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SALEM, Ore. (AP) --
Should a bartender be held
responsible for the actions of
persons after they leave the
tavern?

, Officials of the 1,100-
member Oregon Restaurant
and Beverage Association
say no, that court decisions
are making it necessary for
them to buy more liability

insurance and that higher |

food and beverage prices
will be the result.
The Oregon

Children mature

Supreme |

Court ruled Wednesday that
operators and employees of
two Portland taverns could
be sued for damages because
they failed to ask two youths,
ages 17 and 19, for proof of
age before selling them kegs
of beer,

A third youth attended
their keg party and drove a
car that collided in Portland
with one driven by William
J, Davis, 20.

Davis was killed, and his
father sued the parents of the

at a younger age

OTTAWA (Cl) — Teen-
agers are maturing
physically earlier and are
being pushed into sexual
relationships, says a univer-

sity child psychiatry
professor.
Theage of puberty, whena

youth is capable of reproduc-
tion, has been gradually de-
creasing, says Dr. Brian
McConnville of ‘Queen's
University. ee

Estimates show the
average age of puberly

drops about four months ©

every 10 years—12.5 years at
present from 16.5 years in
1860, he says. ;
Moreover, girls still begin
puberty about two years
earlier than bozs, Mc-
Connville eays. And they
begin to develop sexually
and start menstruation at 10

and try to prolong the
youth's childhood.

“These manoeuvres are
almost doomed to fail and
may provide for a high
degree of quarrelling and
angry interchange.”

And girls who mature
early “need a_ certain
amount of straight-taiking
from parents or from
someone on neutral ground."

If parents can understand

’ the chdnges going on in their

teenage boy or girl “they will
be emphathetic towards
what is happeiing internally
and they will be able to seize

.and utilize the moments of ’

very real warmth and
reaching out which all teen-
agers show from time to
time during early adoles-
cence."

Who is responsible ?

olher diver for si million.
The Oregon Supreme Court
upheld cisinissal af that suit
on Sept. 12.

Davis’ father also sued the
operators of the Old trish lon
and the Golden Garter for
$1.5 million, Thal suit was
dismissed in Circuit Court
and Davis appealed.

The Supreme Court
returned the case to the
Circuit Court, saying that
selling alcoholic beverages
to someone under 21 is
evidence of negligence by
the tavern operators. Two
justices dissented. saying
the taverns broke a law and
should be fined but the
violation should not be used
by a third partly to collect
damages.

Randy Wolven, president
of the Oregon Restaurant
and Beverage Association.
saw the decision as another
in a series placing more
responsibility on tavern
operators for someone else’s
behavior.

In 1977, the Supreme Court
held tavern operators liable
in a suit by relatives of a
man and woman who were
killed in a car crash in-
volving 4 woman who was
served liquor while in-
toxicated.

At the time, Gregon Liquor
Control Commission rules
said intoxicated persons
could not remain on the
premises. The 1977
Legislature passed a law
saying inebriated persons
could remain on the
premises until they are sober
enough to drive.

FROM THE - |
CHURCH

by Rev. David Martyn

lt is almost a truism to say
that anyone that takes a
stand on an issue is bound to
be wrong — at least from
someone else's point of view.

The recent grant, made by
the. World Council of
Churches to the Patriotic
Front of Zimbabwe, is an apt
case in point.

Although grants have been
-made to this organization
and others in Africa before,
all of a sudden there is an
outcry. Something must
have happened. And indeed
something did happen, eight
white missionaries were
killed near Rhodesia’s
eastern border, with the
blame being placed on the
Patriotic Frant. ;

At least that is the official
government version, which
consequently finds its way
into the western newspapers.
Other reports (from church
sources) claim thal the
killings were done by the lan
Smith government. Other
sources report the presence
of ‘bandit' groups that
sometimes call themselves
guerrillas but owe allegiance

to no nationalist movement. . -

The guerrillas ask the
question: “Isn't it strange,
that the churches which help

us the most are ihe ones
being attacked, while those
that are aligned with the
government are spared?"

For those of us that are
removed from the situation,
we can only wonder, and
perhaps never know. The
$25,000 grant was given for
medical supplies. Was it
used for that? Or was it used
to buy military weapons? If
for the latter, it certainly
wouldn't buy very many
weapons.

However some people
have called on their chur-
ches to withdraw from the
World Council of Churches,
claiming that their money is
being used to kill white
missionaries,

Two points need to be
made. The first, is already
made, it is not clear who is
doing the killing. Secondly,
the money used was
specifically given to a
special fund to combat
racism and can only be used

-for the same.

It is interesting to note that
along with the Patriotic
Front another ‘racially
oppressed group” that
received a. grant from this
fund was the Indian -
Brotherhood of the Nor.
thwest Territories. i

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‘The Herald, Friday, December 1, 1978, Page 7

LET'S LISTEN

Children important

FREDERICTON «CP. -
A salute to Canada’s seven
million children and a
reminder to adults of how
important the children are

Dwill be the focus of this

country’s celebration next
year of the International
Year of the Child.

