Collage of News Stories about Rockefeller's Visit
This collage of newspaper articles appeared in the December 1972
issue of CPC NewsNotes, a newsletter of CPC activities. The newspaper
articles reported on John D. Rockefeller III's visit to Chapel Hill to
present the first public report of the recommendations of the
Commission on Population Growth and the American Future. CPC NewsNotes
included the following description of the event:
Held at the
Carolina Inn [on October 19, 1972], CPC's Leadership Council dinner
attracted more than 200 business and professional leaders from across
the state to hear John D. Rockefeller 3rd and Duke President Terry
Sanford. Mr. Rockefeller, who recently completed his work as chairman
of the Commission on Population Growth and the American Future, said
that after two years of intensive study, his Congressionally-created
group found that a levelling off of U.S. population growth would
benefit the nation economically as well as socially.
Former
Governor Sanford urged North Carolina to form its own "commission for
land use and population policy," and emphasized that "It must be
endowed with position and influence and teeth." He expressed hope that
his state would learn from the ugly consequences of unplanned growth in
other parts of the country "before it is too late." In North Carolina,
he concluded, "we still have time to preserve what we have, to grow as
we should, to shape and establish a goodly heritage, as living and
lasting pride of our 'Carolineage.'" Source: CPC NewsNotes, 1972
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