Number of unwed couples living together increases WASHINGTON [AP] - The number The Census report said 1.3 of unmarried couples living toge­ million persons last year lived in ther in the United States has risen two-person households shared by dramatically in the past six years, unrelated persons of the opposite *The with the sharpest increase reported sex. That compared to 654,000 among individuals under age 45, aindividuals in 1970 and 484,000 in Census Bureau report disclosed 1960. yesterday. The same report showed that the For the population as a whole, 1976 median age for an individual’s the number of couples living toge­ first m arriage was 23.8 for men and ther has doubled. But among 21.3 for women, an increase of Observer persons under age 45, the increase about a year over the median an independent student newspaper serving notre dame and st. mary's has been nearly fivefold, the Cen­recorded in 1966. Wednesday, February 9, 1977 sus Bureau said. Vol. XI, No. 76 The increase parallels another The ages, however, are still below the median ages of 24.3 for finding that Americans are getting married at a later age. But a men and 21.5 for women recorded Census analyst declined to specu­ at the start of World War I. Hesburgh questioned late whether shared-living arrange­ Like other reports on marital status and living arrangements in ments are causing couples to recent years, the latest also showed postpone marriage or whether later more couples are getting divorced. Foundation involved in abortionmarriages are causing unmarried There were 75 divorced individuals couples to live together. by Mike Shields much leadership in moral fights used with even greater impact for ever 1,000 married persons Staff Reporter such as civil rights, would forego against the efforts of the right to Despite the increase in the living with their spouse last year, number of unmarried couples liv­ putting his energies into the chair­ life movement.” compared to 47 per 1.000 in 1970. ing together, shared living ar­ In protest of the Rockefeller manship of the Rockefeller Founda­ The report cited greater accep­ tion and assume an active leader­ The Rockefeller Foundation is rangements constitute about one tance of the principle of later Foundation’s involvment with percent of all households. abortion and sterilization proce­ ship role in the most pressing also involved internationally with marriage, a longer period of time health, education, population, and dures, national pro-life movement current civil rights fight, the pro­ “Ultimately it looks like marri­ spent getting an education, and world hunger. It spearheaded the leaders have called for the resigna­ life movement.” age as an institution is still with increased job opportunities for “Green Revolution,” which has us,” said Arthur J. Norton, chief of women as apparent factors in the tion of University president Fr. Kathy DuCharme, head of the increased crop yields in many parts Census’ marriage and family statis­ movement away from early Theodore Hesburgh as chairman of Indiana Right to Life Committee, of the world. tics branch. marriage. the Foundation. stated that the arm of the Founda­ Among the leaders of pro-life tion that Hesburgh is involved with movement who have called for has nothing directly to do with Hesburgh’s resignation are Ellen abortion or sterilization, but that McCormack, pro-life candidate for the Foundation as a whole has SMC library enters 25th year president in last year’s Democratic financed abortion and sterilization primaries; Dr. Mildred Jefferson, research. by Jean Powley nae to support a new library, A year later, on June 5, 1942, the president of the National Right to When questioned about the criti­ Staff Reporter Courier, the college’s alumnae library was blessed and dedicated Life Committee; Nellie Gray, presi­ cism, Fr. Hesburgh, who has been publication, has reported on every by John F. Noll. Headed by the dent of March for Life; and Randya trustee of the Foundation for 15 Editor’s note: This is the first of a facet of the building’s develop­ Papal and American flags, a great Engel, executive director of the years, replied that he had “re­ two-part series on St. Mary’s ment. “Ground for the new procession left LeMa'ns Hall and U.S. Coalition for Life. ceived universal applause, exceptAlumnae Centennial Library. The Centennial Library has been bro­ moved across the campus to the for one small bit of criticism that I first part deals with the library’s ken!”, reported the August, 1941 strains of the national anthem to In an interview in theNational do not intend to answer. If you lethistory, while the second part will issue. “ Frances Lyon ’17, past the terrace of the library where the Catholic Register, (Feb. 