Nixon Delays 4.1 Billion Family Aid Program
President Nixon agreed to a one year trial delay of the 4.1 billion family assistance program to win Senate Finance Committee support. He backed a Ribicoff amendment delaying start to January 1 1972 and said tests would run in rural urban and nonindustrial areas beginning January 1 1971 if approved.
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San Clemente
Calif
UPI
Nixon
White House
Senate Finance Committee
Abraham Ribicoff
D-Conn
United States
Senate
Washington
GOP
Hugh Scott
Penn
Sylvania
Utah
Wallace F. Bennett
Finance Committee
Daniel P. Moynihan
Health, Education and Welfare
Robert H. Finch
HEW
John Veneman
Congress
Moynihan
House
Veneman
Finch
Vermont
Arkansas
California
Sugar Ray Robinson
Los Angeles
Agnew promises aid to Cambodia without military involvement
Vice President Spiro Agnew said the United States would continue military aid to Cambodia but would not commit troops or address. He spoke in Phnom Penh after talks with Premier Lon Nol, and on a flight to Bangkok asserted the U.S. would not stand idle. He called the visit a message of friendship and noted improvements in Vietnam's political climate.
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Bangkok
UPI
Spiro T. Agnew
United States
Cambodia
Lon Nol
Phnom Penh
Nixon
Agnew
America
Thanom Kittikachorn
Honolulu
Thiland
Saigon
High Command
U.S
Vietnam
Car Crusher Sites Announced in Pownal
The selectmen named two junk car dumping sites for crushing in the South Pownal North Pownal area at the Henry Burdick property and in Pownal Center East Pownal at the Patterson gravel bed. After crushing the sites will be cleaned. Residents needing abandoned cars removed should call the board for permission. Crushing will be this fall by a Berlin New York operator via Vermont Highway Department with no cost to town or residents.
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Pownal
Board of Selectmen
Henry Burdick
Patterson
Pownal Center
A. Coleman Mason
Berlin
N.Y
Vermont Highway Department
Paper Proxy to Attend Governors Conference
International Paper Co. president will join Govs. Deane C. Davis of Vermont and Nelson Rockefeller of New York for talks at Bar Harbor and New York City. Davis seeks immediate removal of 300 acres of sludge from Lake Champlain linked to a Ticonderoga mill, with Vermont pushing for next week dredging and noting possible temporary beach pollution from stirring the water.
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Ticonderoga
N.Y
Rockefeller
New York
Vermont
Reed
Davis
Vermont Bidding Policy Defended by State Commissioner
Vermont Commissioner William French defended a policy that favors Vermont bidders over out-of-staters saying it will not cost taxpayers money. He notes the state can secure competitive bids while maintaining quality and service and would halt the policy if it proved costly. He explained many items have long been limited to state bidders as policy.
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Shaftsbury Barracks
Bennington
North Bennington
Mooney
Corcoran
Shaftsbury
Poljacik
Selectmen
Campbell
Fox
Edward Frasier
Richard Raymond
French
Raids Target Marijuana Farm In Salisbury Pollution
Pot haul arrests followed police raids in New Hampshire. Prosecutors scheduled arraignments in Franklin District Court. Gov Peterson and Attorney General Rudman hailed the operation as a strike at the drug source, noting possible felony charges under revised narcotics laws. Individuals named include George Hanson and Catherine Hanson of Salisbury and others charged with manufacturing, possession, or presence of controlled drugs.
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Franklin District Court
Warren Rudman
Rudman
Walter Peterson
Peterson
New Hampshire
Salisbury
George Hanson
Catherine E. Hanson
Dominic Lowenty
Hillsboro
Catherine M. Barnett
Joseph W. Bourke
Warner
Roberta Whiteman
Cambridge
N.Y
Thomas Acts On Sign Law Loophole
Montpelier Secretary of State Richard H. Thomas asked Attorney General James M. Jeffords to seek court injunctions against firms in southern Vermont circumventing the 1968 anti billboard law by mounting signs on trailers and motor vehicles. The Travel Information Council, chaired by Thomas, authorized the legal action to plug the loophole. At least three firms use the ruse to bypass the prohibition as tests begin in Windham and parts of Windsor counties pending court action.
