Channel 10 needs support for on air auction drive
Editorial urges Maine public television WCBB Channel 10 to gather merchandise services art and antiques for a June 3 to June 9 on air auction. The goal is 65000 dollars to cover a quarter of operating costs. Last year 10 000 bids raised 33000 with donations from Alfred Biddeford East Hiram Kennebunk Saco Sanford and Springvale.
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Maine
WCBB
Channel 10
Alfred
Biddeford
East Hiram
Kennebunk
Saco
Sanford
Springvale
River People Return Home After Floods
Paul Harvey reflects on the Mississippi flood season from St. Louis to Memphis. He describes river communities dragging mud, rebuilding foundations, and returning home to endure further wet weather, while people ferried and sandbagged, keeping faith with the river.
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Mississippi
St. Louis
Memphis
Harveys
Cairo
Ohio
Missouri
Kentucky
Remote surgery vision from space program gear
Dr. N. Rasor in Dayton describes a console based remote surgery system using space program instruments and TV monitoring to guide a distant surgeon. Tiny automated scalpel movements could be controlled remotely, potentially giving rural clinics and ships access to top surgeons while prompting reflection on global health inequities.
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N.ssor
Dayton
Ohio
Rasor
Hoffa Freed Through White House Influence in 1971
Investigative note traces how H.R. Haldeman and Murray Chotiner pressured for Hoffa’s release from Lewisburg prison aided by Nixon campaign ties. Key figures include Hoffa, Fitzsimmons, Mitchell, and Will Wilson with accusations of delayed action and political bargaining.
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Jack Anderson
Washington
H.R. Haldeman
White House
Jimmy Hoffa
Hoffa
Lewisburg
Justice Department
Murray Chotiner
Haldeman
Chotiner
Nixon
Teamsters Union
the Times
FBI
Dorfman
Teamsters
Frank Fitzsimmons
California
Fitzsimmons
Mitchell
James
Pajamas
Will Wilson
Wilson
Young Hoffa
Day care funding rules eased after public letters to Nixon era
Editors recount thousands of letters to H E W protesting private funding cuts and strict eligibility. Casper Weinberger announced 3 to 1 private to federal day care matching and broader eligibility with sliding fees. The piece cites community voices shaping policy and recalls the Maine flood of 1936 with Biddeford Saco damage.
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Nixon
H.E.W
Federal Register
Casper Weinberger
Voice of the People
Betty van Wyck Children’s Center
Biddeford
Self Made Men and Floods Echo Twain Spirit
Fragmentary reminiscence notes mixed with references to Mark Twain characters and the idea of self made success. Images of rivers, floods, and American striving surface through a disjointed meditation on merit and failure.
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Journal
Mark Twain
Tom
Sawyer
Huckleberry Finn
Washington Housing program abuses reveal flawed federal aid
An in house review finds widespread waste in federal housing and urban renewal. Subsidized loans paid high overhead, favored better off families, and funded land speculation. Near 1.8k pages of rules hinder local officials, with subsidy costs projected at 57 to 82 billion dollars. The report questions keeping such programs or shifting them to states.
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Ray Cromley
NEA
Washington
Congress
Window-Ledge Grows New Urban Farm Trends
Column notes city dwellers turning to apartment farming from New York roof crops to San Francisco bathtub gardens. Mentions rice on a tenement roof, roof planting for sugar cane on The New York Times building, and barter systems among residents growing tomatoes squash and potatoes. References a Boston canning firm eyeing downtown farm produce and jokes about apartment farm futures amid power cuts.
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Don Maclean
Washington
New York City
United Nations
New York
New York Times
Castro
Cuba
Chicago
Oklahoma
Vic
San Francisco
Boston
Iowa
Biddeford Saco Journal Publisher Credits and Rates
William E Foster Alta W Foster B F Whitehouse and W Paul Casavant lead the Biddeford Saco Journal with Charles Sutton and Gladys Whitehouse as editors and officers. The paper lists a 04005 address, press details, and subscription rates of 3 dollars monthly, 18 dollars semiannually, and 36 dollars yearly.
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Wm. E. Foster
Alta W. Foster
Associated Press
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