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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (Aug. 10, 1949)
PACE FOUR HERALD AND NEWS. KLAMATH FALLS. ORf-CON WEDNESDAY, AUC. 10, 194? Consumer Income Higher In First Half Of 1949 Than During 1948 Boom TOONERVILLE FOLKS WASHINGTON. Ant. 1 (V-In-eocnes of roittumm rmn Z.I percent higher in the fe half of Ihli vear than In the same period of IMS, when tht boom was In (nil mini. Retail buying power thin was fattened by the How of Income to people si distinguished from cor poration at an annual rate of (313.400.000 000 In Uia first MX month of tliix year, commerce de partment figures showed. That was record high. The stream of ruh was on the Inrreaae al mid-year, too. according to revised daU from Ihe depart ment, personal Incomes roae In total from April thrown June after hav Inr bomped down from laat De cember's peak annual rate of S117, oM.0oa.0o0 to a trough of SMt.lfrS. M0.MI In Marrh. Bv June, the rate was bark to S213.SOO.0O0.0Oft. The msln cause of an Increase In the annual note of personal incomes from May to June was higher farm receipts due to disposal of a larger volume of crops either on the mar- j ket or In loans from the government. I Possibly of greater significance waa Ihe first Increase In factory payrolls since laat September. The steady decline In that Interim had resulted from worker layoffs, which In turn showed up In Increased un employment. In June, the depart ment aaid. wages rose In the non durable goods Industries and "steadied- In the durable group. Another commerce department report showed that the book value of ! business Inventories had been cut 1 back about 1 1.000 000.000 In June I chiefly by manufacturers and re- taller to an estimated total of , SM .579.000.000, Home economists hare dubbed the business downturn this year an In ventory recession," ( In still another report, the com merce department ssfd that publicly : reported cash dividends psid by cor- Dora linns were 13 per cent higher In June than In the same month last , year. ! Looking for something? Read the Want Ads you may find It there! Handlebar Hank. Your smearin molassls on the'end OF THAT MUSTACMe TO KttP PLIES AWAY PROM TOUR HEAD sj- life. ... MAS 4JIVEN ME AN IDEA - ) SiW:k 'xKtL. :t) iwii fovsi Bus Smashes Into Bridge Abutment In East; Fifteen Trapped By Flames Killed More thsn one billion tons of I Most of the Inhabitants of New steel are said to be In use In foundland live by fishing, forestry America today. or mining. I lU.OOMlNttTOX, Illd.. Aug. II Fifteen persona died In Ihe flaming wreckage of a tirevhound bus that burned after smashing In lo a bridge abutment near here early today, Tlis bus, bound from Indlanspo 11s la Hloomlngton. hit the bridge on a winding, hlllv road ahnrllt alter midnight. Krconds later II waa In flames. The bodies removed Irom Die bus were placed In sis ambulances and a hearse and. accompanied bv a police escort, wrre brouihl lo the Indiana national guard armory hers to avail Idrnlillratlon. Driver Wayne t'ramrr of Indian apolis, one of Ihe survivors, said front tire may have blown out, causing him lo lose control of ihe bus. Alter striking the abutment it skidded lit feel uown winding hlth way 31 and came la real on Its left side, blocking Ihe emergency said one of Ihe survivors told him he walked through five feel ol flames to gel olf Ihe bus. The survivor. Wells Hirhardaon, IS. of llvanavlllr, Ind, told Van Itorn he waa dosing when tho bus struck Ihe bridge abutment. 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