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Congressional power and billions in funds are at stake in the 1980 census...
Answer the census! We're counting...
That slogan will start bombarding Americans this week from sea to shining sea as the great decennial head count begins. Ministers, priests and rabbis will be preaching it from their pulpits on "Census Sabbath" and "Census Sunday." Put to music, the slogan will blare from radios in Spanish, Cantonese, Russian, Greek, Vietnamese and 26 other languages in addition to English. On TV, the census will be plugged by Kirk Douglas, José Ferrer, Elvin Hayes, Roger Staubach, Mickey Mouse and a cast of thousands. Just in case someone might manage to remain blissfully ignorant of the effort to get every...
...campaign is extraordinary, so is the importance of the final tabulations made by the U.S. Census Bureau. When the results are sent to the President at the start of next year, as the law requires, the shifts in population will determine which states gain and lose seats in the House of Representatives, and they could affect the redistricting of state legislatures and even county and city councils. The census findings are the basis for allocating more than $50 billion in federal funds to states and localities. They provide source material for business and industry about the changing composition and needs...
...Chicago Sun-Times and WMAQ-TV. Kennedy has the backing of combative Chicago Mayor Jane Byrne. But elsewhere in Illinois, most Democratic pros are working for Carter. In downstate Morgan County, for example, when Democratic Chairman Leonard Kramp, a Kennedy fan, was stripped of control over hiring local census workers, he was told by Regional Census Director Manker Harris: "You're a nonperson. You decided to back the wrong man for President. You understand politics, and this is politics...