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Evening star., 1955-02-20
Baltimore Livestock

BALTIMORE, Feb. 10 Up (UsDA) -
Cattle: Compared week ago: Slaughter
steers $3.50 lower with h.,tsn some late ds
to weak; cows fun SOL 90 higher; bulls
fully steady to so higher; stock cattle
generally steady to so lower. Few small
S lots stessg aeafnss an pE9 sest
tered lots mostly choice, including .
few prime 957-l34s lb weights 27.00-
27.50; bulk, good and choice $500;
$3.50; few lots utility and commercial
10000. 90: truck lot cutter and utility
1890; few lots good and choice heifers
1s.50-24. SO; most utility and CONNER
ia B9f Sty HG s1d sad hesF eoW
ll.5O-15.50. odd head higher; utility
grade Holstein cows up to 400; most
Gamers and cutters S.00-11 90 but
or above and shelly Gamers down to
500 with some Of doubtful passage 400.
Few sales commercial and good sausage
and commercial sausaee 400 II 90.
O1S bulls II .oo-1s.00. Most medium H Zane and
good stockers. feeders and stock calves
common 1O.O0-22.o0; scattered lots in
ferior and common 10.00-l3.00. includ-
ing some medium calves 1900.
steady although outlet in closing rounds
this week practically nonexistent. Some
calves, held over on Thursday again
choice and prime vealers 3000-32. so
with sales above 81 .0o largely for closely
choice % 90 80 90; commercial and
good 16.0O-22 90: utility and CONNER
cial II .OO-1S.O0; some Gull and utility
to 1900 but most culls 1000 down.
Hogs: Compared week ago: Not enough
on offer either Friday to permit a com
parison OF prices. Thursdays sales
I60-22O ID. barrows and gifts lT.75-
20 lbs. Id.5o-i7 30: 246-SO6 lbs. 15.75-
1901 10 lbs. 16.OO-l7.O0: 140-160 lbs.
17.00-17.50 Sows scarce each day:
choice under 400 lbs; mostly 1900. odd
45O lbs. 1900: 450-500 lbs. 1900: 500
$50 lbs. IL 90; 550-600 lbs. IL. 90: oyer
500 lbs. 10 90 down according to weight,
| quality and condition. Stags 100000
under sows.
Evening star., 1955-02-20
Consumer Demands
Pushing Production
To Even Faster Pace
By WoIter Breede, Jr.
As.osie,sd Press Bv.ines. Writer

NEW YORK, Feb. 19-Con-
sumer demand for new homes,
new automobiles, new products
and new services kept business
moving at q brisk tempo this
week-and indicated an even
faster pace for the immediate
future.
Industrial production spurted
ahead. The Nations steel mills
operated at close to 90 per cent
of capacity; the Bellwether
Paper and Paperboard Industry
reported new gains; output of
new automobiles was the highest
In history.
Housing starts at latest count
were 80 per cent ahead of the
year-ago rate. Demand for
Government insured home
mortgages was so high that
Federal Housing officials had to
ask Congress for an increase in
lending authority.
One spot where demand still
Jagged behind production was
on the farm. Agriculture Secre-
tary Benson told Congress that
the Government now has $2.5
billion worth of surplus wheat on
its hands-enough to take care
of domestic and export require
ments for the next two years.
But, he said, things are getting
better for the farmer-prices
are stabilizing after a difficult
period of postwar adjustment,
food consumption is on the rise,
per capita farm income is NOV
ing up again and exports Of
some farm products are increas-
Ing.
The Nations entire industrial
machine has been producing at
an accelerated tempo since jan
uary. The Federal Reserve
Board reported that industrial
production in January averaged
100 per cent Of the 1947-1949 av-
erage. compared with 1913 per
cent in December and 124 per
cent o year ago. Last year the
January trend was downward.
Evening star., 1955-02-20
New York Cotton

