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Newspaper
Biddeford Saco Journal
Location
Biddeford, Maine, United States of America
Date
Apr 24, 1972
Page
4
The U S Transportation Department displayed mixed results in a $4 million Fairchild Hiller experimental auto. The air bag failed, dummies were thrown into a shattered windshield, and the test underscored the cost challenge of mass producing safety features while a conventional car showed severe front-end collapse.
Virginia Payette notes President Nixon frequently discards study commission findings from civil rights to campus unrest and drug abuse. She cites Hesburgh led civil rights critique urging tougher leadership, Eisenhower’s violence report, the Kerner report on racial division, and oil and campus unrest commissions as ignored. She ends by praising steady Gallup poll results and taxpayer savings.
The speaker jokes about lunar missions being habit forming and notes the Soviets may claim the moon as theirs. He compares spaceships to autos needing yearly model updates and suggests sending women astronauts as a missed opportunity. The piece frames space travel as ongoing, with a playful political tone.
A reflective piece defines prejudice from its Latin roots prae and judicium and warns against forming opinions before facts. It urges living by knowledge and truth, urging honesty with God and others. The passage ends with a prayer to withhold judgment until all facts are known.
Senate memo portrays IBM heir Arthur Watson as drunk and lewd on transatlantic flights. Chinese diplomats reportedly wary of his conduct affecting Paris negotiations. CIA and State Department officials deny substantiating charges while efforts to calm investigations unfold. Colonel Jaro uses loud marches to drill Marines at Henderson Hall, drawing neighbor complaints.
A humorous column recounts an amateur team in a basement building an antigravity detector funded by a mysterious donor. The piece weaves in Ecuador’s white line myth, missing scientists, and quirky asides about Muskie jokes and Persian visits.
Washington reports Henry Lee with AID helped Vietnam launch village banks. Five banks started in two months with 160 planned. Deposits by locals fund loans to farmers and fishermen with assets under defined limits. Banks mandate 60 percent lending to rural producers and limit ownership, aiming to counter high moneylender rates and boost rural prosperity.
Russell Kirk argues against compulsory school bus busing as a force degrading instruction and fostering disorder. He cites consolidation, mixed backgrounds, and on bus misconduct as harming both black and white students and eroding local neighborhood schooling.
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