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($■' ,excessive number of | obtain convention
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fissions, ft jams “colled" for
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prominent pcisonages. prunidcntilied poople. .stciision.
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from other boiels 'ting (lie manager, jine service, isscd were as follows: rogrutns and chari'v
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Advertising under heading of ‘•Recommended Hotels”.
Paying commissions to public porters and laxicab drivers to direct business.
Special concessions to oUlcers of organizations to divert business.
Cutting luncheon rates to civic asso-ciat ions.
Selling advance room space at a discount in blocks to be resold by agencies.
Complimenting representatives of t ransportation companies.
Setting no delinile hour for the beginning of the second day charge.
Not demanding restitution where possible to establish criminal intent: by bad check passers and forgers.
Free service—newspapers, fruit, etc.
No room service charge.
Free insurance to guests.
Free buses and taxics to and from st at ions.
Giving bus lines commissions.
Soliciting business on public carriers.
Disl ribut ing hotel lileraturcon public highways.
Giving free days to guests who stay one week.
xas Hotel Men at Big Spring.
ng of Regional Hotel Association Has Good . -Jnce—Officers Re-elected and Wichita Falls ?cted for Next Meeting in Midsummer.
' ierators of West Texas
Jthe second quarterly S?est Texas Hotel Asso-g Spring April 18, with lit honors divided bc--d and Settles hotels.
were re-elected and ■ted for the next qunr-of t he organ-C. A. Shetlield,
Hotel Lubbock, Lubbock, was again named president:	Howard	Gholson,
Ranger, vice president, and Calvin Roy-kin, Big Spring, secretary. Hotel managers representing tlie larger institutions from El l’aso lo Eort Wortliand Wichita Falls to San Angelo were in attendance.
Meeting in executive session following a luncheon at the Seltlos, which began
Settles Hotel, headquarters for West Texas Convention.
at 1 p. m. discussion of varT confront ing the hotel indul by .!. I). Farr, Hotel Hussnl T. ,1. Harris, Westbrook' Worth; Charles li. Addis! Norte, El Paso; A. J. C Spring and Carlsbad, N. Mi ley, Settles Hotel, Big Sprit Following a morning of,
1 lie Settles Hotel men’s c| luncheon was served in Seltles mezzanine floor ban Delegates were guests <j Saturday evening at tlie f
CALVIN BOY Manager Crawford Hole was a prominent facti tainment of hote
ing of I lie Crawford Hot! 18 which was celebrated wit dance. Garland Woodwa 1 tornev. “rung tlie bell” i a delegate, with his aiidiyHg at 1 lie luncheon.
Delegates registered :■ following: T. J. Harris, j y Worth; Elmer Elliot, l)e ; Paul Montgomery, Holt, I Dick Levy, Texan, Wicliij Crawford, Crawford, Carl Clark S. Cates, Kemp, \
W. R. Carter, Marchman, j id .15. B. Riesenberg, Westex^B Tinsley, Settles, Big Spi'infS Hussmann, El I’aso: C. A. j • bock, Lubbock: Calvin BoyS Big Spring; H. B. Allen, \ Sweetwater; Harvey Day, j 5*1 Campbell, Laguna, Cisco; i K Hilton, San Angelo; Frank*^ lor, San Angelo; W. A. My| I I bock, Lubbock; Howard U son, Ranger: Happy McG| * and Grace, Abilene: ,1. 11 Douglass, BigSpring; Chart Paso Del Norte, El Paso: i Bj Capital, Amarillo; Mr. Mesl S*