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THE GOATS GO BEHIND THE Eightball at 185 Auburn Avenue, N. E. of the week" are, left to right, Louis Smith, Rufus Hicks, Mortimer Cox, James Bailey and Armstrong. (Adv.) - (Photos by Hawkins)

Marion Armstrong Wins Goat Contest Award From Jackson's

Marion Armstrong, salesman for Jackson's Inc., electrical appliance dealers located at 185 Auburn Avenue, N. E., walked off with first prize in a highly meritorious contest conducted by the company. Sales- manager Bill Nunnally announced Friday.

The contest, known as "the goat of the week" was conducted over a

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Armstrong, whose sales of electri- cal and gas appliances easily top- ped those of Jackson's 20-man sales force, was given a $200 cash bonus for his work during a banquet Fri- day night held in his honor and for runners-up James Bailey, Mortimer Cox, Rufus Hicks and Louis Smith. The follow-up men were given $50, $40, $25, $15 and $5 respectively, in the order named. During the lively intra-company competition, the sales man who sold the least was called the "goat of the week." A live goat was given him to keep and house, feed and exercise publicly.

Armstrong not only sold enough to own the live goat during any week of the contest, but outstripped the others week in selling the wide variety of household aids carried by the popular store.

The Jackson's company is claimed by the salesmen to be the largest Negro-owned electrical appliance operation in the United States. The store carries a full line of electric refrigerators, gas and electric ranges, radios, television sets, sewing machines, Youngstown complete kitchens, cabinets, sinks, automatic garbage disposals, Bendix and Norge washing machines, electric dish-

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Cox, James Bailey, Marion Armstrong. Menelik Jackson, Bill Nunnally. Edward Harris, J. B. Butler, Reese Palmer, James "Doc" Gilbert. Alfred "Tut" Holmes and Remus Johnson. Not shown are George Allen, Jack Smith and J. B. Poole.

washers- all Kelvinator and GE and Norge appliances. RCA, Philco, Admiral and Emerson radios, as well as numerous appliances such as fans, cold water coolers.

The men boast that the appliance store now undergoing renovation, will be the most beautiful and modernistic location in Atlanta.

This week the versatile young salesmanager Nunnally, and his assistant, James "Doc" Gilbert, will inaugurate a new contest for the salesmen. Called "Behind the Eightball," each week the man with lowest sales must roll a large ball down Auburn Avenue. Each man must sell at least eight refrigerators and the man whose gross sales excel will be given a $200 bonus. Those Atlantans who buy appliance from Jackson's whether cash or on the easy credit, small down payment arrangements, will boost one of the following salesmen to a prize:

Murray Mizell, Louis Smith, Rufus Hicks, Mortimer Cox, James Bailey, Marion Armstrong. Bill Nunnally, Edward Harris, J. B. Butler, Reese Palmer, James Gilbert Alfred "Tut" Holmes, Remus Johnson, George Allen, Jack Smith and J. B. Poole.

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