Biddeford Journal (Newspaper) - January 7, 1965, Biddeford, Maine Weather COLD Report on Pigs Our Numbers 282-1595 Business 283-3625 VOL 81, NO. 5 York County's Daily Since 1884 JANUARY 7, 1965 Associated Press Wire Service 12 PAGES PRICE SEVEN CENTS More Taxes Proposed Reed Asks Million Hike In Budget Funds OFFICERS were elected last night during a big of St. Jean Baptist de Bienfaisance Society at the hall on the corner of Main and Elm Included In the slate front lefe to Rene D. Roy first vice J. Arthur John recording hack same Roland treasurer first Lucien Loranger and Theodore building committee and Joseph visiting committee Others elected but not shown Rt. Rev. Msgr. Elie Raymond second vice Arthur Guerin Clement assistant Alexandre visiting committee Jean Belaire and Rene and treasurer and member of the building The installation date will be officials AUGUSTA Republi can Gov. Reed today gave the Democratic - controlled 102nd legislature a million general fund budget million more than estimated revenue in the next two Then he announced proposals for more taxes on liquor and an added tax o n wildlands and re-establishment of a tax on and a boost in estimates of current revenue to make up the The liquor p r i ce increase would amount to 5 to 15 cents a the cigarette tax two more cents a package making a total of and Ihe tobacco tax 15 per cent with the present 4 per cent sales tax r The wildlands tax would rise by per The present rate is per Reed expressed his conviction that Maine in 1965 stands on the threshold of great and said his progress with fiscal The starting h i s sixth year as chief executive and his 11th in state level public recognized the upheaval that uprooted Republican legislative control after more than 50 * * * is the choice of Maine people and I accept their he I do not accept is the false premise that partisan differences may now stand between us in our mutual desire to do the best possible job for Maine we may hold differing views as to the best method for achieving what we in my opinion we dj share many common believe that education is the key to believe that economic opportunity is a basic right of all We believe that human welfare needs must be faced realistically aind met we believe that to achieve maximum must be responsible with the tax dollars which the people have entrusted to its and I have the opportunity in the weeks ahead to work together for these I pledge my cooperation to I ask for To meet the major goals he and Reed proposed a budget of an increase of million from 1963-5 but some million less than department heads And he offered a or new budget of The proposed increases nearly million more for the University of Reed said that of the million additional needed to tain current million will be needed for And he proposed an additional million for teachers colleges and vocational In a million capital construction to be financed by surplus funds and a bond Reed included million for the state university and more than million for other educational The governor proposed supplementary spending of million in health and about half for expanded medical aid for the indigent and more than million for child For mental health and corrections he advocated an extra about half for improvements in operations and staff at the m m m In the economic development Reed's chief proposals were a Maine Recreation to guarantee loans for recreational and expansion of the Industrial Building Authority's powers to cover loan guarantees on machinery purchases and renovation of existing For municipalities he proposed a grant of authority to issue revenue bonds to finance industrial and recreational calling it bold new approach to developing industry and He commended the S t a t s Credit Research Committee for planning in this field and told the lawmakers the various proposals the greatest promise for economic development our state has experienced in more than a ' Reed announced he is ordering for July 1 an administrative increase in state liquor store prices to produce some 3mil-lion in two He on Page Station Planned In Saco The Shell Oil Co. will construct an service station opposite the Maine Turnpike entrance on North Street in Saco at a cost in excess of William Saco Industrial Agent announced this Negotiations for additional frontage on North Street were completed between the Saco Industrial Park and Construction of the station will clear the way for the park to begin building a new access road into the industrial park directly opposite the Kirk said the new entrance road would eliminate traffic hazards to and from the park and provide facilities for new industrial location in the Further announcements on industrial park development in the Saco site are expected Construction on the new service station is expected to begin within a The station will replace the present one located near the turnpike Northeast Gases Inc. and innersole Co. are located in the 170 acres of the industrial There are two roads in the the Industrial Park Road and Lehner and a sewage treatment Elant that can be expanded to andle additional has been Mayor Paul Reny said that he was at the announcement that Shell is and that he was confident the access into the USAF To Disband Air Reserve Units WASHINGTON - The Air Force announced plans News At A Glance park would make more attractive to By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Washington President Johnson asks Congress for health care for the elderly and a network of 32 modern medical centers to treat major President wants Congress