Plante Promises Profit for Old Orchard Beach Town Funds
Acting Town Manager Jerome Plante says he invested about 2.4 to 2.5 million of the town’s money in federal revenue sharing certificates of deposit over the past year, earning more than 160000 in interest. His handling faces scrutiny as Councilor John Bird plans to question overdrafts in the Casco Bank checking account tonight.
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Old Orchard Beach
Jerome Plante
Plante
John Bird
Casco Bank
Scarborough
Casco
Ruth Kelley
OOB
Overdraft Concerns Hit Old Orchard Beach Finances
Officials and auditors scrutinize persistent overdrafts in Old Orchard Beach checking accounts at Casco Bank. The Journal notes repeated monthly overdrafts from February through October and questions the system used to invest town funds. Experts warn such patterns could harm the town's credit and future borrowing costs.
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State Department of Audit
Casco Bank
Saucier Ouster Rumors Rally City Hall
Rumors that Biddeford Parks and Recreation Director Richard Joe Saucier will be ousted persist as he and Mayor Lucien Dutremble discuss his job. Saucier says the mayor told him he would not lose his job, while the mayor states he did not guarantee reappointment and may rearrange department heads before the end of the term.
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Biddeford
Richard
Joe’’ Saucier
Saucier
Apeee
Lucien Dutremle
Delphic
Aucier
Dutremble
Monda
Rezoning proposal seeks Farm and Forest area in Maine town
The Conservation Commission proposes converting about 75 percent of the Free Enterprise Zone to Farm and Forest with a three acre minimum lot size. The southern boundary runs Beachwood Road to Route 9 toward the Biddeford line. Dow noted the line is arbitrary but avoids land takings. Poor soil and high groundwater drive the plan.
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Peter Kingsley
Kennebunkport
The
Conservation Commission
Commission
Sterling Dow III
Planning Board
Beachwood Road
Biddeford
Dow
Robert Williams
Robert Brown
Kennebunk
Moslem Takeover Imminent in Beirut Hotels Siege
In Beirut the Moslem militiamen close in on Christian fighters at the Holiday Inn amid heavy fighting in Lebanon's civil war. Moslem forces occupy St Georges and Phoenicia Intercontinental Hotels, shell routes, while leftist gunmen damage buildings and casualties appear in the gutted areas. A 850-man unit withdrew from the Phoenicia, leaving debris and a charred body on the ground floor as fighting continues around hotel positions and surrounded neighborhoods.
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Beirut
Lebanon
Middle East
St. Georges and
Phoenicia Intercontinental
Holiday Inn
Phoenicia
UPI
Planning And Marketing Big In State's Business
Gov James Longley operates a large executive agency of planners many with flexible unclassified salaries. Allen Pease says the staff includes 32 professionals and seven wage-earners funded by state and federal dollars. The office aims to evaluate state units, improve information systems, standardize publications, and manage grant requests while expanding internal research and documentation.
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Augusta
James Longley
Allen Pease
State Planning Office
Pease
Lee
Nature
State Street
State Budget Office
Hadley
No Prison Yet for Nixon Aides in Watergate Case
Nearly a year after their Watergate convictions Haldeman Ehrlichman and Mitchell have not served prison terms and faces for starting sentences depend on U S Court of Appeals rulings with Supreme Court review likely. They have written books and kept a low public profile as Mardian works in Phoenix.
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H.R. Haldeman
John D. Ehrlichman
John N. Mitchell
U.S. Court of Appeals
U.S. Supreme Court
Appeals
U.S. District Court
John J. Sirica
Supreme Court
Robert C. Mardian
Haldeman
Ehrlichman
Mitchell
White House
Aldeman
Richard M. Nixon
CBS
Phe Bera
Seattle
Santa Fe
N.M
Mardian
Hasses
Phoenix
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