Climb of Wholesale Prices Points To Increases in Cost of Living
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John Day Youth
Killed in Crash
La Grande-fllPII-Lonnie Les
ter Fleetwood, 16, John Day,
was killed when a car carry
ing three youths went out of
control, left Highway 30, and
overturned east of La Grande
about 2 a.m. today.
State polic eldentlfied the
other two in the car as Rich
ard Weygandt, 20, La Grande,
and Paula Johns, 17, John
Day. They were brought to a
La Grande hospital by a pass
ing truck,' and were reported
in satisfactory condition.
State police said the west
bound car was traveling at a
high rate of speed when It ca
reened from the highway and
overturned.
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Support
day, highlighted by strength
In steel, auto and electronic
issues.
U. S. Steel and Jones &
Laughlin met some support,
jumping more than a point,
and Youngstown, Republic
and Bethlehem added a half
or better,
Motors, easier most of last
week, moved fractionally
higher. J. I. Case was active
and lost a small fraction. IBM
jumped more than 2 and Lit
ton and Texas Instruments
more than a point each. Pola
roid picked up nearly 3 In the
cameras and American Home
Products nearly 2 in the
drugs. Alrcrafls were easier,
building equipments mixed.
Law Aimed at
Processors Aired
Salem (UPD The pros and
cons of an unfair practices law
aimed at processors were air
ed here Saturday before the
Interim Committee on Agri
culture. The committee has not tak
en a stand on the bill, drawn
up by the Oregon Fruit and
vegetable Growers associa
tion. Herbert Hardy, Portland, of
the Oregon Canners, Packers,
Freezers, and Cold Storage
Council, said he doubted if
the proposed bill is necessary
for the formation of a grow
ers' bargaining group. He said
the council, representing
about 90 per cent of the proc
essors in Oregon, is "violent
ly opposed" to the restrictions
set out in the measure.
Among other things, the bill
forbids processors to interfere
on a growers' bargaining
group. It also outlaws so-called
discrimination by proces
sors In process, grades, quotas,
hauling terms, delivery sched
ules and loans or credits.
About 50 persons attended
the hearing.
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EASTER PARADE The bold cross formed day. Balmy weather greeted the million and
by the roof of St. Patrick's Cathederal In a half persons who participated in the an-
New York City dwarfs marchers in the tra- nual march.
ditional Easter parade along Fifith ave. Sun- (UPI Telephoto)
Demo Presidential Aspirants
Seek To Bury Religious Issue
Washington - (UPD - Three
Democratic presidential can
didates sought today through
separate moves to bury the
religious issue as a factor in
the 1860 campaign.
Sen. John F. Kennedy (D
Mass.) and Hubert H. Humph
rey (D-Mlnn.) took steps to
keep the issue of Kennedy's
CaUiolic faith out of the West
Virginia primary where they
clash May 10.
Sen. Stuart Symington (D
Mo.), another avowed presi
dential candidate, said "this
country cannot afford bigot
ry." He promised he would do
everything in his power to
eliminate the religious Issue
from the campaign "by writ
ing and talking about how
wrong it Is."
Symington, who Is entered
in the primary, said voters in
West Virginia should choose
between Humphrey and Ken
nedy on the basis of who
would make the better presi
dent. Kennedy reasserted his
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views on the separation of the
church and state in a message
to Harold Glen Brown, Port
land, Ore., minister and presi
dent of the Oregon Council of
Churches, a Protestant organi
zation.
Humphrey wrote West Vir
ginia Democratic leaders and
members of his campaign
committee there that the
state's Democrats should vote
for the man who can best
lead the party, "regardless of
religion."
Kingsley Airman
Drowns in River
Klamath Falls- (UPD -Benja
min Lowell Weaver, 24, an
airman first class at Kingsley
Field here, drowned late
Saturday In the Lost river.
Authorities said Weaver
was trying to correct a mal
function in a radio-controlled
boat and had reached the boat
and headed , back to shore
when he apparently was
seized with cramps.
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After a holiday in Jamaica,
Kennedy returned to West
Virginia Sunday night for
three days in campaigning in
preparation for his second
contest with Humphrey. Ken
nedy defeated Humphrey in
Wisconsin on April 5.
Humphrey planned to spend
most of this week campaign
ing for the May 3 District of
Columbia primary, in which
he is matched against Sen.
