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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. They moved to Fontana,
Calif., where Cunningham, who
had worked almost 17 years at
the U.S. Steel plant at Gary,
"Back East," she said, "everyone
thinks of California as being
very romantic and glamorous
and we were glad to come."
People like the Conroys have
helped swell the westward move
ment to more than 330.000 mi
grants a year since 1950. Popu
lation figures tell the story.
In 1950 California's popula
tion was 10,586,000. Today it is
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