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Show THE BULLETIN, RING HAM CANYON, UTAH ... BjheI-- B GARDEN CHAMPION . . . Wayne Dcl cnthal, 15, Brighton, Colo., winner of national youth and h h school gardening honors present-ed by the National Garden Insti-tute In the "national green thumb" contest for best gardens. r IN' ,,,( REGIMENT AT FORT KNOX . More than ''"Members P of T tDin,rS,at0rtit,,0X Ky ' iD an rimelux univerL "i itary of are u'aK for one year along lines of the war receive ft course wh,ch liKSE KING AND QUEEN OF THE WEST . . . Beautiful Margaret Wooten and "Husky" Wright Homford, who were chosen by fellow students of the University of Tulsa, Oklahoma, to rule as "King and Queen of the West," for the next 12 months. They arc shown Joining the ranks of western royalty by getting friendly with Question Mark, undefeated grand champion Palomino stallion, owned by Tom Cates, Tulsa. This is the first year that such a choice has been made In Oklahoma. News rtx Behinm theNew By PAULkLLONjSy Kt'lr.ised by Western Newspaper Union. FOOD PRICES EXPECTED TO STAY AT PRESENT LEVELS WASHINGTON. The labor de partment has been ardently fanning the fears of another food price intla tion. A United Press dispatch said: "A labor department spokesman predicted the cost of living will climb to a new price record peak by the end of June. The department reported that on January 15, retail food prices were 30 per cent higher than on the corresponding date a year ago." On the basis of this sup-posedly official, although anony-mous, interpretation of the Chicago increases in hog, corn and wheat market figures, a break occurred in the New York stock market. Natu-rally Wall Street traders whetted their fears that food price increases would cause another round of wage increases in coal, steel, autos and the other spring contracts awaiting renewal, and thus break our econ-- ! omy up into a still higher inflation-ary level, if not break the accepted economic program entirely. Actual facts of the matter do not justify all these fears. In-deed they fall so far short of justification you might hastily7 conclude offhand that the unions and the labor department must be throwing their pressure weight behind the food price In-creases, so they can collect an-other wage Increase. This may sound foolish to some, and pos-sibly it Is not true, yet you can find some evidence In the gov-ernment itself to substantiate such a suspicion. The government has been warn-ing farmers against which certainly had lent en-couragement to fond production deficiencies. Actually it has advised against accelerated production of beef cattle, although the figures upon which it bases such advice seem to be wrong, inasmuch as they do not calculate the increased population and increased demand likely in a period of widespread availability of money, such as we are in now. Worse than that, the government actually has created the shortages in wheat by its export program, and expects to continue to do so. A HANGOVER FROM OPA DAYS Despite this evidence, I do not accuse the government of fostering the food price Increases to encour-age the wage demands of its strong-est following. The truth of the mat-ter seems to be they are merely tnlHncr at,nrtncr nf an nhnnrmal and temporary situation in foods In order to further the union demand. The actual food situation is this: Farmers require about a year and a half to develop a new pig crop. Only about seven months have elapsed since OPA went off, ending the confused condl tion of the farmers, which In-duced them to avoid full hog production. The crop of last spring has just about all been sold, and the fall crop (started after OPA) has not come In yet, so we are at an pe-riod on hog production. Fur-thermore, deliveries at mar-kets have been abnormally low because of snow and wintry weather (much of the deliver-ies these days being by truck). Actually we had a good corn crop last year. The hog crop is low but yet undeveloped. An we cannot know anything about the coming season's production until fall, so we must conclude that if the farmers go ahead normally they will produce enough hogs to keep us away from further Inflation. If pork chops go to $1 or $1.25 a pound in this Interim period, the cost of living need not increase for most people, except In the govern-ment statistics. WE HAVE ENOUGH WHEAT Wheat is a somewhat different story, but to the same effect. Last year we had 