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Newspaper
Biddeford Saco Journal
Location
Biddeford, Maine, United States of America
Date
Mar 01, 1962
Page
4
Thought for the evening reflecting on the distance between hating and understanding human motives. A concise meditation on empathy and perspective attributed to James Russell Lowell.
Bruce Biassot argues the United States must mobilize thousands of space specialists, with 30 000 already involved and over 100 000 expected by decade's end. He cites educators on starting math and science early and broad interdisciplinary training to meet space age needs. Kennedy calls space the new ocean and urges inspiring youth to become space mariners.
Representative A H Herlong argues for the Herlong Baker program a five year tax cut plan reducing individual base rate from 20 to 15 percent and top rate from 91 to 47 percent while reforming capital gains estate gift and depreciation rules. The aim is to spur capital formation and an expanded economy generating higher future tax revenue.
The piece argues unemployment stays near 6 percent despite higher pay and more jobs. Economists blame minimum wage hikes and broader wageHour law coverage, noting retailers face slim margins and higher wages reduce marginal hiring. The author warns that wage levels must reflect productivity to avoid persistent joblessness.
United Nations committee plans meetings in New York on March 19 to test Khrushchev's proposal for international space research. Kennedy supports collaboration while both powers push for rules on celestial bodies, peaceful uses, and weather satellite advances.
AP Business News Analyst examines mixed U S data on industrial output personal income and retail sales for January and February 1962 noting weather and labor factors. It asks whether the recovery still has zip while highlighting durable goods orders auto sales steel output and housing trends.
The real April fool in Hal Boyle's tale is the author. Amos Tog gle, head of the Giant Acme Tiddlywinks Corp, learns when Hector Squiggle reveals a $7.50 weekly raise, and the signature matches an April 1 calendar. The twist is the boss denies signing it.
A moralizing column argues that a 20 hour work week would disrupt home life, leaving wives unable to manage chores, children, and homes with husbands at home too little. It humorously explores the clash of domestic duties and paternal presence.
Senator Margaret Chase Smith accuses front running Republicans of back pedaling and mocks Nixon Rockefeller Goldwater while predicting Romney as a GOP savior. The piece centers on Kennedy health Addison’s disease and the potential shift of the 1964 race to a younger brother or Lyndon Johnson if needed.
In a Biddeford newsroom fable a prank note prompts Mr. Toggle to boost wage for longtime helper Squiggle. Hector, mistaken by colleagues as the prank author, enjoys a celebratory champagne toast at home as the ruse unfolds into a small victory.
The reader lists crossword prompts and clues numbered 1 through 55 covering definitions for terms like fast, interrogative interjection, former empire of South America, compromise phrase, people, pupil, money in the pot, do nothing, compensate for, old French coin, soaring, amount of assess, the theatre, separate paired terms, district of Lands, and Columbine. It presents fragmented crossword entries rather than a single narrative.
A reflective poem on snowflakes as cold yet magical, fragile and beautiful. It contrasts their beauty with the hunger and danger they cause, depicts winter scenes of children and a dog, and ends with a plea for the sparkling snow to descend.
Reader thanks Biddeford area residents for acts of generosity amid severe snow conditions described as a blind-men’s bluff on wheels setting. The note asks the Journal to publish a longer letter continuing on Page Eighteen.
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