Stamp trends push 1984 8-cent value toward 20 cents
Senate inquiry into the Postal Service heard that the 8-cent stamp could rise to 20 cents by 1984 if productivity improves and pay growth stays under 5.5 percent annually. Without gains, the stamp could reach 38 cents in 21 years. McGee urged explanation of service declines and noted staff cuts and overtime concerns.
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Washington
Gale McGee
D-Wyo
Senate Post Office Committee
McGee
Elmer Z. Klassen
Postal Service
Cooperation Improves Says Saco Mayor on Sewer Plant Talks
Saco Mayor Berton Braley reports better cooperation with Whitman and Howard Inc after a Tuesday meeting on two new sewerage treatment plants. He cites improved city consulting engineer communication though not fully satisfied amid ongoing plant problems at Front Street and Factory Island sites.
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Saco
Berton Braley
Whitman and
Howard Inc
Braley
Whitman
Howard
Front Street
Factory Island
Itwo
Community and lodge meetings in Ocean Park and surrounding towns
Regular meetings and installations of Ocean Park Toilers by the Sea Kiwanis and Miniwaneca Chapter Order of the Eastern Star are noted along with dates for upcoming events. Speakers included Rev. Robert Baggs and David Despres with plans for a community supper in April and several chapter installations across Maine.
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Ocean Park — Toilers-by the-Sea
Porter Hall
Temple Avenue
Edna Hutchinson
Silas Baggs
Robert Baggs
Ocean Park Camp
Ocean Pines
Elva Frizzle
Loella Ballard
Mary Coburn
Shirley Doe
Isabella McIver
Miniwaneca
Order of the Eastern Star
Young Wins Alaska Seat in Special House Election
Don Young a Republican from Ft. Yukon led Emil Notti in unofficial returns from 347 of 433 precincts 31 555 to 28 307 to claim Alaska's lone U S House seat filled after Rep Nick Begich disappeared on a campaign flight.
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Anchorage
Alaska
Don Young
Ft. Yukon
House of Representatives
Young
Emil Notti
Notti
Two Biddeford High Teachers Promoted to Department Heads
Superintendent Andrew C Frechette announced the promotions of two Biddeford High School staff to department head positions. John H McGowan Jr will lead Mathematics and Winthrop P Houghton will lead Physical Education. McGowan, Colby graduate and Columbia PhD candidate, has taught at multiple colleges and offices before joining Biddeford in 1972. Houghton, Boston University 1962 graduate and Biddeford faculty since 1966, previously coached state champion gymnastics and track teams. He has graduate work at the University of Maine and earlier teaching posts in Chelmsford Massachusetts and Portland.
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Andrew C. Frechette
Biddeford High School
John H. McGowan Jr
Winthrop P. Houghton
McGowan
Colby College
Columbia University
Northern Illinois University
S.A.D. No. 64
Bliss College
Lewis
Houghton
Biddeford
University of Maine
Gorham
Rebekah Lodge Members Meet and Plan Events
Olive Rebekah Lodge presided by Priscilla Ladd lists invitations for Friendship Night April 28 at Saco Rebekah Lodge, March visits to Forest View and Rebekah Assembly events, Rehoboth and Ruhamah entertainments, a Betty Crocker generator fundraiser, a March 17 district meeting, and a March 14 rehearsal with Louise Eaton winning a mystery prize.
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Adah
Biddeford
Sarah Orne Jewett
South Berwick
Rose of Sharon
Augusta
Longfellow
South Portland
Aurora
Kennebunkport
Beulah
Cumberland Mills
Fadette
York Village
Priscilla
Highpine
Madonna
Kennebunk
Kennebunk — Noble
Priscilla Ladd
Olive Rebekah Lodge
Saco Rebekah Lodge
Forestebekah Lodge
West Buxton
Mildred Stinson
Rebekah Assembly of Maine
Rehoboth
Ruhamah
Springvale
Betty Crocker
Odd Fellows Hall
Tardif Farm Begins Selling Dairy Herd
Tardif's Farm Dairy in Saco has begun selling off their dairy herd ending 49 years in the dairy farming business. High cow feed costs were named the main reason for closing the Boom Road farm which produced only milk and dairy products. The Tardif family plans to remain living on the land a company spokesman said today.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tardif
Saco
Boom Road
Today in History March 8 1973 Highlights and Birthdays
This day recalls events from 1917 the start of the Russian Revolution riots in St Petersburg to 1765 Stamp Act passage, 1865 Dutch canal work, 1894 New York dog licensing, 1916 war on Portugal, 1942 Rangoon fell, 1966 France bows out of NATO, and recent notes on Egypt Saudi, Pope John Paul II archbishop, Nixon secrecy order. Birthdays include Charisse age 50 and Mary Lou Williams age 63.
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Associated Press
St. Petersburg
Russia
House of Lords
Netherlands
Amsterdam
North Sea
New York
U.S
Germany
Portugal
Rangoon
Burma
France
NATO
Exgypt
Saudi Arabia
Pope Pauli
Terence J. Cooke
Nixon
Thought for today about noble fathers and exact atomic time
The excerpt notes Euripides as a founder of noble fatherly ideals and claims atomic time ranks among the most precise measurements, with an accuracy of one second in thirty thousand years.
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Euripides
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Nee Nah Council
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Rose Frechette
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Geneva Petrin
Navajo Council
Wanda Council
Scarboro
Jack Lemmon
Deluse
Frank Pierce
His Psychabillies
MRS. B’s Restaurant
Ogunquit
Maine
Iscomine
Casco
Chelmsford
Mass
the King Junior High School
Portland
Diana Ross
Billie Holiday
Lady
Rebekah
Tardif Farm
Lace Construction Inc
Biddeford Savings
Bideford Savings Bank
Main ST
F.d.11.c. Biddeford
America
Clinic
Orferman the
En Tage
Stride Rite
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