Biddeford Industrial Park targets July completion
Biddeford moves toward opening a 90 acre industrial park north of Gray's Lane between Route 1 and the railroad. Conrad Grondin says the project will boost jobs, tax revenue, and local retention with plants chosen for manufacturing only.
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Biddeford
Conrad Grondin
Economic Improvement Commission
Gray's Lane
Boston and Maine Railroad
Robert P. Levesque
Hudson, N.H
Grondin
Leo R. Lemire
Norman O. Racine
Racine
BEIC
New Cigarette Sells Itself With Ear Plug Feature
A novelty cigarette hits the market with built in ear plugs claiming to block overheard pleas to quit smoking. The stunt targets smokers and anti tobacco voices, appealing to those who want to ignore health warnings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
WRR Gen
Fea, Corp
Maine Budget Battle Faces Afternoon Votes and Referendum Risk
The Maine legislature delayed the budget fight into the afternoon as compromise proposals surfaced but no agreement emerged. The House again rejected all previously killed tax bills, while leadership signaled possible amendments to the large $240 million appropriation bill and a 5 percent sales tax hike to fund the budget. Governor Curtis and Democrats oppose the sales tax rise, and lawmakers weigh alternative plans including a two cent cigarette increase and a new income tax on intangible property.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Augusta
House
Gov. Curtis
Senate
Joseph B. Campbell
Curtis
Maine
D’alfonso
Senate Drops Plan for New Maine Highway Headquarters
In Augusta the Senate backed a conference committee's move to drop a $2.5 million Highway Department headquarters from the state budget after a referendum rejection. The bill would have earmarked about $49 million first year and nearly $50 million second year, about $15 million by bond. The chamber cleared the highway appropriations, approving toll removal on two bridges, a $3 million Route 6 bond from Sandy Bay to Vanceboro, and studies for an east-west highway and a Bath to Phippsburg bridge.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Augusta
Senate
Highway Department
House
Augusta Memorial Bridge
Jonesport Beach
Sandy Bay
Vanceboro
Maine
Bath
Phippsburg
Fire damages potato houses in Smyrna Mills blaze
Oakfield Is Falls and Houston firefighters battled a blaze in two potato houses at Smyrna Mills resulting in an estimated 30000 loss. Fire started Tuesday in a track storage house owned by F C Soule Inc which was leveled and spread to a house owned by Arnold Roach.
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Smyrna Mills
Oakfield
Is ‘and Falls
Houston
Claude Crandall
F.C. Soule, Inc
Arnold Roach
U S and Soviet plan new disarmament treaty proposal
United States and the Soviet Union plan to submit a joint proposal at Geneva to curb nuclear weapons spread. Talks on safeguards face obstacles but both leaders seek a Big Two accord soon after the draft is presented.
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United Nations
United States
Soviet Union
U.S
Geneva
Dean Rusk
Andrei A. Gromyko
U.N
Rusk-Gromyko
Johnson
Alexei N. Kosygin
Glassboro
N.J
Johnson-Kosygin
Rusk
Gromyko
Washington
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Cabinet
House Foreign Affairs Committee
Kosvygin
Moscow
U.N. General Assembly
Middle East
Kosygin
Havana
Monay
Vietnam
Israel
Kremlin
Euratom
Joint Atomic Energy Agency
International Atomic Energy Agency
Chamber Officials Elected at Biddeford Saco Chamber Meeting
Martin J. Rielly was re elected president of the Biddeford Saco Chamber of Commerce at a directors meeting held at the Cascades in Saco. New officers include John V. Mahaney as first vice president Joseph Audie as second vice president Wayne B. Hutchins as treasurer and Clayton W. Cartmill as executive secretary. New directors named are John M. Eagleson Thomas M. Armstrong and Gerald F E Tourigny.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Martin J. Rielly
Biddeford- Saco
John M. Eagleson
Baker Co., Inc
Thomas M. Armstrong
Deering Lumber, Inc
Gerald FE. Tourigny
Central Maine Power Co
Rielly
Stuart V. Flavin
Norman Riell
Donald C. Doyle
Tourigny
Hutchins and
Cartmill
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Thornton Academy
Henry L. LaVallee
Academy
Sealer
Mac
Old Orchard Beach
Atkinson
Louis Jalbert
D-Lewiston
GOP
University of Maine
Joseph A. D’alfonso
Portland
L. C. Talbot Oil
Canada
Ranto
Paquin & Carroll, Inc
Saco
Maine Linoleum CO
Alfred Street
Moderne Shoe Company
Ture
Moderne Shoe Co
Factory Island
Saco Tel
Bert
H. W. Thompson
Alfred St. Biddeford
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