6, 1977) one swallow make a spring, you deal with its future. president of the association, gave a dedication took place.” McCormack commented that Fr. will always be in trouble.” brief summary of the manner in Hesburgh has acted on many which the necessary $110,000 has Noted in the ceremony was the human right issues, but “ it’s tragic Fifty thousand dollars - that’s been raised: in 1935, Mrs. George fact that the Centennial Library that when it comes to the unborn Jefferson said in the National what Sister Madeleva, president of Rempe, for herself and her seven was “the gift of the Holy Cross child, Father Hesburgh’s vigor and Catholic Register article that she St. M ary’s from 1934-1961, asked alumnae daughters, gave $25,000 Alumnae Association of St. Mary’s indignation fail him.” believes that Fr. Hesburgh’s post of alumnae in 1936 to “ cover the to St. Mary’s toward a new library; College to the Sisters of the Holy could actually be used by pro-life expense of a library building such in 1937, St. M ary’s College was Cross, in commemoration of their In the same article, Gray stated, opponents to hinder the movement.as we would need. I am holding the made the beneficiary of the Breen hundredth anniversary of founda­ “ 1 think it would be excellent if Fr. She stated, “It is difficult to see library fund which you have be­ Estate, in Fort Wayne, of a little tion.” Hesburgh, who has provided so how his chairmanship would not be gun,” she wrote to alumnae, “ and more than $41,000, to be used for letting that accumulate toward the purposes of education; and “Miracles still occur,” the Au­ meeting the expense of furnishing within the past two years, through gust, 1943 Courier proclaimed. the library.” the efforts of the alumnae, another “This French Provincial structure of brick and stone is still ‘the stuff Throughout the 41 years since sum of approximately $36,000 was HEW lifts m Sister Madeleva first asked alum­ received.” of which dreams are made,’ as it looks down upon Lake Marian, and for the first time, perhaps, gives on two flu vaccines that bit of water real significance.” by Michael Putzel the hard sell promotion that the The library was opened for use in Associated Press Writer U.S. Public Health Service con­ summer school in 1942. “The ducted before officials discovered a bright spacious reading rooms, statistical link between flu shots browsing nooks, the display cases, WASHINGTON|AP] - The Depart­ and Guillain-Barre Syndrome, a periodical room, and lounges mark ment of Health, Education and rare but occasional fatal form of a new era at St. Mary’s,"reported Welfare lifted its moratorium on paralysis. the November, 1942Courier. “ The two flu vaccines yesterday. The steady stream of students between department recommended that the “If an epidemic of A-Victoria the porte cochrer at LeMans Hall elderly and people with chronic appears imminent, a situation and the library proves the new illnesses get a shot that could which, it should be emphasized, building’s popularity.” protect them from both the swine does not presently exist, then the flu and the A-Victoria strain. Public Health Service will promptly However, the new library was begin an extensive campaign to not yet complete. It’s third floor, The action allows health officials immunize the high risk category” which originally contained a rare to again use the combined swine with the combined vaccine, he said. book room, an exhibit and display flu and A-Victoria flu vaccine. It section and seminar rootns, was not also allows the use of another Otherwise, any immunization pro­ finished until 1945. Construction vaccine intended to protect againstgram will be up to state and local on the top floor was designed and the milder B-Hong Kong flu. health officials. directed by F.W. Kervick, former The moratorium remains in ef­ head of the department of architec­ fect, however, for the swine flu- Those officials also can give ture at Notre Dame. only faccine that was widely pro­ shots to people not in the high risk f a moted for all Americans before category. But since there are Meanwhile, the rooms of the old December. about 22 million unvaccinated high library under the chapel in LeMans risk people in the country and only Hall (now a group of residence Removal of the moratorium was 27 million doses of vaccine, it is rooms known as “Queen’s Court”) taken because of an outbreak of expected that remaining doses will was transformed into an art studio. A-Victoria influenza in a Florida be saved for those most likely to be Today, 41 years after Sister nursing home. The nation has no exposed to the A-Victoria virus, Madeleva’s initial plea for alumnae stockpile of A-Victoria vaccine but such as those who care for the sick.