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
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The, Medical Roundup
By
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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.
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now the listener can choose, if
he hunts long enough, between
2,300 singers, 452 pianists, 166
violinists, 88 organists, 73 harp
sichordists, 64 flutists, 56 cel
lists and 590 orchestras with
950 conductors!
But, and here's the rub, ac
cording to Shickel, the makers
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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.
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day she was selling her depart
ment store to return to New
York University for postgradu
ate work in psychology.
"I love people and ... I
want to do something for hu
manity," said Mrs. Raiff, a na
tive of Philadelphia who began
a career in retail business two
years after her graduation from
NYU 52 years ago. She has
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