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Newspaper
Biddeford Saco Journal
Location
Biddeford, Maine, United States of America
Date
Dec 15, 1973
Page
4
The Biddeford Saco Journal editorial urges a no vote on amending the Biddeford City Charter to allow a full time mayor. It warns salary manipulation could harm Biddeford and favors a city manager administrator model for a $5 million business community. It calls for a charter commission to revisit reforms.
At 65 Nelson Rockefeller resigns as New York governor to lead a commission on Critical Choices for America while weighing a 1976 presidential run. Critics note campaign finance limits and potential conflicts with his public reform agenda inside a broader effort to reframe national policy.
Biddeford Maine publication list names Alta W Foster William E Foster and B F Whitehouse with dates 1891 1971 1881 1963 1889 1972 Paul Casavant publisher office sane 64 printed weekly except Sunday at 11 Street Biddeford Maine 04005. Second class postage paid at Biddeford. Associated Press member Berit and fragmented notes about sheep and a mathhews shannon cub appear in readable column text.
Former Vice President Spiro Agnew travels with Secret Service and gets upgraded at LaGuardia on December 6 while two aides wait for a later shuttle. An Eastern Airlines spokesman cites security requests. a Secret Service confirms. The column notes similar favoritism for Bebe Rebozo and congressional travel aids led by John McFall with airline desk help during adjournment and holidays.
Memo asks Congress for priority and routes to ATA and AMTRAK to gain hearings. Nixon aides push for more arms to Israel, with $3 billion requested to replace $2.2 billion already sent. Deliveries hinge on Middle East talks as Greece, Spain, and Turkey block airlift bases. Jewish lawmakers report rabbinic delegations urging restraint amid Watergate pressure.
The New York Times report outlines three main issues from a NATO foreign ministers conference. It argues Kissinger dominates and fears losing momentum, Europe must unite into a stronger partner, and the U.S. must work with allies rather than attempt to mold their fate. It highlights energy policy, French Middle East stance, and risks of disunity.
The piece notes CBS policy tensions between broadcasting safeguards and rock culture, citing CBS Southcast and Record divisions. It discusses Clive Davis defending music as reflecting culture while questioning corporate responsibility for promoting or profiting from drug imagery in lyrics and advertising.
A letter criticizes the term short age and urges consumer voices against war era costs while arguing oil industry profits have lagged behind manufacturing. It cites data from City Bank, Fortune 500, and Business Week, noting modest gains yet calls for large external capital by 1980 to expand exploration, pipelines, refineries, and distribution.
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