Kennebunkport Adopts Trimmed Budget With Tax Relief
Town budget officials completed a leaner year plan reducing the amount to be raised by taxation to 699 821.80 dollars down from 722 569.78. They anticipate possible further cuts after unassessed property is added and consider a future school building cost. A 2000 dollar Homemaker Service Program appropriation was approved, and the town will pursue a retirement program for all employees with a five percent wage deduction.
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Kennebunkport
U.S
Carter Radley
Selectmen
Peg Dolan
Arnold Equipment Corp
South Portland
Richard Perrin
Seacoast Tractors
Scarborough
David Walley
Maine
Kissinger visits Laos amid cease fire hopes and Hanoi talks
Henry Kissinger arrived in Vientiane on a stopover en route to Hanoi for Indochina talks. Diplomats foresee a Laos cease fire within days amid pressure for North Vietnamese troop withdrawals and a settlement based on the 1962 Geneva accords.
Maine Land Use Report Flags Camp Site Environmental Risks
Maine's unorganized territory hosts 6200 leased camp sites and cottages with potential environmental impacts due to small lot sizes and proximity to waterways. A 29 page LURC report notes lessees cannot buy the lots, hindering major improvements and possibly degrading environmental quality. The survey covers lessees on 20 large properties, with many investing under 1000 dollars in improvements and related issues such as increased recreational development and wildlife disruption. camps rent at 40 to 50 dollars annually.
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Augusta
Maine
Maine Land Use Regulations Commission
LURC
URC
90 Day Cooling Off Period Halts Penn Central Strike
The 24 hour stoppage by 28,000 conductors and brakemen ended as President Nixon signed a 90 day moratorium allowing 45 days for a plan. Penn Central resumes commuter and freight service, with full restoration taking days. the railroad estimates losses between 10 and 150 million dollars.
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Philadelphia
Penn Central
Nixon
East
Midwest
Congress
White House
San Clemente
Calif
New York
Moore
Prisoner releases in North Vietnam and South Vietnam planned
The United States and Vietnam announced a prisoner exchange under the Paris cease fire terms with 27 Americans and 3,000 Vietnamese to be released at three South Vietnamese sites. The first group of American POWs is expected to be released Monday in both Hanoi and Saigon areas, as Kissinger conducts talks on postwar relations.
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Vientiane
Laos
Henry Kissinger
Hanoi
Indochina
Kissinger
U.S
G. McMurtrie Godley
Bangkok
Thailand
Theovernment
Pathet Lao
Cambodia
Chatichai Choonhavan
Chatichai
Foreign Ministry
United States
Saigon
North Vietnam
Vietnam
North
South Vietnam
Ment
Paris
International Commission of Control and Supervision
Washington
Quan Loi
An Loc
Pleiku
Dong Ha
Pentagon
Suit Over Biddeford Economic Role Heads to Court
Samuel Michael of Auburn former director of the Biddeford Economic Improvement Commission sues the City of Biddeford and Mayor Gilbert R Boucher in York County Superior Court for breach of contract seeking 3113.85 plus interest and costs. The city counterclaims that the 1969 contract is invalid and seeks 28500 plus costs.
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Samuel Michael
Auburn
Biddeford
Michael
Boucher
Roger Flaherty
Sanford
Biddeford Commission of Economics Development
Leo R. Lemire
Inside The Journal Cartoon and Classifieds Digest
A compact page rundown highlights cartoons classifieds crossword Dear Abby editorial humor obituaries sports theaters and wedding notes. A light page with various features and sections including the wedding and women’s pages.
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Abby
Maine Governor Denies Calls to Halt Coast Arrests
Governor Kenneth Curtis of Maine refused New Hampshire's request to stop arrests in the disputed offshore area and declined to intervene in the case against Dover lobsterman Edward B. Heaphy. Heaphy was arrested about a half mile on the Maine side of a boundary agreed in 1970 by bi state officials.
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Concord
N.H
Kenneth Curtis
Maine
New Hampshire
Meldrim Thomson Jr
Dover
Thomson
Curtis
Edward B. Heaphy
Heaphy
Maine Department of Sea and Shore Fisheries
Congress
Portland
Bernard H. Corson
Fish and iGame Department
Richard Seamans
Eement
Inland and Marine Fisheries Division
Bernard S. Carm
Agency
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Souvanna ‘Phouma
Souvanna
Rustic Kennebunkport Area
Cecil Munson
Aroostook
Presque Isle
Sam Michael
Force
Inside the Journal
Noah
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