Snowmobilers Told to Police Their Own Habits
Vermont officials landowners and snowmobile club officers urged self regulation at a Vermont conference on snow mobiling stressing self policing or state control. Officials warned of tighter trespass laws and more enforcement while critics warned of noise pollution and environmental damage including winterkill risks on agricultural land. The discussion highlighted potential legislation and strengthened club membership as means to shield wild areas and farms from snowmobile impact.
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Burlington
Vermont
University of Vermont
Vermont Association of Snow Travelers
VAST
Vermont House
Department of Public Safety
Richard Brett
Woodstock
Brett
Winston A. Way
Way
Ward's Extends Credit to Welfare Recipients
Washington AP United Press International reports the National Welfare Rights Organization and Montgomery Ward announced a pilot program to offer up to 100 credit to about 3000 welfare recipients and other NWRO members next year. Ward's president Edward S. Donnell cited making services available to financially responsible consumers. NWRO executive director George Wiley praised the ward management for addressing urban issues.
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Ward
Edward S. Donnell
Ward's
George Wiley
NWRC
Montgomery Ward
Inside Alcohol Rehabilitation Counselor Shares Experience
Column cites a counselor recounting personal experience from treatment work. Travel Information Council overturns its logo decision. Gerald Raftery discusses pollution pace versus mitigation efforts. Mount Snow opens its new airport.
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Travel Information Council
Gerald Raftery
Mount Snow
State Education Aid Boost Skews Local Districts in Vermont
Most southern Bennington County towns gain from the Miller formula, with Bennington District receiving 732,059 dollars up from 540,342 last year and North Bennington at 117,057. Burlington faces a 371,000 shortfall and St. Albans 60,000 less than expected, prompting protests. Officials await an Attorney General opinion before mailing checks in full. Woodford alone shows a decrease, 5,861 versus 7,972 in 1968.
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Bennington County
State Department of Education
Montpelier
Vermont
Burlington
St. Albans
Brian Burns
D-17
Education Department
Atty
James M. Jeffords
Tier
Bennington
North Bennington
Shaftsbury
Arlington
Pownal
Woodford
Laird Signals Larger Vietnam Troop Cuts Soon
Paris UPI Melvin Laird hinted after talks with peace negotiators that Nixon would announce a further troop reduction of 40 000 or more in Vietnam before year’s end. He cautioned no such announcement was expected at Nixon’s news conference tonight and said Vietnamization remains the fastest path to disengagement and South Vietnamese self rule.
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Paris
UPI
U.S
Melvin R. Laird
Nixon
Vietnam
Laird
Secretary of
William P. Rogers
America
United States
Hewsmen
Bonn Moscow Talks Open On Nonaggression Pact
The Soviet Union and West Germany started talks on a nonaggression pact in Moscow signaling a thaw in the East West standoff. West German diplomat Helmut Allardt met with Andrei Gromyko as Bonn pressed to improve relations with Soviet bloc nations.
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Moscow
UPI
Soviet Union
West Germany
Konrad Adenauer
Kremlin
Helmut Allardt
Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Andrei A. Gromyko
Europe
Bonn
East Europe
East Germany
U.S
William P. Rogers
Willy Brandt
Nixon
Semyon K. Tsarapkin
Americans freed from 10 months in Chinese custody
Two Americans Simeon Baldwin 57 and Bessie Hope Donald 47 released after 10 months in Communist China say Peking mobilizes for war with the United States and Soviet Union. They were held after a Hong Kong Macao pleasure cruise, detained Feb 16 and released Sunday by being towed to Hong Kong on Baldwin's yacht.
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Hong Kong
UPI
Peking
Soviet Union
United States
Simeon Baldwin
Laguna Beach
Calif
Bessie Hope Donald
Bristol
Baldwin
Donald
Macao
Here
Mrs. Donald
Canton University
China
Heung Chau
Happy People’s Commune
Canton
Red Star People’s Commune
Mfrs
Dec Moratorium Experts Warn On Vietnam War
A panel with a former State Department member and two UVM representatives offered a chilling assessment of U.S. involvement in Vietnam. They argued Americans misread history, that the war amounts to a civil conflict, and that the cost has sparked an economic and moral crisis at home.
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U.S. State Department
University of Vermont
Bennington Community Moratorium Committee
Leonard A. Wilson
UVM
Robert V. Daniels
Eugene Bruns
U.S. Foreign Service
Office of Southeast Asian Affairs
Ium
St. Peter’s Episcopal Church
U.S
Vietnam
Joseph E. Joseph
Bennington Brush Co
Daniels
Scribner
R. Arnold Ricks
Bennington College
Bennington
State Department
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William Proxmire
D-Wis
Betty Bay
Robert Mead
Committee of Consumer Interest
Organized Crime
Post Office
John Randolph
Snow Mobiles
Ward’s
Elizabeth Dwyer
Pact
Warsaw
Brandt
Poland
Red China
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