Saco Junior High Groundbreaking Set
Saco School Building Committee opened bids on the new junior high on Buxton Road and set groundbreaking for Thursday at 10 a.m. George DiMatteo Co. bid $1,769,000 for the building, $200,000 under estimates, with $1.5 million bond funding and one third state reimbursement. Sewage facilities would be a separate contract, with four approved options. Total project cost near $2.25 million, with completion due fall 1974.
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Saco School Building Committee
George DiMatteo
Tobie Nathanson
Building Committee
Gene Palmer
DiMatteo
Arthur Gallant
Robert Shaw
State Department of Health and Welfare
Shaw
Wilbur Ingalls
Nicholas P. Scontras
Hillview Heights
Scontras
Brown Construction Co
Portland
Cimino Construction Co
C. M. Cimino Construction Co
Profenno Construction Co
Wiley Construction Co
Scarborough
North Yemen Sheikh Is Killed By Assassins
Sheikh Mohammed Ali Othman, a North Yemeni Republican Council member and Taiz leader, was killed by bazooka fire outside his home. The assailants were said to be from South Yemen amid ongoing cross border tensions. Othman, 63, previously served as finance minister in the royalist regime toppled in 1962. Three days of official mourning were announced.
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North Yemen
Aden
Mohammed Ali Othman
Republican Council
Ta’iz
Egypt
Middle East
San’a
South Yemen
Arabian Peninsula
Abdul Rahman Ir Jyani
Othman
York County Salon 598 Banquet Set for Thursday
The annual banquet of York County Salon 598 Eight and Forty will be held Thursday at 6 15 PM at Leedy's in Alfred. Afterward the group will adjourn to the cottage of Mr and Mrs Albee LaPierre in Shapleigh for installation of officers and a business meeting.
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York County
Leedy’s
Alfred
Fuel bidding ends as shortages bite bulk buyers
Major oil firms stop bidding on bulk fuel contracts, leaving cities and transit agencies short of supplies and paying higher prices. New Jersey got one bid for 24 firms. Maine lamented scarce bids. Dallas and Los Angeles counties face spikes, while Minneapolis pays 14.9 cents per gallon for a partial need, risking route curtailments without more supply.
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New Jersey
Frank M. Papale Jr
Division of Purchase and Property
Dallas County
Texas
Los
Angeles County
Linwood F. Ross
Maine
American Transit Association
Metropolitan Transit Commission
Minneapolis
Sheltra Bill To Be Studied In Special Committee
An Augusta AP report says Sheltra's proposed amendment to the 1970 site selection law will be referred to a special study committee and then back to the 1975 legislature. The plan would require BEP to weigh economic and environmental factors in industrial project reviews.
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Associated Press
Augusta
Natural Resources Committee
T. Tarpy Schulten
Woolwich
Carl F. Sheltra
Biddeford
Sheltra
Board of Environmental Protection
BEP
Maine
James K. Keefe
Schulten
Asst
Murray
State Supreme Court
Legislative Committee
Senate
Keefe
Environmental Protection Commissioner
Dollar Slumps to Record Low in Paris Markets
The US dollar hit a record low of 438.50 francs in Paris as uncertainty over the Nixon Pompidou Iceland summit weighed on markets. Trading volume was light, but gold rose about $1.50 an ounce in London and Zurich, supported by demand for bullion.
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London
Paris
U.S
Iceland
Nixon
Pompidou
Zurich
EPA charges two pesticides with cancer link
Washington AP report: The EPA accuses aldrin and dieldrin, pesticides used on corn and other crops, of being cancer causing agents. Shell Chemical Co. defends its products, saying the agency used extreme assertions.
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Washington
Environmental Protection Agency
Shell Chemical Co
EPA
Willie Guerette Patient at Webber Hospital Biddeford
Willie Guerette of 61 Clifford Street Biddeford is listed as a medical patient at Webber Hospital. The note adds a fact that the polaris missile is named for Polaris the North Star.
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Willie Guerette
Clifford St
Biddeford
Webber Hospital
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By Michael Spath
Salon
Camille Andres
Jack Rehberg
Montana Petroleum Association
Sheltra Bill
By Dave Swearingen
US 1
Scarboro
Mark &O
20Th Century Fox Presents
DE Luie
Fleischmann
Fleischmann Distilling Corp., N
SEA Ld
Saco
Hell
Femi
Hamy Aen
Academy
New England
Wgan-Tv
Famous Brand Towels
Bureau
Doilies
All Perma Press
Nichols
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