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THE BATTALION
THURSDAY. MARCH 6. 1960
nation
Sunbelt population grows
United Press International
WASHINGTON — The popula
tion in the Sunbelt grew significantly
during the 1970s, with California,
Florida and Texas showing the
greatest increases. The states of New
York, Pennsylvania and Rhode Is
land had the largest net losses.
The Bureau of the Census, in re
leasing its final estimates Tuesday of
the 1980 census, said the population
in the United States increased by
16.8 million during the previous de
cade for a total of 220,099,000.
Chip Carter granted divorce
from wife of seven years
United Press International
AMERICUS, Ga. — President
Carter’s son Chip has been granted
an “uncontested’’ divorce from
Caron Carter.
Sumter County Superior Court
Judge W.L. Blanks signed the final
divorce decree Tuesday. He had
heard arguments in the action Friday
with Mrs. Carter in court. Chip,
campaigning for his father, was not
present.
Sources reported it was a “friendly
uncontested divorce” with “liberal
visitation rights” for Chip, 30, to see
his 3-year-old son James Earl Carter
IV. The boy spent last weekend with
his father and grandparents at the
White House.
Mrs. Carter, 29, of Hawkinsville,
Ga., is an elementary school teacher
in an Atlanta suburb.
The couple married in June, 1973
and separated in 1978. Chip has
been living at the White House and
now works for the Carter-Mondale
campaign committee.
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“While the Northeast has had
almost no population change since
1970, and the North Central states
have grown less than half as fast as
the nation as a whole, the South and
the West grew substantially faster
than the national average,” the
Bureau said.
California, Texas and Florida each
grew by more than 2 million people
during the decade.
California gained 2,723,000 dur
ing the decade for a total of
22,694,000; Texas gained 2,182,000
to 13,381,000; and Florida 2,068,000
to 8,859,000.
Other states estimated to have
grown by more than half a million
since 1970 are Arizona, Colorado,
Virginia, Georgia, North Carolina
and Washington.
New York, Pennsylvania and
Rhode Island lost population since
1970.
New York lost 593,000 people for a
total of 17,648,000; Pennsylvania
was down 70,000 to 11,731,000; and
Rhode Island lost 20,000 for a total of
930,000.
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Alien count question
may halt census start
The District of Columbia is esti
mated to have experienced the
largest percentage drop in popula
tion during the decade, losing an
estimated 13.4 percent (or 101,000)
of its population between April 1970
and July 1979 for a total of 656,000
people.
If the estimates hold up when the
official 1980 census is conducted,
Florida would pick up three addi
tional congressional seats, and Cali
fornia and Texas each would pick up
two. Arizona, Colorado, New Mex
ico, Oregon, Tennessee, Utah and
Washington each would gain one
seat.
New York would lose four con
gressional seats and Illinois, Ohio
and Pennsylvania would drop two
each. Losing one seat each would be
Massachusetts, Michigan, New
Jersey and South Dakota, the bureau
said.
California remains the nation’s
most populous state, followed by
New York and Texas. Alaska remains
the nation’s least populated state,
despite a 34.3 percent population in
crease during the decade from
303,000 to 407,000.
Final census counts for the states
will be released in January 1981.
United Press International
WASHINGTON — Less than one
month before the 1980 census is
slated to begin, a group of immigra
tion reformers and members of Con
gress is trying to delay the popula
tion count until illegal aliens are ex
cluded.
The Federation for American Im
migration Reform and 26 members
of Congress Tuesday asked the Sup
reme Court to block the census sche
duled to begin on April 1.
The group said the census should
not be taken until its lawsuit chal
lenging the inclusion of illegal aliens
in the population count is reviewed.
They asked Chief Justice Warren
Burger for a preliminary injunction.
The group filed a federal suit to
stop the census, arguing inclusion of
illegal aliens would result in an unfair
reapportionment — giving states
with large numbers of illegal aliens
more seats in Congress.
