New Plan Unveiled For Postal Reform
President Nixon proposes converting the Post Office into an independent establishment within the executive branch, granting postal workers collective bargaining rights, arbitration, and an 8 percent wage rise while boosting postage rates. Vermont and national officials weigh reorganizing state departments amid costs and local education policy concerns.
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Last May
Astronauts Safe Landing After Apollo 13 Emergency
Apollo 13 crew James Lovell John Swigert and Fred Haise landed safely in the South Pacific after a four day crisis. They jettisoned the damaged service module and used the lunar module Aquarius as a lifeboat to return from a quarter of a million miles from the Moon aboard Odyssey.
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Four Die in Fire At Hippie Commune
A two story wood and tarpaper shack in a secluded hippie commune burned Thursday night killing three youths and a girl. Three others were injured including Mark Vogel 17 in serious condition with burns and two 19 year old girls Sheryl Miller and Judith Sloan in satisfactory condition. Identified deceased were Joshua Christian Peter Peterson Mitch McKendrey and a girl named Regina last name unknown. Peterson and McKendrey believed from upstate New York.
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Upstate New York
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Mark Vogel
Sheryl Miller
Judith Sloan
Vermont towns ordered to stop open burning at dumps
The Vermont health board moved to enjoin Waterbury and Hartford from open burning at their municipal dumps effective May 1. Hearings revealed Waterbury blamed an accidental blaze started March 30 by bulldozer exhaust. Hartford cited frozen ground. The Guilford hippie colony fire killed four youths in a tarpaper lodge. candles likely sparked the blaze.
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UPI
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Vermont
Thomas Dunleavy
Barre
Waterbury
Hartford
Howard Ripley
Ripley
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Guilford
State Pathologist’s
Burlington
Legal Aid Challenges New Welfare Standards In Vermont
In Montpelier Vermont Legal Aid staff attorney John Michaels warned the Social Welfare Department that its proposed welfare standard updates could be challenged in court if implemented. He and advocates argued the plan is inequitable and would reduce benefits, calling for equitable funding during any shortfall. The hearing left unresolved funding, with the new commissioner noting no change in appropriation.
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Morrisville
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Joseph Betit
Officials Edge Toward Off-Track Betting Bill
Albany officials reach agreement on a revenue measure allowing municipalities to legalize off track betting. Gov Rockefeller and GOP leaders back the plan to help close a 630 million dollar city budget gap with an estimated 50 million yearly for New York City. The bill would extend to other municipalities if localities approve. The system would use telephone links between tracks and betting parlors.
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UPI
Nelson A. Rockefeller
New York City
John V. Lindsay
Nevada
North Bennington Voters Reject Remodeling Plans
North Bennington voters in the school district rejected a $45 000 Phase II remodeling proposal by a 19 to 17 vote. The plan aimed to relocate toilets, convert space into a principal’s office and teachers room, and address state fire marshal concerns with ventilation. Critics questioned cost and necessity for separate facilities. district officials cited state requirements and safety needs.
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North Bennington
Richard B. Diamond
Diamond
Sanford Buxbaum
Keith King
Montpelier
Catherine Corcoran
Robert K. Lerner
Inside Page Notes on DDT Limits and Housing Code Act
A letter to the editor questions how long until DDT is banned. Columnist Sam Ogden criticizes Housing Code Act implications. A Red Cross spokesman explains Bloodmobile operations. The edition also covers Green Up plans from Manchester.
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