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Newspaper
Biddeford Saco Journal
Location
Biddeford, Maine, United States of America
Date
Dec 29, 1972
Page
9
The Agriculture Department faces pressure to standardize hot dog labeling amid a four year debate over byproducts and additives. New rules consider dropping all meat labels for frankfurters and banning lips and snouts while allowing up to 15 percent poultry and non meat ingredients in some products.
North Vietnam charged in Paris that U S bombing is unprecedented terror. It claimed thousands of civilians are dead or wounded and vowed to press stronger strikes until raids stop. The statement, issued as peace talks paused, accused U S forces of barbarous attacks on Haiphong and other populated areas.
Senator George D. Aiken R Vermont blasts Nixon administration policy halting Farm Home Administration loans to farmers in disaster areas after poor harvests and bad weather. Vermont officials including Agricultural Commissioner Edward Eurich anticipate official notices Friday detailing statewide impact across 14 disaster counties and possible misuse of emergency funds.
Washington AP reports the Nixon administration weighs changes to wage price controls as rising food costs confound policy. Treasury Secretary Shultz indicates profit margins and rent controls may be revised, farm price measures kept, and food supply policies explored to ease inflation. Kipling quote about San Francisco ends the item.
The Coast Guard will exhume Master Hopley Yeaton, its first commissioned officer, to move his remains to the Coast Guard Academy in New London Connecticut. Yeaton is buried on a Washington County farm in North Lubec as the Navy also relocates John Paul Jones to Annapolis.
The 1812 death of Yeaton, who sailed the cutter Scammel from Portsmouth to Passamaquoddy, is honored as a 1944 discovery and a 1974 exhumation plan unfolds. Plans approved by Admiral Chester R. Bender, with a three acre memorial park and ceremony at the Coast Guard Academy, include transporting Yeaton’s remains by a capital ship from Maine to the Academy.
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