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Nebrosko-lowo News Notes
By CHARLES P . RODMAN
60
COIN
MACHINE
REVIEW
The Sidles Company, Omaha, hand-
ling Victor and Bluebird records, has
found it necessary to appoint another
man to take care of the business in the
Iowa territory. A. E. Topping, who has
been connected with the business for
fifteen years , received the appointment.
Topping will make his home in Des
Moines.
Clyde Meyer, who has operated the
Public Scale Company at Leavenworth
and Nineteenth Streets for some time ,
has clos ed this office and is now trans-
acting business from his residence. It
is understood Clyde will begin the man-
ufacturing of "golf putter" machines
soon.
It is rumored that Al Johnson, former
President of the National Premium Com-
pany and later associated with the
Wood Workers, Inc., will dis pose of his
interest in the company and will devote
his entire time to pushing the Rock-Ola
music boxes in Omaha and surrounding
territory.
Tony Mangano of the Howard Sales
Company, Omaha, has purchased a
1939 Ford truck to care for the increased
business. This is the second truck pur-
chas ed by this firm in the last four
months .
On March 14 the City Council of
Omaha accepted the bid of the Park-O-
Meter Company of Chicago for 450 more
street meters for parking purposes.
L. H. Hooker, operator of several ma-
chines in Arnolds Park, Iowa, is now in
Rochester, Minn. , undergoing treatment.
He has been under a physician's care
for the last two months but is now con-
vales cing.
John Dauble, manager of the music
merchandising department of the Sidles
Company, Omaha, made a business trip
to Grand Island Columbus and other
central Nebrask~ points the latter part
of March. He found the record buyers
in a happy frame of mind and buying
heavier than usual.
Warren Nelson of Broken Bow, Ne-
bras ka, was an Omaha visitor the latter
part of March. He reports the coin ma-
chine business picking up since the first
of the year.
All of the music machine operators of
Grand Island, Nebras ka, territory have
taken methods to ins ure the building of
a good patronage . ). F. Darling has
added seve ral new Wurlitzers and re-
ports better busines s than usual.
Jeff Netzel, operating Seeburg ma-
chines in Grand Island and Lincoln, Ne-
bras ka, reports a decided increase in
business. Jeff take s care of the Grand
Is land end of the business while his
brother Paul is master of Lincoln.
G . R. McKee has several Rock-Olas
and is preparing to increase the num-
ber. McKe e has a good business and
does everything he can to make it run
smoothly, He has a little contrivance
that saves considerable time and worry.
It is a little metal box about 12 inches
square and two inches deep which con-
tains about twenty-five small hooks, just
01g enough to take on a key ring carry-
ing all keys for each route. When he is
finished with these keys they are imme-
diately returned to the proper hook.
Stanley Soukup of O 'Neill, Nebraska,
is now building a tavern of his own at
that point. Soukup has been doing well
in the coin machine business at O 'Neill
and is now going to invest the proceeds
in the town where he was successful.
Mrs. Sam Colick, of Omaha, passed
away March 14 after an illness of six
years. Colick is one of the leading coin
machine operators in Omaha. Besides
Colick, a son, a daughter in Omaha and
a daughter in Huron, South Dakota,
survive.
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New Jersey CMA
discusses advantages
of membership
NEW ARK, N. J.-High Spot of the last
meeting of the Cigarette Merchandisers
Association of New Jersey, Inc., was the
hour-long discussion on the value of
trade associations to operators of auto-
matic vendors. Taking part in the sym-
posium were: Samuel M. Malkin, Junior
Past President; Charles W. Stange,
President Emeritus; Sol Kesselman,
Couns el; Harry Pearl, a newly elected
member; and Le Roy Stein, Manager of
the C.M.A. of N. J. , Inc.
Some of the important ideas stressed
in the discussion dealt with various
problems of the Association: "The prog-
ress of the Association can be gauged
by the fact that there are now more
members, despite the fact that there
were consolidations of routes during the
year ... . The importance of raising spe-
cial funds to combat adverse conditions
is of the utmost necessity at this mo-
ment. . . . The Association has made
much progress in cooperation with man-
ufacturers . . . . Forcing objectionable
non-members into members hip is a bad
policy . . . . The new schedule of due s
has had a favorable effect upon many
new members.
"The employees of the Association, in-
cluding Manager Le Roy Stein and
Counsel Sol Kesselman , are still cooper-
ative and sincere in their efforts to give
the Ass ociation efficient and economical
administration. . . Objectionable mem-
bers should be sus pended from the As-
sociation because they are a hindrance
to its progress, but every effort should
be made to educate such members in
the error of their ways."
In concluding the symposium, Presi-
dent Sharenow ass ured the members
that he would give his time and energy
for the furtherance of the Association;
that he would demand a stricter adher-
ence to the principles a s laid down by
its founders , as well as stricter observ-
ance of the e s tablished trade practices.
He insisted that members report early
to meetings, because the gavel would
strike promptly al 8 p.m. and that the
meetings . would adjourn promptly at 11
a .m .
President Sharenow informed the
members hip that the Arbitration Board
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would meet regularly twice a month to
discuss any complaints that might be
presented to it. The rotation method of
appointment of members will continue.
At least two experienced members of
the Board will remain during each
cycle.
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In conclusion he s tated that the time
had come when the Association should
not plead for non-members to join it.
He suggested to Manager Le Roy Stein
that he visit each of the non-members
personally once more in an effort to se-
cure their membership, at the conclusion
of which campaign, no further effort be
made to enroll the few operators in the
State who have not joined.
It was his opinion that for necirly two
and one-half years every effort has
been made to enroll the few outstanding
non-members, and that if they could not
be convinced in that time, they certainly
were not Association minded and could
not be of any great value to the organi-
zation. In view of the new classification
of membership, which divides the Asso-
ciation into 12 distinct groups, he felt
that no operator, no matter how small,
could not afford to be out of the Asso-
ciation.
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