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Newspaper
Biddeford Saco Journal
Location
Biddeford, Maine, United States of America
Date
Feb 20, 1968
Page
5
A fragmented teen scene quote shows a speaker urging girls to express thanks when a boy offers help or carries a package. The remark implies that showing appreciation would please the helper and others, while noting a perceived lack of acknowledgment from the girls.
Nancy Gilbert presents teen readers responses on major problems and pet peeves. Essays cover dating, teen parent relations, judgments, civil rights clashes, Vietnam war views, and reactions to conformity. Prize-winners share concerns about hypocrisy, peer pressure, and general intolerance among adults.
Biddeford High School reminds students two national tests NEDT and NMSQT will be administered Saturday with reporting time 8:30 a.m. The story notes visits by representatives from three schools discussing Cambridge School of Business and Westbrook Junior College and reports on employment service talks and a film on ocean resources. NHS and other student activities are also outlined along with yearbook fund-raising and ROTC awards.
Aileen advises teens on public affection with guidance from old norms. The piece warns against public necking and calls for private discretion, stressing self respect and the danger of rumors. It suggests safer spaces like home or public areas with supervision and invites reader opinions to Arleen in New York.
A reader asks how to stop nylon seat covers from zapping when entering or exiting a car. An electric safety reply suggests grounding as a potential remedy and advises proper insulation and anti static measures.
Thornton Academy announces junior and senior members of its National Honor Society. Seniors named include Diane Bowie George Caras Susan Currier Rita Dionne Thomas Economos Virginia Lennox Jane Polackwich. Juniors listed are Glen Anderson Barbara Boutet Roland Gagnon Harry Nielson Alan Polackwich.
Eight St. Andre's High School seniors have been accepted at higher education institutions. Vic tor Comptometer School in Portland welcomes Con stance Bisson Sue Chouinard Pauline Dube and Rose Marie Paradis. Paula Martel and Linda Hevey head to the University of Maine with majors in French and education respectively. Jeanne Montembeau enters St Francis College. Rachel Fleurant will study at Mr Bernard's School of Hair Fashions. The Cambridge School of Business speaker Selma Gerler addressed grades sophomores to seniors on eb 15. Court and carnival notes follow with queen candidates Mary Ann Courtois Elaine Porter Judy Pinette and Carol Ann Dery.
OLD ORCHARD BEACH Donald Hamalainen and Mrs. Alice Hagar present a musical Mis Mississippi Melody. Cast from Old Orchard Beach Junior High and High School. performances set for April 5 and 6 at 8 p.m. Cast includes Tom Bobby Norris Huch Mark Andrews Joe Michael Boisvert Ben Lester Martin Sidney William Russell Wilson Scot Wood Sam Billy Finley Jim Tom Hubbard Aunt Polly Lori Dye Mrs. Harper Sandra Granger Milt Watson Priscilla elker Mrs. Phelps Marlene Angelosante Widow Pat Michaud Mary Yvonne Phillips Susy Gennene Gendron Becky Debra Jenkins Ella Mae Rita Morin.
A reader asks about static electricity in a 1950s MGA and keeping mud from shoes. The advice suggests grounding before entering with a metal contact and using disposable plastic bags slipped over shoes fastened with rubber bands for each passenger.
Debbie Williams, 14, stars with the Ice Follies as a versatile performer. Her solo piece In key's Pastry Shoppe wows crowds while her family creates a joint act. The family travels nine months a year and bases in San Francisco. Debbies childhood on ice began at two, with early travels and rented furniture shaping their life. She has also sung a record and cites education from skating.
Senator Edmund S. Muskie has accepted an invitation to deliver the commencement address to the Class of 1968 at St. Louis High. The event caps a weekend that featured school winter carnival activities, athletic events, and a state foul-shooting contest placing Pris Jean among top finishers.
In Waterville a masked gunman looted Gilbert's Market, $55 taken from James Gilbert's wife, who chased the bandit as he fled in a car after firing into the air. In Rumford, Millard S. Chapman, 54, pleaded innocent by reason of insanity in the bludgeon slaying of his wife Iona, found dead Nov 11. case set to May.
Farmington AP reports Burchard W Plog aged 43 of Madrid received a suspended 22 to 5 year term for aggravated assault in the Christmas shooting of Clarence Asselin, 32, also of Madrid. Asselin was wounded in the stomach and shoulder at the home of Santa mother on Christmas Eve.
ANNETTE RI0UX reports on the school valentine party with Denise Roberge of Somersworth named queen and a attendant slate from several states. The Sea Breeze journalism group received pins after a club meeting and a campus ice cream celebration. Students toured St Francis College to hear Sen. Muskie speak on Vietnam and UN topics as part of a nationwide exam prep. A Cambridge School of Business visitor discussed liberal arts programs and career tracks in business and radio television. The academy introduced Spirit People and plans marked the upcoming silver jubilee for Sister Marie Camille and Sister Veronica Metivier with celebrations in Hudson NH and the home campus.
Sioux Indians called the Black Hills of South Dakota by that name because the slopes were covered with thick pine forests that made them appear black from the plains.
Q and A from a quiz note explain the origin of the English royal House of Plantagenet. The founder supposedly used a broom branch in his cap, linking Plantagenet to plante de genet. The piece also defines inferior planets as those closer to the sun than Earth, citing Mercury and Venus. It notes Carl Sandburg as the only American author to win Pulitzers in both poetry and history.
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