Reorganization package nears Senate approval
In Montpelier UPI Gov Davis moves toward final Senate approval of a cabinet form state government plan. A Buckley amendment would give the governor power to hire and fire all commissioners and board members. The second bill would let the governor streamline the executive branch by executive order.
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Senate
Leo O’brien
Chittenden
Grand Isle
Richard Soule
Franklin County
GOP
Deane C. Davis
Lenten Supper At St Peter's Planned This Thursday
The second weekly Lenten supper at St. Peter's Episcopal Church will be held Thursday at 6 p.m. in the Parish House. Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Foster will speak. Parishioners with last names A through S should bring a salad, G L's bring dessert, and M through W bring a casserole.
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St. Peter’s Episcopal Church
Thomas Foster
Rural Auxiliary Won't Join State
Ten members attended the monthly meeting of the Bennington Rural Fire Department Auxiliary at Willow Road Firehouse. They decided not to rejoin the state auxiliary and completed plans for their antique show concession serving cup cakes and sandwiches. Miss Priscilla Crawford received the sunshine gift. The next food committee consists of Mrs. Janet Mattison and Mrs. Mildred Howe. Refreshments were served after the meeting by Mrs. Polly Carruth and Mrs. Gloria-Jean Stoddard.
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Bennington
No More Hockey At Stark Street
Robert Gerity announced that due to poor ice and freezing weather at the Stark Street skating rink there will be no more ice hockey for the rest of the winter. Hockey damages ice faster than new ice can form, so skaters may use the ice for the remainder of the season for better conditions.
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Robert Gerity
Stark Street
Two Vermont historical groups elect officers at Middlebury
G Murray Campbell of Manchester was elected deputy governor of the Society of Colonial Wars in Vermont and Carroll P Adams of Montpelier named vice president of the Vermont Society Sons of the American Revolution at their Middlebury Inn meetings. Harold F Burroughs of Burlington was elected governor of the SCW and obituarist for the SAR along with other officers. More than 40 members attended, with DAR and Colonial Dames present, as both groups voted to support the Vermont Historical Society as institutional members.
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Middlebury
G. Murray Campbell
Manchester
Society of Colonial Wars
Vermont
Carroll P. Adams
Montpelier
Bennington
Vermont Society
Sons the American Revolution
Middlebury Inn
Vermont Historical Society
Colonial Dames
DAR
Harold F. Burroughs
Burlington
SAR
Quebec Bus Crash Kills 17 Year Old. 22 Injured
A provincial transport bus skidded on an icy bridge near Lennoxville and plunged into a ravine, killing 17 year old Carole DuPuis from Beebe Junction and injuring 22 others including the driver. Several patients remained in serious condition in Sherbrooke hospitals.
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Lennoxville
Que
UPI
Newport
Sherbrooke
Coaticook
Quebec
Carole DuPuis
Beebe Junction
Vermont - Quebec
Montreal
Jean-Paul Bourque
Hayes Criticizes Brandon School Aid Plan in Vermont
Lt. Gov. Thomas L. Hayes challenged the Davis administration's plan to improve Brandon Training School arguing there is no guarantee of securing federal matching funds through a capital construction program. He urged caution as mental health concerns at the facility were previously labeled hazardous. Davis defended the approach, hoping premature comments would not derail the effort led by Mental Health Commissioner Jonathan Leopold with legislative committees.
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Davis
House Natural Resources Committee
Arthur Gibb
Weybridge
Governor’s Environmental Control Commission
Royal B. Cutts
Townshend
Vermont Mobile Homes Association
Gerald Brault
Dorothy L. Lascelles
Clark Mason
Statehouse
Don
Hayes
Jonathan Leopold
Legislative Appropriations
MAUHS Senior Wins VFW Prize
Mountpelier Vermont state dinner honors 50 high school students in the 22nd annual Voice of Democracy contest. Mt Anthony Union High School senior Douglas Pad dock of Shaftsbury is runner up, will receive cash and bonds, while John Reid of Barre wins to represent Vermont in Washington DC March 11 16.
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Vermont
Washington, D.C
John Reid
David Reid
Barre
Spaulding High School
Douglas
Jack Paddock
AAUW Hears Lively Drug Discussion
Members of the American Association of University Women heard David Scribner discuss the drug problem at Mrs. Charles Salem's home. He cited a Gallup poll noting widespread use, especially marijuana in Bennington, and described mixed opinions on legalization while noting limited research and a government study into LSD effects. A lively Q and A followed. co-hostesses were Mrs. Peter Hoar and Mrs. Robert Condon.
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American Association of University Women
Charles Salem
David Scribner
Scribner
California
Gallup
Bennington
Scribner’s
Peter Hoar
Robert Condon
Bennington Senior Wins Woodrow Wilson Award
Miss Ellen Margaret Pollak 21 a Bennington College senior from New York City is named a Woodrow Wilson Designate by the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation in Princeton. She graduates in 1970 with a literature major and plans further study in literature or psychology.
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Princeton
N.J
Ellen Margaret Pollak
Bennington College
Woodrow Wilson
Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation
John P. Pollack
New York City
Tania Milicevic
New York
Roger
Harlem
Carpenter Center For the Visual Arts
Cambridge
Mass
Harvard Laboratory of Community Psychiatry
Boston
Hanover
N.H
Foundation
Hans Rosenhaupt
United States
Canada
Ralph Nader
Erica Mann
Renata Adler
VISTA
Pat’’ Kennedy
Princeton University
Robert Goheen
Wilson
Richard Goheen
H. Ronald Rouse
The
Prouty criticizes Nixon oil report over New England needs
Senator Winston L. Prouty of Vermont voices disappointment with President Nixon's Oil Import Task Force Report saying it ignores New England needs. He cites high heating oil costs and Vermont's hardship allocation, arguing regional rather than partisan lines drive the issue.
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Washington
Winston L. Prouty
R-Vt
Nixon
New England
Prouty
New
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