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Show Big Business PX Soldier's Friend 1 Philanthropist TWO NEW Two new CANTEENS ... WILL OPEN SOON canteens will be opened soon by it the i PX in the new barracks area, was announced this week by the management. Located in Buildings 231 (j and 223, they will be complete post exchanges, with barber shops and general merchandise, The latter canteen will also have a full time telephone attendant on duty, important to all soldiers in that end of the field as it eliminates the long wait outside of pay booths. Tell your corner storekeeper to do a half million gross and he'll laugh: tell him that after he's closed his books on the half million he must turn over the profits to the community, and he'll think you're a dreamer. But that's what Hill Field Exchange delivers to the soldiers welfare funds. The P X here involves the operation of a main store, three branches, a canteen, a barbershop, 54 coke' Cash registers merrily ring ... where large numbers of civilian, work and live, and where an active Civilian W If are system has been set up, a separate shopping system became necessary. Soldiers buy at the Post Exchange, and the benefit of the dividends; the civilian welfare getfunds will be drawn from the profits of the civilian cafeteria and the shopping center in 'Sudan Manor'. This solution has ended the overcrowding of the main Post Exchange. Next to the main post exchange, the largest item in the P X budget is the 'coke' machines, of which there are These are rented to the Exchange by the Coca 54- - Cola Company, and the actual bottles of Coca Cola are bought by the exchange and loaded in the machines by them. k- - Checking Drof i t.anA . lL0ttlM are if' any And 1 ot-of-pock- ExCha"e' the amount i, "iemenrs it . was found expense to the to the Coca Col. Comp- big averaging approxm et f t0taI bottle bit I"" P" "I"- - On thi. e PX about $250 P mLth wh l" lnttle therwi" of Hill Field's soldiers.coca devoted to the comfort Cola .ale. grossed over $11,000 in November: iouiuuu a month. In 54 Took In 600,000 ,uPerv"ion of concessit, including cleaning and .i.able bu.ine.," was , in 'xugu.t H4T l three barbershop, nt. This and a $200 borrowed money. A. Exchange ha. had to grow, ... of the X;r" Hill Field ha. and although a grown, tne Po.t paid the equint, Exchange is in th. day room." war, if the soldiers want a little beer after hour., they don't have to go to town. Their wU1 to IrSm'2!"!! two give lt them riht th P9t' canteens serve beer; one behind the brick bsrr.ck. and another in the we.t barrack, area. IZl large profits have had to be plowed back - inventory, there have bee These are to of fund, for athletic The Nickle. thi. in the summer months they exceed i; 7 operated far 5 benefit of the military per.onnel of tie created by it. operation mu,t not be aUoc' ed the benefit of other group,. Hence a H FU Id" With Man Who Know Tobacco Best V 3 tr.. '.t 18 item, co.t "8.43 . """ PX, $31.61 ei.ewhere " ... 1 |