NEW YORK, Feb. 10 H.-Cotton
futures prices continued their downward
drift this week but followed an irregular
pattern.
Active futures contracts traded on the
New York Cotton Exchange closed with
net losses ranging from 35 cents to ST. IS
a bale.
Prices were depressed by liquidation in
the March contract. hedging, and a wave
of concentrated foreign selling directed
at the distant delivery months.
or more than passing interest in trade
quarters was approval by the House
Agriculture Committee Of legislation carl
ing for three per cent increase In this
years cotton acreage allotment, Also at
tracing some attention was Agriculture
Secretary. Eenson's statement reaffirming
his stand against any change in the
present policy Of flexible farm price sup
ports.
The Census Bureau reported cotton
consumption for the four weeks begin
ming January 2 totaled I'll 900 bales ~
against $4,000 in the same period last
year
e ports for the week ended Tuesday
were estimated by the Cotton Exchange
Service Bureau at 1874 900 bales. This
brought the estimated total for the sea
son to 3,247,o0O pales-a gain Of
546; 9Qa over the year-aso figure OF
The latest weekly estimate Of 134. 900
compares with $4,000 bales the previous
week and $4,000 in the like week last
year.
Evening star., 1955-02-20
Your Moneys Worth
Big Price War on Appliances Is Predicted
By SyIvio Porter

petition for the discount houses
But it'll be great for you, the
shopper and consumer.
It'll mean unprecedented bar
gains in refrigerators and ranges
washing machines and dryers
room air conditioners and water
heaters-a host of other smaller
appliances.
The whole retail industry /:
undergoing a revolution com
parable only to the upheavals
which followed the introduction
of the chain store and of the
supermarket.
Discount houses are continu.
ing to mushroom at a phe-
nomenal rate and they probably
now account for at least 20 pei
cent of all retail sales in the
Nation. The movement has
reached the point where whole
shopping centers are being
taken over by cut-rate stores.
Near Philadelphia ground was
broken a few weeks ago for the
first of a series of shopping
centers devoted entirely to dis
count stores. One of New York s
largest discount houses is de-
veloping a shopping center on
Long Island-of which the chief
feature will be its own branch
Department stores are fight
ing back by setting up discount
sections Of their own, shaving
prices on dozens of items to
competitive levels, pushing pri-
vate brands that are attractively
priced.
List price?" scoffed one tor
executive in New York the other
day. Our store hasn't sold an
appliance at list price in years!'
In st. Louis, the competition be-
tween department stores and dis
count houses has turned into an
open war. Prices are chaotic, >
according to reports. Every ap-
pliance is available at 20 to 80
per cent below list" And ex.
perts forecast that what is going
on in st. Louis will be repeated
in cities the Nation over in COM
ing months.
OF 421 corporations recently
surveyed by the National Indus
trial Conference Board, 1874 were
selling goods other. than their
own products to employees at dis
counts ranging to 33Ks per cent:
236 were selling. their own prod
ucts to employees at discounts
ranging to 662s per cent. In
several States retailers are sc
alarmed at this latest attack that
they're pressing for State laws to
prohibit retail sales in industrial
plants.
A revolution in retailing is GO
ing on. There'll be plenty OF
bargains before prices level of
again.
tcopyrisht. 1866. Post-Hall Syndicate
Evening star., 1955-02-20
Treasury Bonds Dip,
Corporates Steady;
BigA. T.&T. Plan
BY WcIter Bussewitz
Associated Press FinaneioI Writer

NEW YORK, Feb. l9.-Amer-
ican Telephone & Telegraph Co.
took the spotlight in the field of
new financing this week.
The utility proposed to raise
new funds for expansion by
offering $3.50 million in converti-
BILE debentures to its stockhold-
ers. This overshadowed other de-
velopments in a week in which
corporate bonds were steady and
most Governments were lower in
quiet to moderate trading.
In over-the-counter dealings,
the new 3 per cent long term
bonds improved substantially
while other Government obliga-
tions declined. Dealers said some
investors were selling short term
Treasurys to buy the IS.
The new bonds gained 1882
during the week at 100 1892 bid.
The 314s of 1888 skidded an
even half-point to LOG 1882 bid.
Bank-eligible 21as Of 1967-72 fell
1882 at SO 22/32 bid. and the
victory 21as lost 1882 at 96 1882
bid.
Changes were narrow in the
corporate trading. Convertible
obligations, such as Wheeling
Steel 3las, were strong. as were
number of railroad issues.
Some utilities drifted lower. The
foreign list edged upward. with
German and japanese bonds
firm.
AT&Ts proposal had little no.
ticeable impact on investment
markets. This was attributed
largely to the fact the huge issue
is several months away.
Some dealers pointed out that
the new convertibles could have
Oppressive effect on Govern
ment bonds in the near future.
If insurance companies are heavy
buyers of the debentures, as in
the past, they will be selling sub
stantial holdings of Governments
to raise the necessary funds,
these dealers said.
The offering will go up for
approval at AT&Ts annual
stockholders meeting April 20,
and no action can be taken be-
fore then.
Evening star., 1955-02-20
Chicago Groin

