Oakland Tribune from Oakland, California • Page 13

Oakland Tribune, Tuesday, March 27, 1951 13 i NEW HIGHWAY LINK Food Dollar Down to 42i Labor Bureau's Figures Show i 77, 7 S' 9 42nd Avenue Freeway Opened to Traffic The 42nd Avenue Interchange, and Western Pacific Railroads, Food prices went down "a 1'ttle" in February but still were higher than any month in history, except for the January peak. This announcement was made today by Max D. Kossoris, re- gional director of the VS. Depart- ment of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics, In San F-ancisco. The value of the food dollar in San Francisco, based on its 1939 purchasing power, was down to nearly 42 Mj cenU, the bureau re ported.

The decrease of 11 per cent from January levels was credited fT. was started in August. 1548. Meanwhile, the Highway Division released figures showing that traffic on the East Oaklend section of the freeway has "almost doubled in less than a year. Sixteen-hour traffic counts on the super-highway at tik Fifth Avenue Overhead showed total of 40,554 vehicles on Mircn zz, compared with only 2157, last May 31, when the route as open only to 23rd Avenue.

It ow ex tends to 98th Avenue. Peak traffic hour fop northbound vehicles is from 7 to 8 a.m., and for southbound cars from 5 to 6 p.m. I Si $1,500,000 unit of the Eastshore Freeway and most difficult construction problem of the superhigh wayT East Oakland section, is open to traffic today, providing facilities for the interchange of freeway and Oakland and Alameda traffic A maze of underpasses and on and off ramps, the interchange was placed in use yesterday as' simple ceremonies attended by city, county and civic leaders and representatives of the State Divi-j sion of Highways. Work on the interchange, which includes underpasses beneath tracks of the Southern Pacific almost entirely to the seasonal! downturn of prices for fresh fruits and oils came up 5.2 per cent over the month to a level one-third higher than they were a year ago. Egg prices decreased 8 6 pr cent but still were nearly 20 per cent higher than a year earber Sugar prices, down 0 1 per cent, were fr bove Febru" 1 The food arerage for February I i jwas down l.l per cent irom Jan- uarv levels, the bureau estimated sThe indexes and comparisons were based on interim revisions which involve several new food items and somewhat different weights for the various groups in I the index.

On the basis of the un- STRAIOHT BOURBON "I'M Uiy Traffic movad through the new 42nd Avanu Interchange of the East Shore Freeway for th first time yesterday (above) after for mal opening ceremonies. At left. Mayor Clifford E. Ri-shell, flanked by Col. John Skeggs of the State Highway Department, and City Councilman William H.

D. Clausen, cuts the ribbon. In line for the ceremony (left to right) are R. P. Duffy, State Highway Department; W.

H. Park, Oakland Chamber of Commerce president; Skeggs, Rishell, Clausen, Dudley Frost, Oakland Port Commissioner; City Manager John F. Hassler, City Councilman Frank Youell, City Engineer Charles Reed, W. A. Sparling, general manager, and George Taylor, Oakland Chamber of Commerce.

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Higher coffee prices, averaging nearly 894 cents a pound, pulled the level of beverage orices ud aonther 1.1 per cent. Prices of fats P-OOHC1 AT THESE MIDWEEK Value-Packed SPECIALS FOR Tomorrow! NO WONDER, SMART FOLKS DO ALL Of TMIIR EVERY DAY SHOPPING RIGHT HERE IN JUST ONE STOP MONEY-RACK GUARANTEE. PARK YOUR CAR FREE NO CHARGE FOR CASHING YOUR PAYCHECK STORE HOURS A.M. TO P.M. QUALITY MEATS Prict EttY Mar.

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