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Biddeford Saco Journal

Location

Biddeford, Maine, United States of America

Date

Jan 12, 1968

Page

7

Area school menus feature weekly lunches across six towns

Readable school lunch menus list weekly offerings for St Andre's Biddeford Kennebunk Old Orchard Beach Biddeford Public Schools Saco Public Schools and Thornton Academy. Items include spaghettI with meat sauce roast beef fish sticks macaroni and cheese and turkey dishes with sides and desserts.

School Lunch Menu Snapshots

Tuesday features Vienna sausage with sauce and fluffy rice with tossed salad roll butter and pineapple. Wednesday offers corned beef hash cheese stick whole kernel corn roll butter strawberry shortcake and milk. Thursday presents turkey with gravy sweet potato er roll butter and milk. Friday shows Poor Boy sandwich with fish tomato lettuce tartar sauce catsup green beans gingerbread topping and milk.

St. Andre’s School Biddeford Old Orchard Beach Saco Public Thornton Academy Vienna

Mendel and the birth of genetics explained

The World Almanac notes Gregor Mendel, an Austrian Augustinian monk, discovered heredity laws that birthed genetics. He published in 1866 but gained impact only after 1900 when three European botanists independently recognized his work, decades later.

Gregor Mendel Mendel

Islander Wears Many Hats In Line Of Duty

Prudence Island's 56 year old Todd Farnham serves as police officer fireman and public works head for the Rhode Island island. He coordinates road clearing tutors the island's one teacher and handles duty during tourist season when 1500 to 2000 visitors arrive. Farnham also aids Portsmouth authorities and oversees island utilities with a small year round staff and volunteers.

Art Hatton JR Associated Press Prudence Island Todd Farnham Rhode Island Farnham Judence Public Works Department Portsmouth Narragansett Bay Bristol Coast Guard Maryland

Ho Chi Minh Dawdling Helped Communism, Hurt U.S. Hope

AP News Analyst James Marlow argues Ho Chi Minh delayed the North Vietnamese Viet Cong effort to seize South Vietnam, a pause that may have saved communism at a cost for Washington. He notes U.S. hesitation before 1960 and the costly, drawn out war that split America and could deter future foreign commitments.

Washington Ho Chi Minh South Vietnam North Vietnam Viet Cong Ngo Dinh Diem United States Diem Chiang Kai-shek China South Korea Pmce Johnson Asia

Violence Rises as Shanghai Battles Over Capitalism

AP reports a Maoist newspaper in Shanghai describes capitalism supporters as hoodlums and delinquents. It notes worker movement splits, pervasive class enemies in education and media, and the formation of a rival Red militia in a struggle for power amid Mao era upheaval.

John Roderick Associated Press Tokyo Mao Tsetung Shanghai Red China Liberation Daily

Targeted purge criticized as social purge rhetoric

The Lugolec. 22 issue declares hoodlums are political enemies of the people and calls for discrediting backstage planners and diehards. It identifies President Liu Shao-chi as chief target of the purge in sharp political critique.

Lugolec Liu Shao-chi

Seed tapes spread for precise planting in growing trials

The Weeders Guide reports increasing use of seed tapes to space seeds uniformly, reducing thinning and transplanting. Cornell researchers developed tape planting devices, with a seed picker to place individual seeds, while California scientists cite economics as a determinant of adoption.

Earl Aronson AP News Cornell University Wesley W. Gunkel Aides Minnesota Mining Co Gunkel University of California California

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