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Show SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH FRIDAY, DECEMBER 31, 1971 Minors Obtaining Birth Control Material Without Parent Consent Minors are the beneficiaries of trend. Some 97 colleges, of 2,500 a nationwide trend toward more liberal laws and public policy enabling them to make decisions, without parental consent, concerning birth control, venereal disease and abortion, according to an analysis by attorneys Harriet F. Pilpel and Nancy F. Wechsler appearing in the current (July) issue of Family Planning Perspectives, the quarterly magazine published by Planned Parenthood-Worl- d Populations Center for Family Planning Program Development. Reviewing legal developments over the past two years, the attorneys note that at present 29 states specifically provide for medical examination and treatment of minors for venereal disease, without parental consent, compared to only eight states two years states, comago. Twenty-thre- e pared to 10 two years ago, permit minors to consent for medical treatment; and seven states have enacted statutes since early 1969 broadening the right of minors to give effective consent for contraception. Another story details how coeds in the nations colleges have benefitted from this liberalizing Senator Frank E. Moss points to Utahs two newest national parks, Arches National Park and Capitol Reef National Park, along with the expanded area of Canyonlands National Park as three major contributions of the first session of the 92nd Congress to the future economy of Utah. Moss was chief figure in guiding the three bills through the legislature. Utah Gains Two National Parks With Arches and Capitol Reef : ; ; ' ) 1 ; ' ; 2 Senator Frank E. Moss has announced that the President has signed the bill making Capitol Reef Utahs fifth National Park. The new 241,471 acre National Park is located in southern Utah and is the second Utah National Park to be created this year. The Arches National Park bill was signed into law earlier this year. The bill authorizes more than $400,000 to be used for the pur-- , chase of additional lands neces-- , sary to complete the park and sets aside more than $1 million for the development of Capitol Reef facilities. Moss was the sponsor of the bills to create Arches, Capitol Reef and also the bill passed to expand the boundaries of the Canyonlands National Park. The Presidents signing of the Capitol Reef National Park bill marks a new era for the tourist industry in Utah. The three bills passed in the first session of the 92nd Congress not only set aside and protect some of the most fragile of natures creations for posterity, but also provides for the orderly development of the areas to allow all Americans as well as foreign visitors to enjoy the areas without destroying them, he said. Senator Moss said Arches is Utahs fourth national park and was created from Arches Na-tional Monument which was ex jj President Johnson. Dr. Claude J. Burtenshaw, The Park stretches across more Dean of Students, Utah State than 73,000 acres in one of the University at Logan, will adcountrys most beautiful and rug- dress the monthly meeting of the Salt Lake Womens Democratic ged areas. be held The bill is the second of the Club at a luncheon to Chucka-ram7 12 at noon at signed Moss park bills to be January 744 East 4th South. announced by the White House Dr. Burtenshaw, chairman of in two days. A third bill, estab- Utah State Democratic Rethe "We can now proceed in the form Commission, will address orderly development of the the club on the progress of reparks Involving the Utah form within the Democratic state and county governments as outlined in the comfor the first time. The National Party, mission report. This report conPark Service will develop and cluded that the party organizaDreserve this priceless heritage tion should choose campaign isfor Utah and the nation and en- sues; recruit qualified candiable future generations to share dates; collect and expend funds, its beauty. with full reporting; and identify Speaking of the Canyonlands party members, if it is to regain Natoinal Park the Senator said, its effectiveness. When the first bill establishing All members are urged to atthe Park was signed in the 88th tend. The public is invited. Congress we recognized that the boundaries then established did not include several areas which Names Coming Up were of national park quality For 1972 Elections a, na-ton- al stature. The Senator said that some of the most beautiful and fragile nature sculptures and Indian have now been brought the under protection of the National Park Service assuring the future generations that they will be able to share in the joys of this unusually beautiful part of America. pic-tograp- hs Party leaders are now looking for persons that will actively seek election in the 1972 General Election. The main point of interest at this stage is the opposition of Utahs, two congressional scats. Names are being mulled around by party organizations mainly in (Continued on page 8) up-comi- ng al well-publiciz- ed TODAYS Claude Burtenshaw To Address Womens Democratic Club panded by proclamation under surveyed, provided birth control to unmarried minor students through their college health services in 1970, compared to only 12 doing so four years ago, write the physician-sociworker team of Dr. Phillip M. and Lorna J. Sarrel, describing the birth control and sex counseling service they established at Yale University when that institution went in September 1969. Although they provided contraception, the morning-afte- r pill and abortion largely to unmarried minors without parental consent, the innovative program was well accepted by students, alumni, faculty and parents. While access to contraceptive services by sexually active unwed minors is still not universal, and physicians still fear prosecution if they provide contraception without parental or guard- -' ian consent, no doctor or medical facility has been prosecuted criminally or sued for damages for having examined or treated a minor without such consent. This is true although many thouhave been sands of teen-age- rs Plan-- ( in served Continued on page 5) v EDITORIAL Responsibility of Newspapers Publishers Auxiliary, a fortnightly publication established in 1865, offers a tirely admonishment to all newspapers concerning the tendency of well meaning editors to leap before they look in reporting on various aspects of the utility industry and the environment. The Auxiliary comments, Newspapers have always borne the responsibility of determining accuracy before publishing. On an issue as important as energy supply, this responsibility is especially keen. It then offers some facts that should be considered. Among them are these: Electricity is plentiful in most areas. Even in those regions which suffered brownouts, the reserve margins are climbing; most environmentalists critical of nuclear powered electric plants base their charges on statements supplied by only two scientists in California; during the past 10 years, utilities have purchased 90 per cent of all air pollution control equipment sold in the U.S., but contribute only 11 to 15 percent of all air pollutants water quality control expenditures are similar; in the next ten years Americans are going to demand an increase of elprtricitv equal to the total of the past 90 years 18 trillion kilowatt hours. Says the Auxiliary, And that is just a start. Any desire to slow down the demand for (Continued on page four) |