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A Vj? jl 1 Sangor Jpa: ilg Maine's largest daily newspaper sale 76598 Sunny weekend highs in the 70s Weather on Page 2 BANGOR MAINE SATURDAY-SUNDAY JUNE 21-22 1975 VOL NO 4 38 20 CENTS Inflation rate moderates in withholding taxes resulting from the 1975 tax cut not the rebates on 1974 taxes which were distributed in May and June The sharp increase in beef prices essentially a delayed reaction from last poor Com crop was accompanied by higher prices for pork and poultry This rise in the meat category was enough to pull up the food portion of the index By five-tenths of one per eent seasonally in the economy and a corresponding rise in unemployment Consumer prices were up 95 per cent from May a year ago While this is a big rise in prices last month was the first Related story on Page 3 since the beginning of 1974 when inflation was not in the category meaning 10 per cent or more Wages rose nearly as much as prices last month and in addition paychecks began to reflect the $87 billion 1975 tax reduction for individuals enacted by Congress The result was that spendable rose by a record 44 per cent making up nearly all the ground lost over the past year The spendable gain of 44 per cent reflected only the reductions (C) 1975 NY Times WASHINGTON Inflation as measured by consumer prices continued to moderate in May the Labor Department reported Friday Despite a big jump in beef prices and also higher prices for gasoline the Consumer Price Index last month rose by only four-tenths of one per cent both before and after adjustment for normal seasonal changes in some prices Except for last March when food prices were falling this was the smallest rise in the index since July 1973 For the past three months the index has risen at an annual rate of 5 per cent a major improvement compared with the ak rate of 136 per cent reached in the ree months ending last October The slowing of inflation nas coincided with a sharp decline in demand and production EVENT adjusted even though many food prices declined These included sugar cereal and bakery products (reflecting at last the large decline in wheat prices) dairy products and processed fruits and vegetables The best news in the index came in its non-food sector All goods other than food rose by two-tenths of one per cent seasonally adjusted the smallest increase since July 1973 House panel okays Dickey funds happening where in the arts museums concerts antiques and theater Plans for Maine Event also call for the inclusion of a column forecasting the weather for the upcoming week including a daily coastal outlook with high and low tides so that readers may plan their leisure-time activities With the new magazine publication the NEWS is concentrating on providing a useful service to its readers by furnishing accurate television and radio listings in a convenient package as well as giving expanded coverage to other fields of leisure and entertainment Maine Event has been in the planning stages for the past five weeks under the direction of Chris Palmer former managing editor of now-defunct TV DIAL Beginning with its June 28 issue weekend editions of the Bangor Daily News will include a special television and entertainment supplement entitled Maine Event The new section utilizing color and modem format will contain complete schedules of television and radio listings for the week Program highlights will encompass all TV channels across the state plus cable channels 4 and 9 from Canada and 5 and 38 from Boston Radio listings will continue to highlight the major programs of the day with the addition of feature articles noting any special broadcasts The feature now carried in Friday morning editions will move into Maine Event and will continue to focus on letter urging his colleagues to go along with the studies instead of rejecting the project the facts are The of the St claim Dickey will cost at least $450 million to build including the transmission lines that would bring the power to Boston The Army Corps of Engineers recently placed a new price tag of $388 million on the dams alone plus an estimated $1338 million for transmission oppor claim Dickey Lincoln would contribute little to New energy needs while destroying a major wilderness river in the region Instead they are urging that Congress approve $16 million to build a flood control dike to protect Fort Kent one of several purposes incorporated in the overall Dickey plan Rep Michael Harrington D-Mass a Dickey supporter is circulating a Dickey planning was revived last year after a seven-year hiatus when the energy crisis caused many New Englanders to switch from their past opposition Even so the project squeeked by in 1974 with only 16 votes to spare A coalition of environmental groups known as of the St is leading the opposition to Dickey