Biggest State in '64?

"Day after day, the whole week through, month by month, the great stream of humanity is flowing in," reported the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce in 1921. "No human agency can stop it." In no mood to stop it, the chamber advertised the state's sunny joys at Midwestern county fairs to entice thousands more to join the 3,500,000 already in sunny California. But the wildest enthusiasts underguessed the migrations to come. The chamber has since quit trying to swell the stream, settled down to work on problems--roads, water shortages, etc. --to be multiplied by still more millions of newcomers. In pride and awe, the chamber's California Population Study Committee reported last week on the migrant-swelled statistics (present est. pop. 14,400,000), again upped its forecasts of the near future:

P: The Los Angeles metropolitan area, with 6,290,000 now, is expected to pass Chicago in 1960 to become the second largest U.S. city.

P: California's 1965 total (18,100,000) may top New York (est. 16,229,000 in 1958) to make it biggest in the 49 states, keep rising to a staggering 1980 mark of 27.8 million.

P: Of the 27.8 million, 9.9 million will live in Los Angeles County alone, and 17,349,000 in the lotus-eater land of Southern California.

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