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Letters to
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over jukebox operators." If I had
known about this, I could have told
my Senators and Congressmen my
feelings as I did when the Danielson
bill came up.
Here, in New Orleans, we just beat
back a bill that would have increased
our taxes, by sending letters to all the
councilmen and appearing three
different times at the council
meetings. So letters do help!
I have to take issue with Gary
Stern for saying the AMOA spent
too much time fighting a losing battle
over the copyright law. If this could
have been won, then the AMOA
could have ·gone to the other
industry issues with a relaxed mind.
What's keeping the copyright law
from also being used by the
designers of these amusement
devices who would want the same
type of royalty as AS CAP? Nothing's
impossible any more!
In your April, 1981 PLAY METER
you published an article by Mr. Louis
Boas berg entitled, "Fast Quarters
and Slow 50¢-An Analysis." I read
not an analysis of 25¢ play vs. 50¢
play, but rather Mr. Boasberg's
anguished cries for forgiveness ...
begging the industry to fdrgive him
or his organization for failure, for
whatever reasons, to bring his retail
games pricing into the 1980s.
The basis for success in raising
prices is courage! To paraphrase the
Sermon on the Mount: "Blessed are
the meek, for they shall inherit the
25¢ players. Blessed are those who
hunger and thirst for 50¢, three ball
play, for theirs is the kingdom of the
higher tax brackets!"
I must run now. I have a service
call on our 75¢, three ball Black
Knight.
Pat Gore
New Orleans
Ronald C. Walker
The Carnival, Inc.
Warren, Michigan
Selective
Since my entrance into the coin
machine business as an operator
some three years past, I've been on a
whirlwind of sorts-or more like a
dust -devil, as decisiQn making can be
rather clouded at times.
At the start, I subscribed to
approximately seven coin machine
publications. Due to the big bite
taken out by the cost of new
machines, location demands, parts,
and so forth, I have had to become
more selective in my reading. It has
come down to Replay and Play
Meter-with the latter winning
ou~ . Play Meter appears not so
much interested in manufacturing
advertising as you are in an operator-
oriented format coupled with un-
biased reporting. Honesty has al-
ways been the best policy.
Tony Bado
Anthony Amusements
Dale City, Virginia
eeded to know
O ne of the· early problems with the
ht over the copyright law was lack
of knowledge, on my part, about
en it was to come to vote so we
could write our Congressmen and
enators. In PLAY METER, March
, 1980, David Pierson states, "the
· ebox issue was debated and
ecided on the floor of the U.S.
Senate, Feb. 19, 1976 when North
Carolina Senaj or Ernest Hollings'
endment was rejected 60-30. The
llings amendment would have
-opped the Copyright Royalty
ibunal from exel'cising any control
M ETER, July 1, 1981
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