,1950
7EDNESDAY, JANUARY 18, 1950
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
PAGE FIVE
Rents Increase 16-41 Per Cent After Decontrol
Washington—(L.P.)—Rents in six large cities that ended government controls under local option provisions of the 1949 rent act jumped from 16.2 per cent to 41.3 per cent, Tighe E. Woods, housing expeditor, has reported.
Mr. Woods based his figures on a survey made by the bureau of labor statistics to find out what happened to rents in Dallas; Houston; Topeka; Knoxville, Tenn.; Salt Lake City; and Jacksonville, Fla.
Mr. Woods said that "it appears significant that the longer a city has been decontrolled, the more general rent rise."
A survey appeared to be more commission for President Truman's request for an extension of federal rent controls that expire Friday, June 30. Congress has shown neither too much warmth nor too much coolness to the request.
Dallas decontrolled itself June 23, 1949. The survey showed that of the entals units free to rise, 67 per cent had gone up when the survey was made in November. The average increase was $13.66 in monthly rent, or 35.4 per cent.
The highest general increases and the highest dollar increases according to the survey, were found in Dallas, the first large city to deconrol itself.
In Salt Lake City, 46 per cent of the units had rent increases for an average increase of $6.48, or 16.2 per cent. Salt Lake City rents were decontrolled Aug. 5.
decembred Topske, decontrolled
Rents in Topeka, decontrolled
Sept. 14, went up in 40 per cent of
units free to rise for an average
increase of $9.45, or $3.3 per cent,
the survey figures showed.
Mr. Woods said the survey also included a breakdown of the increases by rental ranges. In each of
six cities, the percentage increase was highest in the under $50 group and lowest in the $50 and over group.
"The range among the six cities surveyed is from 67 per cent in Dallas to 31 per cent in Houston." Mr. Woods said. "While both cities are in the same state, Dallas had been decontrolled five months while Houston only one month when the survey was made.
"This would seem to believe the contention of opponents of rent control that when a city is decontrolled prematurely rents will rise at first, then level off and even drop.
"At least one explanation why the full effect of rent control is not felt during the first few months of decontrol is because of a favorite device. It is used in persuading a city government to pass a decontrol resolution and to present a pledge from landlords not to increase rents unreasonably when the lid is taken off." Mr. Woods said.
Chicagoon Learns To Call Taxicab The Hard Way
Bickman, 21, was arrested when he pulled a fire box alarm. He told Judge George Murphy that he expected a taxicab to answer his call.
Detroit. —(U.P.) It cost Joseph Bickman of Chicago $50 to learn how to call a taxicab.
"Instead, a fire engine came and later a patrol wagon," Mr. Brickman said.
"In Chicago they have little boxes on street corners to summon cabs and that's what I thought I was doing."
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18-Ounce Ferret Is Rapid City Hero, But Doesn't Lose Any Sleep Over It
Five-year-old Nesbitt (Nebbie) Ann Burdsall of Midwest City, Okla., is back in school today after 13 months of hospitalization. Nebbie was stricken with infantile paralysis in June, 1948, her spine, right shoulder, arm and hip, her left shoulder and leg severely affected by the crippling disease. Oklahoma County Chapter of National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis and Nebbies' parents report expenses for first 15 months as detailed above. For years to come, expenses will continue—in diminishing degree. Happiest item: special shoes, $5.70, proof that Nebbie can walk again. Large part of cost of care and treatment for thousands of polio victims is carried by National Foundation through contributions to March of Dimes drive, January 16-31.
Rapid City, S.D.—(U.P.)—An 18-ounce ferret named "Pete" was honored by the air force today as the hero who finally completed the Rapid City air base into a key northern B-36 bomber outpost.
Pete solved the problem of running an important telephone wire conduit six feet under a reinforced concrete runway.
Engineers feared they would have to tear up the runway to lay the wire.
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But the ferret's owner, Finn Timmons of Rapid City, fitted Pete with a harness, attached a string and dropped him into the 2.210-foot conduit with the order: "Take it through, Pete."
Pete ran out the other end, almost a half-mile away, 20-minutes later dragging the string which was used to pull the heavy telephone cable through.
Savannah — (U.P.) — Savannahians wondered where the flood of two-dollar bills was originating. Lt. Albert C. Oelschig, Jr., commanding officer of a National Guard unit, explained that troopers were paid 1,000 two-dollar bills to show city business just how much soldier trade they were getting.
Pete took the line through twice more in record time. But he was panting when he took off on the fourth and final trip. He stopped halfway through the tube.
After waiting a half-hour for the tired ferret to gather wind and complete the trip, the workmen began twitching the string in an effort to dislodge Fete.
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The long-distance rescue efforts continued for three hours with no luck.
Finally Pete emerged from the end of the tube to be greeted by assembled and anxious high brass 31 hours after he dived into the conduit.
Pete only blinked at the cheers. He apparently had been knocked out by his efforts and had gone to sleep in the middle of the biggest day in his life.
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Pays Postage On Letters
That Are Without Stamps
Soap Lake, Wash. (UP)—Some thing new in promoting good will has been started by the Soap Lake chamber of commerce. If an unstamped letter shows up in the mail, the chamber pays the postage, plus a message stamped on the envelope telling the addressee that the stamp comes with the compliments of the chamber of commerce.
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