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CALIFORNIA'S CHOICE-The new Miss state in the Miss Universe Beauty Pageant
California, Marilyn Tindall, 21, admires her in Miami Beach, Fla., next month. Miss
trophy after she was selected from a group Tindall represented Los Angeles in the Miss
of 40 California beauties to represent the California competition. (UP1)
Living Costs Hold
Steady at Record
Of 105.2 Per Cent
Washington-OIPli-The Labor
Department reported today
that living costs held steady
at a record-high level and the
average factory worker's take
home pay climbed to an all
time peak in May.
Lower costs of food, solid
fuel and gasoline offset higher
prices of medical care, hous
ing and used cars to halt a
three-month rise in the con
sumer price index.
This left the index unchang
ed at its all-time high of 105.2
per cent of 1957-59 prices. In
other words, it now costs
$10.52 to buy the same goods
and services that were avail
able for $10 a few years ago.
Welcome Respite
Robert J. Myers, deputy
commissioner of labor statis
tics, said the May figures were
a "welcome little respite"
from substantial advances in
February, March and April.
The department reported
that spendable earnings of the
average factory production
worker hit a new peak last
month because the work week
and hourly earnings both in
creased. ' Buying Powers Up
Average take home pay of
a factory worker with three
dependents rose to $86.05 and
the similar figure for a single
man climbed to $78.38 a week.
These earnings are about 50
cents higher than April and
$4 a week more than a year
ago.
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The buying power of these
earnings, after deduction of
federal taxes, also increased
and neared last December's
peak. It was almost 4 per cent
higher than a year ago.
Prices of consumer goods
and services have advanced by
1.3 per cent over the year with
major increases in medical
care, services, housing, public
transportation, food, used cars
and gasoline.
In May, lower prices for
eggs, meats, poultry, dairy
products and most fresh fruits
led to a decline in the food
index despite spiraling costs
of fresh vegetables.
Light North Dakota
Vote Turnout Seen
Bismarck, N.D. - lUPD - Sen.
Milton Young (R - N.D.) had
only token opposition and po
litical observers forecast a
light turnout in today's North
Dakota primary elections.
Between 125,000 and 160,
000 voters were expected to
cast ballots, at least 60,000
less than the record turnout
for the 1960 primary, which
included a special election for
a U.S. Senate seat.
Young was opposed by in
dependent Roger Vorachek,
Lankin, N.D.
The only other contests on
today's primary were for state
offices and all ballot nomina
tions were on the Republican
ticket.
Jubilee Scheduled
In Jacksonville
Jacksonville - All busi
nesses and civic organizations
planning to sponsor a queen
for the Jacksonville Jubilee
should submit their entries
as soon as possible, according
to Dr. A. A. Griffith, chair
man of the contest.
The contest begins Monday,
July 2, and closes Wednesday,
Aug. 1, at 6 a.m. The jubilee
I is set for Aug. 4 and 5.
Weekly prizes will be given
to the queen contestants sell
ing the most Jubilee tickets.
FOR ALL YOUR INSURANCE
NEEDS, SELECT A CERTIFIED
INSURANCE AGENT.
QUALIFIED
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Insurance Agents at
MADE FUNDS AVAILABLE
Bonn, Germany IUPII West
Germany made $741.9 million
available to underdeveloped
nations during the past year,
it was reported today. A study
showed that since 1957, more
than half of all West German
funds going to underdevel
oped areas has come from pri
vate investors.
In the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
As this is written, the bie
political news is the unexpect-
ea aeteat in the house of rep
resentatives of President Ken
nedy's GET TOUGH farm
bill. In the final showdown
it lost by a vote of 215 to
205.
It had been passed by the
senate, by a narrow marein.
Its approval by the house had
been rather confidently ex
pected. The obvious conclu
sion is that at the last minute
there was a lot of soul-searching
by members of the house
who will have to face the
farm voters this fall.
TT WAS a tough bill. It put
teeth in proposals to cut
down production at a time
when the warehouses are
bulging with surpluses.
It would have placed MAN
DATORY acreage reductions
and national marketing quo
tas for the first time on feed
grains and wheat. These
grains have contributed most
heavily to the massive sur
pluses now held by the gov
ernment. It carried an implied threat
that if the farmers failed to
go along with its provisions
the accumulated surpluses
might be thrown nn the mar
ket for what they would
bring.
That was the mailed fist
in the velvet glove.
fVHE American Farm Bureau
Federation, which led the
fight against the bill, calls
the house vote this morning
a VICTORY for farmers, con
sumers and taxpayers, and
adds: "The only losers were
the political empire builders
in Washington."
THE interesting part of this
"tough farm bill" pro
posal, from the beginning,
was why Kennedy administra
tion would risk so tough a
project. It was generally re
garded as evidence that the
New Frontiersmen, after an
alyzing the results of the
1960 election, had come to
the conclusion thai the bal
ance of -political power in
the U.S.A. is now held by
the tightly packed (and large
ly Democratic-voting) masses
in the Big Towns and that
it will now be safe to disre
gard the farm vote and rely
for power on the big city
vote that seems solidly Demo
cratic and New Frontier mind
ed.
