Metropolitan Leadership Camp Teaches Racial Unity
About 400 students in Naples Maine run a three week summer program aimed at leadership and shared responsibility to bridge black white tensions in Boston’s suburbs. Founder John Ertha describes the camp as a model for cooperation, with a student senate and no staff salary, funded by a $57 000 state grant and a 30 dollar weekly per student budget.
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Naples
Maine
Boston
John Ertha
Ertha
Bridgeton
Roslindale
Massachusetts
Edward Macrelli
Dorchester
Macrelli
Camper Senate
Leslie Magson
Brookline
Gibson Liberation School
Roxbury
Pothole Repair Rated Low in Maine Public Survey
Maine citizens rate pothole repair poorly in a statewide survey by the University of Maine. Transportation Commissioner Roger L. Mallar says DOT will work to improve pothole fixing while snow removal ranks highest among road services with 83 percent calling it good.
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Augusta
Maine
Department of Transportion
Roger L. Mallar
Social Science Research Institute
University of Maine At
Orono
Mallar
DOT
Beach Clean-up Ordered At Goose Rocks Beach
Kennebunkport authorities will clean Goose Rocks Beach weekly after 100 petitioners urged action. Selectmen cited a March town meeting vote approving funds, and acknowledged prior neglect. Officials urged beachgoers to use barrels and avoid littering. seaweed removal is not included.
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Kennebunkport
Goose Rocks Beach
Highway Department
Electmen
Abbott Pendergast
Charles Sullivan
Maine farm cooperative warned of closure if rail line ends
Portland Maine farm group chief Maynard Berry says the Farmington Farmers Union could go out of business if the Maine Central Railroad is allowed to abandon the Wilton to Farmington branch. The railroad cites declining traffic and profit loss for the 16 mile line. Berry notes about half the branch traffic comes from the union and its 3,000 members.
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Portland, Maine
Maine
Farmington
Maynard Berry
Berry
Farmers’ Union
Carmel man acquitted over motorcycle muffler noise
In Bangor a 23 year old Carmel man was acquitted by Judge Davis Clark after a trial held in court and in the parking lot. The judge compared the noise of Haseys 650 CC chopper to a law officer's bike and ruled the two machines were neither noisier nor quieter.
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Bangor
Maine
Carmel
Davis Clark
David Hasey
Clark
Hasey
Muskie Urges Policy Change to Spur Jobs and Recovery
Sen Edmund Muskie urged the Ford administration to shift its economic approach to prevent a deeper downturn. He cited rising food prices and interest rates, sluggish housing and auto sectors, and persisting unemployment, calling for budget deficits aimed at creating jobs rather than inflation. In Maine Sabin Chemicals seeks a switch to CMP for lower power costs to support expansion and job growth.
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Portland, Maine
Edmund S. Muskie
Kiwanis Club
Muskie
Zarb and Longley hold Maine news conference after coast sail
Energy administrator Frank Zarb and Governor James B. Longley planned a news conference in Augusta as Zarb vacations in Maine. They toured the coast on a borrowed yacht, arriving with his family at the governor's summer home in Litchfield. An aide said talks likely covered energy issues after Monday's court ruling striking down the oil tariff on imported petroleum products.
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Augusta
Maine
Frank Zarb
James B. Longley
Zarb
Longley
Ralph Lowe
Litchfield
Lowe
U.S. Court of Appeals
Deportation hearings proceed for twelve student book sellers
Portland Maine AP twelve foreign students face deportation over selling Bibles and encyclopedias in Maine. officials say visa rules prohibit employment while students claim independent contracting. judges note the issue is unprecedented. defendants include Pakistanis Chinese and Mexicans enrolled at Vanderbilt Southwestern Louisiana and Oklahoma State.
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Portland
Maine
U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service
Southwestern Publishing Co
Nashville
Tenn
Howard Cohen
Brooklyn
N.Y
United States
Vanderbilt
Southwestern Louisiana
Oklahoma State
Bangor
Auburn
Brunswick
Immigration Office
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Missy
Young
Ly Price
Main Street
Biddeford , Maine
Dick Danforth
Sores Et Department
Dublque All Beef
Whitney
Pepsi Cola
Nissen
Kool Aid
Town House Oval
Keebler Crackers
Sunbeam
Hamburg
Nester
Prc
Evigny
Bradbury Street
Jeford
New England
Campbell's Chic
Anderson
New Maine
Bing Cherries
Poz
Iss
Sen. Muskie
Ford
Power Company
Augusta, Maine
Sabin Chemicals Inc
Orrington
Public Utilities Commission
Sobin
Bangor Hydro-Electric
PUC
Central Maine Power Co
CMP
Sabin
Bucksport
Peter DiAngelis
DiAngelis
Biddeford-Saco
Painchand’s
Five Points Shopping Center
Saco Valley Shopping Center
Saco
Biddeford
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