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Newspaper
Biddeford Saco Journal
Location
Biddeford, Maine, United States of America
Date
Jan 22, 1964
Page
4
Editorial notes four thousand year old Sumerian tablets reveal students who praise teachers praise practical math and lament long school days. One essay mocks work while detailing a monthly schedule with three recess days and three holy feast days. Scholars like Samuel Noah Kramer translate these baked tablets.
The piece notes wheat as a pivotal factor in trade and diplomacy with the United States as the main world source. It details crop conditions in Argentina Australia Canada and China and shows shifting export demands in Japan Europe and the Soviet bloc while highlighting rail and dock delivery strains and a U S stock of 1.7 billion bushels versus 600 million bushels needed domestically.
Washington follows President Johnson as NASA breaks with precedent by releasing its 1965 budget and a 1964 supplemental. Webb explains urgent action while Johnson aims to dramatize commitment to Kennedy era moon mission by 1970. Debate rises over budget size, allocation, and space industry benefits.
HAL BOYLE reflects on turning 53 in a humorous column. He notes aging shifts priorities from new products to obituaries and sports scores, suggests politicians’ promises fade, and jokes about shoes, memories, bus seats, and the sense that true living starts near age 53. The piece blends self mockery with wry observations on aging.
Ruth Millett urges parents to use long distance gift certificates to encourage adult children to call. The columnist suggests framing the gift as a pleasant convenience, noting it may dispel parental worry and foster contact. She reflects on past manners and argues that once children are grown, expectations aside, easy communication helps.
A wellness column notes mental health hinges on social relations and empathy. It urges self reflection on sharing, kindness, boundaries, and coping with chores, plus seeking help from the National Association for Mental Health. A Hollywood AP fragment interviews Roy Disney on Walt Disney Productions finances and collaboration. Charles Hesser recovers a denture found in a washbowl trap on a train.
A London Royal Smithfield Show judge noted pigs are judged by size and backfat, not beauty. Breeders are washing pigs for contests, recalling the movie State Fair and its famous Blue Boy pig with a ribbon on its head.
The International Years of the Quiet Sun begins as a two year global effort with more than 60 nations. Weather instruments will be rocketed aloft, balloons released, Arctic stations held by the U S and U S S R, and Antarctic bases used by 11 nations. Probes include IMPs OGOs EGOs POGOs OSOs and Mariner missions toward Mars and the Moon.
American businessmen forecast a 1964 balance of payments deficit near 1.9 billion dollars, with exports rising to 22.7 billion and imports to 18 billion. They expect gains from trade liberalization, foreign aid cuts, and stronger domestic industries, aided by President Johnson's budget requests and a volume of overseas income.
Biddeford Saco Journal published daily except Sunday at Biddeford Maine by Journal Publishing Corp W Paul Casavant president E P Ingalls managing editor lists phone numbers for departments and prints subscription rates in advance of one month 185 six months 1050 and one year 2100 as a member of the Associated Press the paper notes AP exclusive rights to local news and dispatches and that it is entered as second class postage paid at Biddeford Maine.
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