Mobile homes finance squeeze reshapes Maine housing
The piece argues stricter state and federal rules have raised mobile home costs, limiting financing for low income buyers. Banks treat mobile homes as depreciating autos, offering loans mainly up to 10 years at 12 to 14 percent. Subsidies like Farmers Home Administration programs aim to fill the gap, while builders seek similar bank financing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Maine
Eek
Farmers Home Administration
Yesteryear
Peanut gallery views Carter in Plains Ga neighborhood
A roving reporter spends nearly a week in Jimmy Carter’s hometown Plains Georgia visiting his peanut farm and speaking with white and black residents. The piece notes white neighbor concerns about public education funding and private academies and how Carter’s policies have unsettled the gentry.
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Jack Anderson
Les Whitten
Washington
Jimmy Carter
Hal Bernton
Carter
Bernton
Plains
Main Street
Carters
Board of Education
Jimmy Carter’s Georgia Farm Ties and Politics Surfaces
Reporter Bernton visits Carter landholdings in Georgia. He surveys fields, interviews Leonard Wright a 200 acre tenant who praises Carter and explains splitting profits. He notes a history of sharecropping ruin nearby, interviews Felton Shelton and Billy Carter handlers, and records tensions over wages and racial inequities at the peanut plant.
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Amy
Bernton
Carter
Leonard Wright
Wright
Jimmy Carter
Jimmy
Atlanta
Georgia
White House
Felton Shelton
Carters
Shelton
Billy
Billy Carter
Skylight
Plains
Biddeford voter letter urges Gilbert Boucher bid for Congress
A Biddeford reader writes to the editor urging voters in the first district to support Gilbert Boucher in the June 8, 1976 primary. The letter touts his four years as mayor, his honesty, and his leadership for jobs and benefits, while thanking community helpers who funded a youth bicycle project.
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Biddeford
Mr. Boucher
Gilbert Boucher
Emery
United States Congress
Drug education and vandalism woes in York County spur action
April feature notes drugs among fourth graders while indicating a shift to third grade awareness. It urges parents teachers and students to back a broad drug education program and calls for stepped up county wide recreational and social activities to steer youths away from crime. Citizens report vandals terrorizing Biddeford Gowen Park Sanford and cottages in York Wells provoking fear and heavy property damage. The piece advocates church groups public service groups and local officials coordinating low cost community programs to keep youths safe.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Biddeford-Saco Journal
York County
Biddeford
Gowen Park
Sanford
York and Wells
Supreme Court Not Conservative Says Paul Harvey
Paul Harvey argues the U.S. Supreme Court remains not conservative as it faces two cases on state and private rights. He notes a June decision on whether private schools can be forced to admit black students and highlights recent rulings on housing and civil rights. He criticizes perceived pressures from environmentalists and activists while praising Chief Justice Burger's defense of the court's record.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paul Harvey
Los Angeles Times
U.S. Supreme Court
High Court
Nixon
Ford
Supreme Court
Supreme Court of the United States
Warren Burger Court
Earl Warren Court
Department
Philadelphia
St. Paul
Minn
United States
Northern
Virginia
Burger
Representing the common man Gilbert Boucher for Congress
Letter from a Biddeford Democrat endorsing Gilbert Boucher in the June 8 Democratic primary. The writer credits him as a maverick, doer, and man of conviction, noting his antiabortion stance, opposition to the common situs bill, Franco American and Catholic identity, and lower campaign spend or part time effort.
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Biddeford
Gilbert Boucher
Boucher
Congress
Saco Police Bicycle Rodeo Highlights Community Effort May 22 1976
On May 22 1976 the Saco Police Bicycle Rodeo showcased registration inspections tests and safety demonstrations for youths. The event featured a pit stop films a talking bicycle games a fire truck police car and a skill area judged by points culminating in three winners Billy Young Albert D Dannils and others praised for broad community support from McDonalds Elks and local merchants.
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Saco
McDonalds
Elks
Saco Valley Shopping Center
Shaws
Percy’s
Golden Rooster
Vic's
Main Street
Route 1
Billy Young
Elm Street
Albert D. Dannils
Almost-Topless Bar Debated in Biddeford Saco Journal
The article reports on an almost-topless bar idea drawing strong reaction. Mr Gabriel questions motives and warns that money cannot buy blessings, urging consideration of spiritual consequences amid community discourse.
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Biddeford-Saco
Gabriel
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David Auger
Glen Haven Circle
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Thorton Academy
Wm. E. Foster
Alta W. Foster
Journa
L.f.c. Whitehouse
W. Paul Casavant
Brian C. Thayer
Gladys M. Whitehouse
Gil Boucher
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