They argued the Constitution
mandates the counting only of legal
residents of the United States.
On Feb. 26, a three-judge federal
District Court panel dismissed the
suit, ruling the group did not have a
legal right to bring it and they failed
to show harm would result by includ
ing millions of illegal aliens in the
census.
Renewing its claim in the United
States’ highest court, the group
argued the inclusion of illegal aliens
would “dilute” the population base
for congressional seats and affect the
distribution of $50 billion in federal
funds to the states.
They said the ruling of the lower
court “effectively confers upon illeg
al aliens a right to equal representa
tion in Congress and state legisla
tures, a result plainly at <yk)<
the purpose of’ the Cons^
Unless Burger acts, thevi
the ruling would be “an ill fa
invitation to nationwide post
litigation of the issue
where relief would require?
penditure of vast sums for reS'
the census and potential cWu
of the then-seated 97th Congress!
40 state legislatures.” V *
Bamaby Zall a spokesman for,
federation, said the ruling Z'j
appealed to the U.S. Circuital
Appeals for the District ofCoQ' 1
He said the federation wants n
court to order two pop u U
counts, one including illegal atjo
and one with only legal residents!
would be used for apportion
purposes.
Defaulters to receivel
refunds from GMAC
United Press International
WASHINGTON — Thousands of
consumers whose General Motors
cars and trucks were repossessed
when they defaulted on their pay
ments will receive from $25 to $700
in refunds in a $2 million Federal
Trade Commission settlement.
The money is owed the former car
and truck owners, the FTC said
Tuesday, because GM’s financing
agency, General Motors Acceptance
Corp., allegedly sold the vehicles at
a profit and failed to return the extra
money to the people who defaulted.
Under the Uniform Commercial
Code, when a car is repossessed and
sold, the person who defaulted on his
payments is supposed to be refunded
any “surplus” money from the re
sale, after deductions are made for
the amount still owed and expenses
for handling the transaction.
GMAC, according to the FTC, re
possesses more than 100,000 cars
and trucks every year. But according
to an FTC complaint, GMAC is con
ducting “sham” sales of the reposses
sed cars by selling them back to itself
at a low price, then reselling them to
a third party at a higher price.
CM still denies the FTC’s allega
tions, saying, “In most cases the
money realized on the sale of a repos
session is less than the amount owed
by the defaulting customer. ”
But it said the legal cost of fighting
the matter was substantial and
threatened to be even higher so “a
decision was made to consider a
negotiated settlement.”
Consumers eligible for the re
funds will be “notified as soon as tl
can be identified.” The actual[
ments, it said, will not be fini
until at least a year after the e£.
date of the agreement. The effec.
date probably will be sometime]
May or June.
The FTC described the setc
ment as “one of the largest coni,
er-credit restitution agreemei
ever obtained by the commission J
is not, however, the first. A s
though smaller, agreement |
viously was reached with the Fa]
Motor Co.
The consent agreement sett
the complaint states GM dealers*
must provide refunds when owdj
former owners of repossessed c
within 45 days, along with a \
statement telling how the
was calculated.
Grain targets to rise
United Press International
WASHINGTON — Both the
House and Senate approved without
dissent compromise legislation to
raise target prices for wheat and feed
grain crops by 7 percent this year.
The legislation would raise targets
for wheat to $3.63 per bushel and for
corn to $2.35 per bushel. Target
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The Senate approved thei
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hours later, the House
approval and sent the bill to 1
dent Carter for his signature.
Target prices are intended I
safety nets for farmers in the evei
low prices. When national avei
crop prices fall below the
farmers are given direct per-b
payments equal to the difference^
tween the targets and the avei
prices.
The Senate also approved \
dissent an extension of the Fai
Home Administration’s econoi
emergency loan program until S
30, 1981. The extension addei
billion in lending authority
billion program which was to exf
May 15.
The program provides nwne i
farm operating expenses and debt^
financing.
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