Coin Machine Review (& Pacific ...)

Tom Murray Retires
FORT WORTH, Texas-Tom Murray
has retired from the coin machine publish·
ing field and will devote all of his time to
a publication of his own which covers ~.
other industry.
This announcement came out of Fort
Worth this month when Murray let it be
known that the Venetian Blind News, a
publication which he started a few years
back, would require all of his attention in
the future.
Murray is one of the old timers in the
industry. He launched the Automatic World
as the second independent coin machine
paper in the industry back in 1930,-;;hd
lays claim to having coined the word "Op"
as expressive of the operators connected·
with the industry.
Solomon in Los Angeles
COIN
MACHINE
REVIEW
4
FOR
OCTOBER
1942
LOS ANGELES.-Solly Solomon, man·
ager of Western Distributors, Seattle, paid
Los Angeles a visit the first part of October
and stopped in at the REVIEW offices to
talk over the good old days when he was
located locally.
Solly flew from Seattle to San Fran·
cisco where he spent a day or two with
Lou Wolcher befo~e hurrying on to Los
Angeles to meet his son, Walter, who is in
the Coast Guard and arranged to be here
to greet his father. Walter has completed
three years in the service and is now in his
second term.
During the summer Solly entertained his
father, Edward E. Solomon" on the first
vacation he had had in fifty years. Now 82,
he boasts of 62 years practicing law in the
state of Texas.
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LOS ANGELES. - The operators have
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Henry Mohr Passes
LOS ANGELES-Henry Mohr, father of
the seven Mohr Brothers of Coin Machine
fame, passed away in Los Angeles Septem.
ber 28th at the age of 81. He had been in
ill health for some little time and a heart
attack resulted in his passing.
Funeral services were conducted at the
Groman Mortuary on the 30th and inter·
ment followed in the Home of Peace Ceme·
tery.
Surviving are the seven sons, two daugh·
ters, and 35 grandchildren. His wife pre·
ceded him in death twenty years ago.
Review Scribe WAAC Lieut.
LOS ANGELES-When the W. A. A. C.
opened offices in Los Angeles September
21st to enlist women for service in tbe
Women's Auxiliary Army Corps, one of the
two lieutenants in charge was Lieut. Hen·
riette Horak, former San Francisco news·
hound for the COIN MACHINE REVIEW,
Miss Horak, an American by naturaliza·
tion, was born in Czechoslovakia and was
orphaned in World War I. She made many
friends in the Coin Machine Industry
when she covered the newsbeat for THE
REVIEW in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Following her stint on this publi'cation,
she handled publicity for the S. F. World's
Fair and just before the war was doing
publicity and promotion work for the Cali·
fornia Prune Growers Association.
Boy at Ace Arnsberg5
PORTLAND, Ore.- It's an eight pound
baby boy at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Ace
Arnsberg. The little fellow put in an ap·
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missus and Ace are all bearing up well.
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