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“Efisworth Dickson...

. The big x jews” is. that ‘we-

population explosion...

‘decline. ° During . 1968-1975
" the fertility rates: dropped by”
10 per - cent: ° or -more—i
~ dozens of poor. and: middling _
nations, - including China,. .
Bangladesh,
Egypt; : ‘Mexico, Vietnam,
and .Thailand —- countries ©
with 40. per cent. of -total -

r.30' pér cént:
opulation;.and yet. in
‘many of: them ‘too the rates
_ declined markedly.’ ,

Ay. HOPE OF. STABILITY -

* Mortality: ‘rates dropped. .
_ all cover -the world. many
years ago. When death rates

and birth ‘rates were both

~ high, . “populations | changed

only. slowly, and-° in the
Fane -both-2 vr
the, populayon will again

change slowly; perhaps
upward but perhaps down-
ward. It was in the years
between, when | births
‘remained high after death
rates dropped, that growth
was fast and furious. Thus
the fertility: drop is essen-
tially a promise of stability to

° _ come.

In. West Germany politic-
jans have started to cam-
paign on the slogan “Death
of a nation,” noting that on
present trends the country’s
population will drop by a
third in the next 50 years. Its
neighbors, France and East
Germany, have both
adopted policies to’ en-

courage more births, suchas ,

higher children’s allowances,

a year off at full pay'for new
mothers, and the like; an
astohishing turn of events in
a world so recently fearful of
the population explosion. —

The second most cheerful
note in world news is that
while population growth
rates have been declining,
world food supplies have
kept right on growing. TV
screens and the front pages
of newspapers, which once

rang with horrific fales of

| Higher i interest
for munil

Loans by municipilities
for public projects should be’
allowed to exceed = the
maximum six’ per cent

currently charged, Alder-

= = =oman Robert Hicks tofti West

»

Indonesia, |

world si ta ae . ‘They were... — ‘been growing at
we

ean foresée the .end of she em
‘ over: the-world; ‘fertility i is: in’ - c

‘The » wheat ‘situation a
-about the same: surpluses...
falling. prices, competition. —

' among. the big producers to.
sell their exporsable s Stocks.

For” ‘the foreseeable -
future, the world has enough’
_ energy, more. than: enough
by. some.:measures; though. it
may, not. be available in.the™ .
most’ desirable form:in every | a
country and for every use..
Oil prices are likely tobe the _
“worst news in that sector:
_they should have a moderate’ —

impact on _ industrialized -
nations but may slow the
industrialization of the
poorest natio

. SLOWER GROWTH

The rich countries con-
tinue in recession that
followed the winter of 1973- _
74, the “oil shock” that trig-
gered the end-of big growth
rates in industrialized
countries..No.. doubt the
future will contain years of
faster growth than we are

SHE KNOWS your needs from

26 years involvement with téens,

now experiencing, bt, on _ seniors, native’. peoples, ethnic
average there is going to\be groups, home owners, tenants and
noticeably less. growth, business people.

partly because populations
are’ growing more slowly,
partly for all the consequen-
ces of maturity: the end of
_the industrial revolution, the

YOU KNOW, from her 7 years

on council, that she always listened
td you and always spoke out for your
“Tights to justice, legality and equality. .

“weakening of institutions,
the satiety of the’ affluent,
the rise in competition from |
newly industrialized nations.

¢ CONTROL TAXES

Stella JoDean has always spoken out for
FISCAL RESPONSIBILITY and AD-
MINISTRATIVE EFFICIENCY, to reduce the
tax burden.

development to give a heart to the community
and to share the tax burden.

The milleAnium will not
bring universal. milk and
honey, then, but in the
context of the terrible
warnings we were’ getting
just a few years ago,’ the
forecast is considerably
brighter. The world is

_ beginning to look manage-
able seein.

* NO STRATIFICATION OF RENTAL
PROPERTY

The serious shortage of. rental ac-
commodation requires a freeze on ap-
proval of stratification conversion of.
residential properties.

In 1977 she played a major role in the
reorganization of the RECREATION COM-
MISSION operations to streamline the ad-
ministration to improve programs and to extend
lower famlly rates while reducing the 1977
subsidy by $300,000.

* PARKS and RECREATION

Stella Jo Dean has always been in the
forefront of the fight for waterfront ac-
cess, for active parks and quiet parks,
and for controls on noise and air pollution
to make North Vancouvér City an Ideal
place to live.

°

She has been a long time ‘advocate of
revitalizing the LONSDALE CORE area. City
owned land in Lower Lonsdale; which con-
_ Stitutes one of the prime land areas avaitabie in
Canada today, should be internationally ad-
~'vertised to” attract a” “comprehensive

eeneaniieminn inesaienereenneneln o)

oans?

ancouver
week,

Current high interest rates
elsewhere, he said, will have
to be borne by the taxpayer
unless the municipal loan
interest rate is raised.

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DEAN, stauaso
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