Pecos Kid memories live on through whittling and verse
New Hampshire born veteran Paul Babb, 70, lives at the Vermont Soldiers Home where he carves five inch horse figures from soft pine and writes poems about the old West and his rodeo days. He started as a cowboy near Pecos on the Triple B Ranch and later fought in Italy with Torger Tokle. He continues his hobby daily using a Case pocketknife and home tools to craft detailed, historical freight train models and new horses for the display.
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New Hampshire
Paul Babb
Texas
White River Junction
Babb
Soldiers
Pecos
Chicago
Deerfield
N.H
Midwest
Frank Dallas
Vermont
Reagan Nixon summit on welfare reform
Nixon and Reagan held a two hour summit at the Western White House to discuss welfare reform. They reported progress with HEW waivers and said California may avoid a $700 million funding cut by federal standards.
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San Clemente
Calif
UPI
Nixon
Ronald Reagan
California
White House
Health, Education and Welfare Department
HEW
Elliot L. Richardson
Reagan
Washington
Sacramento
Bartender Robbed After Bank Run With Eggplant Incident
Cincinnati bartender Harry Deister, 65, was robbed in a parking lot after leaving a bank with $6,000. A gunman demanded money and took a paper bag containing an eggplant he had bought for 15 cents. The event occurred Friday and Deister complied by surrendering the bag.
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Cincinnati
UPI
Harry Deister
Deister
Weekend Outlook With Clouds and Light Snow Flurries
A cloudy brisk day brings variable cloudiness and windy conditions with a chance of snow flurries in higher areas. Temperatures top in the mid 40s, then clear and cool in the 20s tonight. Sunday looks mostly sunny with a high in the low 40s.
Vermont governor denies plan to raise sales tax with food
The Davis administration dismisses claims of a 4 percent sales tax with food added. Press secretary Peter Martin says the governor emphatically denies the prediction by Rep. Robert Edmond that the levy, up to 4 percent with food, would begin in 1972. Davis had at times proposed a 4 percent rate but has doubts about new taxes next year.
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Martin
Davis
My Lai colonel to plead innocent at trial
Col Oran K Henderson commander of the 11th Infantry Brigade, faces charges over a My Lai coverup. His civilian lawyer says Henderson will plead innocent to dereliction of duty and false statements. The case could bring up to four years in prison and dismissal from the Army.
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Ft, Meade, Md
UPI
Oran K. Henderson
My Lai
Henry A. Rothblatt
New York
Col. Henderson
Henderson
Pentagon
Army
Rothblatt
Judge rules Congress members barred from military reserve commissions
A federal judge ruled that the Constitution forbids members of Congress from holding reserve commissions in the army navy air force or marine corps The decision names prominent figures on armed services and veterans affairs panels and notes reservists make up large shares of key committees The antiwar group Reservists Committee to Stop the War seeks an injunction forcing surrender of commissions but the judge declined While the suit proceeds the ruling says voluntary accommodation by Congress and the executive is possible
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Washington
UPI
Congress
Armed Services
Veterans Affairs
U.S. District Court
Gerhard Gesell
House
Army
Navy
Air Force
Marine Corps
Poe
Carl B. Albert
D-Okla
Hale Boggs
Edmund S. Muskie
D-Maine
Barry M. Goldwater
R-Ariz
Strom Thurmond
R-S.c
Harry F. Byrd
D-Va
John G. Tower
Rtex
Daniel K. Inouye
Hawaii
Armed Services Committee
Olin E. Teague
D-Tex
Veterans Affairs Committee
United States
Adam Hochschild
Berkeley
Calif
Gesell
Senate asks Nixon to clemency for Calley in Vermont
Vermont Senate adopted a resolution urging President Nixon to consider clemency for Lt. William J. Calley amid debate on military court safeguards. A House panel reviewed a similar measure as the Senate moved to send the issue to the House floor for debate next week.
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Vermont
Senate
Nixon
Fayette
Calley
Manchester woman recreates Rockwell gossip pose in Arlington
Mrs. Cordelia Comar of Manchester reenacts a 23 year old role as the second to know from Norman Rockwell’s The Gossips cover. The article notes a photo feature on other Normal Rockwell People from the area on Page 5 today.
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Cordelia Comar
Manchester
Norman Rockwell
Arlington
Saturday Evening Post
Rockwell
House acts on deer herd and defoliants ban
Montpelier report says the Vermont House passed a bill to keep Fish and Game Board control over the deer herd and to bar utilities from spraying rights of way with herbicides until growth reaches four feet. The 97-49 vote included Rep. DeBonis amendment to protect forage for the herd amid winter feed concerns.
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Jim Hale
John D. Ehrlichman
Caspar Weinberger
My. Lai
Col
Peter S. Wondolowski
House Armed Services Committee
Robert T. Stafford
Naval Reserve
Stafford
Defense
Melvin R. Laird
The
Reservists Committee To Stop
Hochschild
U.S. Court of Appeals
Sen
John Alden
R-Windsor
General Committee
Laws of Victory
Appropriations Committee
John Burgess
George Hayes
Franklin County
Social Welfare Department
Russell Niquette
Chittenden-Grand Isle
Fred Westphal
Burgess
Hayes
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