Season's First Snow Storm Hits Maine
The season's first snowstorm dumped 15 inches in northern New England causing a fatal three car pileup on Maine 236 near Kittery. Two young people William C. Boyd and Lucille Whit ney died. Brenda Braughn is in critical condition. Weather warnings and gusty winds affected travel across New Hampshire and Vermont.
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Concord
N.H
New England
Kittery
Maine
William C. Boyd
Portsmouth
Lucille Whitney
Eliot
Portsmouth Hospital
Brenda Braughn
U.S. Weather Service
Presque Isle
Fort Kent
Shape and Sun unveil 20000 square foot addition at Biddeford plant
Shape Symmetry and Sun Inc. opened a new 20 000 square foot addition at its Biddeford Industrial Park plant, aiming to triple production. The firm makes eight track tape cartridges cassettes and computer reels, employs 135 on three shifts, and began in 1973 in a 10000 square foot building. Local officials and industry figures praised the expansion as recession resistant amid optimistic forecasts for home entertainment markets.
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Shape, Symmetry and Sun, Inc
Ord
Paul Gerardi
Tony
Route 1
Gerardi
Norm Berkowitz
Billboard Magazine
Rockefeller nomination sent to Senate floor by Rules Committee
The Senate Rules Committee unanimously approved Nelson Rockefeller as vice president with a 9 to 0 vote. The full Senate is expected to vote after the Thanksgiving recess when Vorngass returns from break.
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Washington
Senate Rules Committee
Nelson A. Rockefeller
Senate
Inside The Journal Chuckle Sign In Waiting Room
A dental office humorous sign in a maternity waiting room reads Call Us Any Time of Day or Night We De liver. The pun highlights friendly flexibility and patient care in a lighthearted moment.
Rising Sugar Prices Bitter Pill For Bakers
Rising sugar prices hit bakers and small businesses as costs surge across the retail market. Wholesalers push larger orders, squeezing profits for penny pinchers and vending operators while pastry and candy prices rise. Local bakers report closures and price hikes as Coca Cola syrup and ice cream costs climb, threatening continued affordability for consumers.
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Cote
Les White
Baker’s Dozen
Kennebunk
Saco
Inflation Eases Slightly as Prices Rise Slower
Government figures show a slowing in inflation with October CPI up six tenths of a percent and non food prices easing. Some items declined while wholesale prices rose 1.1 percent in October, signaling smaller future increases but not a full decline. Job losses from auto plant cutbacks and coal strike add to recession pressures as wage gains lag behind prices.
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Washington
Council of Economic Advisers
Ford
Speng
General Motors
Chrysler
Arnold Miller
United Mine Workers
Five Bank Tellers Challenge Maine Discrimination Claims
Five women bank tellers filed a complaint alleging twenty seven counts of sex discrimination in Maine. Human Rights Commission Director Terry Ann Lunt Aucoin spoke in Portland saying the case could shake up the industry while stressing the probe will examine hiring firing training and promotion practices across banks. The bank involved was not named and officials expect a month to conclude the investigation.
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Maine
Human Rights Commission
Terry Ann Lunt- Aucoin
Portland
Ms. Lunt- Aucoin
Commission
Lunt-Aucoin
Refinery Plans Face Local Opposition In Biddeford
At a Green Street meeting in Biddeford Saco Valley Association for the Retarded members questioned the 250000 barrel a day refinery proposal. NEESCO spokesman Emil Raatikainen defended it while Morton Mather FOIL outlined health safety and quality of life concerns.
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Saco Valley Association For the Retarded
Green Street
Biddeford
Mark Maine
New England Energy Co
NEECO
Emil Raatikainen
Conrad Grondin
Mark Mainers
Gulf Coast
Grondin
Gulf Refinery
Department of Commerce
Morton Mather
Friends of Intelligent Land Use
FOIL
Mather
York County
Sanford
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Stephen Muskie
Vermont
Missisquoi Bay
Middlebury
Vergennes
Lake Champlain
New Hampshire
Canadian
Three States
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Ficial
Berkowitz
Shape
Decca
MCA
Mammoth International Business Machines
IBM
Rockefeller
Inside the Journal
Abby
Charles Cote
Seabock Vending Company
The
Journal
Maryline White
Board of Environmental Protection
BEP
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