Vermont Senate Debates Government Reorganization Measure
In Montpelier the Senate opened debate on a second constitutional amendment and a Davis era government reorganization plan. The measure shifts auditing to the legislature, preserves other elected offices, abolishes secretaries of Civil and Military Affairs, and creates an Enforcement and Protection Agency merging several departments. Sen. Frederick Fayette led a pointed challenge, with supporters Andrew Orzel and others defending the proposal.
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Montpelier
Senate
Public Safety
Banking
Labor and Industry
Fayette
Andrew Orzel
Rutland County
Moonwalks feature fun for Apollo 14 crew on surface
Houston space center reports Apollo 14 astronauts Alan Shepard and Edgar Mitchell will spend about four hours and fifteen minutes on the moon during two moonwalks. They will test subsurface exploration with thumper charges and roll rocks down crater walls near Antares and Cone crater to study motion and surface properties.
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Space Agency
Conrad
Lunar Lander
Antares
Earth
Moon
Shepard
Mitchell
Cone Crater
Robert H. Nute
Manned Spacecraft Center
Houston
Lunar
Five Easy Pieces review contrasts film craft with storytelling
A critic lauds Jack Nicholson's performance and the film’s technical merits while arguing it lacks a true narrative arc. The piece notes the movie is a refined, poignant vignette, not a conventional story, and cites Pauline Kael’s view that it suits viewers accustomed to bad films. It lists showings at College Cinema and Harte Theatre with times in Manchester and Williamstown.
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Gods of Olympus
Jack Nicholson
Nicholson
Bob Rafelson
Karen Black
Pauline Kael
Williamstown
Harte Theatre
Vermont Senate considers earmarking surplus for education aid
Sen. Robert E. Boardman filed a bill with the Legislative Council to reserve any budget surplus this year for state education aid next December. He projects about a 4 million dollar surplus. Rep. George Sloan warned the Davis administration may misapply the Miller aid formula, suggesting the 27.2 million proposed for fiscal 1972 could rise by nearly 4 million.
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Sloan
Gov. Davis
Bipartisan push for 1.2 million in aid to private schools
A six member House group led by Thomas H. Candon proposed 1.2 million dollars in state funds for non public schools. The measure directs the Education Department to allocate the money as requested by the Diocesan School Board. Deputy Education Commissioner Daniel O Connor said the department will delay a position while studying existing bills.
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O’connor
Education Committee
Senate to consider ending time lock on Vermont constitution
The Judiciary Committee recommends removing the 10 year time lock on amendments. Four Republicans and one Democrat supported the majority plan. The panel also backs a four year lock instead of elimination, a view favored by Gov. Davis, while retaining some delay.
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Bennington County
Ellery R. Purdy
Rutland County
Davis
Lebanon Faces Vermont Action Over Open Dump Burning
Vermont officials threaten legal action against Lebanon New Hampshire over open burning at the town dump. Windsor County State's Attorney Frank Mahady sent a letter to Mayor Shirley Merrill demanding immediate steps to stop air contamination and warning of possible litigation if the city does not comply.
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White River
Saxe belongings returned by Albany family spokesman
The FBI had sought Susan Saxe connected to a September robbery in Boston. Her parents in Albany received Wednesday a typewriter and two suitcases containing a pistol-cleaning kit a grandmother’s cameo brooch a tie blank checks and several books including poetry and Ma Barker biography. Plans for the 96 million Uncle Sam Mall in Troy were unveiled by Edward Logue at a Chamber dinner detailing commercial development a new city hall a county government center and housing areas.
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Albany
Susan Saxe
FBI
Boston
Eliot Saxe
Saxe
Miss Saxe
Ma Barker
Troy
Greater Troy Chamber of Commerce
Edward J. Logue
State Urban Development Corp
Rensselaer County
NU orders largest power transformer for Millstone 2 plant
Northeast Utilities awarded a 775000 dollar contract to Sweden’s Allmanna Sobenski Elektrika Aktiebologet for the largest power transformer it has bought, 13 percent under the lowest domestic bid. The unit will serve Millstone No 2 in Waterford Connecticut amid complaints of foreign dumping in the transformer market.
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Pittsfield
U.S. Customs Bureau
U.S
Nu’s
Millstone
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THURS
Dinette
Haynes & Kane, Inc
Dial
Swifts
Walker
Torino
New England
Ford
White Sale
C.C. and Company
Manchester
Joe Namath
Harte and Williamsown
Mortgage Department
Vermont
Lebanon
New York
Troy Unveils
Uncle Sam Mall
Down In
Berkshire
Vincent C. Teresa
North Reading
Berkshire County
Walpole
Teresa
North Adams
St. Joseph's Regional High School
John Murphy
Father Murphy
Joseph R. Bianco
Christopher J. Weldon
Springfield
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