10 % Tax Killed
OKLAHOMA CITY-Oklahoma music
operators are jubilant over the ruling of a
District Court setting aside the recently
enacted state law which would have taken
a 10% slice from the gross on automatic
phonographs as a state tax.
As soon as the law was passed operators
immediately organized a test case. In giv·
ing its dec ision the Dis trict Court stated
that the 10% tax was confiscatory and not
in agreement with decisions of the United
States Supreme Court, and that in its pres-
ent form it was ambiguous.
There is little possibility that the state
will appeal the case and operators are
hopeful that this ruli ng by the District
Court will once and for all set aside con-
sidera tion of such ".grab" tax tactics.
Florida CiCJ. Tax
TALLAHASSEE - The new F lorida
three cent cigarette tax went into effect on
Ju ly 6th, au tomatically boosting the retai l
price on cigarettes to between seven teen
and nineteen cents per pack.
Under the new law each retailer is reo
quired to take out a tax permit costing
• one dollar and to place a three cent tax
stamp on each package before offering it
for sale.
Cigarettes are retailing at nineteen cents
through automatic vendors and a pa tron is
required to insert two dimes and receives
his pack of cigarettes, ma tches and a pen ny.
Disc Still Climbing
CAMDEN, N. J.-Cowboy singer Elton
Britt was presen ted with a gold-plated
copy of the one-mill ionth pressing of hi s
Bluebird hit, "There's A Star Spangled
Banner Waving Somewhere" and at th e
Fred McKee , wesfern represenfafi ve for Infernafional Mufoscope Corp. and Ken Wilson ,
in fhe Easfern Division , break bread of Earl Carroll's, Hollywood, and chew
fhe faf over fh e Arcade business and furfher expansions in fhaf field. W i lson is now operafing
Arcades in Liftle Rock , Arkansas, and Dallas, Texas.
~ormer salesman
same ti me it was revealed that the record
has now passed the 1,100,000 mark in sales
and is still going strong.
T he Oklahoma born and raised songster
was presen ted wi th the Victor's version of
Ho llywood's "Oscars" by Frank Walker,
RCA Victor official, at ceremonies aired
over Ted Co tt's "So unding Board" pro-
gram in New York. At the rate the disc is
selling now, Walker predicted, it wi ll be-
come the biggest cowboy seller on the Blue-
bird hill-billy list.
Sons In Service
BENTON HARBOR, Mich.-Bernard
Maas, local operator, has three sons in the
service and is managing his operations
alone at the present time.
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