All Maine Matters Because All of Maine DOES Matter! Vol. 1, No. 7 July 2006 FREE Drop a Grain of Millet by Dr. Bill Reid A key reason I decided to run for the There is an old paradox by the ancient District 87 seat in the Maine Legisla- Greek philosopher Zeno the Eleatic, ture is the burden of laws, rules, taxes, called “The Millet Seed.” It goes like this: regulations, mandates and permits the If you drop a grain of millet you can’t legislature, and the bureaucracies re- hear a sound; drop a bushel sack and sponsible to it, impose upon us. Seven you will hear a resounding thump. The hundred new laws in the last legislature error made by those who are indifferent alone and more coming in future ses- to the problem of legal and regulator ex- sions. Load the whole set of our state’s cess is the same a man who assumes that statutes into a canoe and it would sink the bushel sack will be as soundless as straight down to the pickerel and perch the single seed. at bottom of the pond. Set them, along Logicians call this the “Fallacy of with the volumes and volumes of rules, Composition.” We commit it when we regulations and court decisions, onto a attach a property common to the mem- lobster boat and it will join the lobsters bers of a set to the set itself. A single, on the bottom of the bay. I begin to won- given, law or regulation seems harmless der how many laws it will take to sink or benign in itself, so people assume that the state. the whole mass must be equally inof- It should be obvious that this creates fensive. No millet seed makes a sound, an insurmountable obstacle to the in- therefore the set of seeds in the sack will dividual citizen who wishes to be law- make no sound when dropped. abiding. This ever-multiplying mass of I was talking with a lady the other laws makes compliance with them just day about a new law the governor had The steeple of the Millinocket Baptist Church towers over nearby houses. about impossible. How many people signed. It required that anytime a per- know just the latest fifty laws passed this son with a protection order tried to pur- legislature and signed by the governor? chase a firearm, the person protected by If Bill Gates Doesn’t Want the Money, I’ll Take It! If you don’t know them all, with their the court judgment must be notified. I By Tom DeWeese penalties—if any— for failure to com- expressed my doubts about the neces- ply, you are courting trouble and failing sity of the law because it seems pretty He might be a whiz at creating successful in a free market, Gates de- to do you duty as a citizen. clear it was duplicative, added yet more computer software, but beyond that, nied it all and turned his back on the We need people in Augusta who aim bureaucracy, more complication, more Bill Gates has proven time and again very free market principles that made to reduce, not increase, the number of chances for error, and most likely would that he hasn’t got a clue about why and his success possible. Instead Gates ad- laws in Maine. do no good. She argued that we should how a free market works. mitted the government had the moral One source of the problem is that the have it because might do some good, It He constantly teams up with anti- high ground in controlling the market individual legislator, regulator, and bu- wouldn’t be too difficult for the authori- free market types like the National place. reaucratic executive fails to see the prob- ties to carry it out, it seemed to be rea- Wildlife Federation (NWF) to produce Now comes this from the confused lem of excessive law as a whole. They sonable, and besides it didn’t seem do “educational” programs that misdi- mind of Bill Gates: Recently, Newsweek deal only in individual cases. Many any harm. rect unsuspecting children with politi- listed Gates as the world’s richest man, citizens react to new legislation from the Continued on page 4 cal propaganda. In 2002 he gave that ($50 billion). In response Gates said same narrow perspective. group $600,000 worth of software to “I wish I wasn’t. There is nothing good help the environmental radicals run that comes out of that.” their programs to block the drilling Nothing good comes from being of American oil. Apparently Gates successful and rich? I’ll bet his legions JOIN THE PAPER TRAIL (AND SAVE A TREE): IF YOU ARE doesn’t understand that we need oil to of employees would be unhappy to CONCERNED LIKE WE ARE, READ THIS PAPER, CIRCLE A create power to run computers. hear that. Apparently Gates fails to un- NUMBER, AND PASS IT ON TO A FRIEND. When the Justice Department filed derstand that it is only through success an anti-trust suit against Gates, rather and money that he is able to hire them. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 than stand up in defense of his com- How would his wife and family feel to pany and openly defend his business learn that Bill Gates finds nothing good Taxpayer Bill of Rights: practices that made his company so Continued on page 4 An Independence Day Story We are also on the web at http://allmainematters.com By Bob Stone This Month’s Contents The mid-July sun was working dil- passed not fifty yards from the pa- igently, slowly burning off the damp trol of minutemen hidden on the Drop a Grain of Millet 1 fog settled in low over the tidal Ken- steep banks of the peaceful Kenne- Taxpayer Bill of Rights: An Independence Day Story 1 nebec. The tide was rushing in, near bec. Colonel Becker read the names If Bill Gates Doesn’t Want the Money, I’ll Take It! 1 high, and the small group of patriots to Captain Wibby as they passed. K.I.S.S. 2 “The ‘N.E.A’, home port Washing- huddled against the early morning The Token Conservative 2 chill. No one uttered a word. They ton, D.C. The ‘More Money Always’, Service Should Not Be a Hollow Concept 3 were listening. port looks like, Augusta, Maine. The “Here they come” whispered the ‘John Baldacci’, out of Bangor.” The The UN Takes One More Step Toward Global Government 4 diminutive leader, clearly the leader craggy Captain furiously scribbled Electability 4 of the group. Dressed in black, she the dictation down on a leather The Anti-Christs Live Among Us 5 crouched low behind a mossy fallen bound notebook. Freedom Fighters From All Eras 5 pine, five silver stars on her collar. “Jeepers! Look at the redcoats Chandler Woodcock And The Campaign To Come 6 “Everyone be quiet and hold your on deck!” whispered a young militia Needed Reforms: Alternate Incentives 6 man quite loudly. fire” she said. “Pass it on.” Profiles in Rural Maine: Millinocket 8 The masts could be seen first. “Not too loud, Sergeant Thumper” cautioned Major Fish. “It’s not like Risk Audit Project Begins 10 They quietly cut through the mist. Another Hidden Tax on Maine State Citizens 11 The fog swirled behind the masts we didn’t expect them coming in with the gold.” The Fleecing of Maine 12 in small eddies of grayish vapor. With a steely gaze, General Adams The Enemy of the People 12 Squawking gulls orbited nervously sized the magnificent gilded trim on over the ghostly square rigs. Discussion with Stu Kallgren, Maine Leaseholder’s Assn 11 the massive ships. “They are coming Soon the rest of the vessels could “Comprehensive” Sellout: Immigration, Senate, White House 13 with gold for the Tory Maine Media” Declaration of Independence 16 be discerned through the thicker she muttered. “Look at the report- layers of fog. They were magnificent ers and editors running out onto the Discussion with Stu Kallgren, Maine Leaseholder’s Assn 11 sailing vessels, sure enough. Ships dock, jumping and clapping. It looks Straight From Nana Beth’s Kitchen 6 of the line. The best taxpayer money like Christmas morning.” Letters to the Editor 14 could buy. Continued on page 5 Puzzle Page 7 The names could be read from Cartoon 7 the stern as the men-of-war Ask Alvina 11 Page 2 All Maine Matters - Because All of Maine DOES Matter! K.I.S.S. The Token Conservative By Bob Sanders By Jon Reisman On initial power up activation the De- with a philosophy of simplicity are swept The Governor’s Race, Part II coder Module senses ignition circuit re- up into the same euphoria of technical sistance and if this resistance is correct, overkill that is unavoidable in other ar- Last month, I predicted that Chandler Chandler and the GOP are not in favor the Decoder Module will send a Pulse eas, such as engine and transmission Woodcock would win the GOP primary of the nanny state, and there is nothing Width Modulated signal to the Power- control. The end result is vehicles that are with 39-40% of the vote, John Baldacci out of the mainstream in that conviction. train Control Module, and will also power extremely difficult to repair, you can read would have a tepid performance, and that If Woodcock is attacked for opposing up the Start Enable Relay. The Powertrain this as extremely expensive to repair, the left would portray Senator Woodcock “special rights”, he should simply back Control Module will process the Pulse with lots and lots of little electronic giz- as a “scary conservative.” Going two for the insertion of four words into Maine’s Width Modulated signal and will in turn mos that all cost lots and lots of money. two on election day was nice, but I have Human Rights Act: “No discrimination, activate the fuel pump and fuel injectors. It wasn’t always like this. We all know to admit I didn’t expect the left and the No preferences.” If the Democrats and This will allow for fuel delivery and start- that cars were much simpler years ago, Maine Stream Press to so quickly confirm the left want to defend affirmative action er activation. but it goes much deeper than that. Wer- Prediction #3. Not having crow for dinner preferences for gay, lesbian and trans- If you thought the above technical ner Von Braun was the first director of the was also appealing. gendered protected class members, they jibberish sounds kind of like the launch agency that would later become NASA, From Pravda on the Presumpscot: are welcome to it. Under no circumstance sequence for the Space Shuttle, then you and he as well as the generation of engi- “At the same time, his campaign won should Chandler cede the culture war would be wrong. But who could blame neers that would usher in the space age support from more conservative voters battlefield to the left, especially when you, it sounds just contorted enough that and all the flight testing for hypersonic concerned with social issues such as they insist on bringing it up. it could pass for rocket surgery. It is, in aircraft at Edward Air Force Base had an abortion.” The left created publicly funded elec- fact, what happens every time you turn overarching philosophy when it came to “…the sharp differences could hurt tions (the defunct Maine Citizen Leader- the key in your family grocery getter. solving engineering problems. The KISS the Republican Party in the end, because ship Fund , a principal of which unsuc- The model in question is any General philosophy. It was originally an acronym Woodcock is too conservative for a ma- cessfully challenged TABOR, was behind Motors vehicle with the Pass-Key Secu- for Keep It Simple and Straightforward, jority of Maine voters, Democrats say.” the original initiative in 1998). In a de- rity System. But most vehicles have some but the guys on the ground as well as “‘Woodcock is the candidate we lightful turn of the political screw, it may sort of Theft Deterrent feature, either ac- cowboy test pilots quickly recoined it wanted to run against,; said Ben Dudley, well deliver the Blaine House to Chan- tive or passive, so the above example is into Keep It Simple Stupid. The idea was chairman of the Maine Democratic Party. dler Woodcock and the GOP. Through very, very average and other systems, all about logic. These engineers were ” (Mark Peters, Portland Press Herald, the magic of clean election funding, John although different in design, are more or working on the cutting edge technology 6/15/06) Baldacci will face three adequately, if not less parallel in their level of complexity of the their time, with extremely complex “Democratic chairman Dudley later lavishly funded candidates in November. and the number of modules to accom- control, guidance, and power systems. If called Woodcock a ‘yes man’ for Presi- Senator Woodcock has already shown he plish this feat of engineering. you solve these engineering problems dent Bush and an opponent of both abor- can use the funds wisely and well. The Which begs the obvious question- Is by applying the simplest systems and tion rights and gay rights. more money Baldacci raises or the left this level of technical hocus pocus RE- solutions possible, then you minimize “Signaling that the Democrats are de- “independently” spends, the more mon- ALLY necessary just to start your car? unforeseen failures. Simplicity fails less termined to paint Woodcock as someone ey “clean” candidates get. LaMarche and I’m glad someone asked this question. often than complexity. Logical. This the- who is out of step with most Mainers, Barbara Merrill will take a chunk out of In my lifetime there has been a 180 de- ory of engineering was proven time and Dudley said Woodcock ‘is a conservative Baldacci from the left. A sizable chunk of gree shift in the strategy of automotive time again, aircraft that were the first and candidate and he’s not going to be able women, nanny state proponents and the engineering when it comes to solving en- only of their kind would fly upwards of to hide from that.’” (Paul Carrier, Portland left will vote for Pat or Barbara. Wood- gineering problems. It seems more and 300,000 feet above the earth at speeds of Press Herald, 6/15/06) cock will win the general election with a more the manufacturers will take systems up to 4,500 miles an hour with very few From the Baldacci Daily News: 39-40% plurality. And then the screaming that in the past were really quite basic in failures. “Mary Ellen Fitzgerald…said Wood- will really start. design and function and build layer upon I may be getting too comfortable with cock “is kind of a George Bush candidate layer of complexity into them. my inner Luddite, but the heaping on of in a John Kerry state.” Jon Reisman in the University of They always were simple in de- ever higher levels of technology just for (Democratic Chairman Dudley said Maine System’s token conservative. sign simply because the problem they technology’s sake is soon going to spawn Woodcock comes) “from the far right needed to solve was, well, it was simple. a generation of vehicles that are so diag- wing of the Republican Party…” (A.J. Hig- The amount of unwarranted complex- nostic intensive that most folks are simply gins, Bangor Daily News, 6/15/06) ity in today’s vehicles is growing all the not going to be able to afford to repair Green party nominee Pat LaMarche time. While there are some systems that them once the ravages of time take their reportedly launched a post election ad are horribly complex because of abso- toll. The automotive world could really campaign in southern Maine labeling lute necessity, all manufacturers, not just use a little KISS. Woodcock as an “ultraconservative.” domestic, are engineering their cars to Bob Sanders is a Master Auto Techni- One moderate Republican I know was death. Systems that could be designed cian who works in Brewer. quick to condemn Woodcock as an un- electable conservative. When I queried her, she admitted she had never seen or heard Chandler, but had reached that conclusion based on what she had seen “Do not separate and heard in the media. text from historical The campaign and candidate Wood- background. If you cock may well focus on the economic is- do, you will have sues above social ones, but the Culture perverted and sub- War will neither go away nor should it be verted the Constitu- conceded. tion, which can only end in a distorted, bastardized form of illegitimate govern- ment. ” James Madison

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The Founders fought a bitter and ter- be employed. It was because of Milli- rible war to ensure that citizens in the nocket’s failure, and other towns like Mil- All Maine Matters brand-new United States would have linocket, that the Maine Legislature took proper representation. They held the the failures seriously enough to establish Fishery Notes Constitutional ideals dear and knew that The Committee to Study Compliance citizens were part of, indeed the bosses with Maine’s Freedom of Access Laws. Farming & Forestry Too! of, their newly elected government of- Over the course of three terms, the com- ficials. To that end, they gave “the bless- mittee studied how to make the First Law Published by Maine Free Press, LLC ings of liberty to ourselves and our pos- in the state, Maine’s Title 1, stronger. Just terity.” It is an incredible gift. last year, the Legislature adopted the rec- The Founders also said that “Congress ommended changes and strengthened Editor and Advertising shall make no law respecting an estab- Maine people’s first law. Michelle Anderson lishment of religion, or prohibiting the In Millinocket, citizens are not the ad- free exercise thereof; or abridging the versaries. The Founders knew that, State freedom of speech, or of the press; or the legislators know that. The Council is not Distribution, Photography right of the people peaceably to assem- a personal playground where childish Ken Anderson ble, and to petition the government for a Councilors afeared of head shaking use redress of grievances.” their power to silence the people. It is not From that splendid ideal written on a place to make money, to gain influence, 207.723.4456 parchment by the brilliant Thomas Jef- to promote a personal agenda. It is place ferson and John Hancock, Millinocket has where Councilors serve the people. tumbled to Councilor Matt Polstein pub- And that service is best conducted licly squashing dissent at meetings. Audi- when the people can be heard, where PO Box 788 ence members who shake their heads in fairness should rein, and where the bonds disagreement are told that their freedom of civic discourse across the great divide Kingman, ME 04451 of expression is not welcome and they between councilor platform and podium http://allmainematters.com should stop. should be shrinking, not growing. Freedom of Access might seem a mi- I hope that the officials in Millinocket nor thing individually, but cumulatively, seek to reach out to the people and invite This Month’s Contributors: each citizen is a soldier in the army of participation in all its forms, not squash national civic participation. Each person it. Remember, the Founders gave ‘the who walks up to the town office seeking blessings of liberty to ourselves and our Ken Anderson Michelle Anderson information about their government but posterity,’ and that posterity is sitting be- Beth Cyr Justin Darr is denied becomes a wounded soldier fore you. That posterity is people asking Tom DeWeese Roger Ek of the living Constitution. Every time a questions in town office. That posterity is John Frary Michael Fundalewicz citizen who brings the gift of himself to a vigorous free press. Respect them as Matt Jones Jon McKane a meeting with intent to participate but the gifts that they are- your peers, your is squashed, it injures the process our bosses, your constituents whom you Patrick Moening Lenny Murphy Founders fought to give us. serve. The Founders are counting on you. Randall H. Nunn Bob Parks Millinocket has done and is doing its Elizabeth Prata Dr. Bill Reid Elizabeth Prata is the Editor of The part to snip away pieces of that sacred Jon Reisman Bob Sanders parchment. In 2002, during a statewide Monument Newspaper, award-win- freedom of access audit, a citizen sought ning Newspaper of record for Gray Bob Stone Susan C. Stratton a copy of the Millinocket manager’s ex- and New Gloucester. She served two David Trahan Alvina Turner pense sheet, a public document, but was terms on the Committee to Study told that information needed manager ap- Compliance with Maine’s Freedom of Access Laws, and is a member of the proval prior to release. Similar requests New England Press Association and 11,000 copies distributed throughout rural Maine from were freely fulfilled from the Millinocket the Society of Professional Journal- police and the Millinocket schools. The ists. She can be reached at editor@ Machias to Kittery, North to Fort Fairfield, Stockholm, and town, however, failed the audit. monumentnews.com, or 207-657- Fort Kent, west to Greenville, Dover-Foxcroft, Dexter, Rumford, The Freedom of Access Audit was con- 5353 and Bethel, and points in between and beyond! ducted under the aegis of the Society of Professional Journalists. It was to test the waters of access statewide and deter- Published the first week of each month mine if corrective measures needed to WE RESERVE THE RIGHT TO ACCEPT OR REJECT ANY ARTICLE OR AD SUBMITTED FOR PUBLICATION. CORRECTIONS:

