Pool Woman Starts Consumer Group To Fight High Legal Fees
Mrs. Joan Brown of Biddeford Pool forms a Maine consumer action group to pressure reform in legal billing. She claims overcharges and nonitemized work in a six year contested will left her $50,000 in fees on an estate worth $150,000 and seeks bi monthy meetings to audit lawyers pricing.
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Pool Woman
Peter Kingsley
Biddeford Pool
Joan Brown
Maine
Con Weather Fair
Brown
Mittee and Fee Arbitration Committee
Caroline Kennedy Escapes Bombing In London
Caroline Kennedy narrowly escaped harm when a bomb exploded beside the home she was staying at in West Kensington. Host Hugh Fraser and Kennedy were uninjured, while Prof Gordon Hamilton Fairley was killed and several others hurt. The blast site, timing, and motives are under police review amid terrorism concerns.
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London
Caroline Kennedy
Britain
Miss Kennedy
John F. Kennedy
Hugh Fraser
Gordon Hamilton Fairley
Fraser
Ling
Sotheby's Auction House
Sotheby's
Right To Know At Issue OOB Dispute To Trigger Countersuit
OLD ORCHARD BEACH Acting Town Manager Jerome Plante weighs defamation countersuit against 15 residents who claim councilors and he violated the right to know law. The suit seeks voiding of Plante’s contract and Belair’s suspension, with deposition disputes and motions to dismiss ongoing in York County Superior Court.
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Old Orchard Beach
Jerome Plante
Plante
Lante
York County Superior Court
Rita Belair
Superior Court
Sumner Goffin
Edward Gaulin
Gaulin
Wuesthoff
Goffin
Attorne General's Office
Marshall
Final Saco Candidates On Deadline
The Saco election slate is set for November 4 with three mayoral hopefuls Democratic James Ward III and independents James Wilkin son and Samuel Zaitlin. Democrats fill the council slate while Republicans have no mayoral or council candidates in wards 5 6 or 7 leaving single contests in several wards.
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Saco
James Ward III
James Wilkinson
Samuel Zaitlin
Gilman Seaver
O’neill LeBlanc
Raymond Hobbins
William Boucouvalas
van Psomiades
Stephen Foss
Bernard Gaines Sr
J.richard Letendre
Letendre
Psomiades
Marilyn Carter
Richard Hjort
Robert Cassette
Albert Kabel Jr
Charles Pendleton
Robert R
Albert Carignan
Joan Cotsis
Lucille Jamieson
Bryce Milne
Glenna Snow
Helen Fisher
Anne Chisholm
Maureen Brantsley
Richard Sheehan
County Treasurer Sues Over Interference in Duties
Alfred County Treasurer Carl Sheltra filed a contempt complaint in York County Superior Court alleging county commissioners violated a previous order by harassing him and hindering his duties. Clerical help was hired for Sheltra, a move Sheltra opposes as it sidelines his bookkeeper Doris Camire. The contempt hearing is set for 2 p.m. November 5 before the presiding justice.
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Alfred
Carl Sheltra
York County Superior Court
Sheltra
Doris Camire
Camire
Movies shaped by generations of creators and audiences
The journal notes that films are produced by directors in their 30s for producers in their 40s, for distributors in their 60s, and aimed at teenagers, highlighting age-linked stages in the film industry chain.
Tough Irish terrorist holds Dutch hostage in siege
In Monasterevin Ireland Eddie Gallagher and Marian Coyle, a 19 year old, remain barricaded with Dutch industrialist Tiede Herrema on the second floor of a besieged row house. Police plan to outwait the trio as negotiations fail.
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Monasterevin
Ireland
Eddie Gallagher
Tiede Herrema
Marian Coyle
Herrema
Gallagher
Supt
Lawrence Wren
Dublin
Wren
Miss Coyle
Coyle
Londonderry
Northern Ireland
Marian
Marlene
England
Scotland Yard
Britain
Red sock package left at WSBS car in Mass
In Great Barrington Massachusetts police report a staff car at WSBS was found with a package containing red socks wrapped in black crepe left on the vehicle this morning.
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Great Barrington
Mass
WSBS
Ward Murphy defends Maine prison personnel changes
Director Ward Murphy of Maine Bureau of Corrections explains planned shifts in inmates and staff across Thomaston South Windham Stevens School and Boys Training Center. She stresses redeployments reduce layoffs while expanding programs for juveniles and pre release work, with no added funding.
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Ward Murphy
Augusta — Ward Murphy
Maine
Miss Murphy
Bureau of Corrections
Umors
Missurphy
Thomaston
South Windham
Stevens School
Hallowell
Boys
South Portland
Stevens
Department of Mental Health and Corrections
Bangor
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Ee Hill Square
West Kensington
Old Bailey Criminal Court
Roy Jenkins
Ladbrooke Square
Campden Hill
Antonia Fraser
Oliver Cromwell
Mary Queen of Scots
Antonia
Lord Longford
Harold Pinter
Vivien Merchant
James Graham
Kensington
Ronald Goodchild
Biddeford-Thornton
Stephen Muskie
Belair
Atty
John Wuesthoff
Inside the Journal
Haglan
IRA
Boys’ Training Center
Murphy
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