OOB Council Grants Police Funds Amid Controversy
Old Orchard Beach town council unanimously approved an extra 18 763 dollars for the police department after two months of debate. The vote followed resignations, a trimmed youth program, and Chief Richard Lamb seeking work elsewhere. The public safety commission backed the recommendation, with councilors revising a ballot petition to secure the funding.
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Old Orchard Beach
Richard Lamb
Public Safety Commission
Ponent
Joseph Mokarzel
Leslie Wyman
E. Emerson Cummings
John Bird
Titcomb Farm
State Department of Education and Cultural Services
Rita Belair
Israelis Kill Guerrillas as Beit Shean Mob Burns Bodies
Israeli troops killed four Arab terrorists holding about 75 captives in an apartment in Beit Shean. Townspeople seized the corpses, threw them from windows, and burned three as police and troops restored order. Twenty Israelis were wounded, children among them, and the attack followed a spate of civilian abductions by Arab gunmen. The incident coincided with a UN General Assembly session debating Palestinian nationhood.
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Sea of Galilee
Popular Democratic Front
Damascus
Israel
Jerusalem
Hilation Capudji
Popular Democratic Or Front
Lebanon
Syria
Jordan
Nahariya
Ford In Tokyo Agricultural Help Pledged To Japan
President Ford began the first American presidential visit to Japan by meeting Emperor Hirohito and assuring Prime Minister Kakuei Tanaka of a stable supply of agricultural imports. Kissinger said Ford invited Hirohito to visit the United States next year, and the invitation was accepted. The talks covered nuclear weapons aboard U S Navy ships, oil, and relations with China and the Soviet Union.
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Tokyo
Ford
Japan
Hirohito
Kakuei Tanaka
United States
Henry A. Kissinger
Tanaka
U.S. Navy
U.S
China
Soviet Union
Kissinger
Nixon
Congressional Committee
Toshio Kimura
Vladivostok
Leonid I. Brezhnev
Peking
Brezhnev
Couple Burned After Kennebunk Cabin Fire
A young couple sustained severe burns in an early morning explosion on Alewive Road in West Kennebunk. John Collins 26 and Kathryn 25 suffered second and third degree burns. their two year old son John Jr. was in good condition. The fire, caused by a leaking cooking gas line, destroyed the log cabin and damaged a camper. The family had just moved from Newburyport Massachusetts.
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Kennebunk
Alewive Road
West Kennebunk
Maine Medical Center
Portland
MMC
John T. Collins
Kathryn
John Jr
Webber Hospital
Biddeford
Central Fire Station
Lloyd Nedeau
Central
Lower Village
Nedeau
Newburyport
Mass
Cohen Reapportion Plan Gets CCC Approval
In Kennebunk the Concerned Citizens Council backs Herman Cohen re alignment for SAD 71 with an 8 3 plan giving Kennebunk two directors and Kennebunkport one loss while a second plan would keep a 6 4 lineup. A reapportionment committee faced new rules requiring a preferred choice and weighed weighted vote schemes before adjourning without a vote.
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Kennebunk
Concerned Citizens Council
CCC
Herman Cohen
Kennebunkport
State Board of Education
Cohen
Geraldine Serreze
Serreze
David Sutter
Selectman Cohen
Robert Giles
Giles
Inside The Journal strike bound Greyhound bus lines
Humorous snippet shows a wife waking her sleepy husband for another workday. She quips that he is a day closer to Social Security as Greyhound workers walk out, delaying service and prompting jokes about unemployment and aging. The brief item captures mid-century work life and labor humor.
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Social Security
Petition Drive Draws Maine Attention In Scarlet Campaign
In Biddeford and Kennebunk observers note a petition drive by the National Commission on Law Enforcement and Social Justice. Led by Rev Michael Carlson in plain clothes, they seek about 10 000 signatures in Maine to end what they call false police records and defend citizens rights rooted in colonial times. The campaign has already reached Massachusetts and New Hampshire as organizers plan a wider rollout.
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Maine
Biddeford
Kennebunk
National Commission On Law Enforcement and Social Justice
Michael Carlson
Massachusetts
New Hampshire
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