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Newspaper
Biddeford Saco Journal
Location
Biddeford, Maine, United States of America
Date
Oct 20, 1960
Page
4
Decline in Textbook Quality Warned by Kirk
Russell Kirk argues in National Review that over forty to fifty years textbooks have deteriorated in style and substance. He cites improved paper and type but generalizations and indoctrination toward progressive and socialist attitudes in high school texts. He laments publishers bowing to educationist pressure and the shift toward centralized welfare support and Soviet sympathy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Russell Kirk
National Review
Are You Disfranchised By Not Voting In Elections
Millions of Americans effectively disfranchise themselves by not voting each election year. They are described as lazy or too busy, allowing minority rule to determine offices. The text urges citizens to analyze candidates, understand platforms, and vote to defend freedom against dictatorship.
Rehabilitation boosts employment for the handicapped in 1960
The vocational rehabilitation program placed 82,275 disabled workers in 1960, a 9 percent rise. Maine grew 7 percent, Michigan used 92.5 percent of its $320,790 federal allotment. About 18,900 recipients were on relief, costing nearly $17 million, while rehabilitation cost about $16 million but yielded morale and self-sufficiency gains.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Maine
Esther van Wagoner Tufty
The
Journal
Washington
Michigan
Maine P T A to push state funding for school lunches
Resolutions expected at the Maine Congress of Parents and Teachers convention at Jack Junior High School in Portland October 20 and 21 urge state financing of school lunch costs. Maine towns vary in support, with Portland earmarking 17000 dollars in the 1960 budget as the city's share.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Maine Congress of Parents and Teachers
Jack Junior High School
Portland
P.T.A
United States
Congress
Maine
P. A
Advice for Castro and a wary word for small neighbors
The San Francisco Chronicle reprints an editorial cautioning Fidel Castro about aiding Guiana with a $5 million loan and guaranteed rice purchases. It warns Castro to beware of being branded an imperialist aggressor and critiques idealistic optimism in rural farming and family life.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Francisco Chronicle
Cuba
British Guiana
Castro
Guiana
Fidel Castro
Senor Castro
Washington editors rate candidates images over big issues
A NEA survey of 300 U.S. editors finds Democratic nominee Kennedy hurt by religion wife youth and experience while Nixon's record outpaces Kennedy. Editors largely back Lodge as a farm belt asset and view Johnson as limiting Democratic gains in the liberal north.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
NEA
U.S
John F. Kennedy
Kennedy
Smith
Midwest
United States
East
Tion
Nixon
Jack Kennedy
Jacqueline
Richard M. Nixon
Daily Paper
GOP
Henry Cabot Lodge
Lodge
Lyndon Johnson
Texas
Johnson
North
Smooth the Man's Way For True A. M. Harmony
An ex-English butler running a school for butlers offers morning routines to start the master well. Advice covers waking, dressing order, avoiding chatter, setting the table, and presenting a cheerful greeting plus a proper kiss, aiming to reduce chaos and start the day smoothly.
Government Gradual Retirement Plan eyed by Welfare Dept
AP Newsfeatures reports Health, Education and Welfare 60,000 employees may test a voluntary gradual retirement by Jan 1. The plan allows part time work with annuity adjustments, tailoring schedules to each job, from shorter days to shorter weeks or years. O'Brien hopes broader adoption across government and private sectors.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Health, Education and Welfare Department
Civil Service Commission
James ©. O'Brien
Welfare Department
O'Brien
Economy wobble shakes hopes for housing surge
AP reports housing activity remains weak despite easier credit as builders blame high costs and unsold inventory. September housing down 7 percent from August, with year‑to‑date decline 19 percent versus 1959, while industrial output and retail sales lag. Government acts to spur spending, exports, and defense orders amid persistent joblessness and slipping profits.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sam Dawson
AP Business News
NEW York
Washington
Pat Boone shifts career to movies and stage
Hollywood interview with Pat Boone discusses leaving weekly TV after three years, focusing on films, records, and personal appearances. Boone explains he moved his family to California for new phases, turning toward two movies per year and reduced TV time. He notes a prophecy predicting change came true, including more home time for him and his wife.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bob Thomas
Hollywood
Calif
Cooga Mooga, Inc
Pat Boone
California
ABC
Pat
Knock Wood
Mountain stream sings through creation in praise
A verse portrays a mountain stream greeting birds and cattle, a sparrow speaking to a buttercup, and flowers blooming in a cellar hole. It touches on shells, driftwood, shut-ins gaining strength, and pilgrims finding divine footprints in moonlight as Lily D. Pearce signs from Old Orchard Beach.
VIP cruise from Kittery sails with weekend guests
The USS Grouse (MSC 015) departed Kittery at 0900 with fifteen unusual weekend guests aboard. Aboard were R Violette A Jarvis R Beal CWO P O Dunnell USNR Capt N Damon USN Ret J Kelley LCDR Levy USNR I E Boothby H Hagstrom J Lefond H Winebaum H Werounsky O Cushman LT R F McDevitt USN C O Naval Reserve Training Center Portsmouth NH and J Bogen BM1 USN Navy recruiter Portsmouth. The ship under LCDR R H McDougal sailed to the Isle of Shoals area. Visibility was poor due to fog but the voyage proceeded smoothly with tours of the Mine Countermeasures Division and ship spaces followed by radar based bridge training.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
R. Violette
A. Jarvis
R. Beal
CWO
P. O'Donnell
USNR
N. Damon
J. Kelley
R. Levy
Portsmouth
R. H. McDougal
USNRR
Sanford
Maine
Isle of Shoals
Shannon
F. Souza
McCarthy
CIC Co
Nbat
Daily Crossword Puzzle ACROs5 1 Woe is me 5 Spanish linen 9 Han Cities
Crossword puzzle clues listed with numbers and partial phrases, including “Woe is me” and “Spanish linen” across multiple entries, with ambiguity and truncation in the provided fragment. The readable items suggest a dated puzzle layout and garbled OCR text.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
China
Brimstones
Province of Main
North Dakota
Italy
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Washington News
Ruth Miller
Retirement and
By Ray Henry
Ray Henry
Business Mirror
Biddeford - Saco Journal
Adams Street
Biddeford
Marie Paul Casavant
Oe Mahoney
Associated Press
Lily D. Pearce
Old Orchard Beach
Kittery
New Zealand
Arrots
L’amerique du
Naa
Colleq
Oregon
Mountain Gap
Texan
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