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FRIDAY, April 6, 1984, Longview Morning Journal 14-A Pick a bouquet of savings on famous brand furniture t00 -c at jsras Houston rated 4th largest city HOUSTON (AP) Houston residents who have bragged for years that their hometown is the nation's fourth-largest city probably won't be surprised when the U.S. Census Bureau announces it's really true. 13 Create an "indoor garden" in any room of your home with these light, airy genuine rattan furnishings for living and dining areas by Ayers! Rattan 5-pc. dining group with glass top table! Whether you enjoy dining formally or casually, Ayers distinctive rattan group is a perfect choice. The sleek grouping includes a sturdy 46" glass top table with gracefully curved base and 4 arm chairs with high, laced backs and nubby cushions 099 "I think the average Housto-nian will come and go without any great impact," said Louis Welch, president of.

the Houston Chamber of Commerce and a for- mer mayor. According to the new figures, New York remains the nation's largest city with about 7 million people. Los Angeles, with 3 million people, will swap places with Chicago, 2.99 million. Houston will be fourth with 1.72 million, edging out Philadelphia with 1.66 million. The changes, to be officially announced later this month, had been expected in Houston for several years, the Houston Post reported Thursday.

"The Census Bureau is merely confirming what we already knew," Mayor Kathy Whitmire said. The new figures; based on July 1982 will be the first i released since the 1980 national census, said Census Bureau spokesman Ray Bancroft. The agency refigures city, county and metropolitan populations every two years, he said. The Philadelphia Inquirer pre-' dieted in 1981 that Houston had edged out the City of Brotherly Love for the No. 4 spot.

"We denied it at the time on the theory that when we became fourth we would say it not Philadelphia," Welch said. "Now the federal government is saying it and I'm not sure it's right." The estimated population of Philadelphia in 1982 dropped from 1.68 million to about 1.66 million, government figures said. Asked about the switch, Linda Wright Avery, spokeswoman for Philadelphia Mayor Wilson Goode, said, "It sounds like reality to me." Completing the lineup of the top 10 U.S. cites are Detroit with 1.14 million people, Dallas San Diego 915,956, Phoenix 824,230 and San Antonio, Texas, 819,021. Witnesses: Lucas not at murder site Console table and etageres make a handsome wall group! jf I Rattan console table is the perfect height to use between QQ J-t JSS' ffii etageres, or behind sofa.

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