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‘Seif-Discipline’ Required Of Labor,
Business, To Avoid Fed. Control -- Ike
By STERLING F. GREEN
WASHINGTON, UP) — President
Eisenhower said Tuesday the na
t:on faces a grave choice — either
s lf-discipline to prevent a dam
aging inflation, or government
controls “which are alien to our
traditional way of life.”
Eisenhower sent to Congress his
economic report, third and last of
the major annual messages. It an
nounced a virtually full recovery
f-om the recession, forecast rec
ord income and production in
"'59, and held out hopes of tax
reduction reasonably soon there
aiter. It asked 31 laws to help
“assure a vigorous growth of our
economy.”
But the message clearly was
meant as an alarm bell to rally
labor, business and consumers to
START 'EM EARLY . . ,
- INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., UP) — An
earnest young man circulated an
t pen letter in the Indiana General
Assembly Monday urging creation
of a Governor’s Youth Council to
i.elp teen-agers.
He looked puzzled by the result
ing hilarity.
The letter’s punch line:
“The juvenile delinquent of to
day is the Senator or Represen
tative of tomorrow.”
The reason most people don’t
know more is that they don’t
make any effort to listen when
listening is indicated.
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unite with the government in de
fending the value of the dollar.
Wage rises that run ahead of
increases in output per worker,
Eisenhower said, push up prices,
hurt sales and impair American
competition in world markets.
Thus excessive wage costs ob
struct the creation of new jobs,
endanger the jobs of those now
working, and: “In short, they are,
in the end, self-defeating.”
The President appealed to in
dustry to redouble its efforts to
hold the price line and “wage a
ceaseless war against costs.” He
urged consumers to shop careful
ly for price and quality.
He called on Congress, for the
third time in a fortnight, to abide
by the spending cuts in the 77
billion-dollar budget which he sent
to the capitol Monday for the year
starting July 1.
This, he told the legislators,
would be “the most' important
single step in discharging the gov
ernment’s responsibility to help
preserve the stability of prices
and costs through the prudent
management of its own affairs.”
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Survey Shows Seattle
Prices Climb Faster Than
In Seven Alaska Cities
During the past three years, Se
attle prices have climbed 6.3 per
cent, while prices in Alaska ci
ties have climbed from a low of
4.8 per cent in Fairbanks to a
high of 10.8 per cent in Sitka. An
chorage prices increased 5.9 per
cent in the three-year period, Ju
neau prices 6 per cent, and Ket
chikan prices 5.1 per cent. This
information, released last week,
is contained in the Ward Consumer
Price Index prepared for the Alas
ka Resource Development Board.
The report clearly shows tha
Alaska living costs have not risen
as rapidly as those in Seattle, with
the exception of Sitka, over the
three-year period.
Comparisons between 1957 and
1958 show that in most of the
Alaska cities surveyed, the gap in
living costs between Seattle and
Alaska towns is being narrowed.
The following comparisons be
tween Seattle in 1958 and Alaska
1958 illustrate this fact. With Se
attle, 1958, as 100: Nome is 149.9,
Fairbanks 145.4, Anchorage 135.2,
Sitka 127.8, Seward 123.6, Juneau
121.4 and Ketchikan 119.6. These
figures indicate the spread be
tween Seattle prices and the se,v
en Alaska cities surveyed during
1957 and 1958. Nome is down 1.1,
Fairbanks down 4.6, Anchorage up
1.6, Seward down 4.1, Juneau
down 2.7, Ketchikan up .6, and
Sitka up 7.4.
Mikoyan Discusses
V odka Drinking
NEW YORK, UP) — Vodka
straight is an unhappy fate; vodka
in mix has less potent kicks
That paraphrases an observa
tion of Soviet Deputy Premier
Anastas I. Mikoyan Tuesday.
In the course of a lefsurely con
versation in a railroad dining car
Mikoyan discussed vodka drink
ing. Russians, he said, drink vod
ka undiluted and “do adna” —
bottoms up, and this is bad.
The Americans have a better
way, Mikoyan said: They put it
in tomato juice.
Meanwhile, he sipped on a mar
tini-on-the-rocks.
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Fatal Heart Attack Writes ‘Finale’ To
Fabulous DeMille Moviemaking Career
HOLLYWOOD, UP) — Cecil B
DeMille, whose spectacular pro
ductions made him the movies’
most famous and successful direc
tor, died today. He was 77.
A heart attack claimed the man
who was one of the founders of
Hollywood and became legend in
his own time.
He died at his home after an
iliness of a week. His wife, Con
stance, and a daughter, Cecelia,
survive.
DeMille made more than 70
films, both directing and produc
ing many. He spent money like j
water, in amounts that awed even
Hollywood’s freespending studio
heads.
But it paid off. Picture after
picture set boxoffice records. Sev
eral of his films became screen
classics.
He was amazingly active right
up until he was taken ill. The
last film h< actively produced was
“The 12 Commandments.” But he
supervised production of “The
Buccaneer,” and was making plans
for a new film about Lord Robert
Baden-Powell, who founded the
Boy Scouts.
DeMille has estimated that his
films have been seen by more than
5 billion people — roughly twice
Anchorage Office Machine
Head Faces Tax Charge
SEATTLE, UP) — Arthur R. Bor
chardt, of Sultan, Wash., president
of the Arctic Office Machine Co.,
Inc., of Anchorage, was released
on $1,500 yesterday after a pre
liminary hearing here on a fed
eral complaint charging him with
income tax evasion.
C. W. Billinghurst, Astistant
United States Attorney, said the
complaint charges Borchardt with
evasion on his 1952 taxes.
The complaint says Borchardt
paid $12,428.12 taxes on a re
ported net income of $35,221.63,
but he should have paid $18,903.06
on an income of $46,391.86.
Billinghurst said the case will
be submitted to the next federal
grand jury.
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the earth’s population. Box office
returns are nearing a billion dol
lars.
DeMille’s trademarks were
clashing battles, violent storms,
lavish banquets, great fires,
chases, mobs, milk baths for Fad
ing ladies — and of course im
passioned lovemaking.
He worked on a grand scale,
using 4,000 extras and 6,000 ani
mals to part the Red Sea for his
first “Commandments.” For the
second version he went to Egypt
and made the greatest crowd
scene in history, using 25,000 no
mads, plus their horses, goats,
camels, roosters and pigeons.
He lived up to the public’s idea
of a Hollywood moviemaker. For
years he wore puttees and carried
a megaphone, barking orders on
the set. He was a whip-cracking
martinet who ruled his sets like
a sergeant-major.
But he had a soft side and often
apoligized later for harsh words.
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