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THE CLINTON CHRONICLE
Thursday, March 19, 1953
HOUSEHOLD AIDS
How’s your technique in the
Kitchen" As quick and easy as it
s-hould be? Or, does it need some
t :ps for improvement? Here are
„-ome which will give first aid:
Brush broiler pans and baking
pans with oil if you're going to
bake or broil some fish. This pre
vents the skin from sticking to the
pan and will help you to serve, the
fish more attractively and also cut
down on washing time of the pan.
CONSUMER PRICE CONTROL, BORN IN
1951 PANIC, DIES IN 1953, ALL IS QUIET
106,000 Fishing
Licenses Sold
In S. C. Lost Year
Washington, March 14.—Consumer j gone up higher than wages.
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Please all thefamilt|.
take home a case of Coke
price control, born in a price panic,
i is dying amid economic calm.
This could sound silly to the
housewife who rrjay fin^l coffee three
1 cents a pound higher at the super-
I market on Monday and 10, cents high-
ier within, a week.
But coffee, cigarettes, and a scant
handfui of other items are excep-
OPS found that its first job was
to make many of the high ceilings
higher. Since it was rarely possible
to roll back prices, every effort to
bail out an industry caught in a
squeeze between its cost and its ceil
ing price, by writing a separate reg
ulation suited to the particular in
dustry, resulted in a ceiling higher
Yes, Coke has a welcome spot
in the heart of every family.
Young and old enjoy
its matchless flavor.. 2
its refreshing goodness.
tions. In general, y'ou'd hardly guess than the freeze prices,
from retail price tags that the Eisen- a f ew unions had' nailed down pay
hower administratioh _ in just six
weeks has ripped the ceiling from
the cost-of-living.
If the markets are so steady why
didn't the Democrats scrap the ceil-
1 ing?
eOTTUD UNOCR AUTHORITY Of THE COCA COIA COMPANY BY
GREENWOOD COCA-COLA BOTTLING COMPANY
,The answer is: They were nervous.
The Truman administration drag
ged its feet for seven months after
Korea, hoping it could avvid direct
controls and a repetition of the OPA
headache of World War II.
When it finally froze prices and
wages on Jan. 25, 1§51, it took a lot
of abuse from critics who cried, “Too
little and too late.” Two years later,
with the internaional scene still ex
plosive, it hesitaed to unfreeze.
President Eisenhower was willing
to take a chance. Today only a few
basic defense materials and machines
remain under ceilings. These will be
freed before April 30, when price-
wage control authority expires.
Barring a new war scare, OPS
men now judge that price boosts on
decontrolled goods may cost the pub
lic a little more than one billion dol-
ars a year. This is roughly a dollar
for every 200 which consumers
spend. ,
One price official, a Truman ap
pointee about to leave Washington,
thinks prices would rise that much
even if the leaky OPS ceilings were
left on.
But he suspects that another two
j billion dollars will be squeezed out
of consumers later by the tax collec
tor to pay for costly munitions, made
of dearer materials.
In industry, executives predict the
price rises will be offset by declines
in other lines, caused by big-volume
production and hotter sales compe
tition.
Few experts forsee a bigger rise in
i increases just ahead of th^ freeze.
But the income of most families lag
ged behind the post-Korea rise in
living costs.
So the Economic Stabilization Ag
ency, one level of government above
OPS, felt it had to adopt as the gov
ernment’s wage policy the wage pol
icy of General Motors—an escalating
ceiling geared to rises in the cost of
living.
With each major wage increase
there was new pressure for price
ceiling boosts. As matters have
worked out, OPS has been able to
do little but fight a delaying action,
against inflation during its 26 months
of life.
There were two major clashes—
the battles of beef and steel. ’ OPS
lost both of them. Congress defeated
it on a proposed beef price roll-back
by amending the law in mid-1951. A
year later the White House thwarted
the effort of OPS to minimize a steel
price boost to end the worst steel
strike in history, the administration
approved a $5.20 a ton increase.
Over the protests of the White
House, the Capehart and Herlong
amendments had been written into
the Defense Production Act. These
permitted manufacturers and retail
ers, respectively, to pass on to the
public a substantial part of their
pdst-Korea cost increases which OPS
had been requiring industry to, ab
sorb.
But from the first, OPS was deal
ing with a mixed economic picture.;
Hardly had the freeze taken hold,
when the prices of raw materials be- i
gan to fall. They drifted down a(l- (
most steadily for two years.
Also, the panic psychology of buy- \
ers departed when the government!
stepped in. Consumers began saving
Columbia, March 14.—More,than
! 106,000 South Carolinians bought
$1.10 fishing licenses last year.
The Wildlife Resources Depart
ment today said Richland county
led in purchases with 7,612 licens
es, Berkeley was next with 7,277,
and Greenville followed with 6,901.
Licenses are required of all ang
lers using artifioial bait or ^manu
factured tackles.
The department said a total of
3,375 non-resident licenses, costing
$10.25 each, also were bought.
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CITATION FOR LETTERS OF
ADMINISTRATION
The State of South Carolina,
County of Laurens.
By J. H. Wasson, Probate Judge:
Whereas, William J.c Davis made
suit to me to grant him Letters of
Administration v of the estate and ef
fects of Waltef Alex Davis, Sr.
