The Key West Citizen Newspaper, October 26, 1954, Page 7

} a Cooks, Mr. And Mrs., Map The World’s Hunger si ssir=2' Sit torts" & "sat Sheppard Case |" """*™ ents become more educated.” By SIGRID ARNE THE KEY WEST CITIZEN Pege 7 World wide interest has sprung | ernment officials. — AP Newsfea- WASHINGTON—Two years up in the Cook’s work. Premier tures Moscow began boasting about how fi. was growing in the R. It sounded ominous to western strategists who must an eye on Soviet power. The Muscovite balloon was punc- tured by a studious hushand-wife team working in a littered little Washington office — Robert and Annabelle Cook. The Cooks spend their days studying population figures. Eight times a year they publish a six or eight-page leaflet called the Popy. lation Bulletin. A special bulletin about Russia} said the Russian population was ago|not increasing at an. impressive rate, that actually the Russian birth rate was dropping, that Rus- sian parents were not meeting the keep | Kremlin’s demand for more and more future soldiers and workers. The Cooks run’ the Population Reference Bureau, which is sup- Ported by donations from people who have hecome alarmed at fail- ure of the‘ world’s food supply to keep with its zooming population, It offers no advice—makes no recommendations. It merely prints the figures. The population bulletin goes to 41 nations, some of them appear- WHEREVER YOU CALL... LONG UISTAN CE RATES - ARE Low Here are some examples: KEY WEST to: BOSTON. . . NEW ORLEANS KANSAS CITY. ATLANTA .. ‘The above sample rates are for three min- ion, after 6 P. Utes, station P.M. and ve canoe wld COMPANY ing as deficit areas in a “hunger map,” which hangs on the wall of the Cooks’ office. How did they turn out that Mos- cow bulletin? Russia is the only nation which: refuses to give the United Nations birth and death bnaahe. as other member nations Cook says: “We just read a whale of a lot of Russians speech- es, and what Russian’ statistics we could turn up. It made a consist- ent story. “It was no surprise to us. The same thing happened in Fascist Italy when Mussolini was paying families for more bam binas. Through that whole period the rate at which Italians were increasing showed a decline. The Cooks’ inquiring eyes are now turned on Canada, which is conducting one of the most ambi- tious family-allowance programs in the world. “It puts parents, as such, on the government pay-roll,” Cook says. “We plan to do a Canadian study soon. We suspect it will repeat the Italian study.” The Cooks have startled many government experts with other news scoops. Their charts have | through the year 2000, Latin Ameri- ‘ ca will have 550 million people and shown, for instance, that Ameri- cans are having babies at a faster rate than Italians. By 1952 Italian birth rates had dropped to 17.6 per thousand population, The United States rate was 24.5. But the real “population explo- sion,” as Cook calls it, is taking place in Latin America. Lumping the United States and Canada as North America, and in- cluding the West Indies in Latin America, he says: “If the present birth and death rates go on in the two continents North America 250 million. “It could be a worse lack of bal- ance. Latin America is just begin- ing to use modern medicine, and | its death rates could drop swiftly. | | am that case its population figure | |in the year 2000 could be much | higher. “Of course, it probably won't) happen. There are so many other aciors to consider. The most im- vortant one is the unpredictable | uman who may slow up on family | SRUENTHER SEES POSSIBLE ATOM USE LONDON w—Gen, Alfred M. | Gruenther, supreme Allied com- vander ia ope, says that the ‘estern Powers would use atomic, “weapons if they are attacked in Europe: “We should be forced to use such weapons to correct the imbalance | in relation to the hordes which might be arrayed against us,” Gruenther said at a luncheon of the’ Air League of the British Empire at the Mansion House yes- terday. “Is Rear Signal Interference « Costs Are Up To $19,000 CLEVELAND #—The Sheppard murder case already has cost more than $19,000, not including the fees of Chief Defense Counsel William J. Corrigan. Corrigan said yesterday the fam- ily of Dr. Samuel H. Sheppard has paid about $4,000 for court report- ers, a special stenographer and other expenses. Not included is the $1,000 paid for bail bond and fees to be paid for a private investigator and other attorneys. Frank T. Cullitan, Cuyahoga County prosecutor, said expenses incurred by his office total about $1,500, including those of state wit- nesses and for trips by investi- gators and lawyers. Still to be added are court costs such as jurors ($5 daily), ‘witness- es ($3 daily) and transcripts. The biggest single bill was the one for $13,200 which Cleveland police handed suburban Bay Vil- lage for handling a large part of the investigation leading to the indictment of the osteopath. Former Child ‘Star Is Fined . | eanre MONICA, Calif, a—For- mer cl actor Scotty 23, was fined $200 and ie = tues years’ probation yesterday on charges of illegally carrying a Beckett was arrested in a West Los Angeles apartment basement last Feb. 25. Released on $2,500 bail, he went to Mexico, was ar- rested there after a battle with police and spent five months in \a prison. ‘ Returning here, he surrendered on a warrant, He was in jail 28 days pending yesterday's hearing. 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