Senate advances drug board reform bill
Vermont Senate gives preliminary approval 25 2 to a mail order drug bill and sends it to the House while approving 58 000 in state funds for locally based home health care agencies. Sen Stovan Christowe argues the measure boosts competition and tightens control over board appointments. An amendment to expand the board to seven members and add two laypeople is promised next week.
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Senate
Stovan Christowe
Windham County
Senate Health and Welfare Committee
Pharmacy Board
Robert E. Boardman
D-Chittenden-Grand Isle
Boardman
Human Services Secretary
Pavilion State Office Building tour amid 165 feet per minute lift tale
Eight Vermont lawmakers joined Buildings Director Irving Bates on a formal tour of the Pavilion State Office Building once a tavern. The crowded elevator stalled, delaying the group as Bates forced the doors open. The Pavilion’s long history includes hosting presidents and notable debates over its fate, with preservationists opposing demolition.
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House Institutions Committee
New Pavilion State Office
Davis
Lafayette
Monoroe
Teddy Roosevelt
Hoover
Taft
Coolidge
Statehouse
Vermonts
House of Representatives
Senate
Weather outlook shows showers and chilly temps this weekend
Showery rain possible by afternoon with temperatures in the mid-30s. More showers tonight with low near 30. Sunday will be cloudy with rain or snow flurries likely and no warmer conditions.
Bennington towns to vote informally on east west road idea
Bennington County planners plan a straw poll at Town Meeting to gauge support for a new east west highway across southern Vermont. Commissioner Tom Hall will raise the issue informally. two commissioners oppose, while the other plans no action.
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Vermont
Bennington County
Charles Crewe
New England
BCRPC
John Simson
Simson
Hall
Bennington
Tom Foster
Foster
Rutland
John C. Page
Tax break and fee hike proposed in Vermont
The House Ways and Means Committee outlined a bill to let Vermonters deduct motor vehicle purchase and use tax payments from federal income tax. It would cut the levy from four to three percent, risking a $1.1 million highway fund loss that would be offset by higher Motor Vehicle Department fees, including a $3 rise in the $32 pleasure car registration. The panel will vote on the bill next week.
Heavy fighting rages on besieged Ho Trail
Communists led by tanks besieged two more South Vietnamese outposts in Laos and forced defenders to abandon a third in one of the heaviest offensives against the Ho Chi Minh Trail. U S forces reinforced with helicopters and heat seeking missiles against Soviet tanks. A relief force with tanks moved toward Hill 31 as skirmishing continued and bases near Ranger South and Ranger North changed hands.
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Saigon
UPS
Laos
Ho Chi Minh Trail
U.S
North Vietnam
Hoang Xuan Lam
Hill
Ranger South
Ranger
Hill 30
Hill 31
Hotel 2
Highway 9
South Vietnam
A Luoi
U.S. to send rescue troops in Laos not combat units
Defense officials said small U.S. combat troops may accompany helicopter search and rescue teams in Laos to protect downed pilots or rescuers. They stressed this would be a rescue mission, not combat, and would not violate the Senate ban on ground troops in Laos. The idea could apply similarly in North Vietnam if needed. President Nixon reiterated no ground forces in Laos or advisers in Laos, with no intent to use ground forces in North Vietnam. The Cooper Church amendment bars U.S. ground combat troops or advisers in Laos or Cambodia.
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UPI
Defense Department
U.S
Laos
Pentagon
Jerry W. Friedheim
High Administration
Senate
Friedheim
North Vietnam
The
White House
Nixon
Cambodia
Moynihan slams press as chronic disparagers of government
Daniel Moynihan, former Nixon adviser, in Commentary accuses the American press of chronic disparagement of the federal government driven by elitist biases from predominantly upper and middle class journalists. He warns of a protracted conflict where the government keeps losing, urges openness to acknowledge mistakes and government challenge to misrepresentations, and rejects any government control of the press.
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UPI
Daniel P. Moynihan
Nixon
Commentary Magazine
Harvard
Moynihan
United States
Washington
St Albans Added To Federal Procurement Preference List
The U S Labor Department placed St Albans on its areas of substantial unemployment list, making the region eligible for federal procurement preference. Vermont official Stella Hackel noted the designation requires unemployment above 6 percent for two months, with current rates at 9.4 percent last month and 8.3 percent in December. Firms seeking the preference must hire disadvantaged workers.
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Charles Dewey
Edward Frasier
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Frasier
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Morse
Pierce
Gil
Dewey
Senate Advances
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Fred Westphal
Lamoille County
Andrew Orzel
T. Garry Buckley
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Montpelier
State Street
By Rodney Clarke
Pavilion
By Geoffrey Chapman
Ho Trail
Bennington Armory
Raymond Grout
St. Albans
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