The AFB's comment that
"the only losers were the po
litical empire builders
Washington" seems to go
along with the new theory
that the Democratics party's
future lies wholly in the Big
Towns and so the farmers can
safely be told what they must
do or else!
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Illegitimate Births Are
Subject of
By JANET McLEAN
United Press International
Washington (UPl How do
other counties cope with the
social problem of illegitimate
births?
Welfare programs in the
Uniter States-especially those
related to aid for dependent
children (ADC) - have been
heavily assailed in recent
months for alleged abuses
which are regarded as a waste
of the taxpayers' money. They
are coming under severe of
ficial scrutiny.
President Kennedy has pro
posed to Congress drastic re
forms in overall relief regula
tions. All are aimed at help
ing relief f imilies become
self supporting. At present.
public assistance to some 7
million persons is costing U.S.
taxpayers nearly $4 billion a
year.
Studies to be made in the
welfare field will deal with
the problem as it relates to
America's well-being. And il
legitimacy rates wi'" play a
major role in a comprehen
sive survey to be made by the
children's bureau of the de
partment of health, education
and welfare.
With this in mind, a United
Press International reporter
checked with the Australian
Canadian, British and Swed
ish embassies hen for facts,
figures and social attitudes on
illegitimacy problems within
those countries.
Rates Given
In illegitimacy rates for
1S57, given in the Demogra
phic Year-book published by
the United Nations in 1959,
the selected countries record
ed the following incidence of
illegitimacy for every thou
sand live births: Australia,
42.4; Canada, 39.5; England
and Wales, 47.7: Sweden,
101.2 and the United States,
47.4.
Sweden follows the most
comprehensive program of
support for the unwed mother
and her child. A spokesman at
the Swedish Embassy said
Three Important
Laws Slated lor
Vote in Congress
Washington-(UPD-The Senate
Monday considered the first
of three important laws that
will expire at the end of this
week unless Congress takes
action before then.
The week shaped up to be
one of the busiest of the ses
sion for the Senate.
Monday it called up a House
approved bill that would ex
tend for one year corporate
and excise tax rates that have
been in effect since the Kor
ean war.
Before June 30 it must also
vote on whether to increase
the federal debt limit and ex
tend the Sugar act.
There is also a possibility
that the administration's con
troversial med: re proposal
might show up as an amend
ment to a welfare bill.
Money Bills Waiting
In addition to those meas
ures, both the Senate and
House must resolve a stale
mate over appropriation bills
that are supposed to finance
government agencies after the
new fiscal year starts July 1.
Other congressional news:
Enterlainert - The Senate
rackets subcommittee planned
to ask top officials of the
American Guild of Variety
Artists to answer charges that
they did not protect female
members of the entertainers
union. The sub-committee has
heard testimony that union
officials collaborated
with some night club owners
in forcing AGVA members to
double as B-girls and prosti
tutes.
Pensions - A veterans
group reported that it was vir
tually certain now that a dis
charge petition that would
force an $11 biliion pension
bill to a House vote would re
ceive the required number of
signatures. The veterans of
World War I of the U.S.A
said they already have 192 of
the 219 signatures needed.
The bill - applying only to
World War I veterans - would
increase pension payments for
non-service connected disabil
ities.
Population of the U.S., now
185 million, has doubled since
1900.
INSECT
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INSECT NPilUN!
Welfare Study
"multiple 1 11 e g i t i m acy is
rare." Swedish figures show
that most unwed mothers in
Sweden are young girls who
don't have more than one
baby out of wedlock.
Every child in Sweden, rich
or poor, legitimate or not, re
ceives cash benefits from the
state until age 16. (This policy
also is followed in Canada and
about 12 European coun
tries). Free hospitalization is
supplied by the Swedish state
as well as free nursery
schools. It also supplies all
mothers with support and en
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courages the unwed mother
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Sweden tries to impose
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Steps Taken
In the other counties, steps
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Birth certificates do not in
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the United States, Canada and
Australia. Laws in Britain,
Canada and Australia have
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inheritance rights of illegitim
ate offspring.
In England and Australia
there is no state subsidy for
children and mothers as in
Sweden and Canada, or even
in the United States as ap
plied to "hardship cases." In
England and Australia the
welfare programs are left to
the state or local govern
ments, supplemented by pri
vate or church organizations.
Much assistance for the un
wed mother is left to philan
thropic institutions.
Federal welfare off icials
are troubled by the U. S. il
legitimacy rate but they see
no simple solution. Mrs. Kath
erine B. Oettinger, chief of
H E W' s children's bureau,
wrote in a pamphlet survey
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TUESDAY. JUNE 26.
ing the predicament of un
wed parents that since 1957
the rate has risen from 47.4
to 52 per one thousand live
births. That means, she said,
that one in every 20 children
is born out of wedlock.
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