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Thursday, Juna 8. 1137 MEDFORD (OREOOK) MAIL THIBtWE ELETEIf American Consumers Expected To Shell Out Record Amount fqr Goods, Services I n 1957 r'.ew i ork V Americans are going to shell out more than quarter of a trillion dollars this year for goods and services. This record S277 billion will go for everything automo biles, houses, clothes, ice cream sodas, haircuts, vacations and even a few bets on the ponies. It averages about SI. 600 for every man, woman and child in the U.S. It will be about S10 billion .more than we spent last year. It will help keep the wheels of industry humming along at a prosperous clip. Increased government and business spending will add fuel to the rise which is expected to carry the gross national' pro duct the value of all goods and services produced to a new peak of $435 billion this jear. That is nearly half a tril lion. Consumer spending is the most important co in tht wheel six times the amount to be spent on industrial expansion and three tima the outlay by govern ment. The coniumer, whose buying whims can man the difference botu.ei.-n a good and bad year, right now i considered the brightest ar in the economic heaven In mot rirfes he appears to be better off financially than ever before. Disposable income is at a record high. Savings and employment are near their best levels. The economic outlook, on the cloudy tide a few months ago, has brightened considerably and many experts look for bet-1 ter business in the months ahead. I I All these factors, economists predict, will combine to keep j consumers in a buying mood. Industry is expected to spend .some S37 billion for expansion, a gain of 52 billion over 1956. i Federal, state and local govern i ments will shell wl around $108 billion, up mor- than $6 bil i lion from last year, i The picture is not all rosy. : however. The economy this year : has been going through a rolling I adjustment some industries declining and some advancing. The over ail result has been a general leveling off of the econ omy. Inflation is another bugaboo. Economists figure that ?t least Civil Rights Bill Backers Concerned Over Amendment Waahinfton P House backers of the controversial civil righta bill showed concern today at signs that Southerners are gaUiine; ground In their fight for a "jury trial" amendment. The House prepared to begin formal debate on the "right-to-vote" bill this afternoon after preliminary round of discus sio.i Wednesday and 17 days of hearings earlier by two House committees. Four Days of Talks The House agreed to permit four (fays of talks on the bill with unlimited introduction of amendments permitted after the general debate ends Monday, foe of the meajure stood by witb aome three dozen amend jr.enli to tack on it. Althouga voting on amend ments will not start until next week. d;scussions already fo Cised more on the "jury trial" amendment than on the bill it ae'.f. A fuial vote on the bill is expected late next week. Southerners said openly, and Klitil cf the bill's backers ad mitted privately, that as of now the amendment Hands a good rhance ? goin; through. Would Wreck Measure it would require jury trials for persons accused of violating court injunction that the bill ' authorizes the government to seek to prevent civil rights vio lahor.s The atfuiniitration as well as House supporter" contend the amendment would wreck the measure. President Eisenhower at his eewa conference Wednes day took a stand arainst it. Eisenhower cited a comment bv former President William Howard Taft that ". . . If we tried to put a jury trial between a court order and the enforce ment of that order, that wg are really welcoming anarchy." j Americans Smoke I Record Number Off Cigarettes I Washington 'V A govern ment tobacco expert said today j Americans are smoking a rec ord number of cigarettes despite ! previous reports indicating a link between smoking and lung cancer. He said IT. S. smokers will consume 399 billion cigarettes by June 30, end of the current fiscal year 3 per cent more than the 387 billion cigarettes smoked in fiscal 1955-56. The official was careful to avoid predicting what impact the latest report by the Ameri can Cancer Society would have !on smokers but he noted prev I ious warnings caused only a temporary drop in consumption. Effect Wore Off He said the decline recorded in 1953-54 coincided with news paper stories, magazine articles and television programs concer ning smoking and lung cancer. At that