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Page 8 Section 2 Building Costs Climb Twice as Fast as Income But Houses Have Been Made Bigger, Belter In 10 Years By ALFRED LEECH United Press Staff Correspondent CHICAGO UP The price tag on the average house has risen during Ihc last 10 years almost twice as fast as the average fa mily's income. But the house Is bigger and better. These fads were disclosed In a study by the United States Savings and Loan League, which con cluded thai "tight money" has kept the price of housing within reach. The study showed that building costs have risen 37 per cent in the last decade, while the price of the average new house has risen 82 per cent. During the same period the average family's income, esti mated at $.1,850 in HI", has risen 42 per cent, the league said. Homes Equipped Norman Strunk, league presi dent, said the average cost of a new house in 1047 was $fi,750. ex cluding land. In 1956 it was $12,300. But Strunk said today's house Is larger by at least 300 square feet and probably more.-- And many houses today come e.uippcd with kitchen and laundry appliances, an extra bathroom or half-bath, and a host of other items not found in the house of 1947. Strunk said the cost of living in dex has risen only 21 per cent dur ing the decade, so that the typical family has been able to divert a greater share of its rising income nto housing. He said the triple concoction of rising costs, rising incomes and bigger families has prompted the current trend toward bigger and costlier houses. Bedrooms Increased Ten years ago, the study showed most new houses had only two bedrooms. Today they have three. I Strunk said he expects the trend to bigger and more expensive homes to continue during 11157. As in each of the past 10 years, he said, the price tag will he slightly higher but the bouse will be lar ger and better equipped. Strunk said Americans can thank the government's controver sial "tight money" policy for keep ing huilding costs within rench. "Tho inflationary pressures arc already strong enough," Strunk said. "If we increase them further by liberalizing government spon sored home lending or by broad ening the government's direct loan ' program, a new round of inflation Is assured. The Republic of China Is sending art and industrial exhibitions to aeveral fairs which will he held in the United States in 1057. , 1 MM nr t lliiiiri lMfi mkwmmm mmtm i ifSiTiitMiiMiMigiriB iiiMiiiwSiM (D BONESTEELK SALES & SERVICE, 270 . luireh St. Miss Burma in J f . i M J. Xr '. ' 'A. .. t " rf.lr W Mi-!:; u i WASHINGTON The COP elephant. Miss Burma, rears up on her hind legs as she gets ready for her part in the Inaugural parade which followed public swearing In of President Elsenhower and Vice President Nixon for a second term. With the elephant are her trainer, Virgil Sagravcs, and his wife, Rita. (AP Wire-photo) Solar Researcher Says He Can Forecast Rain 10 Years Ahead By RKNNIE TAYLOR- Dr. Abbott, who is 85 and has Associated Press Science Reporter been studvins solar nruhlrmx for PHOKN1X, Ariz. CD A veteran solar researcher says he has found a way to forecast fairly accurate ly the rainfall of a community for as much as 10 years in advance. Such a. system of forecasting if established in about 30 areas cast of the Rocky Mountains could be of enormous value, he asserts. The method was developed by Dr. Charles C. Abbott, research associate for the Smithsonian In stitution. He reported it in the Journal o f Solar Engineering Science and Engineering. This is a new publication sponsored by the Assn. For Applied Solar En ergy, with headquarters here. ,?V7i Smooth as a skater's wullz, Slmlcliakrr's new I.tixun -Level Ride combines the beiielils of torxiim control villi coil ititis. Tins new and different suspension is typical of the l.ig difference Craftsmanship makes in these carefully built Studcbakcre. Drive one at your dealer's, si u! (D Frisky Mood more than a half century, says weather bureau officials and pro fessional meteorologists 'oubt the value of his method but adds that he has checked its accuracy by 'forecasting" the weather of past years. The procedure is hased upon bis finding that variations in weather arc identical with minute changes in the amount of solar radiation reaching the earth's surface. Variations ranging from 1-50 of 1 per cent to 1-4 of 1 per cent in solar radiation are paralleled, Dr. Abbott says, by changes of 5 to 25 per cent in normal average Sttidfbitker Vreiidrnt Clastic one of Studebaker-Packard CORPORATION tfltfie-fiuie ctftonfnan.idyi comr.i jfTJJ Freeway Will Link Seattle and Everett 4-Lane Road to Be Built Without Tolls OLYMPIA ( The State High way Commission announced Mon day the 194-million-dollar