STARTING A NEW SERIES

GIVE OUR SENIOR CITIZENS A BREAK

OO OLD AT 40?

By JACK PHILLIPS
[First of a series of three articles]
Ne When does a man become an old man? Len .
Ind ¢ Ponsibility of society towards the older wor:
© senior citizen?

t &se are not new questions, but they continue to
Sovernment, industry and the labor moyen
Nd fy ithin our lifetime we have witnessed a prope
tual] Teaching change. More and more people a
4 b ¥ Teaching the age of 70 and the proportion W
20nd that is hightr than ever. oes
th Whereas the expected life span at the beeping

nristian era was, among the Romans, about
this had grown by 1850 in the United States to

ee "Says R, B. Carey, national director of ey
Pree and Old Age Security. “In other spe is,
fe Wa: ¥ 2,000 years the gain in the expectation of hum

«~ 20 more than 17 years. =
D ye “tween 1850 and 1900 the gain was just OV
ey bringing it.to. 50;
ife ano ay, just over half a century later, the averet

Bh ney for a child born in Canada is 68 yea :
09 ,. Words, we have increased the life span Bice
ties. 2S Much as was gained in the first 18 \y ce

Othe Christian era.”

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At what age does
8 man become old?

e out that such a merger would
engine Instead of this increase the B.C. company’s

fer aN FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1957
Vol. 16°No. 6 - VANCOUVER, B.C.
LEB 28 Authorised as second class mail by

the Post Office Department, Ottawa

B.C Sugar accused
of price-fixing by

government report

The British Columbia Sugar Refining Company was
accused of monopoly practices in parliament this week.
Among the charges was one that it maintained the price
of sugar 35 cents a 100 pounds above Montreal factory

prices. ay
Parliament was also inform- in which the restrictive pede
ed that it would be in the pub- ee Sines oF a atin
lic’s best interest to prevent lising trade west of the Great
this combine from merging Lakes and setting the highest
with the Manitoba Sugar Com- possible prices. _
pany of Fort Garry, Manitoba. In recommending that the
Justice Minister Stuart Gar- company be prevented from
son tabled a 200-page report merging with the Manitoba
firm, the commission pointed

share of the Manitoba market
from 25 to 75 percent, and
destroy effective competition
in that province.

In Winnipeg, W. R. Heth-
erington, assistant manager of

Continued on page 4
See B.C. SUGAR

Peace Council
meets Sunday

Bruce Mickleburgh, exec-
utive secretary of the Cana-
dian Peace Congress, will be
the principal speaker at a
special session of B.C. Peace
Council to be held this Sun-
day, February 10 at 10 am.
in Pender Auditorium.

Vincent Duncan-Jones, sec-
retary of the World Peace
Council, who was to have ad-
dressed the session, was re-
called to Vienna from Toron-
to.

The council will meet in
two sessions, 10 to 12 noon
and 1 to 4 p.m.

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