Journal Tribune from Biddeford, Maine • 12

sf- Journal Tribune Thursday July 16 1987 Bush Dukakis leading rivals in campaign fund raising By RITA BEAMISH Associated Pmi WASHINGTON Vice President George Bush has raised more campaign money than any other 1968 presidential hopeful 99-4 million with Massachusetts Gov Michael Dukakis leading Democrats with $4-6 million their campaigns report Possible Republican candidate Pat Robertson claims to have collected $8-3 million but has not formally reported his campaign funding Bush after spending f44 million in his unannounced campaign still had more in the bank million than the total raised by any announced candidate at this early stage of the campaign -Dukakis who entered the race at the end of April made a strong start with a $2 million fund-raising dinner in Boston last month and had nearly $16 million left in the bank to the reporting period that ended June 90 Quarterly reports reflecting fund-raising to April through June plus totals to the year were due at the Federal Election Commission Wednesday For those who officially started their campaigns during that time it was their first financial disclosure Bush raised more than $7 million in the quarter eantfaming to rake in donations through dinners and receptions mail and telephone solicitation His campaign manager Lee Atwater said he got money tom nearly 90000 individuals and surpassed his June 90 goal of $15 million Among other Republican hopefuls Rep Jack Kemp R-NY claimed donations from 50000 contributors helping him to pull out of a $200000 (tot he incurred by putting on a massive mail effort according to spokesman John Buckley Kemp collected $946 million since the beginning of the year and ended the quarter with $696719 available cash and $453R21 in debts his report showed Senate Minority Leader Bob Dole of Kansas reported raising almost $4 million to the year so far collecting $94 million of that in the most recent quarter That included $25000 transferred from the $1 million surplus tom his 1986 Senate race He ended the quarter with $17 million in cash on hand GOP contenders Pete Du Font the former Delaware governor and former Sen Paul Laxalt of Nevada both approached the $1 million mark in fund raising to the quarter and ended the period with about half that in available cash Du Pont raised $914642 in the second quarter bringing his total annuabreceipts to more than $14 million Laxalt raised $814560 after starting his effort In mid-May said campaign spokesman Derid Carmen He said donors in the home staid provided 12 percent of the funds Former Secretary of State Alexander Haig reported raising $465001 total and ended the quarter with $3262 in the bank Robertson yet formed an official -campaign committee and does not have to report to the FEC Campaign spokeswoman Barbara Gattuilo said Robertson continues to gather signatures toward a goal of 9 mWiion supporters that he wants to collect before he announces Ms decision to run Among Democrats former Arizona Gov Bruce Babbitt ended the quarter with a $325810 debt and only $20690 in the bank after raising a total of nearly $14 million to the year to date His receipts of $547170 to tiie quarter included a $290000 bank loan Low bi(d spurs on connector project I comment this morning on whether WMt wants to be compensated for extra a unexpected time spent at MERC getting very frustrating at this end Erb are things that should have been resolved long On July 7 Erb and Town Counsel Karen Loydl met with Banfield bu the problems were not resolved Qn Tuesday Erb and selectmen met'in executive session Erb waa-totalk with Banfield today regarding" what he and selectmen discussed in the process negotiations and possible he said Wo motions were made during a after the session While the town intends to iron out an agreement legaoptioos also are bring considered Xovin has advised Erb and selectma that the town has legal recourse said Erb The contrya states the town must let WMI know within 90 days when it wants (subside collection to begin In February Erb wrote WMI re-a May start-up but the town received confirmation a in-tion on routes said WMI is expected next to complete mapping curbside collection routes The map will designate which streets win be serviced on the four collection days Mondays through Thursdays Fliers explaining tiie collection routes and time of expected pickup on streets will be mailed to residents prior to the startup date Waste Continued from Page 1 tion leaps For example the town of York contracted with WMI this spring for a sum the range of according to Town Manager Donald CMe The company has also expressed concern about MERC said Erb Patrick Banfield district manager for New England has indicated the company is not satisfied with arrangements made if the incinerator