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Newspaper
Biddeford Saco Journal
Location
Biddeford, Maine, United States of America
Date
Oct 28, 1964
Page
4
Thought for evening reflects on companionship with noble ideas. Quotation from Sir Philip Sidney opens the page, inviting readers to ponder the value of virtuous contemplation.
U S companies contribute about 160 million yearly to schools and colleges in materials equipment and services. A survey of 248 firms shows 25 percent of national business sales directed to education with an average 250 000 per company. Companies cite reasons from improving teacher efficiency to boosting future manpower while gaining prestige and closer industry ties.
An examination of campaign speeches suggests loud oratory rarely translates into votes. Bryan dominated public hears, yet 1896 results favored McKinley who spoke less yet connected with voters. Historic orators Webster Clay Calhoun gave way to quieter leaders like Grant and Coolidge in elections.
The piece notes a November gate to the West for East Germans aged 60 to 65 plus yearly memories of mass emigration since 1961. It cites 6 000 successful defections and 53 deaths while accusing the regime of using the move as propaganda and a cost saving measure. The writing ends with unrelated reflections on gardening and cautious driving.
Bob Phinney a 22 year old Bowdoin student from Arrowsic Island wowed Maine and New York crowds with pine wood partridge and other birds sold to museums and collectors for 3000 and 2700 dollars. Maine art and craft pride highlighted by the World’s Fair exhibit and a call to industrialists to value skilled workers.
Ruth Willett outlines timeless rules for lasting friendships. She stresses confidentiality, active support, and consistent communication while encouraging genuine happiness for friends, open-mindedness about differences, and continual effort to include others in life.
The Chrysler United Auto Workers settlement adds a Social Security option for early retirement and a survivor’s pension. Affected workers can retire at 60 with 30 years for up to five years at 70 percent of pay, then drop to normal pension with Social Security. A wife can receive up to 55 percent of the pension if the worker dies, with a coordinated widow’s benefit of $100 monthly for two years or longer under age 62.
A reader letter column discusses postwar promises and the costs of social programs. The writer attacks Medicare and the war on poverty as unfunded, argues education expansion, and critiques Paquet Jr’s liberal versus conservative definitions. The piece cites taxation, school funding, and social policy while referencing antisemitic tirades and ethnic background. Continued on Page Eighteen.
New York AP sketch classifies common office bores with humorous nicknames Harry Heary Parasite Basil Bigears Glorene Heller J Morgan Gasser Andy Handy and Samuel Stonehart. The piece invites readers to spot familiar coworker habits and ends with the reminder that one often recognizes a bore by seeing one in themselves.
The month long GM walkout cost the economy with $7 million daily wage losses and halted 100000 cars weekly. Ford and Chrysler maintained output while GM lost over half its sales and many lost orders shifted to rivals. Value Line warned 1965 production could drop about 10 percent from 1964, as suppliers suffered also. Sam Dawson is on vacation.
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