Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989, February 21, 1963, Image 37

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Newspaper Page TextMEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. OREGON THURSDAY. FEBRUARY 21. 1963 VeirodDimg Machine Smiles Add Many Products; By JOSEPH HUTNYAN United Press Iniernetionel Washington (UPU They must have smiled in 1888 when Thomas Adams sat down to tell about his unusu al idea for selling an exciting new product called Tutti Frutii chewing gum. Adams planned to pack the gum in machines in elevated railway stations in New York. A customer would put in a penny and out would come one stick. Nobody knows for sure how the other chewing gum ty coons reacted to this innova tion. But Commerce depart ment studies prove that if there were any laughs, Ad ams got the last one. He gave the first important emphasis In this country to a new selling technique that began with chewing gum and a trickle of pennies. The stream now has swelled to a billion dollar torrent of quar ters, dimes and half dollars that sweeps along everything from cigars to frozen aspara gus. Vending Increases Judging by the trend it is likely that in the future just about anything that fits into a vending machine will be sold by this "silent salesman." The Commerce department, in a history of the U. S. vend ing machine industry, reports that vending sales are increas ing at twice the p i cent of total sales, but prospects are for continued record growth. The department said vend ing sales shot up about 65 per cent in six years to hit an approximate $1 billion in I960. The industry estimates it now is moving along at a $3 billion-a-year, clip. The number of establish ments engaged primarily in automatic vending also is In creasing 10 times faster than conventional retail sales busi nesses. Big Spurt Recent Actually, the big spurt has come within the past 10 years. The silent salesman remained pretty much in the chewing gum and weight scale busi ness for almost half a cen tury. World War II change that. Automatic vending branched into other fields, notably soft drinks, candy bars and cigar ettes. The technique's full po tential came into focus when business saw how well it serv ed the nation's armed serv ices and defense plants. After the war, the silent salesman's efficiency got a big lift from technological innovations. He has been on the move since. 40 Per Cent Use Today, the Commerce de partment reported that 9 out of 10 plants in the U.S. with 250 or more employees have vending machines. And about 40 per cent use them for their only food service. The present outlook is for vending sales. to extend into the bigger selling operations, 'r ! B23'2I rIS i; MODEL INSPECTS VENDER-Model Ardie Scott inspects the Rowe All-purpose vender, a coin operated machine that dispenses all foods from soup to nuts. It was included in the 1959 convention exhibit of automatic merchandising in Chicago. Commerce department studies reveal that just about anything that fits into a vending machine will be sold by silent salesmen like this one. (UPI) including food markets, de partment stores, gasoline sta tions and restaurants. From the business man's point of view, its advantage over conventional selling is obvious. The silent salesman is on duty 24 hour? a day. It make few mistakes. It doesn't go on strike, and it never lakes a coffee break. But sometimes it is robbed. Homework Needed, Says School Head St. Louis - ll'PD - School principal Quincy C. Dickey says teachers shouldn't give homework as punishment. "Homework," Dickey says, "should serve two primary functions - to develop pro ficienccs in a particular skill, and to allow the pupil an op portunity to demonstrate this skill to his parents." "If the week ends and one evening in the middle of the week are left free, the pupil has an opportunity to develop appreciation and skill .in art and music and to participate more fully in the social life of the family and the com munity." Homework is important to the high school student, espe cially if he intends to go to college, Dickey adds. In college. Dickey said, the student will have to spend about 30 hours a week in study - twice the amount of time he'll spend in class. "If the student isn't used to homework, he'll be lost," he said. Bachelors Pay More for Foods East Lansing, Mich. - (Wfl -Restaurant-frequenting bach elors beware-your food costs are going to continue to be well above the amount mar ried men have to spend to eat home-cooked meals. This is the prediction of Mary Zchncr, Michigan State university agricultural econ omist, who says average prices of food consumed at home is expected to change little from last year. Prices of food consumed away from home, however, probably will continue a long term upward trend this year. Miss Zehner said. "Food costs on meals bought in restaurants, cafeterias and drive-ins reflect increased la bor costs to a greater extent than those of foods purchesed for the family table," the home economist said. "About $1 out of every $4 spent annually for food is on food eaten away from home," said Miss Zehner. And more than half of the cost of restau rant meals goes for the prep aration and serving. For the home consumer, the '. prices of cereals, bakery prod-1 ucts, fruits and vegetables are j expected to increase slightly j during 1963, Miss Zehner1 noted. Dairy products and I eggs will remain about the same price. The average retail j price of red meat also is ex-1 ppctcd to stick close to the 1962 level. Some lowering of prices for pork can be expected this j year, but Miss Zehner said this would be offset by higher lamb prices and slightly high er beef prices. 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