Priority Social Services Program Faces Funding Crunch
Opinion notes the 1973 Priority Social Services Program PSSP aids working poor the elderly and families with services like child care meals homemaker help and transportation. With July funding ending and Senate opposition proposals to limit state support the program risks dying for lack of funds, risking welfare reliance.
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PSSP
Maine
Longley
House
Senate
House-Senate
S.D
Letters To The Journal Opinion On Bicycles Motorcycles And Committees
A reader rejects two kids on a bicycle upsetting drivers, backs personal motorcycle memories, criticizes Gov Longley on a companion committee, and laments too many subcommittees and taxes. The letter emphasizes individual opinion on traffic, safety, and government panels.
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Biddeford
Gov. Longley
Dollars For Scholars Fund Drive Appeals in Kennebunkport
The Citizens Scholarship Foundation of America chapter and Kennebunk High School students raise funds for local scholarships. Last year 14 students received $2,000 total. locally raised money stays local, with three cents on the dollar used for administration. The June 4 selection committee meeting prompts direct appeals after the Kennebunkport PTA’s absence this year. Mr Gary Dyke, Treasurer, asks for contributions to support financially strapped students pursuing further study.
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Citizen's Scholarship Foundation of America, Inc
Dollars
Kennebunk High School
Kennebunkport P.T.A
P.T.A
Gary Dyke
Kennebunkport
Biddeford Legion Unit Thanks Donors For Poppy Drive
The Tighe Beaudoin Farley American Legion Unit No 26 Biddeford expresses gratitude to all who donated to the recent Poppy Drive. The note praises supporters including W I D E and individual contributors and stresses aid for the underprivileged veterans and families. It also defends immigrant contributions and mentions Journal letters policy about signed, 300 word letters with full contact details.
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Tighe-Beaudoin-Farley American Legion
Biddeford
W.I.D.E
the Journal
Mayaguez crisis raises Democratic worries and military pace
Washington minutes reveal Senate Democrats Mansfield and Byrd questioned targeting the Cambodian mainland amid Ford’s plan to recapture the Mayaguez. Eastland endorsed force. McClellan pressed to rescue crew before airstrike. President defended actions to protect Tang Island and Marines, while a Pentagon study blasted Maj. Gen. Milner Roberts for lethargy and poor leadership, urging his removal despite a career shield by Sen. Thurmond.
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Jack Anderson
Les Whitten
Washington
White House
Ford
Mayaguez
Senate
Mike Mansfield
Bob Byrd
D-W.va
National Security Council
James Eastand
Dmiss
Everbody
Hugh Scott
House
John Rhodes
R.-Ariz
John McClellan
D-Ark
McClellan
U.S
Tang Island
Eee
Peking
Pentagon
Milner Roberts
Roberts
Reserve Officers’ Association
Capitol Hill
Strom Thurmond
S.C. Thurmond
Senate Armed Services Committee
Abroad At Home A bully among nations
Anthony Lewis argues the Mayaguez affair reveals a dangerous US pattern of unilateral force. He questions Cambodian grounds, diplomacy timing, and the goal of striking a small, weak nation after rescuing the crew, calling the action a punitive display by a bully among nations.
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Anthony Lewis
Chicago
United States
Mayaguez
U.S
Ord
Ecuador
Washington
Pentagon
Tonkin Gulf
North Vietnam
White House
Sen
Barry Goldwater
Barry Oldwater
America
New York Times
Time for serious issues in world politics says Reston
James Reston argues the next year will test major powers with a fork in the road between protectionism and a new world order. He cites June votes on Europe and key meetings among Kissinger, Gromyko, Ford, and Arab leaders, warning that leaders must address security, inflation, unemployment, and trade while shaping a hopeful 1980s vision.
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James Reston
Washington
Moscow
Peking
Europe
Middle East
Southeast Asia
Kissinger
Andrei Gromyko
Ford
Adat
Egypt
Rabin
Israel
Sinai
China
United Sates
Taiwan
Cambodia
Thailand
Henry Kissinger
United States
Soviet Union
Janco
Spain
Tito
Yugoslavia
Iran
Congress
Capitol Hill
Cyprus
Japan
Organization of the United Nations
Vietnam
Watergate
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Tucson
Honolulu
Philadelphia
Hile Congress
Task Force
Wilfred Ebel
Ebel
Phyllis Schlafly
Harvard Grad
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Washington Scene
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