But for Doris Ogilvie.
chairman of the commission
overseeing Canadian
celebrations and u deputy
provincial court judge
handling family law cases
here, the idea is perhaps
more clearly expressed
another way.

“I'd like everybody to
listen Lo the voice of a child,"
Judge Ogilvie says with
conviction. ‘Let's really
listen to them.” ;

The year, the idea of the
United Nations, will be cele-
brated around the world. But

if you're expecting it to be -

like International Women's
Year with lapel buttons and
world conferences cam-
paigning for equal rights and
law reform, forget it.

Judge Ogilvie says the
idea is more like Mother's
Day, only children will be
honored.

“The commission, a group
of about 40 persons from the
federal and provincial
governments, voluntary
organizations, labor and
business, has $1 million in

‘federal money to help f-
ance activities

across

Canada.
pJtalso hopes that govern-

ments, service clubs and

olher proups will’ finance
their own celebrations.

The goui is “to stimulate
awareness of the situation of
the child in our present
changing society."

Une area Judge Ogilvie
hopes can be tackled is the
attitude of some adults
toward children.

“If you're a child and
you're only this high," she
explains, pointing to desk-
top level, “you get walted on

st,””

She also hopes society will
be reminded to take care to
ensure children's needs are
met in medical research,
medical and rehabilitation
facilities and in a wide
variety of other areas.

Attention will also be paid
to parents.

“Childhood is supposed to
be a time of joy and children
are supposed to bring
happiness to a family. Un-
fortunately not all children
are happy and many parents
have problems parenting
their children."

Judge Ogilvie also hopes
the year will encourage both
adults and children to show
more interest in family law
reform proposals such as
those brought to the New
Brunswick legislature in a
discussion paper earlier this
year. .

‘The theme of the year is
“come share with me,” sug-
gesting an invitation from
children to adults to 100k into
their world, problems and
aspirations."

There will be monthly
themes also, starting with
the child as a persqn.

This pair
travelling

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) ~—-
Darryl Myrick wanted to see
his aunt in New York City so
he took a bus. 3t tock eight
Policemen, two road-
clearing vehicles and a
roadblock to stop the 13-
year-old youth.

“He was a very good
driver," said policeman Bob
Friddle after he caught up
with Darryl! Myrick an] the
bus Wednesday morn. 4.
“Wasn't speeding al all."

Friddle chased Myrick
through snowy Donner Pass
before halting him on In-
terstate 90 about a two
kilometres west of the
Nevada border.

“Please don't arrest me,”
the boy said when he climbed
out of the bus. “I’m not a
criminal.”

Police said the bus had
been driven about 280
kilometres after being stolen
Tuesday night from the
Municipal Railway yard
near Fisherman's Wharf.

Police said the boy's 10-
yearold brother stole
another bus at the same time
and drove it to North
Oakland, where it was
abandoned.

years ald and earlier.

“There have been various
theories to explain this, in-
cluding better over-all
nutrition, and there is some
evidence of alteration in
onset of puberty in different
cultures,”°

All teens, however, do not
begin puberty at the same
time and those who mature
early or late can be expected
to have more problems,
McConnville says.

“And this is particularly
true of girls whose breasts
develop early or of boys who
show late development of
secondary characteristics
such as changes in voice,
genital size or hair growth.”

But girls who mature early

can easily became sextal ob-:}’

jeets and lose sight of other
activities unless they receive
some guidance, he says.

“They are really children
wandering around in
women's bodies and un-
fortunately there is no built-
in delay system. A lot of
them are pushed into fuller
sexual experiences and
finish up with a certain
knowledge about sex without
the intimacy and respon-
sibility to know its
meaning."

While studies show that
latermaturing girls tend to
become more confident and
outgoing, ‘‘early-maturing
girls who were concerned
about their appearance
tended to be more submis-
sive, listless and lacking in
poise,”

McConnville says in-
creased sexual awareness
may help youths, especially
girls.

“Those girls who mature
early could be percelved as
sexual objects and they
would, therefore, tend to be
pushed in an early definition
af their sexual role.”

But, he adds, those years
are naturally the most
confusing, frustrating and
challenging for the teen-ager
who Is trying so hard to
understand the changes
going on inside.

‘But this is equally true
for the parents and for others

their ability to com municate

He likes
the name

TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — Rev.
Eugene Jerome Dupuis has
six children—three boys and

the same, but he also likes
his own name. So, each child
became Eugene Jerome
Dupuis Jr, ;

“I love me,” saye Dupuis,
a born-again Christian and
missionary evangelist who
dresses in black and wears a
heavy silver chain and cross
around his neck,

His third daughter was
born Wednesday. The
children don't have
hicknames—just a number
ranking the order of their
birth.

"] just have to yell ‘1-2-3-4-
§-6' and they all come run-
ring,” Dupuis said with 4
laugh. He said the girls--
Nos. 3, 5 and 6— don’t mind
having u male naire because
they're called «their

numbers.

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