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At Canaveral, it is said that the payroll is now 2150 million and that it will grow to -700 million in 1967. Perhaps the most interesting indicator of change is that the population of the County in which the installations are located grew from 23, 000 in 1950 to 111, 000 in 1960 and to 140, 000 in 1962. The space connected employment ran to 24, 000 in 1962 and is predicted to be 38, 000 in 1967.
Similarily, in Huntsville tha payroll is now around ? 175 million a year. There arc 6, 000 space employees, some 10, 000 Department of Defense perco. .ncl, and several thousand contractor personnel. The population of Huntsville was 16, 000 in 1950 and today totals over 90, 000.
The amount to be spent currently in the southeast by the National Space Administration comcs to Si, 374 million out of a total budget of ?3, 737 million.
This is rrj-de up c£ £543 million in Florida, ?395 million in'Louisi^na, f 95 million in JMissiecippi and £341 million in Alabama, plus small amounts in Georgia ar.d Tennessee. If Texss, v/ith ?135 million, end Virginia, with £171 million are added, then over 40 percent is in the South. California has ?55Q million of the rest. In addition, the Department of Defense spent clccs to ?1, 500 million on space or rpace related activities. Some part c-f this came to the South.
The split of the current construction costs indicates that a large share of there expenditures will continue to come South. Thus £600 million of a total ce;-.rtruction cost c£ ~2C0 million in 1963 is in Alabama, Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi, Texas ar.d Virginia.
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