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83c of Your Dollar ■■■ For Labor
NOW THAT SECRETARY MITCHELL has ap
pointed himself a “one-man fact-finding commit
tee” to keep the President advised on the steel strike, |
there is one recently revealed fact we most especially
hope he will carry to the White House.
This is the revelation presented to the Congress
by Representative Phil Weaver of Nebraska out of
the scholarly and meticulous analysis of the National
'Industrial Conference Board, Inc., that “after exclu
sion of all taxes, labor gets 83.2 cents out of every
dollar of income generated in the national economy”! J
The Nebraska Congressman observed that “every
body is talking inflation,” but that “the average person
is pretty mixed up on just what the word means.”
He thinks we have, as a nation, failed to understand
the relationship of labor costs and productivity — and
that we have muffed the simple fact-of-life that: “If .
a product costs more, it usually ends up selling for
more.”
So long as higher wages were in step with higher
productivity, Mr. Weaver pointed out, they helped to
boost our living standards. “But, the important fact
is,” he said, “that wage increases have gone far ahead
of productivity increases.” ,
The 100-cent dollar of 1940 was worth 63 cents
in 1947 and by mid-1958 was worth only 49 cents, he
pointed out.
What to do? First thing, the Congressman sug
gests, is to let our industries make enough money to
buy new tools to increase productivity. And with
manufacturing profits declining from seven per cent in
1948 to 4.8 per cent in 1957, the outlook is not rosy.
Unless the people demand some freedom for our “free
enterprise,” we may be on our way back to an “oxcart
economy.”
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Newspapers Used as
Aid to Education
In Texas Schools
FORT WORTH, Tex., UP) — An
educator said here that school
children become better citizens if
newspapers are made part of their
daily classroom work.
“You couldn’t find a better stim
ulator in the teaching of history
and the same is true of civics, geo
graphy and English,” said Dr. Irby
B. Carruth.
He is superintendent of Austin,
Tex., public schools where news
papers are regularly used in class.
Carruth was a speaker at the
Texas Daily Newspaper Associa
tion Convention. The TDNA spon
sors a program under which news
papers are provided free of charge
to schools.
Carruth said newspapers are
delivered to Austin’s nine junior
high schools daily and students
| read and discuss the content be
■ tween 8 and 8:30 a.m. The pro
gram wa begun 18 months ago and
has proved an invaluable aid to
teaching, he said.
Ketchikan Visitor Pulls
Pet from Chicago Sewer
CHICAGO, UP) — An Alaska
woman wriggled inside a muddy
sewer pipe for a happy but messy
reunion with her lost dog Mon
day, ending three days of search
for the little pooch.
Mrs. Dorothy Hudson, 35, of
Anchorage, had interrupted her
vacation in Miami, Fla., last Fri
day and flew to Chicago when she
learned her dog, en route to her
in another plane, had escaped
from a crate at Midway Airport.
She tramped through fields near
the airport over the weekend in
search of the 11-year-old dog,
named Wahin. Newspapers and
Animal Welfare League officials
1 alerted the public to watch for the
I part cocker spaniel.
Yesterday the dog was spotted
; peeping from a sewer pipe used
as a culvert. Mrs. Hudson was
notified.
One end of the pipe was blocked
off. At the other end,, neighbor
hood children formed a V-shaped
cordon and Mrs. Hudson went in
side after her pet.
Emerging, the muddy dog was
licking Mrs. Hudson’s muddy face.
Palncr Youth Finds
National Safe Driving
Contest Worrisome Job
WA -HINGTON, (£) — A tall
Alaskan teen-ager, whose worst
traffic hazard has been moose on
the h.ghway, sweated 'through
tests oi the National Safe Driving
Road-E-O yesterday.
Bythel Compton, 18, of Palmer
— population 2,000 — is one of
49 boys here for the eighth annual
teen-age safe driving contest con
ducted by the National Junior
Chamber of Commerce.
Young Compton and the others
were declared champion teen-age
drivers of their states in contests
back home.
The boys — no girl champion
among them — competed in writ
ten tests and interviews yester
day and will get out in traffic
today to show their driving skills.
That was worrying young
Compton, who said he was a
nervous wreck after driving
through Los Angeles traffic three
years ago.
“Most people have good judg
ment but they just don’t use it,”
he said. “You’ve got to watch out
for other people, too, and if they
don’t obey traffic laws, watch
out.”
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Atwood Urges
Building of ICBM
Bases In Alaska
SEATTLE, (jP)—Alaska is the one
spot from which the United
States could control the world
with missiles but nothing is being
done to put them there, Robert
Atwood said here yesterday.