In my June profile of the town of Brooks, Maine, I misidentified the Pres- Thoughts on Taxes Patriot’s Corner ident of the Brooks Historical Society By Lenny Murphy By Roger Ek as Betty Littleton. Her actual name is Betty Littlefield. She was very kind The US Constitution has to be respected “There would be no First Amendment and helpful to me, so I am particularly first! Then, I would think, we should think without the Second Amendment.” embarrassed for having erred in the about the Bible, treat others the way we would spelling of her last name. My notes like to be treated! Between these two guide- The “people” mentioned in our bill said Betty Littlefield, and I thought of lines I know we can develop a new solution to of rights are all the same people. As her as Betty Littlefield, yet for some old problems! the old comic strip, Pogo said, “They reason when I wrote the article, it I will start with the most difficult part, for came out wrong, and I didn’t catch it me, of the taxation formula. I try to stay away are us.” The people have a right to a in the proofreading. I apologize for my from this next topic but I do think at some free press just as they have a right to error. -- Ken Anderson time in the future, income, and or, the ability bear arms. “Bear” means carry. “Press” to pay, must be at the center of determining means to print and disseminate. It has a tax structure for property tax! All I am say- been said that freedom of the press ex- ing is that if we know how much a person’s tends to those who own presses. or business’s, yearly income is, then we have a By the same token, the right to bear beginning clue as to what their property taxes arms extends to those who own arms. should be! Publishers vigorously defend their Property taxes, to some extent, have to be rights against those who may disagree based on the ability to pay, or we will be forc- with their writings and want to shut ing people to sell their land or we will take down their publication. However, the it. What kind of a scare tactic is that? It is a people will not allow this to happen. excessive fine, fee, or penalty, and it is uncon- The right to publish is equal to the stitutional to take someone’s land for a few tax right to know. dollars that are owed to the town. In my case Medford took my land and they were going to sell it to the people next door! I started making payment and they foreclosed anyway! They could have sold the land and buildings for over $70,000.00 and I owed only $2,600.00 I guess the towns in Maine are allowedto keep the profit of over $67,000.00 and I would have received nothing. So if I was in the Veterans hospital for awhile and tried to go home, someone else maybe living there? Not in my book, things must change!

We are also on the web at http://allmainematters.com Page 4 All Maine Matters - Because All of Maine DOES Matter! We Told You So. The UN Takes One More Step Toward Global Government Electability By Justin Darr By Matt Jones I would like to say congratulations to all of For years, Conservatives have been to force the United States to conform to bers. the primary election winners. trying to alert Americans and all free- the bidding of the absolute worse of the This is where the fun part starts. If the Now let’s hurry to the “middle of the road.” dom loving people in the world about the member states. The operative word there Council decides that the Secretary Gen- You know that there will be a poll soon, so dangers the United Nations poses to in- is “force.” The world is jealous of Ameri- eral was wrong, then they can vote under you need to appear “electable.” It’s OK, your dividual liberty and democracy. Whether ca’s wealth, power, and strength, and has normal rules to bring the troops back. base supporters will understand the distance it was “Agenda 21,” the United Nations’ opted to use the United Nations as the ve- That sounds great, but the problem is you need to put between yourself and them. plan for global sustainable development hicle to undermine America by whatever that under “normal rules,” the permanent You need to appear “electable” in order to get that would void your private property means possible. members’ veto comes into play. The Se- enough donations to run a good campaign. rights, force you to give up your car in Until now, as the left loves to point out, curity Council would be powerless to end This conversation (or one similar) is now lieu of a bicycle, and reserve almost half the United Nations militant presence un- the United Nations had no mechanism to taking place in Republican and Democrat head- of the United States as no human zones to enforce its policies or other neo-Commu- til a bunch of bureaucrats can get around facilitate habitat for migratory animals, quarters around the country. It is a sad truth. It nist resolutions. Compliance with United to find the nuanced wording required happens in all elections: the “far right (or left) or the United Nations’ plan to wrest con- Nations resolutions was voluntary, and to avoid a veto. In effect, the Secretary trol of the Internet away from the United wing” may get you past the primary, but they had to be, in the case of the United States, General would become more powerful won’t get you elected. States and place it under the “unbiased” approved by our elected representatives. than the Security Council, and the United control of China, Sudan, and Cuba, or This thought process turns my stomach. If any nation does not like what the UN has States would be unable to stop UN mili- Chandler Woodcock is in such a position right NRA President Wayne LaPierre’s warn- to say, then they can just ignore it, and in tary actions against its interests without ing that the UN’s “Small Arms Review now. On Tuesday we voted. On Wednesday, most cases, there is nothing anyone can the support of France, China, and Russia. Conference” was nothing more than a when it was evident that he won, the Repub- do about it. That is until now. You will have to forgive me if I do not thinly veiled attempt to destroy the 2nd lican effort to claim the “middle of the road” Last week, the United Nations unveiled hold my breath for that to happen, or if this Amendment, Conservatives have always began. Ben Dudley, the state Democrat party a proposal to develop its own standing proposal is ever passed, plan any trips to seen the UN as the anti-American orga- chairman said that Woodcock “is a conserva- Israel. The United Nations proud anti-Se- nization it is. And, categorically, we have army to enforce what it deems to be in- tive candidate and he’s not going to be able to mitic past makes Israel the prime target been ridiculed and called insane by the ternational law. Oh, wait! Did I say “stand- hide from that.” of any UN military action unchecked by left as a result. ing army?” I should have used the UN’s This would be a good time for the Republi- the United States UN veto power. And, that The left is so consumed in their anti- own words. cans to take pride in their “conservative” views. would be only the first of many abuses of Americanism that they tend to gravitate Last week, the United Nations unveiled Oh, yeah.....that was the Republican party of this unaccountable military power. toward and support anyone who is op- a proposal to develop its own “Emergen- the past. The “new and improved” Republican Granted, a United Nations army would posed to the United States, even to the cy Peace Service” to “take action to pre- party wants to distance themselves from such probably look like an unholy hybrid of a point of becoming apologists for ter- vent war and dire threats to human secu- accusations. yoga class, group therapy session, and rorists, and in this case, a dysfunctional rity and human rights.” Julie O’Brien, state chair of the Republi- a gun shop, but it is still a first step. It is and corrupt international organization. Do you know what those rights might can Party said that Woodcock “really isn’t as not as important how effective an UN When a liberal is defending the UN, the be? Do not feel bad; nobody else does ei- conservative as some may think.” This is sick- proposal could be as it is the fact that arguments are generally based on some ther, including the people who wrote the ening. The Republican party used to stand for yet another piece of our sovereignty has perceived notion that just because the proposal. Other than genocide, there are something. This is one of the reasons I left the been chipped away from us and yielded majority of petty juntas, Communist dic- no clear definitions of what the UN would party in the first place. The only thing the Re- to an unaccountable foreign body. Do al- tatorships, and radical theocracies of the consider a “crime against humanity,” just publican party stands for anymore is electing low yourself to be deceived, American world have an opinion about something, as it has no clear definition of what ter- Republicans. sovereignty is the only thing that keeps then that opinion is, by default, granted rorism is more than five years after 9/11. If it requires spitting on conservative val- Americans free and preserves our way of the coveted Liberal mantle of “interna- So really, the proposed UN army could be ues and claiming the middle of the road, so be life. And, each small step the UN makes tional moral authority.” used for whatever the UN wants. it. This is why so many people are leaving the takes us one small step closer to losing However, reality paints a very differ- Republican party for the Constitution Party. The proposal is also unclear about our liberty. If we allow that day to come, ent picture of the United Nations. Gen- The Constitution Party stands for everything who can deploy the United Nations army. do not claim you were not warned. erally, the world body’s member states Actually, the problem with the proposal is the old Republican party used to stand for: pro- oppose and attack the United States not that lots of people can deploy the force Justin Darr is a freelance writer liv- life, pro-second amendment, pro-liberty, and out of the interests of their populations, wherever they want, and only one of them ing in the Philadelphia area with his anti-big, unconstitutional government. As the head of the Constitution Party of but their own personal ego and lust for is the Security Council. Under the plan, if wife and twin children. He can be read Maine, I can assure you that we would never power. There is no international sense of the Security Council fails to approve an widely on the Internet and in publi- run from our values. “Electability” means the common good, and unless under ex- international intervention, the Secretary cations across North America and in nothing. Holding to your personal beliefs and treme pressure, desire to make the world General of the UN can override the Coun- Europe. values means everything. I invite you to join a better place among the nations moti- cil and deploy the troops anyhow. Even if our re-organization process. You can e-mail me vating the actions of the UN. What there the resolution fails because of a veto from if you would like more information. You can is, instead, is a pathological obsession one of the five permanent Council mem- A lie told often enough becomes help stop the “run to the middle.” the“ truth. Matthew Jones is a businessman and Christian political activist from Chel- sea, Maine. He is the head of the ” Constitution Party of Maine where Vladimir Lenin principle overpowers politics. He can be reached at mattykid91@yahoo. com. For information on the Consti- tution Party please visit www.Con- stitutionParty.com or call 1-800-2- VETO-IRS.

