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Biddeford Saco Journal

Location

Biddeford, Maine, United States of America

Date

Feb 23, 1968

Page

4

Editorial Page In Our Opinion Teacher merit pay is a worthy goal

The Temple City public school system departs from equal pay for all teachers by classifying staff into three levels based on ability and tenure. The piece argues merit pay incentivizes excellence, noting that students, parents, and principals can identify better teachers, and that top performers deserve higher compensation than the average staff.

Temple City Calif

Yetta Bronstein Seeks 1968 White House Run

Imaginative bid by Inez Yetta Bronstein for the presidency as an independent on a mother centered platform. She jokes about 1964 campaigns, dismisses primaries, and appeals to voters with humor, family values, and a call to support mothers in government.

Yetta Bronstein Babuska Yetta Bronx Harold Stassen LBJ Barry Goldwater New Hampshire Washington Army Marines White House Bronstein Watchama Betta

Prediction of urban health crisis at World Health Assembly

At Geneva, the 20th World Health Assembly warned that within three decades about 80 percent of the world’s popu lation in poorer nations will live in cities. Over 400 doctors from 128 nations discussed health problems from crowded urban life and noted many cities have doubled their populations in a decade.

Geneva Om Rg Ette Young Ple

Powell and race relations in Washington era

Washington column discusses Sen. Tom Dodd and the Powell case as signals in race relations and federal oversight. It notes grand jury probes, alleged kickbacks, and criticism of FBI and DOJ actions amid congressional pressure for reform and open hearings.

Drew Pearson House of Representatives Washington Tom Dodd Conn Adam Clayton Powell Senate Powell Dodd United United States Harlem Globe-Trotter Housees FBI Grand Jury Tom Frouge National Park San Francisco Frouge White House George Mahon Texas House House Appropriations Communds Interior Stewartmittee Yvette Flores Powell Bvedall Charles Joeling Puerto Rico Lifernia Famiund Ff Nan Taveauw Rep Parnell Thomas R-N.j House Un-American Activities Committee Justice Department Johnson Administration

Mac's World Uncle Has Money Galore

Washington columnist items a tongue in cheek critique of federal spending on research and the arts. He ridicules NSF grants for blackbird studies and Endowment for the Arts funding for Broadway, noting other odd allocations and asking where money should go. He also mentions Bokhara dialect study and Ampere, with light satire on military and tech topics.

Don Maclean Washington National Science Foundation Washington University California Polytechnic College Persia Andre Marie Ampere Madaascar

Washington News Instill Pride of Heritage to Curb Delinquency

NEA Washington Correspondent Ray Cromley reports on a civics and citizenship drive inspired by Korea’s anti corruption shift. Officials believe pride in American heritage helps cut juvenile crime, urging balanced critique of U S policy while highlighting high ideals behind the nation’s history and leadership.

Ray Cromley Washington Korea United States Rade School U.S South Korea Saigon South Vietnam U. S

The Knight Errant Mercenary Arpad Faces War’s Gray Cost

Russell Kirk profiles a 15 year old Hungarian refugee who becomes a famed mercenary. Arpad fights across Africa for pay, from the Congo to Biafra, with Col Peters and Col Denard, seeing no ideology beyond money and survival while maintaining charm and restraint.

Russell Kirk Arpad Hungary Freedom Fighters Biafra Ibos Lagos Canada Congo Col. Peters Simbas Bob Denard Mobutu Denard Nigeria

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