Maremont Waste Discharge Testimony Heard
The Maine DEP hearing on Maremont Corporation’s license to discharge one million gallons daily into Goosefare Brook recessed after five hours of testimony. The session will resume in about two weeks with updates from Maremont and input from opposing groups Saco Conservation Commission and Ocean Park Conservation Society.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
State Department of Environmental
Saco Conservation Commission
Ocean Park Conservation Society
Maremont
Saco
Donald Spence
E.C. Jordan Co
Atty
Judy Potter
Spence
EPA
Samuel Zaitlin
John Bird
James Janetti
Polackwich
A. J. Polackwich
Blackwich
Board of Environmental Protection
County Budget Slashed by Seventy Thousand in York County Vote
The York County delegation narrowly approved a 70 000 reduction for the 1973 1974 biennium cutting totals from 861 986 47 to 836 896 47 and 879 814 47 to 844 814 47 with revenue sharing funds replacing Part 1 cuts. The move lowers the tax rate to about 98 cents per thousand for 1973 municipalities will pay less than prior biennium. Republicans sought deeper cuts but agreed to a compromise amid concerns revenue sharing could be cut in the next period.
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York County
Acaeaea
F. Sheltra
Biddeford
Augusta
Paul Reny
Lucien Dutremble
GOP
Elmont S. Tyndale
Kennebunkport
Sheltra
State Troopers Fall Behind Local Police In Pay and Benefits
Maine’s 225 state troopers, once higher paid, now trail municipal officers in wages and benefits as collective bargaining widens with AFL-CIO locals and independent groups. The Maine State Troopers Association lobbies for raises amid legislative rejection while trooper pay scales lag nearby New Hampshire and Vermont levels.
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Augusta
Maine
Maine State Troopers Association
State House
Appropriations Committee
Afl-Cio
New Hampshire
Vermont
White House foresees added aid to South Vietnam
After Nixon and South Vietnam President Thieu met at the Western White House, officials signaled likely increases in economic aid beyond the current over 500 million dollars a year. They urged restraint on discussing possible vigorous responses to truce violations while warning that infiltrations from North Vietnam are a concern.
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San Clemente
Calif
White House
South Vietnam
Nixon
Saigon
Nguyen van Thieu
Ress
Ronald L. Zieser
Thieu
North Vietnam
Ziegler
Vietnam
St Francis Opts For Week’s Ban On Meat Boycott
The article notes a boycott affecting meat prices as of April 9 D-Day for impact on costs. President Nixon set price ceilings on beef lamb and pork March 29 with a deadline for retailers to work out legal maximums by April 9. Farmers hold back cattle and hogs as the boycott enters its fourth day.
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St. Francis
Nixon
Paul Blair
National Farmers Organization
Bridgeport
Malcolm McCabe
Massachusetts Retail Grocers Association
McCabe
St. Francis College
Biddeford
Food Committee
Bernard Carson
Food Service
Saga Foods
Carson
Tas
Meat boycott grows despite slumping hog markets and layoffs
Hog shipments at 11 major markets Tuesday total 18 000 versus 40 000 a week ago and 44 000 year ago. A Boston based North American Packing Co spokesman says sales are down 50 percent. Granite State Reaction Gov. Meldrim Thomson says the boycott protests an economic system and is working.
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North American Packing Co
Boston
Associated Press
Governor's Mansion
College
Granite State
Meldrim Thomson
New Hampshire
Thomson
Diane Fullman
Concord
Mass
Anthony Zona
Fulton Packing Co
Zona
Clark AFB Homecoming Brings Laughs at Airport
A Clark AFB homecoming delivers a light moment as a wife jokes at the airport about writing a note even if it is only a check. The scene captures the lighthearted mood of a military homecoming.
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Maremont Waste
Federal
Environmental Retection Agency
Janetti
Atty, Potter
Bird
Richard Nixon
Nguyen van Thieu Chat
U.S
Maryline White
Sue
Guy Marcotte
D Biddeford
Roland Gauthier
Sanford and Son
Walter Hichens
Eliot
Kittery House
Henry Hodgdon
Dave Swearingen
Elliot Richardson
Congress
South
Richardson
Boycott
Hackfire
Inside the Journal
Clark Afb
Abby
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