Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 55, Number 133, Decatur, Adams County, 6 June 1957 — Page 3

THURSDAY, JUNE I, 1957

See New Record In American Spending Record $277 Billion For 1957 Spending NEW YORK (UP)—Americans are going to shell out more than a quarter of a trillion dollars this year for goods and services. This record 277 billion dollars will go for everything — automobiles. houses, clothes, ice cream sodas, haircuts, vacations and even a few bets on the ponies. It averages about »1,600 sot every man, woman pAd child In the United States. It will be about 10 billion dollars more than we spent last year. It will help keep the whee of industry humming aong at a prosperous clip. Increased government and business spending will add fuel to the rise which is expected to carry the gross national product — the value of all goods and services produced — to a new peak of 435 billion dollars this year. , Consumers Mpst Important Consumer spending is the most important cog in the wheel — six times the amount to be spent on industrial expansion and three times the outlay by government. In most cases, the consumer 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 side a few months ago, has brightened considerably and many experts look for better business in the months ahead. All these factors, economists predict, will combine to keep consumers in a buying mood. More Expansion Seen Industry is expected to spend some 37 billion dollars for expansion, a gain of 2 billion dollars over 1956. Federal, state and toca governments wil she out around 106 billion doUars up more than 6 billion dollars from last year. The picture Is not all rosy, however. The economy this year has been going through a rolling adjustment — some industries declining and some advancing. The over-all result has been a general levelling off in the, economy. Inflation is another bugaboo. Economists figure that at least half the gains in spending this year will be the result of higher prices. The other half will reflect increases in unit volume. Living costs in the United States have hit new all-time highs in each of the past eight months, and recent wage and price increases leave little hope of an early reversal. Record Cigarette Sales Are Reported Record Production Reported In Nation WASHINGTON (UP'—A government tobacco expert said today Americans are smoking a record number of cigarettes despite previous reports indicating a link between smoking and lung cancer. He said U.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 American Cancer Society would have on smokers but he noted previous warnings caused only a temporary drop in consumption. . . He said the decline recorded in 1953-54 coincided with newspaper ■stories, magazine articles and television programs conc . e smoking and lung cancer. At that time, cigarette consumption dropped to 378 billion after reaching 397 billion a year earlier. "The effect of toe 1953-541 cancer scare wore off, the Agriculture Department marketing speciaUst said, “cigarette consumption leveled off for a time and to the last two years toe rise relast two years we have had on three or four a <S“» his not affeaed the upturn. In fact, an interim report by the cancer society in 1955 apparently had no effect.’* Slight Damage Done As Autos Collide - A minor acident in Linn Grove Wednesday afternoon at 3:50 o - clock damaged two cars <inven by ladies who were related, deputy sheriff Charles Arnold reported A car driven by Ann R. Stucky, of Berne, traveling through an unmarked Intersection in toe town the about flve miles per hour, collided with a car driven by Alice M. Steiner, of route 1, Geneva, which was entering the intersection on another paved street at about the same speed. Damage was estimated at 875 to toe Stucky vehicle, and S6O to toe Steiner car. The Stucky auto suffered dents in the left trout fender and radiator, while toe left front Mader and door of toe other car were damaged. The state police add sheriff’s office cooperated la the investigation. ‘

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