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aradua'te. whose engagement was announced in Reno, Nev.
They plan to wed in the early fall. They are pictured at
Lake Tahoe where Valee has been appearing at Cal-Neva
lodge. (AP Wirephoto)
SOME UP, SOME DOWN
Wholesale Prices Have
Never Been Stable Long
By SAM DAWSON
New York, July 19 VP) If you are confused today about price
trends some going up while others come down and long for the
good old days when they were always steady, you may De sur
prised to learn:
1. Wholesale commodity prices have rarely been stable for
more than a few months at a
time, in the last 150 years.
2. So far prices this time have
fallen neither as jerkily nor as
far as they have after our other
wars.
3. Some products important
now in the cost of living played
little or no part after previous
wars, while some old star per
formers are now retired from
the scene.
Many believe that the props
which have been placed under
prices in recent years will pre
vent any such collapse as fol
lowed each previous war.
However, if wholesale prices
continue along the same path
they took after the first World
war, they are due to go still
lower, on the whole, before
starting up again generally.
Of course, some prices have
advanced already. Copper and
lead in recent days have regain
ed a fraction of earlier losses,
and metal circles expect zinc to
follow suit soon. Textile prices
are a little higher in isolated
cases. Wholesale food and live
stock prices are stronger now
than they were a couple of
months ago.
The course of wholesale pri
ces in America can be traced
in the department of labor's
wholesale price index, which
economists have stretched back
to 1800 by using historical data.
Retail prices show up in the
department's consumers' price
index for moderate-income fami
lies in large cities, which slide
rule experts have been able to
push back to 1820. Traditionally,
retail prices have been much
less erratic than wholesale pri
ces, according to a study of the
two indexes to be published by
the national industrial confer
ence board.
During the first World war
prices doubled, only to break in
1920 for perhaps the sharpest
decline in our history. They set
tled finally at about two-fifths
higher than the 1914 price level,
They were low again in the thir
ties but started up when war
broke out in Europe. During
this war, however, commodity
indexes were based on controlled
prices, ignoring the much high
er black market prices, and per
haps clouding the true price pic
ture. ,;
Our changing ways show up
in these indexes. Prior to the
Gay Nineties the miscellaneous
group in the wholesale commo
dity index made up about one
percent of the total in weight
and importance. Now it is 10
percent. The main reason is a
newcomer, tires, and the great
er importance of paper products.
House furnishings and hous
ing were the hardest hit of any
group in the 1930's fewer
couples scraped up enough
money to get married.
Most important groups of all
in the indexes are still farm
products and foods, but they
have lost ground over the years
relative to the other commodi
ties. And building materials
have lost almost half their for
mer value in the index. Fuel
and lighting, and the miscel
laneous group are much more
important today as standards
of living change and yester
year's luxury becomes today's
necessity.
Wolves once ranged over most
of the North American continent.
Third Largest
Stand in Linn
Linn county now has the third
largest stand of saw timber on
unreserved forest land and is ex
ceeded only by Douglas and
Lane counties, according to a re
cent forest service estimate,
which gives Linn more than 24
billion board feet.
The saw timber is concentrat
ed on a relatively small area of
2294 square miles with 24,685,-
300,000 board feet as compared
with 70 billion board feet of
standing saw timber on 5062
square miles in Douglas county
and 51 billion feet on 4594
square miles in Lane county.
Nearly three-fourths, or 72
percent of the 1,478,000 acres in
Linn county is classified as for
est land in a recent forest service
survey. More than 1,000,000
acres were classified as primar
ily adapted to the growing of
timber crops. This acreage in
cludes scattered woodlands of
the agricultural valley region
about half of the foothill zone
and all of the mountainous part
of the county except mountain
meadows and land above timber-
line.
Only 986,385 acres of com
mercial forest land in Linn coun
ty is showed by the Kirkland re
port, part of a national survey
to show the timber stand of the
nation. Difference in suitable
and actual forest acreage is due
to the fact that some land best
suited for timber growing is still
farmed or grazed on a marginal
basis.
Douglas fir is the biggest
single timber crop of the county
with nearly 19,000,000,000
board feet. Western hemlock
places second with 3,732,000,000
available board feet with the
balsam firs third with 1,174
200,000 board feet. Other woods
of less than a billion available
board feet include cedars, other
conifers and valley hardwoods
Sfayton Authorizes
Industrial Survey
Stayton The Chamber of
Commerce, in meeting here
Monday noon at the Bon Ton
cafe, voted to authorize the
president and the board of di
rectors to form a long-range
planning committee with an in
dustrial survey as an immediate
project.