Wayne L. Morse (D-Ore.), and
to return to West Virginia
early next week.
His letter to West Virginia
Democrats said he was run
ning for the presidential
nomination on his own and
not as a "front man" for any
one else.
There have been reports
that supporters of Symington
and Senate Democratic Lead
er Lyndon B. Johnson would
support Humphrey in an ef
fort to stop the front-running
Kennedy. Symington also de
nied he was connected with
any such move.
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New Round of
Price Jumps Seen
By Mid-Summer
Washington -(UPD- Govern
ment economists said today
that soaring wholesale prices
last month may point to a new
round of retail price increas
es before mid-summer.
Their forecast was based on
a Labor Department report
Sunday night showing that
wholesale prices In March
climbed to an all-time peak,
reflecting higher costs of farm
products and food.
The economists said the re
port means the average con
sumer's living costs also prob
ably reached a new record
high last month.
The wholesale price index
jumped six-tenths of one per
cent in March - the largest
monthly rise in two years -to
120.0 per cent of the 1947
49 average. This equaled the
record high set last April,
Blame Winter Weather
Raw winter weather In
March pushed up prices of
livestock, meats and eggs, and
vegetable prices moved up
seasonally, the Bureau of La
bor Statistics said.
It said gasoline costs also
rose substantially but other
non-farm comodities were un
changed or declined in price.
The Increase In the whole
sale index came on the heels
of a report from a cabinet
level committee which said
the wholesale price index was
virtually steady for two years
and called it "a very useful
tool for detecting and analyz
ing inflationary trends."
Bad for Housewives
The index last month show
ed falling prices for iron and
steel scrap, copper scrap,
some cotton goods and fuel
heating oils.
But the upsurge in the
farm-food category Is bad
news for housewives, econo
mists said. Low grocery pric
es have been, holding down
the consumer price index, an
other barometer of inflation,
for most of the past year.
The upward trend for food
apparently confirms fears of
Labor Department experts
who anticipated a further in
crease in the cost-of-living in
dex. . . ,
A report for March living
costs is expected to be releas
ed next week.
Orbiting Capsule
Disappointing
Vandenberg Air Force Base,
Calif. -(UPD- A 300-pound space
capsule whizzed around the
earth in a polar orbit today -much
to the disappointment
of the Air Force.
The orange-crate sized cap
sule stuffed with instruments
was successfully ejected Sat
urday on the 17th orbit of
Discoverer XI satellite. But it
did not return to earth near
Hawaii where a flotilla of
ships and planes hoped to
make the world s first recov
ery of an object from orbit.
Some undetermined meclv
anism in the complicated sys
tem failed to shoot the cap
sule back as planned. Never
theless the Air Force said the
test of Discoverer XI was ex
ceptional in its performance.
From launch through the
lime of ejection the instrU'
mented second stage perform'
cd all of its functions on com
mand, reporting its activities
back to Air Force tracking
stations in Hawaii and Alaska.
Britons Protest
Nuclear Weapons
London -(UPU-Thousands of
"Ban the bomb" mnrrhprs
converged on London's Trafal
gar bquare todav to rllmnv
one of the largest mihlli. nrn.
tests against nuclear weapons
in posi-Hirosnima history.
At least 20.000 Britons
walked shoulder to shoulder
m the final stage of a 33 mile,
lour-aay march from the nu
clear research station at Al
dermaston, forming a column
estimated to be seven miles
long as it hit the outskirts of
London Sunday.
Thousands more waited
near Trafalgar today to join
in the lunch time rally spon
sored by such International
personalities at Lord Bertrand
Kussell, philosopher and out
spoken critic of Soviet and
Western nuclear policies.
Aaron Frank in
Portland Hospital
Portland-(lTD-Aaron Frank,
6!), president of Meier St
Frank company, was reported
In good condition at St. Vin
cent hospital today.
Frank was taken to the hos
pital Saturday with an appar
ent heart condition,
Pioneer V Satellite Pas
Washington -IUPI)- America s
Pioneer V satellite celebrated
Easter Sunday by passing the
five-million-mile mark from
earth, and appropriately
enough It was just over Easter
Island at the time.
A.irHln tn the Air Force
and Federal Space Agency, the
94.8-pound sun satellite set me
Mctnri mark on its journey
away from earth at 1:20 p.m.
(p.s.t.).
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