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Newspaper
Biddeford Saco Journal
Location
Biddeford, Maine, United States of America
Date
Dec 13, 1965
Page
4
Plato argues wealth breeds luxury and indolence while poverty fosters meanness and vice. The quote frames a moral view on wealth and hardship shaping character and social behavior.
An analysis warns auto thefts will reach one million in 1970 with a third unrecovered or badly damaged. Crime data show thefts up 12.5 percent from 1964 and 16 percent from the prior year, with 64 percent of thieves teenagers and only 5 to 10 percent professionals.
The piece surveys the rise of youth electronic groups, their novel sounds, and rising costs. It notes that guitar driven acts rely on amplifiers, speakers, microphones, mixers, and eventually electronic organs, with junior high dances requiring about $2,000 in gear and top groups potentially $6,000 or more.
The Bill of Rights, effective 174 years ago, arose from public sentiment favoring explicit rights. The Ninth and Tenth Amendments protect unenumerated rights and reserve powers to states or the people. A separate note mentions a new glue with strong hold and a Presidential committee probing deceitful packaging amid light humor about children’s toys.
Washington sees New York politics moving toward a Rockefeller Lindsay understanding. Brownell and Thayer broker talks with both sides optimistic despite tensions. Analysts warn 1966 will test budget fights as Lindsay seeks funds while Rockefeller resists city tapping.
New York Up close column recalls nostalgic small town life and long vanished customs. The piece lists memory prompts from past times such as wit with chicken crossing jokes, weight gain jokes, toad wart myths and court house clock faces.
AP lists ten leading business and finance stories of 1965. Key items include the Johnson administration and Federal Reserve rate showdown, inflation controls on steel and aluminum, rising government spending tied to Viet Nam and Great Society, overseas investment curbs, a big jump in gold outflows, an excise tax cut, falling unemployment, a surge in mergers, and tensions with De Gaulle over the gold standard and trade policy. The year also saw volatile stock-volume swings and a strong economic backdrop.
Hollywood notes report Jeff Richards, once a leading MGM star and TV figure, now digs storm drains for a construction firm and works as a security guard in Miami Beach. At 41 his hair shows gray, yet he remains a striking presence as he recovers from earlier fame.
The 1965 Medicare program faces possible amendments as President Johnson signs the Social Security bill. Proposals seek to cover anesthesiology pathology radiology and psychiatry under hospital insurance. Bills to expand nursing home provisions and fire safety standards for nursing homes also loom in future sessions.
The Journal prints reader letters criticizing Soviet oppression and praising freedom's heritage. A letter supports Chris Anton and his effort to bring pro football to the Twin Cities, urging community backing despite past gate failures.
European Common Market faced a stall as France withdrew its representatives. Washington touted Kennedy Round tariff hopes but France's allies clashed, shaping a year marked by prosperity yet many surprises and problems.
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