The news-review., May 28, 1955, Image 13

FROM NINE TO FIVE
By Jo Fitehtr
Sat., May 28, 1955 The Nwi-Rviaw, Reieburg, Or. 13
FUNNY BUSINESS
By FRANK O'BRIEN
WASHINGTON I The nation's
population reached an estimated
165 million persons at 51 minutes
and 51 seconds past 4 a. m. (PST)
Friday.
The figure was ticked off at that
moment on. a "census clock," an
electrical device which keeps track
of the country's population growth
on the basis of statistical averages.
Census Bureau officials and a
few other spectators were on hand
in the Commerce Department lob
by to watch the clock record the
population milestone.
Actually,' the clocl! had to have
a little boost.
By Us own mechanical means,
the population indicator is able
only to change its last six digits.
Consequently, it changed from 164.
999.999, to 164.000,000. An attendant
had to go up a stepladder and
change the "four" to a "five"
making the figure read 165,000,000.
The clock is superimposed on a
larse map of the United States
with four lines of flashing lights.
One line of lights flashes each
8 second, to denott a birth. A
second line flashes each 21 sec
onds, denoting a death. A third
each two minutes signals the ar
rival of an Immigrant and the
fourth flashes each 24 minutes to
mark departure of an emigrant.
These, of course, are all average
times.
The machine adds these statis
tical occurrences together and
each 12 seconds flicks a new num
ber up, denoting a net addition to
the population of one person.
The Census Bureau . keeps in
close touch with the nation's vital
statistics, and changes the ma
chine's timing as changes occur In
the rate at which births, deaths,
immigrations and emigrations take
place.
A population of 165 million rep
resents a growth of over one
quarter since 1940 In the nation's
population, which includes armed
forces overseas. On Jan. 1, 1940,
the nation's total population num
bered 131.584,000.
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horns
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