Saco Committee OKs Council Manager Pact
The Saco City Government Study Committee approved the council manager charter and will brief the planning board mayor and city council on changes. If the legislature passes it the charter will be decided by voters at the next city election in December.
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Saco
Planning Board
Hans Klunder Associates
Klunder
Lloyd Anderson
Wilbrod Bedard
James E. Cartier
Appeals Board
Saco Jaycees
Charles E. Cote
Arthur Huot
Saco Businessmen’s Association
Thomas Morrison
Saco P.T.A
Orton Munro
Richard P. Murray
Democratic
State arts commission aims to broaden cultural coverage statewide
Augusta Maine The State Commission on the Arts and Humanities outlines a four point program to bring arts to all towns including community arts councils touring groups and an information center Executive Director Richard D Collins says local action groups are key and Portland Bangor and Augusta already have councils while Caribou shows interest The plan envisions councils as clearing houses to avoid clashing activities and to sponsor programs beyond single organizations Collins says the commission welcomes proposals that benefit the most people and that smaller towns will be the next focus.
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Augusta
Presque Isle
Richard D. Collins
State Commission On the Arts and Humanities
Portland
Bangor
Caribou
Collins
Elevator clock joke hangs time on history
A weary elevator operator installs a clock in the lift to answer daily questions about the time. Passersby now ask if the clock is correct, becoming a running joke of the building.
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WRR
Fea, Corp
Textile Imports Must Be Curbed Warns Truslow
Henry A. Truslow of West Point Pepperell urged Biddeford and Lewiston Rotary Club members that rapid textile import growth risks U.S. jobs and factories. He cited LTA shortcomings, modernization plans advancing to May, and defense and space program fabric needs while warning continued cheap foreign goods could drive domestic producers out of business.
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Henry A. Truslow
lWest Point - Pepperell Inc
Biddeford
Lewiston
Truslow
Rotarians
United States
U.S
LTA
Kennedy
State Department
iTruslow
Geneva
Tokyo
Hong
Dustry
Club
Defense Department
Lawmakers clash over Maine pay plan criticism
State Rep. Louis Jalbert and Rep. Rodney Ross debated a union leader's charge that a new Maine pay plan would be regressive and era bound. Jalbert said union officials were excluded from hearings while Ross defended the plan as improving conditions for all state workers and preserving merit pay principles.
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Augusta
Louis Jalbert
D-Lewiston
Legislative Research Committee
House
Maine
American Federation of State
Pre
George W. Denning
Council No. 74
Jalbert
Rodney E. Ross Jr
Rbath
Denning
Gov
Curtis
Maine lawmakers file Curtis tax and reform bills
Gov Curtis allies push four percent sales tax on new car prices, cigarette tax up to ten cents, and rentals tax. Other measures call for motor vehicle bureau separation, item veto power, 18 voting age, home rule charters, and judiciary audits. Legislators also seek higher pay for Maine judges and limited minimum wage exemptions for students and professionals.
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Augusta
Curtis
Severin M. Beliveau
D. Rumford
Secretary of State’s Office
Department of Motor Vehicles
Bipu
Harding
Paul E. Reay
D-Saco
John L. Martin
D-Eagle Lake
Judiciary of
Maine
Suepreme Court
Superior Court
District Court
Demonstrators Rally Against Ky in Canberra Visit
Opponents of the Vietnam war carried killer Ky go home placards as South Vietnamese Premier Nguyen Cao Ky arrived for a visit to Australia and New Zealand. Police and guard dogs protected airports and bases while demonstrators gathered outside the hotel and at Darwin stopovers.
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Canberra
Australia
Nguyen Cao Ky
New Zealan
Australian Air Force Base
Harold Holt
Manila
New Zealand
Vietnam
Government House
Lord Casey
Darwin
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Priscille Bowden
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Reny
Beliveau
Floyd L. Harding
D. Presque Isle
Vinal G. Good
Sebago
Maine Senate
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Dlewiston
Charles D. Spinney
University of Maine
St. Louis High
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