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World and Nation
Census Bureau gives report
Rural growth decreases
Associated Pr&ss
WASHINGTON — The nation’s
urban areas are growing faster than
the countryside in this decade, re
versing the rural renaissance trend
of population growth in the 1970s,
the Census Bureau reported
Wednesday.
While metropolitan areas contin
ued to grow at the 1 percent annual
rate that prevailed in the 1970s, the
non-metropolitan growth rate fell
from 1.3 percent annually in the last
decade to about 0.8 percent a year
since 1980.
The biggest change in recent de
cades is the increasing strength of
the South and West — the Sun Belt
— in comparison to the Northeast
and Midwest, the report said.
“In the 1960s, the North grew at
about three-quarters the rate of the
nation as a whole. Since 1970, its
growth rate has only been one-fifth
that of the nation, and the South and
West together have grown nine
times as fast as the North,” the re
port said.
The nation’s metropolitan pop
ulation grew by 4.5 percent to 180
million people between 1980 and
1984, while the number of non-met
ropolitan residents increased by 3.4
percent to 56.4 million, an agency
study found.
The new report, “Patterns of Met
ropolitan Area and County Popula
tion Growth,” said, “This apparently
restores a pattern of predominantly
metropolitan population growtn
which had extended for more than a
century until the dramatic turn
around of the 1970s.”
That 1970s pattern has been
widely discussed as a rural renais
sance, with Americans moving to the
countryside in search Of a new life
style.
Donald Starsinic, a Census Bu
reau statistician, said, “What this
(new report) suggests is not a total
halt, but it has definitely slowed
down.
“We can’t be sure if this is a real
trend or just a temporary aberration
caused by the recession, the decline
in (rural) job opportunities and the
energy crunch. It’s too soon to tell.”
While the relationship between
city and rural growth has been re
versed on a national basis in this de
cade, the change does not constitute
a return to the general growth pat
terns that existed before 1970, the
report stressed.
Only the Northeast continues the
pattern of faster rural than urban
growth, although the difference has
eased, the report showed.
Since 1980, Northeastern urban
areas have grown at 0.3 percent an
nually, slightly less than the 0.4 per
cent non-metropolitan increases.
But in the 1970s, Northeastern rural
areas grew 0.9 percent per year.
Economic rate up 4.3 percent
. Associated Press
WASHINGTON — U.S. eco
nomic growth spurted upward at a
rapid 4.3 percent annual rate, from
July through September, the fastest
pace in more than a year, the gov
ernment reported Wednesday.
While the Reagan administration
hailed the increase as a significant
acceleration in economic activity,
private economists were not as im
pressed, contending that the added
growth during the summer may well
subtract from activity in coming
months.
The Commerce Department said
the gross national product grew at
the fastest rate since a 7.1 percent in
crease in the second quarter of 1984.
This new estimate was a full per
centage point above a government
projection made last month. While
the gain was far above what most
analysts had expected, they stressed
use of caution in interpreting the
figure.
“No one should be fooled,” said
Allen Sinai, chief economist for
Shearson Lehman Brothers. “There
is little meaningful growth going on
in the economy at the present time
and little room for optimism that we
have a lasting rebound under way.”
Sinai said most of the strength
during the third quarter came from
strong consumer spending, partic
ularly on new car purchases. How
ever, car sales plummeted in Octo
ber and early November and many
analysts believe that this is a signal
that consumer spending, which ac
counts for almost two-thirds of total
GNP, is about to weaken sharply be
cause of consumer debt burdens and
low savings rates.
Indeed, the GNP report showed
that the personal savings rate
dropped to a 35-year low of 2.7 per
cent in the third quarter.
Beryl Sprinkel, chairman of the
president’s Council of Economic Ad
visers, was much more upbeat, con
tending that the 4.3 percent growth
rate vindicated the administration’s
view that the economy is in the midst
of a substantial rebound following a
weak first half of 1985.
“We certainly are not on the verge
of a sumphole in economic activity as
some observers seem to think,”
Sprinkel told reporters. “We are en
joying a significant acceleration
which we expect to continue well
into the new year.”
Morning heart attacks
most likely, study says
Associated Press
Rig driver
damages
memorial
Associated Press
WASHINGTON — The
driver of an 18-wheel tractor tra
iler was arrested Wednesday after
crashing his rig into the Washing
ton Monument.
Garrow Ernest Brigham, 36, of
Savage, Md., drove across 500
feet of park grounds and through
two small fences and rows of
benches before hitting the mon
ument, said U.S. Park Police Maj.
Richard Cusick.
“We have not determined a
motive, but there were no articles
in the truck to indicate that he
meant to harm the monument,”
said George Berklacy, a spokes
man for the U.S. Park Service.
Brigham’s rig scraped against
the obelisk, denting the truck’s
cab and leaving a streak of green
paint about four feet long across
the northwest side of the struc
ture.
No one was injured in the inci
dent which occurred at 9 a.m., be
fore the monument opened to
the public.
Damage was estimated at
$3,500 by the National Park Serv
ice.
The park was to open to tour
ists at noon.
BOSTON — People are three
times more likely to suffer heart at
tacks at 9 a.m. than at 11 p.m., prob
ably because the stress of waking up
somehow triggers changes in the
body that cause the attacks, re
searchers report.
The findings could improve un
derstanding of what makes lethal
blood dots lodge in the heart’s arte
ries and, thus, provide clues for pre
venting them, Dr. James E. Muller
said.
“This represents a big new area to
research,” he said.
The study found that heart at
tacks are more Common between 6
a.m. and noon than at any other
time of day. The incidence peaks at
9 a.m. and declines to 11 p.m.
The researchers theorize that the
important factor is when people
wake up, not the time of day, so tnat
those who work night shifts might
have the highest risk of heart attacks
in the evening.
The study, conducted by re
searchers at Boston’s Brigham and
Women’s Hospital and Harvard
Medical School, was based on an
analysis of 2,999 heart attack victims.
It was published in the last Thurs
day’s New England Journal of Medi
cine.
Usually a heart attack — what
doctors call a myocardial infarction
— occurs when a blood clot blocks an
artery that feeds the heart. The
heart muscle is starved of oxygen,
and some of it dies.
The researchers are not certain
why heart attacks are more common
in the nlorning, but they have seve
ral theories.
“Since we know that infarct is as
sociated with a dot, the leading pos
sibility would have to be that there is
some variation in the tendency of
the blood to dot during that time of
day,” said Muller, the principal au
thor of the study.
Other research suggests that lev
els of a natural blood thinner called
heparin are lower in the morning,
while blood platelets are more likely
to clump together then.
Muller noted that the sympathetic
nervous system, which prompts such
things as increases in heartbeat dur
ing stress, is also less active during
sleep.
“It begins to be activated in a very
harsh manner, as we all know, when
the alarm clock rings,” he said. “It
could be related to some aspect of
that stress in the morning.”
The researchers noted that 14
earlier studies also found heart at
tacks more likely to occur in the
morning. However, some experts
were skeptical of those findings, the
orizing that some victims could have
had their heart attacks while they
slept but didn’t notice the pain until
they woke up.
Unlike the earlier studies, the new
research looked for changes in the
chemical composition of the blood
that begin to appear four hours after
a heart attack. This confirmed that
the attacks really were occurring in
the morning and not the previous
night.
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