Atwood, phblisher of the An
chorage Times, urged the building
of 1,500-mile range missile bases
in Alaska quickly and establish
ment of 5,000-mile intercontinen
tal missile ranges there as soon
as the ICBM’s become operational.
Atwood said intermediate
range missiles could cover 26
bomber bases the Russians have
built in Siberia. This unmber was
listed recently in an appraisal of
Soviet strength by Lt. Gen. Frank
Armstrong, head of all armed
forces in Alaska.
The publisher added that a polar
projection shows long-range
ICBM’s from Alaska could reach
everything in Russia and Red
China. He said it would take only
two Soviet bombers to immobilize
the Air Force in Alaska.
“Then it would be an easy
matter for the Russians to follow
up with paratroopers and convert
the bases in Alaska to their own
use. If that ever happens. Presi
dent Eisenhower will have to
decide whether to bomb Alaska
to save Seattle, Chicago and other
industrial centers.”
Atwood is here to attend the
annual meeting of the Associated
Press Managing Editors’ Asso
ciation.
Stutz Bearcat Founder
Dies at Miami, Fla.
MIAMI, Fla., (#) — Charles E.
Stutz, 76, builder of a pioneer
American sports car, died Monday
of cancer.
The Stutz Motor Car Co. manu
factured a variety of automobiles
but its top-drawer model was the
Stutz Bearcat, still hallowed in
memory by sports car enthusiasts.
Charles and a cousin, the late
Harry Stutz, founded the firm in
1909 at Indianapolis. Harry was
administrator and Charles, by
then already a well-known race
driver built the cars and raced
them widely.
Stutz came to Miami in 1940
after the auto firm stopped pro
duction.
BLIND SPOT
SCARBOROUGH, England, UP)
— Desmond Armstrong rode his
motorcycle around the busy streets
of Scarborough for six months
before he hit a tree.
It was only then that police dis
covered he was registered offi
cially as a blind man.
After the accident, the police,
as a test, asked Armstrong to reach
an automobile license plate at 25
yards, the standard eyesight test
for a driving license.
Armstrong not only could not
read the plate. He hardly could
see the car.
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The fame of Alaska as a new
state has made recruiting of elec
tronic engineers and electronic
technicians easier for the Federal
Aviation Agency.
Rogers E. Walker, FAA place
ment officer, recently completed
! a tour of Washington, Orgon and
California, interviewed 265 appli
cants and left 30 kits of applica
tion papers which interested pros
pects are now completing. One of
these is an electronic engineer,
the field of the FAA’s greatest
need, and 29 are electronic tech
nicians. '
“Opportunities for advance
ment in the growing fields of air
way construction in Alaska had
the greatest appeal,” Walker re
ported. “Of course the woman’s
angle on the way we live in Alas
ka featured every interview, and
we could identify the questions
which husbands had been in
structed to ask. We also had an
ally in the weather on this trip,
since we met temperatures in the
90’s and 100’s. We could always
talk about our pleasant days and
cool nights in Alaska. We found
| many electronic workers not sat
1 isfied with the narrow fields in
j which they'were working in in
j dustry, and intrigued by the op
| portunities of travel, new living
I conditions and advnture which
Alaska provides.”
| Canadian Ship Held Up at
Skagway In Union Dispute
VANCOUVER, B. C., UP) — A
spokesman for the Canadian
Brotherhood of Railway, Trans
port and General Workers (CLC)
said here Monday night that a
ship has been tied up at Skagway
in a dispute involving longsore
men who are members of the Sea
farers’ International Union.
Dick Neilson, public relations
officer for the brotherhood, said
the Clifford J. Rogers, a British
Yukon Navigation Company ves
sel which operates between Van
couver and Skagway, was tied up.
He said longshoremen refused
to load the ship unless five mem
bers of the crew, facing expul
sion charges from the SJU, are
removed.
The brotherhood will ask Trans
port Minister Hees to appeal to
the United States government to
intervene in the dispute.
Neilsen said the Cana 1 an La
bor Congress has been ;ked to
issue a policy statement d daring
that it will not permit i lterna
tional unions to interfere w_th the
affairs of Canadian uniQns.
Monday baseballTre-:ults
National League
San Francisco 3, St. Louis 2.
American League
Cleveland 6, Kansas City 5.
New York 7, Boston 4.
Pacific Coast League
Vancouver 5, Salt Lake City 1.
Seattle 6, Sacramento 5.
Portland 4, Phoenix 3.
Spokane 9, San Diego 3.
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