Encephalitis deaths and cases sweep Mississippi area
Five people died and Mississippi logged 55 encephalitis cases in a month as authorities spray insecticides to curb mosquitoes. Dr. Durward Blakey said the St. Louis strain is involved and the state has been largely free of encephalitis otherwise. The article notes symptoms and the non human-to-human transmission risk.
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Greenville
Miss
Mississippi
Durward Blakey
St. Louis
McDonald's offers $10,000 reward for bus shooting case
McDonald's Corp announced a $10,000 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of those responsible for two bus shootings in Saco Maine. The reward follows a telephoned threat to the Saco Motors service manager and several gunfire incidents on the courtesy bus between Old Orchard Beach and the Route 1 McDonald's. Police and McDonald's security urged anyone with info to contact Saco Police or the company.
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Christopher Coach
Saco Motors
McDonald's Corp. of
Chicago
Saco McDonald's
Saco
the Journal
Dick Mathews
McDonald's
Mathews
Old Orchard Beach
Route 1
Richard Charles
Biddeford
Charles
Seex Security Department
Ford says compromise on oil decontrol
President Ford signals support for a phased 39 month decontrol with an $11.50 per barrel price ceiling on domestic oil rising five cents monthly to 1978. He calls it a first step toward reducing foreign oil dependence and backs windfall profits taxes and rebates, while Congress weighs details.
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Washington
Ford
Congress
House
Carl Albert
White House
Electricity costs rise 30 percent last year due to fuel prices
EPA report notes 1974 unveiled an unprecedented electricity price hike with overall industry revenues up 9 billion to 40 billion. Average price per kilowatt hour climbed from 1.97 to 2.57 cents, residential rates up 23 percent, and commercial industrial up 33 percent. Fuel costs drove 60 percent of the rise. nonfuel costs rose 16.8 percent.
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Washington
Environmental Protection Agency
EPA
Russell E. Train
Unemployment Rises to 12.5 Percent in Local Area
In the Biddeford-Sanford labor market, June unemployment climbs to 12.5 percent while employment grows to 30,800 workers. about 4,400 are unemployed. Statewide rate falls to 9.8 percent, with expectations of further rises into fall and potential price pressures.
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Maine Department of Manpower Affairs
Biddeford-Sanford
Paul Luce
Economic Analysis
Luce
Council At Odds Again Hauling Of Fill Criticized
Old Orchard Beach town councilors clash over the free disposal of fill from the public safety complex site on Saco Avenue. Councilor John Bird questions propriety and alleged improprieties involving Paul St Hilaire and his father the public works foreman. St Hilaire denies wrongdoing while Acting Town Manager Plante defends the savings from not hiring trucks.
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Old Orchard Beach
John Bird
Bird
Paul St. Hilaire
Saco Avenue
St. Hilaire
Paul
Armand St. Hilaire
Jerome Plante
Plante
Frederick Hayes
Richard Marshall
Marshall
Four Coun
Insects Takeover Joke Prompted by Civic Banter
A light local item jokes that when insects seize power they should recall humans who brought them along on picnics, reflecting a playful civic mood and the era’s humor.
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