Coin Machine Journal

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THE COIN MACHINE JOURNAL
December, 1948
Operators Seek to Increase
Efficiency in Operating
Theme of Daily Sessions is Efficiency in Maintenance; Stock
Control; Selling Locations; Mixed Routes also Vital Topic of
Discussion
A SPEECHLESS convention is a
paradox in conventions. No single
speech, as speeches are known, ap-
pears in the program of the numerous
sessions of this 1948 NABA conven-
tion. But there is scheduled much talk,
talk of a constructive and objective
nature.
The program committee, made up
for the most part of operators who
are not platform spellbinders but day
by day working operators, have chosen
to conduct the daily meetings in a
sort of roundtable discussion. Each
session, whether group or joint meet-
ing, will, for parliamentary reasons,
have group or subject leaders. These
group leaders will initiate the think-
ing and preside over the member dis-
cussions. This year's sessions, like
last year's, will lack a lot of rhetoric
but abound in reason. Operators will
propound questions, others will en-
large on their experience and meth-
ods of meeting the questions and pro-
lems.
Among the subjects projected by the
program committee together with the
group leaders and designated topics
are:
"Increasing Efficiency in Stock Con-
H. D. Dwyer, H. D. Dwyer Co., An-
derson, Ind.
M. Gelfand, Sales Manager, G. B.
Macke Corp., Washington, D.C.
trol," For the cigarette session : _Tom
Vaughn, New Orleans Cigarette Ser-
vice, Chairman. J. C. Gutherie, Miller
Automatic Sales, Louisville, Ky.; Mar-
cus Kaplan, Virginia Cigarette Ser-
vice, Roanoke. S. E. Nielson, Nielson
Cigarette Service, Shrevaport, La.
"Insurance Phases of Operating,"
Aaron Goldman, G. B. Macke Corp.,
Washington, D.C.
"Increasing Efficiency in Selling Lo-
cations." Ed Baratz, "Q" Automatic
Sales Co., Aurora, Ill.; Sidney Brock,
Long Island Tobacco Co., Flushing,
N.Y.
"Increasing Efficiency in Mainte-
nance and Repairs"; John Mason, Alle-
gheny Cigarette Service Co., Wilkins-
burg, Pa.; F. W. Edgerton, Edgerton
Cigarette Service Corp., Lexington,
Ky.
"Operating Other Types of Equip-
ment in Conjunction with Cigarette
Machines." Meyer Gelfand, G. B.
Macke Corp., Washington, D.C.; Frank
Burns, Burns Distributing Co., Greens-
boro, N.C.
"Increasing Efficiency for Profitable
Operation" (Candy, Gum and Nut
Session).
"Increasing Efficiency in Stock Con-
trol." W. T. Collett, W. W. Tibbals
Co., Cincinnati, Ohio.
"Increasing Efficiency in Service,"
William Fishman, Automatic Mer-
chandising Co., Chicago, Ill. Jack Gal-
larneau, Gallarneau Bros., Amarillo,
Texas.
"Increasing Efficiency in Selling Lo-
cations," Jack Collins, The Canteen,
New York, N.Y.
"Increasing Efficiency in Mainte-
nanc12 and Repairs," Lloyd C. White,
Lloyd White, Inc., Syracuse, N.Y.
"Operating Other Types of Equip-
ment in Connection with Candy, Gum
and Nut Machines," Paul Berkeley,
Vendex, Hillsi<:Je, N.J.; H. D. Dwyer,
H. D. Dwyer Co., Anderson, Ind.
M. Gelfand, Sales Manager, the G.
B. Macke, Corp., Washington, D.C.,
whose contribution to the discussion
concerns the operation of cigar, and
five cent and one cent gum machines in
conjunction with cigarette machines.
He will seek to bring out how easily
and how economically these types of
equipment can be installed and operat-
ed in locations were an operator al-
ready has cigarette machine, and fur-
ther, the additional profits which may
be earned. Gelfand has had years of
practical experience in a thickly popu-
lated metropolitan district which ex-
tends throughout the District of
Columbia, Maryland and Virginia.
Frank Burns, Burns Distributing
Co., Greensboro, N.C. whose opera-
tions are less metropolitan and more
agricultural in character will tell how
mixed routes improve the operators
economy. His experience is based on
a wide range of merchandise machines
which are located in the rich Southern
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F. W. Edgerton, Edgerton Cigarette
Service Corp., Lexington, Ky.
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