to take steps aimed at reversing the nation's historically low fer turnout as well as ensuring the rights of Negroes to vote in the President Johnson tentatively plans to ask Congress to eliminate the gold backing on part of the nation's money House Democrats pick three new members of one of the key committees of congress Ways and Sen. Russell D. the new assistant Senate Democratic began life as Huey Pierce Long But the name didn't National Allen Dale one of three men charged with mu seum reportedly works in secret with police to lead them to missing challenging the 12 year rule of David J. McDonald as president of the says he pins his hopes on Changes in the Apollo have caused a delay in the first manned Saturn moon training the area additional day to disband 155 Air Reserve units by The action involves about 8, 000 reservists in 44 states and the District of Although the announcement did not say the action was believed to be a forerunner to the merger of the Air Force Re serve into the Air National Such a move would parallel action already taken with re spect to the Army Reserve and National The units involved are 112 recovery squadrons and 43 recovery These are ground units whose mission to to provide for sup port of regular Air Force military planes at civilian airports following an attack on the United States that might have knocked out military Johnson Outlines Medicare Plan WASHINGTON President Johnson proposed today a broad health care package that includes a suggestion that the federal government pay part of the basic operating costs of medical and dental submitting a message entitled the Nation's first for enactment this year of medical insurance for persons 65 and over under the Social Security He made the message his first one on a specific subject in the new thereby giving it high believe this year is the year with the sure knowledge of public the Congress should enact a hospital insurance program for the the President Johnson for a five-year program of grants develop multipurpose regional medical complexes for an LBJ To Ask Change In Gold Backing WASHINGTON Banks must keep a certain dent Johnson tentatively plans percentage of their deposits in Semi-Annual to ask Congress to eliminate the gold backing on part of the nation's money it was learned Federal Reserve In the Federal Reserve must maintain a supply of gold equivalent to 25 per cent of these The plan would leave un- bank It is this legal Save Up To 40% On Quality Nationally Famous Red Cross Shoes and Socialites Joyce of California Casuals for Children changed the 25 per cent gold backing on U.S. currency It would make an additional billion in gold available for future increases in the money supply or to meet international obligations The plan calls for elimination of the legal requirement for a 25 per cent gold backing on re seves which form the basis of the U.S. banking The move would be only the second major change in relationship between money and gold since the United States abandoned the strict gold standard in 1934 placed sources said Johnson feels further increases in the money supply will be needed since the economic signs point to a fifth straight year of business Although laymen tend to think of money only as the currency they hold in their pockets and economists regard bank accounts as an even more important percentage that Johnson favors * * * The Federal Reserve which enjoys a large measure of now has the power to reduce or eliminate the 25 per cent gold requirement on both currency and reserves for a It can keep renewing this action indefinite most of Johnson's monetary advisers advocate a request to Congress as a more orderly The ratio of gold to currency and reserves has gone down in recent years for two a moderate expansion of the money supply to keep pace with a growing and a decline in the gold stock due to a deficit in the international bal ance of The ratio was 2.79 per cent on Nov. 30 compared to 30.3 per cent a year earlier and much higher ratios several years ago CORRECTION Our Ad In Yesterday's Journal Should Have Read POTATOES 15 LB. PECK 68 Five Points Biddeford out attack on heart and other major * * * Aides said 32 medical centers would be built in various parts of the country at a cost of Another major new proposal would set up a system of grants help cover basic operating costs of our health profession schools in order that they may significantly expand both their capacity and the quality of their educational Johnson said tuition and fees paid by medical and dental stu dents actually defray less than half the cost of their must face the he high operating costs and shortages of operating funds are jeopardizing our health professions educational Also included in Johnson's proposed health package were better health services for children and improved community mental health more ambitious federally aided effort to rehabilitate the improved services for the mentally and legislation to tighten up federal control over and other * * * The in his put no dollar figure on the total cost of his But he described the package as representing horizons of a greater society which a confident and prudent people can begin to build for the First priority in the lengthy document went to health insurance for the he our proved and tested by three decades of successful operation be extended to finance the cost of basic health In this the spectre of catastrophic hospital bills can be lifted from the lives of our older Johnson said in addition to such an insurance should encourage private insurance