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Newspaper
Biddeford Saco Journal
Location
Biddeford, Maine, United States of America
Date
Aug 28, 1962
Page
4
Editorial page quotes John Galsworthy on the cost of holding a sentiment. It reflects on how conviction demands personal sacrifice and tests resolve in civic life.
Whitman Bassow, Newsweek correspondent, expelled from the Soviet Union for an unauthorized visit to a Russian grade school. Observers say he pressed too close to ordinary Russians and highlighted satirical jokes that poked fun at the regime. Despite lifted censorship, officials fear exposure to Western life and history. Laughter, they say, can undermine tyrants.
President Kennedy continues a broad turnover in U S ambassadorial posts with Amb Llewellyn Thompson Jr back from Moscow as part of filling 95 of 108 top foreign service jobs. Several longtime career diplomats remain in key embassies while many new appointees take first ambassadorships in Africa and Cyprus.
Oil industry in the United States warns that Soviet state controlled pricing and barter distort competition in free markets. Russia exports up to 500000 barrels of oil daily, buying Western equipment and factories, complicating Western oil policy and threatening domestic development. American policy should favor taxation and measures aiding the oil industry against the Soviet push.
The Chicago Daily News praises the medical profession, noting policing by the AMA, progress against diphtheria smallpox polio and heart disease, and the 1937 death rate saving millions. It warns against political tinkering with medicine and stresses dedication and service beyond duty. The piece ends with unrelated domestic vignettes about new fathers and wives.
AP Business News analyzes how rising profits trigger conflict among management Labor and government across steel and other industries. It argues profit gains may curb wages fuel automation and prompt price constraints while boosting tax receipts and investor returns amid an ongoing demand for more workers and jobs.
AP observer Cynthia Lowry notes NBCs Saints and Sinners centers on a newspaper man. Despite glamour for TV journalists, the series aims to avoid cliches, drawing on writer Adrian Spies, a former newspaperman, to craft a different newsroom adventure.
Paul Harvey argues freedom carries heavy responsibility and warns against permissiveness and anti American influence. He attacks politicians, economists, and intellectuals for promoting socialism under the guise of freedom, citing Keynesianism and foreign ideas as dangers to US values. He asserts vigilance against elitist influences compromising national bounda ries and liberty.
Hollywood marks a fresh surge in sophisticated comedies led by Cary Grant and a slate of stars across majors. The trend mirrors early greats like The Awful Truth and Bringing Up Baby, with hits from That Touch of Mink to Pillow Talk and Operation Petticoat fueling studio lineups and upcoming projects for Grant, Day, Hudson, Holden, Hepburn, and others as the code evolves.
A reader thanks Mr. George L. Corriveau for speaking out on the need to revise Workman's Compensation laws. The letter urges others affected to come forward, condemns past legislators for inaction, and credits Atty. Richard Spitz for previous attempts to amend the statutes. The writer hopes the 1963 Legislature will enact changes.
A Ruth Millett column criticizes television announcers who tease audiences with grim tragedy before ads. It condemns using harrowing details to sell sponsorship and questions the unfeeling, tasteless practice of turning disasters into sales pitches.
Daddeford Sece Journal lists Adams Street Biddeford Maine with publisher Paul Casavant editor J J Mahoney. Rates show one month 1.85 six months 10.50 and one year 21.00. Associated Press rights note and second class postage status recorded.
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