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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