Drop a Grain of Millet (Continued from page 1) If Bill Gates Doesn’t Want the Money, I’ll Take It! When she offered her reasons, I was (Continued from page 1) struck by the fact she was committing the in their comfortable life style or the spe- Bill Gates is certainly the modern so- Fallacy of Composition.. She was at ease cial opportunities he can now provide to cialist businessman. Rather than stand- that the new law was harmless at worst his children? ing strong in defense of the system that and accepted the addition of yet another The world, of course, would be a very dif- allowed his success, he feels guilty about soon-to-be-forgotten law to the huge heap ferent place without Bill Gates’ software his wealth. Perhaps he would be much already accumulated on the books. She creations. Most of us would be much hard- happier if he were just another govern- saw this single law as no big deal and, in er pressed to go about our daily routines ment employee working in his cubi- fact, most of the individual laws not terri- without it. Of course, none of it would be cal, carrying his lunch pail, shoulders bly oppressive in themselves. They might possible if Bill Gates hadn’t been suc- hunched, frown permanently on his brow, do some good; would not be too difficult cessful and therefore rich, in order to pay joyless, oppressed, nothing special. to carry; won’t do any harm. She figured for the development of his ideas. But ac- I’m sure that if he truly wanted to turn what is true of each of the laws in Maine is cording to him, nothing good has come his entire company and all of his assets true of the whole “set” of Maine Laws. out of any of it. over to the government and let it run his This is exactly the mentality we need What Bill Gates has failed to understand company, the government would be more to change. Look at the big picture—the is the true nature of money. He sees it as than happy to accommodate him so he whole set—and you see a demonstration an evil to be controlled by some self-ap- can live out his days, guiltless and plain. of Thomas Jefferson’s dictum: “It is the na- pointed moral authority. Money, of course The only problem for the rest of us is ture of government to expand and of lib- is simply the means by which we mea- that once the government consumes yet erty to retreat before it.” sure and reward success. As Ayn Rand another piece of the free market system It is merely common sense to recognize so clearly put it, “Money is a is a tool of there will soon be a sever shortage of that unless the big picture is kept con- exchange that can’t exist unless there are computer software. stantly in view, the point will be—must goods produced and men able to produce be—reached where liberty can only exist them…Money is made possible only by in defiance of the law. In a sense, the more men who produce.” There is nothing evil regulated we become, the less law-abiding about it. The evil comes from those who Tom DeWeese is president of the we will be; both from ignorance and con- loot from those who create. It is simply a American Policy Center and editor scious evasion. sign of moral depravity to loath such a re- of the DeWeese Report. Contact in- sult of honest effort. The only substitute formation: apcmail@americanpolicy. Dr. Bill Reid is a Candidate, House for the free exchange of money among org District 87 (New Sharon, Jay, Mer- producers is the muzzle of a gun. cer, Starks, and Chesterville) All Maine Matters - Because All of Maine DOES Matter! Page 5 Taxpayer Bill of Rights: The Anti-Christs Live Amongst Us An Independence Day Story Bob Parks (Continued from page 1) We all recently experienced June 6th, they have “rights.” Parents indulge them “Shhhhh! Shhhhh” Mr. Wibby loud- “Most of it comes from the taxpayers 2006. “666” is supposedly the day when by letting them wear whatever they ly signaled. “Look, here come the rest in one way or another,” said Captain the Anti-Christ will be born. I contend that want, pierce themselves more than Af- of the Tories.” Wibby, slamming his journal shut. several million currently walk amongst ricans, provide them their “crack” (cell Sure enough, smaller vessels mate- “They use taxpayer monies to fund us. phone minutes that they always seem to rialized out of the lifting fog. these campaigns which are totally de- Last weekend, one of my kids during run out of despite the pricey plans their “These must be the locals…the sup- signed to take even more taxes out of a passing conversation said that, with all parents obtain), and seldom do we get porting cast” figured Colonel Becker. the citizens’ wallets.” due respect, some in our generation are any gratitude. Instead, kids go right to “Let’s see…ayuh…the ‘John Richard- “But that’s not fair!” shouted the kind of “computer challenged”. I had to the fridge, eat more than their share, and son’ out of Brunswick….the ‘Kathad- young patriot. remind him, with all due respect, that it give your family provisions to their friends in Institute’ out of Portland…the “St. “Quiet!” barked the Captain. was our generation that created comput- who aren’t supposed to be in your home John” from Phippsburg. “Don’t worry, Mr. Wibby,” said Gen- ers and the Internet. It’s his generation when parents are not for all the obvious On and on, about 85 more coastals eral Adams, in a calming voice. “They that simply uses them. legal reasons. Rules are constantly broken cruised by. They were a loud and bois- are so busy whooping it up over their The more and more I think about it, I because kids feel entitled to do whatever terous bunch. They yelled noisy greet- in their gold haze that they will nev- have to admit, I hate kids today. There they want. Deal with it, Chelsea. ings to the Tory Media on the dock as er hear a thing from over here on the are times I can barely tolerate my own. There are no “no’s” that are binding. they approached. Western bank.” I’ve come to despise those we used Telling a kid to avoid MySpace because Soon, the docks were a sea of red The small group of militia watched to call “soccer moms.” You know, those of the obvious hazards, results in an eye- coats. With the sun now having burned for the better part of an hour as the women who are slavishly devoted to her rolling that makes the back of our hands off the last remnants of the fog, the tide turned, lines were cast and the kids and will drop everything to drive tingle, yet we all know the moment we gold on the decks of the men-of-war fleet headed down the Kennebec for them here, cook several different dishes walk out the door, both AIM is activated glinted fiercely. the open sea. The ships of the line for several different “orders”, go to all and MySpace is opened. A long line formed and the gold rode high on the tide while the smaller the PTA meetings, sell hot dogs at all the I wish I could have had an “emotional was passed, as in a bucket brigade, schooners were drafting much more, Little League games, basically give up day” off when I was younger. On those oc- up onto the docks. The swarming red loaded with the gold bestowed upon most of her waking hours to kids whose casions when I knew I was in for a tra- coats eagerly loaded it on to the media them by their benefactors. last thought it is to issue a simple “thank ditional ass-whuppin’ from a school bully, carriages. Some of the bullion was off- The ‘Baldacci’ rode at anchor and you”, and at the end of the day think a day off would have been nice. Bullying loaded onto each of the coastal schoo- did not join the procession down the they’re better than the rest of us because was not a crime in those days and we all ners. There was whooping and yelling Kennebec. The redcoats also stayed they care about their kids more than the had to learn how to embrace our fears, as each gold brick reached one of the and started to walk up through the rest of us do. and more times than not, the ass-whup- supporting vessels. town, guarding the Tory Media wagons (The following is the commencement pin’ never happened. Today’s kids are With the improving visibility, the as their horses strained to get up the address I should have read....) wimps. quaint village could now be seen over- steep hill leading from the docks. Now that a lot of high school com- They cry on national television real- looking the docks. The local residents “So it begins. So it begins” repeated mencements are over, complete with ity shows when things don’t go their way. stood on their porches and peered from General Adams. student speeches describing how they’ve They are devoid of personal responsibility, the windows of the weather beaten “Come on, people. We’ve got work to grown, how much they’ve learned about and when they hang out amidst riots and small homes. They were quiet. Very, do.” themselves, and how much all of this was get hurt (or worse), it’s everybody else’s very quiet. The group started away but General always all about them, I’m going to be fault. They go to spring break, drink while “How much do you think they Adams paused as she noticed a couple one parent whose going to tell them just underage until all hours, and should some brought in, Colonel Becker” queried of bald eagles soaring freely and ma- how much (or little) I think of them. evil befall them, we never ask why they the young sergeant. jestically in the rising thermals of the A few weeks ago, Hillary Clinton pub- were there in the first place doing what “Well, a couple of years ago they morning. There was a twinkle in her licly commented on how she believes this they were doing. That would be insensi- brought in about $1.5 million for the eye. generation thinks “work” is a four-letter tive. Question 1A side” whispered Becker. word, and how they feel oh so entitled. We’ve created shortcuts in life they “The local Tories raised over a million Bob Stone is a retired banker and Her daughter then publicly launched in to now expect. Instead of paying their dues for the 1B bunch. They have all kinds treasurer for Common Sense for her and Hillary backed down and apolo- and growing naturally in a craft, we pre- of money. I think this time it will be Maine Taxpayers. Maine’s Taxpayer gized. This woman wants to be president, maturely award them as American Idols, nearly 2 million.” Bill of Rights site is at taxpayerbillo- yet can’t stand up to her own kid who and their careers are mediocre at best. “Where do they get their money?” frights.com. because of family name, graduated from We watch them complain about how hard asked the younger man. two pricey colleges and is now earning their short lives have been constantly on six-figures. But what else would Chelsea MTV. What kind of generation is this going In East Millinocket, a War Memorial expect? to be? I fear for the future.... is being built in order to commemo- How many times do you tell a kid One afternoon a few weeks ago, I rate those who gave their lives fight- anything with him or her responding “I heard a fairly loud and arrhythmic bang- ing for our country. The memorial is know...”, but when you ask them why ing outside our home. I peeked through being built in George Daisey Park, they did something bad, their response is the blinds and saw one of the kids in my and the current memorial will be almost always “I dunno...” extended family taking Barry Bonds-like moved to Daisey Park as well and In a few short years from now, these expanded to include veterans who swings with a baseball bat on the doors kids are going to be running the show. God gave their lives fighting wars start- of his car and rear taillight. Apparently, ing with WWII. If you know of anyone help us as these kids are already breeding instead of performing the routine main- whose name should be included on more self-absorbed brats. tenance required as responsible car own- the memorial wall, or if you want A lot of the blame for this lost genera- ership mandates, he blew the money he to donate to the memorial, you tion is some of us parents and an intrusive bums off his mother elsewhere, and when are asked to contact Shirley Tapley government system that acts like they the car started to fail, it was the car’s at [email protected] or the own our kids. I’ll personally never forgive fault. American Legion Post #13 c/o Vet- pop culture and Hollywood that continues I can only imagine what would be go- erans’ Memorial Fund, PO Box 446, to portray parents as punchline buffoons ing through my mind if people bought East Millinocket, ME 04430. and the kids as wise-ass geniuses. Be it the house next door and within their first the whiny, social skills-challenged babies month in a new neighborhood, we all wit- on “The Real World”, or the entitlement- ness a kid bashing the hell out of his car in Freedom Fighters From All Eras sickening brats on “Sweet Sixteen” which their driveway. I’d be talking about them By Roger Ek is probably the worst show ever produced in the most unflattering of terms. What for kids, they can out-sass us and that’s kids do to embarrass their parents is the I was asked to speak at an Independence had on an ordinary short-sleeved shirt and dun- supposed to be cool. last thing in their minds, because God Day gathering in our little town. At the ap- garees. I spoke about the freedom fighters we Government intrusion in family affairs knows, their response as to why they do pointed time I came out from behind the trees have right here in Maine, struggling to keep the is a big problem. what they do is always “I dunno...” and marched toward the gathering. I had on a freedoms we still have and maybe, just maybe, Not that I advocate abuse, but why So, what will the future bring? tri-cornered hat, cotton muslin tunic laced at the regain some of the freedoms we have lost since can’t we smack the crap out of our kids This generation can’t write new music throat, loose trousers and moccasins. I was car- the days of those Founding Fathers. We still have anymore? Surely when I got smacked as or a decent movie script. Rap artists will rying a muzzle-loading rifle. People seemed sur- freedom fighters today. a youth it was because I pushed the en- be sampling radio jingles soon after they prised at my get-up. I spoke about our Founding We need to support them in their efforts to velope and did something really bad. Af- deplete the Time-Warner music library Fathers, their sacrifices and how they fought for preserve freedom whether they are in our mili- ter the smackdown, I thought long and for hooks. There are hundreds of bad, old our freedoms. I spoke their names. They did all tary in harms way or under attack right here at hard before I did it again. Because of television shows and movies that today’s this because it was the right thing to do. home in Northern Maine trying to keep what do-something politicians and make-work movie executives will remake, and it’s I then took off my tri-cornered hat, tunic we have in economic harms way. I spoke their government employees in your neighbor- only a matter of time before we have a and trousers to the surprise of the crowd. Un- names. Today’s freedom fighters do this because hood Department of Social Services (they reality show based around a toilet cam. derneath I had on a flight suit that I had worn it is the right thing to do. should just take the D off of DSS), kids Today’s youth will really find that funny. in Vietnam. I had my .45 in the shoulder hol- These things need to be spoken about today, have been encouraged to report parents I’m sure many of you will be extreme- ster I wore in Vietnam. I put on my flight hel- before they are forgotten altogether. The audi- who attempt to discipline them. ly upset that I show so much disdain for met and spoke about the flight crews and how ence stood quietly. Maybe they were wondering Shouting at them is “emotional abuse.” today’s kids. Maybe I am getting old and every single one of them had been a volunteer. if I was going to take anything else off. Perish Spanking is “physical abuse.” The result is this is a cyclical sentiment. I remember I spoke about their courage, their sacrifice, their the thought. Maybe they were wondering where parents who are powerless to address the my Dad’s generation looking down on us, dedication to each other and their service to our all that came from. When they figured out that I many instances of malfeasance by back- they could at least get some satisfaction country. They are in many ways like our found- was done and gathering up my stuff they broke talking, no-conscience youth. by issuing a good old fashioned spanking ing fathers. I spoke their names. Our Vietnam out into applause. In a prelude to their liberal indoctri- that eventually got our minds right. Again, veterans did all that because it was the right thing I gave this talk about 12 years ago. I send this nation to come in their later academic I’ve never advocated child abuse, but you to do. around Independence day on the years that I’m years, kids today have been taught that Continued on page 12 Then I took off the flight suit. Underneath I reminded of it. We are also on the web at http://allmainematters.com Page 6 All Maine Matters - Because All of Maine DOES Matter! Chandler Woodcock And The Campaign To Come Needed Reforms: Part 4 - Alternative Incentives By John Frary By Michael Fundalewicz Senator Chandler Woodcock’s victory Takes your breath away doesn’t it? in the Republican primary election on Seventy-five organizations of one kind I’ve skipped #4 in my “Overview”, Are there any federally funded fi- June 13 will have a good deal to do with and another have already declared their in case you’ve been keeping track, to nancial incentives to go that route? NO! the fight about who has access the tax- frantic opposition to the whole idea of the opine on an equally important issue that There’s no plan in place to entice the payers’ wallets in this state. taxpayers interfering in the business of only a few corporations have just recent- general public to do anything but sit and Before considering this, let’s be clear government—their business. ly addressed. suffer the consequences of the energy on one point: all contestants in the gen- Over two thousand years ago, an ob- Listening to the news this morning I crisis that has fallen upon us at the be- eral election in November agree that scure politician in the Roman Republic heard of several companies and corpo- hest of the profiteering oil conglomer- Maine’s taxpayers need relief. named Cassius Longinus provided us rations giving monetary incentives to ates. God forbid they should lose a dime Governor Baldacci and the Democrats with a key tool of political evaluation: their respective employees to purchase of their profits even if you have to freeze boast that LD1 is a grand and glorious “Cui bono—to whose profit.” “Hybrid” vehicles. Hey, I think it’s great! to death in the dark! tax-cutting achievement. Few taxpayers These seventy-five organizations have But what about the rest of us? What do you think they’d do if you de- seem convinced, and the governor has numerous members who depend on The government’s new “drive” to cided to erect a windmill? You’d have to gone on to promise new measures to con- the government for all or part of their encourage each and every one of us to face local variances, permits to construct, tain property tax increases. incomes. They know the answer to cui convert to using an alternative energy is the Dept. of Environmental Protection, be- Patty LaMarche, the Green Party can- bono? And so do you. quite commendable but falls way short cause you need sulfuric acid based bat- didate, calls the Taxpayers’ Bill of Rights I am not arguing that these groups are of implementation. WHY? Because the teries containing lead plates to maintain a cry of pain. Barbara Merrill, a former totally unprincipled. Some of them have price of these vehicles is out of sight energy storage, and then you’d face the Democrat legislator running as an In- grand plans for improving your lives with for the ordinary working person. It’s not inevitable restrictions and regulations of dependent, finds it convenient to blame your money. The Taxpayers’ Bill of Rights logical to spend the amount paid for an the Public Utilities Commission for rates both parties for “driving Maine taxpay- will give you a chance to approve of their average house as you will have to for a regarding their having to pay you for any ers out of their homes.” The independent, projects. What can be wrong with that? car is it? energy they are mandated to accept and Phillip Morris Napier, wants to abolish Mary Adams, Jack Wibby, Bill Becker What ever happened to simplicity? financially compensate you for. In effect, the income tax. David Jones, another In- of the Maine Heritage Policy Center, and A car is a vehicle you drive to go from you’re being financially stonewalled by dependent, supports the Taxpayers’ Bill other workers for the Taxpayers’ Bill of point A to point B right? Do we really every entity imaginable to do what they of Rights. Peter Mills, Woodcock’s lead- Rights represent the interests of the tax- need heated leather seats, a back mas- are expecting us to accomplish. ing rival in the primary, favors a constitu- payers only. They represent no narrow in- sage, a DVD player, a proximity alarm, What if the government decided to tional amendment requiring a two-thirds terest groups. They stand to gain nothing tilting headlights and a stereo to blow practice what they preached and be majority in the legislature for any tax in- more than any other taxpayers. the windows out of the car you just blew- nice? crease. Chandler Woodcock knew that when off doing 0 to 110 MPH in 6.3 seconds Let’s say they drop the financial prohi- If you know of a candidate for the leg- he took a stand for the taxpayers that from the stoplight in a crowded inter- bitions, reward us via tax breaks and work islature that thinks Maine’s tax level is he was going to come under fire from section??? Sounds like you’re driving in with us instead of against? We’d have free right where it should, send word. I’d hap- these seventy-five organizations. They a living room recliner smoking a crack- energy to run our homes via electricity. pily drive all the way to Presque Isle or can’t spend money attacking him di- pipe. Let’s get real here ok! Baseboard or circulating heating systems Lubec to gape at him—and I’ll throw in rectly, but their attacks on the Taxpay- If you want to travel in luxury, buy a are safe, clean and efficient. We’d have ten bucks for a ticket of admission. ers’ Bill of Rights have no financial limits motor home. If you want economy, buy cars using nothing but alternative fuels There are three clear lessons here. under Maine’s clean election laws. They something simple. I hate to keep refer- that would cut costs, increase fuel avail- First, if you think you are under-taxed, will outspend Mary Adams’ coalition by ring back to this but the VW, of the day, ability and efficiency, alleviate environ- you are out of luck. You have no candidate a wide margin and Chandler Woodcock was the best car ever made. You could mental pollution and allow the average in 2006. Second, when you hear screams will catch plenty of indirect flak from dump a bottle of 100 proof “Stolichnaya family to regain it’s prosperity. and sobs about the dangers of tax limi- them. Vodka” in it if you ran out of gas and In summary: We’d have cheap and effi- tations you should remind yourself that I leave you to draw your own conclu- keep going. cient transportation, our homes would be tax cuts or limitation are in the platform sions on election day. Why can’t we do the same again? Is it totally efficient, we’d have money in our of every single contender for the gover- John Frary was born in Farmington, because the companies who control the pockets and we could tell those countries, nor’s office. Third, if Maine had tax limita- where he now resides. He graduated “E-85” production are aligned with the with whom we’ve based our conflicting tions in place years ago, we would not be from U of M, Orono. He did graduate same ones who own the oil companies? moral, ethical and political policies to- faced with the disastrous taxation that all work in Political Science and in An- Is this a way for them to control prices? wards, to blow it out their tail-pipes. now condemn. cient, Medieval, Byzantine and mod- If you pay attention to the news and the Chandler Woodcock’s nomination ern history at U of M., Rutgers and advertisements lately you’ll see the Michael Fundalewicz moved to Ash- gives Mainers the opportunity to vote for Princeton, completing his Masters who’s- who in advocating alternatives; land with his wife and four kids in the a candidate who is solidly committed to degree along with all courses and ex- don’t forget to read the fine print at the early ‘90s to escape the dictatorial the Taxpayers’ Bill of Rights. A candidate, aminations for the PhD. He worked bottom, it’s them! Has the government confines of the State of Massachu- in short, who believes that our state’s tax- in administration and as a profes- mentioned any financial incentives to setts’ taxation policies and the may- hem of drugs and crime for the pro- payers are entitled to a say about how sor of history and political science at buying alternative fueled vehicles yet? much of their incomes Augusta is allowed Middlesex County College in Edison, tection of his kids’ futures. He has, in NO! recent years, come to see that those to spend. NJ for 32 years. He is associate edi- Another facet of energy alternatives tor of The International Military En- very same issues have followed him Think about this half a minute: you may is home heating. Here again, the same become witnesses to the birth of a whole cyclopedia, has been assistant editor in the form of self-serving governing companies own that too. Think about it. officials and the reluctance of the cit- new entitlement! A candidate who actu- of Continuity: A Journal of History as well as editor and publisher The LU/ Diesel, kerosene, gasoline…same com- izens of northern Maine to stand up ally believes that take-home pay is not panies making different products from and speak out for themselves before a “tax expenditure;” that your income is English Newsletter. After returning to Maine he was chosen to be the con- the same fossil fuel; crude oil. they wind up in the same mess. not an allowance granted to you by the servative columnist for The Kennebec BUT, and I do mean BUT; has anyone government; that taxpayers might actu- Journal and The Morning Sentinel. He advocated electricity??? NO! Why? Be- Insane Laws! ally have needs of their own---other than was dismissed from this position in cause they can’t control it. You can buy chewing gum, cosmetics, ammo and December for refusing to drop his a wind powered generator, a turbine, for beer. In the state of New Jersey, it is illegal to criticism of the Dirigo Health Plan. He around $3000.00 and it’ll last for years. wear a bullet-proof vest while committing is currently chairman of the Franklin You don’t hear much about that now do a murder or a rape. County Republican Committee. you? 2C:39-13. Unlawful use of body vests

Straight From Nana Beth’s Kitchen! 1.Unlawful use of body vests. A person is guilty of a crime if he uses or wears a Since camping season is upon us, and Place the bags into rolling, boiling wa- Filling: body vest while engaged in the commis- if you’re like me and pack everything ter for exactly 13 minutes. You can usually 2/3 cup light brown sugar sion of, or an attempt to commit, or flight BUT the skillet,... (yes, I did do that), this cook 6-8 omelets in a large pot. For more, 2 Tablespoons of flour after committing or attempting to commit is a GREAT recipe to have stashed away make another pot of boiling water. 2 teaspoons of soft butter or margarine murder, manslaughter, robbery, sexual as- with you’re camping gear....just in case! Open the bags and the omelet will roll 1 cup of chopped nuts sault, burglary, kidnaping, criminal escape Just make sure you have plenty of Ziploc out easily. Be prepared for everyone to or assault under N.J.S.2C:12-1b. Use or freezer bags in there, too. (Wish I’d had be amazed. Mix thoroughly. wearing a body vest while engaged in the this recipe back then. Tin foil isn’t such Nice to serve with fresh fruit and cof- Now, I use a bundt pan, sprayed with commission of, or an attempt to commit, a great replacement for the old skillet. It fee cake; everyone gets involved in the Pam, putting half the cake mixture in, or flight after committing or attempting was also a good thing my husband has process and a great conversation piece. then the filling on top, spooning the rest to commit a crime of the first degree is a such a great sense of humor.) of the cake mix on top making sure that crime of the second degree. Otherwise it I want to thank June Wagnor for send- Coffee Cake the filling is covered. This guarantees is a crime of the third degree. ing this recipe to me and sharing. that the crumb topping stays put, espe- June mentions it would be great with Bake at 350* cially if you’re camping and don’t want As used in this section, “body vest” means a coffee cake, so my recipe for that will 35-40 minutes crumbs everywhere. The center is moist bullet-resistant body armor which is in- follow. If you’re going camping, this cake and yummy. tended to provide ballistic and trauma travels very well. Cake mix: You can also use a greased 13”x9” put- protection. 3/4 cup sugar ting the crumb mixture on the top, which ZIPLOC OMELET 2 eggs gives you more of a crustier crumb top- Have guests write their name on a 1/3 cup of shortening ping. quart-size Ziploc freezer bag with perma- It’s all according to taste. nent marker. Mix then add: Hope you enjoy! Crack 2 eggs (large or extra-large) 1 cup milk into the bag (not more than 2) shake to If you have recipes you’d like to combine them. Sift in: share, or questions about a recipe Put out a variety of ingredients such 2 cups of flour you can’t find, please contact Nana as: cheeses, ham, onion, green pepper, 2 teaspoons of baking powder Beth at [email protected] tomato, hash browns, salsa, etc. 1/2 teaspoon of salt Each guest adds prepared ingredients of 1 teaspoon of cinnamon choice to their bag and shake. Make sure 1/4 teaspoon of nutmeg to get the air out of the bag and zip it up. All Maine Matters - Because All of Maine DOES Matter! Page 7 July Crossword: - Answers on page 10 . Across

