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OBITUARIES
Pleading for census cooperation
Getting their share
Jurisdictions fear
ignored forms will cost
The 2010 Census will determine how more than $500 billion in
federal funds is allocated each year. Here is the total federal
them crucial U.S. funds
assistance given to major metropolitan areas in 2008, based
upon census-related statistics:
by Carol Morello
Fiscal 2008, in billions
The 2010 Census will deter-
1. New York/Northern New Jersey/Long Island $40
mine how more than $500 bil-
lion in federal funds is divvied up
2. Los Angeles/Long Beach/Santa Ana, Calif. $22
each year, according to a new 3. Chicago/Naperville/Joliet $12
study that adds urgency to cash-
4. Boston/Cambridge/Quincy $9
strapped jurisdictions pushing
residents to mail in their census
5. San Francisco/Oakland/Fremont, Calif. $9
questionnaires later this month. 6. Sacramento/Arden-Arcade/Roseville, Calif. $8
The calculation by Andrew D.
7. Philadelphia/Camden/Wilmington $8
Reamer, a policy analyst with the
Brookings Institution, is signifi-
8. Detroit/Warren/Livonia, Mich. $6
cantly higher than the $447 bil-
9. Atlanta/Sandy Springs/Marietta, Ga. $5
lion the federal government dis-
tributed in 2008 based on census
10. Washington/Arlington/Alexandria $5
counts. That’s in part because SOURCE: Brookings Institution THE WASHINGTON POST
Reamer included the impact of
federal stimulus funds that are on washingtonpost.com federal Medicaid assistance,
MICHAEL MACOR/SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE
being sent out in response to the Reamer said. For example, the Dr. Edgar Wayburn was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1999 for his conservation efforts.
recession.
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District sets a high income level
“Counting more people means
local to see a state-by-state
for Medicaid eligibility, making EDGAR WAYBURN, 103
more money,” said Reamer, who
comparison of federal census
more of its residents eligible for
figured that one-tenth of a per-
funding and the complete
the program, and the federal gov-
centage-point increase in the
Brookings Institution report,
ernment pays 70 percent of the
For 50 years, doctor helped protect
population count can bring an
“Counting for Dollars.”
cost.
increase in federal funds ranging States, counties and cities
from 0.06 percent to 0.12 per- across the country have been urg-
U.S. wilderness, national parks
cent. “That’s real money.” grants — make up 14 percent. ing residents to mail in the cen-
The Census Bureau has esti- According to Reamer’s study, sus questionnaires, which are
mated that “more than $400 bil- the District got $2.7 billion in scheduled to be delivered to Alatna River in Alaska,” he told “It seemed incredible to me
lion” in federal funds is at stake federal funds in 2008, which more than 120 million house- by Emma Brown the San Francisco Chronicle in that there were no cities or sub-
every year, and mailing in the worked out to be $4,656 for each holds next week. In Rockville, the 2006. “The clouds cleared just at urbs built on those Marin Hills so
census form is one small way res- resident. That is much more than Executive Office Building is Edgar Wayburn, 103, a physi- that time so we could see the close to San Francisco,” he told
idents can bring more money to Vermont, which got $2,873 a resi- draped with a large banner read- cian and five-time Sierra Club startling color of the beautiful the San Francisco Chronicle in
their communities for such dent, a higher rate than any other ing “Everyone Counts in Mont- president who is credited with green-blue river. This was one of 2004. “I wondered how long that
things as schools, roads, housing state, and Nevada, which got the gomery County.” protecting more wilderness and the things that got us started in miracle would last.”
