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Newspaper
Biddeford Saco Journal
Location
Biddeford, Maine, United States of America
Date
Jan 03, 1964
Page
4
Editorial echoes Beilby Porteus, urging guidance on how to live and a harder lesson on how to die, reflecting on moral instruction and duty. The line frames a meditation on shaping character and preparing for life’s end with discipline and virtue.
A reflective plea cites Christmas traffic deaths exceeding 200 in a 30 hour span and urges stricter laws, tougher enforcement, and individual responsibility. The author questions driving culture and calls for drivers to prove skill, judgment, and decency before getting behind the wheel.
The 1963 session left vast work unfinished. 1964 faces civil rights tax cuts and social programs, with major debates over the budget and potential extra sessions. Key items include education aid mass transit funding and reforms, plus calls for Congressional travel regulation and ending back door spending.
President Johnson seeks to cut a billion dollars from next year’s military budget, potentially delaying defense orders and raising unemployment in communities tied to defense plants. Even with a 51 billion defense spend, spending would remain about half of the next federal administrative budget and about 8.5 percent of GNP, as analysts weigh economy drives against peace offensive effects.
Biddeford Saco Journal published daily except Sunday at 11 Adams Street Biddeford Maine by The Journal Publishing Corp W Paul Casavant president E P Ingalls managing editor. Telephone numbers listed for business and editorial departments. Subscription rates 1 month 1.85 six months 10.50 one year 21.00. Associated Press member with local news and AP dispatches. entered as second class mail.
Ruth Willett writes that a good guest contributes to a party by relaxing with others, joining conversations, drawing shy guests into the circle, and balancing pacing so the hostess is supported and the mood stays lively.
A national review warns the United States remains about 500 000 beds short for elderly and chronically ill care despite a 32 percent rise in nursing home beds over ten years. Dr Ellen Winston notes two thirds of long term care beds failed state standards and many facilities lack registered nurses.
A merged text piece includes winter driving advice urging slower speeds, road testing, tire chains, clear visibility, and keeping distance. It also covers Ernest Borgnine revealing his July wedding to Ethel Merman, with cast plans for the ceremony and comments on their relationship and schedules.
The Cyprus conflict pits Greek and Turkish Cypriots with historic ties to Greece and Turkey. Britain, holder of long standing garrisons, shares concern as clashes threaten a broader regional security balance. A buffer zone might calm but long term peace remains doubtful.
Reported by Science Service a nine ounce radio clipped to a helmet or carried in a pocket gives soldiers instant contact with their leaders. Platoon leaders carry larger transmitters while ordinary GIs receive only receivers. The piece also mixes light humor about memory dates and everyday sayings.
Hal Boyle looks into 1964 with a mix of forecasts from politics to medicine. He predicts Khrushchev's cordial relations with the West, belt tightening in Washington, tax conflicts, Paris taxi drivers funding a de Gaulle statue, grain stored in bomb shelters, new cold cures that fail, and rising automation leading to less work but ongoing business growth. He ends with a reminder to make the year worth living.
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