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2-Portsmouth Herald (N Wed, July 21, 1976 Military bases donate surplus AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) -Surplus equipment valued at more than $263,000 has been given to Maine communities from military bases in New England in the past six months. A spokesman for the Maine Bureau of Civil Emergency Preparedness said today it would have cost cities and towns more than $800,000 to purchase similar equipment. Winnacunnet Rd (Beach Rd -101 El HAMPTON Fully Air Conditioned July 19th thru "All thi Girit CaiMOirtloHiy" (and thftir husbands never knew 1 Rej 16031926-3073 Curtain 8 40 Matinee 2 30PM always free parking Children's musical July 24th at 11-00 A The Magical World of Hans Christian Anderson OGUNQUIT, MAiNE JULY19-JULY24 BETSY PALMER DAVID SELBY thegrenti 1 The Nightingale of the Delta "Memorably Moving!" A New Play by Tennessee Wj iams TICKETS. Ed Mahoney Advg. 431-8080 and Box Off ice Gardner Insurance VISIT US AT OUR NEW LOCATION AT 86 PLEASANT STREET (Opposite Elks home) WE THINK YOU'LL LIKE OUR NEW AND BEAUTIFUL AGENCY HOME! Gardner Insurance tq Phil Gray 436-3544 and 436-3545 WE LOVE COMPETITION.

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The two-year; authorization, including $2.5 billion to fund housing aid for the elderly and the handicapped passed by a voice vote. The bill provides $576 million for existing public housing projects, and requires the Department of Housing and Urban Development to use at least $100 million to finance new or substantially rehabilitated projects. Lutherans open convention BOSTON (AP) The president of the Lutheran Church in America opens the denomination's eighth biennial convention Wednesday with a dialog with the church's youth group. The Rev. Dr.

Robert J. Marshall will also preside over sessions of the eight-day convention at which 685 delegates will wrestle with such issues as busing, abortion, a new liturgy and the church's rlationship to the Roman Catholic faith. The delegates represent the denomination's 3.1 million members in the U.S., Canada and the Caribbean. Transit grant for Vermont MONTPELIER, Vt (AP) Vermont is in line to receive another $300,000 for an experimental rural transportation grant, says state Transportation Secretary Arthur Ristau. The grant will double the original amount given by the federal government for the project, he said.

The money will be used to establish public bus lines in rural areas near Rutland, Bennington, Randolph and Newport. Service also is scheduled for northern Windham and Windsor counties, said Ristau. U.S. to buy back plutonium WASHINGTON (AP) U.S officials say the United States will try to buy back plutonium left over from fuel used in India's Tarapur nuclear power plant because of fears over the spread of atomic weapons. The United States has supplied uranium fuel for the Tarapur reactor for years, but was recently challenged by citizen groups who fear India will soon be able to extract from the spent fuel plutonium that can be used to make nuclear bombs.

US. officials have acknowledged that U.S. technological assistance, including a possibly crucial chemical ingredient, contributed to India's 1874 atomic explosion. Kennebunk search goes on KENNEBUNK, Maine (AP) Maine investigators have decided to continue digging out the basement of a Kennebunk home in search of the body of an 11-year-old boy who has been missing for 12 years. Searchers dug up one-third of the basement of the Hovey Street home in three days last week, then suspended the operation.

No body was found. Authorities discovered a pair of eyeglasses and animal bones. Robert Desmond disappeared in August, 1964. The floor of the house was covered with cement in 1968. The boy's mother, Alice Marden of Kittery, says she believes that Robert is alive.

Mrs: Marden and Robert's stepfather moved out of house shortly after the boy disappeared. on dale to speak out WASHINGTON (AP) Democratic vice presidential nominee Walter Mondale says he'll continue to speak out against President Ford's pardon of Richard Nixon, even though both he and Jimmy Carter say they don't plan to make the pardon a campaign issue. Carter said at a news conference Tuesday that he will not make the Nixon pardon an issue, although he said he personally believes the pardon was "improper and ill-advised." Mondale said he will not use the pardon as a tactic, but' 'I plan to answer questions and speak out on it. "This is not something new to me in this presidential campaign. "I've felt deeply about it from the start." South Africa riots JOHANNESBURG, South Africa (AP) A black man was killed and more than 20 blacks, whites and Indians were injured in a racial outbreak in the Witbank area, police report.

They said a mob of about 3,000 young blacks attacked whites, Indians and persons of mixed race in the town 70 miles northeast of Johannesburg Tuesday night. Roving bands of blacks attacked cars on the Witbank-Pretoria highway. The mob burned three Indian shops, the Indian community center and about 15 automobiles at the local government office in charge of black affairs. FDA head explains action WASHINGTON (AP) --Dr. Alexander M.

Schmidt says his resignation as head of the Food and Drug Administration is unrelated to staff criticism or congressional investigations of his agency. "I agreed to come in March of 1973 for the duration of this administration," he told a reporter Tuesday night. "I'm just filling out the time." He retires Dec. I to return to academic life. His announcement came while 34 current and former FDA employes were telling a Senate hearing that the agency fails to fully protect the public health and is biased toward the industry it regulates.

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HARNESS RACINC- NITELY I'M AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) Gov. James B. Longley says he will seek legislation to assure that accountants and lawyers can legally serve on the Maine Milk Commission. Longley made that comment Tuesday after he said he would withdraw the nomination of a certified public accountant from Lewiston, who was to serve on the panel which sets minimum wholesale and retail milk prices in Maine. SKYLINE BALLROOM Rt 16 Newmqtnn NOW AIR COOLED FOR YOUR COMFORT GATE ADMISSION Free Parking Free Grandstand (Children Under 12 Free) I Met el Nrltari llretf liH I Maim Me er 14.1 UT, Night B.Y.O.B.

