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
JANUARY 11 - 22. 1 0
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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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