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THE MICHIGAN DAILY
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FEDERAL STUDY PRESENTED
City governments criticized
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NEW YORK (o?) - A federally
funded study criticizes local gov-
ernment officials around the na-
tion for concentrating their eco-
nomic policies solely on growth,
which the study says perpetu-
ates their cities as unattractive
places to live..
"Officials tend to think of
growth as being virtually the
sole criteron of economic health
and their 'economic programs'
are dedicated almost exclusively
to' growth," according to the
study by the National League of
Cities (NLC) and the U. S. Con-
ference of Mayors (USCM).
The study, funded by the fed-
eral Economic Development
Administration, urges cities to
concentrate more on the kinds
of employment and unemploy-
ment they have.
"By promoting developments
that largely ignore the require-,
ments of lower economic groups,
many cities have improved their
position as a producer of goods.
They have increased significant-
ly the amount of income they
generate, but they still have the
woes, and attendant expenses, of
the unemployed and the under-
employed.
"Thus they have growth, but
many of these same cities re-
main 'sick' as places to live,"
the reports says.
"Many city governments which
deplore the flight of the middle
class and wring their hands over
the burden of the underprivileg-
ed on the city's budget are none-
theless purusing courses of ac-
tion which increase job oppor-
tunities for the suburbanites and
further decrease any viable job
opportunities for the lower skill-
ed and less educated people who
populate the welfare rolls and
are overrepresented in the crime
statistics," the report continued.
In field studies of Little Rock,
Ark., Chattanooga, Tenn., and
Pueblo, Colo., the researchers
found disappointing economic re-
sults from policies designed to
encourage economic growth.
Industrial revenue bonds is-
sued in one city lured a new
industry but it employed few
people and has turned out to be
a major polluter of the water
supply.
In another city, an industria!
park has attracted one small in-
on pi
dustry employing about 50 per-
sons. A private office building
was constructed in another in-
dustrial park but after one year
it still does not have a tenant.
"If cities have adequate eco-
nomic data, decisions about con-
struction of industrial parks as a
means of revitalizing cities
might be reconsidered or even
abandoned," said Ross Davis,
director of urban services for the
NLC and director of the study by
J. Ward Wright and Virginia
Benson, of the NLC-USCM staff.
They cite a 1969 study by Sar
Levitan, and Robert Taggart
III, which concluded that be-
tween 1958 and 1963 there were
less than 500 new plants built
employing more than 20 em-
ployes and suitable, in terms of
of lack of pollution, for central
cities.
Wright and Benson argue that
the effort to attract new indus-
tries is "likely to be largely dis-
appointing" because "there are
just not that many new indus-
trial firms to go around."
ri
nining
They criticized local officials
for "the overweening faith . .
placed in leading business and
industrial figures in the com-
munity" and argued that cities
do not use economic data avail-
able to them and are unable to
get from the federal government
the type of data which would be
most useful, particularly data on
the kinds of employment city
residents are engaged in, the
'characteristics of their unem-
ployed residents and the under-
employed who live and work in
the city.
The study was critical of fed-
eral officials for compiling em-
ployment data by counties which
"renders it virtually useless for
city government's policymaking
purposes.''
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LEADERS DISM AY E D:
Norway rejects membership
in European Common Market
WASHINGTON OP) - The United
States seized the initiative in
world monetary reform yesterday
by laying down a comprehensive
plan for more flexible currency
values, a greater role for "paper
gold," and abandonment of t h e
keystone role of the dollar.
Secretary of the Treasury George
Shultz presented the proposals -
which include tough penalties for
nations running heavy balance-of-
payments deficits or surpluses -
to the annual meeting of the 124-
nation International Monetary Fund
(IMF).
The U.S. plan will be on the table
when the IMF's Committee of 20,
a new policymaking task force re-
presenting both great and s m a 11
countries, holds its first meeting
tomorrow.
The key U.S. proposals are:
" Countries with chronic p a y-,
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BRUSSELS - Common Market
leaders tried yesterday to shake
off the dismay caused by t h e
Norwegian voters' rejection of
membership with the assurance
that Britain, Ireland and possibly
Denmark will join the present
six members Jan. 1.
But a close vote is predicted
Monday in Denmark, and anti-
marketeers in Britain were mak-
ing new demands for a national
referendum on membership in
the Common Market.
Prime Minister Jens Otto Krag
of Denmark said the D a n e s
would still vote for joining t h e
Common Market, formally called
the European Economic Com-
munity (EEC), despite the Nor-
wegian outcome - 53.9 per cent
no and 46.1 per cent yes.
"The majority in favor of the
EEC will be smaller now, but
it will still be a majority," the
prime minister said.
Both houses of the British Par-
lament have ratified the mem-
bership treaty signed in January,
but there was never a national
referendum on the question.
Anthony Benn, chairman of the
opposition Labor party, warned
in London that the fight for a
referendum will be intensified.
Norway faced a political crisis
after the vote as Prime Minister
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his Cabinet would resign.
Bratteli will continue as prime
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Tragic and violent story of the
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LOS OLVIDADOS
(The Young & the
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1950. Spanish, subtitles.
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