while the private utilities which once opposed it are taking no position William Hathaway D-Maine spent several hours Thursday afternoon lobbying committee members to support the Maine project Cohen concentrated heavily on the Republicans while Hathaway visited with his former House colleagues on the Democratic side Cohen said they believed it would have been almost impossible to get the Dickey funds restored if the committee had acted adversely By Donald Larrabee NEWS Washington Bureau WASHINGTON The House Appropriations Committee Friday approved $1455000 for the Dickey Lincoln School dam project in northern Maine as battle lines began forming for a spirited fight on the House floor next week For the first time Maine House members are taking opposite sides on whether planning should continue on the controversial $388 million public power plan Rep David Emery R-Maine has agreed to co-sign a letter drafted by Rep Silvio Conte R-Mass urging the House to reject the new appropriation which is designed to support pre construction engineering work through Oct 1 1976 Rep William Cohen R-Maine whose district embraces the Dickey -Lincoln complex will argue that the additional money is needed to settle important environmental ana economic questions before construction can begin Conte predicted Friday that he could muster enough votes to kill the Maine project with the help of many of the 90 freshman House members But the Massachusetts congressman made no attempt in the Appropriations Committee to delete the Dickey item after Rep Cohen and Sen Legislature to hear -pricing Y- -v-- House for consideration of the bill The bill calls for the State Sealer of Weights and Measures to set standards for measuring wood Members of a newly formed Maine Woodsmen Association said lumber companies in the state now measure wood differently pay is determined by the amount of wood they cut which is measured by the lumber firms Wayne Birmingham a woodsman from Patten said without state standards lumbermen have no way to be sure they are being correctly paid NEWS State House Bureau AUGUSTA Legislative leadership Friday announced that it would waive its cloture rule and permit consideration of a bill to impose uniform pulp pricing standards throughout the state The decision came after a delegation of almost 30 woodcutters wearing hard hats and carrying chain-saws met with legislative leaders Thursday to press tor the measure According to leadership the Agricultural Committee will hold a public hearing at 10 am Wednesday in Room 228 of the State -lilllfet: 'Y lit SS mm Survey shows dam discontent (UPI Photo) News Briefs From the Wire Services Science official resigns WASHINGTON Dr Dixie Lee Ray resigned Friday as the State top science official asserting Secretary Gillespie and Lebo eat after 13-day ordeal Life offered for friend while adrift GALVESTON Tex (UPI) Gary Gillespie and Richard Lebo had drifted nearly 500 miles across the Gulf of Mexico in a small boat Starvation was setting in and on the day before their rescue Lebo offered to kill himself so his friend could eat his body to stay alive want to know if going to live or die and I thought if going to die 1 want to die the 37-year-old Lebo said wanted to slash my wrists and get it over it was cloudy and cold Man I even die in Lebo 37 then attacked Gillespie 21 who fought him off and and talked him out of the suicide idea Gillespie said he maintained his will to stay alive through the practice of transcendental meditation loved Gillespie said really thankful to be alive he said (Coma on Page 3 Col 2) A total of 60 persons were called by staff aides in Portland Augusta Sanford and Rockland They were told that almost $3 million has been spent on Dickey to date and were asked if they favored further expenditures to investigate the project The responses were 45 per cent 267 per cent and 288 per cent office said the congressman considers the sample to be an accurate reflection of sentiment in his district The names were taken at random from local telephone books The congressman plans similar surveys on key issues every week The next topic will be whether the US should provide further military aid to Israel NEWS Washington Bureau WASHINGTON Rep David Emery R-Maine has just completed a random survey of his district which shows strong voter sentiment against any further outlays on the Dickey Lincoln project Quoddy bill killed AUGUSTA Maine (UPI) The Maine Senate voted Friday to kill a measure setting up a commission to study the long-debated Passamaquoddy Tidal Power Project Earlier in the day the House had given the measure all but final approval State Kissinger and other high aides had not consulted her office on key policy matters She joined the State Department five months ago as the first assistant secretary of oceans and international environmental