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Federal Trade Commission To Look Into Record Business By LEROY POPE .i United Press International NEW YORK (UPI) The Federal Trade Commission is getting ready to take a long look early next year at the phonograph record business which represents the picture'of $700 million a year of "profit less prosperity." The FTC is getting into the act at the earnest request of industry, leaders, particularly the American Record Mer chants and Distributors Associa tion, according to Edgar Jones, ARMADA'S executive secretary. The recording industry has grown from a volume of $99 million in 1945. Today the rec At - mm Jjr Vi?r ,, Vjl ADDRESSES FORUM - Former Costa Rican President Jose vFigueres is shown speaking before a forum on Inter-American ; affairs at Georgetown University in Washington. , Figueres is participating in a series of lectures on how to strengthen the t unity of the western hemisphere. (UPI) . The, Medical Roundup By 7 Emeritus consultant In Medicine . Mayo Clinic etmefltns Professor of Medicine) Mnvn rilnli. (BeiUter and Tribune Syndicate. 1963). v : A Cancer Paste Sometimes I think that the ancient method of using a can cer paste is as dead as the Dodo, and then along will come a letter such as I just received from a woman who tells me of a so-called clinic in America .where they treat cancers even , of the breast with a "remark able paste." She says, - "They put this on the cancer and it eats it right out." She says the "clinic" people are doing a big business, and that many of the i patients are grateful because : they had so feared the use of a surgeon's knife. What the people who go to the quacks do not know is that the ancient paste was given up by ' physicians long years ago be cause it often eats out too much normal tissue, as well as some cancerous tissue. Every so oft 1 en I see an old person with a . big round white scar perhaps on the face and with one ques- tion I learn it was produced by ', a cancer paste that dug an un . necessarily deep hole. Cancers Burned ) In the last 30 years I must t have had two dozen small can' t cers burned off the skin of my face, but none of these burnings , left a noticeable scar. Why? Be i cause my skin specialist friends ' used electric sparks, or a glow ine hot wire, or a bit of power ' ful acid on the end of a tiny applicator. They could see what they were doing, and so in a -: few seconds they removed only v the cancer and left my normal skin untouched. Everv so often I see an elder ly person who has on the nose or near the eye a cancer as big as a dime which he or she has left untreated for a year or more. Such cancers can often be treated with some form of 'i radiation like that from radium. It is hard to believe that to ; day, in the year 1963, there can ; be people who are so afraid of i electric sparks, or of the knife, or of a little radium, or of a j little X-ray treatment, that they will let a cancer grow until it is . either incurable or pretty close to that. People still lose a nose or an ear because of quack : treated cancer. Nearly Bled To Death ' Manv a person says to me ; when we discuss this matter. "But what is wrong with a paste?" As I said, one trouble is that the medically ignorant nerson usinc it does not know how deep the hole will be when ' he gets done. I recently saw a ' woman who nearly bled to death when a cancer paste ate into a '. good-sized artery. Persons with a big cancer somewhere are so foolish to fear the knife, because today operations can so easily be per formed painlessly by an ex pert. Hundreds of thousands of people lose their lives with can cer because they are afraid of going to a doctor and perhaps receiving bad news. Every so often I see a woman who knew for over a year that she had a tumor in her breast, or a fnul discharge from her vagina due 10 a cancer ot trie neck of her womb. She ought to-have gone o the doctor the day she res ized the great danger she was in. Eventually, when d a i n came, she went to her doctor. but then the chances of getting a cure were sum. . uven men, however, she may have had some chance of being saved by some radiation. ord clubs alone do about $100 million a year. There are thousands of firms in the . business of recording tunes and pressing records but a group of about 27 companies, including the very big ones, Co lumbia, RCA - Victor, Capital, Decca, King, Dot and Liberty, last year paid about 96 per cent of the royalties to Union performers. According to Earl Kintner, lawyer for ARMADA, the record business is shot full of viola tions of the Robinson - Patman Act. mainlv orice. discount and other allowance discriminations. Many of these illegalities are the result