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Show my 1 2 A The Salt Lake Tribune, Sunday, April 16, 1 978 aRAjpFiri Gallup Poll: Improving Life (Services) Halts Urban Exodus By Dr. George Gallup To halt or at least reduce PRINCETON, N.J tin exodus of residents from the nation's cities, it w dl le neiessarv to significantly improve the quality ot urban life or, more specifi-cally, trie quality of the many institufacilities and services, tions provided by the cities. To determine which features of city life are considered most satisfactory as wen as those most in need of improvement. residents of the nation's cities were asked to rate 50 iU'han services, facilities and institutions. - xq Among the key findings of tile study, which was cosponsored by the Charles F. Kettering and Charles Stewart Mott Foundations, are the following - Although much criticism has leveled at the unilormed services, as a group they rate higher than any other aspect of urban life studied, with the fire department receiving the highest favorable rating Rated lowest are public transMrtaticm. local go ernment, and the courts and correctional facilities. Registering the greatest dissatisfaction with urban services, facilities and institutions are those residents the cities can least afford to lose: the younger, better educated and more allluent citizens. It is in the utics now experiencing the most the largest cities and those in the Fast difficulties and Midwest - in which residents express the highest degree of dissatisfaction win urban mivicc-an- d facilities When the nation's urban residents rate city services and facilities on a zero to 111 scale, the unilormed services police, fire and sanitation collectively score highest. The fire department receives a highly favorable raring one of the top three grades from fit percent of city dwellers, which represents the highest score for any feature of city life tested The sanitation department ranks clo-behind receiving a highly farorahlc rating f'cim .7:1 pci n nt Although the police department trails the other two uniformed services, it is assigned highly favorable ratings by a relatively high percentage !7 pens nt nt city dwellers Also rating relativelv high are the citv hospitals and health care Realities '5i peic'i,i. the public schools 42 percent and the porks and play grounds 12 percent Ranking relatively tar down the list of services are public transportation, rated highly favorably by only 2K percent, downtown shopping (25 percent', trqffic and parking facilities (15 percent' and local government (21 percent!. At the bottom of the list are the courts and the correctional facilities, winch receive only !U pern-n- t and pt rcent high iy f jv or ihle ral mg i espec e!y The table tielow shows how some ot the more important features n! urban lilt-- , of the 5n items tested compare in terms of highly favorable rating-Resulare show n for all cities and by city sie. small 1.50 medium ami large- rt million and ov cr: 1 -- . ts ijMi.ncHi-fiftfi.ftnv- vV I municipal government Mayor Local government City council Councitinen JUSTICE Courts Correctional facilities pul ,t n n Airily si- - nt the finding-- - by diflennt that 50 ratings vary considerably by groups "I the- country In the sic- - "I the city and the which rc-- .undents live, wlictlu-- tlicy reside In the cent ral city or the suburbs, and their age, educ ation and race. Fur example, in the largesl cities, residents arc much less likely to assign a highly favorable rating In any of their municipal sen lees or facilities than cities. The those living in smaller and mcdiiim-siolargest differences are recorded in the case ol an quality, the uniformed services, public transKirta tic tn highway systems, public schools, hospitals and medical care facilities The sole exceptions are the recreat iiillol and cultural nppe ill unities whic ll reeeiv c highest ratings from big city dwellers Little Difference In the (Use Cil the I1.lt ions smallest cities and medium sized cities, relatively little chfleivuce between the service ratings of those resident in the central citv and in the suburbs iii the larger cities, however, the ratings ait significantly lower for almost all items tested anion.. those living in the central city areas when compared to the ratings of suburban resident Although the diilen nees are less pronounced than between eities of various sizes, residents in the East and Midwest are generally less likely to assign highly favorable ratings to all urban services and facilities than are living in tile South and West, and particularly so in the ease ol air qiiolity and climate. Kav orable Ratings Residents of Eastern cities are especially discontented, being consistently less likely to give- highly favorable ratings to all aspects of urban life than in other major regions. The one quality of the downtown stores. In contrast, the quality ol city parks and playgrounds ami highway system are more likelv to receive highly favorable- ratines from resident , ol in other Western cities than living in cit-iregions of the nation J . r Katiio Chief Ls Km I d Sillv )! ( . ASllINGTt APi IN Sov let I Hit ut to end " s;! y electronic their Will-ove- broadcasts Soviet citizens are permitted to hoar which A Gronemski. chairman of the Board ior International P.road casting, told the Senate Foreign Relations Comis hkely that as mittee the t ll it cl States l!lc power ot the Soviets mill well invest "may ion-- - o! ruhlcs ht newer. Jc-l- i1 It i g h r- more exa-ptio- po e red a ti (I numerous jam vv - mit'g o(Uipnionl lie s,oi pursue "a In- civ intends to - ilied alter I'.alive to .jamming" h holding open ins offer to make ;or time availahii and Eastern European officials wish mg to respond to broad a sort of fairness easts doctrine for international hioadeasiltig that would he patterned alter the one that C.S. broadcast ing stations must obe-to Sov let the survey This was the question To find out how you led alxmt various aspec Is of life in this city, wou'd you use this card 'respondents were handed a card). You will notice hint this card or something you have a hichlv goes from zero tor something unfavorable opinion alxiut up to in you have a highly favorable opinion about. The higher thi' niunlxT the more favorable you feel alxiut something. What rating troin zero to In would you ." give this city for the follow mi: d on personal The findings reported today aii i.e.. interviews with il.'.tg adult urban resident so! cit ies w ith iil.uou popiilat ton or more The survey w as conducted during the la-- i three mouths oi in . (Iroiiooski said Soviet and Eastern Europe. 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