ayo and other
chief elected official
throughout tion hav
ed by tb Bure u
Ce , U.s. Dep -
ment of Commerce, to
e ablish voluntary Com
pete Count Committee to
promote public cooperatio
ith th 1980 census n xt
pring.
Th Bur u h
DE
S
EEl
Berti n
Dernocra tic
will hold i
on
e
Street Galien,
Executi
mitt e ting
t 7:30 p.m,
pi te Count Committee
technician have been hired
to advise local go mrnents
on setting up the com
mittee", They will be
tation d in the Bureau'
12 reginional census center"
The Bureau also .
providing local offici with
printing reproduction
proofs of a p ter and a
flyer hich committees Can
localize and print on their
n.
The 1980 cens ill
be taken 1 rgely by mail.
Each housing unit in the
ation-e timated at 86
million--will receive a cen
us questionnaire on Friday
arch 28.
Depending on in true
tions, householders will by
ed either to complete
the questionnaire and mail
it ba in a po ta -free
envelope on Tuesday, April
1, or to keep the answered
York, Baltimore, form until cen taker
ans, Phoenix, and picks it up.
Detroit already ha e Further information
e bli ed Comp ete Count bout the CompLete Count
Cornmi tees. It the uc- Committee program may be
ce ul Detroit experience obtain d from the Regional
ith similar citizen' Cens Centers in Atlanta
group during th 1970 cen- Do on, Charlottee,
tha prompted the Cen- Chicago, D ,Denver,
Bure u to adop th Detroit, Kan City an.,
tionally for the 1980 . Lo Angeles, ew Yor
count. City, Philadelphia, and
Twenty-three Com- Se ttle.
c
intere "
Among uggested acti-
vit" commit m mber
Volunteer citizen can perform re making
committ are part of the peeche on behalf of the
Bure u' n ional census c:ensu, distributing cen us
p omotion camp .gn under promotional po ter and
th neral theme, � e're flyers, urging other citizen
coun on you, group to support the cen-
the cens .tt Cen , and translating census
pril I, 1980. • promotional materials into
Vincent P. Bar bb, other language h re need-
Cens Bureau Direc or, ed.
to d the local officials in
covering let r that citizen
commit " is to
deve op y of promoting
th ce and the im-
por ce of a cornp ete
count to the communit .'
Th importance of
n relul in determinin
both politi repre ntation
and di ribution of
Federal d Sta monie
to ell-
ld
gre during the next de de
than any oth r single
ctivity in hich you are
engaged. Help us get out the
count the ay you ould
get out the vote.
The Bur u ugge
. that re "den appointed to
the Complete Count Com
mi trees ould repre n t
busine labor, governmen t,
religion, education,
neighborhood oc" tion ,
ethnic and minority organi
zation and irnilar
D.C.,-.
Director
ureau 0 ill Cen-
id today his a ncy
it If on the fact
that no Ce employ
ever been pro cuted
for g person
informati n from cen
forms.
long anding "con
tract of between
the Bur u and the people
has pre ed the con
fidentiality is built into the
sy em of handling the
data and " considered ot
utm t importance by
en u Breau employee
ell, Barabb said.
His comment e
m de in an ddre to a
Cen u U r Conference in
ashington D.C", one of
veral being held through
out the country in advance
of the count of the ation'
popul ion that will be
" "De t pril 1.
• •
cia
unea --in some case ,
distrust --on the part of
th being counted,
Bar bb
Geor ashington
felt the 1790 cen first
ever t en, resulted in an
undercount he "d. The
first Pre "dent , concluded
tha t some Americans had
hidden rather than be "d
becau they thought some
ho it wa going to make
their taxes go up.
Under Federal crimi
nal tatute en cted 50 yea
ago, Barab b said, even
temporary - employee must
t e an oath not to dis
cIo personal information
obtain d in th census.
Violators may be im
prisoned for up to fi e
years and fined 5 000"
Fortunately," he
id, ' the penalties under
Title 13 have never been
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STATE POLICE HO OR 8 YEA
OLD HE 01 E
HERIO E: Felicia oore, 8, right, and ister Teli , 4, get hu from J
Felicia, a straight-A third der in Detroit, will be . en ood citizen ip citation to
by ichigan State Police, the youngest child to be honored by Detroit post. F�r·i
was 7 last June hen grabbed th wheel and steered a QI' off a bus fr y f r
Par er suffered epileptic seizure and lumped over unconsciou (AP)
e an ers,"
"The dat are n transmit
ted to computer t Cen-
Bure u h dquarters
where they are combined
with numbers from other
invoked, for the imp
re on that the Census .
Bureau's record of
fidentiality is totally
out blemish-a f ct
som of the Bureau's mo
avid critic ill at 0 led
readily.
"This incredible re
cord ha created over 50
years a contr t of trust
that goe ell beyond the
po er of la --an implicit
tru t that h evolved over
the dec de . Although it is
b sed solidly in la , it
real po r flo from
tradition, practice and pro
fe . onal pride."
After cens form are
gathered at th local level,
Bar bb said, they are ship
ped to on of three pro
ce ing centers for micro
filming.
�h microfilm
then fed into a special
device developed by the
Census Bureau that can re d
"The mo t import an t .
point I can make h re is
that this device reading the
fdled-in-circle cannot forms are
r d the tters repre nt
ing the name of peopl "
Thi m e it literally
ible for any name to
computer .'
do th form
a ocial curity
numbers hich h ve taken
on the function of all-
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