Constitutionality upheld of district court system
The Vermont Supreme Court unanimously upheld the four year old statewide district court system saying the legislature acted within constitutional bounds when creating six lower courts in 1967. The court also denied Woodmansee’s bid for release and upheld a Rutland County ruling limiting access to a five mile stretch of Route 7.
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Burlington
Woodmansee
Vermont Highway Board
Rutland
Wallingford
Clarendon
Communism in U S gains pace says party official
London Financial Times UPIs Vivian C Williams reports a senior Communist Party of America official calling the party "in good shape and growing fast." New members exceed 1,000 yearly though total membership remains about 14,000 amid postwar decline from 80,000. He notes dissenters focus on unrelated issues and cites civil rights, antiwar sentiment, and youth movements as not centered on defeating capitalism.
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Communist Party of America
America
New York
Arnold Johnson
Johnson
New Mobilization Committee
Vietnam
House Internal Security Committee
HISC
Washington
Un-American Activities Committee
Water Board probes Clyde River oil spill
In Montpelier UPI report state Water Resources officials summoned executives of Citizens Utility Co of Newport to discuss a 500 gallon spill from a faulty storage tank. The oil traveled into the Clyde River after leaking from a storage pit. Authorities consider prosecution and note prior requests for preventative action were ignored. Local cases also involve Central Vermont Public Service Corp’s Otter Creek pollution and Green Mountain Power Corp’s Winooski River spill with charges likely.
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Citizens Utility
Clough
Attorney General’s Office
Central Vermont Public Service Corp
Proctor
Otter Creek
Brandon
Chittenden County
Patrick J. Leahy
Green Mountain Power Corp
Winooski
Essex Junction
Vermont Senate Moves to Regulate All Terrain Vehicles
The Vermont Senate, citing ecological concerns, prepared to curb ATV use with a bill approved 26 to 3. It tightens trespass penalties on private land, lets the environmental secretary designate public lands off limits, and imposes a 500 dollar fine for damages to undeveloped land. Some oppose including snowmobiles.
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Montpelier
UPI
Vermont Senate
Senate
Bennington Church Council Sets Good Friday Service
The Bennington Council of Churches sponsors a noon to 3 p.m. Good Friday service at St. Peter's Episcopal Church in Stafford England. Nine local clergy will present readings and hymns from a text by Rev John Elphinstone Fyffe with prologues and epilogues by named ministers and Ogden Knapp on organ.
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Bennington Council of Churches
St. Peter’s Episcopal Church
John Elphinstone Fyffe
Edward B. Geyer Jr
Arvel M. Steece
A. J. MacDonald
Edward T. Patrick
Melvin McGaughey
Floyd LaBombard
Eben Chapman
Max Webster
Thomas Steffen
Ogden Knapp
Vermont House Seeks Clemency On Calley Resolution
The Vermont House sent a Senate approved measure to a general committee urging President Nixon to consider clemency for Lt. William Calley who received a life sentence for My Lai premeditated murder. A prior similar resolution had been referred for study.
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Kenalene Collins
Readsboro
Committee
Contractors seek 14 million more for New York Mall project
Forest Electric Construction Corp and Fehlhaber Corp filed a claim for an extra 14 million in New York City for electrical work on the South Mall platform, citing delays from site congestion as the main cause. In Rome, two Marine Midland Bank tellers were charged with embezzlement, accused of a 35,000 shortage over four years ending in April.
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Albany
South Mall
Forest Electric Construction Corp
New York City
Fehlhaber Corp
New Rochelle
Office of General Services
Rome
Marine Midland Bank- Central
FBI
Adelaide M. Gooddard
Daniel E. Seaton
Adams land sale sparks planned 200‑home project in Pittsfield
Negotiations toward buying the entire Oparowski farm and piggery near East Road continue between farm counsel and a Pittsfield housing builder led by Jack Eisenbach of Churchill Community Village which would place up to 200 low income homes on nearly 200 acres of the Adams industrial zone. The developer calls the move a business investment.
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ADAMS
Oparowski
East
Pittsfield
Jack Eisenbach
Churchill
Onota Lake
Shire
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