Bay State Court Upholds Pupil Prayers in School
A Massachusetts Superior Court judge ruled that daily five minute pupil led prayers before classes are lawful if teachers do not participate. The decision, disclosed in Boston, supports Leyden School Committee actions against the state education department.
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Bay
Boston
UPS
Superior Court
Paul V. Rutledge
Robert H. Quinn
Quinn
State Board of Education
Leyden School Committee
Neil V. Sullivan
Leyden
Rutledge
Ralph Sullivan
United States Supreme Court
Senior Citizens Center Events and Tax Help Report
Senior citizens center notes a well attended covered dish supper chaired by Ruth Jackson with helpers. Activities include rug hooking, puppet making, painting, and bowling at Bennington Lanes. Tax assistance for seniors 65 plus offered April 6 7 8 and 10. teachers participation discussed amid Leyden School Committee stance. In a separate case Judge Rutledge holds a prayer session context not violating First Amendment precedent.
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Ruth Jackson
Mabel Cook
Ethel Vance
Helen Davis
Anna Mattison
Laura Phillips
George Pendlebury
Hazel Sweet
Bennington Lanes
Civil Defense Watches Four Vermont Flood Spots
Civil Defense officials monitored four hot spots for flash floods after an early spring snowstorm coated Vermont with up to six inches. Richard Holmes, state director, cited the Mad River Valley Waitsfield area White River Junction a Bellows Falls trailer park and East Haven housing development in Essex County as risks.
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Montpelier
UPI
Richard Holmes
Civil Defense
Mad River Valley
Waitsfield
White River Junction
Bellows Falls
East Haven
Essex County
Land firm files an answer in Dutch Hill Inn suit
Harry Patten and the American Land Development Co. of West Dover answered a Readsboro suit filed March 4 by Dutch Hill Inn Inc. of Readsboro. Patten denied any agreement with Dutch Hill Inn and said negotiations were with stockholder James Voris. He claimed Dutch Hill misrepresented its finances and that he held the lodge books after advances to the plaintiff and an audit proved Voris’ representations false.
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Land Firm
Dutch Hill Inn
Harry Patten
American Land Development Co
West Dover
Bennington County
Dutch Hill Inn Inc
Readsboro
Patten
Heartwellville Lodge
Dutch Hill
State Liquor Control Board
Bennington
Stephen H. Gilman
James Voris
Voris
Inquest Notes on Kopechne Death Missing or Impounded
Officials say court stenographers notes containing Senator Edward M Kennedy and witness testimony from the Mary Jo Kopechne inquest may be missing or improperly impounded. The 764 page transcript and Boyle report are held in Suffolk Superior Court, with the stenographers’ notes possibly not in official custody. If notes are unavailable, the transcript could be only secondary evidence in future proceedings.
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Boston
UPI
Edward M.kennedy
Mary Jo Kopechne
Suffolk Superior Court
James James A. Boyle
Edgartown
Massachusetts Supreme Court
Miss Kopechne
Superior Court
Edward V. Keating
Boyle
Thomas E. Teller
Edgartown District Court
John J. Irwin
Massachusetts Attorney General For Criminal Affairs
Irwin
School Lunch Menu Headers at Mt Anthony Bennington
Weekly meals list for Mt Anthony and Bennington elementary schools across five days. Menus include varied hot entrees, sandwiches, sides, fruit, and daily milk. Meals feature specific items like sloppy joes, roast beef, tuna salad, spaghetti, baked luncheon meat, and chicken dishes with desserts and beverages.
Winooski VFW Denies Hall Use for Hoff Senate bid
The Winooski post of the Veterans of Foreign Wars voted to bar former Gov. Philip Hoff from announcing his U S Senate candidacy in its hall. Post Commander Joseph Grant cited the hall should not host political events. Hoff planned an April 14 radio‑broadcasted announcement seeking the Democratic nomination against incumbent Republican Sen. Winston Prouty.
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Winooski
UPI
Winooski Post
The
Veterans of Foreign Wars
Philip Hoff
U.S. Senate
Joseph Grant
Burlington
Vermont
Hoff
Winston Prouty
Vietnam
Aiken Backs Nixon VA Budget Boost For Veterans Care
Senator George D. Aiken urged support for President Nixon’s request to increase the Veterans Administration medical care budget for fiscal 1971 by 50 million dollars. The White House also seeks a 15 million dollar supplemental VA appropriation for the year ending June 30, bringing medical care to 1.7 billion.
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Washington, D.C
George D. Aiken
Nixon
Congress
Veterans Administration
Vermont
Republican
Sen. Aiken
Drive in site fight ends as council blocks purchase
New York City council votes unanimously to cancel condemnation for a Congress and Third streets drive in project after a $136,000 buildings buyout was defeated again. Checkerboard Properties plans a $100,000 Jumping Jack drive in restaurant on the corner. In Rensselaer County, Ruth Hugabone is found not guilty by reason of insanity in the 1967 murder of Asa Delamater, remanded to jail with a future status hearing planned. An Albany fact finding panel urges Council 82 to accept the $1,275 two year wage deal for state security workers, matching the CSEA agreement.
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Troy
Congress and
Third Streets
Congress Street
Ralph A. DeSantis
Rensselaer
Ruth Hugabone
Asa Delamater
Timothy J. Fogarty
Rensselaer County
Albany
Council 82
Afl-Cio
Civil Service Employes Association
Theodore C. Wenzl
CSEA
Wrecker fire linked to harassment at Berkshire station
Police and state fire marshal investigate a midnight blaze that destroyed the cab and engine of a wrecker at Jim Dean's service station on Curran Highway. It’s the third such incident amid a harassment campaign linked to Dean providing rental trucks for Sprague Electric Co influenced by a strike involving three unions.
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North Adams
Jim Dean
Curran Highway
Dean
Sprague Electric Co
Oven fires bake bread at Borgo's Bakery
A Pittsfield bakery suffered an overbaked event when 30 loaves burned in an oven while a baker was briefly away. Firemen reported no damage beyond the bread, and no injuries were mentioned.
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Pittsfield
Borgo’s
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