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T h u rs d a y , M a rc h 21, 1968 Census Predicts Strain on Schools A younjf Catholic population will be Operation Soul Search,” as Census ties are 19 year.s old or younger. Statis­ A large population of pre-school age CCD religion classes; and that fe’ making increasingly heavy demands on Management labeled the house-to-hou.se tics also disclosed substantial numbers of children was reported. In Denver, the 60 per cent of the Catholic chi’ n the archdiocesan school system in the head count conducted bv nearly 15 000 Catholics are members of family units count was 29,679 — meaning, the report tending non-Catholic sch(K)ls v ^ immediate future, according to results of volunteers Nov. 12. Counted 242.092 with incomes totaling at or below $.‘1,000 said, "that during each of the next five rolled in CCD programs at their ^ the census conducted in three population Catholics in the three areas — 207,297 in annually, and that more than 25 per cent years there will be nearly 6,000 Catholic centers last fall. metropolitan Denver. 26.282 in the Colo­ of the family incomes were reported to be children per year who will be eligible for Census Management noted in its re­ Census Management. Inc., of Washing­ rado Springs area, and 8.513 at Boulder. below $5,000 a year. registration in first grade elementary port that Archbishop James V. Casey de­ ton published its final report this week of The total compared to 261.944 counted in Little more than 2.5 per cent of Catho­ Hch(K)l. , cided the census was necessary to gather the census taken in the Denver, Colorado all 33 counties of the archdiocese in the lic children attend (’atholic .schools. The The total of pre-schoolers in the Colo­ information vital to planning archdioce­ Springs, and Boulder areas. The 104-page federal census in 1960. percentage was lower in Colorado Springs rado Springs census was 4,049; in Boul­ san de%elopment. Primarily aimed at report includes -by-parish break­ and Boulder — but parents of significant­ der. 1.479. helping priests in their pastoral work, the downs in each questionnaire category, PERHAPS THE MOST startling sta­ ly greater percentages "intend" to .send THE REPORT ALSO disclosed fewer information al.so provides valuable basic and area-wide summaries for each of the tistics in the rejKirt showed more than their pre-school children to Catholic than half the Catholic children attending three communities. half the Catholics in all three communi- schools. non-Catholic high schools were attending iTurn t