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PUBLIC WELFARE CHAPTER
No. «DM
Publié Welfare Chapter /No. 1 31,
Portland, makes it bow. This announce­
ment is' a trifle late, however, asi'wê'
have been meeting since January 23 of
this year. Our officers are: Mary De-
Santis, president; Mrs/ Ethel Jones,1
vice-president; and William D. Clark,
secretary-treasurer. We meet I on the
third Wednesday of each m onâÿ at
7:30 P. M. A permanent meeting place
being considered. June 18 will be
the last meeting - until September 17.
Our membership at this time is^lOl,
and the attendance is good. A genuine
interest Is> evinced, at all of our fpéet-
ings, in the remarks of/ .the» various
speakers provided by W alter/Ihl,’chair-
"man of the program corrimittee. Mr.
Ihl has presented the following finé,
sincere speakers: Bjarne Erickson, presi­
dent of O.S.E.A.; Forrest Stewart,, ex¿
ecutive secretary of O.S.E.A.; L. H.
Young, secretary of the Orégórivtax and
research organization; and Warrington
Stokes, administrator of Multnomah
County public welfare commission. Mr,
Stokes gave an interesting and infor­
mative talk, in which he summarized
the results of - thei edftfèrên'ce of social
workers h e ld ’recently at San Francisco.
— Anna B. Smith.
rise steadily- Graphs recently published
by the U. S. Department of Labor use
August 1939 consumer prices as 100|$?\
These graphs show that the price
index rose to 112% by December 1941.
During the war years it"climbed stead­
ily to l'3^% !in/ September, 1945, to
13 5% in June, 1946. Then cáme the
end of price control. In March, 1947,
the consumers pride’index rang the bell
at 15 8 «Wj having risen ás much in one
ye,ar as in the five years between 1941
and 1946.
Submitted by Marcia Hill,
State Library.
COST OF LIVING STATISTICS
SHOW STEADY ASCENT
The will-of-the-wisp price index is
still eluding* control and proceeding to’
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