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Newspaper
Biddeford Saco Journal
Location
Biddeford, Maine, United States of America
Date
Jun 01, 1962
Page
4
Bruce Biossat argues public school curricula must present a full fair and balanced view of politics economics and society. He warns teachers administrators and boards shoulder a grave duty resisting zealotry and partisan influence amid Cold War pressures from the right.
Governor John H. Reed issues a proclamation designating Sunday June 3 as Shut-In's Day in Maine. Miss Lillian Denis of Saco, a longtime Shut-In's Day worker, urges citizens to show kindness through visits cards and flowers and to continue such acts year round. Denis, despite her own health battles, has long led efforts to bring happiness to others and has earned recognition from the statewide organization and local residents.
The American Press survey of 402 editors shows a majority backing giving the President broader authority to deal with the European Common Market while opposing several social programs including universal education funding and new urban departments. Majorities support a non governmental medical plan and tighter business expense rules, with strong opposition to school construction and fall out shelters.
Washington- The 63rd USDA year book After a Hundred Years chronicles a century of farm progress. It notes land grant colleges and homesteads propelling rural development and U.S. agriculture expanding from 80 to 300 bushels per acre for potatoes and wheat variety gains. It states 1961 farm output valued at $35 billion and projections to double by 2000 to feed 350 million people. It credits Lincoln acts and Land Grant colleges for enduring growth.
AP News analyzes a crisis in confidence as stock prices fall over five months, with New York leading volatility. Business leaders see an orderly shakeout as potentially deflating overvalued stocks, while fearing a public loss of confidence that could curb consumer spending and harm the economy.
HAL BOYLE playfully catalogs amed phobias from aero to gephyro to ballisto, joking that readers may suffer from dozens of fears while noting chromatophobia as the one they lack. The piece satirizes self worry about health and normality.
Ruth Millett critiques a weekly feature that attacked grandmothers with the headline Grandma Stay Away From My Door. She argues the notion that elders are a burden is a national sickness, tracing it from family helpers to government responsibility and rest homes, urging respect for aging relatives.
Paul Harvey critiques the Billie Sol Estes fiasco linking farmers lenders and public servants to a vast boondoggle. He laments tax policy corruption and asserts Big Government profits from subsidies and licenses drive the fraud, citing editor Oscar Griffin and the Pecos angle as the origin of the tale.
A reflective verse pairs with baseball stats noting Muriel Léach's poetic refrain and Los Angeles Angels pitchers allowed 189 home runs in the American League last season. Cleveland hurlers were next, permitting 178.
A parent writes to the People's Forum urging action at the Bacon and Hills streets crossing. The letter cites lack of police directing traffic for over a month endangering St. Andre's schoolchildren. The writer asks the town director to reassign a traffic officer, noting others resist duties there and threatening to petition. The piece ends with a baking tip about oiling dough to prevent a crust.
Biddeford Saco Journal published daily except Sunday from 11 Adams Street Biddeford Maine. Publisher T J Mahoney and editor Maiie Paul Casavant with editorial department phone lines. Subscription rates listed: one month 1.85 six months 10.50 one year 21.00. Associated Press rights noted.
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