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Show Were You Counted? Were you counted in Census '70 ? Wiith the 1970 Census of Population and Housing virtually completed locally. District Manager C. R. Lomax announced the beginn;ng of a "Were You Counted ?" campaign to insure that no resident c-f the area has been overlooked. If you think ycu or ycur family might have been missed, you are urged to notify the census district office by means of a "Were Ycu Counted ?" form. Area newspapers are printing these forms in their current editions as a public service. Prompt mailing of the "Were You Counted ?" fonri will speed up the compilation of preliminary population figures for tha cirer Preliminary figures giving the total population of incorp-drated incorp-drated places 'cf 10.003 or more population, and for counties, will be issued as soon as the District Manager is convinced, tfl-.at a comp'.e'e count Las been mp.de. Final, detailed population popula-tion figures will be 'issued from Washington later t!iis year after re! urns have been tabulated by the Census Bureau's electronic elec-tronic computers. The 'impcrtance cf a complete cc.int was stressed by the District Manager. He pointed cut that the population figures Vcmp:led in the current census must stand as official until the next Federal census. "Renresenaticn in the U.S. Congress and the State Legislature Legis-lature is deteiTn'ned by the population count as ascertained in the cenfus. Federal funds are allotted to States and State funds, in turn, are ?'i sited to counties and municipalities on a per capita bas's. So a shrt count means under representation in Federal and State lsw-mr.kirg bod'es and under allottment in ,cverrm3nt .funds. Thus, it is imperative that we have a complete com-plete count. 1: he'? cf every resident of the area is needed to reach this goal," he said. |