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Newspaper
Biddeford Saco Journal
Location
Biddeford, Maine, United States of America
Date
Apr 11, 1973
Page
4
The Peace Corps has rebounded with rising requests from abroad as officials credit selection for competence over youthful exuberance. Volunteers still earn 75 dollars a month and remain valued for person to person teaching, with the program spared from cuts affecting other aid agencies.
Virginia Payette notes rising jury awards in negligence and fraud cases, highlighting record settlements from doctors and hospitals to hotels and utilities. She cites a Minneapolis cancer-research funding case at $16 million, a San Francisco boy's $4.025 million award, and other sizable verdicts as evidence of mounting legal liability and inflation in litigation costs.
Letter from Peter P. Truman of Biddeford outlines a new charter provision creating a 49 member city committee with 7 members from each ward and at least 2 from every ward. Vacancies are filled by the committee and members serve a two year term from election.
The Biddeford Saco Journal lists Wm. E. Foster Alta W. Foster and B. F. C. Whitehouse and W. Paul Casavant as publisher and editors. It notes subscription rates: one month three dollars, three months eighteen dollars, one year thirty six dollars. The paper is a member of the Associated Press with AP news rights and advertising contact Mathews Shannon Dublen Inc. in New York.
The Justice Department report drawn from the Community Relations Service warns that racial and ethnic tensions may flare in cities nationwide this summer. It cites Philadelphia, Newark, Boston, Los Angeles, Atlanta, and Washington as potential flashpoints amid program cutbacks and unemployment, noting police tensions and possible demonstrations.
The piece argues Japan keeps a one way trade policy with the United States, highlighting Japan’s imports of raw materials and the need for tariff actions. It calls for more U S access to Japan’s market or consumer boycotts, noting past Western currency clashes and domestic disarmament quips.
Washington News Production must be raised to cut inflation in food prices says NEA Washington Correspondent Ray Cromley. The piece argues that price controls distort the economy and that boosting crop and livestock production is the long term solution. It cites farm costs losses from disease pests weeds and pollution and calls for a crash research program comparable to the Apollo moon effort.
The Christophers in Manhattan honors film TV and literature that uphold high human values and public acceptance. For 1973 awards, four films are cited Sounder The Emigrants 1776 and The Green Wall. TV specials total 18 including The Blue Collar Trap Cave People of the Philippines and The House Without a Christmas Tree. Ten adult books and several biographies and essays receive recognition for ecological political and humane themes.
A city council in California passes a resolution banning rainfall, but weather overrules the edict with three days of bad weather in one 24 hour period. Officials threaten lawsuits against neighboring communities over windblown rain.
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