Selectman Higgins resigns to save son's job
Joseph Higgins quits after three days of resisting to protect his son Ronald Higgins who will begin as town accountant. The Bennington selectmen vote 3 to 2 to accept the resignation and implement a nepotism policy barring immediate family from town employment. The decision follows intense debate at the County Courthouse and priors of pressure from former Selectman Gerald Cornell and board members.
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Selectman
Higgins
Son
Joseph Higgins
Sgt
Ronald Higgins
Edward Frasier
Ed Lamb
Frasier
Leon Boutin
J. Duncan Campbell
Alexander B. R. Drysdale
Bennington
Gerald Cornel
Cornell
Joe
Weather brief flurries mix to snow and freezing rain
Intermittent snow mixed with freezing rain continues today and tonight with a transition to snow flurries later. Cloudy skies persist into Thursday with more flurries and temperatures in the 20s. Yesterday reached 26 with 16 overnight. current 7 am reading 28. About one inch of snow expected. sunset 4 15, sunrise 7 14.
Pownal approves new school wing
Pownal voters approve a 600000 bond for a new elementary school wing by a 332 to 207 margin with 46 percent turnout. The 857000 project will add 32000 square feet, funded by 257000 state aid and the bond. First year tax rise example: 24.50 for a 10000 property. Principal Bernard Bisson praises committee efforts and informed voters.
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Pownal
Citizens Committee
Bernard Bisson
Jeffords to rule on Vermont reorganization laws
Vermont Attorney General James Jeffords plans a ruling to resolve a conflict between two 1970 reorganization laws affecting the Health Board and the new human services agency. The dispute concerns who regulates radiation standards for Vermont Yankee and how strict limits should be compared to the Atomic Energy Commission. The Health Board seeks stricter limits, while the environmental agency favors the lowest practicable levels. A Bennington College biologist urged delaying any decision until January 25.
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Montpelier
UPI
Vermont
James Jeffords
State Health Board
Jeffords
Human Services Agency
Human Services
Health Board
New
Health Department
Environmental Agency
The
Atomic Energy Commission
Vermont Yankee
Vernon
AEC
Daniel O’brien
South Burlington
Irving Lyon
Bennington College
Lyon
Health
Rail strike looming as Congress acts to bar shutdown
The House Commerce Committee quickly approved emergency antistrike legislation by 19 to 14 to bar a midnight railway strike until March 1. The plan faces Senate hearings as unions threaten to defy the order and impose a temporary 13.5 percent pay rise. Postal Service will embargo nonessential long distance mail if trains halt, and Volpe warned troops could run railroads.
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Washington
UPI
House Commerce Committee
House
Senate Labor Committee
Nixon
Brock Adams
D-Wash
Harley Staggers
D-W.va
Dennis
Christmas Mail
U.S
Postal Service
Air Parcel Post
Transportation
John A. Volpe
Nixon seeks conferees to restore SST funds
Nixon administration presses House and Senate negotiators to agree on continued SST funding. House rejected the Senate’s $290 million proposal, eyeing a possible $200 million compromise to keep SST prototypes alive while Congress reconvenes. Critics say the jet risks pollution and risks in the upper atmosphere.
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Washington
UPI
House
Senate
Edward P. Boland
Dmass
House-Senate
Congress
United States
Inside Pete Horton on welfare issues and law loopholes
Pete Horton analyzes hidden welfare problems while a letter discusses evading an anti billboard law. Roy Marsden highlights a Bennington man honored by sportsmen in a sports section feature on page 12, with BBS season progress and theater notes nearby.
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BBS
Bennington
Roy Marsden
Brazil offers negotiations for Swiss envoy Bucher release
Brazil signals willingness to bargain with captors holding Swiss Ambassador Giovanni Enrico Bucher in Rio de Janeiro. A government communique urges the kidnapers to name jailed terrorists to swap and to prove the envoy is alive, while a bodyguard lies in a coma and a ransom-note surge is noted. Max Feller, Swiss ambassador to Luxembourg, travels to Rio to aid talks. A stake of phantom notes and a mission box document are reported.
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Rio DE Janeiro
UPI
Giovanni Enrico Bucher
Max Feller
Luxemburg
Rio
Bucher
Father Charles
Supreme Court to hear Viet draft conscientious objection cases
The Supreme Court will review cases from New York and California on whether a draft registrant can claim conscientious objection specifically over the Vietnam War. The matter, once ruled yes by a Boston judge, returns after last term's technical dismissal. Gillette, a humanist, and Negre, a Roman Catholic, argue that forcing service violates religious freedom.
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Washington
UPI
Supreme Court
New York
California
Federal District Court
Charles E. Wyzanski Jr
Boston
Wyzanski
Guy Porter Gillette
Louis A. Negre
Army Personnel Center
Oakland
Justice Department
Congress
Gillette
Kennedy defends Barre dinner as turning point in '70 bid
Vermont House candidate Rep. Walter L. Kennedy faced opposition in Windham County while defending his Barre campaign dinner role. The Chelsea Republican, part of four for speaker, blamed the Barre toast for Democratic flak, contending Hoff’s alleged drinking and the New York Vermont youth project were misrepresented. He cited polls that shifted after the dinner, noting Capp’s speaking choice and his own blunt remarks, while denying regrets beyond Capp’s selection.
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Rep. Kennedy
Barre
Brattleboro
Walter L
Peanut” Kennedy
Vermont
Windham County
Chelsea
John S. Burgess
Kennedy
Frank Bunting
Brandon
John Hancock
Hardwick
Timothy J. O’connor Jr
O’connor
House
al Capp
Philip H. Hoff
Senate
Hoff
Capp
New York-Vermont
Fresh Air Fund
Winston L. Prouty
Prouty
Deane C. Davis
Davis
Leo O’brien
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Boutin
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R-N.y
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Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way
Hotel and Restaurant
Bartenders International Union
Pete Horton
the Fantasticks
Brazil
Legation
Rep
Walter Kennedy
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