Show r r F r r fl bra t j t I r l iA 1 J r r rA V iF JJ y j r c lr i I r rr r r i y t r P P i r a r t Ir A 1 f J r t r I fr 4 r I r Work on a 0 master zoning plan for the south Davis area is getting Chairman of the citizen participation I I tion group has now been named He is Ezra J. J Clark second from right Work will be done under general di- di Getting Y Younger Gunger SPECIAL TO THE CLIPPER Residents of Davis County are getting younger all the time Not only individually collectively I ITHE THE MEDIAN AGE of the local local lo- lo cal population is now estimated at years as against I in 1960 It means that there are areas areas as many persons below that age as there are above it The local median represents an adjustment of the 1960 median median me- me dian in line with changes that have taken place since that time throughout the country as a I whole redion of Davis County Commissioners They are I to r Glen Flint Stanley Smoot standing and Richard Evans right THESE ARE indicated in new national figures from the US U.S. Census Bureau They Ther show that there has been a drop of no less than 1 2 1 years in the age level of the American population in inthe inthe the period from July 1960 to July 1965 The chief factor in this change I has been the huge increase in inthe inthe the number of people between the ages of 14 and 24 This group has zoomed upward by per cent in the five years more nore than three times as fast as the rest of the population TAKEN AS A whole residents of Davis County with their median median me- me dian age of are somewhat I younger than those in other parts of the United States where the median is It is in Utah The report shows that all age groups equalled or exceeded their 1960 totals except those inthe in inthe the 30 to 39 bracket They I dropped nearly 2 per cent numerically numerically nu- nu in the five years ON THE OTHER hand there was a substantial increase 9 per cent in the number over 65 In Davis County this age I group now constitutes approximately approximately 39 per cent of the total total See YOUTH on page 2 YOUTH continued from front page population HOW YOUNG is a person at age the local median in terms of some of the historical events of the last few decades What would he know of the great depression which occurred occurred oc- oc 37 years ago Or of the first showing of a talking movie The Jazz Singer some 39 years ago How many were alive 24 years ago when the first nuclear chain reaction too took k place signalling the birth of the atomic age |