1. Colonel Oliver Payne was a former treasurer of this company (two words). 1 2 (11) 3 4. Branches off of Katahdin Avenue to form Millinocket’s commercial district (two 4

words). (15) 5 6

8. The first white settler in the area that was to become Millinocket. (6) 7 16. Built a two-story brick building that included a basement, and housed a lodge 8 9 room, assembly room, dining and kitchen facilities. (10) 10 11 19. The Pines (three words). (14) 12 13 14 15

20. Three of the initial investors in Great Northern Paper Company held this rank. 16 17 (7) 18 21. Acronym for a volunteer work program set up by President Roosevelt. (3) 19 26. A settlement that sprung up behind the mill site, later discontinued (two words). (9) 20 21

28. Around 1860, Charles and Daniel Watson cleared land on what was to become 22 23 24 25 known by this name (two words). (8) 26 27 28 29 30. This kind of road was first built to join Millinocket with Medway, in order to 30 facilitate lumber operations. (4) 31 32

31. Where Forest Avenue now curves into Hillcrest Avenue (two words). (11) 33 32. The last name of a family known for selling insurance in Millinocket. (5) 34 35 34. Type of system used to recruit Italian workers. (7) 36 35. Last name of the initial founder of Great Northern Paper Company. (6) 37 38 39

37. Played for the Boston Braves in 1911 and 1912 (first and last name). (10) 40 41 42 43 44

39. A settlement first known as Five Islands became this town. (4) 45 40. A part of the Millinocket workplace from the beginning. (6) 46 47 42. Last name of the man who Thomas Fowler sold his farm to in 1882. (6) 48 49 50 43. Recreational area serving the New Development (two words). (9) 51 52 53 54

46. Built on the site of the original Millinocket High School in 1931 (three words). 55 (20) 56 57 58 48. Millinocket is known for making this. (5) 59 51. Street that runs behind the Congregational Church. (6) 52. The press began calling referring to Millinocket as this (two words). (9) 60 53. Great Northern also owned a sulphite mill in this Maine town. (7) Created with EclipseCrossword — www.eclipsecrossword.com 54. Located at the place where the East and West Branches of the Penobscot join to form the main river. (6) 8. Industrial facility on the northern end of Katahdin Avenue. (7) 56. A portion of the town’s first Pest House still exists, and is now being used as a 9. Built the second store in Little Italy. (7) residence on this street. (5) 10. The month in 1900 that the first newsprint came off of the machines at Great 57. Bangor native who took on the task of procuring wood for the mill after Charles Northern. (8) Mullen resigned. (7) 11. Millinocket’s first street (two words). (14) 58. Acronym for the paper company that built Millinocket. (3) 12. The paper company that founded Millinocket (two words). (13) 59. Succeeded John Decker as mill superintendent. (6) 13. Last name of the people who cleared the land on what was to become known 60. First hometown Millinocket pilot. (8) as the Rice Farm. (6) 14. Residential area that opened up along the Iron Bridge Road in the 1950s. (5) Down 15. Italian neighborhood of Millinocket (two words). (11) 17. Baptist church in the New Development (two words). (12) 2. Last name of the man who once lived where the municipal pool is now, and 18. A one-block section of Aroostook Avenue known as a place for troublemakers grew potatoes where the baseball field now is. (7) (three words). (11) 3. Garrett Schenck was working at a paper mill here before he was recruited as a 22. A ban on alcohol. (11) partner in GNP. (7) 23. A family that came to Millinocket in 1899, first living in two tents on a hill near 5. Relationship of Charles Powers to Thomas Fowler. (8) the Fowler Farm. (7) 6. Opened an osteopathic hospital in 1938. (5) 24. Last name of the first mill superintendent for GNP. (6) 7. GNP’s first chief consulting engineer. (8) 25. School that was discontinued in 1943, and later deeded to the VFW. (6) 27. Region that includes Millinocket. (8) 28. The first proprietor of the Great Northern Hotel. (7) 29. Descendants of the Fowler family, still living in the Millinocket area, include those with this surname. (9) 33. Residential area that was opened up when Central Street was expanded eastward from the Medway Road to the town line (two words). (14) 36. Chief Engineer for Great Northern. (6) 38. Isolation ward (two words). (9) 40. The town’s first church building (two words). (11) 41. Charles Mullen sold half his interests in what was to become Great Northern Paper Company to a man with this name. (7) 44. Since the 1970s, Millinocket’s population has been on the ... (7) 45. Last name of the missionary who conducted the first (outside) church services in Millinocket. (5) 47. Acronym of the paper company that Garrett Schenck served as Vice President of before resigning to promote the Great Northern Paper Company. (2) 49. Sponsored the Millinocket Tigers of 1909. (4) 50. Opened Millinocket’s first surgical hospital, in 1920. (6) 55. Early shopkeeper in Millinocket. (5)

