Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 12 November 1937 — Page 25

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The Indianapolis Time

DONATES HISTORIC CABIN

Mrs. toric No Y.

Herr 19 at

log cabin, Lebanon,

Abigail Herr is donor of the histo be dedicated

Oidaty

Turkey Prices at 35 Cents Per Pound Top '36 Level;

Cos OST

City Quotations on Birds Equal National Average;

‘Trimmins’

Little Higher

Than Last Year;

New Yorkers to Pay Most.

CHICAGO. Nov. 12 (U. P). more than prices may

today.

around in two weeks, indic Producers in Wi

Press survey ated although been & decline in be no highel for the “trimmin’s prices appear equal or very 1936 costs about 2 cents a pound: nd 35 cents 8

week

vear

the

than

past mat last As what to

lit

national 7. about r than toes OVvst arol

celery,

BIS.

10 to 12 cents ®

around 25 16 cents a pound from 3 cents a pound to & straight 25 cents each for whole pumpkins. The most exe item, other than the bird itsel will be nuts, which range in from 69 an assorted { in Minneapolis to 17 cents In 5s City, Mo. The average price around 30 cents a pound. 1 the average the cost dinnai family figured New York City's family will of $8. highest in the

mincemeat

pound; cranberries, i pumpkin in bulk pensit

cents

national

for a NSt

ost 20 te Tex center of “turkey belt hot get their gobblers at to 25 cents a pound, “dressed

the

25 Cents

Jallas { the 1sefrom

for

awestern

ives will

oven.

price will be paid for in Pittsburgh, where were listed around 43 Minneapolis, Boston. Tenn., housewives next highest price,

The highest rds bough { vs today cents a pound Knoxv ille pay the 40 cents New Orleans, bird” will cost expensive With the usual turkey, chicken,

und La “naonly cents in the country substitutes: for ducks or a goose, the total cost would be considerably in the case of New York a difference of $4. reported use of would reduce the cost cents to a dollar and

the tional 21

3 1 the les

1CASI

resiOther other from more

that meats

a few

Prices of Gobblers In City at 35 Cents

Turkey 1 Indianapolis are around 35 cents per pound on fool. a survev revealed today. Ducks and geese are very scarce this year, according to poultry dealers, and will retail around 25 cents per pound Chicken prices retail at 27 cents per pound on foot.

LISTS SIX WAYS T0 AID CARRIERS

Chicago Professors Book Says Federal Ownership Is Not Inevitable.

prices i

CHICAGO, Nov. 12 (U. P).-— Lewis C. Sorrell, Chicago University transportation professor, today outlined a six-point reform program for American railroads, railway labor unions and shippers, and said Government ownership “is not necessary or inevitable” In a book entitled “Government Ownership of Railways for the United States,” published in conjunction with the Railway Business Association, Prof. Sorrell declarea the following program “wi be tonducive to the retention of private capitalism in railroad transportation". Recognition by railway investors of obsolete capital structures and early revision of them, in order to re-establish carrier credit. Recognition by railway ment of and practices,

manage-

and an effort to explore all co-operative ventures; that offer hope of realizable economies and more effective adaptation of the industry to present-day conditions Willingness of railway labor to re-examine its policies and vested rights, and to eliminate what is obsolete in them: and to realize the changed status of railroads, with its resulting effects upon traffic, revenues, wage levels and opportunities for employment. Abandonment by shippers communities of obsolescence in their attitudes, poiicies and vested interests. Settlements by shippers, investors,

seonsin. Michigan and Minnesota, have nrices now are one to five cents higher than in 1936, there has and before Thanksgiving Day,

hetcse

obsolete operating policies |

latter

{ England, | $1347;

Thanksgiving turkeys should cost no 37 cents a pound. ready for the oven, and before the day rolls drop several cents,

replies to a United indicated that

turkevs

TYPICAL FAMILY |

= INCOME $1400

Average Buying Home and } Owns 1935 Auto, N. S. Survey Shows.

WASHINGTON, Nov, The American family ing in a small city, has an income of $1400 = is buving a home,

12 U.P).

typical

vear,

| owns a 1935 automobile and goes 10 |

the movies once a week. These conclusions were drawn from Government survevs of the earning. living and spending habits

picture of ily. The average family included the survey of 19 small cities—regarded as typical araphical localities—consisted of a husband, wife and two children.

Family income ranged from an av- |

in Klamath Falls, to $955 in Lincoln, Il.

Gets Weekly Wage

The man was listed as the “head the household” and the principal wage earner in most cases. He worked for a weekly wage in a factory or clerked in a store. woman did her own housework. The survey was made during the part of 1936 and the first part of this year. The Agriculture Department's nomics surveyed 19 cities ranging in

erage of $1617 Ore.,

population from 9000 to 19.000, 140 |

villages and 66 farm counties. The Labor Department's Bureau of Labor including New York and Chicago.

More than 500 persons are em- |

ploved in compiling and sorting the

statistics which are expected to give

a complete and detailed picture of income, living and spending habits in every section of the country, The survey the 19 small cities wa: approached “from the standpoint that family income is an index to family wellbeing.” said Dr. Louise Stanley, chief of the Bureau of Agricultural Economics. Variation Slight

two cities of industrial New the median income was for four Plains and Rocky Mountain cities, $1419; for Central West cities, $1164; for four Pacific Northwest cities, $1555. and for two southeastern cities, $1252. Median family incomes for the 16 small cities included Klamath Falls, $1617; Astoria, Ore., $1591; Eugene, Ore., $1538; Olympia, Wash., $1537; Greenfield, Mass., Mo., $1393; Sumter, S. C., $1384; gan, Utah, $1274. Rents ranged from an average of $13 a month in Griffin, Ga., to $24 | in Sreenfien, Mass.

For

‘GOLD STORE TAKES DROP.

WASHINGTON, Nov. 12 (U. P). —The Government's store of sterilized gold was reduced $15.000,000 Wednesday by gold exports to France and Great Britain, the first major outward shipments since May, 1936, the Treasury reported ! today.

course to the Government itself, thus demonstrating their capacity | to set their own house in order. A modernization of the system

| of Government intervention in the |

field of transportation.

He declared Government owner- |

| ship would not improve the service

| and concluded that “private owner- | and |

ship operation of the railroads is the desirable policy for the United States, whether viewed from the standpoint of “the Special interest Rroups most y concerned

managemaents and labor without re- from She or ipiiic

& bu

NEW LEBANON D.

The log cabin, located in Memorial Park at Lebanon, is to serve as home for James Hill Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution. State Segom Mrs. W. H. Schlosser and all past chapter PE are to be guests.

liv- |

in|

of various geo- |

The |

Bureau df Home Eco- |

Statistics surveyed 32 cities, |

of 14400 families in|

seven |

$1438; Columbia, | Lo-

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 1937

CHAPTER HOUSE '

soldier buried in Lebanon cemetery,

It formerly was Mrs. Herr's old country home in Boone

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