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Palmer Food Prices
36.9% Above Slates’
Average, Survey Shows
A month ago the Experiment
Station released Alaska data in*
dicatmg that grocery prices in the
Territory had remained relatively
stable during the 4-month period,
May-September, 1951. This week's
release by Agricultural Economist
Hugh Johnson sV“ws comparisons
on food items between Alaskan
cities and several locations in the
States.
Last February the Bureau of
Labor Statistics of the U. S. De
partment of Labor made ‘‘quick
survey” of living costs in Anchor
age and Fairbanks. This survey
showed that food prices in An
chorage were 37 percent higher
than in Seattle. In Fairbanks they
were 47 percent higher. These
comparisons were the first to be
*made officially in the Territory
by the Bureau since March 1945.
The Bureau indicated that price
differentials on food items had
narrowed materially between Se
attle and Alaska during the 1945
51 period.
Food price information col
lected by Johnson recently at the
Alaska Agricultural Experiment
Station shows that these same re
lationships continue to exist.
B^fed on 21 comparable food
items for August 15. 1951, An
chorage food pr.ces were 35.07
percent above Seattle food prices
on the same date. Palmer prices
were 35.37 percent above, and
Fairbanks prices were 43.66 per
cent greater than at Seattle.
Although Seattle is considered
to be a high-priced city in the
States, its average was one per
cent lower than existed in Wash
ington. D. C., and only 1.1 percent
above the average of 56 repre
sentative large cities. The rela
tionships existing on August 15,
therefore, are about the same as
the Bureau of Labor Statistics
vfound last February.
If the larger, more representa
tive base of the 56 large cities is
used as 100 percent, Seattle is 1.1
percent and Washington. D. C., is
2.4 percent higher than average.
Anchorage is 36.6 percent. Palmer
36.9 percent and Fairbanks 45.3
percent above average.
Preliminary information from
the BLS shows a slight rise of .55
percent (fifty-five hundredths
percent) on 21 food items be
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DEPENDENTS TRAVEL
TO BE RESUMED
The first group of dependents
of members of the armed forces
in Japan will sail from Seattle
soon. This will be the first group
to go to Japan since the outbreak
Travel, scheduled to resume in
November will be on a “limited
scale", the defense department
announced this week,
of hostilities in Korea.
Rowland B. Livesley. business
man of Alaska since 1934 was ap
pointed to the position of coor
dinator for the fourth district, it
was announced at Juneau by
Colonel Earl Landreth, Direc
tor of Civil Defense.
Livesley, 46. is married and the
father of two children.
tween August 15 and September
15. Anchorage prices rose 1.46
percent and Palmer prices rose
.26 percent (twenty-six hun
dredths percent) during the same
month. Increases have occurred
in eggs and some meat items and
in fresh fruits and vegetables
both in the survey of 56 cities and
in these two Alaska cities. Food
prices in Fairbanks showed a
small decline of 1.98 percent in tht
30-day period. These occurred ir
the meats, fats, fresh fruits and
vegetable food groups.
Eklulna Project
Technical Laoratory
On Hi-way Completed
Last week was moving week
for many of the Bureau of Recla
mation Eklutna project personnel
when field engineers, inspectors,
geologists and survey crews mov
ed their equipment from the pro
ject headquarters here in Palmer
to the newly completed Eklutna
project technical laboratory lo
j cated on the Anchorage-Palmer
j highway near milepost 34.
Field Engineer Sam Westgate
| will be in charge of the labora
tory. With him go Ernest Burke,
chief inspector, and the five in
spectors he has on his staff; Mur
ray Athearn, project geologist;
Albert Soliss. head of survey, and
his staff of 18 men.
Many of these men will move
their families soon to housing
now under construction in the
project area. Twelve houses clas
sified as “permanent” are near
completion by the Denali Con
struction Co. Twenty “temporary”
houses are being constructed at
the project location by C. William
Hufieson, Anchorage contractor.
CITY BIDS ON ARC
ROAD MAINTAINER
City Clerk William Head an
nounced this week that the City
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NEW ALASKAN MAP
An attractive and useful map
of Alaska and surroundings has
been put out by the Alaska
Steamship Company, showing
coastal steamship routes, inland
transportation along highway and
rail and useful information about
Alaska.
An sttractive cover shows a
coastal scene background with a
typical totem pole predomma*
ing.
of Palmer has entered a bid on
one of the road maintainers of
fered for sale recently by the Al
aska Road Commission.
Ken Luse & Co.
PAINTING CONTRACTORS
| 741 'C St., Anchorage, Box 2276— Dial 35601
Palmer, Alaska, Phone 4
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WEEKS FIELD
AIR STRIP CLOSED
Bush pilots lost their case when
on injunction against the removal
of bush pilots from Weeks Field
airstrip was denied by District
Judge Harry E. Pratt. The opin
ion cleared the way for the re^
moval of all planes from Weeks
Field, effective October 15, as
previously ordered in an ordi
nance by the city of Fairbanks.
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