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Newspaper
Biddeford Saco Journal
Location
Biddeford, Maine, United States of America
Date
Jan 20, 1969
Page
8
A column surveys odds and ends from celebrity musings and common sense. It notes women increasingly owning life insurance, cautions about highway safety, and recalls Mozart and Julius Caesar in short, pointed observations.
Treasury official Frederick Deming tells a House Senate subcommittee that overeager demand and money in the United States is pulling in imports and risking a deteriorating balance of payments. The piece discusses deficits over 11 years, the dollar's role, and potential futures if inflation or investment restrictions shift.
At the Holiday Inn Augusta vocational directors from Brideford High and other schools gathered for a state meeting. Melvin Gay and Jean Jones chaired sessions on homemaking and proposed wage earning occupational programs in regional centers. Speakers highlighted national progress in occupational education with significant enrollment shifts and curriculum material discussions.
Guidelines for course content and scope were presented by Mrs Marion Moody. The state team discussed job analysis methods used by trade and industrial coordinators and planned curriculum workshops for horsemaking occupations in the upcoming spring semester.
Saco Girl Scout Troop 22 visited Biddeford radio station WIDE after gathering at First Parish Congregational Church. The event listed numerous participants led by Mrs. Robert Warner and Mrs Thomas Haley with assistant leaders Mrs Robert Hunt.
The Miniwanca Star Club met at the home of Mr and Mrs Dean Speed on Portland Avenue Friday evening. President Helen Speed led the business meeting with reports on refrigerator purchase kitchen committee and cookbooks sale. It was decided to sell candy again and the mystery prize was won by May Slaney. Refreshments followed and a social hour was held in Section 47 of Want Ads. The group plans to meet February 21 at Robinson Memorial Hall with Lucille Mooers volunteering to serve refreshments. Present were Mr and Mrs etc. Louise King Charles Mooers Howard Slaney Gertrude Leonard Phyllis Sargent and Gertrude Wight.
Northern Copperheads allied with the South planned to overthrow the Lincoln administration, but the plot was uncovered and quashed, according to the report.
Betty Canary highlights the difficulty of giving compliments across generations from a porch scene to a kitchen. A frazzled family dinner unfolds as relatives coax praise for ham loaf and dessert, while the hostess shrugs off the praise. The comical piece ends noting that the evening was far from nothing.
The Pharos at Alexandria stood from the third century B C until the Middle Ages as one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. It served as a beacon and landmark guiding sailors in ancient Egypt and Mediterranean trade.
Six University of Maine extension courses will be offered at Biddeford High School this spring. Prospectus and applications are available from 7:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. weekdays at the school office. Evening classes will be held at Biddeford High School and cover Principles of Algebra English Composition II History Since 1877 History of Western Europe Structure of Arithmetic and Fundamentals of Public Speaking.
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