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Millinocket, Maine and Whitney were already in business to- streets were opened. The land was leased to loyees who were to reside in them. These gether, owning two sulphite mills, one in those who wanted to live there, then sold to houses remained the property of GNP until the Wisconsinn and the other in Madison, Maine. those who wanted to own their own homes. occupant was prepared to purchase it. In some These two wealthy men agreed to back the Among the early Italian families were those cases, the Company would deed the land to the project, on the condition that Schenck agreed carrying surnames such as Angotti, Brigalli, resident once he had completed $700 in im- to run the Madison plant as well, since it had Caruso, Civiello, DiCentes, DiNardo, Gagliar- provements to the property. been doing poorly. di, Manzo, Mosca, Pasquine, Peluso, and oth- Fowler’s farmhouse was turned into a On March 2, 1899, the new enterprise was ers. boarding house for a time, run by the Moore named the Great Northern Paper Company. Little Italy grew to become a distinct neigh- family; and later, the first Millinocket post of- Mullen and Schenck sold their interest in the borhood, separated from the rest of Millinocket fice. land to GNP in return for stock in the company, by language and culture. Even today, there are Dick Levasseur erected a boardinghouse for and Colonel Payne sold them the Madison mill those, not of Italian ancestry, who can remem- his crew, and a man named McCluskey built a for stock. ber when they dared not trespass into Little boardinghouse and dance hall on Shack Hill. Nazarene Church, in the New Development Great Northern bought all of the available Italy. The town’s first store occupied a temporary land between the two waterways, about 1,800 Gradually, the barriers were broken down, building in the mill yards, just behind the sta- acres, enough to contain the mill and the vil- as children grew up speaking English rather ble, and was operated by James F. Kimball and This month, I’ll be departing from my usu- lage that would spring up around it. than Italian. As is the case everywhere, there Company. As the town grew, other stores were al convention and writing about a town that I Harvey Ferguson served as the Great North- was both good and bad in that. built to serve the town, including the Boots and know something about, although certainly not ern’s first chief consulting engineer. George But the Italians weren’t the only people Shoes Store, operated by the Gonya brothers; everything, since I’ve lived here in Millinocket Stearns was employed as the Company’s land brought in to build the Great Northern. La- and William Heebner opened a drug store, both only since 2001. agent, and it soon acquired 252,060 acres of borers imported from Europe included Poles, of which were located near where the mill was Millinocket grew up as a paper mill town; forest land. Finns, Lithuanians, and Hungarians. They later to erect its office building. and in fact, the Great Northern didn’t locate in Construction on the mill began on May 15, moved rocks and earth, building the dams and Prior to 1901, there was no town adminis- Millinocket; the town rose up around the mill. 1899, and the first newsprint came off of its constructing the foundations of the mill build- tration, but the Great Northern saw to the or- The first white man to take up residence in machines on November 9, 1900. The whole ings themselves. ganization of the settlement that it had largely the area was not a millworker, but a farmer. plant was operational five months later. Peter Plourde came to Millinocket, with his built, as it was to continue to do even after the Thomas Fowler came to the region in 1829, Great Northern’s founding father, Charles family, in 1899. They put up two tents on a hill town was incorporated. initially settling on the west side of the West Mullen, resigned at the end of 1900, and was near the Fowler Farm, and went to work help- Branch of the Penobscot River, below Grand replaced by a Fred Gilbert, a Bangor native ing to build the new town, beginning with their Falls at the head of Shad Pond, bringing with own home. him his grown children, who cleared land near- who took on the important task of procuring wood for the mill. French Canadians came from along Maine’s by. northern border with Canada, and from the St. Since water power was crucial for the op- Fowler and his family lived there until the John Valley, to work in the woods, as well as eration of the mill, temporary dams were built late 1830s, having two more children. Adeline the mill. Some of the early families carried sur- Fowler became the first white child to be born to supply power until permanent dams could be names that included Albert, Beaulieu, Bilodeau, in the territory. constructed, providing ponds for log storage, Michaud, Theriault, Cyr, Pelletier, Ouellete. Ranging outward from Bangor, people were a constant flow to the penstocks for grinding People came from all over the country, and starting to settle along the Penobscot River. A wood and producing electricity. world, becoming the carpenters, railroad men, settlement first known as Five Islands became Soon a legal and legislative battle ensued shopkeepers, and millworkers who were to the town of Winn. The town of Mattawamkeag over control of the Penobscot River, which form the new settlement. sprung up at the point where the Mattawam- had until then been under the auspices of the Among the early tradespeople, many whose keag River joined the Penobscot. Penobscot Log Driving Company. As the river businesses had first been established in Bangor, An active settlement grew up where the East was important to Great Northern, not only for were those who carried names from the Far and West Branches of the Penobscot joined to the transport of logs but for the generation of East, such as Hikel, Jamo, Maguris, and Mara- form the main river, and this became the town power, Gilbert felt that GNP needed to control gus. of Medway. A tote road was built connecting the river, a fight that he was to win, albeit after Families whose names were of English lin- the area that is now Millinocket with the town a couple of troubling years that included sever- eage included Baker, Boynton, Caffrey, Doyle, of Medway, as lumber operations were moving al lawsuits against GNP, even from its founder, Galvin, Hunt, McPheters, and McInnis. Scan- up the river and into the Katahdin region. Charles Mullen, who was by then no longer dinavians, most of whom came from the Ken- Perhaps because access to Grand Falls was with the company. nebec River Valley, included the Andersons, difficult, Fowler abandoned his home and The first mill Superintendent was John Carlstroms, Johnsons, Larsons, and others. moved upstream about two miles, clearing land Decker, who came to Millinocket from Rum- From Scotland, John Crawford came to House on Katahdin Avenue for a new farm along the banks of Millinocket ford Falls. He was succeeded by George Millinocket to take a job in the new mill. After Stream, in the area that was later to become the Witham and, in turn, Ingleton Schenck and Jo- a year, he had put aside enough money to be Security was provided by Fred Gates, a dep- mill yards of the Great Northern Paper Com- seph Nevins. Frank Bowler was recruited as a able to send for his family. uty sheriff employed by the Great Northern; pany. This was sometime in the late 1830s. draftsman for the Great Northern; and in 1911, Newcomers needed somewhere to live. and the Company saw to it that houses were In 1882, he sold his farm to Charles Powers, he became the company’s Chief Engineer. Some built behind the mill, where there was built according to a plan. In fact, most of the a grandson, who lived there until 1899, when Italian workers were imported to do much higher ground, in an area that was to be called early residences followed the same basic floor the Great Northern Paper Company purchased of the construction work, using a padrone sys- “Shack Hill,” where they lived until the GNP plan, although dormers, bays, and porches were the farm. tem, in which contractors supplied the laborers needed the land for expansion of the mill itself. added for variety and convenience. Even today, descendants of the Fowler fam- from Europe for a price from which they turned Others settled along the tote road, in an area Just before the turn of the century, there ily, which include the Cliffords, Hales, Martins, a profit. At first, Marco Lavonia was the top now known as Old Medway Road. were only a farm house, a barn, and some McCauslins, Wileys, and others, remain in the padrone working for GNP in Millinocket, but The Great Northern itself encouraged and outbuildings, on a few acres of cleared land. Millinocket area. Ferdinando Peluso later became better known even assisted with building much of the town, in There were two occupants of the Fowler Farm, Around 1860, Charles and Daniel Watson in that position, prospering in this setting, op- order to provide housing for its rapidly expand- Charles and Eugenia Powers. Ed Adams, the cleared land on what was to become known as erating a store on the east side of Millinocket, ing workforce. In July of 1899, GNP placed an section foreman for the Bangor and Aroostook the Rice Farm. becoming a bank manager, and officer in the advertisement in the Bangor Whig and Currier, Railroad, lived near Millinocket Stream, with Much has been written about the formation Chamber of Commerce. asking for responsible parties to erect one hun- his two cousins, Fred and Quincy; and another of the Great Northern, yet it would be impossi- Peluso built a large rectangular home facing dred tenement houses, business blocks, and a section hand was living nearby. A camp known ble to discuss the town of Millinocket without the stream where the foot bridge crosses to the suitable hotel and boarding house. as Hunter’s Home, operated by Almon Reed, including the pulp and paper mill that built it. mill site. It was a two-story house with a half Once GNP began producing paper, the was the only other habitation. Yet, on March Great Northern began with Charles Mullen, 16, 1901, Millinocket became Maine’s 467th attic in the center of and below the eaves of the steady traffic between the railroad station and an engineering graduate of the University of the mill, a distance of about a mile, brought town; and by 1903, it boasted a population of roof. The house faced a square where a small Maine, who had participated in the building of about the construction of boarding houses. The 3,000. In a very short time, it had become one store was built on the north side. Heating pipes a dam and groundwood pulp mill in Enfield. early boarding houses were similar to those of the state’s wealthiest towns, heralded in the When the Bangor and Aroostook Railroad had from the store to the house basement served seen in any mill town, from three to five stories press as the “Magic City.” completed a section of its track from Bangor as a passageway, and a wine press was set up in height, except that they were not placed in The first town meeting was held on April to Houlton, crossing the West Branch near the where grapes in large barrels could be quickly rows of identical design, as was the custom. 18, 1901 rapids and falls between Quakish Lake and rolled out of sight. Construction on the Great Northern Hotel Katahdin Avenue was Millinocket’s first Shad Pond, Mullen recognized that this area Palmer DiNardo built a second store, and began in 1900. The elegant 52-room structure street, which soon branched off to form a was ideal as a power source for a large pulp Little Italy became a settlement, a neighbor- was completed the following year, and leased business district to the east, called Penobscot and paper mill. hood distinct from the remainder of Milli- to J.P. Randall, its first proprietor. Avenue, more commonly referred to as “main Initially, Mullen brought together a syndi- nocket. By the mid 1930s, the Company relo- The mill operated in eight-hour shifts. Since street.” Then Central Avenue was built, in- cate of Bangor investors, purchasing the neces- cated the small houses down river and two new everyone would be walking to work, the loca- tersecting both Katahdin and Penobscot, and sary land, in Indian Township 3, then he bought tions of the first homes were in part determined forming a triangle that became the center of them out and sold half of his interests to Garrett by convenience. More areas opened up west of town. Next came Pine, Poplar, and Spruce Schenck, who was then serving as vice presi- Katahdin Avenue near the mill, and just across Streets, cross streets within this triangle. dent of an International Paper Company mill in the tracks. There was once a small cemetery where Rumford. Between November 1, 1899, and December Memorial Park now is, containing three graves, In an effort to raise capital, they took 31, 1927, GNP’s president, Garret Schenck, that of a man and two children. The man’s name on some partners, including Colonel Henry signed over deeds to hundreds of lots owned was Ossinger. When the municipal cemetery Haskell, a Rumford associate of Schenck’s, as by the company in Millinocket and East Mil- was built in Little Italy, the graves were re- well as Colonel Augustus Paine, a New York linocket. moved, and the plot was landscaped with walks industrialist who had been born in Maine. Most of the houses in Millinocket were built and flower beds, to serve as a town park. Later, More money was needed in order to get by private parties; but in 1901, GNP contracted a brook coming up from Ferguson Pond was the project off the ground, so Schenck re- with Charles J. Rush to build 22 houses of four dammed to form a wading pool, which served signed his position with IP and went to New different styles, at costs ranging from $1120 to as a skating rink in the winter, and which some York. Colonel Oliver Payne, a former trea- $1850. people in town still remember. Still later, the surer of Standard Oil, was interested; as was More commonly, the Company would lay pond and brook were filled in, and a bandstand his brother-in-law, William Whitney, who the foundations for new residences, leaving was placed there. Great Northern Paper Company offices was once the Secretary of the Navy. 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would have been in a more rural setting. Plus, A new, wider bridge replaced the original people raised pigs and chickens, to supplement Central Street bridge over Millinocket Stream, their incomes and diets, adding to the natural as many Millinocket residents were by then odors of a mill town. driving their own cars. The constant arrival and intermingling of In the fall of 1921, the Millinocket High people from all over the world also brought School burned to the ground. To complete the disease. Many infants died of such childhood school year, students were crammed into the diseases as mumps, measles, or whooping Armory building, which was partioned into cough in the early 1900s. By 1902, cases of four rooms, an arrangement that served the diptheria were appearing, particularly in Shack town’s high school students for the following Hill. Then, by 1903, the town had to deal with school year, as well. The town voted to raise epidemics of typhoid and smallpox. $30,000 by assessment, and to take out a bond Now the Keepridge Inn, this home was This unusual house, located at 16 North In 1912, the Great Northern built an isola- for an additional $150,000. Additional mon- built for George Parks, a mill official who Terrace, was planned by a Bangor and tion facility at what was then the edge of town. ey included a gift of $50,000 from the Great left Millinocket soon after, selling the Aroostook Railroad employee familiar with It was a long rectangular structure that shel- Northern. home to Harry Bragdon, an undertaker. the B&A locomotive round house. tered ten isolation beds. Today, about half of The new school, the George W. Stearns the structure remains, as a residence on Water High School, opened in the fall of 1923, with Street, but it blends in well with the neighbor- 743 students. In 1926, the town voted to equip Branch, or the old Sourdnahunk tote road, so hood, bearing little resemblance to its original this new school with a gymnasium, at a cost of Outside of town, hot and dry weather during the town asked the county to lay out a road role. In 1917, another Pest House was built another $50,000. This building is now in pri- the spring of 1941 brought several forest fires, connecting Millinocket with Medway and on the Medway Road. This was a two-story vate hands, serving as an apartment building burning many acres of forestland, and destroy- Mattawamkeag. A bridge was erected over structure, with five small camps built around for assisted living residents. ing about sixty camps. Millinocket Stream, extending Central Street it. Groups of people were required to live there Millinocket’s first surgical hospital was Frank Speed, the owner of an insurance along a familiar trail to Medway, becoming awaiting the incubation period of the disease built in 1920, after Dr. Bryant sought to bring company in Millinocket, published a letter ad- known as Medway Road. before they were permitted to return to their the medical experience he had acquired during dressed to camp owners which read, in part: Houses had already been built along the homes. the World War I to benefit the civilian popula- Do not be discouraged after your many stream, forming a basis for State and Congress tion of Millinocket. Housed within his private years of hard toil. Be determined. Build Streets. This neighborhood became known as residence, it was equipped with eight beds and immediately. Ferns will grow this sum- the Flat. an operating room. Before then, serious acci- mer to obliterate most of the blackness. Just east of the bridge, where the town’s dent victims were sent to Old Town by baggage The beautiful lakes and Old Katahdin are first dump was located, Medway Road curved car. still with us. These views cannot be taken south and downstream behind Little Italy and The 1930s, of course, brought the Great De- away. the town cemetery. It didn’t run straight east to pression. However, the people of Millinocket People responded. They rebuilt. And the Medway, as it does now, because it was cut off suffered far less than those in other parts of ferns, the blueberries, and other young plants by high sand banks that served as a place of the country. Being essentially a one industry did grow to hide the scars from the fire. Poplar adventure to the town’s children. town, people knew one another and helped on and birch gradually grew to fill the gaps, until Houses and businesses soon cropped up another out. As jobs became scarce due to shut- they could be taken over once again by the ev- along this road, now known as Old Medway downs, workers with seniority would volun- ergreens. Road, becoming largely a French area. Charles tarily give up their right to work so that others The war in Europe took its toll on Milli- nocket, as more than 600 Millinocket men and Tapley built a public dwelling there, which in- Railroad depot, on the left, and the Great could have part-time employment. The spirit of cluded a Chinese laundry and dance hall. Af- cooperation that existed in Millinocket kept the women were serving in the armed forces by Northern Barn behind it. The barn was once 1943. Over the course of the war, more than a ter leaving Shack Hill, Mr. Barbien purchased used to house GNP’s horses. percentage of seriously unemployed down, as this building, which is now known as the Hotel compared to other parts of Maine. thousand soldiers were sent from Millinocket. Terrace. Health officials later determined that the The federal government also helped by At the end of the war, returning war veter- Where Forest Avenue now curves into Hill- spread of disease was due in part to the town forming the Civilian Conservation Corps, ans were in need of housing and, at the same crest Avenue, in the new development, was a pumping river water into the town’s water initiated by President Roosevelt to take un- time, the mill was hiring, bringing newcomers neighborhood known as Skunk Hollow. Fairly system, a problem which was summarily cor- employed people off the streets during the to town. A national aid program was making it early in the town’s history, settlers built their rected. depression. Several hundred volunteers with possible for veterans to finance their homes, but homes along a small brook that fed into Mil- When it came to sports, baseball was Mil- the CCC were housed near where the Airport there were not enough available. linocket Stream. This area was later burned linocket’s game. A recreational area was built Cabins now are, and another camp was estab- The old Oxford School was deeded to the over, and became a place for blueberries, where I-Care Ministries is now, featuring a lished at Baxter Park. The road leading from Veteran’s of Foreign Wars, as its use as a school checkerberries, and wildflowers. baseball diamond, a grandstand, and a large pa- Bates Street already led as far as Millinocket had been discontinued in 1943. People now drive through what was Skunk vilion, extending all the way to Water Street. Lake, but the CCC extended it to Baxter Park, Central Street was expanded eastward from Hollow to get to the Hillcrest Golf Course. The Millinocket Tigers of 1909 earned and provided much of the labor in building the the Medway Road to the town line, and an area Skunk Hollow included the area now tak- some fame, being the first team to represent airport, which was completed by 1939. opened up that soon became known as the New en up by Stearns High School. A man named the whole town, playing against neighboring Development, as it still is. As the town grew Arthur Russell had a farm where Skunk Hol- towns. Members of the team were Dick Breen, Some early Millinocket pilots were Merle in that direction, Jerry Pond became the area’s low bordered the river, at the current site of Ed Donley, Ralph Good, Billy Jones, Jesse Fogg, who was not from Millinocket but used recreational area. the municipal pool. The football and baseball Lemeur, Joe Monahan, Harry More, Hammy the ballpark as an airfield more than a decade The Great Northern itself built five houses in fields were once planted with Russell’s pota- Ordway, Ralph Pond, and Pete Willey. Dr. before the airport was completed. The first the New Development, at a cost of $8,500 each, toes. Another farmer, by the name of Suther- Cody sponsored the team, and Billy Jones be- hometown flier was Pat Violette, who flew his and offered to rent them at $45 a month. But land, raised pigs in Skunk Hollow. came its manager. Jones was also the star of the own Curtis Robin from 1937 until he joined most of the homes erected in the New Devel- Another street near the mill, running par- Tigers, and went on to play in the majors for the army. John Luke, Paul Michaud, Binkie opment were built through funds raised by ho- allel and to the east of Penobscot Avenue, the Boston Braves in 1911 and 1912. LePage, and Bob Steeves learned to fly at the meowners. As the amount of money available was Aroostook Avenue, which at first, was By 1910, Millinocket had a population of Rockland Flying School, and flew in Milli- through financing was less than the amount that only one block long, extending from Cherry 5,000, ten miles of streets, a water system, and nocket for a time. Soon the Millinocket Aero it would take to have new homes built, most Street north to Birch Street. At first, this area one of the best sewage systems in the state. It Club was formed, its nine members includ- people did their own work. was settled primarily by Greeks, but soon the had a bank, a fire station, and four churches. ing Angus Bears, Gene Betterly, Chet Craw- In 1947, GNP made 51 lots in the new de- Poles predominated. This part of town became There were 700 students attending two school ford, Charlie Eustis, Bob Laverty, Bob Mott, velopment available to anyone who wanted to known as a trouble spot, called Tin Can Alley. buildings, plus another that was rented for that Nook Noyes, Charles Turner, and John Walsh. buy, without regard to employment in the mill, Maine was known for its prohibition senti- purpose. The Katahdin Avenue Schoool was built and released seven others around town. The ments, and the Great Northern discouraged the By then, there were 408 dwellings in town, in 1931 on the site of the original Millinocket company built 57 cellars, to get people started use of alcohol, so Millinocket was for a long 26 businesses, a steam laundry, and two opera High School. It contained eight classrooms, on their homes. time a dry town. Still, Little Italy employed houses. Apart from the mill itself, there was with a capacity of 320 students. Originally a In most cases, local contractors were em- underground wine tunnels as a means of hid- also a foundry, a sawmill, and two blacksmith one-story brick building, additional classrooms ployed only to do the more difficult parts of the ing contraband from authorities, and Tin Can shops. and office spaces were added in the 1960s. The construction, such as plumbing, heating, and Alley residents used a pipe into which all good The Great Northern Paper Company itself building was demolished in 2003. electrical installations. At times, the company liquor was poured, in the event of a raid, to be owned, within the town, the Great Northern The Bangor and Aroostook Railroad lent its larger purchasing power to local mer- collected in a basement hideaway. Hotel, 17 residences, and several business and made improvements to its Millinocket fa- chants. The company cleared the ground, exca- In time, Aroostook Avenue was extended residential lots. cilities in 1938, raising the railroad yard vated, and filled. The GNP drafting department the almost the full length of Penobscot Av- The Unions were a part of the Millinocket eleven to thirteen feet, extending it north helped with blueprints. Those who went into enue, angling slightly west to intersect Penob- workplace from the beginning. The first people as far as the Iron Bridge. The railroad sta- the forest and cut their own logs could use the scot, which itself angles gently to the east, just recruited to work at the new mill were mostly tion itself was moved across the tracks and company’s horses and trucks at a special rate. before Bowdoin Street. union men. The International Machine Tenders turned around, and built an underpass cross- The Faith Baptist Church and the Church of the The first religious services in Millinocket Union was representing GNP workers as early ing Bates Street, so that the road to the station Nazarene were built to serve those in the New were conducted outdoors by the Reverend C.E. as 1901, and the first local union was formed no longer went to the end of Katahdin Street. Development. Young. The first church was the Union Chapel, the following year, #27 of the International This opened up new areas for housing along Another new residential area was opened which was first located on the corner of Cherry Brotherhood of Paper Makers. Other unions Bates Street. The short streets on the Highland up west of the Medway Road, extending from Street and Penobscot Avenue, but later moved were formed shortly afterward, including Lo- Avenue plateau dipped to cross Katahdin Av- Central Street to East Avenue, High, and South to Spring Street and Aroostook Avenue, to be- cal Union #69 of the International Brotherhood enue, which was the original lifeline. Colby Streets. Granite Street now connected the Med- come the Armory and, more recently, I-Care of Firemen, Oilers, and Helpers; and in 1906, Street, which had opened very early for the way Road with the Cherry Street Bridge, and Ministries. This building was used for inter- Local Union #12 of the International Brother- building of the Catholic Church, now crossed Eastland Avenue and Maple Street were built denominational church services, and served hood of Pulp, Sulphite, and Papermill Work- Katahdin Avenue and rose to join the new on the high ground. The Great Northern built as the town’s first school for many years. ers. School Street. With a sharp turn off Katahdin, the first three houses on Eastland Avenue, iden- In late 1899, the Catholic Church was built. The 1920s brought rapid growth in Milli- this street moves northward behind the Con- tical in design but spaced so as to avoid repeti- The Episcopal Church was constructed in nocket. The addition of two more paper ma- gregational Church until it becomes a dead end tion, and continued its policy of pouring con- 1902; and the following year, the Baptists built chines greatly increased the workforce, which where a sand bank drops to the flat area below. crete foundations for new homebuilders. a church on Penobscot Avenue and Spring in turn increased the population of the town. The late 1930s and the 1940s brought, not On the Flat, new houses were built along Street, with Rev. Young as its pastor. In the The town was growing to the west so fast only the firestorm in Europe known as World State Street north as far as the Athletic Field summer of 1903, the Congregational Church that the Elm Street railroad crossing could no War II, which took the lives of many Milli- Bridge. A new street, called Water Street, was was erected at its present location, calling the longer meet the demands, so another was built nocket soldiers, but it also was a time of sev- built along a footpath that followed the stream Rev. W.J. McNeil as pastor. at Spruce Street, extending the town further. eral fires in and around Millinocket. east of State Street. No longer isolated, the old The sudden population explosion in 1900 Maine and Highland Avenues were extended to The Millinocket Theater, operated by Frank Pest House became an attractive residence. was not without its problems, however. Newly Bowdoin Street. LePage, Jr., was destroyed by an explosion, Bowdoin Street was extended further west added streets weren’t provided with sewage The Millinocket Oddfellows built a two-sto- hot enough to scorch the face of Hikel’s store in 1948, as far as the railroad siding, and side systems until the 1920s, the outside privies ry brick building, which included a basement, across the street, and destroying the theater streets were built eastward of the Medway were the rule; and with houses built on small and housed a lodge room, assembly room, din- building. A fire prompted a remodeling of the Road, forming Garden and Wassau Streets. lots, this became more of a problem than they ing and kitchen facilities. Opera House, removing its third floor. Continued on page 15 Page 10 All Maine Matters - Because All of Maine DOES Matter! Risk Audit Project Begins by Susan C. Stratton A survey was created for parents a same-sex relationships or hold day-long couple months ago that they could use to events such as the “Day of Silence” where- question school board members and can- in students remain speechless throughout didates concerning moral issues in their the day while wearing pro-gay symbols local school. The survey included ques- to signify their support of homosexuality, tions like: bi-sexuality and transgenderism. (Note: If you have experienced the “Day of Silence” 1. Do you support or oppose abstinence in your school district, there is now an op- programs over and above birth con- tion which students can use. Check out: trol programs in the schools? www.dayoftruth.org) 2. Do you support or oppose books, Around the rest of the country we’ve films, or other media in the school heard reports of shocking indoctrination curriculum that include graphical such as a homosexual books (ex. King displays of sexual behavior (rape, in- and King) read to kindergarten children cest, sexual intercourse, etc.) and/or or young teenagers treated to gay-hosted glorifies suicide or death? party events complete with adult homo- 3. Do you support or oppose homosex- sexual men passing out “club cards” to uality, bisexuality and/or transgen- invite young boys to their get-togethers; derism in the school curriculum? and attendees wearing scant attire (often dressed in drag) or woman dressed as An effort to pass out the survey by gen- men. Many of these moral crimes against eral community members also entailed so our children have been committed in Mas- that an assessment of individual board sachusetts, which is a close political ally to members could be made. This was meant Maine. Many good parents fear, what is to allow voters in future town elections to happening there, will soon happen here in choose board members they deemed ap- the same degree. propriate given their responses. While concerned parents are pulling The survey found trouble amongst their children out of public schools, some 1 2 S T A N D A R D O I L board members whom refused to answer of us are holding strong, watching with 3 U R careful eye over the subject matter present- 4 the survey and/or told fellow board mem- P E N O B S C O T A V E N U E bers who were in the same district to ig- ed to our children. There are good teachers S M 5 6 nore the survey. That was a scary thought too, who know that a parents decision is G E M F 7 MORE important than activist positions R L O F O itself; that board members would wish to 8 9 A F O W L E R E R D hide their positions from parents concern- and they are more than happy to leave the 10 11 N O E R D N I K ing the educational recommendations they decision up to the parent regarding moral 12 13 D U G Y G W O N A or politically charged issues. Unfortunate- 14 15 were instilling upon our children. And S N R U A V P A T L ly, not all school officials feel this way and 16 17 some responses were just plain discrimi- O D D F E L L O W S T E F I R A I 18 natory and rude. It was obvious in some wish to remove a PARENT’S RIGHT to N R A O T S M A N D H T 19 know what is best for their children. That Y T N I R O N B R I D G E R O A D T school districts that immoral curriculum, N N N E T S I L such as the homosexual lifestyle or sex- is why the Risk Audit Project was created 20 21 C O L O N E L C C C R H N E laden literature was not offensive enough for all states to use and why Maine has de- R A B A I cided to take on this task. 22 23 24 25 to keep out of the minds of our children. P T P D N O A V T In future articles, the results from the 26 27 28 29 The Risk Audit Project created by R S H A C K H I L L E A X P R I C E F A R M 30 Mission America is a nationwide survey, Risk Audit Project will be made available O E A O C L F T O T E A N L C 31 for the general public. Parents and com- H R T S K U N K H O L L O W I N U Y C which is given to each individual school 32 I N A R E E R S P E E D E A district via the superintendent office. Its munity members can use this information 33 B H D R Y D T A N U main intent is to question whether or not a to question their school official decisions 34 35 I P A D R O N E M U L L E N S and to try to vote out those members who 36 district receives funding for immoral stu- T I L W B L are corrupting our public schools and us- 37 dent clubs or activities; and to see to what B I L L Y J O N E S D O I 38 39 extent homosexual, bi-sexual and trans- ing our children for their own activist O P E W I N N 40 41 42 43 44 cause. U N I O N S P O W E R S J E R R Y P O N D V L genderism has been incorporated into the 45 N C S E Y E E curriculum or teacher training programs. 46 47 Susan C. Stratton is a Catholic wife I H K A T A H D I N A V E N U E S C H O O L R In only a couple years Maine has wit- 48 49 50 O P A P E R H P L U O C B and mother of 3 children in Corinna, 51 nessed a growing influx of activists, using N N S C H O O L I N P O R Maine. She is a freelance writer and 52 53 54 our children to push their sexual prefer- M A G I C C I T Y C U M A D I S O N G M E D W A Y current chairperson of the Corinna 55 ences. They use the civil right agenda, H K H S E E Y A Chapter, Maine Right to Life. You can 56 57 58 W A T E R G I L B E R T N G N P equating sexual preference to racial dis- reach Mrs. Stratton at: kaylancor@ 59 P K W I T H A M T crimination, as part of their strategy to adelphia.net. E E force schools to use books that support 60 V I O L E T T E L Created with EclipseCrossword — www.eclipsecrossword.com

