Athletics dominates School Board meeting over track and jackets
The Board of Education debated funding for an all weather track and football jackets. Members weighed Title IX implications and safety against cost and priority shifts. Hallsey to present track details next meeting as discussions continue. Autumn equipment funds were examined amid questions on jacket budgeting.
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Board of Education
Harry MacLeod
Harold Whitehouse
Ralph Woodman
Francis T. Malloy
MacLeod
John Sullivan
Harry Hallsey
Timothy Monahan
Monahan
Hallsey
Whitehouse
Diane Share
Exeter Voters Set Stage for Employee Pay Increase
Exeter town selectmen approve a 6.5 percent pay raise for town employees in the personnel plan, effective January 1, pending approval at the 1978 town meeting. The ordinance was amended at the Monday meeting.
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Exeter
Carter signs social security tax bill at White House
President Carter offers remarks after signing a measure that raises Social Security taxes for 107 million workers. The article also notes a town ordinance amending snow removal rules and all night parking limits to aid plowing, with penalties and specific parking allowances in Exeter.
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Carter
Bow Street
Pleasant Street
Hall Place
Exeter
OPEC meets as oil world splits but aims for united stance
At Caracas two day pricing talks begin with major producers split yet a forecast of unanimity. Venezuela oil minister Valentin Hernandez Acosta and other ministers press late to resolve rifts before agreement on price policy. In New Hampshire a judge eases an interstate project while Hooksett halts permits amid rapid growth seeking a five percent annual home cap.
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Caracas
Venezuela
Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries
Energy and Mines
Valentin Hernandez Acosta
Hooksett, N.H
Hooksett
Town Planning Board
City Council seeks bids on Pierces Island pool plan
The council voted to bid the pool project design and construction, but will reconsider at the January meeting with a new council. The debate split on Wright Pierce versus Whitten plans, with Weeks urging reconsideration and concerns of rigged bids and conflicts.
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Pierce Island
Mary Keenan
Peter Weeks
John J. Whaley
Whitten Pool Company
Wright, Pierce, Barnes and Wyman
Wright
Whitten
Weeks
Wholey
Pierce
Whaley
Keenan
Bruce Graves
Federal
BOR
Canney
Jay Edwards
Wright. Pierce
Coun
Farewell to outgoing councilmen draws city thanks
City Council voted a Swan song in farewell to three members who did not seek re election. Outgoing Mayor Bruce Graves called his tenure significant while Councilman John Maher praised four great years and Councilwoman Joyce Hanrahan offered thanks and recalled a blunt lesson from John J. Whaley that politics isn t bean bag.
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Bruce Graves
John Maher
Joyce Hanrahan
John J. Whaley
Israel Egypt defense ministers meet near Alexandria
Israel's Ezer Weizman and Egypt's Abdel Ghani Gamasy met at Gianaclis airfield near Alexandria, in a first reported cabinet level contact since Sadat's visit to Israel. The meeting precedes a Sunday summit in Ismailia with Sadat and Begin, as Cairo discusses upgrading talks to foreign ministers and inviting Syria Jordan Lebanon the PLO and the Soviet Union.
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Cairo
Israel
Egypt
Alexandria
Middle East
Anwar Sadat
Ezer Weizman
Abdel Ghani Gamasy
Gianaclis
Gamasy
Sadat
Menahem Begin
Ismailia
Suez Canal
Begin
Syria
Jordan
Lebanon
Palestine Liberation Organization
Soviet Union
al Ahram
Jihan
Police stage drug bust in three cities and 30 held
New Hampshire State Police and Portsmouth officers led a multi jurisdiction drug sweep in Portsmouth Dover Somersworth New Market and Stratham. Nearly 30 arrests reported with more expected. Five arraigned in Portsmouth District Court on drug sales with most cases continued to Jan 10.
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New Hampshire
Portsmouth
Seacoast
Dover
Somersworth
Newmarket
Stratham
Thomas E. Flynn
Strafford
Alton
Nottingham
Portsmouth District Court
Thomas E Flynn
Karen Charlene Hummer
Breakfast Hill Road
Weald Road
Suspect arraigned after high speed interstate pursuit
A 20 year old man from Orlando and Winchester was arraigned in Portsmouth District Court on three charges following a pursuit across the Interstate Bridge into Kittery. Police recovered a sawn off shotgun and notified federal authorities. Barron pleaded innocent to reckless operation disobeying a police officer and operating without a license. He was bailed at 300 dollars.
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Terry Jerome Smith
Union St
Circuit Road
Rockhill Avenue
Smith
Seabrook
Dale Allen Mills
Mark St
Goodwin Park
State Street
Robert Arthur McDaniel
Rockhill Ave
State St
Portsmouth
Portsmouth District Court
Interstate Bridge
Robert S. Barron
Orlando
Fla
Winchester
Mass
Kittery
Barron
Thomas Flynn
Norman Moore
James Trueman
Canada
Massachusetts
Dennett Street
Myrtle Avenue
Dennett
Woodbury Avenue
Lloyd Tibbetts
Samuel Soucy
Trueman
Iranian Earthquake Kills 300 and Destroys Villages
A southeastern Iran earthquake at Kooh Khanook near Zarand and Kerman killed about 300 people and injured over 600 as three villages Babtangal Gisk and Sarasiyah Bagh were demolished. Rescue teams and Iran's Red Cross set up tent villages while Shah Pahlavi ordered C 130 planes with aid to the affected region.
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Tehran
Iran
Red Cross
Kooh-Khanook
Zarand
Kerman
Babtangal
Gisk
Sarasiyah-Bagh
Red Lion
Sun
US Geological Survey
Washington
Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi
Portsmouth Tax Deadline Reminders Before Christmas Penalty
Tax Collector Margaret Sullivan announces a Dec 22 deadline to pay property taxes without penalty. City Hall office hours extend to 5 p m, and tax bills postmarked by midnight on the 22nd are accepted.
Thompson seeks judicial package amid court nomination stalemate
Gov. Meldrim Thomson proposed a package to break the impasse over two Supreme Court nominees. The plan would move Louis Wyman to the Superior Court, keep Maurice Bois as Chief Justice, and nominate David Souter to the Supreme Court, with Thomas Rath as attorney general. the Executive Council rejected the approach and opposed forwarding Wyman.
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Concord
N.H
Meldrim Thomson
Executive Council
Supreme Court
Associated Press
Thomson
Louis Wyman
Wyman
Maurice Bois
David Souter
Thomas Rath
Bois
Bots
Weather Tonight and Tomorrow Almanac Page Report
The forecast notes a cloudy night with low temperatures and light winds. Tomorrow looks mostly cloudy with a chance of showers later in the day and daytime highs around average for the season.
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Janet Corcoran
William Mayo
Russell Long
D-La
Robert Hall
Glasses
Social Security
James Tucker
D-Ark
al Aliman
D-Ore
OPEC
Hugh Bownes
Littleton
Waterford
Bownes
New Hampshire Highway Department
Franconia Notch
Cilman
William A. Thomson
Frank Peterson
Hawking St
Daniel
Frink
Kmart
Pease Afb
Newington
Council
Parley
Durham Selectmen
Seabrook Water
S. Berwick Council
N.F
Hampton Selectmen
York Growth
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