Word: potato
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...Muskie has sought to improve Maine's economy. He claimed much of the credit for wangling the original sugar-beet quota from the Department of Agriculture in 1964. When other potential sugar-beet processors became unavailable for the project, Muskie helped bring in Vahlsing, who already operated a potato-processing plant in Easton, Me., to build a sugar refinery there. Now Muskie, who opened doors in Washington for Vahlsing and helped him obtain financing, must absorb some of the blame for the mess...
...partial responsibility for the pollution of Prestile Stream, which runs past Vahlsing's plant across the Canadian border. When the backers of the refinery project requested that the stream be reclassified for industrial use, Muskie approved the downgrading as a temporary measure. As a result, Vahlsing's potato plant was allowed to continue to discharge more waste into the once-pure trout stream...
...Democrats. This will not be too easy. Until the sugar-beet business turned sour, Republicans were just as eager as Democrats to promote the operation, and it was the then Republican Governor, John Reed, who appealed to the legislature to reclassify the Prestile Stream. Even the state's potato farmers, whose votes the Republicans hope to win, must accept some blame for the failure of Vahlsing's venture. Exercising typical New England caution, they planted only a fraction of the allotted acreage with sugar beets, thus denying Vahlsing the raw material he needed. Muskie's personal integrity...