and parks. least at $742 a resident. Mary- On Tuesday, the Census Bu- parkland than any other Amer- trying to protect it.” In 1946, he met Peggy Elliott, a
But every jurisdiction does not land got $1,136 for each resident, reau will launch a campaign ican citizen, died March 5 at his He persuaded leaders of the Si- chic, chain-smoking former
get the same amount of federal and Virginia got $861. stressing the importance of home in San Francisco. No cause erra Club and other national en- Vogue editor. Their first date was
funds per person. That’s because In contrast to the District, Fair- counting infants and young chil- of death was reported. vironmental groups to focus on a steep climb from a beach north
of the nature of the programs fax County got $379 million that dren on the forms. As part of As a volunteer conservationist protecting Alaska — a rare op- of San Francisco to the top of
that use census statistics in allo- year, or $373 a resident. Mont- Children Count Too, Nickelodeon for more than 50 years, he was a portunity to save wide swaths of Mount Tamalpais and a just-as-
cating money. gomery County got $725 million, will broadcast a promotional behind-the-scenes force for wil- pristine land. The Wayburns re- steep descent.
Reamer identified 215 federal or $1,357 a resident. The Wash- spot featuring the children’s derness protection who never turned north frequently, scout- The two were married less
programs that rely on census ington area as a whole got an character Dora the Explorer. earned the widespread renown ing and mapping lands worthy of than six months later. Peggy gave
data to formulate how much average of $980 a person, rank- Census officials say children are of contemporaries such as the protection. Peggy Wayburn up smoking as a wedding gift
money they send to states, cities ing 73rd among the country’s 100 undercounted because people in outspoken environmental activ- wrote two books about the north and they went on countless sub-
and counties. But one program largest metropolitan regions. hard-to-count groups, including ist David Brower and photogra- while her husband visited Wash- sequent hikes together, including
alone, Medicaid, which provides One reason for the discrepancy immigrants and minorities, tend pher Ansel Adams. Dr. Wayburn ington to work the halls of Con- one — when she was seven
health care to the poor, accounts is that wealthier counties tend to to have more children in their maintained a full-time medical gress. months pregnant — to the top of
for 58 percent of the money. The be more generous in their Medic- families and because many peo- practice, working evenings and Edgar Wayburn, a tactful a 12,000-foot peak in the Sierra
next three largest sources of aid formulas, and those that have ple do not list babies on the ques- weekends to stave off post-World Georgia native, cultivated rela- Nevadas. They turned their fami-
funds — highway construction, sizable numbers of low-income tionnaire. War II development in Califor- tionships with unlikely allies, in- ly vacations into wilderness-
housing vouchers and education residents get considerably more morelloc@washpost.com nia’s coastal hills and later to cluding Burton, a brash and ag- preservation reconnaissance ef-
protect millions of acres in Alas- gressive politician with little in- forts, taking weeks-long trips to
ka. terest in outdoor adventure, and places such as the Sawtooth
“Edgar Wayburn has helped to Rogers Morton, secretary of the Mountains in Idaho and the
preserve the most breathtaking interior under Nixon, who was Wind River Range in Wyoming.
examples of the American land- no friend to environmentalists They invariably returned with
scape,” President Bill Clinton and whose nomination the Sierra armloads of maps marked with
said in 1999, when he presented Club had opposed. the boundaries of possible parks.
Dr. Wayburn with the Presiden- Morton rebuffed Dr. Way- In 1958, Dr. Wayburn won his
tial Medal of Freedom, the na- burn’s invitations to meet, but first major conservation victory
tion’s highest civilian honor. was later swayed by the doctor’s when he successfully lobbied
Armed with genteel persis- quiet persistence. In a 1970s Sen- California politicians in Sacra-
tence and encyclopedic knowl- ate committee hearing, the secre- mento to expand Mount Tamal-
edge of the lands he aimed to de- tary opposed the National Park pais State Park to seven times its
fend, Dr. Wayburn set his sights Service’s proposed boundaries original size.
first on wild places close to for the Golden Gate National He served on the Sierra Club
home. He was instrumental in Recreation Area, supporting the board from 1957 to 1994, includ-
establishing Point Reyes Nation- Sierra Club’s more expansive ing five terms as president dur-
al Seashore in 1962, protecting a boundaries instead. ing the 1960s. He became the Si-
peninsula that juts into the Pacif- “The Park Service wants me to erra Club’s honorary president in
ic north of San Francisco. support their plan, but I went out 1993, and in 1995 was awarded
Ten years later, he partnered there to the site with my friend the prestigious Albert Schweitzer
with Rep. Phillip Burton (D- Dr. Wayburn,” Morton told a Prize for Humanitarianism, giv-
Calif.) to push through legisla- room of shocked senators, “and en by New York’s Alexander von
tion creating San Francisco’s he convinced me otherwise.” Humboldt Foundation and ad-
Golden Gate National Recreation ministered by Johns Hopkins
Area, which is one of the world’s
Alarmed by sprawl
University.
