Local Option Added to Vermont Land Use Tax Bill
Vermont House Ways and Means Committee votes six to three for a local option allowing towns to choose fair market value or land use value for property taxation. Rep. Francis Peisch of Burlington offers amendment. Rep. Edward Eurich introduces the bill aimed at easing farmers tax burden and curbing land speculation. Critics warn of undefined terms and a potential floor fight. bill moves to agriculture and appropriations committees before floor consideration.
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Montpelier
UPD
House
Ways and Means Committee
Francis Peisch
Burlington
Edward Eurich
Waitsfield
Thomas Salmon
Rockingham
Salmon
Alan Chalmers
Weston
Persch
Agriculture
Appropriations
New England governors meet with Freeman on rural issues
Montpelier reports Maine Governor Kenneth Curtis New Hampshire Governor John King and Vermont Governor Philip Hoff join Agriculture Secretary Orville Freeman for a two hour rural problems conference. Hoff heads a Vermont farm family project panel with Robert Branon and Stella Hackel. Freeman tours Franklin County farms assisted by the program.
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Montpelier
New England
Orville Freeman
Maine
Kenneth Curtis
New Hampshire
John King
Vermont
Philip H. Hoff
Hoff
Robert J. Branon
Stella Hackel
Charles Ross
Curtis
Vermont leaders predict 1968 legislature action on housing highways and more
Lt Gov Daley Senate pro tem Cook House Speaker Mallary and Minority Leader O'Brien forecast passage of housing highway constitutional convention and billboard bills in the 1968 session. They differed on pace with O'Brien saying GOP lacks spark and Mallary citing slow prep work.
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GOP
Mallory
Albany State students face disciplinary action after campus protest
Albany Fifty two Albany State University students face possible disciplinary actions from warning to expulsion after Wednesday protest demonstrations ending in ten arrests. Seven students a faculty member and others pleaded innocent in Albany Police Court to disorderly conduct and were freed on fifty dollar bail pending trial March eighteenth. A college spokesman said the 52 students will have their IDs reported to the Student Conduct Committee which will advise the Student Affairs Council. In New York vandals struck the Knickerbocker skating rink at 103rd Street and Eighth Avenue causing damage and prompting officials to close the rink. Purcell Bone steel the caretaker was hospitalized in satisfactory condition after being severely abused by vandals Wednesday night. Playground Supervisor Francis A. Murray said two semi riots have occurred recently and a full scale investigation is promised.
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Albany
Albany State University
Dow Chemical Co
Troy
Knickerbocker
103Rd Street
Eighth Avenue
Purcell Bonesteel
St. Mary’s Hospital
Francis A. Murray
Union College students protest Dow Chemical rep on campus
About 25 Union College students demonstrated peacefully on Thursday to oppose Dow Chemical Co presence on campus amid the Vietnam war, denouncing U S policy of aggression. A smaller group countered with pro napalm placards. The unions rally followed similar protests at RPI and Albany State University.
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Schenectady
Union College
Dow Chemical Co
U.S
Vietnam
Union
RPI
Albany State University
North Adams Wins Federal Aid After Office Ownership Error
A technical roadblock blocking 35 000 in federal aid for North Adams public schools has been removed after an investigation by Senator Edward M. Kennedy. A former school superintendent’s letter prompted the review, revealing the post office was incorrectly excluded from the federal employee count. The adjustment may allow the city to qualify for the funds.
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North Adams
Edward M. Kennedy
Supt. of
Robert R. Taylor
General Services Administration
Conservation panel plans joint summer recreation area
Williamstown Conservation Commission will meet with selectmen to outline plans for Torrey Woods and Bullock Forest to operate the recreation area jointly this summer. Chairman Robert B. Hatton Jr. will request six more fireplaces for the picnic area as part of a multiple use plan including new nature trails and preserving the stone seat memorial to Prof. George Moritz-Wahl of Williams College.