CHICAGO, Feb. le R).-A week Of
Qrratic price trends in grains on the
Board OF Trade left wheat. corn and
rye lower. while oats and most soybean
futures were higher this week.
y quite extensive LIQUIDATION which car
He'd all deliveries except March to new
seasonal lows. During the, week De-
eember wheat and July and September
torn also sold at new seasonal lows.
After setting new lows during :
fa5ls part Of the week. lard futures
: sudden turn about in the price Of loose
ap n cent from a week ago.
Wheat finished l2-33s lower. corn un-
Shsnged to "a lower oats unchanged to
W higher; rye 4,;s-SA ;scSSA lower soybeans
a3 cents hundred pounds higher
9nich took the severe drubblng. This
geek it was the new crop futures. About
The only thing which could be said for
,he new crop months was that they
lidn't go down as much as the old crop
Sonths in the previous week, which
Corn enjoyed little rally during the
tarly part of the week when receipts Of
:ash grain fell appreciably from the
evel they have been maintaining. But
toward the end of the week receipts
s.;ss eiG;sedt 81, pagan pagan and the yellow grain
: Soybeans were not as excitable as
hey have often been in the past They
sold over a ; to 5 cent range for the
week, all contracts ending with gains
except March. Several processing plants
eurtained operations ion or shut doEn dur
movement continued undated.
Range of prices for the week:
Evening star., 1955-02-20

It'll be "mur-
der" for many
small retailers
who 81 m ply
won't be able
to m e e t the
cut-rate prices
a n d survive.
It'll be rough
on even some
Of Americas S
giant S tore S
w hich W i'll
find t h e i r
profits caught
in a squeeze
between rising
Evening star., 1955-02-20
Heads Rudio-N Work

j. Gordon Manchester Adver-
tising, Inc, has appointed
Richard T. Williams director
of radio and television, effective
March |.
Evening star., 1955-02-20
WASHINGTON AREA LIsTINGs.

The biggest price war on ap-
pliances-big and small-since
the depression sos is now in
the making in our land.
Evening star., 1955-02-20
American Summary

Eurnished b. the Associated Press.l
A list Of NEST active stocks on the
American Stock Exehange. showins ths
high. low and el0sing prices for the Reeh
and the net change from the previous
weeks close
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Bond Summary
tFurnIahed b The Asseeiated

tfurnished by the Assseiated Press.D
a list Of most active bonds on the
New York Stock ExehsnGe, sheuing the
high lev and CLOSING prices for the week
and the. net change from ths oreVios.
weeks close.
Evening star., 1955-02-20

costs Of operation and declining
sales prices.
It'll mark the first real COM
Evening star., 1955-02-20

Rates OF ulVloenQS IN the FOREGOING
table are annual disbursements based or
the last quarterly or semi-annual dec
laration, Unless otherwise noted, specia
or extra dividends are not included
Also extra OF extras b Annual rate
plus stock dividend d Declared or PAID
in 1855 plus stock dividend. Paid lss
year Payable IN stock, estimated casr
value on ex-dividend or cx- distribution
date z Declared or paid SO far this
year h Declared or paid after stock
dividend or split-up. Declared OF paid
dividends IN arrears PAID this year
dividend omitted, deferred or no action
taken at last dividend meeting De-
dend LiduidatinR dividend cid Called
ur Under rule xd Ex dividend x-dis Ell
warrants Wv with warrants VT War
rants, wd When distributed ri When
issued. sIn bankruptcy or receipership
or being reorganized under the Bank
ruptcy Act, or securities assumed py such
companieG
Evening star., 1955-02-20
INVESTORS WANTED
E0R

MONTGOMERY County, MARYLAND
NEED ONE OR TWO INVESTORS
for ground floor participa tion of rs.
50% interest In licensed and incorp0r-
ated Private Country Club. operation
TO begin this summer with substa ntial
memberships already paid In would
cash 10 handle.
Possible three to five year pay-eut
Plus suhstantial salary for ACTIVE
PARTICIPATION. Present land and
improvements valued st ever
4 $500, 10000. within 80 minutes Of
downtown Washington.
For appointment ond further in
formation write Box S<3, Wheoton,
Nd. giving nome. oddrsu ond teie-
phone number.
Evening star., 1955-02-20
New York Bunk Stocks

NEW YORK, Feb. 10 P.-National
Association Securities Dealers, Inc:
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D. c. Securities 7 transactions
Philadelphia BoItimore Stock Exchunqe
Iompiied by Exchanfe onicials.

