Saco couple heats home with solar furnace
Benjamin and Barbara Wright install a solar furnace in Saco after oil costs rise from 98 to 358 dollars annually since 1966. They finance 3800 dollars through FHA to heat water and provide backup, with a 13 ton rock battery and a thermostat fan system. The unit was installed by Solar Comfort Inc. dealers Delage and Lauzon.
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Larry Stains
Benjamin and
Barbara Wright
McKenney Road
Saco
Wrights
Biddeford-Saco
Barbara
Ben
Richard A. Delage
Robert Lauzon
Biddeford
Solar Comfort Inc
Biddeford High School outing club boosts outdoors and awareness
Biddeford High School students join the outing club to gain outdoor experiences and environmental awareness. Adviser Jackie Potter says the program lives beyond recreation by building political and civic engagement, as students collected signatures for the Bigelow Mountain referendum and helped inform the public. The club also promotes family participation, inviting members to share trips with relatives.
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Kathleen O’connell
Biddeford High School
Jackie Potter
Friends of
Bates College
Maine
Biddeford
Bigelow
Three plead innocent in Kennedy murder plot case
Three defendants David King Sandra Rondeau and Robert White pleaded innocent in Springfield District Court to conspiring to murder Sen Edward Kennedy. The case was continued to Sept 20 with lawyers appointed and police cautioned the plot may have been idle boasting or drunken talk. King said he was offered 30000 to kill Kennedy at a Springfield hotel during his campaign.
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Springfield
Mass
Springfield District Court
UPI
Edward Kennedy
Springfield District
David J. King
George Bregianes
King
Kennedy
Sandra
R. Rondeau
Westfield
Robert E. White
Salvation Army
Brady
FBI
White
Salvation Army Center
Kennedy Target
Burlington
Free Press
Coyne
Maine
Barre
U.S. Navy
Great Lakes
Ill
Paris
Hijackers face charge in death of policeman
Five Croatian nationals involved in the Trans World Airlines hijacking surrendered in Paris and were returned to New York for air piracy charges. If a death results, life imprisonment can be imposed. The hijackers led a 30 hour trans Atlantic drama and a policeman was killed in New York during a related bomb case.
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NEW York
Trans World Airlines
Yugoslavia
Paris
FBI
Kennedy Airport
U.S. District Court
Brooklyn
New York City
Grand Central Station
United States
Four New Englanders Freed From Hijacked TWA Jet
Four hostages from Vermont New Hampshire and Maine were freed after a TWA jetliner hijack to Paris. Passengers described hijackers led by Mark Vlasic as they threatened bombs and demanded attention.
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Associated Press
New England
TWA
This Day in History Highlights 1788 to 1971
On this date 1788 the Constitutional Convention authorized the first national election. In 1814 Francis Scott Key was detained aboard a British ship before writing The Star Spangled Banner. Ten years ago B J Vorster elected South African prime minister. Five years ago Attica Prison riot ends after 9 hostages and 28 convicts died. Local football notes cover Thornton Academy Kennebunk Old Orchard Beach and Wells.
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Associated Press
U.S
United States
Francis Scott Key
Fort McHenry
Baltimore
B.J. Vorster
South Africa
New York
Attica
Thornton Academy
Harry Hadiaks
Kirk Lodge
Rumford
Sanford
Paul Belanger
Dover
N. H. Kennebunk
Fryeburg Academy
Kennebunk
Rams
Joe Regina
Passing View Two Hippies Hire Cleaner Weekly
Items from a quirky lead note the Passing View column with a humorous anecdote about two hippies hiring a cleaning woman to visit weekly to dirty up. The page includes sections like cartoons classifieds crosswords Dear Abby and editorial content.
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Air Force
Army
Portland
Connecticut
Citizens’ Band Radio
Rose
Joan
Boston
Sheraton Boston
Kennedys
Gary Major
Island Pond
Steve Bigras
Samuel Edsall
Monroe, N.H
Richard Coyne
Mark
Mark Vlasic
Edsall
JDAY
Journal
Maine-Com
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