Cost Of Living
Index Goes Up,
Records Reveal
WASHINGTON I The gov
ernment's cost of living index
bounced up another one-half of
one per cent in June to its tenth
record high in as many months.
The increase, reported Wednes
day by the Bureau of Labor Sta
tistics, means that some 650,000
workers in the electrical manufac
turing, aircraft, trucking and con
struction industries will have their
pay increased by from two to four
cents hourly under contracts
geared to the consumer price in
dex. The spendable earnings of fac
lory workers and the buying pow
er of their paychecks also turned
upward slightly in June, causing
the first rise in "real earnings"
since last December.
The buying power of the aver
age worker's weekly paycheck
had been declining all this year
because of price increases and
shorter working hours. In June
the trend was halted at least tem
porarily. The Bureau said spend
able earnings increased by about
1 per cent or 65 cents weekly.
Food prices were reported to
have jumped 1.4 per cent from
May to June. That was the major
factor in the advance which car
ried the consumer price index to
120.2 per cent of the 1947-1949 average.
MODEST MAIDENS
TrUtourk Kt4tttd V. g. Fitwt Ofli
The cost-s of all accidents in the
United States in 1956 were enough
to provide three shots of Salk vac
cine for every person in the world.
7-25
"He smokes Buch expensive cigars. Every smoke rinfc
costs' a dollar;"
Chinese Claim Spiestanded
HONG KONG lPI Peiping
Radio claimed Wednesday that
five Chinese and a Korean trained
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by the U.S. Central Intelligence
Agency (CIA) as spies were land
ed in May and June 1956 on the
Shantung coast.
The broadcast said three died
in the landings and the other
three were sentenced Tuesday to
prison terms ranging from one to
seven years after a public trial
at Tsinan, Shantung province capi
tal. Peiping said one of the casual
ties poisoned himself when ar
rested, one fell into the sea and
was drowned and the other was
killed resisting arrest.
The broadcast claimed the men
were trained on Okinawa and
were equipped with pistols,- radio
transmitters and forged papers.
It said the heaviest sentence
seven years went to the Ko
rean, 1m Lion In, who, it was
charged, had also smuggled six
groups of spies into North Korea
and four groups into Manchuria
and Shantung.
Warren States
Americans Hold
To Pilgrim Creed
LONDON (M The American
Bar Assn. opened a week's meet
ing in London today with Chief
Justice Earl Warren telling the
British hosts that the Pilgrims'
Mayflower Compact is "still the
core of the American's creed."
British jurists took part in the
(opening) ceremony with 3,000
American lawyers in historic
Westminister Hall, for centuries
the seat of the chief law court of
England. The bar association's an
nual convention is being held in
two parts this year, in New York
earlier this month and now in Lon
don. In his speech prepared for de
livery at the opening session, the
U.S. chief justice said the May
flower Pilgrims "covenanted to
combine themselves together into
'a civil body politic, for their bet
ter ordering and preservation' to
enact 'sun (just and equal) laws
. . . from time to time, as shall
be thought most meet. ..the
general good of the colony.'
". . . We, in all parts of Amer
ica, have tried to keep the faith
with that compact. And except for
the deviations occasioned by the
frailty of human nature and the
fallibility of the human mind, we
have pursued a steady course to
this day.
"It is still the core of the Amer
ican's creed and our concept of
'government of the people, by the
people, for the people."
Program To Improve Lumber Loading Set I Thu"-,Jul 19S7-Th '" rr
Syndicate Offers Low Bid On Dam
Washington, Some 300 of the i
nation s leading lumber manufac
turers, retailers and other distribu
tors are about to launch a pro
gram designed to bring about
greater automation in the han
dling of lumber from the saw
mill to the retail level.
Sponsoring the effort are the
National Lumber Manufacturers
Assn. and National Retail Lumber
Dealers Assn.
Mortimer B. Doyle, executive
vice president of NLMA, said the
program will "seek to develop
lumber at the sawmill so it can
be loaded and unloaded from rail
road freight cars by cqinpletcly
mechanical means."
Could Cut Costs
Doyle explained that this could
"cut the handling costs of both
retailers and manufacturers and,
at the same time, reduce the
damage sustained by lumber and
wood products during shipment."
Most lumber shipped by rail
today is loaded and unloaded
piece-by-picce with hand labor.
Although fork lift trucks and other
vehicles are used to move stocks
from the sawmill to freight cars
and from freight cars to the stor
age bins of wholesalers and retail
ers, considerable time and manual
labor is required to transfer the
lumber to and from these vehicles
BPA Announces Low Bid
For Big Clearing Job
PORTLAND OF! the Bonneville
Power Administration announced
Tuesday that an apparent low bid
of $217,863 for clearing and con
struction of the 26-mile Big Eddy
DeMoss transmission line was
submitted by the Key Construc
tion Co. of Tacoma.
Power for Sherman and Gilliam
counties in north-central Oregon
will be provided next May by
energization of the 115,000-volt
line and substations.
The counties are served by the
Wasco Electric Co-operative, the
Columbia Basin Eelectric Co-operative,
and Pacific Power &
Light Company.
FREEZE KILLS 33
SAO PAULO, Brazil uTl Freez
ing temperatures have killed at
least 33 persons so far this week.
The Bureau of deaths reported
Wednesday the victims were poor
persons who have been sleeping in
the streets. This is the Brazilian
winter season.
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Advantages
"Packaging the lumber at the
sawmill that is, using steel strap
ping or wire to hold the pieces to
gether in a unit should eliminate
the need of loading and unloading
lumber-conveying vehicles and
railroad cars by hand, Doyle
emphasized.
"Another potential advantage of
this system is that it should min
imize damage during transit."
About Aug. 1, sawmills cooper
ating in the program are scheduled
to begin test shipments of pack
aged ol- "unitized" lumber to re
tail dealers and other distributors
throughout the country.
Professors To Probe
Pickle Picking Process
EAST LANSING, Mich. W -Professors,
pretty perturbed, have
promised to probe for practical
progress in the problem of picking
a peck of pickles.
Toward this end, Michigan State
University has received a 12.00J
grant from the cucumber industry
for basic research on a mechanic
al cucumber harvester.
Pickle growers are finding it in
creasingly difficult to hire hand
labor for harvesting cucumbers.
WENATC1IEE iP-Jtocky Reach
Dam Builders Inc., a syndicate of
five contractors, was apparent
low bidder Tuesday at $52,13,078
for completion of the dam, on
which the syndicate already is do
ing preliminary work,
The Chelan County Public Util
ity District, builders of Rocky
Reach on the Columbia River up
stream from here, said the bid
was on an alternate plan for river
diversion during dam construction.
The svndicale bid $55,004,824 on
(he PUD engineers' diversion
plan.
Both bids were well below the
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By Jo Fischer
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PUD's revised estimate of $81,
267.000 for finishing the hydroelec
tric project. A previous estimate
of $55,250,000 was exceeded by all
bidders at a bid opening last
month. All had to be rejected un
der slate law, and a new bid call
issued.
The Rocky Reach syndicate i.
made up of L. E. Dixon Co., San
Gabriel, Calif.; Arundet Corp.,
Baltimore; llunkin-Conkey Con
struction Co., Cleveland: Ameri
can Pipe and Construction Co.,
l.os Angeles, and Guy F. Atkinson
;Co., San Mateo, Calif.
Morrison-Knudsen Co., and Mer
i ritt-Chapman and Scott also en
Itercd bids in Tuesday's opening.
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