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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.
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Temperatures Above
Normal Predicted
Washington OP) The Weath
er Bureau predicts above nor
mal temperatures for both the
Atlantic and Pacific coasts dur
ing the next 30 days.
Below normal temperatures
were forecast from the lower
Mississippi Valley and western
Great Lakes region westward to
the plateau states.
The bureau said near normal
temperatures are in prospect
elsewhere "except for above nor
mal along the west coast."
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.
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