LIVING COSTS
JUMP .7% TO
RECORD HIGH
WASHINGTON, WV-The cost
of living jumped seven-tenths of
one percent in July for the sec
ond successive month, sending
consumer prices to a record high
and bringing wage boosts to 1V4
million workers.
The increase means that the
consumer’s dollar has lost more
than one penny of purchasing
power during the past two
months and two cents in the past
year.
Auto workers, under contracts
adjusted to living costs, will ob
tain a four-cent hourly wage in
crease. So will some 90,000 elec
trical workers.
Other factory employes, includ
ing aircraft, farm equipment and
other workers, will gain three- to |
five-cent increases.
The July index, issued today by
the Labor Department’s Bureau
of Labor Statistics, stood at 117
percent of the 1947-49 average.
BIJ> Commissioner Ewan Clague
told reporters: “It surprised us.
We didn’t think it would be that
much.”
The July increase was attrib
uted largely to what Clague called
“super-seasonal” peaks in fresh
fruits and vegetable prices. But
all other major prices entering
the cost of the city family’s mar
ket basket rose too—rents, trans
portation, services and recreation
among them.
Nixon's Father
Suffers Setback
WHITTIER, Calif., —Vice
President Nixon’s father, again in
critical condition, suffered a
slight setback today when a kid
ney complication developed, his
physician reported.
The vice president, having sped
back from the Republican Na
tional Convention at San Fran
cisco, where he accepted renom
ination last night, again was at
the bedside of 77-year-old Frank
A. Nixon.
The vice president smiled hap
pily, but he was a tired man when
he began his 26-minue speech be
fore a capacity audience in the
Cow Palace at San Francisco.
“I am grateful beyond measure
that you have given me the privi
lege of running on the same tick
et with President Eisenhower. I
shall work hard to re-elect the
President by an even greater ma
jority than the landslide of four
years ago."
The vice president declared
“the American people support the
record of President Eisenhower
and will overwhelmingly re-elect
him on that record.”
Stevenson Protests
President Eisenhower’s
‘Ill-Considered Charge’
LIBERTYVILLE, 111., Adlai
Stevenson protested today against
what he described as President
Eisenhower’s “i 11 considered
charge that the Democrats set
group against group."
And he declared in a statement
that “it is too bad that the Repub
lican record bears so little resem
blance” to Eisenhower’s descrip
tion of it.
ARCTIC SANITARY
SERVICE
PHONE RED 181
Bureau of Roads Assures Alaska
Of Immediate Attention When It
Takes Over From ARC Sept. 16
By FRANK W. VAILLE <
WASHINGTON, UPV—A spokes
man for the Bureau of Public
Roads said today nothing has been
decided on the course of Alaska’s
highway program, which the bu
reau takes over Sept. 16.
But the spokesman—Robert E.
Royall, bureau information offic
er—said the territory’s needs
would get immediate attention
after the bureau assumes the ter
ritorial highway program from
the Alaska Road Commission.
The bureau will direct the pro
gram because Congress this year
included Alaska for the first time
in the federal highway aid pro
gram. •
Some Alaskans are fearful the
territory’s needs will be lost in
the press surrounding the initia
tion of the large nationwide pro
gram approved by Congress. Be
cause of Alaska’s short construc
tion season, engineering must be
completed and bid invitations ex
tended during the spring months
if work is to be carried out next
summer.
ATTORNEYS WIFE
FOUND MURDERED
AT FLORIDA HOME
GAINESVILLE, Fla., OP)—Mrs.
Marilyn Fagan, attractive 30
year-old wife of the Alachua
County prosecuting attorney, was
found shot to death at her home
early today and authorities were
seeking a deaf-mute for ques
tioning.
The husband, Osee Fagan, found
the body beside the front stoop
when he returned home shortly
after midnight. Mrs. Fagan had
been shot thru the heart.
State Atty. Ted Duncan said he
wanted to question Phil Singer,
41-year-old deaf-mute. He said
Singer had been arrested last
April 11 for trespassing at the
country club where he’d been em
ployed as a maintenance man be
fore he was fired by the manager.
On April 10, Duncan said, Sing
er walked into the club during a
Rotary meeting and created a dis
turbance over money allegedly
owed to him. He was taken away
and told not to come back.
Singer was convicted in county
court on June 8, with Fagan
prosecuting, and was sentenced
to 15 days in jail and fined $100.
►
Advised of this fear. Royall
confirmed the bureau has been
concentrating—“stunned s o m e
what” by the vastness of the over
all national program.
"Some thought has been given
Alaska but nothing is fixed,” he
declared.
Plans for the program’s admin
istration in Alaska have not been
completed, he said.
Asked if he could give Alaskans
any reassurance that the terri
tory's program would not become
lost in the shuffle, Royall said the
bureau “is in no position to do
that” until it takes over the Alas
ka program.
When the administrative trans
fer is made next month, he said
the bureau would give immediate
attention to the territory’s needs.
Until then, he said, the bureau
could see no reason why the Alas
ka Road Commission “shouldn’t
proceed with planning next year's
program as it usually does.”
Emphasizing the need for per
sonnel, he reiterated the bureau’s
recent announcement it would
take over the commission’s organ
ization intact, adding:
“And if there are any engineers
out in the hills somewhere, we’ll
send a posse for them.”
For the year ending next J»ne
30, Alaska has been allocated
$1,932,588 in federal aid in addi
tion to the $11,425,000 appropriat
ed directly by Congress for road
construction and maintenance pri
or to inclusion of the territory in
the federal aid program.
In addition, Royall said the
bureau considers that “to all in
tents end purposes” there is
available now the $13,141,599
making up the territory’s federal
allocation for the following 12
month period.
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Army Mess Sergeant
Wins ‘Battle of the Bulge’
But Will Join Air Force
FT. CARSON, Colo., UR—That
fuss over 19 pounds around a pro
fessional soldier’s waistline is go
ing to cost the Army a mess ser
geant.
Sgt. 1st Class James Love, 34,
said yesterday the Army has qui
etly dropped plans to court-mar
tial him for being overweight.
But it doesn’t make much dif
ference, Love confided. He’ll re
sign the Army in October and en
list in the Air Force.
Love, a veteran of 12 years’
service, said he was among a
“handful” of 8th Infantry Divi
sion officers and men facing a
court-martial for failure to peel
off excess Tat as ordered. He
weighs 212 pounds, and said he’d
been ordered to trim down to 193.
A mess sergeant who admitted
ly likes godd food, Love said his
unit commander advised him yes-1
terday that all charges against
him have been dropped.
"4-on" Duplicate Receipt Booki
at the Nugget
Seaman Dies, Another
Critically 111 From
Carbon Monoxide Fumes
KODIAK, Ifl—James B. Tom
mie, a Navy seaman, was found
dead and a companion critically
ill of what is believed to have
been carbon monoxide poisoning
in Tommie’s car at Island Lake
Wednesday.
The companion, Thomas A.
Sheppard, also a Navy seaman,
was reported in satisfactory con
dition after treatment. The pair
were found by nearby residents.
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CORRECTION PLEASE
Blattler the Butcher, at U.S.
Merc, says the price of 48 cents
per pound quoted for beef in the
Wednesday Nugget was in error
—by 10 cents. The correct price
is 58 cents per pound.
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