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shall at the request of the secretary be reduced to<br />
writing and furnished to the secretary before the<br />
question shall be put. All action taken in such<br />
meeting shall be recorded by the secretary as a<br />
iart of the minutes of the meeting in a book to be<br />
Eept for that purpose.<br />
ARTICLE VI—Officers<br />
Section I. The Council shall have a president, one<br />
or more vice-presidents, an executive vice-president,<br />
a secretary and a treasurer. The officers need not<br />
be members of the Council or of the executive board.<br />
Section 2. The powers and duties of the president<br />
shall be to call and preside at meetings of the<br />
members and of the executive board and in general<br />
to act as official head of the Council.<br />
In case of the absence or disability of the president,<br />
the executive board will designate one of the vicepresidents<br />
to take his place and perform his duties.<br />
Section 3. The president and first vice-president<br />
of the Council shall not come from the same branch<br />
of the industry during any one year.<br />
Section 4. The executive vice-president shall be<br />
the chief administrative officer of the Council. He<br />
shall be a member ex officio of all committees and<br />
shall have such powers and duties as may be delegated<br />
to him by these bylaws or by the executive<br />
board, which shall fix the conditions and term oi<br />
his office. He shall be subject to the general supervision<br />
of the president and of the executive coard.<br />
Section 5. The powers and duties of the secretary<br />
shall be generally to do and perform such functions<br />
and duties as are incident to the office of secretary<br />
under the supervision of the president and the executive<br />
board; to keep full and complete records of the<br />
proceedings of the executive board and of meetings<br />
of members of the Council; to keep the seal of the<br />
Council and to affix the same as required; to cause<br />
notice to be given of all meetings in accordance with<br />
the provisions of these bylaws, and to perform such<br />
other duties as the president or executive board<br />
may from time to time determine.<br />
Section 6. The powers and duties of the treasurer<br />
shall be to have the care and custody of all the<br />
funds and securities of the Council; to keep full and<br />
accurale account of receipts and disbursements and<br />
the books belonging to the Council; to deposit all<br />
moneys and other valuable effects in the name ol<br />
and to the credit of the Council in such depositories<br />
as may be designated by the executive board. He<br />
shall render to the president and to the executive<br />
board whenever they may require it an account pi<br />
all his transactions as treasurer and of the financial<br />
condition of the Council. He shall make a financial<br />
report at each annual meeting of the members.<br />
Section 7. Each of the officers shall be elected<br />
by the executive board for the term of one yeat and<br />
until a successor shall be elected, except that the<br />
executive vice-president may be elected for a term<br />
of more than one year.<br />
Section 8. The officers of the Council, with the<br />
exception of the executive vice-president, shall<br />
serve without compensation. The executive vicepresident<br />
shall be entitled to receive such salary<br />
as the executive board may authorize and the<br />
Council, with the authority of the executive board,<br />
may enter into an appropriate contract of employment<br />
with the executive vice-president.<br />
ARTICLE VII—Funds and Budget<br />
Section 1. There shall be no entrance fees, dues<br />
or assessments for charter members.<br />
Section 2. The executive board may prescribe<br />
entrance fees and annual dues for industry members.<br />
Section 3. The funds of the Council shall be derived<br />
from payments made by industry members and<br />
from contributions from organizations or persons,<br />
firms or corporations endorsing the aims of the<br />
Council.<br />
Section 4. The executive board shall devise an<br />
equitable formula for providing necessary funds and<br />
develop ways and means to secure the wide acceptance<br />
of this formula throughout the industry.<br />
Section 5. The expenditure budget of the Council<br />
shall be prepared annually by the executive vicepresident<br />
and submitted by him "to the executive<br />
board which, after approval or revision, shall submit<br />
the budget, with its recommendation, to the<br />
annual meeting of members of the Council of adoption<br />
or revision.<br />
ARTICLE VIII—Committee<br />
Section 1 . The executive board shall have the<br />
power to appoint committees of the Council composed<br />
of members of the executive board or of<br />
members of the Council or expert advisers as the<br />
board shall deem appropriate.<br />
Section 2. The executive board shall have power<br />
also to constitute and designate committees in regional<br />
areas such as exchange territories or states<br />
and* to prescribe the powers and duties of such<br />
committees in carrying out the aims of the Council.<br />
ARTICLE DC—Seal<br />
Section 1. The seal of the Council shall be inscribed<br />
of the following words: COUNCIL OF MO-<br />
TION PICTURE ORGANIZATIONS, INC.<br />
together with a design deemed appropriate by the<br />
executive board.<br />
ARTICLE X—Amendment of Bylaws<br />
Section 1. These bylaws may be amended at any<br />
regular or special meeting of the executive board<br />
by unanimous vote of the board, provided writfen<br />
notice of the proposed amendment shall be given<br />
to each member of the executive board at least<br />
twenty (20) days prior to the meeting.<br />
Three Manitoba Houses Lost:<br />