100 million bushels carryover at the end of the crop year, and this year the milling people are alarmed because official-dom expects 125 million bushels (millers figuring that if the govern- - ment is wrong again, we will be skatingttoo near thin ice). But our government Itself will largely Influ-ence our wheat supply by the extent to which it exports In answer to foreign demand. England is buying here, with the money we gave her pardon me, "loaned" her. Russia Is not buying, and so far as I know, has not attempted to influence our markets lately. Perhaps government statistics have increased 30 per cent on food prices "since a corresponding pe- - riod last year." Last year, the gov-ernment statistics were warped by price ceilings on foods not available at any price. Now they cannot fool themselves but must take actual market prices. Yet if they encour- - age another round of wage in- - creases on that basis, prices will go still higher, and everyone will be worse off. Thus the realities of the situation fall somewhat short of justifying their conclusions and predictions. CONGRESSMEN WARNED . . . Rep. Carrol Kearns (Rep., Pa.), told the house labor committee that he had been warned to change his views about labor, after he dined with George P. McNcar Jr., murdered railroad president. SWEDISH COIFFURES . . . Two of the outstanding coiffures shown at a recent exhibition In Stockholm marking the 40th anniversary of the Swedish hairdressers. Norwegians, Danes and Finns took part in the display. At left model shows an evening coiffure. At right, an-other evening coiffure of swirls and a high bun. How to get a hat over any of them is anybody's problem, or perhaps they do not wear hats In the evening In Stockholm. BBf iliaff Jffi $ BBk , ii.M.H ' BBVK)M AIRL,ner This photodiagram shows how George W. Hart, Sac Harbor, N. Y.. was "BBJ"1" Constellation airliner on which he was a member of (he crew. W hen 19,000 feet over Atlantic, seJBf b'own Into space when the astrodome plastic bubble, from which the navigator takes star sightings SBfi broke when airliner was 500 miles from Newfoundland, hound from New York to Paris. WINS TITLE . . . Pauline Betz, Los Angeles, who defeated Doris Hart to win the women's single title In the national indoor tennis championship, held at New York City. Miss Betx also holds the national outdoor tennis title. GOVERNOR GETS HIS VITAMINS . . Gov. Millard Caldwell (Dcm., Fla.), accepting a bite of Florida orange from Nance Stilley, queen of the 24th annual citrus exposition held at Winter Haven. She was selected from a group of 22 girls to reign over the orange kingdom for a year. The annual exposition attracts thousands each year. OH RICHARD . . . Richard in this case Is Donald L. Robinson Jr., 11, and his sister Sandra Jean. 6, Lincoln, Nebr. Pidge lets out with "open the door Richard." HELPER . . . Because she expects a blessed event in "Gretchen," intelligent dachshund owned by Mrs. IK, Leetsdale, Pa., is rushing the Job of preparing "Gretchen" can't handle the needles very well, but swell job of holding the skein. FRANKLIN WINNER ... The 1947 Franklin medal, highest hon-or of the Franklin institute, has been awarded to Dr. Enrico Fer-mi, 46, physicist at Nuclear Re-search institute, Chicago, for out-standing work in the field of atom-ic energy and physics of neutron. OH HUM! . . . Gov. Ingram M Stainback of Hawaii told congress that the Island territory is sub ject to taxation without represen-tation. The Hawaiian governor appeared before the house publit lands committee. i pl JUNIOR ARCHITECT . . . Miniature stone buildings go up under the creative fingers of Danning Greening, New York City young-ster when he paid a visit to the 44th American toy fair at the Hotel McAlpin where he found the stone blocks of architectural interest. New toys that are meeting with n4 (avor are those which encouragt the children to construct or build. 4 90,000 Mtim SUN SPOTS . . . Photo made at Griffith Park observatory, Los An-geles, shows the main group of sun spots which are interfering with radios throughout the world. Ijj ' 1 fHSBBIlS' JkH BBBft f jJjKAD LINE . . . When route salesmen went out on strike in W" recently the Omar bakery gave away S15.X00 worth of eods r;ltn,,r tnan sep ,t spoi, rickets, policemen, house-.B- f 11,1 Inldrcn fell in line to receive their free share of the hak-Bfd- s By late morning more than 1,800 persons had lied up BB lr ' handout. |