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Gervais was nominated to replace Shirley Hamel, a businessman who resigned from the commission because of business commitments. The law establishing the Milk Commission prohibited anyone dealing with the dairy industry from serving on it. CAP grant Announcement of a grant from the U.S. Community Service Administration to the Rockinghsm County Community Action Program was made today by the office of U.S. Sen.

John Duran. The grant, effective Sept. 1, is for administration and general community programs. Can 436-isoo-ask for classified U.S. Savings Bonds Today's Big Buy FiffV'fl NATIONAL NQAA WIATHII SIIVICI ,1 Weather forecast A band of showers is forecast today from the northern Plains to the Atlantic coast.

Showers are also forecast for southern Texas and south- ern Florida. Cooler temperatures are expected in the Northeast and Dakotas but most of the nation will be warm. (AP Map) Chance of showers tonight Boston Tonight showers ending this evening, clearing later at night. Cooler with lows in the lower 60s. Winds becoming northeasterly 10 to 15 miles per hour.

Thursday, fair. Cooler with highs around 70 Easterly winds 10 to 15 m.p.h. Chance of rain 50 per cent tonight and 20 per cent Thursday. Maine, New Hampshire Chance of showers extreme south portions tonight, clearing over the interior Much cooler, with lows 45 to 55. Mostly sunny Thursday Highs 70 to 75.

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Showers and thunderstorms ending this evening and clearing later at night. Lows tonight in the 60s. Thursday fair cooler with higns in the 70s. Outlook Fair and mild Friday. Partly cloudy Saturday.

Chance of showers Sunday. Highs mainly in the 70s on Friday, warming to the 80s by Sunday. Overnight lows in the mid 50s to low 60s early Friday and Saturday and mainly in the 60s early Sunday. New code brings little crime hike AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) -Prostitution, marijuana use, social gambling and formerly illegal sexual acts between consenting adults have not increased measurably since Maine's new criminal code took effect, Dep. Atty.

Gen. Richard S. Cohen says But, Cohen, head of the state's criminal division, said in an interview it was too early to tell for sure whether the code would change some forms of behavior. The code, which took effect May 1, decriminalized possession by adults of less than oneand-a-half ounces of marijuana. It allows a fine of up to $200, but no criminal record upon conviction.

The criminal law revision also freed prostitutes from the threat of jail terms and removed criminal sanctions from social gambling, such as lowstakes poker games in private homes, and sexual acts between consenting adults, such as adultery. Prostitutes may still be fined up to $250 or twice their fee, whichever is higher. Cohen said the fact few arrests were made under the old law for many victimless crimes also made it difficult to determine trends under the code. "I'm not aware of any increases," he said. "Some of it may be coming out of the closet, though." Marijuana possession by juveniles is still an offense, said Cohen, and may be punished by a fine or probation, but not imprisonment.

Cumberland County Dist Atty. Henry Berry, who prosecutes crimes in Maine's most populous county, said in a separate interview that decriminahzating possession of small amounts of marijuana brought prosecution to a virtual standstill. "I still believe the legislature should make up its mind whether to prosecute marijuana possession as a crime or legalize it and tax it," said Berry, whose jurisdiction includes the city of Portland. Berry said the maximum $200 civil fine made it financially impossible to prosecute possession cases because the cost of bringing the case to trial is more than the penalty. Cohen, whose division handles law enforcement education, liason with the state police and prosecution of homicides, said he had heard no major complaints from police about the new criminal code, except for the marijuana provision.

Cohen said while he deplored the use of marijuana and originally opposed decriminalization, he felt the law should be given a chance to vork. The deputy attorney general said because the legislature gave prosecutors and police about a year to get used to the code before it took effect, the transition from the old law was not too difficult. The code was passed in 1975 and amended this year before taking effect. The code also eliminated parole for prisoners sentenced to jail, mandated life imprisonment for murder under certain circumstances and set mandatory jail terms for repeat burglars and criminals who used firearms. Cohen said it was too early to tell what effect the new sentencing procedures will have on judges and on criminals.

Longley says 'mission 9 is on defense spending KITTERY-YORK BNIVE-IN THEATRE U.S. Route 1 KITTERY Phone 439-9328 AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) -Gov. James B. Longley said today that his "prime mission" in Washington is to attempt to help the state in defense spending matters. The statement was released by Longley's office here amid some speculative reports that the nation's only independent governor was being considered Senate okays Durkin bill on insurance WASHINGTON (AP) The U.S.

Senate has approved a measure consponsored by Sen. John A Durkin which would give $50,000 cash to the families of policemen and firemen killed in the line of duty. The New Hampshire Democrat said Tuesday the measure also would provide group life insurance coverage up to $32,000 for public safety officers. Eligible under the bill would be any policeman, fireman, corrections officer, fish and game warden or court officer, Durkin said. Durkin said the Senate also has passed a measure he cosponsored which would continue to allow federal income tax deductions for all state and local gasoline taxes.

NEWINGTON as a possible running mate for President Ford. Ford said earlier this week that be may look outside his party for a vice presidential candidate if he wins the GOP nomination for president next monht. Longley's office said the governor met this morniug in Washington 'with Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, and that Longley said he hoped to have another meeting with Rumsfeld. Longley is also attempting to see Ford and Vice President Nelson A. Rockefeller, his off ice said.

Longley said he planned to discuss plans to cut back operations at Loring Air Force Base. He also was to discuss a $30 million machine gun contract lost by the Maremont Corp. of Saco, Maine to a Belgian firm. Longley, a political independent, earlier had hailed Ford's announcement that he might select an independent running mate if he wins the Republican presidential nomination. He left Tuesday to attend a White House reception and said Ford would "be smart to consider an independent" running mate.

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