Biddeford Fire Dept Maps Hydrants to Bolster Safety
Biddeford's Fire Prevention Bureau and the water company mapped all 353 hydrants and mains to detail locations and flow. The study, led by Raymond Parent and Ray Gagne, aims to speed firefighting, protect sprinklers, and identify sprinkler connections across some 70 buildings. Flow tests will quantify gallonage per hydrant for rapid, informed on scene decisions.
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Biddeford
Fire Department
Fire Prevention Bureau
Saco Water Co
Prevention Bureau
Raymond Parent
Parent
Ray Gagne
Gagne
Oil Off N H Coast Says Governor
New Hampshire Governor Meldrim Thomson asserted exploration for oil near the state coast would begin soon. He claimed known deposits exist offshore and projected millions in annual rights revenue, citing offshore rights expansion and interest from multiple oil firms including Gibbs, with rumors of Exxon involvement. He criticized the Durham Point site choice and forecast fuel shortages lasting to 1985.
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Portsmouth
N.H
New Hampshire
Meldrim Thomson
Gibbs Oil Co
Sanford
Granite State
New
Hampshire
Chamber of Commerce
Thomson
Journal
Maine
United States Supreme Court
Onassis
Exxon
Olympic
Durham Point
Saxbe takes oath as new attorney general in Washington
William Saxbe, a blunt Ohio Republican veteran, becomes the nation's 70th attorney general. He vows politics has a place in the justice department and says he and his associates will avoid improper pressure. He resigns Senate seat after five years and is sworn in by Robert M. Duncan in the Great Hall with about 300 Ohio friends and officials watching.
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Washington
William Bart Saxbe
Ohio
Justice Department
Saxbe
Senate
Sax
Nixon
Elliot L. Richardson
Archibald Cox
Richardson
White House
Biddeford’s Dutremble reshapes city hall amid uncertain Braley role
After Dutremble’s inauguration, Street Commissioner Bruce Hermann is dismissed and Theodore Drouin is named Superintendent of Public Works. Parks chief John Braley’s appointment remains unsettled as council debates a deputy director option and fundraising funds expire this year. Braley remains head until fired or reappointed, while discussions include Joseph Saucier as a deputy potential.
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Dutremble
City Hall
Biddeford
Bruce Hermann
Theodore Drouin
Drouin
Parks and Recreation
John Braley
Braley
Lucien Dutremble
Parks and Recreation Department
Joseph Saucier
Gilbert
Guy Farrer
Joseph Zuke
Boucher
Daniel Boucher
White House Ignores Ervin Panel Demands
In Washington the White House gave no reply to the Senate Watergate committee demands for hundreds of presidential tapes and documents. The panel moved to speed a federal court ruling on its right to obtain White House files as chief counsel Samuel Cash and White House lawyer J. Fred Buzhardt met Judge John J. Sirica and set resumption of arguments in the suit.
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Washington
White House
Senate Watergate Committee
Samuel Cash
J. Fred Buzhardt
U.S
John J. Sirica
Third Down Four Meters To Go Describes Metric Shift
A local look at the gradual transition from the old English measurement system to the metric system in southern York County. The piece notes national trends, economic motives, and the superiority of metric simplicity. It explains base units, decimals, and subunits with a focus on meters as the core unit.
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York County
Inside The Journal Pal Today's Chuckle
The happiest miser on earth is one who saves friends. A brief quip notes frugality paired with loyalty, framing saving friends as the richest form of wealth in a lighthearted urban humor tone.
Solzhenitsyn Expose Reveals Arrest Echoes In War
The excerpted passage recounts Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s experience with mass arrests, detailing personal capture routes from a Baltic port to Lubyanka and his choice to remain silent. He reflects on fear, duty, and the smallness of individual resistance against the vast Soviet machine during wartime sieges.
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Leningrad
Stalin
Metropole Hotel
Lubyanka Square
Baltic Sea
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City Editor
Brian Thayer
Gerald R. Ford
William Saxbe
Hermann
By Christopher Couch
Ervin
Goodwins Mills
Marylive White
David Casavant
United States
Inside the Journal
Abby
Solzhenitsyn
Aleksander I. Solzhenitsyn
Gulag
Paris
New York Times
Aleksandr 1. Solzhenitsyn
Aleksandr L
Moscow
Lubyanka
Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Counter Intelligence
Army
Counter-Intelligence
Front Command
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