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Griffin Daily News
BRUCE BIOSSAT
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Dr. Downs—Burr Under
Bureaucracy's Blanket
By BRUCE BIOSSAT
NEA Washington Correspondent
WASHINGTON (NEA)
Out in Chicago there is a slightly built fellow named Dr.
Anthony Downs, who likes to shatter myths. On a recent
day he offered discomfort to the Census Bureau, to Vice
President Agnew, HUD Secretary George Romney, urban
ologist John Gardner and assorted others.
Downs works for the Real Estate Research Corp. As
senior vice president and treasurer, he seems to spend a
great deal of time questioning other people’s assumptions.
Once he spoke for a full day to the Kerner commission
on civil disorders. One member, Sen. Fred Harris of Okla
homa, calls him “brilliant.” His latest outing was as a
panelist on state and urban problems at the winter con
ference of the Republican governors.
For openers, Downs told these gentlemen that census
forecasts of 100 million more Americans by the year 2000
(a kind of midpoint between the bureau’s high and low
predictions) are all wet.
The real prospect, said Downs, is closer to 42 million
more—lower even than the lowest official forecast of 62
million. He founds this judgment on his assertion that U.S.
fertility rates have dropped 30 per cent since a peak in
1957. His estimate of population growth for 1969 is one per
cent, lowest gain rate since 1940.
Downs thinks he can also chop the ground out from under
men like Gardner who are saying a high proportion of
America’s added millions of people have got to be put in
hundreds of altogether new cities. He just says it is not
going to happen.
For support he looks to Great Britain, which has had 30
years’ experience in building new cities under favoring
laws. In 1968. says Downs, the British started only 2.5 per
cent of new housing in new towns, while 97.5 per cent of
the starts were in established places.
Here is one for Romney, the ex-manufacturer of auto
mobiles who has been nobly trying to “industrialize” hous
ing production methods in hope of getting faster, cheaper
housing:
According to Downs, even if such methods succeed they
will not significantly reduce housing costs. His word on this
for the governors:
“The two most important costs in housing are land and
money, not construction costs. Land will keep rising in
cost, and money—which has risen fastest of all recently—
will not go down much, if at all.”
He says flatly that cheap new housing is an unrealizable
dream and we might as well forget the idea.
It cost so much, he adds, that more than half of U.S.
households cannot afford either to buy or rent any kind of
new housing unit—except a mobile home—without laying
out too high a proportion of their income.
Downs ripped off one of the conservatives’ favorite se
curity blankets when he blasted what he calls the “self
help solution” myth applied to the poor and the black—
the notion that all they need to do is get a job and help
themselves.
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GRADY W. DONALDSON
Colonel Grady W. Donaldson
has been appointed Chief of
Contract Operations in the
Army Electronics Command’s
Procurement and Production
Directorate. For the past year
Col. Donaldson has been
stationed in Thailand as deputy
chief of the Logistics Division of
the U.S. Army’s military ad
visory group. A native of
Griffin, Col. Donaldson is
married to the former Jean
nettte Van D’Elden, also of
Griffin. Their children, are
Susan, a freshman at Mary
Washington College, and Bill, a
freshman at Monmouth
Regional High School. They
reside on the post at Fort Mon
mouth, N.J.
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WILLIAM PRESCOTT
A Griffin native,! William R.
Prescott, was recently pro
moted from Major to Lt. Col. in
the U.S. Army. He received the
promotiion in ceremonies at
West Virginia State College
where he is a professor of mili
tary science. He has been with
the State’s Military Science
Unit since Aug. 1968. He resides
with his wife and two children in
Charleston, W. Va. He is the son
of Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin O.
Prescott, 1711 Ridge street,
Griffin.
JESSE W. ROSS
Engineman First Class Jesse
W. Ross, USN, husband of Mrs.
Louvenia H. Ross of Griffin, is
serving aboard the jumbo oiler
USS Canisteo on an extended
cruise in the Mediterranean.
