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ONE YEAR
( Continued front P age 35 )
In so many cases it was necessary to
adjust machin es to acce pt 25 cents that it
appeared as if the quarter coin might
attain a new popul a rity in th e vend ing
ma chine trade, that th e quarter might
rival th e nickel and dim e a vendor coins.
One year after, wh at do operators think
of th e reEults th at followed in the wake of
th e histori c cigarette pri ce hoost ? Most
operators seem to have com e to acce pt the
s ituation as perman ent but th e re is still
di scussion of what pri ces do to sales. Some
operators will say today that a 23-cent
price reduced volume- but th at th ey like
th e in creased margin.
Wh at is th e prospect for a reduction in
ciga rette pri ces by ma nufacturers ? Th ere
is evide ntly some pressure on this point,
for some of th e ma nufacture rs have stated
in quarte rly and annual re ports th at there
is no pros pect of reducing prices to the
old level in th e foreseeabl e future_ They
point to th e high prices bein g paid for 1949
toba cco as evidence that a pri ce reduction
is hardly practi cal now_ Other costs in
manufacture also still remain high. So,
one year after , th ere are no signs that
cigarettes mi ght be reduced to the old
pri ce. And th e tax trend is still upward.
Royal Shuffleboard
Announces New Game
VENICE, Cali f.- Royal Shuffieboard Co.,
designers and manufacturers of th e famou s
R oyal Shuffiehoard , announ ce a new mon ey-
makin g skill gam e call ed R oyal Flush. Th e
ga me, combining all th e fascinating features
of poker and pool, is compact in size and
is made of th e fin est ha rdwood.
On each play, te n balls are released on
coin activation, with each pl ayer usin g fi ve.
Pl ayers take altern ate shots for th e highest
poker hand_
10,800 sq uare feet of manufacturin g spa ce
a re available at the Royal pl ant for th e
new gam e whi ch is now in production _ If
necessary, output can be stepped up to 50
a day.
Officials of the company point out th a t
th e new game is a natural for operators,
inasmuch as th ere are no mainte na nce costs
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or expensive scoreboa rds or score pad
necessary, while at th e arne tim e the proven
playin g appeal of the game plus its low
price is conducive to hi gh profits_
Royal created a sensa tion in th e trade
with its outstandin g shuffieboard, which
fea tured a welded structural steel frame
to support th e pl ayin g field a nd et the
accuracy of th e playin g fi eld to ten thou-
sandths of a n in ch. With th e shuffieboard
fi eld sta bilized, dema nd for th e R oyal con -
tinue apace, and produ cti on is bein g ma in-
tained on a tea dy scal e_
While a network of di stributors has
already bee n esta blished, some choice terri-
tories are still availa bl e_
Los Jlngeles
Johnny H a wley, veteran coin ma chin e
man , has opened J. R. H a wl ey Distributin g
Co. at 2845 W. Pico Blvd_ H e is specializ-
in g in the ale of established routes an d
also di stributin g new and used amusement
gam es, shuffieboards, phonographs, cigar-
ette machin es, a nd arcade equipment, as
well as sellin g the Hawley Adapter, which
connects Select-O-Matics to 3D-wire counter
boxes_
Vacation' time a t Southland Distributin g
found Stan Turn er returnin g from a week
at Lake Arrowh ead just in time to reli eve
secretary Mildred Moberg who hied off to
Seattle to visit her family ; while Ollie
Sutton, of the servi ce department, returned
from a two-weeker back East.
Bob Young, popu lar service man and
ope rator, proud pappaed for the third tim e
on Se ptember 8 wh en Chri stoph er Harti g
Youn g made hi s app earance in the world_
Smiling, pipe smokin g Harold M. Meier,
op erator of phonographs, cigarette ma-
chines a nd postage stamp vendors, is Los
Angeles County's biggest coin machine
operator (340 pounds ) .
With visions of the 230 pound bl ack bass
cau ght last yea r still fresh in hi s mind ,
Ronnie Malandra took off for San Clemente
for orn e deep sea fi shin g.
Mark Jennison, ma na ger of th e local
Mills Sales offi ce, reports Mills new 21 bell
is goin g grea t.
Larry Hanford of Lompoc and Bob
Chacon of Laguna Row-shoppin g.
General Music's secretari al sta ff was
stripp ed kind of thin fo r a whil e last
month wi th Nan cy McLa ren and Rose
McCabe both out of action : aney due to
her mother's illn ess, and Rose beca use of
th e nu germ _
Graham Clapp of th e up-co min g R. B.
Clapp Co. spent ten days fi shin g in the
high Sierras and snagged a mess of
Golden Rainbow Trout.
Coin Row was gri eved to lea rn of th e
death of Willi am Leuenha gen, fath er of
W. H . Leue nh agen, on September 8.
Ni ck Carter uncrated and in taIl ed
Genco's new Glider before another ship-
ment of PX-8 Electrics rolled in th e door.
Music Op erator Bob Donahue drove
down from Pismo Beach in his new Dodge.
Th e puzzler defyin g solution at Auto-
matic Games is who sli pped George Warner
a Mi ckey Finn during his Muri etta H ot
Sprin gs vaca tion_
Harry Williams of th e Chi cago manu-
f acturin g firm of th e sam e name pent
several days vi sitin g th e trad e here.
The Wurlitzer factory prepared for an
easy cha nge in its 1100 mod el so th at it
can sell six tun es for a quarter, and now
it's paying off in in creased phon o rece ipts.
Tommy Swab of Lone Pine makin g ni ce
recovery aft er hi s recent nose operation.
W. E. S imm ons is busy th ese days ha n-
dlin g a tremend ous sa les crew in th e 11
Western states sellin g a device whi ch cleans
th e coolin g system on your car. J ack
Gutshall, Larry 0 ' eil and Ed Wisler are
a socia ted with Simmons a nd have estab-
lished territories on th e deal.
Lucill e and Paul Laymon chose a north-
ern route in returnin g from their trip to
Chi cago a nd drove home vi a Yellowston e,
Bryce Canyon and Zion Nationa l P ark ,
arrivin g here on September 25th.
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