Raging Floods Darken<br />
43 Winnipeg Houses<br />
WINNIPEG—The great Red river flood<br />
has disrupted the motion picture industry<br />
in Manitoba, closed 43 theatres in the<br />
greater Winnipeg area and countless others<br />
elsewhere in this region and completely<br />
wrecked at least three others. Losses will<br />
run into the hundreds of thousands of<br />
dollars, both in boxoffice receipts and<br />
physical destruction of property.<br />
Winnipeg's theatres closed Monday, as<br />
women and children were being evacuated<br />
from the city. Over the weekend, not a<br />
single exhibitor took in enough at the boxoffice<br />
to pay the power bill. By midweek,<br />
as the dike protecting the northern outskirts<br />
of the city broke, exhibitors were hipdeep<br />
in boots in most instances, pumping<br />
water from the basements of their theatres<br />
and trying to protect as much of their<br />
equipment as possible. Sewers were backing<br />
up and creating great damage not only in<br />
the basements but in the auditoriums as well.<br />
Reports from outlying communities were<br />
meager with communications virtually<br />
paralyzed.<br />
However, word came to Pilmrow that<br />
the Princess Theatre in Morris, owned by<br />
Mrs. Alexander Todd, and the Deluxe Theatre<br />
in Emerson, owned by C. G. Hayson, have<br />
been completely destroyed. Both towns have<br />
been evacuated. A report also came to Filmrow<br />
that the Dominion City Theatre, owned<br />
by M. D. Boredenko, has been badly damaged.<br />
Exchanges were making an attempt to meet<br />
deliveries of films as long as the railroad<br />
service held out. However, exchange people<br />
had a flood problem of their own. The basement<br />
of the exchange building was flooded,<br />
there was no heat, and those who were not<br />
out helping build dikes and otherwise doing<br />
emergency work were pumping water.<br />
Altogether there are 356 theatres serviced<br />
out of the Winnipeg offices. Service to many<br />
of them already has been halted and if the<br />
entire city of Winnipeg is evacuated, exhibitors<br />
throughout Manitoba will be without<br />
product. Waters from Minnesota. North Dakota<br />
and southern Manitoba have been feeding<br />
the Red river which flows into Lake<br />
Winnipeg. Dikes began crumbling a week<br />
ago and the effect upon theatre patronage<br />
was immediate. By Thursday, a dramatic<br />
appeal was issued for women and children<br />
to move out of the city—requiring an exodus<br />
of almost 200,000 persons.<br />
Floods and windstorms played havoc with<br />
the film business over a widely scattered<br />
area in the last week. Windstorms also<br />
struck hard during the week. A screen tower<br />
collapsed at the Fond du Lac, Wis., drive-in<br />
and killed one man. Near Austin, Minn.,<br />
the Highway 218 Drive-In, owned by Eddie<br />
Ruben, Harold Field and Clem Janich, was<br />
destroyed by a windstorm for the second time<br />
in a year. The new screen tower had only<br />
recently been completed.<br />
Storms also damaged the Roxy Theatre in<br />
Oslo, Minn., and forced Allen Paulson, the<br />
owner, to close down.<br />
In Rimouski, Que., the great fire which<br />
wiped out a third of the city over the weekend,<br />
also destroyed the recently reconstructed<br />
Rikois Theatre. It was the second time<br />
in recent years that the theatre, owned by<br />
Tom Troy, had been wrecked by fire. The<br />
Cartier, a second house owned by Troy, was<br />
not damaged.<br />
Nebraska's third worst disaster on record,<br />
with 20 lives reported lost so far, is having<br />
only minor effect on theatres.<br />
The flash floods came and passed so<br />
quickly that no theatres, almost all of which<br />
were out of the low areas, had to be closed.<br />
No serious theatre damage was reported and<br />
few film deliveries missed out.<br />
Tornadoes the same night in southeastern<br />
Nebraska and western Iowa shut off power<br />
at some points. Frank Good, owner of the<br />
Iona Theatre at Red Oak, Iowa, issued passes<br />
in the dark after the power went off, and<br />
helped patrons find their way to the street.<br />
TOA Meeting Will Decide Whether<br />
To Call Arbitration Meeting or Not<br />
NEW YORK—Whether or not the Theatre<br />
Owners of America has obtained sufficient<br />
support to go ahead with its plan of an allindustry<br />
conference on arbitration should be<br />
made known after the two-day meeting of its<br />
executive committee which will open Monday<br />
(15) at the Hotel Astor. The contents<br />
of the letters from distribution company<br />
presidents in response to President Sam<br />
Pinanski's request they call a conference have<br />
been a closely guarded secret. All that TOA<br />
has had to say was that the earliest replies<br />
were favorable.<br />
Also prominent on the agenda will be another<br />
report from Walter Reade jr., chairman<br />
of the distributor-exhibitor relations committee,<br />
on the progress he is making on the<br />
difficult job of drawing up a trade practices<br />
program to be presented to the distributors.<br />
Arbitration is included in the program.<br />
Other topics will be convention plans, the<br />
membership drive which includes drive-ins,<br />
television, national legislation, taxation and<br />
public<br />
relations.<br />
The TOA executive committee consists of<br />
J. J. O'Leary, chairman; S. H. Fabian. Ted<br />
R. Gamble, Leonard H. Goldenson. R. J.<br />
O'Donnell, Nat Williams, Robert W. Coyne,<br />
Morris Loewenstein, Robert R. Livingston,<br />
Robert B. Wilby, Max A. Connett, B. D. Cockrill<br />
and William F. Ruffin, with the national<br />
officers as ex officio members.<br />
BOXOFFICE :<br />
: May<br />
13, 1950 13
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