The Courier News from Blytheville, Arkansas • Page 11

TUESDAY, MARCH 22, 1949 BLYTHEVTLLE COURIER NEWS PAGE ELEVEN conomist Sees mployment Rise Number of May Hit 60 Million Again During 1949 WASHINGTON, March 22. ycvei iitnent economist said ii-uay that chances are good thai iiployineiu will reach 60.003,000 fcain this year, will be quite a recession if it Ewan Clague told conference. commissioner ol tlie Labor lepartincnt's Bureau of Labor lutistics said unemployment may I) to 3.500.000 in March. was 3,1:0,000 in Fciruary but only 1.603,•K) in November. 1 Clague said an employment up- i.s likely in May or June construction, agn- hlture and oilier IIins liit their ex :1 upturn.

Emplo.vmen bached G1.600.0CO for an all-time leak in July last year. 1 As lor mices. Clague said: Whole ser-med to have leveled ot Ifter llieir early winter decline; fo liis reason retail prices likely wi! Become stabilized too, licy mialy. so down a bit more in lar.hcr rcllcciing the earlier whule- declines. 1 There have been only jant during the thive liantli.s in j'verage carniniis of lorkers, he said.

1 Clayue ii'poriect that non-agii- lullural employment dropped about "G.CCO ti'oin January to February 'approximately He said Ihis was partly due to seasonal lors ICIague said that February em- livment was above any oilier Fcb- luary on record except February. 1946. when non-farm employment 300.000 higher. For Beach Fun Tide Turns: Boom with No Bust Expected -Shirley MacCalla likes paddling abuut h) this, iullalable plastic boat Weighing only two pounds, it lils inla a small spai-p uheri ri.ell:ileil and be bliAin up like a football tor bearh frolicking, lioth Shirley and ihc bunl were uu display in New Vork. but Shirley duesn'l go with it.

Censoring of Truman Photographs Just an Idea of Safety' Back Home Birds have been present on earth ince the era and now emprise the most numerous class If higher animals. Sailors On Spree LA 1 United States sailors were arrested by pollceln Havana, Cuba, when tlie sailors went on a spree on Jfihore leave. Here one perches 0:1 (the head of Statue of Cuba's hero Jose Marti, while tries to make the climb. They jailed and later released to Itheir sli iv Wirephoto). WASHINGTON, March 12.

tifl President Truman says It is safer lor him home if he isn't photographed in bathing trunks. Mrs. won't stand for It. And that, he says, is the real rea- why White House aides insisted they snust a batch ol informal pictures made of tlie'Presi- dent ana fviencis last week when he was vacationing at KLcv West, Fla. Mr.

Truman talked about it at the dinner last Snuirdf.y night of the White House News Association. It was not "censorship" he said with a grin, but safety measure so I could conic he me." The news reels and Hills-were taten trom a Navy bli.np. Photographers understood the project had been approved by proper authorities. They were astonished when Charles G. Ross Presidential press secretary, insisted on surrender ol the photos.

At the time, White House aides called it a security measure. But they did net explain that it was security against Mrs. Trumar, Truman said that was it. Before he went to Key West, he said, "the boss" told him! you do, don't have any pictmes take in your SU He said a picture like that was taken 1046 in Bermuda and Mis Truman has regarded it ever since as a "disgrace to the family." The President's story of the incident was told "off-the-recorrt," meaning not for publication. How- an account his remarks was published by the New York Dany News which said the publication was du-' to an "honest" mistake by Jerry Greene of its Washington stall.

Today, ROSS declined to the label from Hie Saturday night speech but saul further publication of the story was a matter of "individual discretion. Wha actually happened on the Ky S. Rurfon llraih NKA Staff Currrsuomlrnt NEW YOI1K. ecouo- ilc tide lias turned. Inflation has un Its course.

Unless the govern- leut Interferes radically, deflation coming around the corner. Tlmt is the considered and almost iiuntniotis opinion of dozens ol conomists. business men, mcr- hants, Inbor spokesmen and other killed observers whose he reasons for Service ins checked. tills very I'ntess tuo many set fotillslily Tlu're Is nut (jolng to be any press I on; Tin-re is nut gohiK tu be muss' utiempluynK'nl; Tliere are nut going to IIP Uri-m! lines; Then- will not tif rvru IIKI- recession. Prices are nol going back doivn the pre-war levels that used to ue "normal." Such prices are not loitnul ony more, ns a iiile, though individual items sink to or below pre-war levels because of Improved mamifnctur- working wttkt, nhut- dimnft for Inventory and mark return to normal rmplgjmtnt rendition Ihun ai which Induiiry oprraird ilnrc war production Rot Into Ta tKa( ex- Irnt II ll prrmanrnt.

