European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - March 26, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Monday March 26, 1990 the stars and stripes a a a Page 7 wimm Mimi he newest member of a a vice president Dan Quayle winds up to training Camp. Quayle in the Phoenix deliver a pitch during his visit to the area to give a speech also took a few world series Champion Oakland ath turns at Bat Friday fouling off a num Fetics at their Scottsdale ariz., Spring her of pitches. Puyallup Indian tribe oks settlement for Tacoma area claims Tacoma Wash. Apr the Puyallup Indian tribe signed away its claim to much of its traditional land saturday in Exchange for Cash promises of jobs and education and a chunk of Tacoma a Industrial waterfront. A this is one of the most important events in our tribe s history Quot said tribe chairman Henry John at a packed downtown ceremony. John said he did not expect the $162 million land claims settlement to solve All the problems that have divided the Indian and White communities Over the past Century. But he said it provides a framework for resolving future disagreements. The agreement the second largest native land settlement in . History involves the tribe abandoning claims to 20,000 acres at the Mouth of the Puyallup River. The land now forms the port of Tacoma and most of the City a Industrial land. That land once was part of the tribes reservation but most was lost to White settlers in the late 1800s and Early 1900s. In return the tribe will receive a package that includes 900 acres up to $20,000 Cash for each of the tribes 1,500 members and trusts that Promise a future of jobs education and Security. The Only bigger native land settlement in the United states was the Alaska native claims act. The signing ceremony which included speeches by dignitaries and colourfully costumed dancers performing to tribal Drums took place after the tribes attorneys appeared in . District court seeking dismissal of a land claims lawsuit filed in the Early 1980s. John Bell attorney for the tribe told . Judge John Coughnour that of All the features in the agreement approved by tribe members in 1988, the most important was the tribe s recognition by the larger Community. Sen. Daniel Inouye a Hawaii. Who made a dozen visits to Tacoma to help in negotiations said he was approached by rep. Norm Dicks a Wash. In 1987 to help resolve the dispute after a 1986 tribal vote rejected a settlement offer. While some tribal members will undoubtedly squander their share of the payoff the majority will act responsibly a because they know their Brothers and Sisters in Indian country will be watching a Inouye said. Dicks said the cooperation built into the agreement benefits not Only the tribe but also landholders in Tacoma bypassed by development because Indian claims clouded land titles. Of the $162 million $51 million goes for dredging Blair waterway on the Industrial waterfront and improving roads in the area including some that Lead to 240 waterfront acres deeded to the tribe. Other major elements of the settlement include a $24 million to provide the one time payments to tribe members. A $22 million in a permanent Trust fund for social health and welfare needs. A $37 million As total value of the 900 acres the tribe will receive. A $3.5 million for Job training for 265 Puyallup and jobs promised for 115 tribe members in Pierce county private sector businesses. A $11.5 million for economic development. A $10 million for fisheries  find divorce rate higher for live in couples Bowling Green Ohio up a two reports about couples who live together before marriage reach the same conclusion couples who cohabit before marrying stand a greater Chance of getting a divorce. In their Book a what Are the chances risks Odds and likelihood in everyday life a authors Bernard Siskin and Jerome Staller of the Philadelphia area refute conventional Wisdom that suggests that couples who live together before they marry will stay together longer. At the same time a pair of Bowling Green state University sociologists Alfred Demaris and . Rao report similar findings. Their research indicates the Odds for divorce among cohabiting couples Are 66 percent higher than for those who do not live together before marrying. But Siskin and Staller whose Book on marriage covers other topics As Well As cohabitation suggest the percentage of failure stands at 33. Their findings appear in the april edition of readers digest. The Ohio researchers base their findings on analyses of More than 3,100 personal interviews conducted for the National Survey of families and households. Roughly one fourth of the respondents lived together before marrying Demaris and Rao said. Control factors were used to determine whether social class race age at marriage the mean was 23 year premarital pregnancy and other influences related to divorce. The professors say their conclusions closely parallel similar studies in Sweden in 1988 and one a year earlier in Canada. Rao participated in the latter. Demaris said cohabitants have a tendency to be More modern hip types who when things Arentt working figure a a in la just Check out of the  at the other end he said is the person with traditional values who sees marriage As a Long term commitment through thick and thin. Coincidentally a 1984 study Demaris conducted on marital satisfaction revealed that As a group premarital cohabitants were less satisfied than their non cohabitant counterparts. In the Early years of marriage dissolution rates for non cohabit ors Are nearly equal to those for their no cohabiting counterparts. The reason is that traditional couples who Are flagrantly mismatched separate. But once this initial weeding out occurs dissolution rates begin to climb sharply for the cohabit ors. In time the spread Narrows when Only those committed to staying married remain among both types of couples. In Short the longer the marriage the better the Odds of preserving it. Regardless of whether a couple lived together before marrying. Siskin and Staller also conclude that unmarried couples who cohabit seem not to feel bound by their vows later on. They also report that the chances of a marriage ending in divorce Are around 50  Bureau charts How much . Changes Washington apr the first time Inis nation took its own measure there were Tower than 4 million americans most living on arms or in Small towns. It s a far different mix of a Quarter oui on people scattered from Maine to Hawaii that is being counted in the upcoming 21 St census. Americans began getting their census terms on Friday the census Bureau said As the first of an estimated 95 million forms Pegan arriving in mailboxes across the a Cir not Tuc postal service says All the forms a re delivered by tuesday. P 9an8.es in family and lifestyle population size location and employment have been charted every decade by the census. Indeed the . National head count is one of the longest regular series of such efforts in any country. Yet the concept of taking a census is ancient dating Back at least to biblical times when the roman census brought Joseph and Mary to Bethlehem. Unlike Mary and Joseph americans done to have to go to the census. It will come to them mostly through the mail. Census takers will travel Only to those places where address lists  be obtained or where people done to mail Back their forms. Delivering the forms and bringing them Back will Cost the census Bureau nearly $44 million in postage the postal service reports. President George Washington was in his first term when Federal marshals went out in the summer of 1790 to take the first National head count. Secretary of state Thomas Jefferson was in charge. Completed in 1792, that census reported there were 3,929,214 americans. This years census is scheduled for april i with a report due to the president on dec. 31. Analysis of All the 1990 data will go on for years. Census takers travelled by foot boat Stagecoach and horseback in 1790. Those were about the Only choices. Horses Are still used to reach some Indian reservations. Census takers in 1790 asked Only a few questions and then posted lists of their findings in Public places. People who had been missed were expected to add themselves to those lists. There arc Long and Short forms today which ask dozens of questions a Loo Many some contend though government officials say they need the data to set policy and operate social programs. Information provided is kept confidential now. And census takers can go to jail if they reveal information about any individual. That first census found 4.5 people per Square mile and Rhode Island was the most crowded state at 63.4 people per Square mile. The whole nation in 1987 had 68.8 per Square mile and new Jersey was the most crowded that year with 1,027.3 people per Square mile