Fall Food Prices
Show Drop in State
PALMER — Alnskan food prices
dipped slightly during the three
month period ending with Septem
ber, the University of Alaska’s Ag
licultural Extension Service re
ported today.
The cost of a 40-item ‘ food bas
ket” in September was $22.88, com
pared with $23.08 in June. The
cost of the same basket in Seattle
in September was $17.84, while
the national average was $16.26.
Only two Alaskan cities showed
increased food prices during the
July-August-September period.
Ketchikan was up 28 cents and
Palmer was up one cent.
Fairbanks’ basket was 68 cents
lower. Anchorage down 57 cents,
Nome 31. Petersburg 21, Juneau
16, Seward 13 and Sitka 9.
Lower prices were reported for
sugar, lettuce, tomatoes, cabbage,
round steak, lunch meat, salad
dressing, carrots, oranges, rolled
oats, onions, shortening, tomato
soup, apples, oleo, chuck roast,
ground beef, flour, jello and fruit
ccoktail.
Prices were higher for frozen
and canned orange juice, eggs, ba
con, ice cream, canned peaches,
pork chops, frozen strawberries,
frying chicken, bananas, potatoes,
coffee, baby food, pork and beans,
bread, milk, butter, evaporated
malk and peas.
The price on corn flakes held
steady.
The price of the 40-item food
basket by city in Alaska included
Ketchikan $20.64, Petersburg
$21.22, Sitka $21.78, Juneau $21.21,
Seward $22.64, Anchorage $22.48, J
Palmer $22.06, Fairbanks $25.00,
and Nome, $28.87.
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HIGH SCHOOL
HONOR ROLL ANNOUNCED
Thirty-four Nome High School
i students were listed for the firs*
reporting period of grades this
school year, by Principal George
Rogers.
Of tiie students who had no
grades below B-. two had straight
A grades, Alice Arnold, senior, and
James Giilis, junior, to top the
student body.
Those placed on the Honor Roll
for the first nine weeks were:
l?th Grade — Alice Arnold.
Ken Okitkon. June Oman, Oscar
Swanson. Pauline Tocktoo, Neil
Foster, Devon Alexander, Sally
Ailak, Nelson Leight.
11th Grade—James Giilis, Mary
Lu Couch, Richard Walker. Dianna
Leight, Homer Hoogendorn, Paul
Harmon, Ruth Okitkon, Wendall ;
Smith, David Charles, Alice Atuk.
Marion Sockpick, Dorothy Ball,
Richard Young.
10th Grade — Mary Komakhuk,
Julianna Chase, Floyd Pauwok, j
Reuben Abloogalook, John Town
er, Jean Foster. Judy Kelly.
9th Grade — Delores Johanson,
Sandra Osborne, Betty Hoogen- !
dorn, Carrie Ann Ullrich, Bobby
Koweluk.
WEATHER BUREAU REPORT
Partly cloudy this afternoon.
Mostly cloudy tonight and tomor
row, and slightly warmer.
Low tonight -12. High tomor
row 0.
Nome data last 24 hours as of 7
a.m. today: Temperatures: highest
-10, lwest -19. Maximum wind 7
miles an hour from the Northeast.
Sunrise at 9:19 a.m., sunset at
2:21 p.m.
Comparative Data — Tempera
tures year ago today: High -3, low
-16. Extremes on this date since
1907: Highest 35 in 1950, lowest
-36 in 1948.
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A L A S K A ST E A M S HIP 40 M PAN Y
Today's
Business Mirror
By SAM DAWSON
NEW YORK CP — Business
seemed getting set to start another
big expansion drive — before the
shock of President Kennedy’s as
sassination.
Predictions for spending next
year for new plant and equipment
; had ranged from a moderate in
crease to a possible 10 per cent
! boost.
Plans may be held up while in
dustrialists assess the new busi
ness climate.
But the first tangible sign of
quickening business interest al
ready had come in the language of
dollars. Manufacturing firms have
sharply boosted their appropria
tions for capital spending — as
much as 45 per cent in some key
industries. The total set aside is
the highest since 1956, when the
last big boom was in full swing.
The greater part of the actual
dollar outlay would be made in
1964. And if the appropriation trend
that started this summer continues,
next year coud see a duplication of
the outpouring of money by cor
porations which made 1955-56 a
notable expansion era, unchal
lenged since in year-to-year spend
ing increases.
This year business spent $39 bil
lion on new equipment or plant
expansion. Private surveys of busi
ness intentions show expenditures
next year may run from 4 to 10 per
cent higher. The Department of
Commerce’s own survey of inten
tions for 1964 is due out this week.
The most optimistic forecast so far
has been for a $43 billion expen
diture.
But the money-on-the-barrel
head appropriations, as tabulated
by the National Industrial Confer-'
ence Board, shows that in the July
September quarter money set aside
by 602 corporations increased 19
per cent over the second quarter
of the year. The total of $3.2 bil
lion approaches the $3.3 billion
back in the summer of 1955. In the
1955-56 boom spending suddenly
swelled by 22 per cent.
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of children anxiously admiring the toy displays, signals that Christ
mas is truly "just around the corner.”
Seemingly every toy imaginable has been produced to delight
the child of today, and your Nome merchant is not to be outdone
in this regard. For in shopping this week I found a mechanical
monster, a moving dinosaur, a battery operated accordion, a remote
controlled dog that fetches a bone, and of all things, a walking,
"talking” cow named Josephine!
But if you tend toward the more conventional, there is also
a wide selection from which to choose. The Nome Hardware is now
unpacking their recent gift arrivals and I found there a selection
of adventure stories for the young, should you have a reader in
the family. Hanging above the counter was a very fascinating and
well designed mobile representing our space age — It would give
added interest and color to the boys’ room.
The N. C. Company has jig saw puzzles that are represen
tative of the works of renowned artists.
These gifts are fun for the entire family, and incidentally,
provide a measure of art education for all
Christmas just isn’t complete without a doll beneath the tree
for Suzy. Cavota’s store has a wonderful selection of these charm
ers from three inches to three feet high, and in a very attractive
price range.
For further information regarding any of the gift items men
tioned, feel free to write or call The Nome Nugget.
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