Q PA NEWS
ALASKANS’ COST OF LIVING TO 33 TINKER CLOSE
MATCH IN OCTOBER.
A lot of Alaskan families in these last
tivo months or so have watched prices climb
upstairs...and wondered plenty about how
hard their cost of living budgets would be
hit...and how far they would have to
stratch. Anyone who does much Shopping
these days‘knows that prices are up on
some- foods, clothing and household furnish
ings. •
Under the terms of the new Price Control
Measure, which removed some subsidies,OPA
has had -to grant a number of increases in
the prices of many common food items.
Others have boon specifically exempted
from all controls.
Likewise some clothing prices wero givon
an upward boost because of the fact that
OPA, under the now Act, Must raiso nriccs
of any manufr.cujftrcr or- processor who uses
cotton or wool (as ana rhen thuir pricos
go up) duo to the lifting of all coiling
prices on raw cotton, as required by tlio
Act itself.
In addition to this, OPA—Into in August,
announced higher prices oh somo' 20 classes
of consumer durable gbods. Included were
refrigerators, stoves, vacuum cleaners,
radios and so on.
These price increases strike directly at
our cost of living, to be sure—says tho
Alaska OPA. But there arc still brakos
next column '
thr.t con bo applied against inflation.
Latest word from Alaska OPA's Juneau head
quarters is to the effect that they intend
to uso these brakes, to see that increases
in living costs do not exceed the nev;’high
er prico line established by these required
OPA prico actions.
During October, Alaska OPA personnel will
:onduct surveys—to check prico (page 11)
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