Rescue Squad reaches $150000 goal in Bennington drive
Harry Coulter and Jim Marsden move the symbolic ambulance into the barn as the Bennington Rescue Squad fund campaign hits its target of 150000 dollars. At Putnam Square committee members including Robert D. Stout Albert Jones Jim Williams Eugene Clark and others oversee the drive amid cold to progress work on a new squad building on McKinley Street. Final tally near 150668.38 dollars as Stout notes the aim to support rescue work through funds.
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Harry Coulter
Jim Marsden
Putnam Memorial Hospital
Bennington
Putnam Square
Robert D. Stout
Albert Jones
Jim Williams
Eugene Clark
Kelton Miller
Edward Holden
Tom Paquin
Louis Bellemare
Richard Fabricius
Alan Morrison
Jim Ross
Andy Betit
Danny Kane
Bernie Bourgeois
Richard Diamond
Bennington Rotary Club
McKinley Street
Bennington Museum
Old First Church
Stout
Alden vote stays on schedule in Vermont
A legislative vote for lieutenant governor remains set next week despite GOP pressure to delay. Allegations of white collar fraud involving insurance premiums were leveled against Democratic candidate Sen. John T. Alden by Woodstock resident Frederick Devereux Jr. The race against former Sen. Garry Buckley will be decided by the legislature after a statewide recount shows Alden leading Buckley by about 1,165 votes. Devereux urged federal and state investigators to probe the charges, but no delay was approved.
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T. Garry Buckley
Dorset
Alden
Buckley
Kennedy
Carolyn Adler
Essex Junction
House
Timothy J. O’connor
D-Brattleboro
Senate
Robert Bloomer
R-Rutland
Frederick Devereux Jr
Woodstock
Devereux
U.S
George W. F. Cook
M. Jerome Diamond
Diamond
Cook
U.S. Justice Department
Washington, D.C
Mutual
Miller resigns from PSB as Sandek named successor
Public Service Board Chairman Martin Miller will resign January 4, four years before his term ends. Richard Saudek, named by Gov.-elect Richard Snelling, will fill Miller’s remaining four years as a board member and two years as chairman. Snelling will also fill February’s vacancy of Daniel Ruggles as PSB member.
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Snelling
Salmon
Saudek
Miller
PSB
New York
Daniel Ruggles
Montpelier
Ruggles
Inside Local Highlights and Page Mix
The column mix covers the Wadsworths passing the torch to youth, Equal Time roasting male chauvinism, editor Pete Horton on Vermont’s energy stakes, and Anthony Lewis weighing Griffin Ball’s attorney general pick. Also notes on Merck Forest cross country, anaesthesia, local park views, Kinsey Farm permits, Vista for seniors, and a packed sports wrap including Rice over MAU by one, McGinnis on freezes, and a year in review.
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The
Wadsworths
Pete Horton
Vermont
Anthony Lewis
Griffin Ball
Battlefield Park
Environmental Commission
Kinsey
Mt. Holly Farm
Vista
Attica inmates pardoned and troopers immunity granted
New York Governor Carey pardoned seven Attica inmates and commuted an eighth who took part in the 1971 uprising. No disciplinary action was taken against 20 troopers and guards involved in the violent prison retaking. Hill’s clemency, unusual due to pending appeals and a prior prosecutor’s recommendation, allows parole next month after a 20 to life sentence for killing a guard.
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New York
Carey
Attica
Upstate
John Hill
William Quinn
Hill
Rochester
California Supreme Court rules local property tax financing for schools unconstitutional
The California Supreme Court, in a 4-3 decision, declares that funding public schools through local property taxes violates equal protection due to wealth disparities among districts. About 4.5 million students are affected. The ruling cites alternative methods such as statewide tax, district consolidation, state taxation of industrial and commercial property, or vouchers.
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San Francisco
California
Supreme Court
U.S. Supreme Court
Texas
Vermont
Residents oppose Niagara Mohawk defoliant spraying
Cambridge and White Creek residents protest chemical defoliants used to clear power line rights of way. A petition by Gerry Cuite to the New York Department of Environmental Conservation asks for detailed information on contents and effects of the chemicals, citing concerns about air land and water safety.
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Cambridge
N.Y
White Creek
Niagara Mohawk Power Corp
Center Cambridge
Gerry Cuite
State Department of Environmental Conservation
EnCon
Cambridge Food
Niagara Mohawk
Andrew Teitlebaum
More study urged on Kennedy King assassinations
The House Committee on Assassinations urged Congress to re establish the panel to continue investigations into the Kennedy and King cases. It seeks 6.5 million to reopen probes and calls for broader public hearings while noting substantial CIA material and unresolved questions from Ray and Oswald interactions.
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Washington
UPI
House Committee On
John Kennedy
Martin Luther King
Congress
Select Committee
Select Committee On
Kennedy
King
James Earl Ray
Dr. King
Ray
Tennessee
Lee Harvey Oswald
Mexico City
Richard Sprague
Central Intelligence Agency
U.S
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Greenhaven
William Kuntsler
Kunstler
Alfred J. Scotti
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