Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 28 December 1948 — Page 10

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tn Price Index

Change Would Affect

Seripps- Howard Staff Writer WASHINGTON, Dec. 28-—Gov~

Wage Negotiations | By FRED W. PERKINS = |

"ernment figures show living costs

leveling off and dropping slightly, and experts predict a probable

further fall.

If that happens it wil have profound effect on the

round”

The index"

latest

consecutive month, Next month, between Jan. 20

and 25, the bureau will announce

“consumers’ of the Bureau of Labor, Statistics dropped eight:-tenths of| 1 per cent between Oct. 15 and) : Nov 15-—principally because food! prices went down for the fourth:

“fourth

pay-boost drives of or-| ganized labor. price

its figures for mid-December. If a further drop is shown then it will be regarded as a trend.

See January Drop

Some experts say the January report is pretty certain to show

a fusther drop, and they are even! more sure about the February report, which will reflect the price] cuttings of the after-Christmas| and year-end retail sales, affect-|

ing clothing, house furnishing and various merchandise other;

than food.

If the January report ux ma Hog Prices Off 25- 50 Cents:

~ December) shows a drop it will

have an immediate repercussion!

in a bellwether wage industry automobile manufacturing. General Motors Corp., largest private employer in the country, is operating under contracts that tie the wages of its workers partly The adjustments are quarterly, and the January report governs for the next three

to living costs.

months,

GM Workers Face Cut If the index stays where it is — General Motors workers, who are members of the CIO United Automobile Workers or the CIO United Electrical Workers, will have to take a_cut of a-cent or two an hour. If the index falls further

the cut will be larger.

This would be the first wage cut in a major industry since the beginning of World War II. General Motors employees are protected by a cellar to their wage reductions, and in May they are by previous contract due to get a 3-cent automatic increase. The balanced effect on the workers may be slight. But experts say there is bound to be at least a “fourth

tomobile

psychological effect on round“ pay demands coming up in March and later in the spring —in Ford, Chrysler and other auindustries,

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manufacturing, and in a host of smaller firms that take their cue from the big companies. If living costs are shown to be headed down, big and little em-

PARTLY CLOUDY AND ¥2 CLOUDY AREAS

TONIGHT AND TOMORROW-—The moist arrow at the bottom of the map indicates the path - of winds from the Gulf of Mexico which will bring stormy weather and rain to the Great Plains and the Ohio Valley, including Indiana. Along with the precipitation, the mercury is expected to rise slightly. By dawn the minimum for Indiana should be in the 30's,

Official Weather

ployers will resist further pay ~ boosts, No authorl predicts that the

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Mrs. Marjorie Fendley Thelma Theiss Mrs. Fendley, 1808 Winfield Ave., to exchange Christmas gifts in. Indianapolis stores. Mr. ; ‘Tousey, men’s department section manager, H, P. Wasson & Co.

Set $23.25 Extreme Top Here

Hog prices dropped 25 ta 50/to $27. Canner and cutter lightcents a hundred pounds below weight heifers and yearlings sold] yesterday's trend in slow trade injat $16 to $22 the Indianapolis Stockyards today. Cow trade "opened active to] Good and cholic: 160 to 220-|strong with yesterday's full 50-| pound weights fell to $22 and|cent advance. Most cows sold at| $22.75. A few sales reached $23 prices 50 to 75 cents a hundred| and $23.25, the extreme top price. pounds higher for the Heavier - weights fell 50 to 75 period. cents below yesterday's figure. Weights from 220 to 250 sold at at $19.50 to $20, as young heifers $20.50 to $22.25, as prices from reacted $21 and higher: Common $10.50 to $20.50 were paid for and medium grades brought] 250 to 200 pounders, Weights from 300 to 325 $17.76 poy as canners sold at| dropped to $19 and $19.50, as 100 $15 to $17.50. to 160 pounders brought $17.50, Bull trade shoyed prices steady to $21. Sows dropped 25 to 50 as good heavy sausage bulls |

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This

Choice lightweights reached $17 beef bull salesiaveraged $22.50. and $17.50 sparingly. Cattle Trade Slow In cattle trade,

Vealer prices remained steady Shell Oil

day. Medtum and good heifers at $18.50 to $24. and mixed yearlings sold at 50, Fat lambs and yearlings also} cents to extreme cases of 75 cents were steady as- the bulk of good to $1 lower than yesterday. Al pative lambs brought $24.75 toy, few medium weight steers were $25.25. A few reached $25. still unsold, as the session drew Mixed lots of common to a close. A load of high good and choice £24.50. grades near 1300 pound steers reached $31. A small lot of choice medium weights sold at $30. A! few other steers were salable at $27 and up, if available. Medium and good mixed year- Shoice grades, 95. pound ah lings sold at $23.50. to $25.50. A |°"OTR yearlings, sold a few loads of medium to mostly! hlthougt scarce, slaughter] good f

| Ewes’ Scarce

UNITED STATES WEATHER BUREAU |

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$25. A couple of wads of high hogs, 6700; cattle, 1725; ealves,|

good heifers held steady at $26.50(225, and sheep, 1125,

|day.