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http://magic-city-news.com Or sign up at http://allmainematters.com/subscribe.html All Maine Matters - Because All of Maine DOES Matter! Page 11 A Discussion With Stu Kallgren, of the Another Hidden Tax on Maine State Citizens Maine Leaseholder’s Association The Maine State Housing Authority, Who pays for this forced discount or cost shift? STU: That’s a long time to stall, so under the tutelage of Dale McCormick, The Maine Leaseholder’s Associa- Yes, you --the average citizen of Maine we’re still waiting on him. We’ve invited has formulated a plan to shake down your tion was formed in 1990 to address the -- are likely to pay again to support your him to our annual meeting on August local oil dealer. I know: Everyone loves to concerns of leaseholders in the State of less fortunate neighbors. How? By forc- 19th. We’ll be inviting other legislators hate the “oil dealer”. However, before Maine, and Stu Kallgren has served as its ing dealers to charge less than they need and candidates, as well. you skip gleefully off to another article, president since 1996. to make in order to pay their employ- AMM: Has there been any changes in you need to continue reading to find out AMM: Last month, we left off announc- ees, keep the trucks rolling, pay taxes, the schedule? how much of her scheme will eventually ing the annual meeting of the Maine and perhaps make a return on their hard STU: No, it’s on Saturday, August 19th, come out of your pocket. Leaseholder’s Association on August 19, work. The dealers are either going to at 12:00 noon. There’ll be a barbecue. First, the Maine State Housing Au- 2006, and we talked about a letter that have to reduce wages, reduce benefits to AMM: Anything else going on? thority is responsible for the oversight had been sent by the Judiciary Commit- employees, reduce investment in Maine, STU: I’ve met with some of the people of the Low Income Fuel Assistance Pro- tee to Governor Baldacci, asking him to and/or increase the costs of the products from the Cross Lake Association. We had gram, known as LIHEAP. Dale’s division set up a commission to study leaseholder they sell. a good meeting. They are concerned. racked in $25,000,000.00 from the Feds, issues. Has anything else transpired on That is where you -- the average citi- Most of them lease from Irving, and $5,000,000.00 from the State’s budget, that? zen -- come in. You will pay more through they’re worried about their property as $5,000,000.00 from Governor Baldacci’s STU: The governor has yet to schedule higher prices in order to offset the forced well. Gene Lynch is the director coordi- friend President Chavez of Venezuela. the first meeting. subsidization of the LIHEAP customer. nating things in Aroostook County, and After crying poverty she scored another AMM: Have you spoken to him? You already pay the taxes that provide we still hope to get them down here for $9,000,000.00 compliments of Susan and STU: I’ve spoken to people in his office. the LIHEAP benefit. Now the state is go- the annual meeting. If there’s enough Olympia, which turns out to be an ad- He hasn’t refused to schedule a meeting, ing to charge you again, except this time interest, we’ll have a bus available to vance off next years $25,000,000.00. without you having any say. he just hasn’t done so yet. We’re all set bring them down. With the price of gas Have you ever heard the saying “Some This is a new method of taxation with- to go on our end. Peter Pray, Jim Giffune, these days, that might help. for the bulls, some for the bears, and none out representation. The state simply says and George Lee are prepared to partici- AMM: All right. To remind everyone for the pigs?” Well, you have this now. In- you can only charge this class of citizens pate for our side. then, the annual meeting will be at 12:00 stead of doling out the same amount of this amount. Therefore, everyone else AMM: Do you expect that he’ll come noon on Saturday, Augues 19, 2006, at money that LIHEAP recipients had come needs to make up the difference from through, or try to stall until after the elec- Perley Wheaton Ford Garage in Milli- to expect and then wait for those individ- what it really costs. In order for an oil tion? nocket, Maine. uals to ask for more, our state’s “high roll- ers” just issued a lot more money to each company to stay in business it has to be recipient. Keep in mind that the Northeast able to make a certain amount of money. experienced one of the warmest winters Every sale contributes to covering a wide on record, and a lot of these LIHEAP re- range of expenses. cipients have sizable LIHEAP credits sit- This strategy has been played out be- ting on their heating oil accounts. You fore, and has had dire consequences for would think the State would say, “Okay, the locally-owned pharmacies in Maine. any money that hasn’t been used, send it Additionally, this has similarities to the back to the State so we can redistribute it Dirigo Health Insurance program. Again, next year” Nope, the State has told the oil offer a program to the uninsured, subsi- dealers to just keep it on those accounts, dize those folks so that they can afford it, and they don’t need it back. and then place a 4% surcharge on every- Psst…Only people who have too one else’s policy in order to help pay for much money would say that. it. Okay…here’s the shake down: The This slippery slope is getting slipperi- State of Maine wishes to do to the oil deal- er and will eventually encompass other er what they did to your local pharmacist. programs like food stamps, Section Eight In the future, the State will not reimburse Housing, and the like. Make no mistake. the oil dealer a $1.00 for a $1.00 of oil de- This is a hidden tax, and they’re hoping livered. They will establish a lesser reim- that that the average Maine citizen isn’t bursement amount for LIHEAP deliveries paying attention. based on the State’s expert opinion.

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It is time to return to tra- men, deriving their just powers from the ditional two-thirds budgets with the full Thomas Paine, the great writer and by misstating the facts while American consent of the governed.” These simple, public hearing process. pamphleteer of the American Revolution, troops are fighting and dying, doesn’t that eloquent words, pulled from our nation’s Because the government makes law, once said that “the honesty of the press is suggest that the media is aiding our ene- Declaration of Independence, create the anything it does is seen as legal. But being as great an object to society as the free- my? If the media accuses the U.S. govern- basic principles of our republic. It goes legal is not always the same as being ethi- dom of it.” Today in this country we have ment and our soldiers of war crimes be- on to state, “That whenever any form of cal or acceptable. To devise the best, most freedom of the press but very little “hon- fore an investigation has been completed government becomes destructive of these honest policies for our state, we need pub- esty of the press” when it comes to the and without regard to the presumption of ends, it is the right of the People to alter or lic debate guided by our society’s values. mainstream media. innocence that accused Americans enjoy abolish it.” Maine needs a “truth in budgeting” act. It is beyond dispute that the main- while at the same time showing little or We believe it is time to alter the destruc- We must open up the budget process to stream media is controlled almost en- no outrage for acts of unspeakable bru- tive course that Maine has been following the scrutiny of the entire Legislature. The tirely by liberals and that what passes for tality such as beheading civilians and for far too long. decision-making power and influence that news is presented as though it is objec- murdering innocent men, women and Over the last four weeks, we have de- comes with billions of dollars in the hands tive reporting while it is, in fact, infected children, doesn’t that suggest active aid scribed rampant financial mismanage- of a few people in leadership affects every with liberal bias throughout. While the and encouragement to our enemy? And if ment, countless gimmicks and misleading Maine resident. It’s too important to be left country is predominantly conservative, the media intentionally discloses details statements by elected officials that are cor- to back room operators. Sunshine is the the mainstream media is overwhelming- of secret programs designed to obtain roding the people’s trust in state govern- best disinfectant. ly leftist and opposed to virtually every- intelligence about al-Queda, doesn’t that ment. We went on to expose the real levels Maine also should become the 34th thing the majority of Americans support. directly aid the terrorists who have sworn of state spending and taxation, much high- state to provide televised coverage of leg- Not content with this state of affairs, the to destroy us? er than we have been told. We revealed the islative sessions, plus the Appropriations mainstream media is convinced it can The mainstream media has shown, and truth about the broken promise of prop- Committee’s budget hearings. Taking gov- change public opinion and our culture if continues to show, that it favors defeat in erty tax relief. These facts should disturb ernment to the people, instead of forcing it can control the way the issues are pre- Iraq rather than victory by the United Maine citizens of all political parties and people to come to government, would end sented. It is becoming clearer with each States. The media condemns the U.S. philosophies because their impact hits us many of the bad habits that have eroded passing day that the greatest enemy of military based upon unsubstantiated al- all. public trust. There is currently legislation the American people today is the main- legations and calls for punishment of our The unsettling situation revealed in our being considered by the Rules Committee stream media. soldiers while largely ignoring admitted series is a direct result of civic and govern- to place cameras in the Legislature. It is vi- Few Americans advocate restraints and documented savagery by terrorists. mental decay. We believe this decay is not tal that this important communication tool on the freedom of the press to print or An element of our society that wishes the terminal and can be reversed. But it will be be implemented. broadcast whatever they choose. But failure of our forces in war and the defeat difficult, requiring members of all political Other remedies would include total many Americans now realize that the of western civilization at the hands of ter- parties, the media and Maine citizens to reform of the state auditor’s office to en- purported “news” disseminated by the rorists can only be described as an en- unite in demanding change. sure an impartial evaluation of our state’s mainstream media is little more than emy of the people of this country, the vast To start with, the state budget “process” financial records. Also, independent- per propaganda. One could select almost majority of whom support the free and must be more open and inclusive. The bud- formance reviews of Revenue Services, the any issue from the top twenty issues of open institutions of western civilization get has descended into little more than late state controller’s office and the department concern to Americans today and without that are under attack by radical Islam. night deal-making sessions where special of administration and financial services first reading an article or listening to a The Viet Nam War was lost largely as interests hold sway. It is common practice would shake up and root out weaknesses, broadcast, predict the theme and con- a result of the anti-war campaign insti- for the Legislature’s Appropriations Com- cronyism and institutional inertia. clusion of any mainstream media piece gated and carried out by the mainstream mittee, which reviews and reworks the School administrators and teachers on the topic. Immigration, war in Iraq, media. The same forces are at work in governor’s budget, to meet and work until should be urged to renew civic education terrorism, abortion, gun control, global America today, trying to achieve a similar 5 o’clock in the morning. This is by design. based on the open and free exchange of warming, the environment, affirmative result. The mainstream media, still seeth- After weeks of public hearings and gruel- ideas. For democracy to survive, we need action or any other hot topic of the day ing from the defeats of their “chosen” ing work sessions, members of the com- an informed and engaged population, and will be presented with a pre-packaged candidates in 2000 and 2004 are more mittee meet with leadership to cut deals. that should begin in the schools. Parents in analysis and conclusion that supports openly hostile than ever before to the Late in the night, dozens of amendments turn must teach that to live our lives free liberal doctrine on that subject. For liber- current administration and conservatives that have never seen public hearing are and in a decent society, we all must be in- als and conservatives who are engaged in general. This hostility and arrogance horse traded. This is done while you sleep. volved. True democracy is not a spectator and well informed, this propaganda sim- can be seen daily in the faces and words The only non-elected people in attendance sport. ply reinforces their beliefs or infuriates, of network news anchors and commenta- are those lobbyists paid to promote their The press could play an important role depending upon who the recipient is. But tors and on the pages of the liberal press. clients’ agendas. through fair and fact-based reporting to for those who have no firm opinions on It is time that the majority of Americans This late-night deal-making allows keep all politicians honest. Unfortunately, the subjects or who have little interest in recognize that the mainstream media controversial, unpopular and outright blatant political biases often prevent that these issues, the steady stream of manu- holds them and their conservative values whacky policies to be inserted in the bud- from happening. But a neutral press, un- factured news and slick propaganda can in contempt. get. Last spring, a whole raft of such things afraid of aggressive reporting, could ex- cause the recipients to adopt the posi- It is too much to hope for that those au- mysteriously appeared. Sunday hunting, pose governmental malfeasance regardless tions of what they mistakenly believe to tocrats at the helm of the mainstream me- a tax on canoes and kayaks, the primary of who suffers politically. The information be the popular sentiment of the moment. dia today will repent and pursue the goal seatbelt law and the so-called “bird-watch- in this series was there to be had, for ex- If the mainstream media were selling a of “honesty of the press”. But if enough ing tax” became part of the budget. Thank- ample, but the major media ignored it. product, they would be guilty of fraud Americans stop patronizing the main- fully, they were stopped by a firestorm of When we, the elected representatives, and misrepresentation. But since they are stream media outlets, the old anti-war public criticism. The tax on casual rentals, see slick gimmicks and accounting prac- selling selective information and half- and anti-American mainstream media the 6 percent state employee pay raise tices that we believe violate ethics or the baked opinion masquerading as fact, will fail and by replaced by media that and the new “fair share” plan forcing all principles of democracy, it is our duty to they are guilty only of unprofessionalism. more truly reflects the culture of which state employees to pay union dues, were speak out. That is what has compelled us But they deserve the contempt of every they are a part. not stopped. The infamous and disgrace- to write these articles; we take no pleasure American who understands what they are ful $450 million borrowing plan also came in doing so. But we could not sit silently doing and how they are perverting the Randall H. Nunn is a Staff Writer for from these late night sessions. That fiasco and watch the deterioration continue. In concept of a free press. The New Media Alliance. The New Me- was stopped only by the threat of a “peo- the future, the Legislature must exercise Some will no doubt argue that to call dia Alliance is a non-profit (501c3) na- ple’s veto.” its constitutional responsibility of gov- the mainstream media the enemy of the tional coalition of writers, journalists These things would have been laughed ernment oversight. It must stop turning a people is a gross exaggeration. But if an and grass-roots media outlets. out of the Legislature and lampooned in blind eye to what it knows is wrong. institution in this country deliberately at- the press if they had been discussed open- The non-partisan National Conference tempts to generate anti-war sentiment ly. Yet they were secretly bartered into of State Legislatures reported recently that the budget because some “power broker” “the public generally views politicians as wanted them in there. corrupt.” That should send shivers down The Anti-Christs Live Amongst Us Unfortunately, when one party controls the spine of every civics teacher, news edi- (Continued from page 5) all political power, including the executive tor and public servant who cares about the can’t tell me that there haven’t been Besides computer viruses, what will office, this situation is aggravated. For ex- survival of our system of government. times that some of you parents haven’t they create? That would take imagination, ample, an alarming trend of the last sev- As our Founding Fathers wisely stated felt like chaining your spoiled brat to a and those who are capable will be deni- eral years is for the majority party to draft in the Declaration of Independence, gov- radiator when you know they’ll defy a grated by their peers. They’ll be called so-called “majority budgets.” This enables ernment derives power by the consent of justified grounding. “geeks” because they’ll actually see the one party to cast aside the hard work of the governed, and when it goes too far, it If this rant sounds unreasonable, think value of studying and later getting a job. debate and compromise and reject any in- can be abolished. We’re not at that point about this: this generation of kids is some I couldn’t wait to get a job when I was put from the rest of the Legislature. Major- yet. But the hour is late. of the most heartless we’ve ever seen. younger. hese kids act as though you’re ity budgets guarantee that nearly half the They’ll take over a whole neighborhood, telling them to enter a gas chamber. elected members of the Legislature – and Rep. David Trahan of Waldoboro is participating in violent gang activity that “666” came and went. We, as a soci- the people they represent – have no voice. a self-employed logger. Rep. Jon makes those in “West Side Story” look ety, will have to deal with a generation of That’s not democracy. That is what McKane of Newcastle is an electri- like pansies. They plot to shoot up and youth who may not be the devil’s spawn, leads to bad public policy, high taxes and cal contractor. bomb their schools, and are yet dumb but they sure do act like it at times. If enough to document their plans on blogs. there was ever a time to pray for the sec- Some succeed. ond coming, now would be a good time to They’ll show no mercy for their par- start. ent’s bank accounts as they rack up more minutes on their cellphones (that we stu- pidly justified giving them for “safety” Bob Parks is a former Republican congressional candidate (California reasons), and they’ll pout when we reign 24th District), Navy veteran, single them in because we just can’t afford to father, member/writer for the Na- pay over $100 a month so they can talk tional Advisory Council of Project 21, to their friends constantly on a cellphone and is a Staff Writer for the New Me- instead of the boring home phone. dia Alliance, Inc. All Maine Matters - Because All of Maine DOES Matter! Page 13 “Comprehensive” Sellout: Illegal immigration, the Senate and the White House By Tom DeWeese There are moments in history when considered such strong action politically • Taxpayer dollars to radical immi- As Jerome Corsi wrote in the May destiny is determined. President Bush incorrect and even dangerous to political gration groups like La Raza (THE 30th addition of Human Events, “Anyone and the U.S. Senate now face such a mo- careers. RACE) so they can help illegal who has wondered why President Bush ment as they determine the course of U.S. Not so in the United States Senate. aliens “adjust” their status. Millions has not bothered to secure our borders immigration policy. For this is not simply On May 25th, the Senate passed its own of American tax dollars will go to is advised to spend some time examin- a policy decision to be based on petty “comprehensive reform” bill, which bore the same groups who organized ing the SPP working groups’ agenda. In political maneuverings of the day. Ulti- little resemblance to the House version. It the massive demonstrations. every area of activity, the SPP agenda mately they are deciding the future of bares even less relationship to anything • Will not bar illegal aliens convict- stresses free and open movement of peo- the United States of America. Greatness the overwhelming majority of Americans ed of felonies from obtaining citi- ple, trade, and capital within the North divides the statesmen from the political demanded. zenship. American Union. Once the SPP agenda hucksters. On the day the Senate bill was passed, is implemented with appropriate de- Last December, the U.S. House of California Congressman Dana Rohra- “This bill,” said Rep. Charlie Norwood partmental regulations, there will be no Representatives passed an immigration bacher pointedly told the House “The bill (R-GA), “constitutes treachery against area of immigration policy, trade rules, reform bill that takes several steps to that passed the United States Senate is a U.S. sovereignty. This allows every illegal environmental regulations, capital flows, restore order from the chaos that now de- travesty, It is a cruel hoax on the Ameri- alien in America to use the fraudulent public health, plus dozens of other key fines America’s southern border. The bill can people, using the title “Immigration” document industry they have created in policy areas that the U.S. Government will to let people think that something is be- calls for construction of a security fence; the criminal back alleys of our country be able to decide alone or without first ing done that will in some way curb this it streamlines federal and local law en- to claim they have been here 5 years and consulting with some appropriate North massive influx of millions of foreigners forcement cooperation on immigration can now stay forever. They (the Senate) American Union regulatory body. At best into our country. It will not. It will make the matters, specifically allowing local police have granted blanket amnesty for citizens our border with Mexico will become a situation worse, and any rational analysis of foreign nations against tax fraud, So- speed bump, largely erased, with little to arrest illegals. And the House bill man- of this bill will lead to that conclusion.” dates that employers verify the legal sta- cial Security fraud, Medicare fraud, iden- remaining to restrict the essentially free Anyone who knows anything about movement of people trade and capital.” tus of workers. The bill passed the House tity fraud, and bank fraud – all crimes for the cause of illegal immigration knows which there is no forgiveness or mercy That explains a lot. Obviously the Senate with strong bipartisan support. that the first order of business must be to for citizens of the United States.” bill is specifically designed to fit into the The House took this action because cut off the flow of free benefits paid for Meanwhile, President Bush is on an SPP plan. the current system is broken. It doesn’t by oppressed American tax payers. Stop all out campaign to convince us that the Meanwhile, Vicente Fox talks, not of serve the national or economic security welfare benefits; stop the free access Senate bill does not provide amnesty. immigration, but of “migration.” He told interests of our country. Our porous bor- to medical care; stop the free access to the Utah state legislature, “Since the be- ders and lax interior enforcement create schools, etc. And that the bill simply helps some good honest folks become American citizens ginning of my administration, the govern- opportunities for criminal activity. The The Senate bill, far from doing any- ment of Mexico has promoted the estab- in search of the American dream. The smuggling of illegal aliens has become thing to curb illegal immigration, opens lishment of a new system that regulates President speaks of a “solemn obligation big business for a criminal element. The the doors to encourage more. As Rep. the movement of people across our bor- of the federal government” to secure our influx of these illegals are causing eco- Rohrabacher said, “This ‘shamnesty’ bill der in a manner which is legal, safe and nomic breakdowns in our neighbors, our spells out the level of contempt the Sen- borders. He makes a big show of sending orderly.” He also told Canada to accept schools and our hospitals. Smuggling of ate has for middle-class Americans. National Guard troops to the border. Yet more low-skilled Mexican workers in its illegal drugs plague our cities and our The “comprehensive” Senate bill in- just a few months ago he said building a temporary work force, making his push children. Huge holes in the border al- cludes: wall was “impractical.” for guest workers a continent-wide affair. low potential terrorists who seek to do us • In-state tuition for illegal aliens Obviously he is talking out of both Now we know what he means. He was in harm to come and go at will, undetected. – while American kids have to pay sides of his mouth as he tries to quietly a small way revealing the plans for the At risk is the very make up, traditions full price if they cross state lines. implement an immigration policy that North American Union that he and Presi- and culture of our nation as those who in- • All temporary “guest workers” complies with both international agree- dent Bush have been secretly hatching. vade our borders express no interest in have to be paid a prevailing wage. ments he has signed on to and with per- American are angry. They will become assimilating as has literally every other • All agricultural “guest workers” sonal assurances he has given Mexican angrier still as they are ignored in their immigrant movement in the nation’s his- cannot be fired – except for what President Vicente Fox that the border demands for an end to the illegal alien tory. Truly we are at a crossroads for the the bill calls “just cause.” between the two countries will be elimi- invasion of our nation. We must stand be- future make up of this nation. • Illegal aliens are made eligible for nated. hind the House efforts to pass its version The House did a rare thing in today’s Social Security benefits. Not only While the illegals were marching in of immigration reform. To do so would put political atmosphere by passing its im- will they receive retirement ben- our streets, President Bush was in Can- a mighty road block in the secret plans of migration reform act. It took action in re- efits, but their children will receive cun, Mexico meeting with Fox and cel- Bush and Fox. sponse to massive outcries of more than survivor benefits should the par- ebrating the one year anniversary of the Americans must come to grips with 80% of the American people who are de- ents pass away. This is all in a time creation of the Security and Prosperity the fact that a sinister plan to destroy the manding that something be done to stem when the massive influx of baby Partnership of North America (SPP). This sovereignty and independence of the the invasion of illegals. Even rarer, it has boomers reaching retirement age is a White House plan being perpetrated once mighty United States of America is stuck by its guns in support of the bill as threaten to bankrupt the system. by the Bush Administration to construct underway. The Senate bill is not pushed hundreds of thousands of illegals and • Increases the number of immi- a new super-regional structure com- through in arrogance. President Bush is their supporters marched in the streets grants who may come here, even pletely by executive orders rather than not acting out of ignorance or lack of un- against it; as the White House derides it; as our cities are overrun with for- through legislation. What the Adminis- derstanding. What we are witnessing is and the Senate ignores it. eigners. tration has in mind is a NAFTA-Plus or a the wholesale sell out of our freedom. • Employers of illegals are granted Statesmen look beyond their own po- North American Union on the lines of the Tom DeWeese is president of the litical needs and consider those of the amnesty too. Employers would be European Union to be fully implemented American Policy Center and editor nation as a whole. The House took the exempt from civil and criminal tax by 2010. Yet, President Bush has said not of the DeWeese Report. Contact in- action that was necessary, though many and criminal liability under the one word about it in a single speech. formation: apcmail@americanpolicy. Senate bill. org

