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Exhibitors of Texas District 12 Meet<br />
With Congressman on Tax Repeal<br />
Exhibitors from Texas conKTcs-sional district 12 met in Kort Worth Wednesday (5)<br />
with Confrressnian Wingate Lucas on tlie 20 per cent federal tax repeal campaign.<br />
Shown standing at the head table, left to riRht: Duke Clark. ('. II. Jones. Weatherford;<br />
L. (.'. Tidball. Fort Worth; Col. II. .\. Cole; Congressman Luc;i-s; Frank Weatherford,<br />
Fort Worth; Buddy Guest, Grapevine, and Marvin Brown, Fort Worth attorney.<br />
PORT WORTH—Some 41 exhibitors met<br />
with Congressman Wingate Lucas at the<br />
Worth hotel here Wednesday (5) to present<br />
their case for repeal of the 20 per cent federal<br />
:.idmissions tax. The meeting was arranged<br />
I by Prank Weatherford, chairman of district<br />
112.<br />
Col. H. A. Cole discu.ssed his situation in<br />
Bonham as a typical example of the tax<br />
itlifflculties faced by theatremen. then outillned<br />
the national picture. He quoted facts<br />
from the Department of Commerce and the<br />
internal revenue department substantiating<br />
'his claims about the current downward trend<br />
'm theatre business.<br />
Congressman Lucas said he was interested<br />
m hearing personally from his constituents,<br />
,ind the exhibitors presented their cases individually.<br />
was told of the troubles of the Sunset<br />
'Theatre, built by C. R. Sandidge, which had<br />
to be closed.<br />
L. C. Tidball said he had plans to remodel<br />
the front of his Isis Theatre here and put<br />
,m new seats if the tax is repealed. But he<br />
[added, "I can not take this important action<br />
(unless this di.scriminatory tax is removed."<br />
'He said this is the first time in his career<br />
of more than 30 years when he didn't have<br />
much to look forward to.<br />
L. N. Crim jr.. with interests in the Cow-<br />
|town Drive-In, said that the Dallas Theater<br />
had to be closed a few months ago and dismantled<br />
because of the 20 per cent tax and<br />
mcreasing expenses.<br />
E. Guest said that in his two houses,<br />
the Palace Theatre and Mustang Drive-In,<br />
Grapevine, business in 1951 was off 15 per<br />
cent from the average of 1949 and that for<br />
the first nine months of 1952 business was<br />
off 30 per cent from the 1949 average.<br />
"I have shown no profit thus far in 1952<br />
and will be forced to a parttime operation<br />
of the conventional theatre in 1953 at the<br />
present rate," Guest said.<br />
He said his drive-in had been reduced to<br />
a two-day per week operation.<br />
"What makes the trend appear even worse."<br />
he continued, "is the fact that ours is not<br />
a static community, but because of new induAtriM<br />
that have conw In rwcntly it U<br />
KfowuiK by leap* and bound*, and thia ahould<br />
not reflect anything but an Increajw In buwneiui."<br />
Prank Weaiherford cited the caae of the<br />
.MnjrMic Theatre, an old downtown area<br />
landmark, which Ia on a leaae that will not<br />
run out until November 1963.<br />
"Aa a re.iult of preient conditions and the<br />
high Uxxcs." Weatherford «ald. "we have<br />
been forced to aitiu>uncr ila clcMlnc Saturday<br />
(8i. We had to clone to keep from loalng<br />
money<br />
Ralph Drury. who operated the Uortan<br />
Theatre, naid that after spending conxlderable<br />
lime and money In the effort, he found he<br />
could not make an hone.«l living at the<br />
theatre The people who bought the theatre<br />
from him n\x month.t ago. recently dosed the<br />
house.<br />
Harold Moore, Azle ThcaUe, nald that business<br />
had been building up in hlx .nuburbftn<br />
community as In Grapevine, but In spite of<br />
that hLs bUAlne.vs had been declining.<br />
"I have reduced expense to a bare minimum,"<br />
he .said. "I can only foresee that It<br />
Is Just a matter of time before I will have to<br />
clase my theatre unless we get tax relief<br />
soon."<br />
Roy Starling. White Theatre, surveyed an<br />
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ATTRACTIVE DRIVE-IN THEATRE<br />
425 spcokcrt. Steel tower with oportment Only<br />
one in fost growing town between DoMoi ond<br />
Fort Worth. $85,000 Termi, SJ5,000 down<br />
"JOE " JOSEPH<br />
340S Milton Dollot, T««o«<br />
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FOR SALE<br />
Completely Equipped Theatre<br />
and 4 Room Home, adjoining, fully furnished<br />
In a GOOD SOUTHWEST TEXAS growing city of 5,000<br />
Surrounded by good trade orea dealing principally in COTTON and CATTLE.<br />
Will sell property, equipment and completely furnijhcd home to reiponsible porty for<br />
Two Million Feet in Stocit<br />
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Coils. Price FOB Houston, Texas: On 500 ft. Coils<br />
$60.00 per M ft, 2500 ft. Reels $40,60 per M ft.<br />
Reel Deposits $5.00 each. Shipping Wt. Net 50 lbs.<br />
per M ft.<br />
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DISTRIBUTORS FOR ELECTRIC WIRE AND CABLE<br />
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BOXOFTICE November 15, 1952 71
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