Page 12-Friday, May 11, 4979---The Michigan Daily DUE TO POPULATION SHIFT WASHINGTON shifting populatio western states wo Congress durin Michigan and fiv lose representatio showed yesterday If congression was based on th July, 1978, the Ce State may lose congressional seats (UPI) - Due to a House seats would be switched from delegation. However, the government agency n, eight southern and one state to another. Illinois and Ohio would drop two seats said, "the pattern of change ... is uld gain new seats in California, Florida, and Texas would each while Michigan, Pennsylvania and relatively stable and can be taken as g the 198os while each gain two seats in the 435-member South Dakota would lose one apiece. illustrative of the general impact of e other states would House of Representatives while South Dakota's delegation would be cut recent population shifts on the appor- n, a new census study Arizona, Oregon, Tennessee, Utah and in half - from two to one. tionment of congressional seats." . Washington would pick up one apiece. The Census Bureau cautioned that Officials said reapportionment would al reapportionment The big loser in the reapportionment reapportionment will be based on the affect the congressional elections for e U.S. population in scramble would be New York, which 1980 census and thus the figures could the first time in 1982, so gains or losses nsus Bureau said, 11 would lose four of its 39-member House change. of seats would not be in evidence until January, 1983. The census report also said that the U.S. population had increased by 7.3 per cent - of 14.8 million people - CLASSIFIED ADVERTISIN[ during the first eight years of this decade. Growth was most rapid in the West and South, which grew by 15.1 per cent and 12.4 per cent, respectively. The population of northeastern states, meanwhile, was virtually un- changed while the north central region grew by only 2.9 per cent, the Census Bureau said. * Wilet 2Mftrflan ~ai I Student Newspaper at The University of Michigan I ---------. WRITE YOUR AD HERE! -".---- "- "-- 1 1I --------- CLIP AND MAIL TODAY! ----------. USE THIS HANDY CHART TO QUICKLY ARRIVE AT AD COST Words 1 2 3 4 5 add. 0-14 1.70 3.40 4.60 5.80 7.00 1.00 Please indicate 15-21 2.55 5.10 6.90 8.70 10.50 1.50 wherethisad is to run: 22-28 3.40 6.80 9.20 11.60 14.00 2.00 for rent 29-35 4.25 8.50 11.50 14.50 17.50 2.50 kepwrane 36-42 5.10 10.20 13.80 17.40 21.00 3.00 roommates personal 43-49 6.80 11.90 16.10 20.30 24.50 3.50 etc. Seven words per line. Each group of characters counts as one word. Hyphenated words over 5 characters count as two words-This includes telephone numbers. Mail with Check to: cUssleah TheMichiseDailvr 420 Mynr An Arbor, MI 48109 NAME ADD ESS NCITY LPHONE Paraquat may poison food supply WASHINGTON (AP) - A group that wants marijuana decriminalized said yesterday it plans to seek a court order forcing the government to consider whether paraquat sprayed on Mexican marijuana fields is poisoning fruits, vegetables and meat imported into the United States. Peter Meyers, chief counsel of the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws (NORML), announ- ced plans for, the new suit in the after- math of an out-of-court settlement bet- ween NORML and the State Depar- tment of an earlier suit demanding an environmental impact statement on the consequences of the herbicide-spraying program. THE SUIT was settled when the Stae Department filed an impact statement of over 300 pages, but Meyers said the document was inadequate. "It fails to explore adequately other non-herbicide methods of eradication, it doesn't explore enough the long and short-term consequences of paraquat to the health of marijuana smokers; it doesnt go into the effect of paraquat on the health of Mexican peasants, the Mexican water supply or endangered species and it doesn't adequately look into what paraquat might be doing to crops and animals raised on the West Coast of Mexico and exported to the United States," Meyers said in an in- terview. He said that in the State Department impact statement, however, "The government finally acknowledged for the first time that the long-term con- sequences of paraquat to the health of marijuana smokers are not known." The statement estimated that 85,000 marijuana users in this country are ex- posed to paraquat-sprayed marijuana at any one time, he said. Paraquat is tasteless, odorless and colorless. Last November, the National Institute on Drug Abuse said a person who smoked five paraquat- contaminated marijuana cigarettes a day for a year ran the risk of per- manent lung damage.