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stance, recently ran a series of articles
on why homes cost so much. One
onclusion reached is that "building
1 1 ibor is doing 30 per cent to 50 per
i rent less work than before the war.’’
A Boston builder said that brick lay-
erg now lay about 300 bricks a day.
,s compared with 800 or more before
the war. A San Francisco tile con
tractor said that tile setters do 40 per
cent less work than in 1940. A
reported
that
builder
Cleveland
unwritten rule
an
plumbers have
which says they must take seven days
to rough-in fixtures in a four-fixture
house, even though the job can be
done in half that time. He added
that when the plumbers finish ahead
of the seven days, they walk up and
down the street to kill time.
POLAR RENDEZVOUS
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gon. under the Act of March 1. 1*7»
Published .weekly at Central Point
Jack«on County, Oregon and devoted
to the beat intereata of the city and
vicinity.
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Many other industries have report
ed similar declines in labor output—
every penny of which must be paid
for by the utilmate consumer. That
kind of profiteering is costing this
country untold billions a year, and io
<.ne of the primary reasons for price
Inflation. Organized labor, before it
asks for ‘‘Jail’’ sentences for others,
should check Its own "profiteering”—
jails can hold either an industrial or
a labor profiteer.
EDITORIALS
PRICE FACTS
one of the most intelligent and
illuminating statements on the price
situation was recently given by Ro
bert A. Seidel, vice-president of the
W. T. Grant Company, a leading mer
chandise chain, before a Congression
al subcommittee.
Mr. Seidel observed that it Is com
monly believed that al prices are un
reasonably high as compared with a
year ago. The truth Is that many
prices have gone down or have held
to the «âme level. He exhibited
various essential articles of apparel
which now cost less than In 1946, and
which are also of Improved quality.
Finally, he summed up his testimony
by emphasizing these points:
1. All prices are not out of line,
Some are up, some are down, »onte
are the same.
2. Increased labor costs are a
major contributing factor to the pre
sent price structure, and the trend of
wages will largelj- determine the
trend of prices.
3. Bottlenecks still exist which
cause shortages in production and so
force the prices of the commodities
affected upward.
4. The cost of government has an
important effect on price levels. Sur
prising at it may seem, government
now costs the country more than the
food it eats!
5. Retailers' margins have been
substantially reduced, and retail trade
lias not retained an undue share of
the consumer dollar.
Mr. Seidel spoke front a study of
the facts, and the committee mem
bers who heard him were interested
and impressed. The whole price
problem has been confused by wild
denunciations of one group or an
other. The truth is that prices are
the result of present day costs and
conditions—not of isolated causes.
HUE WE ENOUGH ELECTRIC
POWER?
A committee of experts recently
completed an exhaustivo survey of
the nation's electric power supply
and the growth of demand. The find
ings, which are of countrywide Inter
est, have been released by the Edison
Electric Institute.
First of all. there Is little llkell-
hood of serious power shortages now
or hi the future. When the winter
peak demand occurs in December,
there will be a margin of reserve
capacity (>f about 5 per cent for the
country as a whole.
From the long-pull standpoint. the
most Interesting part of the experta*
survey deals with the huge construc-
tlon progrum now being curried on
by the utuility industry. Two months
ago, installation of new generating
capacity caught up with the growth
of new power demand, and is now
substantially exceeding It. The pro
gram will extend over a period of five
years, and Its goal Is to establish a
A LADY: A woman who makes It
easy for a man to be a gentleman.
The far-flung activities of American submarines during World War II
that brought the undersea craft to the home waters of the Japanese
Empire in the van of the fighting fronts, are continued into peacetime
as the submersibles, like the USS Sennet (above), penetrate the Arctic
and Antarctic. Submarines aie important units of the Navy's postwar
expeditions and projects probing the mysteries of distant oceans for
scientific data to be used for future planning.
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reserve capacity of 15 to 25 per cent. ed by the CIO, Is blameless. But
To achieve that, 18,000,000 kilo factual evidence coming from other
watts of new generating capacity will quarters adds up
to a vOry different
be added by the end of 1951. And it conclusion. Some units of labor are
may come us a surprise to those who ruthlessly profiteering—by the simple
have been confuseli by all the talk
expedient of deliberately putting out
about public power to learn that
less and less work for more and more
more than -15,000,000 of those kilo
money.
watts will be Installed by privately-
The Wall Street Journal, for in-
owned companies. The lecture In
dustry is
I m going quietly ahead and
spending billions to serve the needs
of America. It is creating enormous
taxable assets for all units of govern
ment, instead of tax-exempt, special
privilege properties such as the Fe
deral power projects. It la gelling
the power at extremely low rates
which must be approved by public
regulatory agencies. It Is demonstra
ting again that private enterprise
works.
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School District No. 6 of
Jackson County, Oregon
Post Office Address:
Central Point. Oregon
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hour of 8 o’clock p.m., December 2,
1947
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No. 6 of Jackson County. Oregon at
the place aforesaid for an Issue of
bonds of said school district in the
amount of H2.VOO.OO; said bonds to
be dated November 15, 1947 and to
mature serially In numerical order at
the rate of *1.000.00 annually on
November 15, 1949 to November 15,
1960, both dates inclusive.
Both issues of said bonds to bear
Interest at the rate of not to exceed
three (S) percent per annum, payable
semi-annually at the office of the
County Treasurer of Jackson County.
Oregon or at the Fiscal Agency of the
State of Oregon In New York City at
the option of the purchaser.
Both issues of said bonds were duly
authorized at an election held Octo
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JAIL# CAN HOLD BOTH
The proposal, made by Philip Mur
ray of the CIO, that profiteers be
jailed, poses a number of complex
questions. The most Important
of
those questions is. Who are the profi
teers?
Mr. Murray, going by all his pub
lished statements, clearly feels that
big business is out to exploit the
country, while big labor, as represent-
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blds will be received by the under-
signed until the hour of 8 o’clock
p.m., on the 2nd day of December,
1 947, and immediately thereafter
publicly opened by the^Distrlct School
Hoard of School District No. 6 of
Jackson County, Oregon at the offico
of the superintendent of schools of
s ild school district in the city of
Central Point, Oregon, for an issue
of bonds of said school district in the
amount of ,8.000.00; said bonds to be
dated November 15, 1947 and to ma
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the rate of »1.000.00 annually on the
15th day of November, 1949 to the
15th day of November.
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