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tinue the five·cent' take. The' firm used a
- quarter page ad in Dallas newspapers to
announce the continuance of five· cent music
in their operators' locations. The newspaper
ad showed two high school students seated
at their lunch counter and saying ·they
wanted their favorite nickel music.
Si Lynch said that the five· cent take for
music locations was voted approval at the
recent Chicago convention of more than
300 Seeburg distributors for all sections of
the country.
Mrs. Charley (Jackie) Snyder of the
Leader Sales & Distributing Co. is home
again from one of her many recent trips to
the Mills Novelty Co. Now the other Leader
partner, Lew London, is in Chicago and
other Eastern cities looking over new coin
machine equipment and getting ready for
the national coin machine show next month.
The Walbox Sales Co. were hosts recently
to a large gathering of coin machine men
from Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas and Lou·
isiana. At a company party, held in the
Junior Ballroom of the J efferson Hotel,
the Packard phonograph distributors pre·
sented the Packard 1947 phonograph, wall
boxes and other music equipment. The firm
also announced sales prices for the new
equipment. George Wrenn, sales manager
for the Walbox Co. introduced the music
equipment. Talks were also made by Collis
Irby, president of Walbox Sales C&. and
Fred Barber, the firm's assistant sales nian·
ager. The various speakers were introduced
by Harry Drollinger, Southwest regional
manager for the Packard Manufacturing
Co.
Discussing the controversial dime take
for music. machines, Wrenn told the oper·
ators that he did not think conversion of
music machines to the ten·cent play would
meet the approval of phonograph customers.
He also opposed cutting the location
owner's take from 50 per cent to 33 1/3
per cent as a means of increasing the
operator's profit. He advised the operators
to stick to their five· cent music and to cut
their operation costs by installing music
equipment that would not change styles
from year to year. Officials' of the Walbox
Sales Co. said they expected delivery of the
new Packard phonos in quantities by Janu·
ary 1947.
Gus Guarnera, vice·president of the Big
State Vending Co., Inc. has just returned
from an extended business trip to Chicago
and other coin machine centers. Gus says
that extensive preparations are being made
for the forthcoming convention.
Frank W. Wood
Laymon Adds [N ew Lines
LOS ANGELES--"The Duro·Matic esca·
lator conversion and the machined steel
posts for . Genco machines are two items
that every operator should have," says Paul
Laymon. "We have recently added these
two lines and we would like to impress on
operators the benefits they can derive from
these units."
. The Duro·Matic escalator conversion con·
sists of a new combination of parts de·
' signed to fit any escalator. It can be in·
stalled in 20 minutes, requires no adjust·
ments, and lines up with any mechanism.
Operation is entirely trouble· free and is a
great stimulus to earning power.
Instead of stripping in new rubber on
Total Rolls, Laymon suggests installation of
the new machined steel posts, equipped
with rubber cylinders. A set of six can be
installed in 30 minutes and will last for a
minimum of six months of heavy· play, after
which rubber cylinders can be ieplaced, at
the location, in a few seconds at a cost of
a few cents. Posts also improve the appear·
ance of the machine_ and save many dam·
aged arches, Laymon states.
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ROY S. RAMSEY
Coin Tax Cut Unlikely
Taxes are the chief topic of conversation
in Washington this month as veteran and
freshmen legislators prepare to draft the
new revenue bill. Not even Congressmen on
the tax committees are sure just how big
Uncle Sam's next bite will be, but all agree
that some cuts are in the offing. The official
administration line is to keep levies at their
present levels, but leading Republicans on
Capitol Hill are hollering for a flat 20 per
cent slash in income taxes and wholesale
downward revisions of excise levies, includ·
ing the coin machine tax. Representative
JIarold Knutson, (R., Minn.) who inherits
the chairmanship of the House Ways and
Means Committee, is the leading opponent
of the cuts.
On the other hand, Senator Hugh Butler,
(R., Neb. ), a leading member of the Senate
Finance Committee, states emphatically
that such cuts are out of the question until
the Federal budget is greatly pruned.
Democratic legislators are equally split in
their views.
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Best guess in informed circles is that
income taxes will be pared about eight to
ten per cent with most_excise taxes revert·
ing to pre·war levels. There appears to be
only a slender chance that the $100 tax on
coin ,devices will be lowered because of the
lack of organized pressure on the tax
committees.
Those coin machine operators who ex·
perience wide variance in incomes from
year to year may get a break since Treasury
Department officials believe that carrying
forward of losses will be a permanent
feature of the tax system. In practice, this
would mean letting the taxpayer carry over
to the next year any unused exemptions for
the current period. Thus, an operator who
takes a loss or is held to a low income in
one year, while hitting the jackpot the
following year, would be permitted to
average the incomes for both years. This
would result in a substantial tax saving.
More Freight Cars Due
The recent rise in railroad ,freight rates
(predicted in this column last month) will
spur activity in buildmg new -freight cars,
according to rail representatives, and so
alleviate the critical shortage by April.
Whether coin machine manufacturers will
acce pt increased space for steeper rates
remains to be seen. The amoun t of freigh t
being shipped by truck increases every
month. Decision to increase rates an aver·
age of 17.6 per cent over June levels was
reached unanimously ~y the Interstate Com·
merce Commission after wading through
masses of evidence presented by the rails
in support of a ,hike.
Elsewhere on the rail freight scene, the
Supreme Court has agreed to review an
ICC ruling which would cut shipping tariffs
by ten per cent in Southern and Western
states, while upping rates in the same
amount for the Northeast. Should the Court
uphold ICC's ukase, coin machine operators
COIN
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FOR
JANUARY
1947
GENCO "TOTAL ROLL" 0 PERATORS:
STOP RUBBER WEAR!
Put an end to lost earmng power due to split and broken rubber
e liminate needless service calls for rubber replacement .
stop
wasting valuable time stripping in new rubber!
How? By installing our new Machined Steel Posts equipped with
rubber cylinders. A set of 6 Installed in 30 minutes will last for a
minimum of 6 months of heavy play-and rubber cylinders may then be
replaced-right on location-in a few seconds and for only a few cents .
MACHINED STEEL POSTS
improve the appearance of your playboard, will save many damaged
arches, put new zip in the game's action. Try a set-you'll want them on
every TOTAL ROLL you operate.
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Complete Set of 6 Un Its wIth
InstructIons for.· Installlng- -
$5.75
P~UI.
A. I.AYMON,
1503 W. PICO BLVD.
lac~
LOS ANGELES 15. CALIF.
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