States Counties To Collect 8.9 Million In Property Taxes
The Maine House approved a measure allowing 16 counties to collect about 8.9 million dollars in county taxes from municipalities for 1967 and 1968. The plan sets yearly totals near 4.3 million, with some counties showing increases and others declines, and includes an emergency clause to take effect upon the governor's signature before April 1.
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Augusta
Cumberland
Penobscot
York
Ships Attack Torrey Canyon Oil Spill Efforts Dawn to Cleanse
Royal Air Force planes pounded the wreck of the Torrey Canyon nine miles off Land's End with bombs napalm and fuel to disperse the remaining oil cargo of 35 million gallons aboard the 61 000 ton tanker before it drifts to Cornwall beaches. Navy aircraft joined the effort amid rising oily tides and efforts to minimize beach pollution.
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Land’s End
England
Royal Air Force
Torrey Canyon
Cornwall
Seven Stones Reef
Land's End
Kuwait
Britain
Golden Sands
Navy
Air Force
Bridal Section Slated Friday in Biddeford Saco Journal
Area stores will present a wide Bridal Section featuring many items for couples planning spring weddings. The multi page section includes tips from national writers and practical ideas for thrifty newlyweds, offering ready reference for future plans.
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Biddeford + Saco Journal
Disputed Ballots To Be Determined In Probate Court
Justice Armand Dufresne Jr. of the Maine Supreme Court will decide disputed ballots from York County probate court election. Counsel for incumbents John B. Roberts and Roger B. Flaherty in Sanford classify 173 ballots from February recount. He will also consider 72 ballots from Augusta recount in January, totaling 245 ballots for today. Attorneys Charles Smith of Saco Ralph Lancaster of Portland represented Roberts. William Donahue of Biddeford for Flaherty. Assistant Secretary of State Stanley Hanson and Assistant County Atty Theophilus Fitanides were present.
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Alfred
Armand Dufresne Jr
Maine Supreme Court
Probate
York County
John B. Roberts
Roger B. Flaherty
Sanford
Justice Dufresne
Augusta
Charles Smith l
Saco
Ralph Lancaster
Portland
Roberts
Flaherty
Atty
William Donahue
Biddeford
Stanley Hanson
Theophilus Fitanides
Picketers protest Swedish film at Biddeford theater
About 10 picketers and roughly 100 protesters gathered outside the Central Theater in Biddeford last night over the film It A Woman. The manager Fernand Morissette said 500 people viewed the picture and noted it was his best night in a year since Thunderball.
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Leo Cote
Central Theater
Cote
Sweden
Fernand Morissette
the Central
Morrissette
Biddeford
Edgar Sevigny
Delta DC8 Crashes Into Hilton Inn Near New Orleans Airport
A Delta DC8 on a training flight plowed into the Hilton Inn opposite the New Orleans International Airport killing at least 18 people including nine schoolchildren. The jet split a house, destroyed dozens of motel rooms, and set a large fire as responders set up a temporary morgue. Six crew members and an FAA inspector died, with frantic survivors and witnesses recalling explosions and blazing wreckage.
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New Orleans
Delta Air Lines
New Orleans International
Iplane
Hilton Inn
Illinois
Wisconsin
Juda
Wis
Doug Baer
Park Forest
Ill
Chicago
Jim Miller
U.S. 61
Airport
Biddeford Zoning Appeals Deny Retail Outlet Plan
The Biddeford Board of Zoning Appeals denied Regazio Realty Corp the right to open a retail food outlet at 150 Alfred Street citing a change in use from an automobile dealership to retail business in a R-2 zone. Leonard Levasseur was granted permission to extend his dwelling on Granite Street by nine feet within setback limits.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Biddeford
Board of ‘Zoning Appeals
Leonard Levasseur
Granite St
Regazio Realty Corp
Alfred St
John Regazio
Alfred Street
Levasseur
Granite Street
Familiar TV Signoff Vanishes Amid National Broadcast Strike
In New York and Washington the familiar Good night, David. Good night, Chet signoff disappeared as the AFTRA strike began. Huntley aired solo while Brinkley stayed off air, other anchors crossed or avoided picket lines, and networks prepared for possible settlement talks in Washington.
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New York
David
Chet
Huntley
Brinkley
Chet Huntley
American Federation of Television and Radio Artists
National Broadcasting Co
David Brinkley
NBC News
Washington
NBC
CBS
ABC
Mutual Broadcasting System
Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service
AFTRA
Frank McGee
U.S
Walter Cronkite
Columbia Broad
Peter Jen Inings
American Broadcasting Co
Cronkite
Arnold Zenker
Jennings
Daryl Griffin
Bill Ryan
RCA
Rockefeller Plaza
Huntley-Brinkley
Hunt
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Sontes
Penobscot County
Penobscot River
Lincoln
Leees
Androscoggin
Aroostook
Dow
Franklin
Hancock
Kennebec
Sagadahoc
Somerset
Waldo
WRR Gen
Fea, Corp
Neault & Marcotte Inc
Charles Collins
Paducah
Collins
Atlanta
Airlines
Delta
M.E Watson
Houston
Tex
J.W
Union Four
Kennebunk High School
Daniel Calderwood
Kennebunkport Consolidated School
Nancy Robichaud
Kennebunk
Ior High
Ernest Robichaud
York St
Mary Elizabeth Baker
Charles W. Baker
Kennebunkport
Port Consolidated School
Catherine Neilon
Old Orchard Beach Junior High
William 7. Bogas
C. K. Burns
Old Orchard Beach High School
Suzanne Cote
Barbara Cullinan
the Beach
Suzanne
Charles Cote
Ferry Road
Ard
Barbara
Hugh Cullinan
Wesley Blvd
Old Orchard Beach
Wormwoodd
S _ CAMP
Farrar Brown
CHEK
Elm St
Bill Brill
Los Angeles
McGee
Mes Gee
William Small
Congress
White Church
Crescent St
Beach Street
Sunporch
Beachway Market
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