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About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (May 25, 1950)
IlflHT MEDFORD (OHECON) MAIL TRIBUNE Thursday. Mr S. 1950 Americans to Spend Over $1 Billion For Operation of Coin Machines Chicago, May 25 U.R) Amer ican! will tosi more than $1 billion this year into coin ma chines that'll give 'em back everything Irom soft drinks to air conditioning ana aavice u their personal problems. A customer who wants to re duce can alio a coin in a slot Ynr little time on a vibrating hobby-horse. A nickel will get him a two-minute shoe snine. New Machines Herbert Jones, president of the American Coin Machine Manufacturers' association, said new types of machines this year will boost the industry's busi ness over the 1949 billion-dollar mark. About 3.300.000 vending ma chines are in use, including 400, 000 Juke boxes, 400,000 games, 700,000 candv and cigaret ma chines, 290,000 beverage ma chines and 1,500,000 of other types, he said. The association's annual show here today offered a half-dozen makes of gambling machines where the investment of a nickel or a half-dollar may reap a giant jackpot or nothing at all. A new punch board is "de signed to eliminate watching Diifi-ring and bother. The play er inserts a quarter, moves the indicator to any of 1,000 holes and if he hits one of 166 lucky numbers gets SI. Profit Guaranteed The board guarantees a profit of S55.50 to the owner. Others pay more. Biggest profit for the owner is a moaei wmcn Drings in $88.64. Non-gambling machines offer a variety of services. An air- conditioning unit for installation in hotels offers an hour's worth of "Kool-Sleep ' for a quarter. Vending machines offer sand wiches. soud. fruit, ice cream. oranee iuice. tea. coffee, milk and carbonated drinks. Others sell post cards, stamp and mail vour letters, take pictures in four different poses, and make records of the customer's voice. An automatic "counselor" gives advice on any problem for a penny. The customer inserts the penny and asks the question either verbally or mentally. The machine answers in one of 20 ways, ranging from "yes," "no" and "it certainly does" to "some times' and "it depends.' & It t f fx t SETTING new record, John Simmons, Ban Mateo JC, leaps 24 feet 11 14 Inches, (Vntentnliotidi Soundpkolo) Fresno relayi Repair cf Highways In Cities Sought Chicago (U.R) City thorough fares that link the nation's high way svstem need more than $5,000,000,000 in repairs and construction, the American Mu nicipal Association says. The association estimated that 3,500 miles of city roadways, sec tions of key interstate highways that lie within city boundaries, need rebuilding to bring them up to acceptable standards. Of the 38.000 miles of U. S highways, nearly 8.000 miles are inside urban borders and a not ileneck in the city can interrupt 'he flow of traffic over the en tire system, the association said. Adequate terminal roads, ade quate facilities lor imerciiantc of traffic and adequate parking spaces must be provided, the re- ort added The AMA also said that "sim- maintaining and putting on currently existing la- cilitiei is not economically sound 1 nor will it suffice for current traffic needs." "Without expressways, super- j highways and limited access roads, the federal highway sys- tern bogs down at the points of j greatest congestion, which lie ' within the city." I NO PLACE TO PRACTICE I Tallahassee, Fla. iU.Ri The i Florida vocational rehabilitation I service encountered a snag in its policy of keeping skilled workers j in practice while they are pa tients at tuberculosis hosDitals. 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