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Newspaper
Biddeford Saco Journal
Location
Biddeford, Maine, United States of America
Date
Jul 08, 1972
Page
3
A reader asks how to handle a husband who gets drunk and gives away possessions. Another notes unlisted numbers require respect. A couple in Indiana seeks quiet marriage and Social Security questions. A dining worker pleads to tip the correct server. Abby replies with guidance.
In Tel Aviv Israeli mothers urge their teenage daughters toward sexual relations. Dr Ruth Navon notes girls complain mothers pressure them to date and be intimate. Dr Zev Segal says mothers fear becoming old maids if daughters remain single. A Japanese professor Fumio is mentioned.
Yamada argues youths mature earlier due to better nutrition. He links improved eating with earlier physical development and notes earlier onset of sexual activity as a natural consequence. The statement reflects a simple biological perspective on modern adolescence.
Ames E. Baker, 37, a career foreign service officer, is assigned to the U S Embassy in Pretoria as economic and commercial officer. He becomes the first black American diplomat permanently posted to South Africa, likely for two to three years, with no stated restrictions expected by the government.
Federal officials and Maine chicken producers met in Portland with Rep. Peter Kyros to agree on relaxing cosmetic defect checks. They cited excessive scrutiny leading to bird rejection, saying 85 percent of issues relate to feather cosmetics.
Sears, Roebuck and Co. will switch to the average daily balance method for determining finance charges on charge accounts starting with September bills. The change uses new computer technology and excludes current month purchases from the balance calculation, with examples provided by Donald J. Handel.
The White House announced a new 2 million dollar push to develop long lasting non addictive narcotic antagonists for heroin treatment and prevention. The plan aims to stop addicts from getting a high and to prevent pathologic experimentation with heroin. The National Institute of Mental Health cited nine research contracts for clinical and pre clinical testing of experimental drugs.
The Rev Dana McLean Greeley D D will be the guest minister at Sundays 11 a m service in Eleanor B Forbes Chapel at the Ferry Beach Park Association Saco with backup at Rowland Hall in bad weather His sermon is Universal Salvation Today Greeley a Harvard graduate has led the American Unitarian Association and later the Unitarian Universalist Association.
The district court in Saco granted divorces on cruel and abusive grounds. Linda Dargie of Kennebunk divorced Raymond H. Dargie of Cromwell. she resumes her maiden Brearey name. Judith Holbrook of Kennebunkport divorced Donald Holbrook Sr.. three children. $10 weekly per child and $300 counsel fees. Ronald Chretien of Biddeford divorced Lucienne Chretien. one child. $15 weekly child support and $300 counsel fees.
A packed schedule lists a Sunday strawberry festival at First Congregational Church and a Wells fireman chicken barbeque at Waldo Chick’s farm. Also a Rose Show at Cheverus High School, SPEBSQSA rehearsal, a tennis club hearing, and various exhibitions and youth programs across Kennebunkport, Arundel, Sanford, and Berwick, plus a note on the Eiffel Tower iron cube analogy.
Detroit AP reports General Motors asks the Price Commission for authority to raise 1973 model prices by an average $90 per vehicle about 2.4 percent with a second increase planned for Jan 1. GM cites government safety bumper and emissions rules and other design costs. Ford anticipated to follow.
State officials announced opening days for deer season with Oct. 23 as the northern zone start and Nov. 6 for the southern zone. Both zones will close Nov. 25, and the northern zone gets shortened with changed hunting lines.
The 36 year old Portland man Al Evans was found in murky oil slicked waters of Portland Harbor near a fishing boat he lived on. Police plan autopsy. Friends say Evans likely fell from the boat tied at Customs House Wharf Thursday afternoon. A companion heard a splash as he left.
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