Vermont Senate seeks conference on tuition bill for private schools
The Vermont Senate called a conference committee to resolve differences after the House amended a tuition payment bill for private and public education institutions. Key senators named as delegates include Ellery Purdy, Stovan Christone, and Howard Foster. Also noted is a Vermont highway conference leader urging long-range planning to curb rising costs amid a $56.5 billion interstate estimate and a $300 million rise in state arterial projects.
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Vermont Union High Schools
Vermont
Sens
Ellery Purdy
R-Rutland
Stovan Christone
R Windham
Howard Foster
R-Addison
Senate
Montpelier
UPI
National Highway Users Conference
Peter G. Griskivich
National Highway Financial
Vermont Highway Users Conference
Griskivich
Vermont Hospitals Share $286,000 Hill Burton Grants
Porter Hospital in Middlebury Burlington's Municipal Nursing Home and the Mary Fletcher unit at Vermont Medical Center will share nearly 286000 in Hill Burton construction grants. The projects total 670000 with Porter receiving 187000 for a 50‑bed unit, the nursing home 21000 for a 64000 modernization, and Mary Fletcher 77000 for a five story building to improve ventilation. total project cost 230000. Grants announced Thursday in Washington.
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Washington
Oakes murder trial stays in Woodstock court
Superior Judge Dale W. Brooks denied defense bid to move the Maurice W. Oakes murder case from Woodstock county court. Oakes, 40, Windsor, pleads innocent and not guilty by reason of insanity to a first degree murder charge in the May 26 1967 shooting death of his wife Rosalie Anne, 32, at their home.
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Woodstock
UPI
Dale W. Brooks
Maurice W. Oakes
Windsor
Oakes
Rosalie
Anne
Albany unveils 112.5 million Mid-Crosstown Arterial project
Albany announced a large arterial plan linking central Albany with the Thruway Route 9W and the South Mall area. The project includes an underground Washington Park interchange and park enlargement with completion targeted for the early 1970s.
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Alpany
Crosstown
Washington Park
Park
Albany
New South Mall
South Mall
Hudson
Romney and Rockefeller to Speak at Albany Lincoln Dinner
Gov George Romney of Michigan and Gov Nelson Rockefeller of New York will attend a Lincoln Day Dinner hosted by the Albany County Republican Committee with a $50 plate. Romney will address the mid winter meeting of the New York State Society of Newspaper Editors earlier that evening.
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Albany
George Romney
Michigan
Nelson Rockefeller
New York
Albany County Republican Committee
New York State Society of Newspaper Editors
Union College Announces $300 Tuition Rise to 2100
Union College will raise annual tuition by 300 dollars to 2100 starting this fall. President Harold C. Martin said the school is currently operating at a deficit.
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Schenectady — Union College
Union
Harold C. Martin
Berkshire burial fee hike eyed for five day cemetery week
In a secret Thursday meeting in Mayor Cleary's office Berkshire city officials and cemetery leaders discussed raising burial charges to fund a proposed five day week for the Cemetery department. Funeral directors proposed increasing all burial fees by five dollars to fifty five, totaling about fourteen hundred dollars a year, with an alternative of a ten dollar surcharge for Saturday burials. The City Council's Finance and Public Works Committees agreed to recommend the plan.
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North Adams
Neral
James F. Cleary
Drury High Star Killed in Vietnam Recall
Pfc Peter Wellesley Foote age 20 U S Army was killed Tuesday in Vietnam his parents were notified Thursday He was a 1965 Drury High School graduate and three sport star Involved at Dak To in November he was wounded later returned to action in December and expected to return home in five or six weeks
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North Adams
Peter Wellesley Foote
U.S. Army
Vietnam
Drury High School
Dak To
United States
Two Springfield men arrested in Pittsfield burglary
Charles A. Howard and Clinton E. House, both 26, were arrested after breaking into a Pittsfield sporting goods store and stealing six revolvers. The six firearms were recovered in Springfield, linked to a prior burglary at Bill and Joe's Sporting Goods. In North Adams, a Drury High School fire caused minor damage but was confined to a third floor book closet, with books, papers, and driver training records damaged.
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Pittsfield
Springfield
Charles A. Howard
Clinton E. House
Bill and Joe
North Adams
Drury High School
House Narrowly Defeats Resolution To Chastise State Education Board
In Montpelier the Vermont House narrowly avoided formal censure of the State Education Board after a heated 90 minute debate. The measure failed 99 to 38 after attempts to table or amend were rejected and party lines blurred as Republicans and conservatives opposed party leadership. The resolution urged board members to resign unless they pledged full support to Education Commissioner Dr Harvey Scribner.
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Harvey B. Scribner
House
Emory Hebard
R - Glover
Hebard
Education Committee
Hackett
John Hancock
R-Hardwick
Scribner
Gibboney
Richard A. Gibboney
Hancock
Francis Peisch
Burlington
Cain
Education Board
George van Santvoord
D-Bennington
Harold Raynolds
Springfield
Bill Tightens Control Of All Vehicle Racing Actions
The Vermont Senate preliminarily approves a bill tightening regulation of all motor vehicle racing and high speed motorcycle scrambles. Local selectmen may issue interim licenses while voters decide permanent licenses, with safety standards and police costs covered by the sponsoring organization. The measure aims to curb so-called miserable affairs in Grafton following a fatal Grafton motorcycle scramble.
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Edward Janeway
Windham
Grafton
Rutland
State
Motor Vehicles Racing Commission
Rutland Beltline Construction Postponed
Vermont highway official Roy Nicholls says the Rutland Beltline construction is postponed until after 1981. He told the joint legislative highway investigating committee that he cannot say when the beltline will be built. The timetable prior to financial difficulties planned plans ready by 1972 with construction to start around the same time.
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Montpelier
UPN
Roy Nicholls
Vermont
Rutland
Joint Legislative Highway Investigating Committee
Nicholls
Oakes Urges Alert to Organized Crime Tactics
Vermont Attorney General James L. Oakes told a Washington conference that organized crime spreads when pressured in one area. He cited New England pressure on crime, Maine’s loan sharking and numbers racket, and urged a regional police compact for interstate coordination. He ordered a review of Vermont anti gambling and bookmaking laws after the Supreme Court gambling ruling.
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Washington
UPI
James L. Oakes
Vermont
Oakes
National Association of Attorneys General
New England
Massachusetts
Rhode Island
Maine
U.S. Supreme Court
Supreme Court
UVM to receive two federal grants totaling 250000
The National Science Foundation will give 200000 to the University of Vermont computer center for expansion. The Public Health Service grants 50000 to Dr. John Bland for a three year rheumatic arthritis program. The grants were announced Thursday.
State Reports Minor Changes In Road Priority Timetable
Vermont Highway Board priorities show two minor changes in the construction timetable. Commissioner Larsen said the report is still being revised and a final version may take days or weeks. The shifts move the Fairlee spur to now and push Waterford Interstate 91 work to 1972. Gov Hoff asked whether a four lane at grade crossing concept north of Bennington to Rutland could stay, and the department is studying that alternative.
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Montpelier
UPI
Vermont
Highway Board
Lauritz S. Larsen
Fairlee
Waterford
Larsen
Philip H. Hoff
Bennington
Rutland
Hoff
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