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THE BATTALION
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 13, 1978
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North and Midwest
may ‘lose their seats’
MSC
Political
Forum
“The Future of
the Big Cities”
a mayors panel
with
Carole McClellan Jim McConn
Austin Houston
Lila Cockrell
San Antonio
Mon. Oct. 16 12 Noon
MSC 206
United Press International
WASHINGTON — In the last
quarter of the century, the South
and the West will grow so much fas
ter than the North and Midwest that
New York may lose four congres
sional seats and Ohio, Pennsylvania
and Illinois two each, the Census
Bureau said Thursday.
Should recent migration and fer
tility and mortality trends continue,
the bureau said, states in the boom
ing South and West will grow at
more than twice the rate of their
northern neighbors.
In its first projections of states’
census since 1972, the bureau said it
generally appears Florida, Arizona,
Nevada and Colorado will be the
fastest growing states, while the
District of Columbia, New York,
Pennsylvania, Illinois and the
Dakotas would be slowest growing.
The report provides three
projections for each state. The first
assumes interstate migration will
continue to reflect the trends in
population from 1965-75, the sec
ond is based on the period from
1970-75.
A third forecast presumes no net
interstate migration from 1975-
2000. Dr. John Long, chief de
mographer for the population
projections branch, said the sepa
rate projections are needed because
growth trends differed substantially
in 1965-75 versus 1970-75.
During the latter period. Long
said, “metropolitan areas grew
much more quickly than they had
before.
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“In fact, in many cases, they went
from decline to growth,” he said,
adding that the result is a “fairly
large amount of difference” in the
three sets of projections and the
Census Bureau has no way of know
ing which trend will prevail.
If the 1965-75 forecasts hold true,
the bureau said, Florida could pick
up three extra congressional seats
by the turn of the century, while
Texas would gain two new seats and
California, Arizona, Maryland, Ore
gon, Utah and Tennessee one each.
States losing in the congressional
numbers game under 1965-70
projections, the bureau said, in
clude New York, four; Ohio,
Pennsylvania and Illinois, two each;
and South Dakota, one.
If the population shifts follow the
1970-75 trends, the bureau said,
Florida could gain four seats instead
of three and Colorado would gain
two instead of one. Michigan and
Missouri each would drop a seat.
NASA officials keep
Skylab flying longerli
United Press International
Skylab flight controllers^ will add a Chilean static.
HOUSTON ~ , ...
to their tracking network Sunday, enabling 24-hour worldwide
monitoring of the space station they are increasingly hopeflil can l, xplosiv
kept flying indefinitely. . , . . . , asA&\
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration discoveredlai ch Em<
fall Skylab’s orbit was deteriorating faster than expected. Scientist, be the
have worked since March to keep it in a streamlined flight pro^ ,gars.
intended to minimize outer atmospheric drag on its orbit. /hen th
The aim is to extend the fading orbital life of the 74-ton station i time
which was abandoned in 19/4, until a space shuttle crew can usei is the
remote-control add-on rocket to boost it higher or destroy,' jturday
harmlessly away from populated areas. , t h e A
Santiago, already tracking other satellites but modified forSkylak edeach
will close a six-hour daily gap in Johnson Space Center’s contact wj) two te
the space station. Prior 18-hour monitoring was from Bermuda, Spa, ralmo
and California. s. The
Santiago began a series of shakedown operations Wednesday an J est wit!
will start full Skylab network tracking Sunday. ;s , The
‘We just increase control one more degree,” spokesman Charfelds at se
Redmond said. “If we thought we were flying on a rail up until
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we will probably be flying on an autorail from now on because mjiere is o
won’t have any blind spots.' Aggie-C
Redmond’s optimistic comments reflected NASA’s recent succa everw-oi
in controlling the previously cantankerous space station, which la
several weeks repeatedly wobbled out ol minimal drag attitude afie kinHou
first being positioned in June. , i er e will
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New dollar coin to replace
old faithful paper ‘George
United Press International
DENVER — U.S. Mint Director
Stella B. Hackel understands that
Americans do not want to carry
bulky silver dollars in their pockets,
but she hopes they will change their
attitude when the new dollar coin
goes into circulation next year.
A half billion of the coins bearing
the image of American suffragette,
Susan B. Anthony on one side and
an Apollo 11 Eagle on the other,
should be ready for the public by
the first week of July 1979. If they
become popular — as Mrs. Hackel
hopes they do — they could save
the government millions of dollars.
At a news conference Wednes
day, Mrs. Hackel displayed an
enlarged likeness of the new coin
and announced the plan to have it in
production early next year. None of
the coins will be released until 500
million are minted to prevent col
lectors from hoarding them.
Mrs. Hackel said she and other
federal officials will make a major ef
fort to have people accept the coins
because they think it is important.
Without such action, consumers
might continue using dollar bills be
cause “people don’t like to change
their habits,” she said.
The coins actually should be a lot
easier for Americans to use, Mrs.
Hackel said. They will not wear out
as fast as dollar bills, should be easy
to carry since they are only slightly
osley, as
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ing machines which Mrs. Hi w ars 2
described as “the American *ir
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The cost of minting each on j,
iar will be 3 cents and it will la
estimated 15 years. Dollar bills ^ p anr
produced at a cost of 1.8a , c |( er p a
apiece, but can be kept in cin | 0s t () f] as
tion only about 18 months. j
If the coins replace half thf , rsona | re
now in circulation, it could res V|s j s ^
immediate savings of $20 ml ^ | 0
Mrs. Hackel said. Shesaidtht q uar
rent demand on $1 bills is so| ihappen
that unless it is replaced by (tie ^
coin, the Bureau of Engravinj u ] e an( j
Printing will have to undergo! }| e | )as t |
million expansion.
Amin may retaliate
against Americans
United Press International
NAIROBI, Kenya — Uganda’s
President Idi Amin Thursday said
he is bn the verge of retaliating
against a U.S. trade embargo by tak
ing “very drastic” action against the
300 Americans who live in his coun
try.
Amin’s threat, broadcast by Radio
Kampala, gave no hjnt of what steps
the dictator contemplated.
The U.S. congressmen who spon
sored the trade embargo said their
action also was retaliation, against
the “ferocious, institutionalized
brutality” that has killed tens ol
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After Amin was stung by
criticism last year, he rounded
Americans living in
held them hostage while hes]
a series of threats.
Faced with a stern response
the Carter administration, hoi
he later released them.
There was no immediate
sponse to Thursday’s Radio
broadcast, which came before
in the United States. The b
States and Uganda have not
relations, but the U.S. End
Kampala has been closed f
and the U.S. government
dissuade all Americans from
ing in the landlocked East
nation.
The trade embargo
Carter earlier this weekactu;
an amendment to other le
It bans the LJnited States
porting Ugandan products or
ing American goods to Amin 1
gime
The sponsors of the em
cused the Amin regime
sponsible for the indisem
slaughter of between
300,000 Ugandans.
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