Tliese are, therefore, to cite and
admonish all and singular the kin
dred and creditors of the said-Walter
Alex Davis, Sr., deceased, that they
be and appear before me, in the
Court of- Probate, to b4 held at Lau
rens Court House, Laurens, S. C., on
March 26 next, after publication
hereof, at 10 o’clock in the forenoon,
to show cause, if any they have, why
the said Administration should not
be granted. \ :
Given under my hand this 4th day
of March, A. D., 1953.
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the consumer price index during more than they had since the war,
1953, in a free market, than the 1.6
per cent rise which took place last
_ year under price controls.
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ident when radio and television sets:
: week 1 y batches of decontrol orders.
tsance Fed..6 surprised many in Wash-j bu yi n g power of the public was nev-
ington but did not astonish 250 lead-| €r ballooned as had been'expected,
retailers who met here a week
ballooned as had been
because the pace of mobilization and
defense spending never reached the
peak level anticipated.
DiSalle departed after 15 months
to run unsuccessfully for the Senate
for Ohio. After him came Ellis Arn-
few rises and some all > former governor of Georgia, who
lasted, six months, then Tighe E.
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In concensus, they predicted for
the next few months: autos, no
change; major household appliances,
steady; clothing, steady or a trifle
down; foods, a
declines.'
Cigarettes jumped a cent a pack; Woods > three months./Finally came
soon after they were decontrolled.: ^ ew York lawyer Joseph H. Freehill,
West Coast fuel oil went up. Rice,. P residin g over liquidation.
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OPS believes, may go up 25 per cent
Copper rose three cents a pound.
Beer may go up a half-cent or a cent
in some localities.
On the other hand, Eastern gaso
line firms who boosted prices had to
back down. East Coast fuel oil may
not rise at all. Supplies are ample
and the weather mild. Alumnium, to
the surprise of many, didn’t follow
copper up.
OPS believes coffee may wind up
10 to 12 per cent higher because Bra
zilian and Colombian producers are
expected to cash in. But retailers
and coffee roasters doubt that it
would be possible to pass oh the
The effect of decontrol has not yet
shown up in the official indexes.
Economists expect it to be slight. If
mixed trends continue, as many ex
pect, it may never be possible to
learn whether the death of OPS
struck any substantial blow at the
family paycheck.
The consumer is showing consid
erable resistance to high prices. If
production booms as expected with
the dismantiUng of production con
trols, the housewife should find am
ple supplies of goods in the market,
and sellers bidding for her favor.
So industry men insist that, bar
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whole green coffee increase to con- i vere enou gh to revive panic buying
sumers. Housewives balk at dollar! and shortages, the consumer should
! coffee. | be ale on his own hook to keep prices
Some of the items still under con- i within reasonable bounds.
trol—steel, nickel, a few chemicals,
machine tools and alloying metals— C L T A _i
are priced right up to ceiling. When S J00K I Q A V0rt
they are decontolled, price rises may 1
gradually force up the cost of man
ufactured goods.
But steel industry sources pleadj
innocent.
Long Tax Fight
They said they hear no
rumble in their trade of any plans
for a general increase.
So the story of OPS in the Korean
police action may have a different
ending from the history of OPA dur
ing the .war. There are many other
differences, too, but one great simi
larity—the public got hurt before
controls were imposed.
On Sept. 8, 1950, a price-wage con
trol law went on the bodes. Presi
dent Truman had not asked for It
and did not use it. There was no
“mobilization program.” The govern
ment hoped the police action would
be brief and fairly painless. Besides,
by September, the buying wave had
subsided and prices had begun to
slip a little.
Also, Truman couldn’t find any
body to take the Thankless job of
OPS administrate. Rumor said 30
people were tapped before pudgy,
witty- Michael V. DiSalle, former
mayor of Toledo, answered the call
to Washington.
But by that time, January, 1951,
Red China's forces were in. motion
and the police action had become a
war. The defense buildup had be
come a mobilization. People were
buying hand over fist, and consumer
prices had risen about 8 per cent.
The government froze prices and
wages as of Jan. 25. The ceiling in
almost every case was the highest
point to which prices had soared.
Even so, raw materials had gone up
faster than wholesale prices. Whole
sale prices had risen faster than re
tail prices, and consumer prices had
Washington, March 14.—Some in
fluential Republicans are working up
a compromise plan to try to avert a
tumultuous floor fight over taxes
that could tie up the House for weeks.
Such a prospect has been posed
by the avowed plans of Chairman
Reed (R-MY) of the Ways and Means
Committee to force his bill to cut
individual income taxes to the House
floor. Under House rules, if Reed
goes through with his plan the bill
would be wide open to amendments.
The House usually avoids an 'open’
tax bill like the plague, on the theory
that the House would be swamped by
amendments—most of them granting
tax reductions. Almost every House
member has his own pet tax ideas.
Veteran House parliamentary ex
perts said today they could recall
only one occasion—in 193S—when a
major tax bill was open to amend
ments on the floor from any one of
the 485 members.
On that occasion 21 years ago, the
same process threatened by Reed
was employed by ways and means
Chairman Crisp (D-Ga). Some 150
to 200 amendments were offered, 74
w ere adopted, and it took more than
three Weeks to dispose of the* dras
tically revised bill
As an indication of what might be
ahead this year, 287 separate tax
bills already have been introduced in
the House this session.
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