time, cigarette consump tion dropped to 378 billion af ter reaching 397 billion a year earlier. "The effect of the 1953-54 cancer scare wore off," the Ag riculture Department marketing specialist said, "cigarette con sumption leveled off for a time, and in the last two years the rise resumed. "In the last two years we have said on three or four oc casions a burst of new evidence of possible concer-cigarette link, but it has not affected the up turn. In fact, an interim report by the cancer society in 1955 apparently had no effect." Winner of Driving Event leaves Soon Health Officials Battle Flu Virus San Francisco IF Officials of the U. S. Public -Health Ser vice are checking all ships and planes arriving from the Orient in an attempt to thwart an out break of an influenza epidemic. Dr. G. L. Dunnahoo. a mem ber of the USPH staff here, said officials in Honolulu are cabling the names of all known cases which arrive there by ship or plane from the Orient, where the flu is raging. When these cases arrive in San Francisco the health officer in their home town is notified. The cases, all of which were "on the mend." arrived here on Tuesday aboard the General Sul tan from Manila, according to Dr. E. W. Norris, chief quaran tine officer for the USPH. Sev eral of them were military per sonnel. They were taken to Let terman General hospital. The others were civilians. jThey were allowed to continue to their destinations with a war j ning they were a potential dang i er to others. I Dr. Malcolm Merrill, state health director, said he had no reports of any outbreaks of the I Oriental influenza in California. Central Point Roy Vincent, winner of the Central Point Jay cee Teen-Ag Road-E-O. will leave Saturday morning for Mc-I 1 1 r t f Minnv.He to attend the state fi j (JAW WtflU UlderS nals of the driving contest. , " " ' iwuu viuvij He will be accompanied by Chet Ayers. Teen-Age Road-E-O chairman. Young Vincent will compete with winners from other Jaycee locals throughout the state. The winner there will receive awards and aft expense-paid trip to Washington. DC, to rompete in the national finals August 15. National winners will receive awards and scholarships total ing $4,500. Collision of Trucks leaves 13 Victims Fayetteville. N. C. TP A tractor-trailer truck loaded with potatoes smashed into a truck crowded with migrant workers at a busy highway intersection nine miles north of here today, killing 13 persons and injuring at least others. The truck of migrant Nearo workers was bound from Mt. Olive. X. C . to Dunn for the workers to pick beans. Authori ties said it apparently failed to halt at a stop sign at the inter section and was rammed in the side by the tractor-trailer, en route from Fayetteville to Dunn tti'.ii a kaj of potatoes. Trial for Officers Detroit OP Carl Stellato, president of the United Auto Workers Local 600 at the Ford Rogue Plant. Wednesday ordered four of his officers to stand trial for refusing to answer questions before a Senate subcommittee. Stellato acted under a program mapped out by union President Walter Reuther to prevent mem bers from invoking the Fifth Amendment. The four are Mack Cin2ori. James M. Simmons. Harry X. Philos and Walter Dorosh" All minor officials of the local, the four invoked the constitutional amendment when questioned about alleged Communist activities. Public Hearing on Phone Service Slated Salem V A public hearins into service provided by the Lincoln-Tillamook Telephone Com pany will be held in Oceanlake June 18. the Public Utilities Commissioner announced today. Commissioner Howard Mor gan said he had received num erous inquiries and complaints concerning delays and obtain ing telepehone service. half the gains in spending this i Living costs in the U.S. have! little hope of an early reversal. previously negotiated contracts.! The steel industry is expected steelworkers. The oil industry is year will be the result of high-! hit new all-time highs in each of! It has been estimated that 5 j These hikes will add an estimat-lto boost steel prices between $5 talking about another four-cents- er prices. The other half wiil the past eight months, and recent million workers will get automa reflect increases in unit volumeJwage and price increases leave 'tic pay hikes this year unde: i ed billion dollars to the nation's! and $10 a ton in July to help , a-barrel crude oil price increase labor bill. offset an automatic pay boost to to offset high labor costs. 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