largest urban parks. He also Edgar Arthur Wayburn was Peggy Wayburn died in 2002.
played a key role in creating Red- born Sept. 17, 1906, in Macon, Survivors include four children,
JIM LO SCALZO FOR THE WASHINGTON POST
wood National Park in 1968 in Ga., and as a boy made frequent William Wayburn of Seattle, Cyn-
Officials reassured parents that the grade-changing scandal will not tarnish Churchill’s reputation. Northern California. His crown- visits to California to visit an un- thia Wayburn of Bellevue, Wash.,
ing achievement came in 1980, cle who operated a tuberculosis Laurie Wayburn of San Francisco
No way to prove who changed grades
when President Jimmy Carter sanatorium in the hills south of and Diana Wayburn of New York;
signed a bill that preserved more San Francisco. He graduated and three grandchildren.
than 104 million acres in Alaska from the University of Georgia in In addition to his conservation
— called “the greatest act of wil- 1926 and from Harvard Medical work, Dr. Wayburn taught for
churchill from B1 years had been changed. He said grade-changing incident could derness creation that we’ll ever School in 1930. He arrived in San more than 40 years, first at Stan-
he has no plans to investigate any have been stopped earlier if stu- see on this planet” by wilderness Francisco by train in 1933. ford Medical School and then at
“I’m just surprised that it took other semesters, unless given dents had notified officials and historian Roderick Nash. That He joined the Sierra Club in the University of California at
this long” for teachers to notice proof that similar breaches oc- turned in their classmates. Alaska National Interest Lands 1939, not out of any great conser- San Francisco. “I have loved med-
grade changes, Dave Williams curred. “Young people often don’t Conservation Act, which created vation zeal, but because he want- icine and conservation,” he told
said. “I’m surprised there were "We will not chase the wind," think, and it’s our job as adults to 10 new parks and effectively dou- ed to go on a burro trip organized the journal of the San Francisco
not more” students involved. he said. make them think,” Benz said. bled the size of the nation’s park- by the club. He joined the U.S. Medical Society. “In one sense,
Benz said the school has re- Criminal investigators have Keith Jones, whose son is a lands, was the result of 13 years Army Air Forces during World my involvement with both might
ceived direct questions about the subpoenaed all records from the Churchill senior, said the prob- of lobbying led by Dr. Wayburn. War II, serving for four years be- be summed up in a single word:
situation from University of school system’s own investiga- lem went undetected by teachers He had first become enamored fore returning to San Francisco. survival. Medicine is concerned
Maryland officials but has no tion of the incident, as well as and computer security monitors of the nation’s northern frontier It was only then, when he consid- with the short-term survival of
plans to issue a letter to colleges grade records of almost 700 stu- for too long. on a 1967 trip to Alaska with his ered how the fast-growing sub- the human species, conservation
because that would be a “red dents, which will allow them to “Had that teacher not seen wife, fellow conservationist Peg- urbs might sprawl into the quiet with the long-term survival of
flag” and is “absolutely unneces- review all changes to grades over those grade changes, would we gy Wayburn. hills and wild beaches where he the human and other species as
sary,” Benz said. the course of the semester. A vast have ever known?” he said. “One “I think of flying with my wife, enjoyed hiking on weekends, well. We are all related.”