Tacoma-Seattle-Everctt expressway will be built without tolls, and work on it will get under way this year. The commission also disclosed plans to spend approximately 15 million dollars on the main east Russ People's Freedom Urge Backed by Ike By JOHN M. IHGHTOWER WASHINGTON (A President Eisenhower Monday endorsed the "demand" of the "Russian peo ple" for greater freedom and bet ter lives. His words suggested that Eisen hower believes Russia's rulers are facing revolutionary pressures within their own country. Eisenhower's unusually strong and direct words on this point were subject also to the interpre tation that he is deliberately try ing to encourage the forces of "liberalization" in the Communist camp. Such forces have come to the fore since the death of Stalin in l?ir3, and reached a climax in Nikita Khrushchev's repudiation of Stalinism a year ago. The President provided ammu nition for Voice of America broadcasts aimed at peoples rath er than governments behind the Iron Curtain. The revolt against Soviet dicta tion in the satellite region of East ern Europe has been the greatest development in foreign affairs dur ing the past year. Less well known is the fact that authorities here have received a constant stream of reports of discontent, unrest and demands for change inside Russia itself. , rainfall and by 1 to 5 degrees in temperature 'luctuatinns. Weather men generally do not believe that such small solar changes can produce such large weather variations, Dr. Abbott says. Nevertheless he asserts that his forecasting based on this idea has been 50 to 90 per cent correct. The sharp peaks and valleys ot daily weather graphs have to be averaged and "smoothed out" be fore they will match the solar graphs of the same dates. The weather lags behind the solar ac tivity by varying lengths of time, depending on the community, the condition of the atmosphere, the extent of sunspots at the time and even the activities of the popula tions of large metropolitan areas, Dr. Abbott says. 18 dtfferrnt models LC. Salrm, 4lttv A .V? fell- , THE CAPITAL JOURNAL west route across the state, U.S. 10. The much-talked of IB-mile, four-lane road between Tacoma and Everett will be built as a freeway. Virtually all of the mon ey for the project will be provid ed by the Federal Aid Act ot 1956. First work will be south of Ta coma. This was the first official con firmation by the commission it will construct the project as a freeway. William A. Bugge, state director of highways, said Monday the Ta-coma-Seattle-Everett expressway will be basically a four-lane road generally east of U.S. 9. The ex pressway will be expanded to six lanes in some areas and to eight or 10 lane through downtown Se attle. 1 Bugge said one of the six-lane routes will be through Tacoma. The others will be at points where projections show a heavy traffic pattern expectable by 1975. The Highway Commission ear marked $1,B99.000 to start work on an alternate route for U.S. 99 to bypass Seattle on the east side of Lake Washington bv way of Renlon, Bellevue and Kirklnn'd. It would reconnect with the main route of U.S. 99 north of Seattle. Radio KNEW Sale Revealed SPOKANE Wi The sale of radio station KNEW in Spokane to the Mount Rainier Radio and Television Broadcasting Corp. of Seattle for a price "in excess of $400,000" was announced Monday. The Seattle company owns and operates stations KHR in Seattle and KXL in Portland. The sale of KNEW, an affiliate of the Don Lee Broadcasting Co., is subject to Federal Communications Com mission approval. Burl C. Hagadone, president of the Inland Empire Broadcasting Co. which owns and operates KNEW announced the sale. Haea done is also an cxeculive of Scripps League Newspapers, Inc. He said the sale of KNEW will make it possible for him and his associates to concentrate their ef forts in connection with their news paper operations. The Scripps League has II) news papers in the Northwest and Ilaga done said "we expect quite a growth in tho newspaper field." lie disposed of interests in sta tion KVNI in Coeur d'Alcnc, Idaho, ahout a year ago and in station KW1K in Pocatcllo within the last month. Where? The complete and timely news columns of the Capital Journal. Everyone looking for a real value these days. That's why more end more people are subscribing to the Capital Journal. It's the best buy in the newspaper field. More news, features, sports about the Willamette Valley than any other paper. If you too will give the C-J a trial, you'll find no need for other newspapers in your home. The Capital Jour nal gives you alt the news. W NEW YORK New Jersey Gov. Robert B. Meyner and his bride of two days, the former Helen Day Stevenson, imlle happily as they leave New