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Friday, March 21. 1958 University Daily Kansan
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February Living Costs Rise; No Decline Seen In Future
Record high food prices pushed living costs to a new all-time high in February, the Labor Department reported today.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics said the consumer price index rose two-tenths of one per cent last month despite rising unemployment and falling industrial production.
In Washington, hurried Senate passage today of a bill to cancele, pending administration cuts in farm price supports confronts President Eisenhower with a ticklish election year veto decision.
The measure runs against the grain of the President's philosophy on farm problems. Its Democratic supporters have labeled it as an anti-recession bill designed to keep farmers from losing a half billion
A high labor official said that he did not see much chance for a decline in living costs in the next few months. Consumer prices hinge largely on crop conditions across the country,he said
dollars this year in government support payments.
The bill would freeze farm price supports this year and planting allotments next year at "not less" than 1957 levels.
In Los Angeles, Dr. Wernher von Braun, a top U. S. rocket expert, said last night that the American space program is lagging because we are trying too hard for perfection at the start.
The United States is slow in developing space vehicles because officials want to make them part of a new "weapons system," he said.
In Cape Canaveral, Fla., the commander of the Air Force missile test center said today that the U. S. intercontinental ballistic missiles, when perfected, can be made ready for launching in as little as two minutes after an attack aimed at this country.
The commander, Maj. Gen. Donald N. Yates, also said that he expects the United States to beat Russia in the rocket to the moon race.
Charges Dismissed Against Athlete
WASHINGTON —(UP)—A charge of defrauding a Wichita woman was dismissed Thursday against former Utah State basketball star, Ariel Maugham. Maugham was arrested here Nov. 2 on a federal warrant from Wichita. It accused him of "devising a scheme" to obtain a $250 Western Union money order from Mrs. Albert H. Larson of Wichita. However, details of the charge were never spelled out.
Do foreign students return home believing that life is meaningless without such things as refrigerators and big cars?
Do Foreign Students Miss Rich U.S. Living?
The charge that foreign students who study in the United State return home with "inflated notions" on living standards is not necessarily true, said foreign students interviewed by The Daily Kansa Wednesday.
Former Prime Minister Chaudri Mohammed Ali of Pakistan made the charge in a recent speech before that country's National Assembly. He advised against sending students to the United States.
Of the 10 foreign students interviewed, six said the former prime minister was partly right about students getting inflated notions, three said he was completely wrong, and one said it depends on the individual student and the country he is from.
All the students questioned said the former prime minister was wrong in advising that students should not be sent to the United States.
Some of the comments:
Raja M. Naib, Pakistan graduate student, "To a certain extent he right. What he meant was that youths returning from the United States shouldn't entertain hopes of an easy and comfortable life back in Pakistan. It is a country which condemned to hard labor, to accelerate the speed of reconstruction and development."
Romolo Lanna, Italy graduate student "All foreign students have readjustment problem when they g home. After a period they realize that these things apply to the Unite States only and they accept thing as they are."
Young Wha Kim, Korea sophic more—"An education in the Unite States brings about an intellectual awareness rather than a materi one."
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