Evening star., 1950-12-31

fense program
with a fresh Mr. Hadley.
influx of Government workers
probably will bring still higher
peaks in 1851.
Government decentralization
may help to ease the pressure
but is not expected to interfere
with continued growth of the
Washington metropolitan area
Washington had a bad case OF
growing pains throughout 1850
and these probably will intensity
in 1851. The No. / problem OF
transportation affects the Gov
ernment, merchants, bankers and
everyone doing business in the
Capital.
Another Washington Grows.
Another Washington, the part
outside the District, in adjoining
Maryland and Virginia, was max
ing itself felt on an increasing
scale at the years end.
OF 1,462,109 persons living in
the Metropolitan Area on April l
1850, census takers found 802.170
or SIS per cent were in the Dis
trict, while 659,931 or As per cent
were outside. In 1910. 68.5 per
cent were in the District and 31.5
per cent outside, and in 1880. 72.5
per cent were in the District and
only 27.5 per cent outside. The
1850, 1910 and 1880 census figures
follow:
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Area Trade Sets Record.
Area retail trade set a new
record in 1850. II was estimated
at S1,667, ,118,00O, a gain of 10
per cent from 1949, and included
S1,212.580,000 in the District and
S454,538,000 outside. The District
gain from the previous year was
8 per cent while the outside sec
tions registered an increase OF
1877 per cent.
Trade in the outside areas was
further swollen in the year as
large retail organizations put ln
new stores or expanded existing
ones. Downtown congestion ano
continued heavy growth in out
living sections is expected to spul
this trend in the coming year.
Retail profits did not keep pace
with the rise in store sales as ex'
penses mounted. Store executives
at the year end were deeply con-
cerned with the adverse turn II
the sales-proflts ratio, but ex-
pected large sales volumes to con-
tinue into 1851.
Payrolls at New High.
Government and private pay
rolls in the District were estimated
at a record $143,763,oo0 for 475,.
100 persons in November, com
pared with $133,312,o00 for 464,00t
in November, l949.
Bank clearings for the yeal
jumped to a new peak of $4.667,'
883,232, a gain of 20 per CEN
from the previous year, while
debts to individual bank accounts
reached a record $9,650,080, 900
a rise of 1875 per cent. On Oc'
tober 4, date of the latest bani
call, assets, deposits and loans o1
the banks all set new records fol
that time OF year.
Postal receipts of $17,889, ,62(
for II months set record 5 pei
cent above a year earlier. Autt
registrations in the District stooc
at 1858 on November 30, also G
new high, while vehicular traffic
in November was 1871 per cen
above a year earlier and AL pei
cent above 1941 marks. One of thu
few discordant notes was fur
ther decline in transit passengers
which were around II per cen
below 1949.
Suburbs Lead in Building.
Building authorized in the Met
ropolitan Area in II months
totaled $275,794,646, including
$2O6,371 1854 of residential build
ing and 24.796 family dwelling
units, compared with the SAM
l949 periods total of 1907. .568, ,637
which included $190,967,672 O.
residential building and 30,93.
s (See HADLEY on Page D-3.)