LWV seeks cut in size of Massachusetts Legislature
Boston. House Speaker David M Bartley says he will appeal to the state Supreme Court over the Massachusetts League of Women Voters petition to shrink the House from 240 to 160 members. The petition has cleared the legislature once and would go to voters in November if approved again. Bartley questions several technical points, including the use of legal voters versus population and separation of powers in potential redistricting.
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Massachusetts
Boston
UPI
House
David M. Bartley
D-Holyoke
State Supreme Court
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LWV
Bartley
Chamber
League
WHDH
New England IRS tax take hits 1969 totals
Massachusetts and Connecticut bore most of the 10.9 billion dollars IRS tax haul for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1969. Personal income taxes accounted for about 70 percent in both states, with Rhode Island Maine New Hampshire and Vermont also contributing substantial amounts. Vermont paid 211.6 million, while total personal income taxes in the six states reached 7.913 billion and corporate taxes 2.101 billion.
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Internal Revenue Service
New England
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Maine
New Hampshire
Vermont
Recipient of Double Transplant Dies in New York Hospital
Edward Falk 43 of Newton New Jersey died at 1:45 a.m. at New York General Hospital after receiving a heart and both lungs from donors. Doctors said the body rejected the lungs though the heart from a 50 year old woman functioned well. Falk, with terminal emphysema and heart failure, was the hospital's 10th heart transplant patient.
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New York
UPI
New Jersey
Edward Falk
New York General Hospital
A Specsman
Falk
Newton
N.J
C. Walton Lillehei
Lillehel
Pavilion Hotel demolition begins amid Vermont capital changes
In Montpelier the Pavilion Hotel is down for demolition as Vermont lawmakers return, with rubble removal not expected until next week. The six week project preserves the Victorian facade within a modern office building amid a dispute over preserving or razing the structure.
Woodstock Attorney Freed on $150 Bail for DUI
Windsor District Court freed Brattleboro attorney Peter I. Diamondstone on $150 bail after his New Year eve arrest on Interstate 91 in Springfield. He awaited arraignment as a state trooper cited his car veering into a snowbank during a Sunday stop. In Montpelier, Vermont unemployment rose by 512 to 3,800 for the week ending Dec. 27, the highest since summer, with St Albans posting the worst and Brattleboro the best inout of work.
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Peter I. Diamondstone
Palmer Ainsworth
Windsor
Brattleboro
Springfield
Diamondstone
Montpelier
UPI
Vermont
Employment Security Department
St. Albans
Albany GOP Bid Fails Again for Election Board Posts
Albany County Legislature rejected a Republican bid to name two new election commissioners for the fourth time, with the closest vote yet. Minority Leader George A. Roland signaled doubts about Republican representation, while newly elected David R. Torncello aligned with Democrats. In Cohoes, Virginia A. McDonald was inaugurated mayor, with a bronze plaque honoring her late husband, James E. McDonald. Cohoes Centennial Committee incorporation was approved, planning an April 25 to May 2 centennial festival including a parade and pageant.
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George A. Roland
David R. Torncello
Virginia
Cohoes
Ralph Surzyn
Oo State Supreme Court
Arenu
Rogers Company
Fostoria
Ohio
Snowmobile chase ends with hospital observation in Pittsfield
Two Pittsfield snowmobile operators David Peck aged 30 and Kenneth Obert aged 19 led police on chases through Pittsfield and Great Barrington. Peck rammed a police cruiser then fled on foot until captured on a passing snowmobile. Peck was sent to Northampton State Hospital for 35 days observation. Obert faces charges of operating to endanger without insurance and registration and failing to stop. Also in Pittsfield a 59 year old man Charles Homich was found dead on a porch roof after likely self confinement and heart event. Berkshire flood warning due to Monument Mills dam risks with heavy snow and possible thaw.
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David Peck
Kenneth E. Obert
Great Barrington
Emmett J. Shea
Peck
Berkshire
Shea
Northampton State Hospital
Obert
Charles Homich
Summer St
George Juby
General Electric
William A. Heaphy
Monument Mills
Housatonic River
Housatonic
Richard S. Pope
Southport
Heaphy
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