JAMES R. JESTER
Marine Lance Corporal
James R. Jester, son of Mr.
and Mrs. R. G. Jester of Route
One, Milner, is serving with
Marine Air Base Squadron 36
which has been assigned to duty
in Okinawa following its de
parture from Vietnam. He will
complete his overseas assign-
ment at Oiknawa and then is
scheduled for duty in the United
States.
THOMAS PEEPLES
Technical Sergeant Thomas
W. Peeples, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Williard L. Peeples of 110 Jack
son street, Griffin, has been
selected outstanding instructor
in his Air Training Command
Unit at Lackland AFB, Tex. Sgt.
Peeples was honored for his
effective teaching techniques
and exemplary devotion to
duty. The sergeant, a 1955
graduate of’Griffin High School,
has completed a tour of duty in
Vietnam. He participated in
the Leoanon crisis also.
FRANK ROWELL
Sergeant Frank Rowell, son
of Mr. and Mrs. H. R. Rowell,
412 Dora street, Griffin, is on
duty at Tan Son Nhut AB, Viet
nam. Sgt. Rowell is an ad
ministrative specialist with the
366th Transportation Squadron.
BILLY J. BOYD
Marine Gunnery Sergeant
Billy J. Boyd, son of Mr. and
Mrs. A. S. Boyd of Stockbridge,
is serving with Marine Air Con
trol Squadron Five at Marine
Corps Air Station, New River,
Jacksonville, N.C.
DENNIS GILLESPIE
Navy Airman Apprentice
Dennis J. Gillespie, son of Mr.
and Mrs. L. C. Gillespie of
Locust Grove, graduated from
the Aviation Electricians School
at the Naval Air Technical
Training Center, Jacksonville,
Fla.
RAYMOND R. PURCELL
Navy Lieutenant Raymond R.
Purcell, husband of the former
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is serving with Oceanographic
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Patuxent River, Md.
CANNADY WALKER JR.
Airman Cannady Walker Jr.,
son of the Rev. and Mrs. Can
nady Walker Sr., of Route Two,
Fayetteville, has graduated at
Lowry AFB, Colo., from the
U.S. Air Force supply inventory
specialist course. The airman is
being assigned to Travis AFB,
Calif., for duty with the Military
Airlifft Command.
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JAMES WEST JR.
Navy Seaman Apprentice
James West Jr., son of Mr. and
Mrs. James West of Route One,
Milner, is serving aboard the
guided missile cruiser USS Al
bany at Mayport, Fla.
JULIAN BLANTON
Julian W. Blanton has been
promoted to grade E-2 on
graduation from basic combat
training. Pvt. Blanton was
assigned to Company B, 1
Battalion, 1 Brigade, U.S. Army
Training Center, Fort Benning.
He is the son of Mr. and Mrs.
Richard A. Blanton of Griffin.
Blanton is a 1967 graduate of
Griffin High School and a 1969
graduate of Griffin Tech. He
entered military service in Oct.
1969 and completed basic com
bat training on Dec. 1969.
JUDY E. CLARSON
Sgt. Judy E. Clarson, daugh
ter of Mr. and Mrs. Clyde R.
Colbert of Griffin, and wife of
AIC John A. Clarson Jr., now
serving as Crypto Maintenance
on the air base of Iraklion Crete,
just outside of Greece, has re
ceived an honorable discharge
after serving 21 months in the
U.S. Air Force. She received
basic training at Lackland
AFB, Tex., and attended
Technical School at Sheppard
AFB, Tex., graduating as high
honor student and receiving the
yellow and red ropes. Sgt. Clar
son was in charge of the W.A.F.
Squadron students. At the time
of her discharge she was a com
munications operator specialist
at Sheppard. She is spending
sometime with her parents be
fore joining her husband.
F. J. CHASTEEN
Lt. F. J. Chasteen has arrived
in Bauhmolder, Germany to
serve a two-year tour of duty.
He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. M.
C. Chasteen, 411 Lakeview
street, Griffin.