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Newspaper
Biddeford Saco Journal
Location
Biddeford, Maine, United States of America
Date
Feb 29, 1968
Page
5
HAL Boyle offers playful advice to a reader about courting a bachelor in a Leap Year. Directions emphasize patience and indirect courtship, boosting a man's confidence, letting him win games, praising his cooking, and gradual involvement. The column blends humor with practical tips for securing marriage.
Pears are in demand for snacks and salads and can be baked or poached. A pear crab salad combines Comice pears with pineapple, banana, green pepper, and crab in a sour cream curry dressing, served in lettuce cups. Also included are practical tips for automatic drying to keep clothes fluffy and fresh year round, stressing load size, lint screen care, and avoiding overdrying.
AP writer notes quirky New England vignettes from Paul Fisher write in bids for president, a talking pen maker, a Dayton sculptor, a flying priest, plus dryer tips, a St Pius X pastor's travel, a New England square dance convention in Pittsfield, and Puritan choir practice with subtle social touches. Fisher ran in 1960 NH primary with Kennedy. figures cited.
AP writer notes veteran director George Sidney urges American musicals to film in England citing cheaper labor and subsidies. Discussion includes Oscar trends favoring Americans, the dominance of British talents in past years, and audience preference shifting toward locales with familiar accents like Bonnie and Clyde and In the Heat of the Night.
Nubia, once a frontier between Egypt and Ethiopia, is being eaten away as Lake Nasser forms behind the Aswan Dam. About 50,000 Nubians have moved from submerged villages to new settlements at Kom Ombo, with some returning to Cairo to work. They preserve traditions, replant homes, and reestablish tribal councils as police usage remains limited.
Witch doctors linger but business falters as Nubians resist Egyptian medical care. Aswan doctors require police entry to Nubian homes. Government assigns female doctors for Nubian women. Mourning rites shrink from seven days to one night, professional mourners end, elaborate weddings reduce, polygamy wanes, and marriage becomes strictly within Nubian communities with non Nubian spouses branded outcasts.
AT WEBBER HOSPITAL to Mrs Sandra Benzie York Street Kennebunk and the late Airman 3 C Donald Benzie a daughter Heidi Lee weighing seven pounds four ounces Feb 25 To Mr and Mrs Philip Daniels RDI Thompson Road Biddeford a daughter Colleen Sue weighing seven pounds 9% ounces Feb 25 To Mrs Virginia Blanchette 7 Maplewood Ave Old Orchard
Beach and the late Philip Blanchette announce a daughter Phyllis Georgette born February 25 weighing seven pounds two ounces. Mr and Mrs Raymond Lasante welcome a son Randall Owen born February 26 weighing 10 pounds one ounce at 54 Alfred Street Biddeford. Mr and Mrs David Thayer welcome a daughter Carolyn Marie born February 26 weighing nine pounds 12 ounces Webber Hill Road Kennebunk. Mr and Mrs David Kochis announce a daughter Christine Lee born February 26 weighing six pounds 13 ounces 87 High Street Saco. Mr and Mrs Dale Pelletier announce a daughter Lisa Ann born at Wentworth Memorial Hospital Dover New Hampshire. Paternal grandfather Jerry Pelletier and maternal grandmother Mrs Joe LeProhon, both of Biddeford, are noted.
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