Also discussed was the ex
tending of the city limits to in
clude adjoining areas, but it was
thought that a statement should
be prepared for property own
ers in the areas, listing advan
tages which might accrue should
they join Stayton. Among the
advantages mentioned were low
er fire insurance rates, city po
lice protection, city streets and
water at city rates.
In the absence of President
Fred Camp, Frank Forrette presided.
Jap Leftist Union
Executives Fired
Tokyo, July 19 U.R) The State
Railway corporation fired 40
leftist union executives today for
illegal strike and obstructionist
tactics" as violence and sabotage
against Japanese railways continued.
Among the executives were 11
communists, including Ichizo
Suzuki, vice chairman of the
union and number two negotia
tor in the unions "struggle com
mittee," which has been pro
testing the MacArthur-ordered
dismissal of 90,000 railway
workers.
Gooding Clan Elects
Butteville The Gooding
clan held its annual reunion at
the home of Mr. and Mrs. Paul
Gooding. Seventy-live were
present for the potluck dinner
served at noon. Guests were
present from Portland, Wood
burn, St. Paul, Aurora and
Butteville. Officers of the clan
are Lawrence Gooding, presi
dent; Anna Davidson, first vice
president; Charles Gooding, sec
ond vice president; Mrs. Eliza
beth Glatt, secretary.
Will Mere Man
Outslride Horse?
Lebanon, July 19 VP) The
townspeople here are going to
see next Sunday whether the
"walking man of Oregon" can
out-stride a horse over a 75-mile
course at the community's new
race track.
Last summer, the gentry and
their ladies here abouts were all
agog over a horse vs. man tug-
of-war. The horse won in that
event.
The "walking man of Oregon"
is 64-year-old Paul Smith, Mill
City, who earned the title in
1928 when he finished 19th in a
walking spree from Los Angeles
to New York.
The horse is "Big Red", owned
and to be ridden by Ralph
Smith, Linn county rancher.
Smith, who is no kin of the
Mill City entry, will also have
aboard his son, Donald, aged 10
They will begin at 6 a. m.,
Sunday, July 24, around the
half-mile track of Lebanon
meadows. It will take 150 laps
to finish.
Smith, on foot, expects it will
take him about 11 or so hours.
Smith, on horseback, believes
'Big Red" can make it in about
10 hours.
"Four legs are better than two,
anytime," insists the owner of
Big Red."
The sponsors, riders of the
Santiam Wranglers, aren't tak
ing sides, officially. But you
can get odds from innumerable
fans.
300 British Troops
Reach Hong Kong
Honk Kong, China, July 19
(U.R More than 300 British
troops arrived here today aboard
two troopships to reinforce the
Hong Kong garrison.
The main units consisted of the
first battalion, Middlesex regi
ment, which was part of the
Hong Kong garrison when the
Japanese attacked, and the first
battalion of the Argyll and
Sutherland Highlanders.
Thousands now chew steak, laugh, talk
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Capital Journal, Salem, Oregon, Tuesday, July 19, 1949 3
Airplane Transport
For Polio Victims
Portland, July 19 P Trans
ports of the 403rd Airforce Re
serve troop carrier wing here
have been made available for
flying equipment of the Infan
tile Paralysis Foundation to
striken areas.
Lt. Col. J. W. Lewis, base
commander, said the fast cargo
planes can handle up to 10,000
pounds' load. The base has 16
of the Curtis Commando C-46
planes.
The "iron lungs" and other
polio foundation gear can thus
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with a minimum of lost time,
said Felix A. Montes, Oregon
aide of the foundation.
Montes noted that the mount
ing incidence of polio through
Oregon, 45 cases compared with
23 at the same time last year.
He said rapid transportation of
equipment from the Portland
pool could be a vital factor in
disease control.
The Roman battering - ram
used in the siege of Syracuse in
212 B.C. had a head of iron and
ion rings around its beam.
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Lighting fixtures prices
lashed in half!
Salem Lighting &
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236 N. High
Posse Will Appear
Albany, Ore. Participation of
the Linn county Sheriff's Posse
in the sixth annual Amateur
Horse Show at Jantzen Beach
Sunday afternoon, has been an
nounced by Capt. Roy Finch.
About eight members of the lo
cal posse will make up the team
to compete in drills, flag race,
stake bending, and novelty con
tests.
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