and scientific affairs Energy research approved WASHINGTON The House defeating attempts to delay the nuclear reactor program and to stop nuclear weapons development Friday approved a $58 billion bill for energy research over the next 15 months The vote was 317 to 9 Lumumba-kill study reported WASHINGTON The Central Intelligence Agency investigated whether it should assassinate Patrice Lumumba the Congo leader in 1960 but rejected the idea as an unwise and unnecessary operation authoritative intelligence sources said Thursday Benefits bill approved WASHINGTON The Senate passed Friday a bill extending the right of jobless workers to get up to 65 weeks Of benefits after tying to it an extension of the $2000 tax credit for home buyers The tax credit enacted in the tax-cut bill in March originally applied to new homes which were started before March 26 The new provision would extend this to June 19 Gas attendant is slain Ban on tankers called enforceable the station which is open 24 hours a day Pat Perrino an assistant attorney general in charge of the investigation said Friday that the service station robbery slaying might have been related to a hold-up about 7 am Friday at a store at the Canadian Trail Cabins at Wyman Lake in Bingham He had said tne two crimes were being investigated in conjunction with each other Four persons later were arrested in the store robbery case and police indicated then that there appeared to be no connection with the slaying robbery Perrino said the bullets that killed McKee were from a small caliber weapon McKee was found by the Rhode Island man who had just finished eating at Diner which is nearby He and five other men were heading for a fishing trip When no one came out to pump gasoline he went to investigate the lighted office He found McKee in a pool of blood between the door and an opened cash register Mike McNally owner of the service station said about $600 was missing from the cash register ana there was no money in wallet About 35 gallons (130 liters) of on Page 5 Col 2) By Bruce Hertz NEWS Skowhegan Bureau NEWPORT A 35 year old Newport man was slain at a service station here early Friday morning during an apparent robbery The body of Robert McKee a teacher at the Vickery School in Pittsfield and a night man at the Texaco station was found at 3:55 am at the station by a Rhode Island man McKee the father of a six year old girl and a three year old son died of multiple gunshot wounds of the head He had just started working full time for McNally as the late man at Inside the NEWS conferences and other international meetings and it would be a breach in policy to allow this to happen now he said The reasonable approach Flemming said would be not to use the Head Harbour Passage at all But if it must be used he on Page 2 Col 4) a lot about politics has John Robert McKee By Esther Crandall Special to the NEWS SAINT JOHN NB -The Canadian federal government is in a solid position to enforce a closure of tanker traffic through Head Harbour Passage Brian Flemming an expert in international law said Firday in a radio interview over the Canadian Broadcasting the Maine government insists on going through with the plan the Canadian federal government could pass legislation which would prevent it in a very short time he said Arctic Pollution Act went through in a matter of days I think the federal government will remain he said The federal government has held to its convictions during law of the sea Smoking in public places banned 127 years 9 political leaders talk solving the energy crisis but stalled action on that front column on page 14 Amusements Home Builders Chess Church Classified Ads Comics Deaths and Funerals Editorial Feature Page Financial Maine Business News Mainly People Sports TV Radio Weather Full Area State News covered or other a lighted shop shipyard bridge stable buildings with pipe or AUGUSTA Maine (AP) The Maine Lung Association reported Friday that although not widely known Maine led the way when it banned smoking in public places 127 years ago were a pioneer and know it" said George Nilson executive director of the association The original law made it illegal to smoke in any public place under penalty of $5 if a clearly legible sign to that effect is posted in a conspicuous place near or over each principal entrance Under that law persons were prohibited from entering "any mill millyard factory machine The law was passed by the 28th Legislature on June 21 exactly 127 years ago Saturday' Nilson said that with the old law still on the books the way is now open for owners of all types of public buildings to post no smoking signs that this action has the legal of law The old law was amended only twice in the last 127 years once in 1939 to include cigarettes and in 1951 to include buses under Maine Public Utilities Commission control.