• Cary: 200 acre Maine farm. 3 BR home, 42 by 42 solid barn and separate workshop. 52 acres tillable now. Good soils. Woods were fields. Could be again. Old stone walls, great hunting, snowmobile trails out back. $229,000 • Waite: Huge five or six bedroom home on 7.5 acres. This would be a great bed and breakfast. It is very well kept and still has the traditional “tin” ceilings. The kitchen is large and efficient. There is an attached barn with useful space above for storage or even more rooms. The large dining room has a built in china cabinet. Nicely landscpaed with traditional flower varieties in the gardens, this property even has an 18 foot deep trout pond. $97,000 • Burlington: Nearly new camp on Madagasgal Lake. Owned land! Insulated, wired for generator and neatly finished with knotty pine inside. This camp looks west at the sunset. Prevailing west wind keeps the bugs away. Great fishing for the accomplished sportsman and kids both. Snowmobile and ATV right from the camp. Trails connect with the new ATV regional system. Sandy bottom for swimming and there is a babbling brook beside the camp. A perfect four season getaway. Madagasgal Lake is a quiet lake with many camps owned by area families. $139,000 • Danforth: 3 acres of nice open woods on the shore of East Grand Lake. Power and phone at the road. Over 300 feet of lake frontage with good deep water access. This is one of Maine’s premier salmon and togue lakes. Great small-mouth bass fishing. Driveway already in and a site cleared for your home or camp. $150,000 • Lowell: 45 acres on a paved road with power and phone. Trim some trees for a mountain view. Driveway and 2 acres of old field to build in. Heavily wooded and not cut for over 20 years. Close enough to Bangor and colleges to commute. $35,000 • Springfield: 47.3 acres in the back country where the deer are. Nicely wooded with cedar and spruce. Some high ground for a camp and some low ground where the deer hang out. 4WD access. Three lakes within a mile and many lakes nearby. $25,000

Land, Camps, Farms, Businesses and even Homes. 3 acres to 20,000 acres. Buy your Maine land while you still can. ERA McPhail Realty, Lincoln, Maine Page 14 All Maine Matters - Because All of Maine DOES Matter! Letters to the Editor Correction: Spending Us Into Debt Last month, All Maine Matters published a letter to the editor from a reader Dear Editor: asking a question. We neglected to answer that question and will do so now. Maine is one of the poorest states in the nation, excluding some southern ones who “A Freeper from Maine” asked: beat us slightly. But in general, just look at the statistics if you will. Lowest per capita “Do you think you will ever use the HTML format as I would like to post some of income, excluding, of course, our well-heeled people from away and/or summer your writings on Free Republic.Com where it must include linking to your site, have property owners who take advantage of our borders. Add to this the fact that we are the date timely, and the author. And read by thousands of readers per day across the #2 in state taxes and something just is wrong. country as well as some of our military overseas.” What is happening is simple. Our elected representatives are spending us into debt. “I read the actual paper as takes to long with acrobat reader to load...or to easily We owe billions in loan payments, and still this government is telling us all is well. cut and paste. I have dial up at around 50Kbps and a newer computer but am not a Gee. Sounds just like the politicians in Washington. fan of pdf. Another thing: As someone from away (I hate that saying), after twenty years in “Lets get your paper out across the country for national reader enjoyment. In FR Maine, I can’t fathom why the registry doesn’t notify residents when their car or are many reporters and news people that use us as their “google” as it often the truck registration is due. Every state I ever lived in always sent you the bill and form comments that give credibility to a story or dissect the untruths. It was on FR that to fill out. Here in Maine, it is up to you. I see so many old stickers on cars and trucks Dan Rather was exposed moments after he appeared with his story on 60 minutes. that it is frightening as all the state is waiting for is an alert cop to pick you off and The following week they continued to spin the truth with another story, not learning then bring more money into the coffers of the state. from what had happened the previous week.” LD #1, another farce, was supposed to lower taxes? I asked my town officer how In response to that question, we have begun to publish our newspaper in strict come I just added $7800 in exemptions and my taxes went up? Well, you all kow the HTML for our readers who do not have broadband. June’s issue is up at http:// same BS. It was the fault of the state. Case closed, eh? Not really. Dirago is a red her- allmainematters.com/June06/. In the second week of July, July’s issue will be up ring and only worked as long as the state kept on getting money from the feds, $44 at http://allmainematters.com/July06/. million, if I recall, but hay seed to them. Thank you for your suggestion and your question. We value all feedback from Another problem: Over forty perce3nt of Mainers are on Medicaid through no fault our readers and wish to facilitate reading our newspaper for all potential read- of their on. Married couples and poor singles sometimes find out that if working are ers. not eligible for Medicaid but are too rich – what a laugh! – so albeit making minimum --Editor wage boxes them out of health insurance. No wonder so many people in Maine are working under the table. Oops! Better watch it, or the state may start tracking you. Think about this when you vote. To quote another transplant I moved to Maine to get away from the politicians in Articles Are Real Eyeopeners! this country but found that Maine has become just like any other state, probably due to the influx of people moving here to get away from beaurocracy, but instead have Dear Friends, found that even Maine is now just like everywhere else. This, in essense, is what di- Enclosed is my check for $18.00. I versity is all about, so live tith it, and unfortunately, the old saying “As Maine goes, know I could get this newspaper FREE so goes the nation.” Live with it and give up as no matter what the old timers say, you at the grocery or the gas station, but I can’t stop progress, sad to say. want to support the paper! The articles are REAL eyeopen- Sincerely, ers! The satire on animal ID was great (though the N.A.I.S. is itself yet another Frank D. Slason, Somerville, ME horror story). I don’t have as computer system. Election Thoughts I’m retired and live a single life…but I’d like to thank All Maine Matters for allowing me to have an opinion and printing such. I’d sure like some written material I had to laugh the other day. It was about two days before the primary elections. I was working at my job and as I was outside doing what was asked on N.A.I.S. and on that other horror of me. Inside there was an over 50’s group having a luncheon. One of their guest speakers was a candidate for district rep. I didn’t hear a word of “New Freedom Commission on Mental what he was talking about until he left the building. Health.” He walked by me without saying a word until I uttered, “Have a nice day.” He turned and looked at me as one of two things, a potential vote or a Could you print, in your newspaper, courteous person. addresses to write to to obtain writ- He approached me and made his comments of a potential candidate like most of them would do looking for a vote. I listened to what he was hoping ten info on these disgusting, infringing for, if elected.. The basic things of, better jobs, healthcare, tax cuts, you know, the stuff that’s on most everybody’s lips. outfits? Many thanks! Well, after he was done, I started in. My enjoyment turned to aggravation as I spouted off what I thought the government should be looking at. It Love your paper! wasn’t healthcare and better jobs. It was taking care of the elderly Mainers who need help and the starving families who need to choose between fuel oil or food. Sandra Walker (Prairiestar) I told him that my job would be a lot more enjoyable if at the end of the week I didn’t have to look at all the taxes sucked out of my pay check. It’s Orneville Twp., ME damn depressing when a person works in the heat, cold, rain and all the other elements of northern Maine every week and receives a pay check, know- ing full well that some one out there is nursing off the government teat. I went on for about 20 minutes with what I thought was wrong and he agreed. He actually stepped back a few steps when he seen my face and eyes The postal address for the National Men- turn red. After I was done, I asked him what he thought. He said that he would pass it on and thanked me. He also asked for my vote. Well, come to tal Health Information Center is 5600 find out, he was in the wrong district for me to vote for him. Maybe we should have established that first. Fishers Lane, Room 13C-26, Rockville, There is a whole on slot of people looking for votes this year. I see them on TV. The problem I have with them, is they feel that the larger populous MD 20857 . Their telephone number is is where they need to be. 800-789-2647. And the postal address There is one lady that popped up in Presque Isle the other day. She decided to have coffee with some of the locals. Good idea. How many did she for the MindFreedom Support Coalition talk to? Was she in my voting district? I don’t have a clue because I don’t know who she is or when she is showing up. Do I feel informed enough on International is 454 Willamette, Suite 216 what she is going to do for the state to get my vote, probably not. / P.O. Box 11284 / Eugene, OR 97440- So, a piece of advice: Don’t forget the small towns. There may not be a lot of people, but enough of them will add up to a large population and the 3484 USA word spreads a lot faster too. There is one who is not getting my vote. It’s the governor at this present time. I saw his ad on TV the other day also. He wants my vote because a lot We have published articles on two dif- has been done, but there is a lot more that needs to be done. Vote me in again and it will be done. ferent organizations known as NAIS. The Well governor, let’s see. I’m quite sure I said this once before, “steal from the tax payer and give to the illegal immigrants.” If I was to vote for you contact for each of those is below. I might just as well put a fox in my chicken coop. Either way, I’m going to lose out. It’s still amazing how some politicians can lie, cheat and steal their way through life and still go on TV and ask for more and smile about it. Personally I can see a small cartoon balloon over their heads with the word, The postal address for the National As- “SUCKER!!” written in it. sociation of Independent Schools is 620 HA! This government system today is a joke, I mean really, people. The elderly are starving because they have to buy medications. The people on L Street NW Suite 1100, Washington DC, welfare that don’t need it are riding snowmobiles and ATV’s and having a good life at it The illegal immigrants are flocking in here for “THE FREE.” 20036-5695. Their phone number is 202- The husbands, wives, sons and daughters of the American people are getting killed once again over seas and some of the concerns of this state gov- 973-9700. ernment are, whether or not Moxie needs to be the state drink. Come on now, get real. If any drink needs to become the state drink, it should be beer. That’s because the average working person can still afford it. The postal address for the National Ani- Anyway, when it comes to election time, I don’t know who I’m going to vote for. mal Identification System is U.S. Depart- Just remember people, if you don’t vote, then you shouldn’t complain. ment of Agriculture 1400 Independence Ave., S.W. Washington, DC 20250. They Thank you again. offer no phone number in their contact Perry Charette information. Nashville Plt., ME --Editor