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FOTOCAST

& result

Nay 5% | which might called 2, 4, 5-T for short—its full{ The suicide of a teen-age model good grades held at $19.50 10 name is 2, 4, 5, Trichlorophenoxy- was blamed by her family today {jon a Christmas quarrel with her

ducing chemicals.

Today's Weather Fotocast CE

: Passéiby Arouses

Three as House Burns

Fire believed to have started in the attic of a residence in 1021 N. {Alabama St., caused an estimated | {$3500 to $4000 damage early to-|

{~~ Three women, {house when the fire started, were by = a passerby pounded on awaken them. The home is owned by Mrs. JAlice Wiltshire’ who was asleep on’ the “first fAoor. “Mra. “Junior "Lay-| man and Mrs. Barbara Tincher! were the other women in the

Maracaibo;

AR. Tousey

is typical of hundréds of shoppers who were lining up today Assisting her are Thelma Theiss, a clerk, and

Eliminate Wasps In Fig Growing

Time Cut in Half For Production

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|acetic acid. Sprayed on fig branches that secret beau. A load of good and choice near Were ready to develop figs but had | 100-pound fed western lambs sold not yet been visited by the polli-{19, was found slumped over ag at $23.35. A deck of good to just/nating wasps, it causéd the de- kitchen chair yesterday by her velopment of seedless but well- brother Oscar, 34. Three jets of Gh flavored and otherwise perfectithe kitchen stove were open and Del figs. Ripening time was shortened! letter to the girl's widowed Hom!

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Breeders’ —Associat wher ATA RRAT Prevent. Tay. 0d Gat ud Ey ie

Good beef. cows sold quite freely of the usual four, and without the

help of the little Slike grat -sized wasps| that have hitherfo ite, Ai

for their EE — and develop- man ment, by spraying their unpolli- Noe [nated béginning stages with” al |growth-promoting substance. experimental |} Maz Y work, of great potential imporcents, selling at $15.50 to $16.50.! reached from $22.50 to $23. Good| tance to American fig growers, ol ve {announced by Dy. ‘Rene Blondeau, | MeRister “agricultural {in “very active” trade, as 800d searcher, ‘and Drs-Julian C. Crane |r. ‘Belles. Judson. treasurer. steers ‘and and choice grades brought $32 to|of the University of California’ 5 keifers pened slow. ‘Early sales|$35. Common and medium grades Experiment Station at Davis, Cal.,| were almost steady with yester- 80ld at $24 to $32, as culls held in the new issue of Science, pub-| |lished here.

Bigger Tomatoes . “The synthetic hormone used as a chemical cousin of 2, 4-D appropriately

be!

| ile he same issue of Setenes 4nd choice grades were. salable at|Lrs S. Randhawa and H note read. ce gr {Thompson of Cornell University he didn’t love me. I couldn't live tell of producing bigger, redder, Twithout Jimmy.” tastier tomatoes by spraying the,

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THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

Association ‘Honors 723

TUESDAY, Bc. 28. -1043

Stock Raisers

Awards Presented

At Lafayette Dinner

“Times Stute- Service:

to 723

Hoosier stockmen for outstanding]

acihevement during the last year| Carlton Orchestra currently playfeatured the annual dinner of|jng at the Washington's Sapphire

the Indiana Livestock Breeders Room.

Association here last night. Winners of the four trophies

and colt clubs.

A plaque for distinguished serv-,¢ 19 were aboard the fishing ant in surgery by Dr. ice in the field of dairying Wasi... which ran onto the sand on|Freeman, director of surgical rePresented yesterday at the Indi “la lonely stretch of shoreline near, ana Dairy Association meeting to| point Mugu, five miles south of the United States

Calf

{presented among the top awards {were B. Hollis Hanson, Conners-| Gold Medal [Clinton Fields, Westfield, Ton Lit- {Roaring seas threatened today to ter Club; C. O. House, Arcadia, dash the Gold Medal Colt Club, and Don- Western, Fisher to pieces on the] ald Stoten & Son, Carthage, fOr beach where the ocean washed, highest scores in ton litter, calf,|jt ashore last night.

Club;

Randolph M. Core, Franklin.

Officers elected by the various from Los Angeles-and Santa Bars The livestock associations include theihara sped to ald the new $100, 000/cancer, ‘Ifollowing:

Polled , Hordes Breeders’

Charles H John Whybrew, Swayzee, Ma

el, Carmel, vice

Association president; | president;

W. Congleton, Frankfort, secretary-

treasurer;

Gerald I Clodfelter,

castle, director.

Sheep Ramery,

Mayo,

Broan R. 1, Hicks, phy,

right. | Goats,

{tam Hurst,

treasurer.

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Dwyer,

The body of Adele Marie Hagen, a

Indianapolis,

Breeders’ Associat Plainfield, Nash, Sharpsville, West Lafayette, rer; iL T. Ty ord Down Portand,

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mother lay nearby.

“Phis is the only way out,” the

Mr. Hagen said his sister was! [soil in. which the plants grew upset because she broke off with Bh

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