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FOR
JANUARY
Ana; Jack Arnold, Barstow; Lloyd Barrett,
Pomona; W. H. Shorey, Stuart Metz, Carl
Collard, San Bernardino; R. H. Causey,
Bell ; Charles P etti cord, Santa Ana ; Harry
Williams, Santa Monica ; C. Ellison, Lan-
caster; Anton J eppeson, Maywood; and J.
A. Stewart, Salt Lake City.
On the Packard front Bill Simmons re-
veals that sales are particularly brisk. In
San Francisco D_ H. Osborn has been busy
preparing for his first carload shipment of
Pla-M or merchandise which he ordered
while in French Lick at the International
Convention. C. D. Kemp, Denver, district
manager for Packard, topped all highs in
November in the sale of Packard products.
Saviers Electrical Products Corp., Reno,
old timers in the coin-controlled music field,
have been granted a franchise by Packard,
for Nevada. Firm started off with a two-
carload order. Saviers flies his own Beach-
craft plane and covers Nevada each week.
Ben Korte, local operator, is back from a
two-and-a-half-month vacation trip to South ,
America. Ben visited Rio and all points of
interest right down to the southern tip of
the country_
Al Sleight, Bally regional sales manager,
spent a week here confabing with Paul A.
Laymon on Bally products_
A mighty lucky girl is Mrs. Jack
GutshalL Recently when an operation be-
came necessary, Jack made an immediate
reservation at St. Vincent's, had the chore
performed and she was up and around the
day following-somewhat of a record fol-
lowing a major operation; Evelyn left the
hospital on Friday the 13th, which should
add double luck for her.
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The radio will never entirely replace the
newspaper because you can't swat a fly with
a radio_
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Despite the seasonal last quarter slump,
aggravated by a Maritime snarl and threat
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of a national freight embargo, oca com-
men are looking forward to 1947 as poten-
tially the best year in history.
Timely end of the national coal strike
injected cheer, and the proposed stringent
curtailment of shipments did not mate-
rialize. Record distributors especially were
happy at the strike's end, for shipments
remained on a fluid basis, and they were
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happily on t h eir way to t h e b iggest h 0 l 1 ay
grossings of all time_
The Maritime tie-up is set for an early
settlement, and local coinmen feel that
after' the Chicago convention,' they can
uncork 1947 with a bang.
From Spokane, Clarence M. Livingston,
chairman of the Lions club operations com-
mittee, reported that gum machines, owned
by the club have produced an income of
$10,000 in the' five years they have been
operating. The Lions have 15 gum machines
in operation, and part of the profits from
the machines have been used in a voca-
tional guidance . program sponsored by
service clubs, from which more than 1,100
students have benefited.
COVERING COIN Row IN A WILLAWAW-
A willawaw, friends, is not a rig to ride in.
A willawaw is a gusty, bone penetrating
wind which comes from all directions at
once. Native to the frigid Alaska Aleutian
Islands, we don't know how this one got to
Seattle. Anyway, it served to keep most
coinmen at home where we could find
them, so you see it's an ill wind and so
forth that, doesn't · do something note-
worthy.
John Michaels, headman at Pla-Mor, was
on his way to Yakima. Members of his
staff were not certain if he was dodging
the local weather, or was going on business.
One gentleman advanced the theory that
he was selling automatic hobby horses, but
Vic Abdo, busy punching an adding ma-
chine with one finger, discredited that idea.
We have an idea that Yakima and vicinity
will be sporting several new Packard units
sO~t~dy Huffine, Decca manager, had a
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long distance call wrapped around his
neck, so Ralph Yost, . his genial assistant,
gave us the word. Ralph says this is the
biggest month ever, and that amazing plat-
ter of Bing's, White Xmas, is going like
mad; bigger than ever. Lu Barry, sharp
counter gal, was expertly servicing Bob
Farrell, Skagit county operator, who was
trying on some new records fol' size.
Earl Everett, of Seattle Coin Machine, is
in Milwaukee to look over the new Shine-
A-Minit, reported to put a mirror gloss on
a set of shoes in one minute flat. Sam
Grosslllan, of the same organization, says
they have the Washington and Idaho terri-
tory for the new machine, and it will do
everything a shoe-shine boy does, except
.. - accept a tip.
When you open the fron t door at Sterling
Tobacco Co. you are greeted by a full sized,
old-fashioned wooden cigar store Indian,
complete with upraised tomahawk. He is a
fough looking character, but in order to
bolster Yuletide spirits around Sterling,
somebody put a Santa Claus mask, with
long flowing white beard, on the redskin.
,.,Now if they could get him to drop that
tomahawk, everything would be swell.
Cliff Berderson, manager of the vending
' machine division, told us about the various
taxes on ciggies ill this state of Washington~
Besides absorbing the recent Y2-cent na-
' tional up in prices, he must pay a 2-cent
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