Biddeford Journal (Newspaper) - July 28, 1980, Biddeford, Maine CITY EDITION une MONDAY July 1980 2821535 3244444 9853118 25 cents 268 Days MAINE Shahs death may not help hostages Egypt UPI The former shah of who died in exile as a hounded deposed monarch wasted by will be buried Tuesday with full honors in a mosque housing the remains of modern Egyptian Iranian militants said his death will not affect the fate of the American Not a single world except for Egyptian President Sadat who granted the shah will attend the funeral of the former arbiter of the vast oil wealth that made rulers vie for the good will of Irans King of The bloodsucker of the century has died at Tehran radio said and reports from Iran said Iranians danced in the streets of the capital and turned on their headlights to A spokesman for President BaniSadr said the death of Mohammed Reza changes nothing on the fate of the 52 American held now for 268 days by militant captors who for nine months have demanded the shahs return as a condition for the Americans The militants holding the hostages said the death of the ousted leader will make no difference to their status and accused the United States of killing the French radio The in an interview in Tehran Sunday with a spokesman for the quoted him as Our position on the hostages has not changed with the death of the We do not want his said the identified as We demand the restitution of his But in Paris where he lives in the shahs last prime Related Page 5 said the death could facilitate the release of the American The only White House comment came from President Carters press secretary Jody who said I think it is almost impossible to predict what the effect will if on the fate of the Wasted by cancer and at least five operations in 18 months of exile in five the shah died Sunday of heart failure and internal with his last according to Egyptian medical pleading Please agree on a treatment program as quickly as possible and let me Continued Page CoL 5 Shah reject pact be sought three go back to the II table as r failed to ratify it Friday e pay increases in the second t years were not high ertough according to Union President Rene officials refuse to negotiate a state arbitrator would be sought in for The vote went strongly against the Only 20of the 26 union members were present for the vote and 15 cast in the Union Local Lachance Firefighters a threeyear cost of living going up so could work to their Lachance police wU be negotiating a new at of this year and firefighters are according to they will fall behind in the union is leeking decided they want a ano not a threeyear t ended a picket for parity With police in June when city council authorized an additional f for the negotiating funds were for the first year of the contract and provides parity for But m following ami police con tract firefighters arej apparently worried their pay scale may wait three years to get Lachance Lachance added firefighters are also Firefighters Governor plans visit to York County towns BIDDEFORD Joseph Brennan will be visiting the Biddeford Saco and Sanford Springvale areas making a variety of stops at state and human service The governor is looking for some hands on experience visiting in person em ployees at Biddeford and Sanford offices of the Department of Manpower Affairs and the Department of Human ac cording to Tom DHS director of public The governor will arrive at the Bid deford Airport at about and go to Biddeford City Hall for a short visit with Mayor Roger LaPointe At 12 he is scheduled to take a tour of the Summer Street housing a recent redevelopment project in downtown Brennan will tour the complex with Sharon the new director of the Maine State Housing Authority Lunner a Saco resident was nominated for the position by the governor and was confirmed by the legislature last At about the governor will visit the Saco Valley Rehabilitation Center on Green a agency that has ex financial LaPointe but has stabilized At 1 and Brennan will stop at the Biddeford DHS and Manpower Affairs In the he will visit at and the corresponding The governor will also visit the York County Community Action program in Sanford as well as the foster care home of Howard and Annie Robertson in Brennan will be interviewed at two local radio stations and at the Journal inside For arts sake and crew take a hike at OOB Drawing a record at OOB Photo by Ben Brink Titanic sailing toward two mile artistic mark By MELINDA Staff Writer OLD ORCHARD BEACH Fog and a few curious onlookers gathered around Channing Reeves and his crew shortly after 5 today as they prepared to make what he called the worlds longest They were on the near Atlantic with one roll of paper mounted on a small more rolls in a backup truck and about 30 dozen crayons on as Reeves got ready to make a 2milclong picture of landscaping along the He should be busy all he as an artist among the people one who wants to venture not adventure and react to the A summer resident of Grand where as a child he did drawings in the sand that all washed now almost has done thousands of disparate pictures But merging his work on a project of this size one which he intends to report to the Guinness Book of Records is something There were a few technical difficulties at the outset as the smaller of the two dubbed the got stuck in the sand to be pushed out by the crew and towed by the larger Somethings Channing said a few moments as the smaller vehicle began to smell of A switch in to one who weighed seemed to alleviate the and the Throughout it Reeves kept drawing as one helper kept the paper sketching buildings and an occasional a metal detector he com as the crew passes by the famous Brunswick and he advises another person up who sort of looks like a giant to Aiding him in the endeavor are Tim who works at Briggs Garage where Reeves is a Louis whos done work at the cabins where Reeves lives and Tim of the Moose a member of the family that recently drew a record number of hunting A sign on the larger truck says Im carrying linear feet of paper for the worlds longest drawing and the crew is cheerful even during the basically matching up energy with sort of a movie a new approach to With the ocean behind him and the buildings in he talks about and drawing the lines around This isnt your Winslow Homer type of he as the Titanic rolls adding the idea is to involve yourself in a place hes always thought of as A graduate of Salem State College in with a BA degree is Reeves has spent his career teaching from kindergarten to secondary He also used to do a lot of nightclub as a tablehopping and has had his own television called Drawing with in which people would call in requests for sketches and see them performed on the Hes also done charity work in places such as drawing for the and would like to mount a television show for with paper all over the walls and live as free to exercise their fancies no more static advice on how to draw a He also dreams of a trip across the drawing America together with some a project he says would cost about so he settled for the Hed like to see efforts like that become annual events at the bringing Maine ar out the This concept of drawing two miles of beach is an interesting he as the crew moves along to a projected finish on the Cumberland County with food provided by Burger King along the according to signs posted on the the work is dedicated to both Charles Lindburgh and Helen Asked Reeves simply says they are two of his favorite people and both flew Armand Paquette the slow lane 11 Journal 20 pages Wells Church in history 3 Boarding house blaze 23 5 Open convention ready 5 Almanac 2 Cartoons 9 Classifieds 171849 County 3 Crossword Puzzle 9 Dear Abby 8 Editorials 4 Education 15 Horoscope 9 todays chuckle une Jumble 9 16 England 6 Movies 8 Sports 11121314 8 Television Weather World 2 7 5 Father I was going to teach my kids he value of a but I cowan i gei inem to atop laughing long What you see is what you get Channing a local miles worth of paper which could well sketches the landscape along the set a worlds record for the longest Beach early this on two Photo by Ben Brink City will battle state sewage dumping rules Staff Writer BIDDEFORD The State of Maine wants to sue the of Biddeford for past as well as present illegal waste disposal Assistant Attorney General Cabanne Howard says the city may be penalized for its former practice of dumping into the municipal landfill and for its longstanding practice of dumping sludge We dont feel that a penalty is says City Solicitor Marcel The city is bending over back wards to The Department of Environmental Protection DEP last Wednesday turned over to the Attorney Generals Office a complaint charging that for the past two years Biddeford has been unreceptive to requests to clean out two aeration tanks at its treatment The city also failed to show sufficient speed in repairing five pumping stations that sometimes discharges raw sewage into the Saco River instead of sending it on to the treatment the DEP Were trying to get it all resolved in one Howard We expect to file some sort of combined Though the city is in the process of cleaning put the and officials say the pumping stations have been the DEP says refusal to sign a consent agreement promising payment of a penalty caused the matter to be turned over to the Attorney Generals Howard says that since the city has allowed the matter to reach the he Continued Page I City
