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Newspaper
Biddeford Saco Journal
Location
Biddeford, Maine, United States of America
Date
Dec 11, 1968
Page
5
Reader proposes organizing four youth teams aged 10 to 12 in Biddeford Saco with full equipment insurance and Saturday games as a feeder system to high schools. Local alumni and coaches are urged to share ideas and support. signs could promote the area as a football capitol.
The text argues salvation is essential because all people are sinners and sin harms conscience. It cites John Wesley's mother definition of sin as anything that weakens reason or dulls conscience and impedes feeling for spiritual things. It notes Adam's fall and the need for the Holy Spirit to restore relation with God, warning against delaying acceptance of salvation.
A religious message urges readers to accept Jesus as personal savior. Lyndon S. Warren of Kennebunk signs the appeal saying the end times may be near and eternity hinges on a single heartbeat.
For 86 years a New York City woman, Mae Hendrickson, has worked for others without pay. Starting at age eight by walking a blind man, she has given 33 years at Queens Hospital and earned the United Hospital Fund’s gold pin for 25,000 hours of service. Earlier she logged 19 years with Children’s Court and helped parolees with her husband, now deceased. Her lifelong habit of service reflects a biblical call to aid troubled lives and a creed of cheerful giving.
The Needle argues psychoanalysis is outdated as modern psychiatry shifts to new ideas. The era of pills changes patient behavior and focus, leaving neurosis concerns mainly about larger issues such as world affairs domestic politics and air pollution. Socialized medicine is noted as a concern within psychiatric practice.
York County Board of Realtors installed officers at a Christmas party held at Glen-Mor Restaurant Portland Street. National Director Nicholas P. Scontras of Saco served as installing officer. President John G. Smith of Kennebunkport Vice President Richard Auger of Sanford and Secretary Treasurer Andrew P. Scontras of Saco were announced. Harold Sykes of Fortunes Rocks Biddeford retired as president. NEW associate members include Hazel Crown Sanford Harry Zanni Waterboro Paul Staples North Berwick Norman Merrow Kennebunk Beach and Newell S. Perkins Ogunquit.
Aene, a doctor, tells you the cold you complain about is imagined and not real. He dismisses symptoms as a mental or imaginary issue rather than a physical illness.
A civil rights lawyer argues progress on racial problems comes from changing attitudes, not just enacting laws. William L. Robinson of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund spoke at the University of Maine during Black America Week.
A medical examiner theorized Willard Weeks 62 of Mexico died at the wheel on U S 2 from a shock. Weeks a Maine Central Railroad employee died Tuesday when his car left the road and plunged over a river embankment near the Androscoggin. Orono campus notes quote a Pittsburgh Jewish chaplain who predicts campus unrest will fade after the Vietnam War ends and urges limits on dissent and demonstrations.
Aged 79 Virginia O Hanlon Douglas recalls the 1897 Yes Virginia editorial that answered an 8 year old asking if Santa Claus exists. She credits the piece with brightening her life and expresses enduring appreciation. A London case notes Eleanora Ginsberg seeks help from U Thant to reunite with fiancé Deason. Steinbeck, 66, suffers heart trouble but remains active.
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