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KANSAS<br />
Qscar F. Neu, New York, Neumade Products<br />
Corp. head and TESMA president, visited<br />
Arthur DeStefano, National Theatre Supply<br />
Co. branch manager . . . Elmer C. Rhoden,<br />
Pox Midwest Theatres president, was back<br />
from a business trip to the west coast . . .<br />
Finton H. Jones, insuror, was in Missouri terriLMACK<br />
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Harry R. Hamburg, Paramount<br />
ritory . . .<br />
branch manager, and other local personnel<br />
returned from a sales meeting in Dallas.<br />
Ed D. Durwood, Durwood Theatres head,<br />
disclosed that the ozoner being erected by the<br />
circuit on the Belt highway near St. Joseph,<br />
Mo., would be known as the Skylark Drive-In<br />
Shreve, Shreve Theatre Supply<br />
Co., celebrated his birthday May 19 . . . Hal<br />
Parker, cameraman, was preparing to film a<br />
sales promotion picture for Swift & Co. . . .<br />
Don Davis, RCA-Victor district manager, was<br />
in Colorado territory.<br />
Marilyn Lee Farkhurst, daughter of Allied<br />
general manager C. M. and Mrs. Parkhurst,<br />
has chosen June 21 as the date of her marriage<br />
to James Calvin Dowell of Elgin, 111. . . .<br />
Mrs. M. A. Tanner, wife of the 20th-Fox head<br />
booker, was a patient at St. Joseph hospital<br />
. . . Pauline Frame, formerly at Exhibitors<br />
Film Delivery, joined the UA office staff . . .<br />
Ruby Pasley, Republic cashier, returned from<br />
a Florida vacation.<br />
Construction of the new Oakley Theatre<br />
being erected by A. F. Baker Enterprises at<br />
Oakley, Kas., has been started and the house<br />
is expected to be ready for opening late this<br />
summer . has been completed at<br />
the site on Route 73 near Leavenworth, Kas.,<br />
where Beverly Miller, Kansas City, will erect<br />
a drive-in . . . The drive-in being constructed<br />
by Wade Renick and Glen Cooper near Hays,<br />
Kas., is nearing completion.<br />
The group recently organized to provide a<br />
theatre for Union Star, Mo., has purchased a<br />
building for the project and remodeling now<br />
Remodeling of the former<br />
is in progress . . .<br />
Karyl Theatre at Milan, Mo., recently purchased<br />
by Shelby Armstrong from Chester L.<br />
Hurdle, is being planned by the new owner<br />
new Mary Lou Theatre being erected<br />
by George H. and J. Leo Hayob at Marshall,<br />
Mo., is nearly completed.<br />
. .<br />
Kansas theatre operators seen on Filmiow<br />
included C. B. Kelly, Kelly, Wakeeney; Don<br />
Phillips, Colby, Colby; Albert Orear, Rio,<br />
Bonner Springs, and T. J. Campbell, Osawa,<br />
Osawatomie . Among Missouri showmen at<br />
exchanges and supply houses were G. W.<br />
Campbell, Norb, Norborne; W. E. CuUen, Cozy.<br />
Wheaton; Ed May, Uptown, Strong City: A.<br />
W. Mustion, Dixie, Belton, and Chet Borg,<br />
Plaza, Apleton City.<br />
Public Relations to Be<br />
Allied Conclave Topic<br />
KANSAS CITY—Improved public relations<br />
for the motion picture industry and film<br />
buying problems will be among keynotes at<br />
the second annual convention of the Kansas-<br />
Missouri Allied unit here June 7, 8, according<br />
to O. F. Sullivan, Wichita, president.<br />
Among speakers at the two-day conclave will<br />
be William L. Ainsworth, national Allied<br />
president, and Trueman Rembusch, national<br />
Allied treasurer. William Murchie, a humorist<br />
of St. Joseph, Mo., will speak at the<br />
banquet.<br />
Registration will be started June 7, at 10<br />
a. m. in the Trianon alcove at the Muehlebach<br />
hotel, where all convention sessions will<br />
be held. A luncheon at 12:15 p. m. will be<br />
the initial activity. Topics dm-ing afternoon<br />
sessions will include public relations, television,<br />
16mm films, advertising and film buying.<br />
A fashion show for women also will<br />
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Special meetings for subsequent run exhibitors<br />
and for those using Allied booking and<br />
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Concessions and drive-ins will be subjects<br />
to be discussed at a closed session for<br />
exhibitors in the afternoon. New officers will<br />
be elected at a final closed session for members.<br />
Advance reservations received by C. M.<br />
Parkhurst, general manager, indicate that the<br />
registration for the 1949 conclave will greatly<br />
exceed that listed during the initial Kansas-<br />
Missouri unit convention last year. Invitation<br />
to attend the two-day gathering is extended<br />
by Sullivan to all independent exhibitors.<br />
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