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Show District Census Office Opens in Orem, Will Start Tally on April 1 At a ceremony last Thursday, Thurs-day, Mrs. Laurence J. Burton cut a length of computer tape, officially opening the district office in Orem, from which the 1970 Census of Population and Housing will be directed in this area. Claude R. Lomax, manager of the district office, explain- ed that computer tape is symbolic sym-bolic of the Census Bureau's modern electronic equipment, that will process the data collected col-lected in the census. Attending the ceremony were dignitaries from all over Utah County, including Jack Cook from Pleasant Grove, and City Councilmen Michael Vicchrilli, Cornell Haynie, and Walter Reimschussell, and City Recorder Re-corder Mark Johnson. This district office will be headquarters for almost all of Utah. With the official opening, the active phase of the census gets underway. About 340 crew leaders lead-ers and census takers will be selected and trained. Detailed arrangements will be made to enumerate people in institutions, institu-tions, jails, hospitals, colleges, and places other than homes, all in preparation for April 1, when the actual enumeration begins. Beginning four days before April 1, mail carriers will leave census questionnaires at each residential mailbox. Each family fam-ily will be asked to fill out its questionnaire and hold it for the census taker. The enumeration enumer-ation of the district is expected to be completed in about five weeks after the census takers begin making calls on April 1. There are 180 other census districts throughout the country where this method of enumeration enumera-tion will be used. The Census Bureau estimates that about 40 percent of the U.S. population popula-tion live in these districts. In the large cities and suburbs, sub-urbs, residents will also receive re-ceive questionnaires in the mail but they will be asked to mail them back in a postage-free envelope. No census taker will call at these households. The Census Bureau says that having the questionnaire in the home for several days gives the family time to assemble information infor-mation about each member of the household, thus speeding up the census and providing accurate ac-curate statistics. |
