbus, attended the
meeting and banquet and made a
splendid talk after the banquet, most
of which was composed of information
regarding the tax bill that has been
presented in the legislature of the state
of Ohio, explaining the measure and
telling of action taken by various man­
ufacturers and operators connected
with the industry, in an effort to defeat
the bill. It is hoped that this bill may
be defeated. Mr. Vogel paid a compli­
ment to the association and felt it
necessary and advisable that other
states in the Union become organized
on the same basi&so as to be in a posi­
tion to handle adverse legislation and
other problems that confront the auto­
matic coin machine industry more suc­
cessfully.
Manfred Linnick entertained the
members with some of his stories, and
the other members availed themselves
of the opportunity to say a few words
for the good of the order.
Mr. L. V. Rohr, chairman of the
Detroit group, announced that present
plans were to have meetings held for
the Detroit members every thirty days,
to be followed by a dinner, with enter­
tainment.
Ads Attract Attention for
Coin Industry
The popular “Sell It by Machine”
book published by Mills Novelty Com­
pany has again received recognition
in the field of graphic art and adver­
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tising. A short time ago one of the ads
011 automatic merchandising printed
in this book received the award from
the Society of Typographic Arts as the
best black and white advertisement of
the year. This distinction was won in
a competition with the work of the
leading advertising agencies of the
country. Everyone in the coin ma­
chine industry considered this award
as a special boost for the business, in­
asmuch as all the ads in Mills Automa­
tic Merchandising Campaign were
produced in Mills own advertising de­
partment under the direction of James
Mangan, advertising manager.
The latest bouquet for this much
publicized series of ads was received
from the New York Art Directors’
Club which signalized two other ads
in the book for special exhibition at
their current art show and for repro­
duction in their Twelfth Annual of
Advertising Art. The two ads will be
remembered by those who have seen
the entire series as “GETTING AT­
TENTION” and “ANNIE OAK­
LEY.”
This is the kind of honors that
make our industry hold up its hea'd,
realizing that it is already on a plane
equal or superior to the oldest and
best established lines of business in
the country.
Two New Operator
Prospects
Art Cooley, eastern sales manager,
Mills Novelty Co., has a new baby
girl, while H. J. Burras, O. D. Jen­
nings & Co., has a new baby boy.
Looks like a great future for the in­
dustry with optimism of the sales ex­
ecutives being displayed in this man­
ner.
Watling Gets Game Patent
The question as to the originality
of design of the round table games is
made clear in the U, S. Design Let­
ters Patent No. 89,228 granted to Al­
bert J. Watling of the Watling Mfg.
Co. This applies to the Blue Seal pin
game, which has been the outstanding
round type game. It is said to be the
only round playing field that has stood
up and met the test of time.
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