The Bangor Daily News from Bangor, Maine • 1

fk PISCATAQUIS Maine's largest daily newspaper Partly sunny highs 10 to 30 fj i i i sale 78826 Weather on Page 24 VOL NO 186 26 PAGES-20 CENTS BANGOR MAINE FRIDAY JANUARY 6 1 978 i Clams I called property of all Weston said that if Milbridge commits itself to a clam conservation ordinance it be fair to let outsiders in to dig clams Similar sentiments were echoed by others including Mrs Theone Look of Jonesboro chairman of the Washington County Commission Although it an issue at the present all speakers favored a two inch minimum law on clams dug for market There is no minimum size limit on clams at present and the Department of Marine Resources has traditionally opposed such a limit Dana Wallace representing the Department of Marine Resources in the absence of Commissioner Vinal Look said he could not commit himself on that policy matter But See CLAM on Page 4 speaking in opposition to the Blodgett bill said that residents of her community have worked diligently to conserve their clam flats She said the clam diggers there not want migrant diggers who could not care less about our flats to use and misuse Larry Weston of Milbridge that clam warden said that Milbridge in tough shape clam He said the town will vote at the town meeting on a clam ordinance and he predicted that the town is going to close off one horrendous Continued Weston have found out the hard way that we need a clam conservation ordinance In order to sustain any kind of a clam conservation program Milbridge is going to have to hurt and hurt hard Our flats are completely clams should be good anywhere in the state a man from Bangor buys a hunting license can he hunt only in Carver asked He said the discrimination evident in the local clain ordinances him and he favors the Blodgett bill Carver said that the law allowing local ordinances with their exclusion of non resident diggers "is depriving me of a Harley Alley of Beals a selectman in that community told the committee present law is saying that because I live on Beals Island I am He said things worked well until Jonesport enacted its clam ordinance He said the Beals flats are nearly depleted and Beals residents should be allowed to dig wherever they want to Susan Zurborst of Roque Bluffs Drinking 4 v' -v 7 vSs YK- )4 -y 44 -Sfr -4 7 wip s-T 5f- tW' iVv'i' v'' xs XSXi" argued (AP Photo) Carter Giscard at Omaha Beach By Kent Ward NEWS State House Bureau AUGUSTA A bill which would lower the legal drinking age in Maine from 20 to 18 in bars and restaurants while retaining the present age 20 liipit for off -premises consumption was labeled to enforce laughable in its obscenity and questionable in its at a public hearing here Thursday Mrs Joyce Rogers of Portland representing the Maine School Boards Association (MSBA) said her group has gone on record as unanimously opposed to the bill She characterized the bill co sponsored by four House members as a boon to few booze pushers who would rather lose a few kids than a few She said passage of the bill would "imbue the kids with a maturity that they just In answer to a question by a member of the Liquor Control Committee which conducted the public hearing at the Augusta Civic Center Mrs Rogers said she would favor a return to age 21 as the legal age for everything including marriage and service in the armed forces Educators church representatives and a former spoke at length against the bill of the entertainment restaurant and as well as several students spoke for any ground that been covered session of the 108th Legislature when the concept was thoroughly explored action by that first session the legal had been 18 on and off premises to prevent the present law from taking sufficient signatures A sybsepuent put the issue out to referendum was possibility that that drive would attract 36000 signatures by a February legislative leadership agreed to let a bill come before the present session Saco principal sponsor of the that trying to follow the action on the bill was watching a tennis lawmakers flopped on the PRO CON on Page 4 Carter Giscard visit D-Day site 14 ft dent Valery Giscard and a gathering of French and Americans are sure our friendship shall be Carter Giscard and their wives gazed out over Omaha Beach where 2000 Allied soldiers were killed on June 6 1944 in the invasion that freed France from the Nazi grip Saluting it as site of tragedy of Carter declared in the brief ceremony are determined with our allies that Europe's freedom will never again be in Giscard told the chilled crowd: this France remembers She expresses her gratitude for all those who fell for her freedom to their families and to all their The two presidents walked along the grass-covered cliff as the steel-blue surf of the English Channel rolled up the beach 130 feet below At the time of the invasion Giscard was a teenage member of the French resistance and Carter was a midshipman at the US Naval Academy It was a day of symbolism as the two presidents visited the American cemetery of Normandy where 9386 soldiers are buried beneath row upon row of white crosses and occasional Jewish Stars of David Carter was the first American president to visit the cemetery while in office See CAR TER on Page 3 pact Amusement Antiques Classified Ads Comics Deaths Funerals Editorial Feature Page Financial Legislative Maine Street Mainly People Sports TV Schedule Weather Area State News 11 6 19-24 25 19 1213 13 1718 4 26 67 8-10 26 24 1615 Weekly lottery number drawn Thursday Blue 6 Green 38 Red 239 age bill Among those surveying sale with what must have been a wide range of feeling was Abraham Shapiro of Bangor the last local owner of the Bangor House Business was brisk but he seem to find any pleasure in the excitement From time to time he managed a polite smile in response to greetings by acquaintenances But he seemed to be in a solemn mood Portland policeman Representatives tourism industries the bill None covered during the first teenage drinking As a result of drinking age which was raised to 20 A petition drive effect did not attract petition drive to begun and with the the required deadline the lowering the age Rep Barry Hobbins bill LD 1944 said teenage drinking because so many See By Kent Ward NEWS State House Bureau AUGUSTA The clams in the coastal clam flats are a natural resource which belongs to all of the citizens of Maine and local ordinance which prohibit Mainers who do not happen to reside in coastal communities from digging clams constitutes the legislative Marine Resources Committee was told here Thursday Rep William Blodgett -Waldoboro sponsor of a bill which would prohibit total exclusion of non residents on the clam flats told the panel that his bill would equal rights and opportunities to all the people of the State of Maine regardless of where they His bill LD 815 would