loophole
06-27-2002, 12:27 PM
Fez should be pleased.
Feds Admit Town Inhabited After All
Mon Jun 24, 8:02 AM ET
BELLEAIR SHORE, Fla. (AP) - The federal government has discovered life in this tiny Pinellas County town.
Census officials had thought the place uninhabited, which was discouraging to the people who thought they lived here. But statistics released recently by the Census Bureau ( news - web sites) have corrected the earlier figures that showed a population of zero.
The original calculations were odd considering that county voter rolls showed more than 90 registered voters. And Mayor John Robertson is quite sure there are 52 houses and four more being built.
"I counted them," he said.
Now, the count is wrong in the other direction, Robertson said. Instead of the 52 houses Robertson counted, the amended census shows 63 houses - 15 of them vacant - and 75 people living in the waterfront town.
Officials accounted for the original mistake by saying they had confused Belleair Shore with its neighbor Belleair Beach, giving the Shore's residents to the Beach.
A dead Frenchman has many good qualities, many things to recommend him; many attractions--even innocencies. Why cannot we have more of these?
Mark Twain- Notebook #20, Jan. 1882 - Feb. 1883
Feds Admit Town Inhabited After All
Mon Jun 24, 8:02 AM ET
BELLEAIR SHORE, Fla. (AP) - The federal government has discovered life in this tiny Pinellas County town.
Census officials had thought the place uninhabited, which was discouraging to the people who thought they lived here. But statistics released recently by the Census Bureau ( news - web sites) have corrected the earlier figures that showed a population of zero.
The original calculations were odd considering that county voter rolls showed more than 90 registered voters. And Mayor John Robertson is quite sure there are 52 houses and four more being built.
"I counted them," he said.
Now, the count is wrong in the other direction, Robertson said. Instead of the 52 houses Robertson counted, the amended census shows 63 houses - 15 of them vacant - and 75 people living in the waterfront town.
Officials accounted for the original mistake by saying they had confused Belleair Shore with its neighbor Belleair Beach, giving the Shore's residents to the Beach.
A dead Frenchman has many good qualities, many things to recommend him; many attractions--even innocencies. Why cannot we have more of these?
Mark Twain- Notebook #20, Jan. 1882 - Feb. 1883