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8 THE OSHAWA TIMES, Friday, July 21, 1967 Britains Teen-age Charter Promises Lower Legal Age teen-junder Britain's ancient laws, in ager's Magna Carta was pro-|cluded a 74-year-old marriag posed today in a swinging re-|guidance counsellor, a clergy from a government-ap-/man, with eight children and < aroness who earned her lif¢ In racy language miles ayeaY | DEEESRP for services to young- LONDON (CP) -- A port ; pointed committee. b: from the usual official stuffi-|sters. ness, the committee headed by, As & result, given most of except the franchise, which it!of the law." isn't empowered to look into. | the breezy re- a judge with a pop-swinging son port is laced with such expres- urged that youngsters of 18 be/sions as "snogging in the bus the majority|shelter," "trumpets and strum- rights 2l-year-olds now have|pets" and "the knuckle-duster | Regional Council Plans To Reclaim Fallow Land | TORONTO (CP)--The Central from Oshawa to Burlington and Ontario Regional Development| North to Lake Simcoe. | eration with the College of ag- riculture at Guelph University. The agency would obtain leases for lands now being held for development and have them worked by graduates of the col- lege and other young regional skilled farmers, Mrs. Hancey cited land cost as the major block 'acing Farmland the agriculture department in)Canada's best farming land is] farther from the urban centres 400-acre blocks. in the area, She said keeping|and resulting in higher food LOANS FOR EQUIPMENT as much of that land in produc-| costs. Provincial low - cost loans|tion as possible is of prime are available for farm equip-,economic importance. WAS UNDERPOPULATED ment buying. Douglas Reddington, the} Crowded South America was When the land is ready for|council's executive director,|under-populated until 1930. development the farmer would|said land taken out of produc- A. E. JOHNSON, 0. move to another block, again|tion becomes a weedy waste under a lease. apes He said it cost Toronto A study is underway to de-| Township $80,000 in one year for though there is nothing anti-so- Council is currently drafting a| yy: i ich.| f h 10 rently } . Lois Hancey, of Rich-|YOUns farmers. jal about them. plan which will enable skilled sid . R ay prices range fr 500 to $10,- i . i i It the teen - age charteriyoung farmers to re-cultivate mond Hill, said the plan would 0D nid aay 'om $500 to $10, termine the acreage in Ontario, --_-- through spraying saa a es boogie pi th idlage ig now lying fallow. _ |ereate a central land agency) Under the program, the classed as investment land but| He said idle land often forces 2 King St. East 5 ee eee ve yi would focus injunder Ontario department of|young farmer would buy his/out of agricultural production. |neighboring farmers to move 723-2721 perhaps se. the Council's four-county arealagriculture direction in co-op-lequipment but lease land from} Mrs. Hancey said some oflout, driving productive land -- Digging into- the cloudy ori-| The voting age is already un- der study by an all-party com- mittee of Parliament, and there are prospects of legislation low- ering it to 18 from 21 at the next session. Some newspapers immediately forecast the same action on the con.mittee report. It all added up to a sort of Emancipation Day for Britain's under-21 set, which got a ring- ing vote of confidence from the committee as generally better- educated, more responsible and more mature than its elders were at the same age. SON LEADS COMBO The with-it outlook of the 11- member committee--with two lawyer members dissenting-- was spearheaded by its chair- man, Mr. Justice John Latey, a 53 - year - old divorce court judge whose son leads a beat group called the Philosopher Stones, currently entertaining in Morocco. The committee, commissioned by the Labor government two years ago to see if the under-} 21s were getting a square deal/ gins of 21 as the majority age, lthe investigators concluded it began in the 1ith century be- lcause younger persons were |not considered strong enough to 'wear heavy armor. It was about time, they decided to |ditch the "grotesque" old con- jcept. MARRIAGE AT 18 The specific changes include giving 18-year-olds the right to marry without parental consent, to enter into contracts, to be responsible for their own litiga- tion and establish their own domicile. os The committee decided against recommending any change in the minimum age for marriage, now 16. In its defence of the teen-| ager, the committee said the! picture of "an irresponsible set! of screaming teen - agers" is generally false. "Many older people," it said, "automatically equated with delinquency such things as bright clothes, long hair and| the liking for pop music, al- Compulsory Sterilization Seen As Drastic Measure © By HAROLD MORRISON | Canadian Press Staff Writer | The Indian government's pro- posed legislation for compulsory sterilization of males with three) or more children, designed to curb a runaway impoverished population, appears to be dras- tic action with little chance of success. And the proposal of Family Planning Minister Sripati Chan- drasekhar that government of- fer a transistor radio to a father who voluntarily submits him- self to sterilization appears to be as preposterous to many In- dians as it is to many Western- ers. Much of the world now rea- lizes that the expected rise in populations, doubling by the) end of the century and mul-| tiplying even faster thereafter, can have disastrous results. Some observers suggest it can be as dangerous as an atom/man should seek to control the bomb. hey to life? The physical side The Indian developments dramatically point up the prob-|with deep religious belief. lem that urgently occupies the! governments of countries with huge populations and inability) to provide sufficient food and other necessities. | CITES FIGURES Goran Ohlin, a Swedish pro- fessor, has estimated that the) world population now ap-) proaches 4,000,000,000 and will) exceed that figure before 1975. \China has limited sources if man and gov- | at the present rate of growth, the total could reach a fantastic 30,000,000,000 in the second half of the 21st century. In the last 1% centuries, the total population has almost quadrupled and with it, despite the rise of industrial inventive- ness and efficiency, has come increasing evidence of want and) starvation. | As a result, attitudes towards population control have changed. Many of the so-called sophisticated countries are in- clined towards more related laws dealing with abortions. discouraged early marriages. In a number of countries guidance in family planning has become wide- spread. With all these changing atti- tudes and practices have come increased reflection, debate and controversy. Is it right that of the problem becomes merged Rising populations do not necessarily mean _ starvation, say some experts. New forms of food are available. The oceans can provide almost un- ernments would devote more time and effort to develop prod- ucts into usable form. But the current evidence shows that many of the coun- It is unthinkable, he says, but|tries with the financial and |technical resources capable of . . |producing more food and other Hamilton Strike necessities tend to be diverted by questionable military and Expected To End political goals. : | Those countries requiring HAMILTON (CP)--A walkout! more aid are simply not get- by 390 drivers and mechanics ting as much as he can be pro- of the Hamilton Street Railway vided by the wealthier states. may be over before the week-!And the prospects for a sudden end if the strikers, members of vast expansion in aid are dim. Division 107, Amalgamated|tndia's move towards steriliza- Transit Union, will accept terms tion--one official estimated 45,- drawn up Thursday by special'990,000 males should be given mediator R. G. 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