Blue Cross plans rate increase despite Maine insurance denial
Maine Blue Cross-Blue Shield board approved proceeding with a July 1 rate hike, despite a Bureau of Insurance denial calling it lacking legal basis. Insurance Superintendent Hagerty condemned the move as circumventing consumer protections while the company cites solvency and reserve concerns.
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Blue Cross
Augusta
Maine
UPI
Blue Cross-Blue Shield
Bureau of Insurance
Blue Cross-Blue Shield Board of Trustees
Frank M. Hagerty
Hagerty
Blue
Blue Shield
Neilson
James C. Harrod
Touching Women Respond More Positively to Strangers
A study by Dr. Jeffrey D. Fisher and Sheryle Whitcher at the University of Connecticut finds women react more positively to being touched by strangers than men. Nurses touching female patients during pre operative teaching appeared to reduce fear of complications compared with a no touch group. A touch lasting under one second can noticeably boost well being.
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Fisher
Sheryle Whitcher
Somers
Uconn
Farmington
City Hall Janitor Orders Clean-Up at Biddeford Police
Marcel Letarte, a city hall janitor, sweeps orange paint onto the Biddeford police cellblock wall after Mayor Lucien Dutremble ordered a sanitation and space-improvement cleanup. Police Chief Adelbert Morin weighs extent and notes requests for a rear exit and better ventilation. A police officer questions whether paint changes will enlarge the department.
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Marcel Letarte
Biddeford
Lucien Dutremble
Adelbert Morin
John Ewing
Discrepancy in Biddeford tax office fuels audit doubt
Biddeford tax collector Urbain Bisson says a $2000 discrepancy found in last year’s books may not be an error. The bonding firm and auditors probe the issue while former and current staff report no questioning. Bisson notes potential impact on his family and department’s reputation.
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Biddeford
Urbain Bisson
Bisson
Dargis and Carignan
Joann Cote
Ben
Deborah Ouellette
Joanne Roberge
Ms. Roberge
County seeks own control of federal job funds
York County faced a missed deadline for direct control of federal CETA funds. Chairman Paul Reny handed the package to commissioner Guy Marcotte at the April 5 meeting without noting the April 1 deadline. Marcotte lamented the lack of communication and both favored county administration over the state in the future.
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Alfred
York County
Augusta
County Commission
Paul Reny
Saco
Reny
Guy Marcotte
Commission
Marcotte
Peter Dennett
Eliot
Reay
York
Cuba and United States strike fishing rights pact
In New York and Havana officials from Cuba and the United States reached a two part agreement on fishing rights off the Florida coast and within the U S 200 mile exclusive limit Assistant Secretary of State Terence Todman announced the deal marking a rare bilateral step toward better relations since relations were severed 16 years ago Details of the pact were not released immediately but it covers overlapping territorial waters and may allow limited Cuban fishing elsewhere within the 200 mile zone
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Washington
UPI
United States
Cuba
U.S
New York
Havana
Florida
Terence Todman
Fidel Castro
Kennebunk Eyes Cable TV Bid For May Meeting
Town officials consider Continental Cablevision plans for Kennebunk after a Dover NH firm schedules a May 10 selectmen session. Phillip Read cites conditions, notes the company already serves Eliot and Berwick, while town sought bids in 1976 with no responses.
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Michael Lafavore
Kennebunk
Kenneth Barrett
Phillip Read
Continental Cablevision
Dover
N.H
Selectmen's
Read
Journal
Barrett
Maine
Eliot
Berwicks
Alamanac notes on April 28 1977 and historical highlights
The almanac for April 28 1977 notes Taurus birthdays for James Monroe and Ann Margret and lists historic events from 1788 Maryland's statehood to Mussolini's execution in 1945 and North Vietnamese advances in 1975. It mentions Kennebunkport society efforts to relocate a historic Clark Shipyard office and a Carter ancestry study in Salt Lake City with page references.
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The
Almanacky
United Press International
Sean
Venus
Mars
Mercury
Jupiter
Saturn
James Monroe
United States
Ann-Margret
Maryland
Benito Mussolini
Souse
John Hanlon
Gertrude Maling
Kennebunkport Historical Society
Massachusetts
Clark Shipyard
Carlisle
Mass
Salt Lake City
Jimmy Carter
Carter
John Carter
Schools told to start teaching the metric system
Today’s humor notes that even after the so called new math fiasco schools are instructed to begin metric system instruction. The remark caps a brief community item in the newspaper’s inside pages.
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Nellson
Jeffrey D. Fisher
University of Connecticut
Biddeford Agency
City Hall
Mono
Butterfingers
By Larry Stains
State
CETA
Job Funds
By Juan J. Walte
New England
N.E
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