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We do publish anonymous let- ters to the editor, or those signed with a pseudonym. All Maine Matters - Because All of Maine DOES Matter! Page 15 Profile: Millinocket, Maine Letters to the Editor (Continued from page 9) Math gone wrong!! Following the death of Dr. Bryant in 1938, is too far from everywhere else for people to I was just watching the local news on 6/29/06. There was an individual on the news his property was purchased by Dr. Lloyd Mo- commute. from Saco whose name is Rep. Donald Pilon, He seems to be endorsing a new regis- rey, who opened the Morey Osteopathic Hospi- Of all the reasons for the demise of the tration plate for the automobile in the state. Its design is to support the families of the tal there that same year. Doctors Ernest Young Great Northern that I have heard or imagined, troops in Iraq. The sample on TV looked very nice. The state of Maine with a yellow and Martin Grumley had formed the Millinock- the one that seems the most likely is that its ribbon in the center of it. The look is very tasteful and not tacky. The cost of the plate et General Hospital, set up in the Curran house demise was assured on that day in 1970 when will not be the usual $25.00 fee. It will be $45.00. on Maine Avenue, which functioned until the it merged with Nekoosa-Edwards and ceased The news reported a very simple breakdown of the cost and where the money will Millinocket Community Hospital opened in to be the Great Northern Paper Company. go. The production of the plate will be $10.00. The fund that will support the families 1955. Some of the other things (the Indian land of the troops will receive $10.00. That’s pretty good, if the state can sell hundreds or Within the mill, the unions had been talk- claim, the spruce budworm, the Big A Dam, even thousands of them. ing about combining their efforts to promote a and others) probably played their parts in It’s always nice to show support of the troops no matter if you agree with the war/ larger hospital that would be managed by the quickening the mill’s demise), but things were conflict or not. It’s a job that they applied for and their boss has told them that they community. In 1948, the fundraising began. never the same after GNP quit being GNP, and have a job to do. The troops are working people like most everybody else in America. The union’s pledge one week’s pay per em- became Great Northern Nekoosa. What they do for a job, which consists of a multitude of tasks, everything from the ployee, and GNP responded by putting up an Someone tried to tell me the other day cook, security police, mechanic, sniper, infantry, and many other positions, all are ap- initial grant of $150,000, later adding another that the labor unions were the cause of Great plied for, trained for and all have an ultimate boss. If they want a paycheck, then they $203,500 to the citizens’ pledges, for a total Northern’s demise, as some of the unions re- better do what the boss says or they may not have the job at a later time. of $800,000. Additional funds came from the fused to agree to concessions. I believe that is Oh, by the way, if you noticed the title of this article is “math gone wrong!!” Let’s get federal government and from the Ford Founda- shortsighted, as by the time a company has to back to that. If a person pays $45.00 for a registration plate and the production costs tion. come to the unions for concessions, it’s already are $10.00 and the fund will receive $10.00, what has happened to the other $25.00? Is The northern end of Somerset Street, near on its way down. No, the Great Northern had somebody sitting in a big leather chair in Augusta raking in the profit, or are they all the new road to Brownsville, was chosen for always contended with labor unions, and done dipping their tin cups in? As far as I’m concerned, if you’re going to promote a plate a location, and construction began in 1954. so successfully. of this nature, by all means, take out the production costs and the cost of registration The Millinocket Commmunity Hospital was Further illustrating the strong relationship paperwork. opened for public viewing on March 12, 1955. between the town and the mill, census figures But unless there is a cost that wasn’t mentioned about the plate, then the fund The 1950s saw additional growth in the will demonstrate that Millinocket’s population should receive at least $30.00. If the Representative wants to help a hungry or cold town, almost to the extent of its capacity. I say peaked in 1970, and has been in a steady de- family, that’s fine. But don’t feed a hungry family a saltine cracker and don’t give a cold this because, while most townships in Maine cline ever since, worsening everytime the own- family one match and a toothpick to stay warm with. are about 200,000 acres in size, Millinocket ership of the mill changes hands. Think about people. It’s basic math that was taught in 3rd grade. Where is the other was restricted to 7,500 until 1989, when 4,000 It was during the 1970s that new high school money going? Unless Rep.. Pilon can explain this, then I’d watch your wallets because acres was annexed to the town, still leaving the graduates could no longer be assured of finding somebody might be reaching in for their own fund. town far short of the amount of land available employment in the mill, and there were few THINK ABOUT IT!!! to other towns in the state. employment alternatives that didn’t involve But in the 1950s, there was still some room moving out of town or commuting long dis- Curiously, for growth. The full length of Aroostook Av- tances. Perry Charette, Nashville Plt enue was built up in house lots, north from The only other industry in town has been the Aroostook Avenue School north to Second the Millinocket Foundry and Machine Com- “Free Love” Community Members Street, where the old ball park had been. pany, a small industry that has been around al- most since the beginning, or at least as early as I read with interest a letter from a reader concerning Laura Adelmann’s article titled: Liberals In 1953, more lots were opened up for hous- 1906, but it employs only about thirty people, Silence Parents, Sacrifice Children At Altar Of Tolerance (May 2006 issue). I think the reader did ing along Aroostook Avenue, on the other side at most. not realize the theme of the article. The reader was concerned with persons from the “free-love” of Central Street south to Birch Avenue, at the As mentioned earlier, the town is severely generation being labeled liberals but most conservatives often use these extreme words to clarify foot of Tin Can Alley. Lots were also made restricted in size, and there is no available land political positions on very serious matters. Most liberals even incorporate labels (“right-wing” or available on Congress Street, from the bend in that is not owned by the paper company - a “religious radicals”) to point fingers at Christians, Jewish or Muslim faithful who uphold their Millinocket Stream to Cherry Street. company which, having changed hands several conservative moral standards (You can actually see this in action on the Maine Education Asso- The Elks building was built in 1953, the times since its Great Northern days, is reluctant ciation (NEA affiliate) in their political activism policy section wherein they refer to anyone who club moving from its much smaller building on to sell land to anyone likely to employ people disagrees with their position as “right-wing” or “radical”.) Penobscot Avenue, which it sold to the Bangor at a decent wage, and they seldom sell land at Not to say labels are always a good thing. They can be used in a derogatory way but I think Hydro-Electric Company. all. most authors use them to describe the political agenda of the issue being discussed so that the Additional plots of land were opened up in Throughout most of the history of Mil- impact of the argument can be felt in an emotional way. the New Development, extending it almost to linocket, a child could graduate from Stearns Labels aside, I think many in the “free-love” generation have indeed grown up and become Jerry Pond. Houses were being built along the High School one day and report for work in the active members of the community. However, the question needed to be asked is: what exactly streets leading to the golf course, along Forest mill the next, where he could be assured of lu- are those “liberals” doing in their activism? For example, we have seen a great uprising of ho- Avenue and Orchard Street. The more recent crative employment for the all of his working mosexual activists pushing their agenda on children in the public schools, even children who are houses being built in the New Development life, but he couldn’t buy an acre of land within in kindergarten class. These persons are indeed “free-love” individuals who have contributed to were different in design and color, as can be driving distance of his hometown. society by forcing their sexual preferences on other people’s children; even to the point of taking seen today. If he were intelligent, hardworking, and away the religious liberty so afforded to American families. Construction continued, not only in these thrifty, he might be able save enough money to Recently we heard in the news that the NEA, a volunteer teacher organization that is known new areas, but in other parts of town as well. start his own business, but couldn’t find land in for its power and influence in the public school system, is hoping to add same-sex marriage to the Frank Rush had owned a large amount of land Millinocket on which to locate his business. school curriculum nationwide (Note: Just recently, the new addition to policy was voted down surrounding his farm and sawmill, and when The town is now suffering from its lack of after parents complained, but it still pushes homosexual curriculum in states that already endorse James Kelley took over the farm, he turned diversity in employment opportunities. When same-sex marriage.) much of the land surrounding it into the Kelley the mills closed in 2002, and remained closed What disturbs me concerning this activism is the fact that this will make public schools an Trailer Park, which exists yet today. for more than a year, its workforce was forced environment friendly only to those who support unnatural sexual orientation. (Note: in fact, this Originally the Iron Bridge Road had been to seek employment elsewhere, in a state that is already happening here in Maine.) Forget the rights of children of Faith or those who disagree part of the old tote road along Millinocket has itself suffered great economic devastation with different sexual gender identities. Their rights are no longer allowed in the public school Stream. By 1954, people were wanting to build from too many years of mismanagement. system when activists march in and force their own particular indoctrination upon students. there, resulting in a street of about forty very Although the mills in Millinocket and East Read about NEA desire to promote homosexual marriage in public schools here: small houses. This area became known as the Millinocket have since reopened under new http://www.afa.net/neaendorses.asp Pines. Ash and River Streets were constructed ownership, they now employ only a few hun- dred people, most of whom do not feel confi- Along with this news, we learned too of the Parker struggles in the Lexington, Massachusetts, near the spot on Central Street where the town dent in the future. school district. For those unfamiliar with the case, the Parker family discovered that their kinder- dummp used to be, offering more house lots to And there is nothing else. Large amounts of garten son was given pro-gay reading materials in his class. The 5 year old children were sent hungry homebuyers. money, appropriated from local, state, federal, home with an entire book bag of promotion materials for same-sex marriage. Since the parents did The Granite Street School opened in the fall and private funding sources, intended for eco- not condone this type of education for their child (let alone the idea of sexual issues being brought of 1955 as a ten-room elementary school. More nomic development, have instead been used up to kindergarteners), they asked that their son be opted out of curriculum that involved sexual classrooms and a library were later added. up on eco-tourism schemes that have served to orientation matters. They were denied this. They ended up taking the school district to court and The Millinocket Junior High School was benefit only a few, and mostly those who were because of their opposition to the school decision, outside “liberal” groups rallied against the fam- built in 1963, at its current location just beyond closely associated with the agencies set up to ily. The anti-Parker demonstrations in which children are encouraged to attend have caused con- the State Street Bridge. It was later added to, administrate these funds, who are themselves fusion amongst very young students so much so that Parker’s son (now 7 years old) was beaten up and now includes Stearns High School, af- working in cocert with outside environmental by a mob of children. It was discovered that the attack was pre-planned and initiated by children ter the building on Katahdin and Central was interests. of the same individuals who run the campaign against the Parker family. closed. Seemingly resistant to industry, manufac- I mention the Parker case because it does show “free-love” community members in action and Not much new has been built since the turing, and entrepreneurship, and handicapped does show the same threat which may come to Maine as parents in the school system become 1970s, when the St. Martin of Tours Catholic by the fact that the new owners of the lands divided on moral issues creating a place of hostility rather than education and protection for chil- Church built its new building, and for a couple that once belonged to the Great Northern Paper dren. Perhaps many “free-love” individuals from the 60’s and 70’s abandoned their liberal ways in of reasons, as far as I can determine. Company refuse to make land available to those favor of traditional family values but for those who did not, they are actually creating a hate-filled Today, the population of Millinocket has who desire to locate their businesses here, the environment for the rest of us and our children. declined for a peak of nearly eight thousand town is instead trying to attract wealthy second You can read about this case at: people in 1970, most of whom were gain- home buyers from Massachusetts. http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2006/jun/06061410.html fully employed, to fewer than five thousand today, many of whom are receiving public as- If at times it may appear that Millinocket is at war with itself, this is because there are Often the same individuals who uphold sexual orientation equality, also become active in sistance or struggling desperately to get by. those who realize that the path that the town pro-abortion issues. How many “free-love” individuals attend the March for Choice pushed by It is difficult, if not impossible, to discuss has chosen is one that excludes them, and they Planned Parenthood in Washington, DC every year? I seriously doubt most conservatives venture the decline of the “magic city” without talking don’t want to leave. into those parades. Instead, we often hear about conservatives who may hold pro-life signs in about the pulp and paper mill that built it, but An unfortunate fact is that while Millinock- counter action against abortion supporters and are harrassed and even physically attacked for it by that is a subject that wouldn’t fit onto the num- et is a wonderful place to live, it is not an easy “liberals” in the crowd. But that is a whole other letter given the length of what I could write! ber of pages that I have available to me, and would likely be contradicted by every other place to earn a living. Much has been written about the Great Mrs. Stratton, Corinna, ME person who read it. Northern Paper Company and Millinocket, [email protected] For one thing, the fate of the town has al- ways been inextricably linked to the pulp and Maine. Books and other texts that I have refer- paper mill that built it, so that when the mill enced and found useful are listed on page 16. wasn’t hiring, there were no reasons for new people to come to Millinocket. When the mill Ken is, among other things, the edi- We are also free on the internet at way laying off, there were no alternatives for tor of the online news outlet Magic furloughed employees, other than to move. City Morning Star, on the web at http://allmainematters.com There was nothing else here, and Millinocket http://magic-city-news.com. Page 16 All Maine Matters - Because All of Maine DOES Matter!

Editor’s Note: We recently re-read the Declaration of Independence for the first time in more than 25 years. While we remembered the beginning paragraphs, we found we had forgotten about the rest of the document. As a birthday present to our country, we are reprinting the Declaration in its entirety. We hope you will take a moment and read it as well. IN CONGRESS, JULY 4, 1776 The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation. We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dic- tate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursu- ing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security. — Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world. He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good. He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his Assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them. He has refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of Representation in the Legisla- ture, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only. He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their Public Records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures. He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people. He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected, whereby the Legislative Powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within. He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encour- age their migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new Appropriations of Lands. He has obstructed the Administration of Justice by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary Powers. He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries. He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harass our people and eat out their substance. He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures. He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil Power. He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation: For quartering large bodies of armed troops among us: For protecting them, by a mock Trial from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States: For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world: For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent: For depriving us in many cases, of the benefit of Trial by Jury: For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences: For abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighbouring Province, establishing therein an Arbitrary government, and enlarging its Boundaries so as to ren- der it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these Colonies For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments: For suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever. He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us. He has plundered our seas, ravaged our coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people. He is at this time transporting large Armies of foreign Mercenaries to compleat the works of death, desolation, and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of Cru- elty & Perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the Head of a civilized nation. He has constrained our fellow Citizens taken Captive on the high Seas to bear Arms against their Country, to become the executioners of their friends and Brethren, or to fall themselves by their Hands. He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages whose known rule of war- fare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions. In every stage of these Oppressions We have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms: Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A Prince, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people. Nor have We been wanting in attentions to our British brethren. We have warned them from time to time of attempts by their legislature to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us. We have reminded them of the circumstances of our emigration and settlement here. We have appealed to their native justice and magnanimity, and we have conjured them by the ties of our common kindred. to disavow these usurpations, which would inevitably interrupt our connections and correspondence. They too have been deaf to the voice of justice and of consanguinity. We must, therefore, acquiesce in the necessity, which denounces our Separation, and hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind, Enemies in War, in Peace Friends. We, therefore, the Representatives of the United States of America, in General Congress, Assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the Name, and by Authority of the good People of these Colonies, solemnly publish and declare, That these United Colonies are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent States, that they are Absolved from all Allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved; and that as Free and Independent States, they have full Power to levy War, conclude Peace contract Alliances, establish Commerce, and to do all other Acts and Things which Independent States may of right do. — And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of Divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor. The 56 signatures on the Declaration appear in the positions indicated: Georgia: North Carolina: Massachusetts: Pennsylvania: New York: New Hampshire: Button Gwinnett William Hooper John Hancock Robert Morris William Floyd Josiah Bartlett Lyman Hall Joseph Hewes Benjamin Rush Philip Livingston William Whipple George Walton John Penn Maryland: Benjamin Franklin Francis Lewis Samuel Chase John Morton Lewis Morris Massachusetts: South Carolina: William Paca George Clymer Samuel Adams Edward Rutledge Thomas Stone James Smith New Jersey: John Adams Thomas Heyward, Jr. Charles Carroll of Carrollton George Taylor Richard Stockton Robert Treat Paine Thomas Lynch, Jr. James Wilson John Witherspoon Elbridge Gerry Arthur Middleton Virginia: George Ross Francis Hopkinson George Wythe John Hart Rhode Island: Richard Henry Lee Delaware: Abraham Clark Stephen Hopkins Thomas Jefferson Caesar Rodney William Ellery Benjamin Harrison George Read Thomas Nelson, Jr. Thomas McKean Connecticut: Francis Lightfoot Lee Roger Sherman Carter Braxton Samuel Huntington Books used for the Millinocket profile include: William Williams Oliver Wolcott • Millinocket: Magic City of Maine’s Wilderness; Dorothy Bowler Laverty; 1973 New Hampshire: • So You Live in Millinocket; Dorothy Bowler Matthew Thornton Laverty; 1988 • Magic City Doctor; Lloyd W. Morey, Sr; 1977 • Now I Am an Old Man: Odyssey of a Teacher; Photographs of rural Edgar C. Alward; 2003 Maine taken by • Growing Up in Millinocket in the ‘20s, ‘30s, & ‘40s; Edgar C. Alward Ken Anderson. unless • The Interrupted Forest: A History of Maine’s Wild- otherwise attributed. lands; Neil Rolde; 2001 • Timber! The Fall of Maine’s Paper Giant; Paul Mc- Copyright 2006 Cann; 1994 • Lumbering in the Millinocket, ME. Area 1930 thru 1950; Sylvio J. Caron; 1994 • It began with the Wasps; Frank Colburn Bowler; Maine Leaseholder’s Annual Meeting 1949 August 19, 2006 at 12:00 noon • The Town of Millinocket’s Comprehensive Plan Perley Wheaton Ford Garage Millinocket, ME