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Texas Operators
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hold annual meeting .
By JOHN G. WRIGHT
(Special to the REVIEW)
The annual convention of the Texas Coin
Operated Vending Machine Association was
held Sunday, May 23 at the Rice Hotel,
Houston, Texas.
President Earl Reynolds called the meet-
ing to order and immediately gave members
permission to remove their coats. Then in
a ha lting voice, choked with emotion, Rey-
nolds paid fitti ng tribute to three members
who had passed away since the last meet-
ing. A moment of si lence was observed
for those departed.
After a brief and general discussion of
the Association, its work and purpose, the
president displayed a numbe r of machines
donated by different manufacturing com-
panies to be given away at the banquet and
dance following the meeting.
Two past-presidents of the Association
gave interesting talks. The general theme
of their discussion was that the time for
the Association to really carryon was when
faced by adversity. Both predicted better
times, and retired amid much applause .
A number of factory representatives ex-
tended greetings to the organization and
one of them brought out the fact that the
coin machine industry had made remarkable
progress in a very short length of time.
Earl Reynolds was unanimously reelected
president. John A. Backman was reelected
secretary, also unanimously. In the begin-
ning Reynolds attempted to decline the
nomination, but finally gave in amid a deaf-
ening chorus of " Yea's." Seven vice-presi-
dents elected were: Harold Daley; Pat
Newman; Ernest Walker; C. O. Harring-
ton; Fisher Brown; S. H. Lynch and Lloyd
Blockwell.
Fort Worth was selected as the next
meeting place.
Two high spots of the meeting were:
First, President Reyn01d's vitriolic attack on
a firm of lawyers, who, after spending six
thousand dollars, did for the Association
exactly nothing. Second, the evident deter-
mination of the entire assembly to reelect
Reynolds and Backman.
Oldest operator present was Pat Newman
from San Antonio. The operator who trav-
eled the greatest distance from home was
Marvin McLarty of Lubbock. Quietest oper-
ator present was Edward Arwady of Hous-
ton.
At a banquet following the business ses-
sion, lots were drawn for the nine ma-
chines donated by as many manufacturers.
Lucky members and firms whose rna·
chine they won were: Pat Newman of San
Antonio-A.B.T. Mfg. Co.; Jess Turner,
Seguin-Stoner Corp.; A. J. Comeaux,
Lake Charles, la.-Rudolph Wurnitzer Co.;
C. C. Vangilder, Seguin-Pacific Mfg.
Corp.; R. C. Durham, Kingsville - Pace
Mfg. Co.; H. M. Crowe, Decker County-
Genco; Sam Wallace, Dallas-Groetchen
Tool Co.; Lestern Hearne, H o uston-Ball y
Mfg. Co. Mr. Hughes won the Rock-Ola
phonograph but sold it on the floor for
175.00 and denated the money to the As-
sociation.
Among the distinguished visitors were
Jack Nelson, vice· president of the Rock-Ola
Mfg. Corp. of Chicago; Albert A. Silber-
man, general sales manager for Chicago's
Park-O-Graf Corp.; and George W. Wrenn,
salesmanager for Wurlitzer-Simplex in
Dallas.
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CHICAGO LOCK CO.
2024 North Racine Avenue • Chicago
Jack Levin
opens d istributing quarters.
WHEELING, W. Va.-Jack Levin, most
recently with the J. H. Keeney Co., has
opened quarters of his own here for dis-
tribution of a wide variety of coin con-
trolled equipment, ranging from novelty
games, pay tables and slots, and a line of
punch boards as well.
According to report, the reception given
the idea of opening a display room was a
most enthusiastic one on the part of the
operators who agreed to back him a hun-
dred per cent. The fact that payout equip-
ment cannot be displayed in western Penn-
sylvania thus affords operators from this
territory who are operatin~ equ ipm ent of
that nature, a convenient place to \'isit in
order to pick up and exchange equipment.
In full charge of the sales department is
Jimmy Angello who has been in the busi-
ness for the past ten years, working his
way up from mechanic to full time operator.
Levin states that he was chosen for the
selling end because of his understanding of
operator problems. Angello has given up
his own operations to affiliate with Levin,
and at present he is going through the field
making the personal acqm.intance of the
operators in the area.
Levin's affiliation with Keeney and Co.
was in the n3ture of trftveling representa-
tive; his travels took him through Ohio,
West Virginia and a part of Indiana. Pre-
viously he had served Pittsburgh's Coin-
omatic Sales Organization for two years as
sales manager and had been with the
George Pon-ser Co. of New York in com-
plete charge of the Ohio territory.