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Williamstown
Conservation Commission
Trustees
Torrey Woods
Bullock Forest
Commission
Robert B. Hatton Jr
Stone Seat
George Mortiz-Wahl
Williams College
City Readies 180-Foot Height Limit for CBD Buildings
Pittsfield ordinance plan advances to allow structures up to 180 feet in the central business district with no stated limit on stories. In North Adams a public forum on Black Power will be held Sunday at 10 45 am in the Unitarian Universalist Church upper parlors with Wilfred O Easter as chief speaker.
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Pittsfield
North Adams
Berkshire County
Unitarian Universalist
Wilfred O. Easter
Windsor Mountain School
Lenox
Colleagues Denounce Indictment of Yale Chaplain
Yale faculty denounces the indictment of Chaplain William Sloane Coffin Jr. with a statement signed by about 620, circulated by James B. Barber. Signers include novelist John Hersey and other Yale faculty, condemning the legal action as government coercion of conscience.
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Yale University
New Haven
UPI
Yale
William Sloane Coffin Jr
Coffin
James B. Barber
Political Science Department
John Hersey
Robert
Marine Memo: false death notice shocks Nebraskan family
In Grand Island Nebraska a Marine family faced news of their son Pfc Michael D Johnson dead from shrapnel in Vietnam only to learn the notice was a brutal error. The Defense Department telegram later reversed the claim saying he was wounded but alive and en route home after treatment in Yokohama Japan.
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Grand Island
Neb
Rodney Johnson
Johnson
Pfc
Michael D. Johnson
Quan Nam
South Vietnam
Johnsons
Defense Department
Michael
Mike
Marine Corps
Washington
D.C
Carl T. Curtis
R-Neb
Aiken Seeks Funds for Maple Lab at UVM
UPI reports Senator George Aiken asks for $675,000 federal funds to build a maple research laboratory on the University of Vermont campus. He cites wartime budget strain and says Sen. Hayden supports fast action when possible, noting prior approval of $40,000 for planning and Vermont Maple Industry Council backing.
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Aiken
UVM
Washington
UPI
George B. Aiken
University of Vermont
Carl Hayden
Maine
Minnesota
Sen. Aiken
Sen
Hayden
Forest Service
New Mexico Teachers Push for Finance Reform via Legislature
Gov. Cargo refused to call a special session to revisit school finance despite a statewide walkout threat. In Albuquerque 108 public schools were hit, with 77,204 district students sent home as the ACTA kept the strike ongoing. A state task force will draft a new foundation finance plan aimed at reforming the student_based funding formula, potentially paving the way for a future special session.
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Albuquerque
N.M
UPI
David Cargo
New Mexico
New Mexico Education Association
NMEA
Cargo
Albuquerque Classroom Teachers Association
ACTA
Robert Chisholm
State Education Board
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Three Hostages Freed From Japanese Hotel
In Sumatokyo Korea's Kim Hi Ro freed three more of the 18 hostages from a hotel in the Japanese resort area. He demanded a public apology for national slurs and release of records on two men he had killed in Shimizu City. He promised to free the rest one by one after police apologized.
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Sumatokyo
Japan
UPI
Kim Hi Ro
Shimizu
Kim
Fujiyama
Prefectural
Keiji Takamatsu
Ster
Kim-san
Unexpected Inheritance Shifts Land Ownership on Nantucket
Nantucket attorney Robert F. Mooney spent a year tracing 400 acres in Madaket once listed as owners unknown. He uncovered original buyers William D. Tilly of Boston and Charles Lind of New York, now heirs include six individuals led by Matilda Tilly and Mrs Anna Flint, culminating in an inheritance among six heirs.
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Nantucket Mass
UPI
Nantucket
Robert F. Mooney
Madaket
Mooney
William D. Tilly
Boston
Charles Lind
New York
Matilda Tilly
Roslindale
Anna Flint
Melrose
Tilly
Lind
U S Helps Amman In Palestinian Question
UPI reports David Rockefeller president of Chase Manhattan Bank told Arab refugees on Thursday the United States would do all it could to solve the Palestinian question.
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Amman
UPI
David Rockefeller
Chase Manhattan Bank of New York
United States
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