to provide supplementary The President said his plan would protection against the costs of hospital and post-hospital extended or but It is essential that every patient requiring such specialized and expensive procedures and services have access to Multipurpose medical complexes can meet these He said the centers could save thousands of lives and help otherwise hollow labora tory triumphs into health Johnson proposed that the complexes be affiliated with medical teaching hospi and existing medical home nursing and out patient diagnostic He said it would in no way interfere the patient's complete freedom to select his doctor or and insurance protection would be offered those not covered by So cial with the cost being paid out of the federal In calling for greater efforts to combat heart cancer and Johnson are challenged to meet and master the three killers which alone account for seven out of 10 deaths in the United States each The chief executive proposed that the regional medical centers be equipped for the latest and best diagnostic and have the most effective treatment facilities and skilled * * * At he hospitals in some sections are not equipped for open heart very high-voltage radiation or advanced methods for disease It is not he for each hospital or clinic to also asked for lation that would allow the federal government to pay part of the costs of medical and dental care for children medically needy He said this would be similar to the Kerr Mills program for the ' in families with incomes of less than are able to visit a doctor only half as frequently as those in families with incomes of more than he In the mental health Johnson called for a five-year grant program to help hire personnel for community mental health centers offering comprehensive And he asked for authority to set up a program of direct loans and loan guarantees to help groups of medical men build and equip facilities for compre group Johnson asked also for new laws authorizing regula tion of cosmetics and therapeut ic devices by amination by the Food and Drug Many of the other items in Johnson's health package represented proposed expansion or The proposal for regional health centers came directly from recommendations made to Johnson last month by his commission on heart cancer and headed by Dr. Michael heart on Page Social Security system have such equipment extension of existing Sukarno Sticking To Guns Indonesia President Sukarno Thursday night announced Indonesia's withdrawal from the United In taking this Sukarno thus ignored appeals made by practically the whole including his allies and friends in the African - Asian to keep his country in the world WEEK END FEATURES SALMON PIES Ready 6 A.M. Friday | jjg HONEY DIPPED Ready 7:30 A.M. Saturday Jgg READY BAKED BIRTHDAY AND ANNIVERSARY CAKES FROM EA. REILLY'S BAKERY 248 Main Biddeford Dial 283-3731 THE FIRST speaker of the Club at St. Joseph's High School during a meeting of the group yesterday was Mrs. Louise R. fourth from director of nursing at Webber Officers of the club left to Celine Denise vice Nancy Susan and Charlene attendance The club Is the first of Its kind In York County and the second of its kind in the Its purpose Is to foster a deeper understanding of medicine and In medicine as a as well as fostering careers among high school WEEKEND SPECIALS FRESH SHRIMP SHRIMP MEAT 4 MAINE STEAMERS Peck Fresh Fish Of All Fried Clam Fried Fish 6 Steamers Open Wednesday Thru Sunday Open Sunday 11_A. M. To 10 SEAFOOD 76 Alfred Street 282-0766 Biddeford Today's Chuckle The trouble with being a parent Is that by the time you're you're WRR Gen. TV SERVICE CALLS * TWO BILLS TV CENTER 150 Main Saco Dial 282-1824 Open 9 14. to v P. 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Indonesia Foreign diplomats in Jakarta said today that President Sukarno still insists he will withdraw Indonesia from the United The who saw Sukarno in the past few refused to be Sukarno was to address a mass rally one week after threatening in another speech to pull Indonesia out of the world State Minister said the president would make good his A parade of foreign ambassadors continued to call on Foreign Minister to discuss Indonesian withdrawal from the United Only the Red Chinese were reported approving the * Indonesian delegates at U.N. headquarters in New York informed officials of the organization orally last Friday that their government was withdrawing because Malaysia which Sukarno has sworn to crush was admitted to the Security written notice of the withdrawal has not been There has been speculation that the Indonesians are having second The Indonesian Information Ministry minimized the British military buildup in Malaysia and urged Indonesians not to be The ministry in a statement accused Malaysia of the buildup and said it was excuse for eventual reciprocal attack on Informed sources in Kuala capital of Indonesia had moved units of its crack Division to bases facing Malaysian the big island which Indonesia and Malaysia Action between the two enemy neighbors has been confined so far to sporadic Indonesian raids across the Borneo border and the periodic landing of small parties of guerrillas on the Malaysian Peninsula opposite Indonesian All of the latter have been killed or The Malaysian government fears that Sukarno now plans to step up the war in Borneo and make major landings on the Military sources in Kuala Lumpur said an infantry battalion has been sent to bolster British troops in the Borneo state of More British artillery also is reported headed for the
