Specialty Agencies In State Grow With New Maine Focus
Maine Governor James B. Longley expands seven executive divisions though staffing remains lean. Five agencies—the Office of Energy Resources, the State Development Office, the Office of Economic Opportunity, the State Planning Office and the Criminal Justice Planning and Assistance Agency—see funding climbs from Curtis era totals to a projected 8.47 million for 1976 while overall state and federal support nears 242 million. Abbie Page leads Energy Resources with 28 500 dollars, while the State Development Office shrinks from 45 to nine staffers as Hadley Atlas pushes Maine business in.
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Augusta
James B. Longley
Maine
Longley
State House
Capitol City
Kenneth M. Curtis
Office of Energy Resources
State Development Office
Office of Economic Opportunity
State Planning Office
Criminal Justice Planning and Assistance Agency
Gov. Curtis
State Budget Office
Gov
Office OF
Energy Resources
Robert Monks
Abbie Page
Department of Commerce and Industry
Hadley Atlas
IRA gunmen reject hostage food exchange in London
In London an IRA group holding a man and wife in their flat refused a police offer of their first meal in exchange for Sheila Matthews. Scotland Yard said the captors would only leave the room as prisoners, while security expanded elsewhere amid rumors Michael Wilson may not be among the hostages.
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London
Irish Republican Army
Sheila Matthews
Matthews
John
Robert Mark
Scotland Yard
Mark
IRA
Brixton Prison
the Yard
Michael Wilson
Britain
Indonesian Dies In Escape From Amsterdam Consulate
An Indonesian consular official E Abedy aged 52 died after injuring during an escape from the South Molucan siege at the Indonesian consulate in Amsterdam. The six day assault left hostages and multiple fatalities as separatist gunmen hijacked a train and held about 30 people.
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Amsterdam
The
Netherlands
Justice Ministry
E. Abedy
Holland
Two Of The Four Dominated Old Orchard Beach Vote
Voters in Old Orchard Beach produced the largest turnout in town history, ousting incumbents Morin St Hilaire and Bird while reelecting Richard Marshall and Thomas Lee Sr. The recall battle centered on Acting Town Manager Jerome Plante as Bird’s effort failed.
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Old Orchard Beach
Arnold Morin
Paul St. Hilaire
Jerome Plante
John Bird
Plante
Bird
Morin
St. Hilaire
Richard Marshall
Thomas Lee Sr
Marshall
Lee
Louis DeAngelis
DeAngelis
E. Emerson Cummings
John Litwinett
Francis Manduca
Council
Orin
Rita Belair
Manduca
Biddeford Airport land purchase triggers city hall shakeup
City solicitor Edward Gaulin must file a full 1975 activity report while Philip Gadbois faces resignation from the airport commission. Mayor Lucien Dutremble initiated the shakeup amid a land buy of 288 acres near the airport, some land possibly earmarked for runway expansion, valued at about 37 750 dollars.
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Biddeford
Edward Gaulin
Philip Gadbois
Airport Commission
Lucien Dutremble
Gaulin
Gadbois
Granite Street
Robert Gore
Saco
Prudential Invest
Moore
George Es Roberts
DesRoberts
Prudential
Doyon
Kennebunk High approves outdoor smoking area trial
Kennebunk School District 71 board approves a designated outdoor smoking area for a trial period after student council appeal. Smoking will be allowed before school after lunch and at day end in the rear courtyard with self policing by smokers.
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Peter Kingsley
Kennebunk
Kennebunk High
KHS
Richard Littlefield
Frances Landry
Spencer Trask
David Segee
Anne Harrison
Woman the lifeboats raises an awkward liberation pun
A humorous note from Today's Chuckle jokes about women liberation with the line Woman the lifeboats provoking a chuckle and critique of phrasing.
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State Planning
Allen G. Pease
Stephen Muskie
Pease
Carolyn Manson
Abedy
Surjadi Kromomihardjo
Semeul Metiary
Clarence Roberts
Scott Wood
Robert Perrin
Donna Moutsatsos
William Farrington
Moutsatsos
Farrington
Arthur Anderson
Frederick Hayes
Michael Smith
Smith
Hayes
Nancy Jackman
Carmen Cretaro
Pet Safety Commission
Paulontaine
Fontaine
Suport
Cretaro
Alfred Brune
Ronald Benson
Bruce Townsend
Townsend
Barbara Lord
Joyce Kkee
Park Commission
OOB
Kathleen Do’connell
Dutremble
Gilbert Boucher
Kennebunk HS
Jack Ketchum
Eldred Doyon
Commission
Inside the Journal
New England News
Abby
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