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Issue: 1978 October 15 - Vol 4 Num 19

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Vol. 4, No. 19
October 15, 1978
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Staff
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How" .Cent Pool Doing? ....................... 21
Managing Editor David Pierson interviews a number of
operators who have experimented (successfully and
unsuccessfully I with raising their per-game prices on their
pool tables.
Publisher and Editor:
Ralph C. Lally II
Manag ing Editor:
David Pierson
Pool Table Security .............................•.•
David Snook
Editor, Coin Slot
Here are some tips on how to prevent locations from
buying their own tables, and basically it has to do with the
operator's upkeep of the table.
International Editor:
Technical Editor :
Robin Minnear
Game Doctors
Correspondents :
Zac Oliver
Tom Howarth
Rog er C. Sharpe
Gene Beley
DickWelu
Pat Matthews
Mary Claire Blakeman
Good-By. Pinball,
It Wa. Fun While h LaatecI • ..••.••••.....•....•.•.. 40
Roger C. Sharpe, pinball critic, writes about the
impending doom of pinball in The Big Apple, and why it
matters to operators everywhere.
Art Direction :
Katey Schwark
Administrative Assistant:
Valerie Mitchell
Typography :
Vickie Lofton
Circulation Manager:
Gloria Dering
Advertising Representative:
Ralph C. Lally II
European Representative :
Esmay Leslie
PLAY METER, October 15, 1978.
Volume 4, No. 19. Copyright 1978 by
Skybird Publishing Company. PLAY
METER is published twice monthly on
the 1st and 15th of the month .
Publishing offices : 112 North Road-
way, New Orleans, La. 70124, P.O.
Box 24170, New Orleans, La . 70184 .
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70184.
North Carolina'. Big Hullabaloo . .................. &3
The N.C.C.O.A. held its annual convention and trade
show, and PLAY METER was on hand.
How To Attempt Check Account Secrecy . .........•
The bank has a standard practice of microfilming checks
and passing this information on to governmental bodies.
Howard J. Ruff has some suggestions on how you can
still maintain your privacy even in the face of this.
From til. Editor. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 4
Gueet Editorial. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . •
Mailbox ..........................................•
Operating. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Colnman of the Month . .........•................. 20
M ... c Programming .............................. 32
DI ...... bud"ll. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
Critic'. CorrIer ................................... 44
Manufacturing . ..................................•
Technical Topic. ................................. 1&
New Product. . ................................... • 1
Claaalfled. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84
European office : PLAY METER Pro-
motions, 15 Great North Road ,
Brookmans Park, AL 9 6 LV,
Hertfordshire, England .
PLAY METER , October, 1978
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The industry is in a crisis .
Last month the Copyright Royalty Tribunal handed down a ruling which
will have far-reaching consequences on the coin-operated amusement
business , unless it is struck down in court .
The ruling by the five -member panel requires operators to supply the
federal agency with a list of each jukebox location for the purpose of
dividing up royalty collections among the three performing rights societies .
A location listing is one thing operators have refused to divulge , insisting
that such information is confidential and vital to the survival of thousands of
small businesses across the country .
But the federal agency in making its ruling blinded itself to this argument.
The Copyright Royalty Tribunal obviously feels that its need for industry
information is more important than the survival of the industry itself. Such
governmental arrogance and overregulation is exactly why Proposition 13
Fever is spreading across the country .
What the Copyright Royalty Tribunal and the performing rights societies
fail to comprehend is that coin machine operators are small businessmen .
Many operators are nothing more than husband -and-wife teams . Some
include other family members or one , maybe two , full -time employees . So
additional regulations place a great burden on these operators . As it is now ,
the A.M .O .A. reports that it has received countless complaints about the
difficulty in complying with the jukebox copyright law , and that was before
the location listing was required.
Also , this requirement jeopardizes the company's existence because , by
complying with the law , an operator is leaving himself open to maverick
operators who wish to sell amusement equipment straight to the locations .
This presents an acute dilemma for the operator : should he comply with
the law and jeopardize his business's standing or should he refuse and
choose instead civil disobedience?
It 's a question which every operator must answer for himself.
David Pierson
Managing Editor
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PLAY METER, October, 1978

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