woe shut down for problems or repairs On June 23 Erb forwarded a letter to Banfield from Randall Parenteau manager of operation services at MERC which said MERC would he responsible fa paying transportation costs to another facility if a shutdown occurred Tiie letter farther stated WMI would only be responsible for getting the trash to the plant a a nearby transfer station said Erb Despite the notice Banfield wants to negotiate a foe that would be paid by the town if MERC sends haulers to another site such as the one MERC' is considering in Hamden according to' Erb Banfield said the company is concerned about the amount of i WMI haulers will be detained" at MERCs tipping floor where the tracks are weighed and the trash is dumped Erb said Banfield could not beeadyd for Route 1 near Carver Avenue It will cross Richardson Brook a small meandering tributary that flows in to Thatcher Brook and eventually the Saco River A section of the brook will have to be relocated to accommodate struction The new route will bypass the Five Points intersection a bottleneck for traffic from Ken-nebunk and Sanford to downtown Biddefofti Officials said they hope the spur will remove a substantial amount of traffic up to 5000 cars and trucks a day bound to two industrial parks 1 toe intersection Mountain I Morin Street will connect witiMhe spur City Engmefer Neil Folsom said he seentoe finql plans for the spur but he bid opening show the project appears to be on i 'Ike bid opening ini the first development on the Ject since a Congressional delay of a highway Mil last tall almost caused the project to be pushed back a year The project will be funded through a 50-50 split between the Maine Turnpike Authority and the federal and state governments Dinamo ft Md to the project was $1282692 The second lowest bidder HE Sargent of Stillwater bid $1321009 and the other company Blue Rock In- dustries also of Westbrook Md $1957611 The Biddeford connector spur represented by the dotted white fine-will link the Exit 4 of the Maine Turnpike with Route 1 and the Airport Industrial park while providing access to Mountain Road and Morin Street Preliminary work is scheduled to start this summer By JOEL BARRETT Staff Writer BIPDEFORD Bids for the $17mifi ion connector spur be-tweentae Maine Turnpike and Route 1 were opened yesterday signaling the start of the two-year aimed at relieving traffic i at the Five Points John Stanlejvpublic information director for thqMaine Department of Transpotytion said Medio Direnso A Sons rgmeral contracting company from Westbrook is the apparent I bidder of the three companies seeking the job Unless a complication Stanley said preliminary work wiU begin soon after the contract is officially awarded to Direnzo within two weeks The city hopes to have the spur open by next summer or tall Work will begin near Morin Street in the Biddeford Industrial Park and continue-toward Mountain Road except to a section covered by the Boston A Maine railroad line this summer Rough grading embankment construction and installation of special "wick fibrous tube-like drains that ardriven 90-70 feet into the ground will be thefirst tasks to Direnzo Sons tiie same company that constructed the Saco-Old Orchard Beach spur in 1981-1982 A series of wick drains is needed because of poor soil drainage in the area Stanley said As embankments are built weight forces water up through the wick drains and into a gravel drainage system "Water forced out of the ground follows the wicks as the path if least Stanley said in 4 press release The 85-mile spur will be built between Maine Turnpike exit cm Route 111 and Tilberg contrasted tiie Maine de- dsion with the California floodplain decision She said- the Maine court ruled is no unless land is rendered-substantially useless That is a very stringent test (California) case affirms the moist stringent test' It broadens the revenues when there is a taking but it change the test I see how they can be viewed as Becky Seel attorney for Maine Municipal Association said think the cases are contradictory Ferie need to be in a panic mode They (decisions) changed things that She said the publication of the Maine Municipal Association The Maine Townunmn has devoted its next issue to sorting out the decisions fa the benefit of its municipal members Compensation fa zoning decisions has been raised in Saco by George Smith a developer opposed to set- ting aside a around Goosefare Marsh and other wetlands Recently-hired planner Peter Morrill said it is unclear whether tiie planning board will be influenced by claim that compensation should be paid landowners for new restrictions on development around a wetland He said he considers it that such restrictions will be construed as a deserving compensation really think it will be said