of sheer ignorance on the part of the people in the business. Since records are shipped and sold almost entire ly on consignment, almost any body with a small capital can get into the business; staying in it is the trick. Several sub stantial companies got started by gambling the cost of mak ing a single record tnat nit. In addition to tne violations of the trade laws, the business also has attracted hoodlum at tention through gang interest in some of the 435,000 jukebox lo cations across the country. But records for use in jukeboxes account for only about $45 mil lion or so of the industry's total volume. Another criminal racket that troubled the phonograph record industry who present briefs will years pirating and counterfeit ing recordings of popular stars has ended, according to Jones. "There simply aren't any more counterfeiters or pirates." But illegality will be the smallest part of the problems to the FTC. ARMADA and other trade associations in the indstry who present briefs will be concerned with bringing some order out of chaos and making profits possible. Of course everybody isn t losing money in our business or else we wouldn't keep on growing," . said Jones, "but things are tough enough." The president of akmada, Amos Heilicher of Minneapolis told Rep. James Roosevelt's Small Business subcommittee in September that "too many people in our, business have misinterpreted "tree enterprise to mean 'free wheeling enter prise,' often to the point of their own destruction and the illegal destruction of others." Besides the juke-boxes and the record clubs, the industry has 8,000 retail outlets, ranging from regular music, stores to drug and variety stores and supermarkets. Many ot tnese are. supplied by "rack jobbers," a subdis tributor wno buys nearly an record lines and puts, out self' Bill Pending To Help Urban Transit Systems WASHINGTON (UPI)-A bill is pending before Congress to provide up to $375 million in grants and $375 million in loan guarantees to urban transit systems. The bill, approved by the House Banking Committee, and before the Rules Committee, would allow grants or guaran tees of up to two-thirds of the cost of mass transit improve' ments to state or local agencies It would prohibit direct grants to private companies. service record racks in variety, drug and grocery stores not specializing in music. Writing in the magazine "Bravo," which is devoted to concert music and the opera, Richard Schickel points out that the public has a big stake in the coming hearings on the phonograph record industry. Schick quotes President Dav id Kapp of Kapp Records, Inc., as saying the whole industry is in an era of "profitless pros perity." "Buy-ins", "allocations" and "quotas" brought about by the haphazard growth of the busi ness and the intense competi tion load up the dealer's shelves with enormous quantities of trashy records, Schickel con tends, and make it difficult for the ordinary chap to find the better records for his phono graph. And good records are, being made. Schickel said :that right Bonneville Signs Anaconda Contract PORTLAND (UPI) -Bonneville Power Administration an nounced Monday that it has signed a contract with the Ana conda Aluminum Co. for 64,000 kilowatts of additional firm power. BPA Administrator Charles F. Luce said that the power will be delivered to the company's Columbia Falls, Mont., plant be ginning Oct. 15, 1065. The sale brought the amount of additional firm power sold to industry by the BPA in the past four months to 196,000 kilowatts, Luce said. He added that it was the first additional firm power sold to in dustry by the BPA since 1960. CL J CHRISTMAS pSTAMPS I HIT mi? 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But, and here's the rub, ac cording to Shickel, the makers of records of serious music for the Hi-Fi fans because of the chaos in the industry, won't take chances on . new serious compositions. . Instead, they bring out ridiculously repetitive favorites. This fall; for-example several new recordings of old versions of Beethoven's Fifth bympnony are joining 31 re cordings of the famous Fifth al ready on the racks. Permit Issued for Building Expansion Building permits were issued by the city of Medford Monday and Tuesday providing for two expansions in Medford, one in medical circles, the other in banking. ' : Dr. M. E. and Dr. June Byers were granted a permit for re modeling professional offices at 907 E. Main St., at a cost of $16,000. The First National Bank re ceived permission to install a trailer as temporary 'bank at 242 S. Riverside Ave., Medford. at an estimated figure of$15Tooo. HELP HUMANITY Canton, N.C. (UPI) Mrs. Minnie S. 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