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Montpelier
Richard H. Thomas
James M. Jeffords
Vermont
Travel Information Council
Thomas
Windham County
Windsor County
Rural School Study Aims to Leverage Local Leadership
A community focused program enlists experienced personnel and funding to strengthen rural education. It stresses that sustainable vitality must arise from local leadership, not external dictates, as the nation looks for an urban alternative in rural life.
Hoff Prouty At It Again In Vermont Senate Race
In Burlington UPI reports Hoff accuses Sen. Winston Prouty of indifference to Vermonters after Prouty declined free radio debate time. Hoff says Prouty avoids voters while Hoff pushes to present his positions. Prouty cites prior commitments for declining the radio slots.
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Burlington
Hoff
Prouty
Bennington Briefs August 31 Final Sewage Tax Due
Navy Seaman Peter J. Lanfair returns from a six month Western Pacific assignment aboard the destroyer USS McKean homeported in Long Beach California. Police report a car owned by Louis Stratton hit Ada Paresky’s car in A and P parking with minor damage and no injuries. Welfare applicants may obtain clothing forms from Mrs Vivian Caron at 238 Ben Mont Ave. Dewitt Lewis optometrist office closed Aug 28 to Aug 31. McDonalds Barber Shop to open new Shaftsbury location Sept 1 on Main Street seven houses south of former shop.
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Navy
Peter J. Lanfair
Beech St
Western Pacific
McKean
Long Beach
Calif
Far East
Village
Louis Stratton
Soulh Street
A&p
Ada Paresky
Elm Street
Vivian Caron
Ben- Mont Ave
McDonald’s
Shaftsbury
Clint
Main Street
35 Dogs Attend Fun Match Staged by Training Club
The Bennington Dog Training Club held a fun match at Mt. Anthony Union High School grounds with 35 dogs entered. Winners in Novice Y included Samson the German Shepherd with a perfect 155, Coco the poodle owned by Margery Beatti in second, Buffy the collie in third, and Bootie the springer spaniel in fourth.
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Bennington Dog Training Club
Mt. Anthony Union High School
Ben Griffin
James Harwood
Samson
Coco
Margery Beatti
Buffy
Curk
Leslie Huffman
Bootie
Curry
Barb Tinker
Kath Harney
Jennie
Eve Worthington
Louie
Pepper
Linda Rondeau
B. Harrison
Sheltie
Collie Ginger
James McMann
Misty
Chris Pendrick
Mary Ives
Phyllis Lindsey
Lucille DuBois
Jim Vince
Danny
Kelley
Gloria Jean Stoddard
Missy
Shelly
Gloria- Jean Stoddard
Frank Ives
John
Avis Hurley
Joseph Higgins
John Stratton
Marion Vince
Nancy Higgins
Tony Zazzaro
Don Estes
Carlton Welch
Loretta Welch
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Walter J. Hickel
Arctic
Finland
Norway
Sweden
Elliott Candice Gould
Bergen
Columbia
John F. Barton
First National Stores
North Bennington Road
Bennington, Vermont
Finast
Dorset
Dorset, VI
James Goldman
Governors’ Conference
IPC
Rfk's
Kathleen Kennedy
Robert F. Kennedy
Seventeen Magazine
Radcliffe College
Putney School
Bennington Briefs
Dewitt Lewis
Optometrist
Main ST
Swifts
Chuck
Walker
Maron Films Limited
Richard Burton
Genevieve Bujolde
Hal Wallis Oe
Anne of the Thousand Days
Robert Redfo
Katharine Ros
Robert Blake
Susan Clark
Willie Boy
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