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Newspaper
Biddeford Saco Journal
Location
Biddeford, Maine, United States of America
Date
Jun 12, 1969
Page
11
Keala lekua Bay on Hawaii Island will become the states second marine life conservation district. Fishing and spear fishing will be forbidden and coral removal will be illegal. Visitors will be urged to dive and observe underwater life. Hanauma Bay is already closed as a conservation district.
The Owen-Davis Unit American Legion Auxiliary held a meeting at Mrs. Gertrude Rankin’s Cross Street home in Saco to finalize plans for their annual outing. Officers Mrs. Rankin, Mrs. Irene Parker, Mrs. Eva Sherman, Mrs. Florence Lewis, and Mrs. Rose Sullivan led reports. members will meet at 6 am at Percy's Pharmacy for a July 14 trip to Leedy's Restaurant in Alfred for a banquet. Emily Keithley was welcomed as a new member.
Members voted to purchase a new ritual as part of the session. Afterward a social hour followed with refreshments served by hostess Mrs Rankin and Mrs Doris Taylor.
The Red Horse Inn at Sudbury Mass. once destroyed by fire has been restored as a historic operating inn. Miss Kathy Kusner became the first American woman to gain a key license from Maryland racing officials in October 1968. Jack Nicklaus won consecutive Tournament back-to-back titles in 1965 and 1966.
Americans face a paradox of wealth as the long economic surge from 1961 digits delivers the highest living standards yet. Inflation nears 8 percent, food prices climb, and while wages rise, a growing share worry about the expansion’s risks and future recession. Treasury Secretary Kennedy cautions the phase requires restraint and reflection on what price the nation will pay.
Kennebunk MRS Edmund Cashen briefly reports Florence Bunnell has returned from a visit to Elizabeth. Lois Johnson visits Calais with her father Percy Hill and returns home to Arundel. Arundel Grange cancels meeting due to graduation exercises. next meeting set for Friday in June. Gail and Gail Boston take two weeks vacation from Kennebunk Shop N Save, flying Bangor to Florida and the Bahamas. Washington AP Nixon educational officials summoned to Capitol Hill to address campus violence legislation questions.
Investor's Forum extols General Motors as a symbol of American free enterprise. It cites GM's 1968 payroll of 6.54 billion dollars in wages, 757,000 worldwide employees, 2.5 billion in taxes, 1.227 billion in common stock dividends, and a broad U.S. and international shareholder base. It urges 1969 1970 tax relief and growth to push wages, dividends, and car prices, while predicting stock gains as a hedge against weak currencies.
An American Bar Association public service feature explains that after 27 years a city altered a Baldwins house number for street widening. The court said it has limited power to overturn such decisions but arbitrary actions by city officials can be challenged.
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