Chief Technology Officer Sher- majority of grade changes last se- teacher saw his grades change, Peggy, above the clouds over the that he became an activist. browne@washpost.com
win Collette said school officials mester were legitimate correc- but there were 35 other teachers.”
have also found no evidence that tions by teachers, Benz said. johnsonj@washpost.com
grades in other academic school Collette and Benz both said the
Sylvia Walton
dren, Charles Walton of Glen time friends of the Agnews. The
PENTAGON EMPLOYEE
Burnie and Catherine Guttmann- Agnews had been witnesses at
Walton of Silver Spring; two the Mangers’ marriage, in 1951,
Jogger fatally hit near Mall identified
Sylvia Walton, 83, an adminis- brothers; and three grandsons. according to the family. Mr. Man-
trative assistant for the Joint — Patricia Sullivan ger helped handle travel logistics
Chiefs of Staff and administra- for Agnew in his years in state
tive officer of the American Bat-
J. Thomas Manger Jr.
and national politics, his family
pending against the driver, who then to the Capitol” before she tle Monuments Commission,
POLICY ANALYST
said.
by Martin Weil was not identified. turned around and came back. died Feb. 19 at HeartHomes assis- John Thomas Manger Jr. was a
Police said the circumstances Sometimes, he said, she would ted-living center in Linthicum. J. Thomas Manger Jr., 86, a re- native of Glyndon, Md., near Bal-
The woman killed Saturday of the incident remain under in- run in the early morning, well She had Alzheimer’s disease. tired Social Security Administra- timore. He served as a radio oper-
near the Mall when she was vestigation. before the sun rose, returning in She was born Sylvia Hanson in tion policy analyst who in the ator in the Philippines and New
struck by a truck was identified Preliminary information indi- time to go to work. South Heart, N.D., married a ca- late 1960s and early 1970s was an Guinea with the Army Air Forces
Monday by D.C. police as Debra cated that the woman was in the An online site lists Schiebel as reer noncommissioned officer in administrative assistant to Spiro during World War II.
Ann Schiebel, 51. roadway and crossing against information services manager at the Army in 1948 and traveled T. Agnew, the Maryland governor His first marriage, to Willida
Schiebel, who was known as a the light when she was struck, Trans-Management Systems the world with him. They settled who became Richard M. Nixon’s Sweet, ended in divorce. His sec-
devoted jogger, was hit about 6 police said. Corp. It said she worked in pub- in the Washington area in 1959, vice president, died Feb. 24 at Po- ond wife, Mary Curley Manger,
a.m. near 14th Street and Consti- Schiebel lived in a condomini- lic relations and communica- and she went to work at the Pen- tomac Valley nursing center in died Feb. 12.
tution Avenue NW. um apartment house on Vermont tions. tagon, eventually working for a Rockville. He had complications Survivors include a daughter
In reporting the incident Sat- Avenue NW, in the Logan Circle Police said she was wearing general on the Joint Chiefs of from Parkinson’s disease. from his first marriage, Sandra
urday, police said the vehicle that area. athletic shoes and a portable CD Staff and later becoming top staff Mr. Manger worked for the So- Bowers of Franklin, Mass.; four
struck her did not stop. Police Acquaintances described her player with earphones when she at the Arlington-based commis- cial Security Administration children from his second mar-
said Monday that the owner of Monday as a friendly but private was struck. sion. She retired in 1989. from 1974 to 1985. He spent much riage, M. Christine Johnston of
the tractor-trailer contacted person with a passionate com- Williams said Schiebel always Mrs. Walton was a member of of his early career as a claims ad- Columbia, J. Thomas Manger III
them Saturday night. mitment to jogging and fitness. wore the headphones when she the Sons of Norway. juster for Lumbermens Mutual of Rockville, Phillip H. Manger of
It appeared that the driver of “She was very much religious ran. Her husband, retired Army Casualty and Kemper Insurance. Arlington County and Margaret
the vehicle was unaware that in her running,” said a neighbor, “She was in her own zone,” he Sgt. Charles O. Walton, died in Mr. Manger and his second A. Parrott of Gaithersburg; and 11
anyone had been hit, police said. David Williams. said. 1987. wife, who had lived in Silver grandchildren.
They said no charges were “She would run to the Mall, weilm@washpost.com Survivors include two chil- Spring for 40 years, were long- — Timothy R. Smith
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