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few squawks from listening customers at
the 'start but business is so good, the firm
has added two collectors to their staff,
making ten. Many location spots are crying
for the dime play. Pin ball units of all
kinds have been arriving and have been
placed at the rate of 10 to IS a week. The
firm has also received 100 Wurlitzers and
200 remote control units during the past six.
months. The average take has dropped, how-
ever, from $16 to $18 a week to around $12.
" Everyone of our 30 locations where dime
play has been installed has shown an in-
crease in play, double or one-third better
than the nickel slots."
Gordon Talmage, Fairway Distributing
Co., reported that Pat Moore, Mo-Kan
Amusement Co., of this city has taken on
Solo tone. The firm has established a sub-
studio in the Kansas City Power and Light
Building. Operator Coughlin and wife, Mid-
west Amusement Co. of LaCrosse, are now
installing Solo tone' units in their territory.
Roy Pittman, Star Music Co., has just
returned from a business trip spent on the
East Coast.
Harry Silverburg said that operators
calling on the W-B Music Co. favor the
Seeburg plan of model changes every two
years and that they favored five-cent play.
Silverburg enjoyed the visits of the follow-
ing operators: K. D. Smith; Coin-O Amuse-
ment Co., and Chet Troyer, Troyer Amuse-
ment Co., St. Joe; Pat Huston, Cassco
Amusement Co., Garden City; and Tom
Swartz; Shawnee Vending Co., Topeka.
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1947
Chicago 39, III .
IOWA STATE SALES CO.
567
5eve~th
stalling Venda coin changers in spots where
traffic is heavy.
The Music Mart opened at their new
location late in December.
Elmer Butts, Automatic Music Co., now
has an assistant, Lloyd Callahan, new to
the field.
Bill Dunfee reported th'at Nick Stahl,
formerly associated with the firm, was killed
in an airplane crash recently in Chillicothe.
He was in a private plane out on a duck
hunt.
Irwin Weiler came back from the Ozarks
with his full quota of quail which he
bagged over the week-end. The firm has
been receiving two shipments a week on
th e Pop-Up counter game and promptly
sells out. Weiler is leaving for Milwaukee
where he will see a demonstration of the
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Shine-A-Minit vendor. He, and most of the
crowd here plan to visit the coin show in
Chicago.
.
D ey T hatch er
Mildred Nelson reported that A. E. Ret-
tig, Ideal Music Co., Topeka; R. C; Lykke,
Salina; Mark Blum, United Distributors,
Wichita; and a representative of the Man-
The busy rush of Christmas shopping and
hattan Music Co., Manhattan,. visited the
the scare from the recent national coal
United Amusement Co., this month. The
miner's strike has contrived to let Dallas
firm is remodeling the office. getting ready
coin machine operators in for a slow down
for a big new year's business.
in business. While some operators report
their business off as much as 25 per cent,
Warren Doud reported through Mrs.
the general level for the local trade is not
Doud, that Cub Pack 62 of which Doud is
discouraging. Bringing a tone of optimism
Cubmaster, featured at their booth a profile
is the fact that more new equipment is now
of President Truman. The picture was
being received than at any time during the
taken especially for the ninth annual Cub
year. The ' month of December is expected
Scout show sponsored by "Opti-Uncles" of
to round out a very good year for the coin
the Optimist Club, held December 6 and 7.
machine industry of the Southwest sector.
The Municipal Auditorium was packed with
folk s marveling at what kids can do. Doud
Commercial Music Co., Inc., Texas dis-
recently flew to New York City on business
tributors for Wurlitzer phonographs and
for his firm.
music equipment, announced last week that
Dave Fleider said that his partner's
they are asking all approved Wurlitzer
father, Max Cooper, passed away De-
music merchants in their territory to con-
cember 1.
•
vert their phonographs to the three-for-a-
The firm 's long awaited, brand new cash
quarter, one-for-a-dime phonograph play.
register finally arrived only to be virtually
Wurlitzer operators in this section have
wrecked by thieves who took the take.
been noti fied hy the Commercial Music
"Business is much better and lhe prospects
Co.'s Dallas office that Wurlitzer factory
for the coming year look very good."
kits are available for converting their
phonos and wall boxes to the new play_
The Brown Music Co. reported a tre-
Conversion of equipment in some local
mendous business on the sale of records
spots has already begun. Commercial offi-
during the past year and of course this
cials estimated that it would require from
department is going full tilt now.
two to three weeks 1.0 complete conversion
Joe Berkowi tz stated that his th ree asso-
of all local locations. Crown Music Co. and
ciated manufacturing units, Universal
Cotton Music Co. are tW9 local operating
Manufacturing Co., Kansas City; Bee Jay
firms that are converting. Commercial's
Products, Chicago; and The Triangle
announcement of conversion to the higher
Manufacturing Co., Minneapolis, are going
bracket play, brought an immediate re-
to have some fine exhibits at the coin show .
sponse from other music distributors that
Frank W. Murray and Edwaru Jam es
they would maintain the five-cent play.
Nettle, have purchased a n ew band saw and
The S. H. Lynch Co., Southwestern dis-
they' re going to town making brackets for
wall boxes. They are co.nverting - most of . trihutors for Seeburg phonographs, have
their chutes for dime use. There were a . announced that Seeburg operators wj]j con-
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