Show WERE WE'RE GOING TO GROW Both Morgan and Summit Counties according to expert sociologists are in for population growth within the next next 20 years Even some communities in the two counties such as Park City which have suffered a decline in recent years are destined to show how an upgrade This local growth the experts insist will come as a result of the greatest explosion of national population ever known Utah is expected to grow mote more rapidly than most other states states and and these counties while not reaching the bulging status status status' of those in metropolitan areas will show healthy growth as the bulge stretches A population in the United States of million today is expected to reach nearly million by 1975 The in increase increase increase in- in crease of 60 million has been brought on by two complementary complementary comple comple- trends a slowly falling death rate and a quickly rising birth rate The rate of growth of the population is thus greatest at its fringes among the young and among those well past middle age The productive segment of the population is going to shrink considerably in proportion to the groups groups less Jess than 25 years of age and more than 60 This will demand a greater production per worker simply to maintain our press present pres pres- ent standards of living Thus automation better tools and materials and improved procedures of production will become become become be be- come especially significant Materially increasing the productive span of life and encouraging time part-time employment employ employ- ment are other devices which might better production The increasing number of children and the aged will heighten the need for institutions which serve especially the young and old hospitals schools retirement homes and other facilities Problems related to the automobile will be vastly com com- pounded Today there are 69 million cars cars in the United States By 1975 it is expected that there will be at least million Traffic control the provision of proper roads and parking facilities the en encouragement of safer driving driving- t these will simply be among the problems which an increase in automobile use will foster For none none of them is there an easy or on cheap solution We Weare Were are m most mist t apt to encounter head head on on within the next decade the problems raised by certain scarcities It is expected that million new households will wil be formed in inthe in inthe the period 1955 57 This will result in an enormous demand demand demand de de- de- de mand for services products and materials Foodstuffs now in a surplus which is often embarrassing may become critically scarce Over a million acres of productive or potentially productive farm land is each year going into construction uses uses The F Federal aid aid highway program in inthe inthe inthe the next decade will pave or put into grassy shoulders another million acres which might otherwise be devoted t to agriculture or grazing When scarcities do occur it will require the best social thought to alleviate them and to enable us to live with less when there is no alternative |