Administrative Code Approved In Kennebunkport
About 80 Kennebunkport residents approved the administrative code at a special town meeting, adopting changes from the Charter Commission. Major items include extending selectmen terms to three years and adding posts for tree warden town forester and town engineer. The recall provision remains and road commissioner stays elected. Voters could not decide on a single tax assessor or board of assessment review due to insufficient turnout.
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Kennebunkport
Charter Commission
Board of Assessment
James Johnson
Ivan Wildes
Wildes
Selectman
David Walley
Johnson
Val Hollingsworth
Plannin Board
Wallace Reid
Fred Ayer
Reid
Not His Last Try Declares Tyndale for State Legislature
Kennebunkport Republican Elmont S. Tyndale says rumors of his last run are false and he will seek more terms while highlighting his experience, door-to-door campaigning, and key issues. He defends tenure against calls for term limits and urges openness in committee sessions and government sunshine reforms.
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Kennebunkport
Elmont S
Tyndale
Fence
Augusta
Louis Jalbert
Lewiston
Congress
State House
Watergate
Washington
New England
Sunshine
Price Fixing Investigated and Self Restraint Urged
Washington AP reports Albert Rees head of Ford's Council on Wage and Price Stability urged people to curb self interest and help lower costs and inflation. He spoke at a two day conference on food marketing where agriculture secretary Butz backed competition and proposed reallocating fertilizer use to farms. Public hearings on prairie profits and middlemen markups will follow, as the council wields its investigative power without enforcement.
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Washington
Albert Rees
Ford
Council On Wage and Price Stability
Rees
Council
Congress
Maine market basket prices rise again a month
The Associated Press notes Maine households face higher grocery costs as the October survey shows the market basket up about 2.5 percent in Biddeford and Lewiston and 4 percent in Portland. Sugar and pork products led the increases while eggs and cookies fell in some towns.
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Maine
Kittery
Ellsworth
Biddeford
Lewiston
Portland
Associated Press
Nixon's Doctor: No Early Long Range Health Prediction
Nixon remains on the critical list after vascular shock following urgent phlebitis surgery. Dr Lungren notes stabilized vital signs but warns against assuming improvement while internal bleeding and abdominal drainage are managed.
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Long Beach
Calif
Richard M. Nixon
John C. Lungren
Nixon
Ronald L. Ziegler
Ziegler
Memorial Hospital Medical Center
Lungren
Ford
Los Angeles
White House
Higher Social Security Taxes Set For 1975 Increase
The 1975 tax base will rise to the first 14 100 of earnings up from 13 200, with employee tax rising to a maximum of 824 85 and self employed tax to 1 113 90. About 19 million workers will be affected as HEW estimates larger benefit credits and higher retire ment, disability or survivor payments.
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Washington
Congress
Department of Health, Educational Welfare
HEW
Caspar W. Weinberger
Weinberger
Mitchell Campaign Swing Through Biddeford Sparks Support
Democratic gubernatorial hopeful George Mitchell, an attorney and former Muskie aide, outlines his independent program during a Biddeford stop on a campaign tour. He emphasizes long hours, future planning, and fiscally responsible proposals while rival James Erwin attacks cost implications of Mitchells platform.
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George Mitchell
Biddeford
Edmund Muskie
Milk the Udder Uncola Joke Lights Up Dairy Sign
A witty dairyman posted a sign reading Drink milk the Udder Uncola provoking smiles in the car care pages. The gag highlights a playful dairy theme in a lighthearted item.
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Arundel
REP
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Japan
Jerry Harkavy
Pat
Daugh Ters
Julie Nixon Eisenhower
Tricia Nixon Cox
Pool Road
John Ewing
Mitchell
Blaine House
James Erwin
Erwin
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Guy Marcotte
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