Pueblo seizure sparks demand for full explanation
Senator Robert Stafford. R-Vt., warns the House armed services subcommittee will seek a full explanation of the Pueblo incident. He criticizes the Johnson administration for placing the ship and its 83 crew in a vulnerable position without escort. Stafford, back from Vietnam, links the Pueblo seizure to the South Vietnam offensive and stays hopeful the US can avert a military takeover there.
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Washington
UPD
Robert T. Stafford
R-Vt
House
Armed Services Subcommittee
Stafford
Vietnam
North Korea
South Vietnam
United States
Vermont faculty panel backs ending campus cigarette sales
Burlington University of Vermont faculty committee urges President Lyman Rowell to terminate cigarette sales in vending machines and the university bookstore. The Student Life Committee calls sales detrimental to health and says Rowell has shown willingness to remove machines. The Student Association is weighing the recommendation.
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Burlington
UPD
University of Vermont
Lyman Rowell
Rowell
Conscientious objector pleads innocent on draft charges
Kenneth B. Carroll, 21, of Cabot, is free on $100 bond after pleading innocent in U S District Court to federal charges alleging he failed to follow his Montpelier draft board’s order. The board had declared him a conscientious objector and directed service at DeGoesbriand Memorial Hospital in Burlington for 24 months. Carroll was apprehended in Indiana and brought back to Burlington by federal authorities.
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Burlington
UPD
Cabot
Kenneth B. Carroll
Ernest W. Gibson
U.S
Carroll
Montpelier
DeGoesbriand Memorial Hospital
Indiana
Vermont House to act on constitutional revision study panel
Montpelier UPC reports the Vermont lower chamber will act today on a bill creating an 11 member constitutional revision study committee. The panel includes the chief justice and attorney general with appointments split among the House, Senate, and governor to propose amendments and report to the 1971 General Assembly or a special session. Ripton UPC notes the state Job Corps camp will close due to costs, with staff and corps members reassigned to centers in Illinois Ohio Indiana and Kentucky and remaining projects finished by nearby supervisors.
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Ripton
UPC
Office of Economic Opportunity
Washington
George S. James
U.S. Forest Service
Illinois
Ohio
Indiana
Kentucky
James
Albany delays $7.86 million federal building project
In Albany the proposed $7.86 million federal building is among projects deferred indefinitely due to President Johnson’s austerity program. A General Services Administration spokesman said no funds are included in the Budget Bureau plan for 1968-69 and no action is expected until at least 1970 for the 11 story Clinton Square building.
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Albany
Johnson
General Services Administration
Washington
Budget Bureau
Clinton Square
Albany approves JFK memorial May 29 remembrance plan
Albany assembly votes to let schools mark May 29 as a JFK memory day with special ceremonies. Originated by Delmar Elementary pupils, bill now moves to the Senate for action. Troy-Cohoes YWCA Neighborhood Youth Corps grant of 109,850 funds 144 enrolles with a total project cost of 140,530.
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Albany
New York State Assembly
John F. Kennedy
Delmar
New York Senate
Troy
Department of Labor
Troy-Cohoes
Great Barrington plans state memorial for W E B DuBois site
A 50 member DuBois Memorial Committee proposes turning the five acre Mass 23 property near Great Barrington into a state memorial for W E B Du Bois. Supporting figures include Sidney Poitier Aaron Copland Roy Wilkins Norman Rockwell Reinhold Niebuhr Edward W Brooke and Silvio Conte with Walter Wilson and Edmund W Gordon as chairs. The group purchased the homestead last year to promote the memorial idea.
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Great Barrington
W. E. Burghardt DuBois
Mass, 23
Egremont
Sidney Poitier
Aaron Copland
Roy Wilkins
Norman Rockwell
Reinhold Niebuhr
Edward W. Brooke
Massachusetts
Silvio O. Conte
Pittsfield
DuBois Memorial
Walter Wilson
East Chatham
N.Y
Edmund W. Gordon
Pomona
Wilson
Gordon
DuBois
GE workers strike over pay scale grievance in transformer dept
In Pittsfield General Electric halted work as 18 crane repairmen walked off in the transformer department. IVE Local 255 CIO president Albert Litano said the walkout could last at least three days. The grievance centers on a corrected pay scale not made retroactive.
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Pittsfield
General Electric
Albert Litano
IVE
CIO
Monument Mountain High School Building Nears Completion
Great Barrington reports the Monument Mountain Regional High School on Stockbridge Road will be completed April 3 and ready for occupancy soon after. The new structure will serve students from Great Barrington Stockbridge and West Stockbridge under the regional district plan.
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Great Barrington
Monument Mountain Regional High School
Stockbridge Road
Stockbridge
West Stockbridge
Massachusetts Electric Plans High Voltage Grid Addition
North Adams MA The Massachusetts Electric Co announces a plan for a higher voltage distribution system in the area tied to the Hoosac Valley Regional High School project. The plan includes building a new substation at Cheshire Harbor.
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North Adams
Massachusetts Electric Co
Hoosac Valley Regional High School
Cheshire Harbor
Viet Policy Emerges As Biggest Issue In N H Primary
Nixon and Romney enter the final month of the New Hampshire primary campaign with Vietnam policy as the central fault line. Nixon backs restraint within Johnson era bounds while Romney pushes for a negotiated settlement and possible Viet Cong representation in a coalition government.
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Richard M. Nixon
George Romney
New Hampshire
South Vietnam
Michigan
North
Laos
Cambodia
Nixon
Meyer Eyes Democratic gubernatorial Nomination
Former U S Representative William Meyer of Vermont says he is considering opposing Lt. Gov. John Daley for the Democratic gubernatorial nomination. He spoke after announcing on December 4 his plans to run for an unspecified office.
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West Rupert
UPI
U.S
William Meyer
D-Vt
John J. Daley
Meyer
Daley
Vermont
Robert T. Stafford
Rvt
George D. Aiken
R-Vt
Aiken
Philip H. Hoff
Hoff
Hoff Challenged To Take Stand On Bill To Increase Interest
MONTPELIER Vermont House Commerce Committee chairman Rep. Peter Giuliani challenged Gov. Philip Hoff to take a position on a bill raising the legal interest rate by a half point. Giuliani rebutted Banking and Insurance Commissioner Hunt’s claim the measure would raise borrowing costs while Hunt said consumers would pay 20 percent more.
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Hoff
Giuliani
Hunt
Junk Car Bill Before House in Montpelier
The House Natural Resources Committee backs a measure to remove abandoned junk vehicles from view along highways, citing safety and economic harms. It defines junk vehicles as discarded or wrecked cars abandoned six months or more and authorizes a $65,000 appropriation plus private contracts if owners don’t respond. Separately in Washington, CAB resumes hearings on routes from northern New England to the Great Lakes with Northeast Mohawk and Trans East proposing service from Presque Isle Maine to Chicago, supported by witnesses from New Hampshire Maine and Vermont.
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Washington
UPI
Civil Aeronautics Board
New England
Great Lakes
Richard Walsh
Northeast
Mohawk
Trans East Airlines
Presque Isle
Maine
Chicago
New Hampshire
Vermont
Bedford
N.H
Pathologist questions probe into eight year old girl death
In Burlington UPI State Pathologist Dr Richard Woodruff criticized the investigation into the fatal shooting of 8 year old Deborah Paulman. He said the bullet trajectory did not match the police account and faulted the failure to notify the Addison County Medical Examiner and law authorities as required by law.
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Burlington
UPI
Richard Woodruff
West Addison
Deborah Paulman
Woodruff
Addison County
Joseph Bottamini
Vergennes
Ezra Dike
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Madison
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