York City hotel on honeymoon trip to Barbados. The couple spent first day of married lite here, flying east after Iheir marriage Saturday at Obcrlin, Ohio, the bride's hometown. On Barbados they will honeymoon lor two weeks at a beach house cottage belonging to friends of Mrs. Meyner. (AP Wire-photo) Surgeons Fail - Baby With Heart Outside Body NEW YORK Wl Surgeons three times restored a heart beat to a premature twin born with his heart outside his body, bu the infant died Monday night. In a 95-minute operation Mon day the doctors tried vainly to get the heart into the chest cav ity. The infant was hon. early Mon day in Spring S'allcy, N.Y., to 34-year-old Mrs. Iclcn Wight, wife of a construction worker. A twin brother, who was born second, was normal. The malformed infant was given oxygen and the exposed heart was covered with .. sponge soaked with a salt solution. He was brought in an ambulance about 20 miles to Montcfiore Hospital in The Bronx. As doctors prepared to operate, To Subscribe to the Capital Meyners Honeymoon - & " V in Try to Save the child's exposed heart stopped three times. A heart beat was restored each time by means of oxygen. Dr. Eliott Hurwitt said: "We freed the skin on both sides of the heart and formed a covering over it. But we couldn't get it all the way down." The twins Mrs. Wight's first children were two months pre mature. Each weighed 4 pounds, 6 ounces. PARTY ELECTS MACMILLAN LONDON Ufi Prime Minister Harold Macmillan was formally elected leader of the Conservative Party Tuesday, succeeding S i r Anthony Eden. There were no other candidates. Journal, Phone EM 4-6811, Ask For Salem, Oregon, Tuesday, January 22, 1957 Bound Sweden Asks 2-Year Ban on Nuclear Tests UNITED NATIONS, N.Y. (UP) Sweden today proposed a two-year moratorium on nuclear weapons tests. Swedish delegate Rickard Sand ler asked the U.N. Main Political Committee to consider a standstill in explosion of atomic and hydro gen weapons until the General Assembly's Scientific Committee, collecting data on radiation effects, reports in 1958. "In my view," Sandler said, "there exists ample reason to ask for a standstill, a moratorium, in the testing of nuclear weapons, until that committee has reported its findings and the assembly has acted upon them... "From the genetic point of view, there is unanimity among scien tists that every increase in the sum of radiation is harmful, and it is the sum that counts. The most important thing we know now is that we do not know. And, , U.S., Monaco In Hassle on Unborn Heir MONACO (UP) The United States and the 368-acre principali ty of Monaco were in a diplomatic tug of war today over an unborn baby, the heir of Prince Rainier III and his Hollywood movie star wife, Grace Kelly. Rainier has said the child of hi Philadelphia-born wife is gong to be "uniquely" Monegasque. The U.S. State Department isn't so sure. According to U.S. law, a child of an American parent born abroad has American citizenhip until he reaches the age of 21. Then he can decide whether to remain an American or take out citizenship in the country where he was born. Monegasque law is made pretty much by the Prince himself, and if he says his child is "uniquely" Monegasque, that's enough for his 2.50O subjects. He is understood to consider it unthinkable that the heir to his throne should bear the citizenship of another nation. But the State Department doesn't like to see U.S. citizenship plucked away from American cit izens even before they're born. If the state department decides that the Prince's decision is arbi trarily depriving an American cit izen or his right there may be more fireworks in this community than just those slated to greet the child's birth. A battery of clerks. is searching for the answer in Washington at the moment. The U.S. consul general in Nice, Louis Thompson, says he jopes to have a ruling from Washington by Wednesday. The United States and Monaco do not maintain diplomatic rela tions Jor an angry Prince to sever if the State Department, tells him h is not going to take away his child's American birthright! There is little likelihood of any military threat, either. The last time one of Rainier's 70-man army fired a rifle on duty was in 1938 when a soldier tripped and fell during the changing of the palace guard. The blast killed a pigeon. CZECHS GO TO MOSCOW VIENNA m Prague Radio announced Tiiesday that a Czech government delegation headed by President Antonir Zapotocky will leave for Moscow Wednesday for official talks with Kremlin lead ers. indeed, we know all too little about those genetic consequences. But at a time when we know more, in what way could we undo the harm possibly done today?" Evening Time Is Reading Time! Circulation