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Newspaper
Biddeford Saco Journal
Location
Biddeford, Maine, United States of America
Date
Feb 04, 1964
Page
4
A compact quotation piece on human nature by Nathaniel Hawthorne, noting that kindness comes more readily than hatred when selfish motives do not intervene, framed as a reflective line for the page's readers.
The University of Maine Cooperative Extension Service launches a six week home discussion project starting March 9. Free literature and TV background material prompt small groups to explore topics from education funding to vocational training and higher education opportunities for Maine residents.
The piece argues that 8 billion dollars in U S farm exports are split into 4 2 billion cash sales and 1 8 billion in food for peace gifts to 91 countries. It warns that free distributions may foster dependence, reduce goodwill, and suggests modest charges to cover costs like shipping, to avoid a sense of entitlement among recipients.
A New York City doctor coins TV medicits as a new disease from watching television dramas. He notes viewers identify with on screen doctors and seek the portrayed treatments, suggesting rating services survey viewers about current and past program effects to gauge carryover symptoms.
A tongue in cheek columnist mocks perpetual optimists who praise winter as vitality and beauty. The piece contrasts sunny cheer with annoyance at self help sentiment and calls out drivers and dentists as examples of misplaced positivity.
Washington dispatch reports American Communist leaders have scaled up college lectures as a major tactic to sway opinion against the McCarran Act. They aim to present communism as legitimate and nonsubversive while reaching an estimated 75,000 students and townspeople yearly.
Ruth Millett recalls an elderly couple whose long life together proves enduring love, mutual respect, and joyful companionship sustain a marriage. The wife is bedridden, yet the husband cares tenderly, cherishing flowers and shared memories from wedding day to present, a beacon of faith and courage.
Boyles column muses on memory as a form of afterlife on earth. It mulls how recollections age us and recalls past comforts from livery stables to five and ten store purchases, family roles, and cultural shifts, naming figures like William S. Hart and Norman Thomas.
AP analysis notes 1964 may differ from 1963 as four driversi auto sales homebuilding government outlays and credit growth likely ease this year. Tax cuts loom as a new influence though inflation fears dampen easy money. Fed warns credit tightening possible while economists urge restraint to sustain price stability.
Paul Harvey argues the United States cannot police the world alone. He criticizes UN impotence and warns that leadership by example requires discipline, integrity, and restraint. He laments depleted gold reserves and fears nations may follow Moscow or the Red Star.
A clipped passage from the Diddeford Saco Journal discusses recession risks and stock declines. It cites the Associated Press and remarks on efforts to curb market weakness, referencing prior downturn patterns and investor sentiment amid economic uncertainty.
A reader letter accuses Dwight D. Eisenhower of sabotaging Allied victory by withholding leadership in 1944. The author cites Lord Alanbrooke and claims Eisenhower failed to direct land battles while Patton and others were restrained, allowing Russians to reach key fronts first and extend the war. The piece names Franklin Roosevelt and Charles Parsons in the critique.
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