Hoff Upholds Medium Security Prison Plan
Governor Philip Hoff defended building a medium security Windsor prison despite criminology experts arguing youth camps and family style settings could better rehabilitate young offenders. He said testimony added no new information beyond already considered Department of Institutions plans.
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Philip H. Hoff
Windsor
Hoff
Department of Institutions
Richard Korn
University of California
Brick and
Morstar
Daylight Time Changes Spark Reminder and Vermont Politics
City readers are urged to set clocks forward one hour for daylight saving time with the familiar spring ahead note. Governor Hoff defends a Windsor prison probe, dismisses a 50 percent homosexual activity claim as baseless, and says officials will verify specifics. He remains doubtful about reapportionment before July 1 and predicts possible 90 to 120 member plan. opposes repealing the bond retirement fund.
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Hoff
Burlington
Inside Public Attitude Critiqued by Editorial
Editorial on civil defense voices public attitude concerns. Regional features highlight springtime scenes by Bob Hagerman on page five. UPI religion writer Louis Cassels analyzes not the emerging layman but the emerging nun on page eight.
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Bob Hagerman
UPI
Louis Cassels
North Viet Hit by Heaviest Blow Yet 235 Bombing Sorties
U S and Vietnamese forces conducted 235 bombing sorties against North Viet Nam, destroying seven bridges and a ferry. Thirty five Americans were killed in South Viet Nam and several U S military incidents occurred around Da Nang and Saigon as air power pressed against Viet Cong and North Vietnamese supply lines.
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Navy
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Federal Mediator Steps In But No Change in Steel Crisis
Federal mediator William E. Simkin met separately with United Steelworkers Union leaders and the basic steel industry in Pittsburgh to urge resumed negotiations amid a threatened May 1 strike. He called the talks exploratory with no immediate proposals, noting no improvement or deterioration in the crisis while signaling willingness to convene a joint session when appropriate. Industry sources viewed the union position as bluff, yet expected companies to negotiate.
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UPI
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Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service
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USW
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R. Conrad Cooper
U.S. Steel Corp
Pittsburgh
GOP Moderates Take Pokes At Snelling and MacBride
In Montpelier three Republican leaders critiqued conservative moves within the party. House Speaker Franklin S. Billings and Reps. Daulton Mann and Richard Mallory slammed Richard Snelling and Roger MacBride for their votes and stances, urging a more moderate path to win over independents in 1966. They criticized Snelling’s shifts on Goldwater and right to work and questioned MacBride’s fit, while calling for unity and a stronger moderate candidate to reclaim victories.
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Snelling
Mann
Mallary
MacBride
Goldwater
Vermont
Youth Arrested For Murder Of R I Teen-Ager
A 22 year old Little Compton man Stanley R. Gendreau was arrested Friday night on murder charges for the slaying of 18 year old Anne Brownell. Gendreau allegedly used a blank starter pistol to force a teen age babysitter from a state senator s home. State Police Superintendent Col Walter E Stone announced the arrest in connection with the Wednesday night murder of the Little Compton resident s daughter.
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Little Compton, R. I
UPI
Little Compton
Walter E. Stone
Stanley R. Gendreau
Anne Brownell
King Leads 15000 as Boston Rally Draws Crowd
Dr. Martin Luther King ignored death threats and led a march of about 15 000 people through a Negro slum to Boston Common for a rally drawing roughly 22 000. Police and marshals freed him from mobs who trapped his car for an hour delaying the start two hours. Mayor Collins waited at City Hall as the march began.
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UPI
Martin Luther King
Boston Common
King
FCC To Regulate Cable TV Units
Washington FCC announced it would assume jurisdiction over CATV systems and issued rules requiring them to carry all local programs and avoid duplicating network content. It proposed broader regulations on market entry and distant station carriage while stating no plans to control subscription rates or franchises.
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UPI
Federal Communications Comemission
FCC
Commission
Vermont to buy BCIC shell for highway headquarter depot
The Vermont Department of Highways will purchase an industrial shell building and eight acres from the Bennington County Industrial Corp for district No. 1 facilities east of Park Street, with completion expected by July 1 and bids to be invited for final construction. The sale is priced at 70,340 dollars and covers costs incurred by BCIC.
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Bennington County Industrial Corp
Russell A. Holden
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Mt. Anthony Union High School
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Ivor S. Pelsue
Peter Donavan Jr
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