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Show n The Salt Lake Tribune, Sunday, March 5, 1978 Cannibal Galaxies Eat Little Ones? The Gnll up Poll What Hope for Our Ciiies? By Dr. George Gallup PRINCETON, N.J. Many observers of tlic urban scene maintain that the survival of Americas cities depends to a major extent on the rejuvenation of the neighborhoods. If the decline of the neighborhoods can be arrested, or if neighborhood quality ran be improved, the cities will inevitably benefit Findings from a Gallup survey sponsored by the Charles F. Kettering and Charles Stewart Mott foundations indicate that although the picture is mixed, on balance, the prospects for Improving the quality of the neighborhoods, and therefore the cities, appear icinrt pi witi0uii. On the debit side, the neighborhoods apear as possibly more vulnerable than the cities. Although as many as a third of the nation's urban residents say they would like to move away from the cities, an even larger proportion would like to move out of their neighborhoods. Much Pessimism While urban residents rate their neighborhoods better than the city as a whole, they are more pessimistic about the future of their neighborhood than they are about the prospects for their city. This somewhat gloomy evidence is more than offset by other survey findings: Fully of those residents who express a desire to move out of their neighborhoods say that they would be willing to remain if changes or improvements w ere earned out. Furthermore, the vast majority of urban residents including a majority of those wanting to leave their say they would be willing to neighborhixid volunteer their time and efforts to help solve urban problems at Uie neighborhood level. Desire to Leave The percentage of residents who would like to move out of their neighborhoods is as high in the cities as it is in the smaller and medium-sizenations largest cities. And, in the large and medium-size- d cities, it is as high in the suburbs as in the central city areas. The following table illustrates these findings: Just-releas- three-quarte- rs d Colored eggs and chocolate bunnies little girl. and a wide-eye- d What a picture. up the neighborhood (7 percent). (89 percent) 2. The vast majority of say they would be willing to volunteer their time and efforts to help in solving their cities problems at the TUCSON, Ariz. (UPI) level i e., in their own neighborhoods grass-root- s Its continual Star by participating in such activities as signing Wars! petitions, attendmgs meetings, writing letters, pickAs a big fish eats a eting and making financial contributions. little fish, so a big galaxy of the The table below indicates the percentage eats a little galaxy. Its nations urban residents who state they would be called galactic canin activities time their various to volunteer willmg nibalism. and the percentage who have already done so withir Some galaxies may the last five years. Would be Have done so actually grow by canwithin 5 years Willing to: nibalizing other galax3414 43 W Sign petition said Stephen E. ies, Attend meeting concerning win31 Strom, multi-awar- d SI the threat e KittPeak National Participate in ning 43 Choose one 5x7 or 4 wallet sizes in natural color, just 1.95. fce-lo-fc- discussions with public official Write tetters to public official Votunieer lime io set v on neighborhood committee Testify at public hearing Make small financial donation Picket city office or public officials' offices Picket in the neighborhood 3Anv of these activities None of these activities 43 13 34 33 24 4 4 Observatory ronomer. 3 10 1 It S3 4 11 Who can resist a smile like hers? Order plenty of extras. Select from several different poses. Copies and enlargements available at higher prices Two or three children, up to 12 years old, in one photo, 2.98. When you pick up your photos, well have one or two 8x10s already printed for you. They're just 3.95 each. Satisfaction guaranteed or your money refunded. No appointment necessary. Charge it. Galaxies may grow at the expense of tidal interactions (rising and falling movements) of other galaxies and also may grow as they merge with other galaxies. We dont know how important those effects are. Were trying to find out. Finding out such things is the business-pleasur- e of Strom and his astronomer-wife, Karen, who together have pub- IS 11 ast- Further evidence of this desire to improve or strengthen the neighborhoods is seen in the finding that although only one urban resident in eight (12 percent) belongs to a neighborhood organization, another 29 percent state they would like to belong to one if such were available. An additional 17 percent say they might, depending on the circumstances. The reservoir of talent available to the neighborhoods is representative of virtually the entire urban population, including the young and the lower groups, as well as the better educated and more affluent citizens. Even those who are most pessimistic about the and those who would future of the neighborhood move out given the opportunity are as willing to become involved as those who are most optimistic about its future. Finally, since these human energies could be tapped without a significant outlay of public money, they would represent a primary resource for and Americas neighborhoods strengthening ultimately the nation's cities. The findings are based on personal interviews conducted during the last three months of 1977 with 3,242 residents of cities with a population of over lished scientific 70 papers. For the socio-econom- Pixy studios are permanently located at Strom, it began at an early age. I became interested in astronomy when I was about 7 and, for the most part, its been a consuming passion since then. Im embarrassed to say how it happened because it probably evidences a JCPannay Cottonwood Mali 1978 JCPnney Co Inc realistic randomness about life. The Stroms met at a Harvard-Yal- 50,000. e were when they freshmen. (Copyright) game both ALL STORES OPEN TODAY, SUNDAY, NOON 2 FINAL DAYS Offer Ends .Mcnday Night TIL OP.M. FINAL I 2 DAYS While urban residents rate their neighborhoods better than the city as a whole, they are more pessimistic about the future of their neighborhood than they are about the prospects for their city. For example, when the nations urban population is asked to rate their city today, five years ago, and five years hence, on a scale from 0 to 10, with zero representing the worst possible city and 10 the ideal city, the differences between the perceived standing of the city at the three points in time is 6.1, 6.3, 6.1. marginal In contrast, the neighborhood is felt to have declined markedly 6ince five years ago, with the average ratings decreasing from 7.2 to 6.9. Moreover, anticipations are that it will deteriorate even more in the next five years, as seen in the further drop in the ratings from 6.9 to 6.4. Mun Rating 4n 2 PILLOWS (& hx0;i oCGH:)- - 4 PILLOW 1 BLANKET 4 SHEETS CASES HEADBOARD 2flat.2Htted Offsetting this negative evidence are the following findings: I. Only a third of those residents expressing the desire to move out of their neighborhoods sa; that nothing could be done to change or improve their neighborhoods to induce them to remain. Six in 10 cite areal In which improvements could be made, such as upgrading housing quality, appearances and maintenance (19 percent); lowering crime (10 percent); improving the traffic situation (9 percent); cleaning 39 Start Dog Race BIG LAKE, Alaska (AP) Hearty competitors in Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race, the the ultimate test of musher and malamute, gathered Saturday in the shadow of Mt. McKinley, the tallest peak in North America. Thirty-nin- e mushers, including three women, and for days through the rugged their teams will Alaska Range into the windswept snowfields of the 1,049-mil- e zig-za- g interior. The mushers will then follow the Yukon River before an icy last leg on the Bering Sea coast to Nomes Front Street. The sixth annual race celebrates what was once e Western Alaskas only link with the port of anchorage. 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