Davis County Clipper | 1974-11-08 | Page 17 | 211,000,000

R latest census figures nation's population And while the By continues to the increase is slight Bared to some years in is the nation's Bt growing Nevada and Arizona As the South and West North grew and the Northeast in The national growth rate is now seven tenths of one per cent a year-down from more than one per cent in the first three years of the WHILE these figures don't tell the true story don't include the illegal entry into the states of an estimated million wetbacks who in increased numbers each they do indicate the traditional patterns of population growth are changing Lower birth rates are the primary In more of the nation's growth now comes from immigration than from native-born considering that immigration patterns have also changed radically in recent the racial composition of the nation is obviously tending toward those nationalities and races with high birth rates or high immigration