Vermont Tax Dept Upholds College Exemptions
The Vermont Tax Department upholds Bennington College plea to keep 15 faculty housing units on campus tax exempt as lands owned by a college and not used for general commerce. The ruling notes the properties were acquired before 1941 and sent to college lawyer John H. Williams II with copies to local boards. The town plans to review with Town Council before further steps, as sisters pursue a test case on the Grand List.
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Vermont Tax Department
Bennington College
Lawrence A. Wright
USA
John H. Williams II
Bennington Board of Listers
Bennington Board of Civil Authority
Bennington Listers
North Bennington
Vermont Supreme Court
Tax Department
Wright
Troy Conference Academy
Green Mountain College
Bennington Sisters
The
College
Pope Denounces Arms Merchants at World Day of Peace
Pope Paul VI, in a dawn sermon at the Church of Jesus in Vatican City, denounced giant arms industries profiting from selling weapons to poor nations lacking hospitals and schools. He warned that mankind could be destroyed in an instant and urged peace as a guiding principle, recalling his U.N. address in 1965 and criticizing ideologies that breed conflict.
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Vatican City
U.S. General Assembly
U S GNP to Top $1 Trillion in 1970 Forecast
Commerce Department and Data Resources Inc forecast the U S Gross National Product will exceed $1 trillion in 1970 for the first time with growth around 7 percent in early 1970s. GNP projected to reach $1.4 trillion by 1974, while 1960s growth and job gains are noted.
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U.S
Washington
UPI
Commerce Department
Data Resources Inc
Lexington
Mass
Data Resources
Gunboat affair strains Israeli French relations
Israel condemns France for demanding recall of Adm. Mordecai Limon over the gunboat affair while French measures on the arms embargo provoke Egyptian praise and Paris warns against shifting policy. Mirage jets shipped to Israel reportedly returned home after embargo.
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Israel
France
Paris
Cairo
Egypt
al Ahram
Foreign Ministry
Adm
Mordecai Limon
Simon
Tel Aviv
Holiday Deadly Toll Rises Across Nation
The New Year holiday traffic death toll climbs with 204 confirmed in California and 13 to 14 deaths in several states. A Manhattan Beach boat tragedy leaves an 18 year old girl dead and a father plus five others missing. Fires claim five lives in Nyack New York and an apartment fire in Columbia Missouri kills five, while four members of a church youth choir from East Gadson Alabama perish in a Huntsville Alabama crash.
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California
Georgia
Texas
Pennsylvania
Kansas
Manhattan Beach
Calif
Nyack
N.Y
Columbia
Dundee
Kan
East Gadson
Ala
Huntsville
Inside NEA reports segregation in federal lunch program
Sam Ogden uncovers a mystery bird in Landgrove while Page 3 highlights on page 4. John Chamberlain discusses a rifle capable of wiping out a tank on page 4. UVM professors warn about chemical defoliants along railroad beds on page 6.
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NEA
Sam Ogden
Landgrove
John Chamberlain
UVM
Vermont traffic deaths hit 144 in 1969 record
UPI reports Vermont logged 144 highway fatalities in 1969, the state’s second highest total. It trails 152 deaths in 1965 by eight and exceeds the previous runner-up mark by two, though it misses the 148 forecast by Motor Vehicle Department statisticians.
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Montpelier
UPI
Vermont
Motor Vehicle Department
Agnew Calms Ally Chiang in Taipei Visit
Vice President Spiro Agnew assured Chiang Kai-shek that the United States will stand firm on defense commitments to Nationalist China amid Washington moves toward Red China. He noted the 1955 mutual defense treaty and pledged to honor allied obligations in East Asia while acknowledging security concerns raised by U.S. Secret Service demands during the Taipei stop.
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UPI
Spiro T. Agnew
Chiang Kai-shek
Washington
Peking
China
Agnew
Chiang
Red China
Warsaw
Taiwan Strait
C. K. Yen
Republic of China
East Asia
Thailand
Yen
United States
Asia
Judy
U.S. Air Force
Manila
Vietnam
Bien Hoa
Saigon
U.S
Long Binh
Nixon Huddles With Aides On Budget and Annual Message
President Nixon spent New Year’s Day in California meeting with aides to plan the State of the Union address and the budget. He signed a bill creating a three man environmental quality council as a preview of his anti pollution drive for the 1970s. He warned cities may become unfit to live in if action is not taken and discussed nominations for a new draft director and a Supreme Court vacancy as Senate rejection of Haynsworth persists. He also congratulated coaches from the Cotton Bowl and Rose Bowl and spoke with J Edgar Hoover on his birthday.
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San Clemente
Calif
UPI
Nixon
Council On Environmental Quality
Texas
Darrell Royal
Notre Dame
Southern California
John McKay
J. Edgar Hoover
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Hoover
California
White House
Eight Feared Dead In Saratoga County Fire
In Wilton New York as many as eight persons were feared dead in a pre dawn blaze deputies reported the number unknown. Highway crews aided debris removal while a town source said the residents were foster parents to welfare children. Ten people were believed in the building with two children escaping. Further details were expected hours later.
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Wilton
N.Y
UPI
Saratoga County
Highway Department
Fate of Catholic Schools Weighed by Sisters
Bennington educators await a Rutland conference decision on whether St Francis de Sales Academy and Sacred Heart School will lose nuns. The Sisters of St Joseph face declines in teaching staff, affecting five parishes including Bennington, Brattleboro, Bellows Falls and Fair Haven. A decision today may convert Bennington schools to parish education centers for 1970. public notice of the outcome will follow.
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Greg Guma
Bennington
St. Francis de Sales Academy
Sacred Heart School
Sisters of St. Joseph
Rutland
St. Michael’s
Brattleboro
St. Charles
Bellows Falls
St. Mary’s
Fair Haven
Nora
George A. Sleeman
Southwestern Vermont Supervisory Union
Francis B. Flanagan
St. Francis Parish
Flanagan
St. Francis
Sleeman
Ning
Community of Nuns
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Edward R. Lamb
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National Safety Council
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Selective Service
Lewis Hershey
Supreme Court
Senate
Federal Court
Clement W. Haynsworth Jr
BSD
Catholic High
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