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HOUSTON - Geor ge F r en ch , of the
service department, Electro Ball Co., died
in a Dallas hospital Aug. 18th, after a two-
months' illness. Funeral services were held
in Dallas Aug. 19th. Two of the pallbearers
were Ed F urlow, Electro Ball official of
Dallas, and Anderson Sage, manager of
Houston Electro Ball branch.
French, a young man in his middle
twenties, was well known in Texas. For al-
most a year he had been in charge of the
service department, Houston branch, but,
when his health began to fail, he was trans-
ferred back to the Home Office in Dallas
where he could work regular hours. Death
came just one week before he would have
celebrated his first wedding anniversary.
A new Mills distributorship was opened
in Texas when A. W. ( Bill) Brenan of
San Antonio was given that appointment.
He will distribute the Mills complete line
in San Antonio and surrounding territory.
On Aug. 1st Anderson Sage was ap-
pointed manager of Houston Electro Ball
branch and Sidney Lanier was put in
charge of the bookkeeping and other office
work. Both young men are well pleased and
reported excellent business. In fact, sales
for the first fifteen days of August more
than doubled any other whole month of the
office. That's a mighty fine record for the
Houston office has had some big months
during its several years' existence.
Miss Myrtle Lilley is the new secretary
for Atkins & McClure Amusement Co. F.
Cruz, well known as a service man, has
been operating phonographs for this firm for
about three month . It is his first experience
actually operating and he likes the work.
A. M. Mendez, Wurlitzer district man-
ager, officially announced that Commercial
Music Co., now under the head of R ay-
mond W ill iams since the accidental death
of his brother Joe Williams in July, would
continue as Wurlitzer distributors in Texas,
Oklahoma, and Louisiana. The office and
sales personnel will not be changed and the
same efficient service for all Wurlitzer oper-
ators will prevail in the future as it has in
the past, said Mendez.
A new music opera tor is R. M. Bruton
of Houston, who formerly operated amuse-
ment games. He started with music exclus-
sively early in August.
A. B. Garza, manager of Southwestern
Music Corporation, record distributors, re-
ported that August was a banner month for
phonograph record sales.
Houston vacationers who recently re-
turned home include: H . M. Cr o we, from
Mexico City and Rio Grande Valley; Sam
Ayo, J ack Renfro and their families from
New Mexico and points west; F red Mc-
Cl ure and wife, from Arkansas; Ern est
Gates and wife, five weeks in Canada;
Ch ester Horsem a n , from Galveston and
other Gulf resorts.
Operator S. W. Mar lin of San Antonio
vacationed in Arkansas; Operator and Mrs.
J. E . Deligan es of Laredo spent several
weeks in Florida: Operator Fo rester Er-
min gton visited Packard Corp. factory on
his vacation and mixed a bit of business
with pleasure by ordering 25 Pla-Mor
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Boys in Brown
Hail Columbia
NEW YORK-The lads in Panama were
moodily remembering Brooklyn pool halls
. . . the movies in Chicago . . . the barn
dances in Ohio, Nebraska, South Carolina,
not to mention round-ups and rodeos in
Wyoming and Texas. And then, like a
wish come true, a shipment of records ar-
rived in the midst of the Panama Coast
Artillery Corps, the gift of Columbia Rec-
Los Angeles. Calif.
ording Corporation.
When they got over the first unbelieving
thrill, they sent this cable ~o Columbia:
"From the depth of tropical jungles the
junglemen of the PCAC send their most
sincere thanks to Columbia Recording for
your whole-hearted generosity in sending
them recorded entertainment. With folks
like you backing us up nothing can lick
the Army in Panama." Signed, Panama
Coast Artillery News Quarry Heights Canal
Zone.
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Manager Frank E. Sn iker, of the Hotel Monte Vista, Flagstaff, Ariz., was so pleased with t he
appearance of the Packard Pla-Mor 600 Speake r that he had a spec ial alcove built when he
redesigned his cocktail lounge in t he hotel, in which t o place a Model 600 Packard Pla-Mor
Speaker. The installation was made by Operator H. H. Longfellow, of Flagsta ff.
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