Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 53, Number 233, Decatur, Adams County, 4 October 1955 — Page 12

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Upward Price Trend On Business Front Moderate Rise In Prices Underway CHICAGO (INS) — The Federal Reserve Bank of Cheiago today reports an upward price trend is building along the business front. The bank reports in its monthly review, that despite record levels of production and - ‘tightening” on money, a moderate rise in the price, of many goods and service is already underway. But the upward price pressure, the bank points out, has not developed as a result of any single factor. Price increases in recent weekj were posted for a number of raw materials, procers’ goods and retail items. Daily increases tor specific items are being announced daily. $ The bank, in an example, reports that in the Chicago area, nine out of ten purchasing agents reported paying higher prices for things they purchased in July and August. More and more, the bank reports, business buying policies are being influenced by the prospect of further price markups in the near future. Both businessmen and consumers are apparently willing to spend more readily. Inventory building by business is currently running at a $5.(TOO,000.000 annual rate, and plant and equipment outlays are picking up sharply. Spending by individuals has

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risen by an even larger dollar amount than business investment as personal income after taxes gained about S per cent since last year. Moreover, a larger share of this added income is being spent. The 1955 rate per personal savings. about 6 iper cent of the after tax pay check, is the lowest in five years. meanwhile, higher wages are not only adding to income but also aiding to edge prices up because of the addition to costs. European business, too, has played a part in bolstering prices in the U. S. American non-military exports are exceeding 1954 by 10 percent, and at the same time American buyers have had to offer higher prices for raw* materials bought in world markets. General price Indexes have registered only a sluggish upward response to date. The index of consumer prices has been moving up by fractions of a point and in a recent month was still below’ a year ago. Wholesale prices have advanced Wly 1 percentage point since last spring. Despite a further decline in farm commodity prices expected this fall, the banks says, appreciable increases in consumer and wholesale price averages are in the making. Television sets are going up |lO to S3O per unit and most television makers believe that a strong fall market will readily absorb these increases. Electric equipment has been raised 10 percent by one manufacturer, and other firms are expected to follow' suit. After a series of boosts, domes-

tic copper has reached a Twentieth Century high of 43 cents per pound. Textile prices have risen with further increases in the offing. These gains, according to the bank, followed on the heels of earlier substantial increases for steel, rubber, machinery and various building materials. Houston Plans Test Os German System Planning Test Os Transport System HOUSTON, Tex. (INS) — A unique transportation system used •in Germany to conquer rough terrain will be tested in Houston soon as away to conquer heavy traffic. It is the monorail system, employing suspended coaches that travel high above the city on single rails — and it could be the answer to the increasing traffic problems that plague heavily-pop-ulated cities all over the United States. Used in Wuppertal and Cologne, Germany since the turn of the century, Houston will be the first American city to try the system. The pilot line should be open to the public by-November. Several American cities have considered the system at one time or another, but the Houston group, organized as Monorail, Inc,, and headed by engineer Murel Goodell, ’ is the first to construct an experimental model. Goodell said his group is anxious

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of Houston to the downtown section. Passengers will board overhead cars at a few selected points within the residential sections, and then he expressed into town at speeds of 50 miles an hour or more. Ohly one or two monorail stations will be necessary in the business section, and prices for riding the big. spacious coaches will pot be high, the authorities say, because electricity is the only power required to run monorail. J. B. White, City director of Public Service, said he believes monorail will work especially well in Houston because it will eliminate long haul bus routes which the transit company claims lose money. The system gives a minimum of noise because the coaches run on pneumatic tires, not steel wheels. Goodell and the group of Houston business and civic leaders backing him do not, think the monorail system is too far advanced to be practical. “Monorail isn't the transportation system of the next century,” j the engineer declared. “It is economically feasible right now. We ’erect supports for an overhead rail, then we design cars with overhead wheels. We make sure that the system is safe comfortable and inexpensive enough to warrant public acceptance. From that point on. monorail is the transportation system of today.” This newest thing in public transportation will be tried out on (Conti n usd on Page Three)