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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (April 21, 1975)
1 Air Statesman, Salem, .pre., Sun.,, April 21, '57 (Sec i1A Sales At Gob! By .VALTEK BU&Sf: WTTX NEW YORK," April JO (It-Win K be a fall vacation in Florid, a trip to the sunny Caribbean or I grand tour of Jtome, Madrid and That's fne question retailer who fell a Wading air conditioner poa- dered toil week at ther stocked up 01 iavaatorlM for tha coming hot vesuier business. - Thay could aara tha Florida trip by placing a amsll order for con ditioners, tha Caribbean Junket witb a anediunvaised order, and tha European tour by going trbole hot. t . : Toil was just ana of aeverat la- . . i i . a , . ,, cemivn oeinj eiicreo. w appi anea dealers to push. preteasoa orden of air condlUoners. Other firm featured trips aa prises and aome gave cam discounts. What ,does this mean p you, the consumer? .. YaarRoaad falM SmiM It means that the raanufaetur art and big distributors art brt ting you and your neighbors will - - tura more and mora to air coolera for whoa summer -heat arrive. And they're out to sea that your , neighborhood dealer has a sixable inventory .on hand . wbea you da got tha urge to shop for a cooler. Manufacturers and distributors also have this objective for pre season promotions ' they are trying to educate dealers ta the ides air conditioning cad be sold on a year-round basis, and not Ju during tha hot months, , , -. z Despite tremendous up and downs in the market in the last 10 years, aales of room air condi-' tioners have increased In each i year, what was a 10 million dol isr Business in. IMS baa grown int a one-half billion dollar in- durtry. . s; ' I MUliesi hi 'IT Forecasts of 1K7 salo of room air conditioners radga all tbs way item l.00,OM to 2.250,000 units. Vost industry leaders are confi dent volume tiB set Ta rocord figh, regardless of the weather, b Springfield. Mass, W. C '", Paulson, manager of tha room air I conditioner department. for West-I ingbouse Electric Corp., says. "We expect a sale increase of I SO to IS per cent over 195. First I quarter shipments ta dealers are I considerably ahead of last year.' In Syracuse, N.Y., Cloud Warn- pier, chairman of Carrier Corp., says industry sales of the more expensive central air conditioning units should rise mora than 40 per cent from last year's 175.000 : to SM.OOs. Many of tha central J' conditioners are going into newly I f IB 1MB it " awaeiaBaMaMiaJMitaaasiii miiiinajMiMMiiii i n iiiaaMeMaMaMiBMeiaMaelMaaM . i . . . . . . 77., , . 7 . : ' " "" . . 111 " 1 i m iiinn in mi i i m in .aymsjsaaaaaiaaa.iasaa. in i mi i : Ifs estimated room eondfUoaers . retailed last year at aa average I ' price of 1271 compared with 1300 per init in lsu. m drop was I blamed largely in price-cutting inf some Eastern cities where stores overstocked during tha sever but I brief heat n June, la i v Thi Industry is going all-out to I avert a recurrence, of this dump-1 ihg during the coming summer. 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FURNiTURI - SKONO PlDOll ' -f j Show Altered Each Night By Bea Lillie- By WILLIAM GLOVER New York, April 20 When Bea Lillie goes into her star act these evenings on Broadway she is never quiet certain what will happen. Both she end the audience keep I changing her material. "Its quite aa adventure," re-1 ..marks the renowned comedienne. I Mis Lillie Is the big headliner ' of the "Ziegfeid Follies," and her flair for unpredictability is help ing snake the Winter Garden get sjo-a aotices. Auntie Baa as usual I eUcitod only superlative, and ul a veteran trouper she's been busy t ever since. . I I ' "I, never really did believe in a set pattern," she explains, and II chansa bit and pieces each per formance. Take for example that I lobster I'm giving it a corn-! , plete manicure now." Leaeter, Asparagas' Preps The Crustacea a, It should be ex plained, i a prop in a Lillie fa verite hilarity, a speechless sketch ' entitled "Milady Dine Alone." - The tasy manicure is performed with a stalk of limp asparagus. I . The idea Just came to her one ' evenins at performance time. ' At another moment of the ahow Mil Lillie and Billy DeWolf io dulge in tet a - tete during which, the lady disclose, neither is sure of what the other wiU say next. She feels It keeps them both However, it is her excursion out over the audience which gives . Miss Lillie her chief adlib .work- out. EreryialagBappeat 'a" Clad in frou-frou costume and! v lafetvJxltad at the and of a i crane, th star sweeps out from tha ' Stage, singing . an tossing garters to the , assemblage. , i "I'm never sure wbat'a going to s happen, or when, if ever, i 11 gel bark vta the stage" she admits. ; "That "-certainly helps keep the v jnosiclans awake." , ,. r. 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