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This item has not been digitized in its entirety. The original item is available for research and handling at the UNLV University Libraries. Additional digitization is available upon request. Please contact Special Collections to request additional digitization or with any questions regarding access at special.collections@unlv.edu. I I For outstanding assistance to Association member stores by wholesale salesmen during 1956 IRHA HARDWARE WEEK the National Retail Hardware Association awards this CERTIFICATE OF RECOGNITION in the Wholesaler of the Year contest to > ------------------------------1 be eligible for the award?╟÷an ex- ?║. * pense-paid trip to Las Vegas?╟╓ lush 5 Sands Hotel via TransWorld Air- lines, ^salesmen were required to ; 5 have their irha retail customers ?√ß r sign entry forms contained in the i Hardware Week catalogs furnished ? by the irha program. Twenty names were to be filled in on each entry form. As the ?║ sheets were received at NRHA J headquarters, they were assigned a i number and the winner was drawn I > by lottery. The winner: Walter F. Barker, I j with the Geo. Worthington Co., i Cleveland. ?║ He was picked out by Miss S Hardware Week at a ceremony 1 held in Indianapolis during a press | party for Mary Kay and Johnny, i who advertised irha stores on the U. S. Steel Hour June 6. Walter Barker and his wife will spend 5 days in the luxurious Sands Hotel, enjoying the sun and spir- ited living that typifies Las Vegas. In all, wholesale salesmen, by obtaining the signatures of their retail dealers, indicated that they actively supported Hardware Week \and showed their Hardware Week catalogs to more than 8,600 deal- I ers. m 24 categories of retailing honored for their outstanding presentation of manufacturers?╟╓ advertised brands to the public during 1955. ^ Winchester Pushes Time-Payment Plan ?√? Winches ter-Western Div. of Olin Mathieson Chemical Corp., which launched its Winchester Firearms Time Payment Plan a year ago, reports intensification of consumer promotion during 1956. According to J. T. Boone, sales manager, 41,000 retailers have signed up with the program since its inception. Winchester?╟╓s plan is a non-re- course program with Winchester taking all the credit risk. Retailers receive their money immediately from Winchester once they notify the company of a time-pay sale. Boone says Winchester is using the slogan, ?╟úShoot now?╟÷pay later?╟Ñ, to put the program across. Retailers interested in learning more about the plan should write Boone at New Haven, Conn. ?∙Σ Certificates of Recognition will be presented to 10 wholesalers who were credited by their retail customers with being ?╟úmost helpful?╟Ñ during the promotion of IRHA Hardware Week. The awards will be made at NRHA?╟╓s 57th annual Congress in Toronto next month. Salesmen, too, were honored . . . the most helpful salesman earning a trip to Toronto for him? self and his wife; the second-place salesman winning $300, and third-place man receiving $200. Irha Dealers Win Top Brand Name Honors !?√? All 5 hardware dealers who won |top honors in Brand Names Foun- lation?╟╓s 1955 Brand Name Retailer- )f-the-Year competition were irha idealers. Hardy Rickbeil, Rick- fceil?╟╓s Hardware, Worthington, [inn., was Brand Name Retailer- i)f-the-Year. William J. Coon, Wal- ler Byde Co., Fresno, Calif.; Harry Jndbeck, Bert Robinson?╟╓s Hard- ware, Mt. Vernon, Wash.; John A. Carlson, Curries, Mason City, la., knd Mrs. Jeanne Johnson, Johnson pelf Serve Hardware, Sioux Falls, |. D., all won honorable mention. Other irha stores taking honors [rere: Stebbins-Anderson Co., Inc., Towson, Md.?╟÷honorable mention the sporting goods category; Jhannel Lumber Go., Newark, N. I., taking Brand Name Retailer-of- le-Year and Chatham Lumber & Supply Co., Inc., Chatham, N. Y.?╟÷^ Vonorable mention?╟÷both stores in Ihe building materials dealers cate- gory. These firms were among 120 in The winner . . . Miss IRHA Hardware Week holds the lucky fejackpot" prize-winning stub which entitles Walter Barker of The Geo. Worth- ington Co., Cleveland, and his ivife to 5 days of luxurious living in Las Vegas; Nev., at the Sands Hotel. Barker's name was drawn by Miss Hardware Week June 6. HARDWARE retailer, June, 1956 l 81