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Show rage SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 17, THE JOURNAL 2 Big Fellows WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS Government Issues Stopgap Order Freezing All Wages; Atomic Energy Commission Makes Atomic Experiments A stopgap order freezing wages and prices was Issued by the government. Although unsatisfactory as far as the average consumer was concerned, the measure at least was a stab toward stopping the wage-pric- e spiral that had tn the last across the nation swept few months. The main effect of the order was that it brought to a standstill hun- dreds of NEW GUN AIDS AIRMEN . . . The survival gun, which breaks down to is part of the survival kit of the strategic air command. The folding rifle fires a small .22 cartridge and will be handy for downed airmen to stalk 14-i- n. game. collective-bargainin- g In the,e (EDITORS NOTE: When opinion! are expressed not necessarily of Western Newspaper Unions news analysts jf ne'wopaper) California and is the air forces highest ranking woman officer. parity.) Most farm products at the time of the wage-pric- e freeze were below parity. Poultry and eggs were examples. If and when the farmers price went up on those things, the wholesaler and retailer could not raise prices to increase their margins. The increase, however, be automatically passed all the way to the consumer. along would Other things exempt from price controls included communication and publication fields like newspapers, books, magazines, radio, television and theater admission. A-BO- Tests Rock Las Vegas DROPS TROOP USE DEMAND . . . Sen. Kenneth S. Wherry, Nebraska, accepted a counterproposal to refer the issue of the Presidents sending troops to Europe to the senate foreign relations committee. Other Republicans concurred. While most of the world waited with apprehension at the result and announcements of the first atomic explosion in this country in a number of years, residents of Las Vegas, Nevada, 40 miles from the atomic testing range, were irked about the whole business. The atomic energy commission shrouded its experiments in silence. It was known, however, that three explosions took place. Las Vegas witnesses reported a tremendous white flash in the sky, closely followed by another flash, orange in color and not as bright. Las Vegas residents reported windows shook, houses trembled and burglar alarms in business establishments were set off. The last explosion was felt and seen in Boulder City, about 65 miles from the test range. Like the others, it was recorded on the California institute of Technologys seismograph in Pasadena, some 300 miles away. BRITAIN: One Bite a Day the housewives of this were country grumbling about high prices and hoping price controls would help the situation, British housewives were protesting a drastic new cut in that nations fresh meat ration. It was the third cut in three months and this time amounted to 20 per cent. It shriveled the ration for each person in Britain to about a bite a day. While VET . . . Jimmy Byrd, 14, Battle Creek, Mich., was a battle-wis- e veteran of the Korean war and a soldier for eight months before his true age was discovered. He had been in Korea one month. p has jacks. Bunyan is described as being so enormous as a baby, his mother had to use the wheels off of a wheelbarrow as bufons for his jacket. reduced, the American Bakers A- gotiations in industry. Prices on a number of goods and services were frozen, but there were also a number of exemptions, the most important one being the price of food. to administration According spokesmen the price freeze would be replaced as fast as possible by specific ceiling prices, industry by industry. Such a procedure could go on forever. The wage freeze would be wiped out as soon as a flexible wage policy could be compiled, it was announced. This flexible policy was considered necessary to permit lagging wages in some industries to come up to a certain stand- ssociation reported. Eat Dickinson POPCORN I Vt' cMeaUAfrdW fllgBime, Always Pops SEE YOUR GROCER VtLLOW WHITC Clou To Relieve ErowMfiis Creomulsion relieves promptly because it goes right to the seat of the trouble to help loosen and expel germ laden and aid nature to soothe and Ehlegm tender, inflamed bronchial membranes. Guaranteed to please you or money refunded. Creomulsion has stood the test of millions of users. ard. WANTS WOMEN FOR WAF . . . Col. Geraldine May, director of the WAF, stresses the need of more women in the air forces. She is a graduate of Bryn Mawr college and the University of of comic-strifame plenty of competition in American folklore, which is filled with tall tales of mighty men Among them is Big Paul Runyan, hero of the American lumber- Superman Suez and Wheat The Suez Canal owes its construction to wheat. It was built so that the journey of wheat from India to England would be greatly ne- The price order was complex and confusing, especially with respect to farm products and food. First of all, there was no freeze of any food prices at the farm level. But on the processing, wholesale, and retail levels, food prices were frozen if the farm prices of those foods were above parity. Thus, beef, veal, pork and lamb prices were frozen. (Parity is a sliding scale designed to keep farm prices at a fixed relation to the farmers costs. The law prohibits price ceilings below jwi The mystery of the vanishing Chinese armies who failed to take advantage of their breakthrough into South Korea remained unsolved as U.N. forces advanced toward the 38th parallel. The advance was not an all-opush, but a probing action by U.N. forces In an effort to locate the enemy CREOMUUSION ut relieves Coughs, Chest Colds, Acuto Bronchitis Controls EUROPE: IVIIEIl SLEEP WONT Time for In the last few weeks, especially since General Eisenhower made his tour of Europe, there seems to have developed a feeling of mutual between the United States and our allies. The reluctance to arm and speed up production that was evident only a few months ago disappeared. Britain has launched a production and rearmament program. speed-u- p And now France has announced Price administrator Michael V. to DiSalle (right) looks on as beside take her place plans the U.S. and Britain. Attorney General J. Howard To further McGrath administers the oath this arof office to 13 officials who head French Premier Rene Pleven rived in Washington for conferences regional and district offices with President Truman. After a of the economic stabilization series of meetings it was announced organization. These men will Pleven and Truman were in agreedirect the price-wag- e freeze ment as to policy in the far east, laws. especially in Korea and Indochina. Most observers agreed the talks MAIL: would open the way for greater Post Office Loss High among the western Postmaster General Jesse M. nations in the defense of Europe, with much greater participation on Donaldson told the house post office committee that the department the part of France. would operate at a $350,000,000 loss this fiscal year despite his sharp WHOLESALE PRICES: economy cuts in mail service. Up 11th Straight Week He renewed his appeal to conOn the day limited price-wag- e gress to raise rates on newspapers, controls were announced, the bu- magazines, parcel post, and special reau of labor statistics had another services such as inurance and postal announcement of interest to the savings. His report made in increasingly average American. The bureau reported the average wholesale prices clear to legislators and the people were 14.7 per cent above tL- - level of the nation that here was one govjust preceding the Korean war. It ernment hgency that needed reorwas the 11th straight week that ganization. Many could not underwholesale prices had advanced. The stand why it could not be put on a commodity index stood at 179.9 per business basis and made to pay its own way. cent of the 1926 average. CASUALTY LISTS . mark. Americans in every walk of life, from the big cities to the home towns of the nation, shuddered at the thought. But right on the home front there is another casualty list just as startling. At the end of Jantoll of traffic uary the deaths in this country topped 966,-00or 28,000 fewer than the aggregate of all war deaths up to the present time. 50-ye- ar 0, Use Delicious Chewing-Gu- addition, between 29,500,000 and 30,000,000 have been injured since 1900. Last years toll of traffic injuries alone nearly equalled the total of non-fatcasualties in every war to date, including Korea. Accidents on streets and highways took an al exceptionally heavy toll during the last six months of 1950, with 19,500 killed and 625,000 injured. These injuries in the short span of a half year were more than s of the total of 900,000 American soldiers wounded since the start of the Spanish-America- n war in 1898. 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