Editorial urges selling idle Maine Sugar plant to relieve taxpayers
The editorial argues Maine taxpayers should end the $150000 to $200000 yearly cost to maintain the idle Maine Sugar Industries factory in Easton. With $12 million in state-guaranteed loans defaulted, the Maine Industrial Building Authority should sell to the highest bidder as no buyers or beet growers are attracting interest. Western sugar cooperatives have shown refinery equipment interest while farmers are urged to switch to grains amid the financial disaster.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Maine
Maine Sugar Industries
Easton
Maine Industrial Building Authority
Maine Sugar
Aroostook
MIBA
In The Nation They were afraid not to contribute
The Nation piece by Tom Wicker discusses corporate political giving under fear of retaliation, citing American Airlines pressure by Herbert Kalmbach for Nixon funds and the 1972 campaign finance reforms. It urges federal financing and stronger rules to prevent similar coercion.
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Tom Wicker
New York Times News Service
NEW York
George A. Spater
American Airlines
Senate
Spater
Herbert Kalmbach
Nixon
Western Air Lines
Civil Aeronautics Board
Kalmbach
John Dean
United Airlines
American
United States
Eastern Airlines
Cox
Senate Rules Committee
Congress
Biddeford and Saco Journal Publisher Notes
Foster 1963 Alta Foster B F C Whitehouse 1891 1971 1889 1972 W Paul Casavant Publisher Charles C Sutton Managing Editor Gladys M Whitehouse President Treasurer Business Office Editorial Department 283 3625 22 1535 Published Daily Except Sunday At 11 Adams Street Biddeford Maine 04005 Subscriptions in Advance Rates listed and AP rights noted for local news.
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Alta W. Foster
B. F. C. Whitehouse
W. Paul Casavant
Charles C. Sutton
Gladys M. Whitehouse
Adams Street
Biddeford
Maine
Associated Press
Watergate notes hinge on June 17 1972 meeting
Washington column recounts how Kleindienst met with G Gordon Liddy and Powell Moore at Burning Tree golf course after the Watergate arrests. Probes say his failure to report the encounter delayed investigators and Moore’s testimony later revealed key links and a potential breakthrough missed before the election.
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Jack Anderson
Washington
Reeene
Liddy
Democratic Party
Kleindienst
Burning Tree
Powell Moore
Henry Petersen
Henry
Moore
Grand Jury
Robert Marcian
Justice Department
Jeb Stuart Magruder
California
Magruder
Reisner
Watergate
John Mitchell
Fred Larue
Mitchell
Liddy-Moore
Virginia's Viewpoint Blame the jet stream
Virginia Payette notes unusual 1973 weather with droughts floods and tornadoes across the country. She links disruption to the jet stream and mentions Agnes as a major past disaster while skeptics warn of an active hurricane season ahead.
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California
Chamber of Commerce
Oakland
New
Atlantic
Alaska
Alice
Miami
Brenda
Christine
Delia
Agnes
New York
Foreign Affairs Troop Reductions Won't Be Balanced
Sulzberger reports the Brezhnev Nixon communique signals a shift away from balanced force reductions. He notes US allies demand imbalance to reflect distances and strategic realities, with France wary and Schlesinger hints of reduced NATO forces. The piece links imbalanced moves to China’s border tensions and a broader detente dynamic.
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U. L. Sulzberger
New York Times
Paris
Soviet Union
United States
America
U.S
Atlantic
U.S.S.R
NATO
North Atlantic
M.B.F.R
Europe
France
Netherlands
Brussels
Defense
James Schlesinger
East Europe
Washington
Brezhnev
Nixon
Bonn
Schlesinger
Politburo
White Paper Scrimmage Sways Over Coach Choice in Kennebunk
In Kennebunk a back room skirmish rages over naming the fall football coach. Principal Bob Perkins and SAD 71 superintendent Art Hedberg back Dave Redmond of Biddeford, whose grievance and teaching contract fight complicates the decision. Directors meet July 23 amid a wait and see mood as Redmond’s status and the Biddeford position loom over Kennebunk’s coaching hopes.
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Kennebunk
Falr
Bob Perkins
Art Hedberg
Dave Redmond
Biddeford
Redmond
Maine Teacher’s Association
Maine
Hedberg
Dave Snowe
Dick Heikkenen
Biddeford-ite
Ted Gardner
Portland
South Bend
Ind
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