European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 22, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse Monday. January 22, 1990 the stars and stripes Page 7 census Bureau girds for unparalleled Effort Washington a after seven years of preparation the census Bureau is closing in on its biggest Job Ever a reasonably precise tally of the estimated Quarter billion people who live in the United slates. The National head count. Scheduled for april i. Is just Over two months Oil. But the results will reverberate through american life for a decade or Longcr. Through the distribution of scats in Congress and billions of dollars in fed eral Money. In addition it will offer details on habits incomes and living arrangements. This will he the 2im time the . Government has set out to make an exact count of us Dyni any tha. Goal has never been reached but census officials expect to come closer than Ever. We arc prepared to Chase and Chase and Chase said census director Barbara ii. Bryant. The Bureau estimates that it counted 98.4 percent of the population in 1980. This census has air cad generated controversy Over counting illegal aliens and homeless americans adjusting the expected under count to make sure the Fig ures reflect the real number of poor and minority group members and the hiring of .100.wo temporary workers. The census is. In fact the product of a political Compromise at the heart of How this nation is governed. Since the states could t agree on their representation in Congress they decided to count the population every 10 Vears. They use results to adjust apportionment in the House of representatives. It s been done since 1790 when Federal marshals went out and counted Heads for the first time. They found 3.929.214. That resulted in a complaint from president washing ton who said he was sure there were at least 4 million people in the country. Similar complaints have followed every count since then. They have Al ready surfaced this time in the form of a lawsuit asking that the i9w count he adjusted upward. Adjustment of census data is a demo graphic Pandora s save agriculture department population expert Calvin in ale. Regardless of whether then1 Are 4 Mil Hon or 250 million people counting cd cryonic is a problem. Some people Don t want to be counted. Some Are away from Home. Some arc simply overlooked. Some fear govern ment officials or Lack interest in official activities. The distribution of billions of Federal dollars is based on census counts Mak ing the tally especially important for the poor minorities and others who depend tin government programs. Cities with Large minority populations would like to Sec the final numbers adjusted to allow for the likelihood that Blacks and hispanics will be under counted another hard to count group is the nation s growing army of homeless people. This has prompted a special Effort scheduled for the night of March 20. When census takers will visit homeless shelters Homes for battered women and flophouse and will walk the streets and alleys looking for homeless people to be counted. Such an Effort is reminiscent of the old fashioned census methods when enumerators went from Home to Home to make the count. In recent cars that has Given was to a mail count with census forms being mailed March 2.1 to 80 percent of Homes. People Are asked to mail them As of april i. Congressmen s poet laureate stirs up a storm Tallahassee. Fla. A a . Senator and a . Representative from Flonda helped arrange for a fringe presidential candidate whose slogan is keep White Hope alive in America to be considered for appointment As the nation s poet Lau reate. Aides in sen mine Mack. A a. And rep. I Arl Hullo. A Lla. Saij Lac Ocie unaware of Ray Roll Invin s racial slogan when thu a forwarded his re quest to be to president Lush and the Library Ocon Giss sen. Strom Thurmond. Rec. Also received the request from Roll son. And wrote a letter in him. Said Thurmond s aide Hill outlaw. But thur mond did not Forward the request to Bush he said. The politicians efforts for Rollinson 69. Of mexi co Beach Fla. Weie disclosed in Friday s editions of the Florida Freedom newspapers in fort Pierce Panama City and fort Walton Beach. Rollinson is a self published poet who says he also is running for the democratic presidential Nomi nation to help counter the racist movement of Jesse Jackson. Democratic National chairman Ron Brown and the rest of the White is ugly racists of the the Post of poet laureate which is appointed by the librarian of Congress was last held by the late Robert Penn Warren. We handled it like any other constituency serv said Mark Berry Mack s press Secretary. There was nothing in what he sent us that could be construed As being racist. Had we known about his Campaign i think that would have made a Rollinson denies he is racist and says he did not purposely hide his political philosophies. I am a major candidate so i Don t Sec How i can hide Rollinson said. My Campaign is anything but racist. There in t a racist drop of blood in my Roll son was in the Public c e last year when vice president Dan Quayle invited him to a Barbe Cue in Washington b.c., As a member of the re publican senatorial inner Circle. After news reports about the invitation the gop cancelled it and beefed up Security at the vice presidential mansion in Case Rollinson showed up. In a press release for his 1992 presidential Campaign. Rollinson wrote that Mack and Hutto had nominated him for the poet laureate position. Nomination is not the word i would use Berry said. He said Mack s office sent Rollinson s request to be nominated and samples of his poetry to Bush s office which forwarded the material to the librarian of Congress. Hutto took similar action. The stuff we got was pretty harmless talking about walking on the Beach and stuff like said Brian be ctr. Hutto s press Secretary. Certainly the congressman docs not condone racial overtones but or. Rollinson is a resident of the congressman s District and we always respond to letters from our Jeff Johnson Ruth Frost on his right and Phyllis Zillhart on his left Are ordained into the lutheran ministry in ceremonies in a san Francisco Church in Defiance of objections from the head of the Church. 3 homosexuals in . Ordained into evangelical lutheran ministry Washington up despite criticism from the head of the evangelical lutheran Church in Ameri Ca three homosexuals a Man and two women were ordained into the lutheran ministry saturday in St. Paulus lutheran Church in san Francisco. The three Jeff Johnson. Ruth Frost and Phyllis Zillhart arc All graduates of lutheran seminaries. They have been called in Defiance of Church regu lations to be assistant ministers at two san Francis co congregations and will form a pastoral team for the recently initiated lutheran lesbian and Gay ministry in the Bay area. On Friday. Hiphop Herbert Chilstrom said the de nomination believes and teaches that the Church should minister to All people including homosexuals. But he said the Church also has standards for ordained ministers and among them is a provision which states that practising homosexual persons May not be on the roster of ordained ministers of this the Issue of homosexuality is one where there is genuine difference of opinion in the he added. The immediate incident underscores this reality. It is our Hope that rather than be divided we will give More careful thought and study to this he said the ordination of the three would under mine the Unity of the Church said disciplinary action would be taken against the two san Francisco congregations involved. Because of this disregard for the agreements that govern us As a Church the Sierra Pacific Synod of the evangelical lutheran Church in America is obliged to initiate disciplinary procedures against these congregations Chilstrom said in a statement released by the denomination in san Francisco. The Rev. Joseph Wagner executive director of the denomination s division for ministry said the ordinations will initiate an unnecessary Chain of events which will be painful to All it is unfortunate that these two congregations have chosen to engage the Issue of ordination of practising homosexual persons in this divisive Way Wagner said. The Constitution of the 5.3 million member Elca slates that pastoral Calls can Only go to those approved by the Church. The three Seminary graduates were not approved candidates because they refused to pledge obedience to recently formulated celibacy guidelines for homosexuals. Wagner disputed the claims of those supporting the Ordi nation that the Issue was Justice for homosexuals. We do not agree he said. The Church champions the civil rights of All persons. But ordination is not a civil right it is a privilege granted by the Church to those who meet its established Bishop Lyle Miller of the Sierra Pacific Synod said he will initiate the disciplinary procedures which could result in the expulsion of the three from the denomination. There is an appropriate time for confrontation but in my opinion this is not one of