Dunes Court ruled thar government is not required to compensate landowners fa reasonable restrictions on development The case Involved on some rebuilding on environmentally sensitive sand in Popham Beach Are the two courts making contradictory rulings? Has the finny of decisions led to paralysis among local land use planners? Greg Sample who has watebed the cases for Attorney office says the courts are not going in opposite directions though he admits it sure seems so from initial appearances sure seems like they are going in opposite directions the impression of lawyers who occasionally deal directly in the field so not at all surprised the view non-lawyers will he said Sample contrasted the Maine decision and tiie California beach access decision UR Supreme Court view was that the government was forcing the public onto private property more akin to laying a road across a coma of lot That does deprive the owner of use and compensation must be paid In our case (Fophain Beach) the state was attaching conditions We doing anything other than restricting uses in the public in-' Photo by Cart a Walsh State investigates reports of harmful pesticide drift ticket at that airport in the rriorning of June 9 He was last reported seen in the Marriott Hotel Fort Lauderdale Fla where he allegedly used Several of credit cards on June 9 and 10 according to state police When arrested Curtis identified himself using his real name Parkinson said According to tiie affidavit Curtis who had been living in Ogunquit for the three weeks pria to death used the name Mogen Berguin while working at the Inn at 2 Village Square in Ogunquit White said Curtis allegedly used identification and credit cards in Calgary Montreal Toronto and Vancouver during a seven a eight day period According to the affidavit Howard Nixon Jr said his brother David was homosexual Several Maine peo- On Wednesday Gillespie said that the adviser was accidentally wounded to the neck at the Salvadoran military training center in eastern La Union province He was not further identified There' are about 150 UR military personnel in El Salvador including 55 US advisers here to train the army to combat leftist guerrillas Six American military personnel have been killed since the war began to 1979 The United States has maintained a contingent of up to 55 military advisers in El Salvador since 1981 fight denial seawall plan provide access to the homes Plans call for about $600000 to be spent on construction of a 750-foot seawall to protect Surf Street The share would be $150000 and the Corps' would be around $450000 Stewart said Stewart said he wants to ask for an exemption from the sand dune regulations because he and other city officials believe there' any dunes bordering Camp Ellis Like tiie streets been washed out to sea officials said State officials have said they want to meet with city and Corps officials to discuss alternative ways to cut erosion Recently the Maine Audubon Society came out against the project saying it would threaten -marine habitat Poindexter Continued from Page 1 In other testimonyPoindexter: that four days before the November news-'conference he ripped up a year-old presidential decision paper that described an arms-for-faostages trade He said he did it to save Reagan 1 political Crash Continued from Page 1 The Huey UH-1H left the capital en route to San Miguel 86 miles east of San Salvador around 10:90 pm Wednesday (11:90 EDTy to pick' up an American soldier wounded to a gun accident The soldier identified earlier as a military adviser was to stable but serious condition early today Gillespie said Gillespie said the American helipcopter started to turn back because of rainy weather and crashed Saco plans to of Camp Ellis SACO City officials want to see a written order denying plans to rebuild the ailing seawall at Camp Ellis so they can plot a way around tiie refusal The state Department of Environmental Protection announced Wednesday that it had denied a permit for the Army Corps of Engineers to rebuild the wall to slow erosion at tiie bead community The sand dune regulations were cited as the major reason for denying the project like to see that order that tiie commissioner Oaid City Administrator Ronald Stewart Stewart said DEP Commissioner Dean Marriott signed the denial on July 9 He said he wondered why the press was notified fo the denial before city officials were Stewart said the city will probably ask the DEP to suspend rales concerning construction on or near sand dunes so the project can go forward probably ajk for a suspension be our first Stewart said-The city asked for the help to its effort to reduce damage regularly caused by winter storms at Camp Ellis Streets have been rebuilt after storms only to be washed away by laterstorms Owners of