Biddeford Council Blocks Tax Hike And Approves Mutual Aid
Biddeford City Council announced no property tax increase for 1973 and set taxes at 37 mills with an 8 percent penalty after Oct 1. The body ordered condemnation studies of substandard housing, approved withholding street workers union dues, and endorsed a regional police mutual aid pact with Saco and Old Orchard Beach.
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Biddeford
Patricia R. Marcotte
Robert Belair
Boucher
Saarens
Council
David Twomey
Philip Laverriere
Belair
Harrison Grover
Police Department
Saco
Old Orchard Beach
Harry Courtois
Kalmbach Testifies on Watergate Fund Raising Role
Former White House lawyer John Dean Ill told Kalmbach about funds for the Watergate defendants without warning of potential trouble for President Nixon. Kalmbach testified that he and Anthony Ulasewicz raised about 220000 in cash after the June 17 1972 break in, fearing wiretaps and saying he had a direct line to Nixon from California.
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Washington
Herbert W. Kalmbach
White House
John W. Dean
Nixon
Kalmbach
Senate
Dean
Joseph M. Montoya
Anthony Ulasewicz
California
John D. Ehrlichman
Watergate
Democratic Party
Cape Porpoise Harbor lights plan sparks harbor cleanup push
In Kennebunkport, townsmen and Coast Guard officials debated safe navigation at Cape Porpoise Harbor. The plan to light the Falley Island day beacon depends on lobstermen cleaning up the harbor, with possible future lighting of two buoys after cooperation improves. Harbormaster Hale Whitehouse favors redesignating the channel to ease legal issues, while Lt Commander Ransom Boyce suggests involving the Engineers for a formal designation review.
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Kennebunkport
Coast Guard
Cape Porpoise Harbor
Boston
Portland
Falley Island
Board of Selectman
David Walley
Langsford Road
Cape Porpoise
Hale Whitehouse
Ransom K. Boyce
First District
Corps of Engineers
Better Late Than Never Farmers Finally Open Vegetable Stands
Kennebunkport reports scarce early crops now improving after heavy rains. J and Mrs Floyd Chasse list fresh greens as availables including snow peas and raspberries with corn, squash, lettuce, and tomatoes later. Bishop Hutchins Sunset Farm offers scallions beets and other greens while Hutchins Organic Garden promotes shallots and dill for local buyers.
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Chasse
Yvette
Chasse’s
Bishop Hutchins
Sunset Farm
North Street
Hutchins Organic Garden
Kennebunk Landing
Boston
Saco approves budget with net rise of 94864 dollars
Saco City Council adopted a 2,700,265 net municipal budget, up 94,864 from last year, with a 3,645,000 gross budget offset by 769,000 revenue and 74,000 state funds. A 180,000 supplemental federal revenue share was approved despite opposition from two council members. Thornton Academy gains 113,198. sewage plant 97,469. retirement fund 35,000. public hearing page note.
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Saco
Pat Reay
Robert Cassette
Reny
Fire Department
Cassette
Berton Braley
Thornton Academy
First Rattle Dims Joy of New Car Arrival
Inside The Journal notes a common joy and caution as the first rattle in a new car signals potential mechanical woes. The column frames this sound as both humorous memory and warning, inviting readers to check under the hood while savoring the novelty.
Nixon Works Through Health Stint On Phase 4
President Nixon, improving after a restful night, plans decision meetings on Phase 4 economic policy with Secretary George Shultz and Vice President Agnew. Key aides Laird Harlow Garment and Buzhardt visited the Bethesda hospital as Nixon receives treatment and awaits wage price restraint blueprint details.
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Washington
Nixon
Secretary of the Treasury
George P. Shultz
Spiro T. Agnew
Shultz
White House
Melvin R. Laird
Bryce N. Harlow
Bethesda
Naval Hospital
Ronald L. Ziegler
Leonard Garment
J. Fred Buzhardt
Ziegler
Alexander M. Haig Jr
Pat
Tricia Cox
Florida
C. B “Bebe
Rebozo
Senate OKs Pipeline Bill By One Vote
The Senate approved a bill to kill a court suit blocking the trans-Alaska pipeline project. Sponsors Gravel and Stevens argued Congress could override court rulings on environmental review while defending safeguards. The measure aims to speed North Slope oil development despite environmental opposition and a long-running suit.
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Washington
Senate
Sons
Mike Gravel
Alaska
Ted Stevens
North Slope
Congress
Canada
Stevens
The
Wilderness Society
Environmental Organizations
Mackenzie River
Arctic
Prudhoe Bay
Valdez
Rockland Man Fined for Watching TV While Driving
A Rockland man Frank A. Hallowell 59 was fined 25 dollars after police said he had a battery operated television on the hood of his car on Union Street. He was charged in District Court with unlawfully having within view a television broadcast while operating a motor vehicle.
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Rockland (Ap
Rockland
Union Street
Frank A. Hallowell
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Gilbert Boucher
Europe
Columbia Hotel
Biddeford and Saco Water Co
Franklin St
Tina Kathleen Berry
Ocean Park
Dick Danforth
Montoya
Ulasewicz
New York City
Porpoise Harbor
Floyd Chasse
Log Cabin Road
Maryline White
Inside the Journal
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