European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 01, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Seattle s families Are pulling out but the City May learn to like it by Robert Reinhold new York times the picturesque Northwestern Metropolis of Seattle has begun to think the Unthank after wringing their hands for years a they watched the City s White Middle class dwindle the schools atrophy for Lack of children manufacturing jobs leave for the suburbs and the City become a Haven for the Young the single the childless and the elderly some Public officials Are beginning to say the trend is really not so  iconoclastic study just released by the City s office of policy planning has provoked Sharp debate by saying in effect that there is Little the City can do to attract More families with children that it can get along without them and that it might As Well encourage the mounting tide of Young single people and childless  policy accepts the loss of the White Middle class upper income families the report states adding that no special efforts should be made to attract them As Long As the immigrants to the City have similar income Lewis and  the report which Hies in the face of the conventional View that Large numbers of families and children Are essential to Urban health and Theta base is a fundamental debate about what a big City should be. It is a debate that is going on in Man cities As the inexorable forces of demographic change and economics pose some hard questions for Urban leaders. Many people in Seattle arc deeply troubled by the report s implications fearing the atty i Manhattan nation the catchword for a grow ing anonymity and rootless Ness even As the report circulates another City Agency is Spon Soring television commercials urging suburbanites to return to the City. While to Eastern eyes Seattle with its immaculate streets and bustling downtown seems relatively healthy it has not been immune to the ills that have ravaged places like Detroit and Newark unemployment racial friction housing decay the flight to  has also been deeply affected by the demographic shifts that Are transforming Many american cities such As the declining birth rate the postpone ment of marriage the trend toward living alone or snaring Homes with unrelated  trends have produced some dramatic stalls Christine and David Williamson Young and in Seattle. Ships in Seattle population m. B i960 1070 1975 Souter Tell of 01 roller punning i860 198s 1970 Soto f bum to Olf com 197s new York time tics. After peaking at 550,000, Seattle s population has dropped to 500,000 in a decade. But the number of households keeps rising which Means that families Are being replaced by single people and couples. In a City full of single family houses on Leafy streets Only about a Quarter of the households include children a proportion Well below the National average. One third of the households have Only one  White population is Down 16 per cent the minority population is up 62 per cent. School enrol ment has Slid from 100,000 in 1962 to just 63,000 today and it is expected to fall to 40,000 in the next decade. The proportion of almost every age group is dropping except significantly the 20-to-34 category which has risen from 19 to 29 per cent of the popu lation in 15  the numbers do not say it As Well As a walk Down East Boston Street in the Capitol Hill Section where the swings in the Park hang in solitary disuse. There is Only one child in one typical Block and he is a teenager. Increasingly the City is being dominated by people like David and Christine Williamson a new York born architect and his wife who bought a dilapidated Houseboat and converted it into a starkly Modem Home using such items a surplus air plane parti from the nearby Boeing Plant. He is 36 and she is 27. And they Are childless. The Yare too Busy starting up a design business. We want to get our professional lives going first mrs. Wil Liams  career also comes first for Kari Glover 26, a Harvard trained lawyer who rejected jobs in Cali fornia and Texas to move to Seattle because of its dramatically Beautiful surroundings. She has not ruled out marriage and children but gives Prece Dence to her career because it allows me to be inde  she said. I Don t have any desire to retaken care  she shares a private House with a divorced  people along with Many Young homosexuals have begun to transform such family oriented neighbourhoods As Madison Park Queen Ann Hill mount Baker and Capitol Hill. Many have bought Homes and reclaimed decayed buildings making it harder for Large families to move in. It is against this backdrop that the planning office issued its controversial report. Robert Wood Wilkin son head of the office says he set out to examine the Urban mythology that says if you lose children the City will  Seattle has been losing children forbears now his staff argued and if anything the City has boomed emerging from the cultural backwaters into a City of considerable  people have chosen not to propagate to spend More of their disposable income on their preferences. But Seattle is not full of swinging singles places they Are buying Homes. And the population with personal discretionary income has grown and the population that demands Public services a  these affluent Young newcomers the office argues lend excitement to the City encouraging new restaurants and new shops Selling plants sporting goods furnishings and books. J they patronize the downtown area newly Revetta i lived by the restoration of the historic Pioneer Square District and the old Pike Market. Solid old Brick and Granite buildings gleam with polished. Brass  interiors. J still Many Seattle residents fear that the trends will alter the character of the City s close knit Resi i the oilman and the archaeologist Colorado question preserve the past or dig for fuel by Grace Luchtenstein new York times the Shell Oil project manager and the government archaeologist stood together on the lip of a Rocky Canyon near Arriola colo.,peering through Field glasses at a crumbling Indian Cliff dwelling built into a Cave centuries  t that something the Archeo Loisl said. The Shell Man nodded and said. I think we can work together  and archaeology have made strange bed Fellows lately in Southwest Colorado. The men herein the heart of perhaps the richest area of Indian ruins in the United states. It May also be the heart Ofa major Field of car Bun dioxide the key element in a plan to unlock millions of barrels of needed  the last year. Shell has been drilling exploratory Carbon dioxide Wells while the Bureau of land management watches Over its shoulder eager to protect the nearby ruins. The drilling took on new importance when president Carter in his Energy Page 14 the stars and stripes message indicated that he favored higher prices on the kind of Oil the Carbon dioxide would be used to re lease. Shell s idea is a Complex costly Means of extracting 280 million barrels of Oil from deep inthe Wasson Fields in West Texas 500 Milts away. It is called tertiary or third recovery. The most accessible Oil was taken out by Conven optional Wells. The second level is being flushed out by a flooding with water. To reach the third crap it company would inject Carbon dioxide a common 1gas, that would free the deepest Oil. However huge amounts of pressurized Carbon dioxide Are needed. Shell has gambled $4 million in ready out of a projected Hoo million that it will Findl a enough Carbon dioxide reserves in this Canyon con try to Send through the pipeline to Texas. There s no question we can recover Oil with Cov i said Charles Bremer the project manager. Hal question is whether it s  " the problem for Bureau of land management officials is different. Their Job is to care for past relic As Well As future Energy needs. Large scale Carbon i dioxide drilling would require new roads in the Region. The roads in turn would expose precious hidden �