dwellings along Surf Street have threatened to sue the city if officials- By TRACEY THOMAS Staff Writer LEBANON A complaints of health problems have prompted an investigation into pesticides used at a local apple orchard But the director of the state Pesticide Control Board said that tests' ponducted on the family's property lead him to doubt the orchard owners have broken pesticide regulations Robin Shaw of Bog Road in North Lebanon first complained about aerial spraying at Romac Orchards in ApriL She believes pesticides are responsible to her daughter's ruimy nose which doctors have been unable to explain and to severe headaches suffered by her carpenter husband David David Shaw has not seen a doctor The front door is approximately 177 feet from tiie nearest apple tree was afraid because the kids play outside all the she said aftereffects (of pesticides) -start years down the The state Pesticide Control Board says tests showed small amounts of pesticides on the property but the amounts are described as too small to suggest that Romac broke any rules The tests showed orchard leaves had 117" parts per million of the pesticide Cyclone and a leaf on the Shaws maple tree had 1 part per million or less than 9 percent of the Lotteries MEGABUCKS: NO WINNERS ERAINTREE Mass (AP) There were no Mg winners in Wednesday Massachusetts Megabucks drawings and the jackpot of $21S6A40 to expected to reach $3 minion for drawing lottery officials said The numbers drawn Wednesday night 0 20-17-18-24-26 amount found to the was obvious thqldid not get a direct Mt but that sane had drifted across the said Robert Bab teese director of toe control board Batteese said pesticide drift is a common problem to toe state and one that his board hopes to address with new regulations Oat would require orchard owners to notify abutters before spraying GAR ACCIDENT BIDDEFORD Two local men escaped injury Tuesday when tiie cars they ere driving collided on Route 1 A 1967 Ford owned by Brenadette Farrell of Mato St Sanford and driven by Mark Farrell 15 of the same address sustained $1000 damage when it was in a collision with a 1982 Oldsmobile operated by Ricky Elie 21 of 21 Oak St Biddeford which sustained $1000 damage to the 8:55 pm accident OUI CHARGE BIDDEFORD Paul Hersey 15 of 4-R Pearl St Sanford was charged with operating under the influence of alcohol (OUI) after a police stop Tuesday at 12:25 am Hersey to scheduled to answer the charge to Biddeford District Court Aug 11 OAS CHARGE BIDDEFORD Roger Drouin 18 of 48-A Pike St Biddeford was charged with operating after suspension (OAS) Monday at 8:32 pm after a police check on Pool Street Droato is scheduled to answer the charge in Biddeford District Court Aug 1L OUI ARREST SACO Brenda Perry 28 of 48 Bacon St Biddeford was arrested Wednesday at 1:56 am' for GUI-after a police check Perry is scheduled to answer the charge in Biddeford District Court Aug 20 Murder From Page One after Nixon was found dead on Goose Rocks Bcaoli body stabbed four times to the upper back was found partly clothed and wrapped in a blanket on the beach just before noon on June 9 Nixon a waiter In Connecticut was last seen June 8 by neighbors near his parents summer home at Goose Rocks Beach Curtis ik also wanted on a first degree murder warrant issued Wednesday by tiie Peri Regional Police in connection with the stabbing death of Johnson Johnson who was on vacation until July 6 was found dead in his aparfment on July 5 by investigators of the Peel Regional Police homodde bureau after apartment building tenants complained of a terrible oda coming from apartment said DeL Sgt Daniel Parkinson of the Peri Regional Police An autopsy revealed Johnson who was a UR customs agent at Pearson International Airport Toronto since Sept 1986 died of multiple stab wounds inflicted about the end of June Parkinson said Curtis was driving 1967 Chrysler LeBaron when arrested In an affidavit filed June 19 at Biddeford District Court state police allege Curtis fled on June 8 in Nixon's 1978 Chevrolet which was found June 17 in a puking lot at Newark International Airport' Curtis allegedly used Nixon's Visa card to buy a Continental Airlines ft-' 5 known to them as Mogen was homosexual White said he did not -know whether Johnson Was umosexiuu Curtis is also wantedby the Sparks Nev police on two warrants -(issued in March) of grand larceny by the Santa Rosa Calif police on a warrant (issued April 7) for grand theft and by the Ocala Fla police' on a warrant (issued May 14) for obtaining property by means of a worthless chock -Also Montreal police are 'b-vestigating a theft of money- credit -cards and a computer allegedly -committed by Curtis about tiie -second week in June Parkinson said victim who is fortunately still alive knew him (Curtis) as said White 4.