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3l"T ft rap- M-i. .. w,-. .' j TERRIFYING ORDEAL NEARS END Survivors of the motorized native banca.-Edna I" cling to every available portion of the partly submerged outrigger as their res cuers come alongside. Their craft was capsized by the turbulent waters of San Ber nardino Strait off the Southwest Philippines. The group, 13 men and six women, one of whom was pregnant, had been clinging to the vessel for 46 hours before the Danish freighter, "M. V. Nordvest" came upon them. Postwar Price Spiral Adds $20 Weekly to Average Family Budget New York W The price spiral which has taken place during the postwar period has added around S20 a week in costs to the average family's budget. Inflation has increased the cost of almost everything that Americans buy. It now takes $1 to buy what 50 cents would have bought in 1939 or what 80.cents would have bought in 1949. Consumer expenditures give a good idea of the damage wrought by inflation. Between 1947 and 1956 consumer spending for goods and services jumped from $102 billion to $267 billion. However, economists estimate that $45 billion of the increase reflected higher prices. This means that only $57 bil lion went for additional goods and services. The rest was need ed just to stay even. Economists point out that the $45 billion absorbed by higher costs means that postwar in flation placed a tax of almost $300 on every man, woman and child in the country. Many Americans have been able to improve the living stand ards despite this inflationary spiral, principally because their incomes have increased at an even faster pace. However, Dr. Marcus Nadler, consulting economist to the Han over Bank of New York, said a growing segment of the popula tion has found that our unprece dented prosperity is only "a mir age." He said this applies not only to those living on social security wage and salaried individuals whose incomes have not kept Anti-Communist Riots Reported In South China Hong Kong (IP) The Com munist New China News Agency today belatedly reported bloody anti-Communist riots in South China July 12 in which several Communist officials and "revolu tionary bandits" were killed. The agency, in a Canton dis patch dated Aug. 27, said four of ficials were killed along with the family of a fifth official and a number of women workers in a restaurant. It said 24 of the so-called "ban dits" were "virtually eliminat ed" the same day and that the re mainder of the "criminals" were captured within a period of ten days. Food Shortage Blamed The agency did 'not say how many persons were in volved in the riot which was one of a series of disturbances result ing from food shortages and the high-handed actions of some Red officials in rural areas. The dispatch, reporting the in cident in Yatang Hsu village of Kwangtung province, said the officials killed were defending a food station and tax office against persons discontended benefits, pension funds and other with food shortages and heavy fixed assets, but also to those 1 taxation. . pace with the climbing cost of living. The biggest item in the aver age family budget is food, in cluding tobacco and alcoholic beverages, accounting for about 32.5 cents out of every dollar spent. Americans spent $86,400,- 000,000 for these commodities in 1956, an increase of 48.8 per cent over 1947. Next on the list is housing and operation of the household, taking around 26 cents of each dollar. This expenditure rose. 75 per cent to $68,900,000,000. Third biggest item is transpor tation, including the purchases of new and used cars, accounted for 11.4 cents of each dollar spent. The total last year was $30,300,000,000, up 97 per cent over 1947. These three budget items alone accounted for about 70 cents of the average family's cost of living dollar. The rest is spent for clothing, medical care, personal business, recreation (now a $14 billion business), personal care, private education and research, religious and welfare and foreign travel. In terms of percentage in creases from 1947, foreign travel has shown the most spectacular gain, 186.6 per cent. However, it still accounts for a shade less than one cent of each dollar spent. In order to buy the millions of cars, appliances, homes and other items sold during the post war period, consumers have been forced to borrow heavily to augment their incomes. Consumer credit now exceeds $42 billion against only $7 bil lion in 1947. I fly LIPPERT'S g, V 18 HHADQUA,,TB,,S FOIt H j) o vincetown. 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In the East, temperatures are expected to average "above sea sonal normals east of the Appa lachians with greatest depar tures along the north and middle Atlantic coast. Precipitation is expected to exceed normal over the eastern third of the nation but be sub normal west of the Continental Divide, the bureau said. About normal amounts were forecast for the central third of the country. Body of Nehalem Man Thought Found Tillamook IIP) Coast Guard headquarters in Seattle said Tuesday night a body believed that of Harold Pierce, Nehalem, Ore., was found in the surf a mile north of here. ' Pierce had been the object of a search since Sunday night when the wreckage of his 21-foot cabin cruiser, Terry Lou, was found near the outlet of the Ne halem river. Wednesday, September 18. 193? MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE SEVEN Scientific Experiment Proves Butterfly Advertising Pays Off By DELOS SMITH United Press Science Editor New York RPI Careful scientific experimentation has shown how very well advertis ing pays off for butterflies who have something to advertise and also for butterflies who don't but are clever enough to adver tise anyway. What the monarch butterfly has to advertise is that his flesh doesn't taste good to birds, for an unknown reason since no scientist has yet interviewed a bird on the whys of his taste preferences. But the viceroy but terfly couldn't advertise that properly he does taste good. Yale Zoologist Experiments Jane Van Zandt Brower, Yale University zoologist, gave 339 monarch butterflies .to four Florida scrub jay birds, a kind of bird which is an avid butter fly eater and presumably a con noisseur as regards butterfly flesh. Of the 339, not one was eaten. She gave the same birds 60 viceroy butterflies and not one of them was eaten, either. The monarch advertises with a color ation pattern so very conspicuous that even people know a mon arch when they see one. The viceroy advertises by mimicing the monarch pattern to a fare youwell. Mrs. Brower's experimenta tions were designed to give sta tistical proof to the presumed values of mimicry in the butter fly world, which is a well estab lished phenomenon. But there's t flies, in all these been a lot of guess work in ex plaining it and scientists natural ly prefer facts over guesses. She proved that scrub jay birds, and probably other butter fly eaters, have to learn by ex perience that monarchs don't taste good that it isn't an in herited dislike. In preliminary trials with the four caged birds, she gave them a non-advertising butterfly each time she gave them a monarch. The former were inevitably eaten and the monarchs were pecked and tasted and then left alone. 'Controls' Prefer Viceroys Four other scrub jays were in other cages, her "controls." They were never given an experience with monarchs, but were given the phony monarchs, the vicer oys, and non-advertiseing butter- control" birds and 60 of THE MARRYING KIND Madison, Wis. HPI The way to a co-ed's heart seems to be in the home economics department, according to a survey by the U.S. Office of Education. The survey shows 22 per cent of the home economics majors consider marriage their career, but only two per cent of the new teachers want to get married immediately. got 100 viceroys them were eaten. Mrs. Brower also experiment ed with another advertising, dis tasteful (to birds) butterfly bat tus philenor, and its tasteful mimics, the papilo butterflies. She got similar results with them. She pointed out that her ex periments were actually much more searching than any experi ences scrub jays and monarch and other butterflies could have with one another under natural conditions. The birds were in cages. The butterflies were put on the cage floors and the birds were given two minutes to do something or not do anything. Thus the birds were "afforded a closer and longer scrutiny than would usually be possible under natural conditions, where an attacking bird might get only a glimpse of a flying butterfly'," she said. . Youth Apprehended for Breaking Into Home City police Tuesday appre hended an 11-year-old boy on charges of breaking and entry at a home on North Riverside ave. He was relased to his par ents pending action by juvenile authorities. The juvenile admitted taking six packages of cigarettes from a kitchen shelf, police said. He told police he entered the home by knocking two holes In a window screen and gaining entry through an open window. RADIANT GLASSHEAT "The Sunshine Heat" For Free Estimate PHONE SP 2-9854 CLEAN . SAFE MODERN 619 E. Jackson MEDFORD, OREGON Salem 0PI A total of 3,033 carloads of Oregon-grown fresh fruits and vegetables was in spected at shipping points dur ing August, the State Agricult ure Department has reported. 1952 Chevrolet 2-Door Deluxe Sedan It has 68,000 miles on it, but from all indications they were easy miles interior and exterior are immaculate. Has automatic transmission, electric clock, practically new tires, back-up lites and heavy duty heater. Motor just purrs, and yeu will too, at our $COK00 Special Low Price of 031 LEA MOTORS 5th at Bartlett Phone SP 2-G185 fwl i I JULLV' zri: w vu HAPPY-UP A HOME PARTY WITH 0 RE It's a happy moment at the party when you pass the Coke . . . because Coca-Cola has the special knack of helping folks enjoy themselves! For sitting and sipping, or served with meals and snacks, the unique good taste of Coke adds to the fun of any evening. Friends dropping in tonight? Better stock up on Coke today . . the best-loved sparkling drink in all the world. PARTY SUGGESTION: For after-dinner nibbling, hand around "munch baskets" . . . individual baskets pret tily lined with leaves, temptingly filled with raisins and assorted nuts. Plan on a trayful of ice-cold Coke, too! KING family' SIGN OF C000 TASTE Bottled under authority of The Coca-Cola Company by Coca-Cola Bottling Company of Medford 1