.
opsn hign dSp Lev dsf BID ASksd
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petition for the discount houses.
But it'll be great for you. the
shopper and consumer.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-12-04

character or motivation, I think Of
the time he rang our doorbell.
My husband, John Erskine, q
devoted Columbia alumnus and
teacher, fiercely opposed the gen.
erals appointment as president Of
Columbia ON the ground that what
the university needed was an edu-
Gator. not soldier. The trustees
thought otherwise. Johns views
were pretty well known around
Columbia Heights.
After Gen. Eisenhower took
ONCE as Columbia's president, my
husband sent him q brief word Of
congratulation. Back came an
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-12-04
THAT'S LIFE
Eisenhower's Measure
BY HELEN WORDEN ERSKINE

TINE QUALITY OF mans character can best be
i evaluated by the moral courage to forgive and
forget-especialy in public life.
whenever anybody questions Dwight Esenhower's
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-12-04

equally brief reply Beyond that initial formal exchange
Of letters. neither communicated with the other The
previous presidents Seth Low and Nicholas Murray Butler
had been his close friends
A Year, at Most, to Live
In 1919 he was taken fatally ILL., The doctors gave
him month"; perhaps year not longer to live. Naturally
didn't tell him. He may have guessed the truth but he
mentioned It, Our friends entered into the spirit
Classmates former students writer's musicians Columbia
trustees and professors would drop In each afternoon for
good visit before the open fire with John HIS capacity
for friendship enormous He practiced Emersons
definition Of It, perfect understanding between sincere
people"
It grieved him not to be on frendher terms with
between him and Gen. Eisenhower preyed his mind
relapse sent him TO bed. Finally. he emerged once
again. little fran, little less confident. to sit
wstfuy in front Of the open re Our doctor said
one person-mportant to his peace Of mind might
rouse him.
Would he president Of Columbia University. call
my husband? Our nurse delivered the note Next day.
the doorben rang big man. whose ruggedness strained
at the Of his smooth gray business suit smiled back
at me. I'm Dwight Eisenhower"
"A Lot to Talk About"
As II I didn't knowl With him was Irwin Edman
head Of Columbas philosophy department and former
student Of my husband II got your letter." said the
general as he and Prof Edman followed me into the
living room Here am"
John sitting quietly before the open fire. Gen.
Eisenhower strobe toward him. hand outstretched.
"Erskine all engagements cancelled III stay long
you can bear with me-"
John grasped the generals hand-the old confidence
and enthusiasm again lighting his face There tears
in his eyes, but all he said was, President Eisenhower
we've got q lot to talk about"
The Nome nugget., 1955-01-24
Alaska Housewife Wins Carnegie Hero Fund Award

PITTSBURGH, R-A 33-year- old Alaska housewife, who dove into the ice-covered Kenai River in four-below-zero weather last February and pulled a small boy up onto the broken ice, was named winner of Carnegie Hero Fund award Saturday.
 Mrs Catherine l.. Coppock, of Cooper Landing, will receive a bronze medal, the commission said. Despite her heroism, the boy, three-year-old Sherman c. Smith, died.
 Similar awards were also given for heroic feats in 10 states and Scotland.
 The citation for Mrs. Coppock said the Smith boy and two little girls were playing on the Kenai River ice last Feb. IT. Thin ice broke under him, dropping him into water eight feet deep.
 As he drifted downstream, his face barely above water, the girls screams attracted Mrs Coppock's attention.
 She ran down a flight of steps and 330 feet to the opening in the ice. Then, as she lay prone and crawled on the ice to where she might meet him, the ice broke be- meath her.
 She swam eight feet to him, and returned and lifted him up onto the ice. It then broke repeatedly under her before she was able to pull herself out
 With her clenched hands stiff with cold, she carried him to the banks of the river as her water logged clothes rapidly froze. An other woman helped her get him indoors. His frozen clothing was removed and he was given artifi- cial respiration but he could not | be revived.
 AS for herself, she was badly numbed and suffered from shock, but recovered.
The Nome nugget., 1955-01-24
Embarrassed Police
 Find What Was Matter With Drunk" MotOrist

Sometimes there's more to a story than meets the eye.
 That's what embarrassed police in Norwich, NY, have found out.
 They arrested Roswell Woods for drunken driving-although Woods insisted he was perfectly sober.
 But police said Woods had all the symptoms. His eyes were glassy, his speech thick, his walk unsteady, and he couldn't pass a "drunk-o-meter" test by blowing up balloon.
 Then Woods explained.
 The glassy stare was caused by a glass eye. Asked about his speech, Woods explained that he had partial paralysis of the throat.
 He couldn't walk steadily be- cause part of a bone in one leg had been used to replace the shattered bone in his other leg.
 As for the failure to blow up the balloon Wods lost half of his lungs in the war. Those were among the 27 injuries he suffered in South Pacific battle during the second world war Woods was acquitted.
The Nome nugget., 1955-01-24
GIRL SCOUT NEWS

