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flower show in Luray Wednesday were Mrs. Wm. Meade Fletcher, Mies Nancy Fletcher, Mrs. S. E. Hening, Mrs. J. HilJ O’Bannon, * Mrs. J. H. Fletcher, Miss Virginia Fletcher, Mrs. Janies Yates and ! Misses Annie Wood, Ethel Long, Margaret Mason, Mary Stark, Bessie Stark, and Mrs. L. R. Brown- , ing. The show was held in the gardens af Mrs. Hudson and Mrs. Ruth Verter.
Mr. and Mrs. Wm. G. Wood, Mrs. J. Frank Jones, and Miss Anna Wood were in Staunton Monday night to attend a banquet for old Confederate Veterans af the DeJarnette Sanitarium.
Prices Of Drug Store ^ ;*
Products Resist Inflation
' Prices of drug store products sold under fair trade rose only 7.4 per cent from January 1, 1947 to December 7, 1951 in the face of inflation pressures which forced the over all consumer price index to an all-time high, according to a survey made public in Virginia by J. Curtis Nottingham, secretary of the Virginia Pharmaceutical Association. The study was mack- for the Bureau of/ Education on Fair Trade by McKesson A-Robbins, Inc. from its extensive price and sales datf. It coders products which account for nine-tenths of the $2,400,000,000 annual drug store sales volume in' proprietaries, pharmaceuticals, toiletries and sundries. ’ _
The eurvey revealed that fair* traded drug products increased 10.5 per cen+ from pre-war 1939 to December 1, 1950, compared with a 75.0 per cent rise in the cast of living as shown by the U. S. Bureau of Labor Statistics index. Fair trade’s ability to stabilize prices was achieved during a' period “of the greatest inflation-.ary'pressures in this country in modern times.”
Purpose of the 'unrey, Mr. Nottingham said, was to analyze the effects of rising manufacturing and distributing cost on'fair trade drug prices since January 1, 1947, terminal date of a previous study conducted by the National Assoc
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