Saco Seeks Sewer Upgrade Vote Near Mandate Deadline
Saco voters will decide at the December 11 municipal election on a $674000 bond referendum to fund two sewage treatment plants, one on Factory Island and another on Front Street, with the tannery covering most of its cost and donating land for the Factory Island facility. The plan aims to meet the Water Improvement Commission deadline for pollution control by January 1, 1968 and serves downtown and beach areas with interceptor lines and pumping stations.
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Bill Houston
Water Improvement Commission
Saco
W.I.C
Com
Mittee
Saco Tanning Corp
Factory Island
Front Street
Jbarn
Saco Aldermanic Candidates Split Over Council Manager Charter
In Saco voters face Dec 11 in a municipal election with four of seven wards backing the council manager charter. Incumbent Benjamin Grant supports it as guiding finances while Millard Leary Harold Waight Raymond Dupuis and Donald Lester also back the plan citing progress and efficiency despite some vague points and needed changes.
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Saco
Benjamin R. Grant
Millard S. Leary
Harold P. Waight
Raymond R. Dupuis
Donald D. Lester
School Union 7 Discusses Equal Representation Sparks Debate
Old Orchard Beach and Saco boards clash over residency rules for a future superintendent and assistant and the related salary standoff. The Beach committee chair Mokarzel pushes Old Orchard Beach residency, but a 3-3 vote blocks action. Seaver abstains then votes against. study committee urged.
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Peggy Welch
School Union 7
Saco
Old Orchard Beach
Bernard C. Forbush
Howard Cushman
Joseph Mokarzel
Beach Committee
Tendent
Jerome Plante
Beach
Union 7
Burns School
Gilman Seaver
Roger Verrier
John Harvey
Harvey
Elizabeth Shaw
Mokarzel
Seaver
Plante
Louis de Angelis
Burglars Blow Safe At Beach Market
Police investigate a break in at Zahares I G A Foodliner on Heath Street Old Orchard Beach. Thieves used a truck to smash a steel rear door and blew the safe with dynamite then drilled the upper lock without success. Store owners say large sums are usually kept in the upper safe.
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Old Orchard Beach
Zahares I.G.A. Foodliner
Heath Street
John H. Clark
Donald Zahares
Will items name Thornton Academy as major beneficiary
A probate notice outlines Edith Scamman of Saco leaving 10,000 to Thornton Academy and real estate on Main Street, 35 acres, to be named Scamman Hall. The will also leaves sizable gifts to Miss Scammon’s favored institutions, colleges, and relatives, with Harvard and Radcliffe receiving substantial bequests. Other estates include Alfred J Cote and Rudolphe Thibodeau bequests to spouses and brothers.
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Alfred
Thornton Academy
Edith Scamman
Saco
Henry Scamman
Scamman
Marion G. Merrill
Clara P. Devine
Portland
Francesca Scammon
Georgia Allen
Webber Hospital
John L. Allen
the Congregational Christian Conference of Maine
United Church Board For World Ministries
New York
Wellesley College
Radcliffe College
Harvard College
Miss Scammon
Alfred J. Cote
Angela Cote
Rudolphe Thibodeau
Biddeford
Richard H. Thibodeau
Boston
Congress nets tentative anti poverty bill and TB breakthrough
House and Senate conferees seek a compromise antipoverty measure amid a bumpy road. A new oral TB drug is hailed as a breakthrough and could be available soon.
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House
Senate
Congress
L. H. Fountain
North Carolina
O’brien
Edward M. Kennedy
Johnson
Massachusetts
Kennedy
Harold Howe II
U.S
United States
South Africa
Vietnam
McArthur Library names George Horvath as librarian
The McArthur Library Association trustees announce the appointment of George Horvath 43 as librarian. Horvath, born May 5 1924 in Trenton New Jersey, has a long background in education and library work including Fulbright Norway, Dearborn Public Library roles, and leadership of a 1966 library renovation at Fiske Free Library Claremont New Hampshire. He is married with seven children and advocates libraries as a peoples free university.
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McArthur Library Association
George Horvath
Horvath
Trenton
N.J
Monessen High School
Monessen
U.S. Army
New Guinea
Philippines
Tulane University
Eastern Michigan University
Wayne State University
Detroit Mich
Melvindale
Mich
Norway
Dearborn Public Library
Dearborn
Fiske Free Library
Claremont
N.H
J and Feders
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Kennebunk- Kennebunkport Chamber of Commerce
Glen-Mor
Kennebunk
Horace A. Hildreth Jr
Falmouth
H. David Walley
Chamber
Ralph L. Smith
Kennebunkport
By Bill Houston
Main Street
New Modern Foundation & Bra Shop
Smoothies
CBS and
Poirette
Tru Balance
Sarong
Hollywood Vassarette
A&p
Biddeford & Saco
Silverbrook Creamery Fresh
WRR
Fea. Corp
In School Union
Thornton
H. W Thompson, Inc
Alfred St
Biddeford-Saco Stores
THE
Associated Press
Washington
North Vietnam
Hanoi
New York City
Armed Forces Induction Center
Lynn A. Davis
Arkansas
Louis Washkansky
Jim
Jo-Ann Shop
McArthur
Citizens OF
Saco’s New Charter
Saco Council-Manager Citizens Association
Charles R. Cote
J. E. Whelan
Factory Island Meat Market, Inc
Main St
Atkinson
Sacred Heart League
Notre Dame Parish
Maine
Linoleum CO
Alfred Street
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