We have to start bringing a dime each meeting now We have our Girl Scout Handbook, too. It costs a dollar. We are studying it now.
 We have a new member. Her name is Carolyn Johnson. She and her sister are in our troop. We are planning on hike. We will talk about it Wednesday. We got our catalogs, too.
 Carol Carlson, Scribe
The Nome nugget., 1955-01-24
WEATHER FORECAST
COyr1 t,u fha

Compiled by the US. Dept. of Commerce Weather Bureau
 Cloudy with occasional snow tonight. Partly cloudy and colder Tuesday. Lowest temperature ex- pected tonight 25, high Tues. 28.
 Nome data last 24 hours as of ' am. today: High temperature 31, low 26. Max. wind 26 mph. from the east. Sunrise 9:09 am, sunset 3:20 pm.
 Temperatures year ago today: high 7, low 4. Extremes this date since 1907: high 37 in 1940, low 40 in 1923.
 Other stations as of am. today:
The Nome nugget., 1955-01-24
PyrOmaniac Confesses Setting Anchorage Fires That Cost $3OO,OOO

ANCHORAGE, R-An Anchor age youth whose strong urge to set fires" cost the area close to $300,000 in fire damage was scheduled to be sent to a fed eral institution for mental obser- vation.
 Judge J. L. McCarrey ordered Edwin "Wimpy" Meier, 20, in stitutionalized for an indefinite period after hearing testimony by the Alaska Department of Health psychiatrist, Dr. Charles Ander- son.
 Meier had confessed to starting fires at the Anchorage h g h school auditorium, the Alaska Ma tional Guard armory here and a series of smaller blazes over a period of several months.
 He was volunteer fireman and aroused the suspicion of other members of the crew when he was almost always the first ar- rival at a fire.
The Nome nugget., 1955-01-24
Russians Report Discovery of Underwater Mountain Chain

LONDON, lR 1T Moscow radio said yesterday a Russian survey has discovered a previously un- known underwater mountain chain" in the northwest Pacific.
 It said the chain extends from the Hawaiian Ridge, previously thought to end at the 45th paral- Tel, to Kamchatka on the Soviet Unions eastern shore. One peak in the ridge rises three miles, it said.
The Nome nugget., 1955-01-24
THIEVES STEAL JEWELS OF FRAUD SQUAD CHIEF

LONDON, LR - Thieves in a midday raid Friday stole several hundred pounds worth of jewel ry from the home of chief super intendent Robert Stevens, head of Scotland Yards fraud squad. No one was home at the time.
The Nome nugget., 1955-01-24

In the northeast and far west sections of the United States more than 98 per cent of babies are born in hospitals.
The frontiersman., 1955-09-29
''DOG TAGS"
 NOW AVAILABLE

Valley residents who partici- pated in the KiWanis-SponSored blood typing program earlier this year may now pick up their "dog tags, it was announced this week by Cy Farnestock. Tags for adults and pre-school children may be picked up at the health center at Valley Presbyterian Hospital Monday, Tuesday, Thursday or Friday afternoons. School children will get their tags this week at school. In the event a school child does not get his or her tag at the school, the parent is asked to check at the health center.
 Farnestock recommended that all persons check their tags with their Identification cards to be sure classifications on the tags are correct. Although the tags have been carefully checked, there is always possibility for CT TOT, he pointed out. Those per sons who surrendered their ID cards in order to obtain tags may pick up both their cards and tags at the health center, FarneStock added.
The frontiersman., 1955-09-29
Palmer Kiwanians Say... "ThaEks"

Palmer Kiwanians this week expressed their appreciation for the fine community support of their Kids Day program held locally this past Saturday.
 Through the cooperation of local merchants and individuals, the program was pronounced a big success, they stated. Special thanks went to the City of Pal mer police department; to the Piggly-Wigg store, who thro- ugh their suppliers, furnished much of the breakfast supplies used by the Kiwanians at their hot cake. sale; to the Palmer School for use of their facilities and to the Palmer High School band for their participation in the parade; to those individuals who served as judges; and last but not least, to the many indi- viduals who in many ways, in cluding the purchase of hot cakes, helped make the program a success.