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Those within a metropolitan area might be an easier classi-

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fication.

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MR. THOMPSON: I think this is a problem we

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will run into when you get to consider your policy ques-

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tions, also, because this is also heavily weighted with

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the numerical population approach, which I cannot help

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but agree with my colleague, Mr. Ratchford.

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THE CHAIRMAN: Yes. I think you begin to see

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why I put the questions first before getting to the policy

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issues or questions, because it directs our thinking, I

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believe, in the direction of what we've got to know before

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we can decide these questions, and a lot of it does re-

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quire a good deal of hard solid research and that means

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time that I do not think we \, as a committee, have the time

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to give it. So, it seems properly to be a matter for

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research and assigning out, because it is going to tie

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in directly with the issues which we are going to have to

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determine.

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The seventh question is now moving in another

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direction, a study of the effect on bond issues of changing

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county lines, creating metropolitan governments, et cetera.