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o Tuesday, December 20, 1955 MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE THREE Newcomers Flocking To Vesfern Stales at About 1,000 Per Day mainder is the normal gain re sulting from the birth rate ex ceeding the death rate. United Press asked half a dozen sociologists and population experts why so many people are following Horace Greeley's fa mous advice to young men. Boiled down, they said, it's a matter of job opportunity com bined with good living condi tions such as mild climate and lots of breathing space. Dr. William A. Spurr of Stan ford University, pointed out that the big migration doesn't mean there have been more jobs avail-' able in the west. The newcomers indirectly bring their jobs with them. Their arrival expands the market. This increase production and results in new jobs, he said. Spurr predicted that by 1956 California's population would surpass that of New York and be greatest in the nation. Al ready, however, city, county and state officials are being harassed by the problems of a ballooning population. SaivF ranasco (U.P.i Harold now has a job as a shear man on the tin-plate line at the Kaiser Steel mill. "I saw how really nice it was out here and how the cost of living was cheaper," Cunning ham says. The Cunninghams are among a horde of mid-century migrants following the setting sun to California, Arizona and Nevada. They come at the rate of almost a thousand a day. Every year the migration is. equal, in num bers, to the population of a city the size of Atlanta, Ga., or Rochester, N.Y. Charles Nechanicky left Chi cago in 1950 and went to work for Lockheed Aircraft Co. in Burbank, Calif. "I thought it was a more healthful climate," he said. "And I love it here." Milder Climate Elizabeth Monts, home eco nomics instructor at "Fresno State College, satisfied a five year ambition this year when she came west from Illinois. "The climate is milder and I have found people very friendly out here," said Miss Monts. Edward J. Conroy transferred to San Francisco from Connecti cut when his company gave him his choice between here and Chicago. His wife was all for it 13,335.000, an increase of 23.1 per cent. Even more spectacular are the rates of increase in Nevada and Arizona. In the five years since 1950 Nevada climbed from 160, 000 to 210,000, or a 31 per cent increase, and Arizona increased from 750,000 to 928.000 or 23.8 Well over- half of these in creases are due to arrival of new comers from other siate. The re Cunningham of. Gary, Ind., brought his wife and three chil dren to California on a vacation In 1952. They're still here. The Cunninghams never went back to Gary that is, hey went back only long enough to pack up. 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