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Housewives Partly Guilty For High Retail Prices Of Processed Foods By DOUGLAS LARSEN NEA Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON (NEA) Congress ii investigating the possibility that retail food prices are not coming down as fast as farm prices because American housewives are getting lazy. Evidence that this ii true hat already been laid before the Sen ate agriculture subcommittee on utilization of farm crops, headed by Sen. Guy M. Gillette tD. Iowa i. Gillette' group is going into the whole question of whv the cost of getting food from the farmer to the consumer seems to have increased out of propor- Have Your Horn Landscaped on f. H. A. Term Tree Topped or Removed Lawn Planted Shrubs Pruning Call us for information L. H. McPherson Rt I, Box 153 Phont 715 J 1 tion to farm price and the gen eral price rise since the war. When the investigation was stated last summer the commit tee expected to find increased in efficiency in the food distribution system and possibly exorbitant profits being taken by the food middlemen. They have found some evidence of both of these things. But they have also dis covered that U. S. nousewives must share some guilt for keep ing food prices up. What It amount to, the mod ern woman is demanding food from the grocery store which is all ready to throw Into the pot or frying pan, with an absolute min imum of working on by her. She wants more canned goods and readyprepared foods. She wants her fresh vegetable already trimmed, washed and sorted he fore they are even put on the grocery counter. Wanti To Savo Labor She wants food put up In small er packages, to serve two or three persons, so she doesn't have to bother to measure or save what' left. She wants proc essed foods and bread with a lot of builtin vitamins, so she doesn't have to worry about bal anced diets. She wants only the choice cuts of meat, already trimmed and prepared by the butcher, so she doesn't have to improvise cooking methods and seasoning to improve flavor. She wants "instant" coffee and "in st ant" potatoes which require the minimum cooking skill of boiling water. Since the war, the food Indus- Russian Troops Squeeie Yugoslavla, Assertion BELGRADE, Yugoslavia. Oct 21. LW Yugoslavia charges that Russian troops have moved into neighboring communist coun tries to build up "warmongering" pressure against Marshal Titos regime. The charges, printed in the of ficial newspaper Burba, said Red army troops have moved into Ro mania. Kortifications are being built under Russian supervision along the Yugpslav borders in Bulgaria, Hungary and Albania, the paper declared. tin. Athens, well-informed in-i telligence officers said privately that Russia has placed five divi sions along the ugoslav borders in the last month. (These sources American, British and Greek said Russia apparently feared that Tito was ' secretly barking plans for a re volt in the isolated Soviet satellite of Albania.) ': H'Sas4 ... 14 - fclllMT-l J Fri., Oct. Jt, !?4f The Ni-R,ir, Koubwrt, Or. S FIX THAT LEAKY ROOF ! We havt som beautiful news. We just received a shipment of siding and roofing and wt have our own expert crew to apply them. SAVE! Yes sir! The place to buy your building moteriol, roofing, siding, etc., is the Lum ber Sales Co. Drop in and see us today. LUMBER SALES CO. Garden Valley Rd. Next to the Riverside School Fr Estimates ' .. Phono 2-J- try has had to cater to this changing demand. Food proces sors have told Gillette's group that these newfangled services don't come for free. It costs money to put extra vi tamins in bread. Putting up foods in smaller cartons means extra cardboard, paper and cellophane Canning foods requires several cooking processes in a factory. plus the cost of the tin or glass i containers. Freezing and distrib-1 uting frozen food ts extremely cx pensive. Firmer Not To Blamo The high cost of milk Is another example cited by Senator Gil lelie. More and more housewives are demandinp that it be deliver ed to the door. If they bought it at the grocery store it would be as much as two cents a quart cheaper, he reveals. That's about a 10 percent saving. A Chicago attorney wrote Gillette saving that some milk routemen were i making SlO.om a year. The housewife pays for this sal ary, as well as ail of the other food services which she is now requiring. The long time statistics of the Deparmtent of Agriculture prove that the increased demand lor processed food is a very recent trend. For the last 20 years the farmer and the food middlemen the grocers, canners, packers, wholesalers and distributors have been taking about a 50-f0 cut of the retail food dollar with the farmer. Just recently, how ever. Gillette's committee has discovered that something radi cal is happening to this divvy. Farmes' prices are going down. But retail food prices are stav ing about the same, and in some cases, going up." Just exactly how big a factor the housewife's laziness is in this phenomena is what Senator Gil lette is determined to find out. The handsome, gracious senator is far Wx much of a gentleman to come right out and sav that the American housewife Is get ting lazy. But he says that he wants her to be sure she knows exactly what her new freedom irom the kitchen Is costing. (!EA Itlrnhnto) SARAH CHURCHILL W ED Krati Churchill absve( actress daughter of Winston Churchill, and British society photographer Anthony Beaurhamp mere n--ried at Sea Island, Ga, just 34 hours after they announcto. tneir engagement. The eoupU had planned a New York wedding at a later daw. Crack German Fencer Given Canadian Entry OTTAWA, Oct. 21 (CP) Im migration officials said Thursday a request from Henry Hut ten- bach, 18-year-old German nation al, for temporary admission to Canada bas been approved. Huttenhach, classified as an enemy alien, had appealed to the Canadian immigation officials for special clearance papers to compete in an international fenc ing tournament Friday at Van couver, He is Gonaga university's No. 1 fencer and was horn in Gen many. Because there Is no for mal peace treaty with Germany he is not permitted to enter Can ada. He fled Germany with his parents during the war and has applied for U. S. citizenship. 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