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Newspaper
Biddeford Saco Journal
Location
Biddeford, Maine, United States of America
Date
Mar 28, 1962
Page
4
The editorial page presents Baldwin’s maxim on courage as the bedrock of liberty and right, framing moral resolve as a guard against injustice and encroachment. It emphasizes steadfast, principled action as essential to preserving democratic values and protecting the vulnerable.
Bruce Biossant cautions that spring vacation gatherings bring riot, promiscuity, and booze as tens of thousands of youths flood Atlantic and Pacific resorts. Police prepare for disturbances while McCall's exposes parental ignorance and permissiveness guiding the exodus. He urges parents to seek full details from towns' police before allowing travel.
President Kennedy's 15 messages to Congress push a program resembling a welfare state with consumer protections, housing, health insurance, public works, education, and social safeguards. The plan includes tax relief during recession, job-creating public works, urban redevelopment, mass transit, foreign aid, freer trade, and expanded child welfare and civil rights enforcement.
Figures from the American Catholic Bishops Relief Fund in New York show over 43 million people in 67 countries received aid in 1961. More than 2,000 shipments of clothing medicines and surplus food were sent worldwide. CRS personnel shift to Germany Austria Italy and France support socio economic programs. Bishop Swanstrom says the aim is to empower communities to meet their own needs. Bishop Feeney calls clergy religious and faithful to make sacrifices for the appeal on April 1.
President Kennedy proposes a privately owned space communications company chartered by Congress, arguing national objectives are best achieved through private enterprise with limited government regulation. He warns extended government involvement risks burdening taxpayers and eroding economic freedoms and political liberty.
Hal Boyle recalls nostalgia for the 1920s and questions if the era was really as wild as popular culture suggests. He notes stock market riches, limited cities, gangsters and federal agents, and college life myths, but adds that many survivors found rent and daily life as tough as today.
AP reports from New York and Memphis describe steel wage negotiations as a gauge of whether the economy can expand without triggering price hikes. Analysts from Chase Manhattan Bank praise a noninflationary settlement while steel users adjust orders, and police in Memphis wear fluorescent vests to stay visible at night.
Ruth Millett argues housewives waste years waiting for a perfect moment to pursue personal interests. She urges organizing time to reserve moments for self chosen pursuits, avoiding procrastination and group obligations that lack meaning.
A Retirement Advisors article highlights that aging does not inherently dull learning. It cites tests showing older adults can match or exceed younger peers, given motivation, energy and experience. Overcoming negative self belief and resistance to change is key, with practical tips to study daily through TV, reading and discussion, plus keeping reference books handy.
The Biddeford Daily prints a full page Crossword Puzzle with clues across and down covering topics from deer and rivers to literary figures. Subscribers may solve the grid and check entries using the listed numbered hints and multiple word answers.
A poem reflecting on a night of stillness and sacred calm. The speaker links quiet hours to a broader, divine light beyond the sun, pondering a night voyage as a reflection of a greater radiance. The piece closes with the signature Norman Langmaid.
The Journal publishes a reader letter from Explorer IV critiquing public towing fees garage practices and city finances. The author accuses misstatements, urges factual accuracy, and notes fines from courts fund county upkeep, not city funds, while contrasting topics in two letters.
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