Vermont approves 3 percent sales tax in final vote
After fifteen weeks of dispute, Vermont lawmakers approved a 3 per cent limited sales tax with exemptions for food drugs medical and farm supplies. Gov. Deane C. Davis aims to sign this liberal measure to fund a hold the line budget, making Vermont the 46th state with a sales levy. The bill faced party infighting and a pushed adjournment, but passed 128 to 28 in the House after Senate approval.
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Montpelier
UPI
Vermont
Deane C. Davis
Conference Committee
Senate
House
Davis
Alaska
Delaware
Montana
New Hampshire
New England
Massachusetts
Rhode Island
Maine
Connecticut
Human Ecologist Calls for Closer Ties to Nature
Dr. Paul Shepard, leading figure in human ecology, urged the Bennington Garden Club to view the environmental crisis as a clash between industry driven population growth and landscape degradation. He outlined a worldwide survey of primitive peoples and noted plans supported by a Guggenheim Fellowship.
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Bennington Garden Club
Paul Shepard
New York Times Book Review
Shepard
Clark Science Center
Smith College
Center For Environmental Studies
Williamstown
Mass
St. Peter’s Episcopal Church
Firekills Four Children in Saratoga County Home
A fire in BCS or Schuylerville, New York, swept a home killing James Skellie 6 Andrea 8 Michael 9 and Joanne 10. A fifth child Benjamin 4 was away visiting. Mother Marion Skellie 33 was burned and hospitalized. Police noted the blaze origin undetermined. The article then shifts to a speaker condemning the overuse of utility in nature and promoting human ecology and environmental respect.
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Schuylerville
N.Y
UPD
Saratoga County
James Skellie
Andrea
Michael
Joanne
Benamin
Fort Edward
Pownal Voters to Decide Sunday Racing Referendum
Vermont towns debate racing terms as Pownal residents gain a May 14 referendum on Sunday racing at Green Mountain Park. A May 2 to 31 meet is set with no Sundays until after the vote, under a new bill approved in the 1969 legislature and signed by Gov. Davis.
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Montpelier
Pownal
Green Mountain Park
Vermont
Deane C. Davis
Bennington County
Marshall Witten
Carter
House
George van Santvoord
Bennington
Charlotte Jones
Rutland
Walter L. Kennedy
Chelsea
Senate
T. Garry Buckley
Richard W. Mallary
Orange County
Donald S. Arnold
Windsor County
Buckley
Nixon Seeks Expanded War on Organized Crime
President Nixon asked Congress for 25 million more to curb organized crime and proposed 20 new federal racketeering field offices plus a federal state racket squad in New York City. He urged swift passage of witness immunity and wagering tax reforms, and signaled antitrust tools may target organized crime networks.
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Washington
UPI
Nixon
Congress
Lyndon B. Johnson
John N. Mitchell
New York City
Cosa Nostra
Buffalo
N.Y
Boston
Brooklyn
Chicago
Detroit
Miami
Newark
Philadelphia
Roman L. Hruska
R-Neb
Richard H. Poff
R-Va
Internal Revenue Service
Supreme Court
Hruska-Poff
Justice Department
United States
Atty
Taconic Parkway Extension Reaches U S 20
The Taconic State Parkway will extend north to U S 20 near the county line after the Assembly unanimously approved the bill. Senator Douglas Hudson sponsored the measure, sent to Gov Rockefeller for signature, ending years of local efforts to push the road beyond its current terminus.
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Albany
N.Y
Rensselaer County
Buskirk
Douglas Hudson
Rockefeller
Columbia
Mt Anthony budget outlook shows 9.5 percent rise
The Mt Anthony Union High School board reviews an initial 1969-70 budget totaling about 1,994,240 after a 97,048.50 reimbursement offset. Expenditures include 2,074,538.66 plus 21,750 to start funding 12 mobile classrooms, with seven new staff hires and higher salaries cited as main drivers. The plan adds itemized accounting and notes transportation holds, pending board approval at the May 12 meeting.
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Mt. Anthony Union High School
Anthony
George A. Sleeman
Sleeman
James F. Farmer
Sleemen
Mt. Anthony
Charles W. Keir
Bennington
Inside the Inside Sea and student radicals debate Harvard and Cornell
Madeline Harwood recounts the Senate's final hectic week. James Reston ponders student radicals would do if in charge at Harvard and Cornell. An explanation details how rising property taxes strain farmers.
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Sea
Madeline Harwood
Senate
James Reston
Harvard
Cornell
Waits Soviet Action U S Delays Signing Nuclear Arms Treaty
The Nixon administration delays final assent to the nuclear nonproliferation treaty while seeking simultaneous Soviet approval. Senate consent was given March 13 by 83 to 15. Soviet delays cited as bureaucratic red tape. West Germany has not signed, delaying broader ratification.
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Washington
U.S
Nixon
London
Moscow
Senate
United States
Soviet Union
Great Britain
Presidium of the
Supreme Soviet
Kremlin
West Germany
Bennington College Increases Tuition To 4325 A Year
The Bennington College Board approves a 475 rise in tuition to 4325 effective September. Freshmen pay the maximum, seniors see only a 200 increase, and aid remains available to all in need. Trustees agree to annual fee reviews amid rising costs and past deficits.
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Bennington College Board of Trustees
Bennington
Edward J. Bloustein
Nually
Bennington College
Bloustein
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Taconic Parkway
U.S. 20
Buenos Aires
Argentina
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Phillip R. Viereck
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Bonn
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