lint-emiiloymmt still is far above Kiiy(hliif) we dK-nmtd of before the hyper-octlvlly ol wartime. There Is no reason It should not continue it very high level Willie there will be more unemployed, by technical definition than for Rome-years now, unemployment compensation will to maintain purrhnshiK power nnil prevent a serious break. In general, the tlghtmlng up has come in "nHUKlnnl" those that have been kei at artificial slreniilh by abnormal In over-developed Industries, that could operate full tilt only becsu.se pipelines to con sinners been emptied by thi war. The readjustment has been go tUB on for some time. The tern porary break last winter was on the first, but I lie Ills techniques.

increased muss I to atlrruit much attention. er than submit to what they re Sardcd as While House censorshi Newstccl men turned their Him ovei to (he White House. Most of it eventually was given buck to them. Tairen from altiliule of 200 feet, the fjlm does not show eiearly the li urrs sprawled on the 1 beach. Little Rock Dairies Cut Milk Prices Three Cents LITTLE ROCK, March 22.

Milk prices in the greater Little Rock area have been reduced three cents on the quart. A spokesman dairies jn this area said yesterday price pasteurized milk now is tg cents a quart. Homogenized milk now sells for 20 cents. The price reduction has been in effect about a week. 3.

The current wnvr nf production, or -shifts in cons'iiun With one slnulc exception the experts canvassed In thib study aprcc that the day-by-day i news of price cuts, sales, pluses, layoffs, reduced working- lioiu.s. shuws a trend, and is nol merely another temporary bipnk sucll as fouled so many ot us about a year aso. The consensus, in summitry. that: 1. Tlie cost ill living run- Until' tu drop until II itself at -A level Imier thun tkir orcscnt but well above that But--prlcc reductions will be spoltv.

botli on the way down and the new level ot which cadi price will settle after time. 2. Snnu tliere wilt he nn Ini- mirlant other than housing, lo Irouble the average man or wcniun. Already there nrc over-sinmlles in inanv lln' 1 nnd the number Is inrrpasiiifi. That IK the reason for the intense nrlce romnetitlmi I(I the harsaln offer new attitude on the part of sales wholesnlc 1 eis ntirl refallers all are watt-tihiH the sitiiFilion carcfullv.

knew siteli break had to mine Most of them are taking stcos. to pet ricT of surpluses and to stabilize at the level has. progressed thus far with out general recoBiiitloii because It been highly selective. When almost nil ot Industry eels its pipelines filled nl once, mid ftiiri.i a MIIplus, iind the public CKH not or will not buy Its output, a depression, by whatever mime CRllcd. Is created.

Uul this time industries ciiine a turn In the road, one by one. hnd time to adjust Itself bc- nnollier slowecl down. (This not literally tuny Industry by ndiistry, but It was In Kcncrnl nd It simplifies what economists call tlie "selectivity" o( the slowdown.) As pcr-sona thrown out ot work by the braking ot activity one Industry have had oppor- unlty to set relocated before other Industries threw more men onto the labor market. There Is no ren.wn why this process should not cou- If It Is let alone, feel. II the government should step In, and bolster np weak Industrie; by subslily or other nrlKU'lal method, it could slow or imiybe even stop the II could, perhaps, hold up the weak sisters (or time.

nut the post-war level of tlvlty lins rested upon constt shortiiKC.s. family savings ns we) as high weekly Income, and upoi the slowness of sonic industries Kft Into full production. It was iirltricliil. niul In the opinion of experts It can not endure permanently. So If weaker pnrls of the Industrial system are propped up, by creation of even cheagicr money or nny other method.

It Is fell that when the stronger parts come to Ilictr Inevitable slowdown I ones will fall with them That would result, nnneer.i- surily. In cviT.vlhliiK breaking at cause nt Instcud of relatively painless selective ICIHljIlStUU'llt. A'Lachlan Clan Jubilant; Son Born to Woman Chief Scotland, March 22. a 1 ereiU day for the clan The MacLach of MucLachlan, list woman chief In the chin's 600- venr history, hns elvcn birth to a sun and heir. (irurge.

S. Rome. 88, married the iicLiichlan of Mac! aclilan In I'Vbriniry, 181B, and adopted her iminc so she could remain head ol the clan and so that any son of inanlsge could succeed to her The With of their Ilrit Kuan, wan announced the news spread It was a boy, was jubilation everywhere. among cU: Good Record WlLIiRAHAM, Mass. lei J.

OBrlen, 13, of Salem paid $10 fine In court. hLs first vlolatUw In 3S years of driving. Head Courier Want Ada. Announcing THE OPENING OF OUR NEW Furniture Department For rriil liiii'Kiilns In now and used fur- nlluri', you'll waul to runic Moore's. And you onn pay on cusy Icnns.

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