Why are my variables not carrying over?

This program takes city names and numbers out of a text file, then does a computation with the numbers for each city and finds the highest and lowest of those computations. This is pretty frustrating because I had the program outputting the highest and lowest values for a while, but I must have changed something so now it just outputs junk for the variables to cout and a file. If anyone could help me spot why I'm getting this output instead of the correct highest and lowest values that would be greatly appreciated.

Output:

Town with the highest index: Anniston-Calhoun, County, ALt
Highest index: 1.$
Town with the lowest index:
Lowest index: 99999.0

Process returned 0 (0x0) execution time : 0.359 s
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#include <iostream>
#include <iomanip>
#include <cmath>
#include <fstream>
#include <cstdlib>
#include <string>

using namespace std;

double indexCalc(string, double, double, double, double, double, double);
//prototypes for functions that determine lowest and highest indexes.
double showHigh(double, double&);
double showLow(double, double&);
void output(string, string, double, double);
int main()
{
   string line, lowest, highest;
    double groceries, housing, utilities, transportation, health, miscellaneous, index, high = 0, low = 99999;
  ifstream inFile;
  ofstream outFile;
 //File open test
  inFile.open("costIndex.txt");
  outFile.open ("index.txt");
  if (inFile.fail())
    {    cout << "No such file";
        system("pause");
        exit(100);
    }
   while (!inFile.eof())
   {

//input from text file
getline (inFile, line);
inFile >> groceries;
inFile >> housing;
inFile >> utilities;
inFile >> transportation;
inFile >> health;
inFile >> miscellaneous;




   inFile.ignore();

   index = indexCalc(line, groceries, housing, utilities, transportation, health, miscellaneous);

    if (index > high){
    high = showHigh(index, high);
    highest = line;
    }

    if (index < high && index < low)
    {
    low = showLow(index, low);
    lowest = line;
    }



outFile << setprecision(1) << fixed << "City name: " << line << endl;
outFile << "Groceries: " << groceries << endl;
outFile << "Housing: " << housing << endl;
outFile << "Utilities: " << utilities << endl;
outFile << "Transportation: " << transportation << endl;
outFile << "Health: " << health << endl;
outFile << "Miscellaneous: " << miscellaneous << endl;
outFile << "Index: " << fixed << index << endl;


}

outFile << setprecision(1) << fixed << "Town with the highest index: " << highest << endl;
outFile << "Highest index: " << high << endl;
outFile << "Town with the lowest index: " << lowest << endl;
outFile << "Lowest index: " << low <<  endl;

cout <<  setprecision(1) << fixed << "Town with the highest index: " << highest << endl;
cout << "Highest index: " << high << endl;
cout << "Town with the lowest index: " << lowest << endl;
cout << "Lowest index: " << low <<  endl;




inFile.close();
outFile.close();




return 0;
}

/*Pre:
Post : N/A
Purpose: Calculate city indexes.
*/

double indexCalc(string line, double groceries, double housing, double utilities, double transportation, double health, double miscellaneous)
{
    double ind;
    ind = (groceries * 0.13) + (housing * 0.29) + (utilities * 0.10) + (transportation * 0.12) + (health * 0.12) + (miscellaneous * 0.24);


    return ind;

}

/*Pre: high reference.
Post: New High.
Purpose: Find the latest highest city index.
*/

double showHigh(double ind, double &high)
{
    double newHigh;

    if (ind > newHigh)
    {
        newHigh = ind;
        return newHigh;
    }

}

/*Pre: low reference.
Post: New low.
Purpose: Find the latest lowest city index.
*/

double showLow( double dex, double &low)
{
    double newLow;

    if (dex > newLow)
    {
       newLow = dex;
     return newLow;
    }
cout << "Bryan Kobashi" << endl;
}
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