The Key West Citizen Newspaper, March 17, 1949, Page 7

What tt Means: =~ THURSDAY, MARCH 17, 1949 letra ooas sot added to the price of wheat or few materials and sale of the finished product. What the ayeeny am margins which are he bread prices high? Large} eabentinaes for wages, transpor- tation, storage, packaging, adver- new plant investment or just Bigh posts? this inner mystery of the Great Bread Price Mystery. Meanwhile, in nearly store in the nation the everage price of bread is 14.5 conte--the all-time peak, reach- ed in February 1948. In a few Wealities minor drops brought the average down to 14.4 conts last December. But the ex- Perts think this small decrease promises much. The Agriculture Department predicts, that the prive ot « loaf will remain ap- proximately the peak price at feast ontil July w Blackmore, agricultural economist who made the bread pric @ study, said marketing costs will not deeline until the ov al price level declines—when oll other cost items start a nward adjustment There isn't much competition terlay in the milling and baking industries. They expanded their plente very Tittle during the war. But the bread-eating population kept imereasing all the time. There is now very little of the surplus producing capacity which mpels industries to reduce their priees in order to sell more goods. Teh aahth aah the Nore’ in the siding The millers and bakers, mean- while, b been squeezed by high wages and other costs, which weoounts for some of the price ie. And on paper it looks as though they have been earning mendily fatter profits since 1940. The farmer, meanwhile, is hav- in « tougher time than the city fotk. The price of his wheat went vp all through the war and reach- ed on all-time peak of $2.81 a ages D nuary, 1948. Then Wann en siow. for $1.94 « bushel. But when the farmer store to buy beck his wheat in the form of has to pay the all-time ke just like city people. At present prices he is getting cents out of each 14.5 bread. The other © up the price of bread are 8 cents for the miller, eonts for the baker and re- siler, and ene cent for all other costs —salt storage es and so forth Ferm prices always dance up jown as market conditions ’ the tune, and today the mar- ket is Mush with wheat from good crop years. But food pro- marketing move ackwatd very slow- stimulus of market It will take many a in other fields to their present goes to the about three mi lo f me that ¢ soda, spices, costs forward or under the ndition: ‘ tecline them from WILL YOU SMILE? Hard To Select I tewer-—Which ten books tt you choose if you were wt upon a desert island? Blonde Novelist It's rd to I've written over 30, you " n the last 10 years a ” |Deplores Traffie |Mess--Given DENVER—(#)—When I. W. Bond complained at City Hall about traffic conditions in his part of town he was referred to the Traffic Engineer Henry W. Barnes. The retired businessman told Barnes how he would correct the’ situation, and was given a job by Barnes as field investigator for the department The Veterans Corner QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS ON INCOME TAXES Effect of income taxes compensation and problems con- cerning other benefits bring a stream of questions from vet- erans, Answers are obtained from the Veterans Administration and published in this column by The Key West Citizen as a service to veterans and their dependents. Q: I am ‘an honorably dist charged World War II v At present, I am in prison for a minor offense. Mi: I receive a correspondence course under the provisions of the GI Bill? A: Yes. The Veterans Adminis- tration makes contracts with ap- proved schools and will pay for accredited courses, but no sub- sistence allowance will be paid. Q: Tam a World War I veteran and have been working out my income tax report. Do I have to show my compensation from the VA Ree A: Disability compensation is exempt from federal income tax However, this is a matter within he jurisdiction of the Internal Revenue Bureau. Q: I would like to know why the pension I had been receiving under the law is now called com- pensation? A: Public Law 494, 79th Con- gress, provided that the term “compensation” be applied to all service-connected disability or death benefits paid through the Veterans Administration Q: What income _ limitation provision is attached to the pen- sion I will get as the widow of a soldier who died in a Japanese prison? A: No income provisions are applicable to compensation paya- ble for service connected with ieath (Veterans wishing” further -in- formation regarding veterans’ benefits may have their questions answered by writing the nearest VA office). Edelweiss, low growing flower if the high mountains of Switzer- land, is protected by law because vf its rarity. Mail The Citizen to | Relatives ' | FLAMES AND SMOKE’ BILLQW. HIGH into th dir ‘ais an oil well in the Gulf of Mexico: near the mouth ef the Mississippi River continues to burn out of control following an explosion Friday night. A drilling barge, a dertick, and’ a 204-foot land- ing ship, all the property o fthe Shell Oil Co, have been con- sumed in the blaze. $1,000,000 (M). SALVAGES U.S. STEEL PUEBLO, Colo.—(#)—Eugene Untermayer has made a Damage has thus far been esti ated. at ~ o| BAVARIAN LINEN MAKER | long and successful jump from making fine linen in Bavaria to salvaging | iron at Pueblo’s steelmills. The 63-year-old man fled Germany with his family in 1940, He left behind one of Bavaria’s largest linen plants which he'd owned for 40 years. He tried. selling books in New| York City to maintain his wife| and two children. But at the sug- gestion of a third son he trekked | westward to Colorado, The son | was with U. S. ski troops in train- | ing at Camp Hale pear Leadville: | Untermayer took a job at Pu-| eblo with a New York metal sal- vage company, It was trying to| recover metal from the slag ie dR oper as 2 oe of the Minnequa steel Corp. Ce hee eee New _ York fiyma| abandoned the work because it couldn't make a profit. Untermayer decided to tackle the job himself. He obtained a contract from the up where other firms had failed He is directing a big operatjon now in the recovery of the metal The project involves the eventual working over of about six miles of dumps which are mountains of blast furnace slag. Powder charges blast loose the material and four bulldozers push it aside in swaths while workmen pick over the dislodged scrap. Most of the recovered met- al is in small pieces but some re- coveries weigh a half-ton. Frucks haul the accumalations to the steel mills where they are used with others scrap iff the open hearth furnaces in making stecl Untermayer speaks five lan- guages and is an etymologist an expert in the derivation of words. He is also a metallurzist America is the land of opportu- Inity, he says. “Any man can learn to do anything.” The Cossacks, who had samc degree of independence, supplied the Russian Empire with cavalry and scouts in lieu of paying ta ee bootie Home econiting Week SALE > | Phone | | 1516 | ° STS THRU * CURTAINS ORDER OFFICE Simonton and Fleming Sis. MARCH 26th NLY ®VENETIAN BLINDS I ®BEDSPREADS + At Special Money Saving Prices! | . e f TEL. SERVICE from 9 to 6 EVERY DAY w SEARS * Phone | % 1560 CF&I and took , gravity. 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