Well-Trained Dogs Entertain Brownies and Cub Scouts
The Bennington Dog Training Club led by Mrs. Gordon Gerrish staged a dog show for Brownie Troop 119 and Cub Scouts Den 5 Pack 345 on a church lawn. Dogs from Mrs. Gerrish and Mrs. Bea Griffin performed obedience feats, including jumps through hoops and scent following, drawing several onlookers as fireworks in Huichapan Mexico killed 11 and wounded 38 on a separate note.
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Gene Tinker
Wendy
Gena
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Joseph Higgins
Kimberley
Baptist Church
State Auditor King Announces Run for Re Election
Robert T. King of Jericho announces candidacy for the 1970 Republican primary for Vermont state auditor. already served as auditor since 1969 after a 1968 victory. career spans staff auditor to deputy and then auditor. active in local government and numerous professional associations. veteran with AB from William and Mary and WW II service in the China Burma India theater.
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Montpelier
Robert T. King
Jericho
Auditor of Accounts
King
Auditor of Accounts Office
Underhill
Burlington Business College
College of William and Mary
Virginia
Congregational Church
American Legion
MacDonough Lodge 26
F and AM
Underhill Jericho
Inter-Faith Dessert Meeting Plans Annual event at First Baptist Church
Tickets remain for the 11th annual Inter-Faith Dessert Meeting by the Bennington Council of Church Women United at 7 p.m. in Colgate Hall. Mrs. William Gillette chairs tickets with help from local church women. Rock Rogers of Arlington will deliver dramatic readings and Donald Sutton of Buskirk will sing tenor solos and duet in Romberg and Gaul numbers. Mrs. Herman Schaffer is general chair with decorations led by Miss Kathy Mc Waters. Dining by Mrs. Leonard Black and waitresses led by Mrs. Bernard Whitman. Invocation by Mrs. Viola Goodyear and benediction by Mrs. Harold Kramer.
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Bennington Council of Church Women United
Colgate Hall
First Baptist Church
William Gillette
Rock Rogers
Arlington
Donald Sutton
Buskirk
N.Y
William
Flood
Sigmund Romberg
List
Viola Goodyear
Harold Kramer
Welfare protest plan may shift Vermont duties
Vermont faces a potential protest over the Nixon administration family assistance plan risking more than 5 million dollars annually and reshaping the Social Welfare Department. HEW and state officials say a private non profit agency would take over major duties while current staff might transfer.
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Vermont
Nixon
Jodie Allen
HEW
Allen
George D. Aiken
R-Vt
Washington
Social Welfare Department
ANFC
Joseph Betit
Betit
Alaskan Health and Welfare
Castleton Teachers Rehired After Tuition Hike
Castleton State College will rehire four of seven instructors cut earlier this year after a $75 annual tuition increase at Vermont State Colleges boosted revenue. Students protested the firings, alleging political bias, but a Senate inquiry failed to advance. Castleton President H. Franklin Irving announced the reversal for the next academic year.
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Castleton
UPI
Vermont
Castleton State College
Senate Education Committee
H. Frank
Lin Irving
Irving
Rebate Deadline Extended For Some Elderly Citizens
Vermont Tax Commissioner Lawrence Wright extends to June 15 the deadline for seniors over 65 not required to file income tax returns to apply for property tax or rent rebates. April 15 remains the filing deadline for those 65 plus who must file, including rebate requests with their tax return.
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Montpelier
Lawrence Wright
Vermont
Wright
Tax Commissioner
Kennedy cuts hand in office. stitches given
Senator Edward M. Kennedy of Massachusetts cut his hand on a glass case in his Washington office on Monday. Capitol physicians treated the wound with three stitches.
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Washington
UPI
Edward M. Kennedy
D-Mass
Capitol
Vermont High Court to Hear Blue Laws Case
Vermont Supreme Court will hear a case from Rutland involving Ames Discount Department Store charged with selling nonessential items on Sundays. The case, arising from 21 Sabbath breaking counts, follows a police raid and transfer of the matter from Rutland District Judge Edward McClallen amid procedural tensions.
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UPI
Vermont
State Supreme Court
Edward McClallen
High Court
Ames Discount Department
McClallen
Supreme Court
Chester Ketcham
Middlebury
Rutland County
Robert Tepper
Ames
John Trickey
Monday
Cabot deaths case final findings due from grand jury
Washington County Grand Jury findings on the Cabot deaths of Everett Morse Sr 43 Joyce Martin 22 and her 18 month old son Anthony were delivered in a sealed envelope to Superior Judge Rudolph Daley after three days of closed door deliberations. Everett Morse Jr 23 James 18 and Julie Morse 18 face first degree murder charges in the case.
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Morse
Everett Jr
James
Everett
Julie
Two escapees recaptured near Hartland after Windsor break
Kenneth Robinson aged 20 of Barre and Anthony Humphrey aged 24 of Milton escaped from Windsor prison farm early Monday. State police tracked them down Monday night near Hartland after an intensive search and roadblocks in the Windsor area.
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Windsor
UPI
Kenneth Robinson
Barre
Anthony Humphrey
Milton
Hartland
Burlington firm denies Lake Champlain pollution charge
Northern Oil Co. of Burlington again pleads innocent in U S District Court to a charge it allowed oil to leak into Lake Champlain off Burlington March 1 Judge Bernard Leddy set bail at 500 and continued the case.
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Burlington
UPI
Northern Oil Co
Lake Champlain
U.S. District Court
U.S
Bernard Leddy
Bethlehem Central High School principal fired amid protest march
In Bethlehem New York a mass demonstration by Bethlehem Central High School students and parents is planned for 3 PM after students agreed to postpone a noon strike. The march protests the firing of principal Paul Runge, who reportedly had backing for his policies and is slated to leave June 30 for personal reasons undisclosed by the school district.
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Bethlehem
Bethlehem Central High School
Paul Runge
Runge
Parochial aid plan eyed at 28 million bucks for NY schools
New York Republicans back a 28 million dollar plan to aid parochial schools for the next year with about 50 dollars per high school pupil and 30 dollars per elementary pupil. The budget may be trimmed to 16 million in the supplemental, as the fiscal and school years overlap.
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Albany
New York State
Berkshire Rock Festival At Glendale Falls Short
Stockbridge crowds were thin for Saturdays rock music festival at the Glendale Restaurant. About 200 people attended the event, sponsored by Winn's friends to aid proprietor John E. Winn who had recently been released after serving time for manslaughter in a patron's death last fall.
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Stockbridge
Glendale
John E. Winn
Friends of Winn’s
Winn
Bomb hoax shuts Berkshire Common Development site
A bomb hoax telephoned to the Berkshire Common Development in Pittsfield led to the evacuation of over 100 workers. Fire and police searched the nearly finished building but found no explosive device. Vladyslaw Kraszeski, a former Great Barrington resident now with Union Carbide Linde Air Division in Titusville, Fla., is connected to Cape Kennedy space fuel supplies.
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Pittsfield
Berkshire Common
Great Barrington
Vladyslaw Kraszeski
Titusville
Fla
Cape Kennedy
Union Carbide Linde Air Division
Icebound Pontoosuc Lake Hinders Opening Fishing Season
Pittsfield reports reveal bays and inlets at Pontoosuc Lake are opening but thin ice remains on cold nights. The chance of ice clearing before the fishing season begins Saturday seems remote. Ice last left the lake on April 16 last year.
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Pittsfield
Pontoosuc Lake
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