Play Meter

Bernie Powers of Arachnid, Howard
Smoyer of Merit Industries, Ray
Hibarger of Hanson Distributing, Linda
Winstead of Lieberman Music, Al
Eggermont of Music Service, and
Gene Winstead of Twin City Novelty.
Hy Sandler, MOMA executive director,
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was moderator.
Dynamo promotes
hockey table
In an unusual demonstration at the
June 25-27 Food '86 Expo in Atlantic
City, a trade show for the food-and-
beverage industry, a Dynamo air-
cushioned hockey table was used to
demonstrate "how a cushion of air can
improve productivity."
The manufacturer of an air-powered
conveyer belt Simplamatic Engineer-
ing of Lynchburg, Va., hoped to bene-
fit from the demonstration, which
included an exhibition by Robert Her-
nandez, the current air-table-hockey
national champion; Patrice Nale,
current women's national champion;
and Dynamo's Mark Robbins, the 1984
champion.
During the show, Hernandez, Nale,
and Robbins also conducted an exhi-
bition at the Boardwalk Mall Arcade
in Wildwood, N .J.
More promotions involving Sim-
plamatic, Dynamo, and the U.S. Air-
Table-Hockey Association are being
planned, according to Robbins and
Bob Blair of Blair and McBrathney
Advertising Agency.
The Dynamo Hockey National
Championships are scheduled for
September 13-14 in Boulder, Colo. For
more information, call Dynamo at 1-
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800/ 527-6045 or (817) 589-7699.
ICMOAholds
annual meeting
A hundred industry people gath-
ered at Indian Lakes Resort in Bloom-
ington, Ill., for the Illinois Coin Machine
Operators Association's annual meet-
ing in June. This year. tabletop exhibits
highlighted the event and plans were
announced to have full exhibits next
year.
Attendees were treated to a semi-
nar on tournaments by Valley's Chuck
Milhem, Walt Lowry of Lowry Music ,
Arachnid's Sam Zammutta, Howard
Smoyer of Merit and Nomac's Bill
McClure; a session on cranes presented
by Ed Pellegrini of Atlas and Ed Plotkin
of Ace Novelty Company; and a
session on parallel imports and coun-
terfeits by Memetron's Frank Cosentino.
The association raised $9,262.50 for
its political-action fund at an auction
held after the banquet. Valley's
Milhem was a sensational auctioneer
for the second year in a row and may
become the official auctioneer. The
association presented awards to the
trade magazines, and Play Meter was
honored to be included.
The ICMOA's new officers are Paul
Hoffmeister, president; Ed Velaquez.
vice president; Dwain Kramzar. secre-
tary; and Stan Williams, treasurer. •
Standard Vending starts
weekly pool tournaments
Standard Vending and Music
Company's Waco, Texas, office has
begun sponsoring weekly pool tour-
naments.
Under the pool-tournament system.
Operators look on attentively during a seminar at the ICMOA convention.
Seeburg conducts
service schools on CD
Forty-two service technicians from
the Seeburg Corporation distributor
network attended factory service
schools at the Holiday Inn in Rose-
mont, Ill., in late June and July to learn
more about the company s new
LaserMusic compact-disc phono-
graph.
Each of the three schools lasted
four-and-a-half days and included a
thorough explanation of the Sony
player mechanism and the Seeburg
portion of the LaserMusic system.
Cas Dabrowski and Jim Dziagwa of
See burg and Erol Uckan and Al Simon
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of Sony conducted the sessions.
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Chuck Milhem and his wile enjDy the bqnquet at the Illinois Coin Machine Operators
Association (ICMOA) convention. Milhem, president of The Valley Company, was the
auctioneer at the convention and helped raise more than $9,000 !or the ICMOA's
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political-action fund.
PLAY MITTP., August 1 5, 1986