New to curb population growth PEKING (UPI) - China said Tuesday it will ease slightly its rigid divorce procedures but raise the legal age for marriage and make birth control for newlyweds compulsory as part of new attempts to curb population growth. The new provisions are part of a marriage law that was presented for formal approval Tuesday to the National People’s Congress. The new measure raised the legal marriageable age for men from 20 to 22 and for women from 18 to 20. “Husband and wife are duty bound to practice family planning,” a new section of the law said. “As long as family planning is practiced well, the population growth can be controlled.” Official figures put China’s population at slightly below 1 billion although U.S. experts said it is more than that. The Chinese have still not been able to bring population growth down to an intended ! per cent annually and the new get- tough measures’ were designed to add legal muscle to the campaign. The Chinese have already introduced even sterner “unofficial” measures to try to discourage young marriages and halt a baby boom. Most Chinese men are “discouraged” from getting married until they are at least 26 and women at least 24. And couples often wait several more years to marry until they are provided with housing. Chinese couples are also already encouraged to become “one-baby families.” If they have more than one child, government benefits are reduced or halted entirely and couples are progressively penalized financially the more children they have. Congress spokesman Peng Zhen, in presenting the bill, said spokesmen for China’s 55 million = minority population complained that the new age limits for marriage was too high “and it would be difficult for them to observe this provision” because of old traditions. Special provisions were included to exempt Oil takeover urged by ‘Lock, stock and barrel’ HAMILTON, Ont. (UPC) - Canada should follow the example of several Latin American nations and take over ownership of the national industry “lock, stock and barrel,” says New Democratic Party leader Ed Broadbent. Broadbent was speaking to about 1,000 cheering supporters at a Labor Day rally in the Steel City Monday. Broadbent pointed to the examples of Venezuela and Mexico, where the oil in- dustries have been nationalized, and ridiculed the Liberal government's avowed goal of reaching energy self-sufficiency by the end of the decade. “If the Venezuelans can take over their oil industry. and the Mexicans can take over their oi] industry ... then the Liberal goal is a sham,” the NDP leader said in a speech after the Hamilton and district Labor Day parade. “What we should be saying as a nation is that it’s time the Canadian oil in- dustry, lock, stock and barrel, was owned and controlled completely by Canadians.” Broadbent also reminded the crowd, including large numbers of steel workers who have been adversely affected by the slump in the auto industry, that 12 major auto-related industries have shut down this year. minorities. Earlier the Congress approved an _ austerity budget for 1980 and the military establishment reluctantly endorsed defense spending cuts that will put a brake on plans to turn the world’s largest army into a sophisticated superpower. The congress said it would push ahead with a bold new economic blueprint for the future but warned China’s | billion citizens they will have to work harder and endure more self-sacrifice in the next few years. The parliament formally adopted economic policies for the next two years and approved a 1980 budget totalling $70.6 billion — or $2.7 billion less than 1979. NDP Canada’s branch plant economy, based on heavy American investment, is largely to blame for the alarming rate of shutdowns and layoffs, he said. The NDP leader, who returned two weeks ago from a —visit to Poland, praised the concessions won by workers there from the Polish government and called their successful strike a great victory for the labor movement. Saskatchewan celebrates 75th birthday REGINA (UPC) - Saskat- chewan celebrated its 75th birthday Monday with a gala public party that saw thousands jam Wascana Park at the legislature im Regina. Among the better-known Saskatchewan personalities who returned to help in the celebrations were opera singer Irene Salemka, a native of Weyburn; sports personality John Esaw, a native of North Battleford. newscaster Ear! Cameron, a native of Moose Jaw and actor Murray Westgate, a native of Regina. - There were over 700 entertainers who played on seven stages set up Uthrough- out the park during the day. At noon, Premicr Allan Blakeney cut a huge bir- thday cake which was then distributed throughout the crowd. Under near-perfect skies, the party was = spread throughout the 2,000-acre park that surfounds the Police veteran stomps | bike FAST MEADOW. (UPI) - A 2“ -year vetcran Oo the Nassau County Police Department ts in trouble for picking up a woman's bicycle with his teeth, throwing tt over a fence and stomping on tt Adolf, an 8 year-old gelding who serves with the Nassau County Pohice mounted ual, was im his paddock Monday at Eisen hower Park in East Mcadow when he began acting up pohce said The tnicycle belonged to June Owen, 46, of Westbury Police said there were ao witnesses to the confronta bon Owen got into a tug of -war with Adolf when he reached over his paddock fence and grabbed the handicbarn of her bicycle. Adolf won, liftung the bike over a four-foot high fence, dragging « JO fect to the center of the paddock and sicpping on the front and rear wheels Neither remained outside the paddock, aor Adolf were injured but police acknow lcdged the bike was some what the wome for wear Owen. who legislature Regina. Many of the various cultures that make up the Saskatchwan population provided food, showed off their arts and crafts and entertained with ethnic dancing and music. Sept. 1, 1905 was the date when Saskatchewan = and Alberta were accepted into Confederation, but Sask- atchewan’s official mauger- ation did not occur until Sept. 4 To celebrate casion, Governor General Fd Schreyer and Prime Minister Picrre Trudeau will visit the city and re-enact the original ceremony The bbilding in that oc Rusty Ports of Gallery official party is expected to be garbed tn period costumes. Monday evening. the largest fireworks display ever held in the province, accompanied by music. blasted through the = sky ending the day-long events Now you know A highway between London and Exeter has the world’s smallest underpass, a ! foot-wide tunnel designed to allow badgers to safely cross the road oils by ingrid Losch Gall Plaza international 1999 Marine Orive North Vancouver, 8.C 985-2921 Al3-Wednesday, September 3, 1980 - North Shore News 25 cities to top 10 million by year 2000, study shows ROME (UPI) - Twenty-five: cities in the world will have populations of more than 10 million each by the end of the century, a U.N. con- ference on urban growth has projected. The U.N. Fund for Popu- lation Activities background studies, which opened its conference Monday in Rome, said the two largest cities in the world in the year 2000 will be in Latin America — Mexico City with a projected 31 million inhabitants and Sao Paolo, Brazil with 25.8 million. The study, prepared by Philip M. Hauser of the University of Chicago and Robert W. Gardner of the East-West Population In- Stitute, said the Tokyo- Yokohama area of Japan would rank third with 24.2 million inhabitants, the New York-northeastern New Jersey area fourth with 22.8 million, and the —Shanghai- area of China fifth with 22.7 million. It said that by the end of the century, projections indicate Earth's population will be about 7 billion, more than half of them living in urban areas. LONDON (UPD - Britain’s jobless total has soared to more than 2 million — the highest since 1936 — and Employment Secretary James Prior said the govern- ment is “deeply concerned.” The Labor opposition called the figure “appalling.” Labor unions and opposition politicians demanded that Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher recall Parliament from its summer recess. The mid-August jobless total announced by the Department of Employment was 2,001,208. That marked an increase of 104,574 over the July figure of about 1,897,000. 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