assure that 25 per cent of all licenses issued under local clam ordinances would be made available to non residents of the community Blodgett said it is not his intent to the He said his bill is a conservation measure But not everyone saw it that way in the packed hearing room where elements of a continuing controversy surfaced between the towns of Jonesport which has a clam control ordinance and neighboring Beals which does not Harry Fish first selectman of Jonesport said there are 236 licensed clam diggers in Jonesport Under the bill the town would be obliged to authorize another 60 licenses for non -resident diggers Fish said we had to support another 60 diggers be out of Fish said Jonesport allocates $10000 a year for its clam conservation program we collect another $1200 in fines mostly from people from Beals But Duane Carver and Harley Alley both Beals residents said that a license issued bv the state to dig A customer Bangor By Bob Taylor Of the NEWS Staff The 144 year old Bangor House is dead It succumbed sometime last week after a lingering illness and the event even rate a line in the newspaper The furnishings were put on sale Thursday and the marble floored lobby that once echoed to the footsteps of presidents and statesmen swarmed with used furniture dealers bargain -hunters and the curious Some portions of the building which once rated the title of the Northern will feel the axe as early as next week as the new owners prepare to turn it into an apartment complex The whole thing lacked the dignity of a wake or funeral but the shoppers seemed strangely subdued as if they were aware that they were treading into an unfamiliar corner of history The once grand ballroom or left of is now reduced to a repository for used television receivers As a sample set spewed forth its appeal for donations to the PTL Club it was hard to realize that the same walls had once vibrated to the voices of William Jennings Bryan and Stephen A Douglas President Ulysses Grant would hardly recognize the room that had been his headquarters during an extravagant visit to Bangor in 1873 It OMAHA BEACH France (AP) -In biting damp cold under lowering clouds President Carter walked atop the cliffs of this windswept beach Thursday and paid homage to the thousands of Allied soldiers who died in the D-Day invasion of Normandy are proud of what we have done he told French Presi- Chilean election 'rigged' WASHINGTON (UP1) The United States Thursday accused the Chilean government of rigging the election that gave President Augusto military regime an overwhelming vote of confidence Wednesday believe as a matter of principle that any election should offer all parties sufficient guarantees to present their case and to give voters a full and fair opportunity to express their said State Department spokesman Thomas Reston See CHILEAN on Page 2 News in brief British firemen's union favors Bowing to the government after a long and bitter fight union leaders voted Thursday to ask 35000 striking firefighters to end their eight week old walkout and accept a 10 percent raise Page 26 (NEWS Photo by Carroll Hall) takes possession of a Bangor House desk one of many items being sold Arms shipment intercepted House rings to gavel A clandestine shipment of five tons of sophisticated weapons destined for the Irish Republican Army in Northern Ireland has been seized from a cargo in Belgium Page 26 Dole says 55 favor canal treaty Sen Robert Dole R-Kan said Thursday roughly 55 senators now favor the Panama Canal treaties and the Senate may have to consider as many as 40 amendments to the two pacts Page 14 Dollar makes a comeback The dollar started a dramatic comeback in world money markets Thursday after the United States government bought dollars on the open market to snap the currency out of its yearlong decline Page II Hotel to change hands toward end of month He concealed whatever annoyance he might have felt as he heard what was probably the hundredth time happened to the Bangor For possibly the hundredth time he replied same thing happened to almost every other intown hotel in the country! Competition from motels! Rising costs! Changing See HOTEL on Page 2 After the ownership transfer later this month the developers will sign a contract with Salter Co of Augusta to do the renovation and construction work A spokesman for the company said last week that some interior work would be done this winter shortly after the contract is signed Kermit Lipez attorney for Allen and Myerson said the hope is that the construction and renovation can be completed in 15 months The developers have already received approval for their project from Bangor's planning board zoning board and historic preservation was filled with box springs and mattresses Other presidents who enjoyed the hospitality in better days were Chester A Arthur Benjamin Harrison Theodore Roosevelt and William Taft If other luminaries of the past had suddenly returned to the narrow corridors Thursday they would have been confronted by a stream of buyers struggling with a seemingly endless assortment of desks bureaus mirrors and lamps They might have included Daniel Webster one ot tne first celebrities to stay at the hotel or Erwin Kreuz one of the last Kreuz of course is the German traveler who spent three days in the hotel last fall thinking that he was in a suburb of San Francisco The list of famous names that have graced the register is almost inexhaustible It includes such statesmen and men of letters as Willianv Seward Charles Evans Hughes Josephus Daniels and Oscar Wilde The world of entertainment lent such representatives as Geraldine Farrar Mme Nordica Lawrence Tibbett and John McCormick At least three heavyweight boxing champions Jack Dempsev Primo Camera and Max Schmeluig are included on the list There were few such notables in evidence on Thursday School program gels grants The federal government searching for ways to improve education and diminish school violence is getting behind the Rev Jesse program that involves parents and community leaders in helping to motivate students Pages Colby Bowdoin face off Ownership of the Bangor House is expected to be transferred the end of to the two Portland developers who win transform the former grand hotel into a housing complex for the elderly the attorney said Thursday John Allen and Morton Myerson are the two developers who have secured $4474 million in financing from the Maine State Housing Authority to renovate the original brick portion of the Bangor House and add new wings to it turning it into a 129-unit housing complex with parking garage and Colby College faced Bowdoin Thursday night in the chammonshiD eame of the Maine Holiday Hockey Classic in Portland Maine lost to "Princeton 7-4 in the consolation prelim Colby defeated Maine 5-4 and Bowdoin beat Princeton 5-4 Wednesday night Page 8 i I.