Vermont Senate Committee Chairs Named in Shakeup
In Montpelier UPI reports Sen. John J. O'Brien is the sole Democratic chair, heading the Highway and Bridges Committee. Five new chairmen were announced: Dorothy Shea Montpelier General and Military Committee. Andrew Orzel Rutland Town Government Operations. Stoyan Christone Dover Health and Welfare. Douglas Kitchel Passumpsic Judiciary. Arthur Jones Morgan Natural Resources. Sanborn Partridge Proctor Education. Edward G. Janeway will again head the Senate Appropriations Committee, with Donald Arnold Bethel Finance chair remaining.
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Dover
Douglas Kitchel
Passumpsic
Arthur Jones
Morgan
Natural Resources
Sanborn Partridge
Proctor
Janeway
Senate Appropriations Committee
Windsor County
Donald Arnold
Bethel
Vermont House names Giuliani majority leader
Vermont Representative Peter Giuliani, a Montpelier Republican and insurance attorney, began as majority leader after a 60-35 vote over Rep. John Alden. Giuliani named Alden assistant majority leader. Ninety-six members were present with one blank ballot. he succeeds Luther Hackett, who reportedly left leadership to chair the House Appropriations Committee.
Rights panel to rule on land sale discrimination case
The Vermont Human Rights Commission opens today to decide if Shaftsbury couple refused to sell 20 acres to New Jersey veterinarian Dr. Robert S. Goldsboro because of race. Assistant Attorney General Richard Blum said the inquiry centers on the complaint against Mr and Mrs Kenneth Skidmore.
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Burlington
UPI
Human Rights Commission
Shaftsbury
New Jersey
Asst
Richard Blum
Robert S. Goldsboro
Kenneth Skidmore
Goldsboro
Skidmores
Vermont Labor and Farm Council Conference Cancelled
The 30th Vermont Labor and Farm Council Conference at Goddard College in Plainfield on January 10 and 11 was suspended due to poor registration caused by bad weather. Education Commissioner Harvey B. Scribner was to attend. No rescheduling date has been announced.
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Plainfield
Vermont Labor and Farm Council
Goddard College
Harvey B. Scribner
Vermont March draft set at fifty six men
Montpelier Vermont March draft to call fifty six Vermonters, per Col William J Burke director of state selective service. The March figure marks a slight drop from February when sixty five were drafted.
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Montpelier
UPI
Troy Public Safety Chief reprimands officers over 12th man incident
In Troy New York Public Safety Commissioner Albert Prezio reprimanded the assistant chief and two officers after the arrest of a so called high city official in a gambling raid. The 12th man incident centered on Patrolman George E Dodge's single raid at the Riviera Lounge on July 23 1968. Pre-trial motions were made by 11 defendants alleging selective enforcement. testimony showed a 12th man was arrested and later released. Prezio announced no action against the officers as a trial was set following a defense dismissal motion rejection.
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Troy
John E. Grimmick
Prezio
Troy City workers win retroactive pay rise in bargaining
About 500 city employees will gain a retroactive increment and 10 percent pay raise following late Thursday negotiations between Troy Chapter CSEA and city officials. Police and firemen remain in dispute. The新增 annual cost tops $400,000 for 1969.
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Troy
Troy Chapter
CSEA
Troy City
Police raid arrests 12 in Troy narcotics sweep
State police and Rensselaer County DA staged two narcotics raids in Troy on Thursday night arresting 12 people aged 19 to 21. Hashish and a concentrated form of marijuana were seized at an apartment on 162nd Street and a home on 26 Fonda Avenue just before 9 p.m under Maj. Donald G. Brandon of State Police Troop G.
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Troy
Rensselaer County District Attorney’s Office
Berkshire boy dies during gym class in Pittsfield
Wayne Sweet 14 son of Mr and Mrs William B Sweet died Thursday during a physical training class at Pittsfield High School He collapsed while warming up and was dead on arrival at Pittsfield General Hospital Medical Examiner Irving I Rubin and state pathologist George Katsas ruled death from cardiac arrest caused by heart fibrosis
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Pittsfield
Wayne Sweet
William B. Sweet
Pittsfield High School
Pittsfield General Hospital
Irving I. Rubin
George Katsas
Boston
Inmates to Take GED Exams at Berkshire County Jail
Berkshire County House of Correction inmates will sit for General Educational Development exams next month under the state Education Department program. Those who pass will earn high school equivalency certificates.
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Pittsfield
Berkshire County
Conte Announces Seabees to Leave Vietnam Early
U S Rep Silvio Conte of Pittsfield said 35 members of the Seabee Reserve Mobile Construction Battalion will depart Vietnam in May, ending two years of possible active duty. Conte said the Navy notified him of the plan.
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Pittsfield
U.S
Silvio O. Conte
Seabee Reserve Mobile Construction Battalion
Vietnam
Conte
Department of the Navy
Whitney denies BOH violation over seven race horses
William B. Whitney, owner of seven race horses stabled on upper Warren Street in North Adams, denies claims of contravening a Board of Health order. The city sanitarian backs Whitney, and one horse is notably named the filly Legal Tangle.
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North Adams
William B. Whitney
Warren Street
Board of Health
Sanitarian
Whitney
New England Delegation Backs Maine Trade Zone Plan
Washington: The New England congressional delegation drafted a letter to the Interior Department supporting Maine's bid for a foreign trade zone and oil refinery to reduce fuel costs across six states. Sen Edward M Kennedy led fellow lawmakers in rallying support. the final draft was to be released today.
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Interior Department
Maine
Edward M. Kennedy
Dmass
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Kennedy
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Texas
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Occidental Petroleum Corp
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Libya
Margaret Chase Smith
R-Maine
Hoehn
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Norris Cotton
Louis Wyman
James C. Cleveland
William D. Hathaway
Peter Kyros
Edward Brooke
R-Mass
Edmund S. Muskie
Dmaine
Education and Welfare Lead Vermont Budget Highlights
Vermont Governor Deane C. Davis unveiled a 95.1 million dollar budget with education and welfare as the largest items. Education receives 45 million, state aid to local communities totals 25 million, and welfare and institutions are set at 19.5 million. The University of Vermont would get 8.3 million, and Vermont State College 3.4 million, with adjustments against prior requests. The plan also covers social welfare, corrections, prisons, Weeks School, and veterans homes.
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Lyman Rowell
Vermont State College
Robert Babcock
Social Welfare
Vermont State Prison
Weeks School
Soldiers Home
Bennington
Elizabeth Land
Burlington
Transformation of Vermont House Analyzed by Political Scientist
Winooski Vermont. St Michael s College political science instructor Frank M Bryan analyzes how Vermont s House of Representatives has transformed over the last decade. In Polity he argues reapportionment strengthened minority cohesion and shifted power to populous areas, with Democrats unified under Gov Hoff and Republicans polarized by town size.
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Winooski
Vermont
St. Michael’s College
Polity
Northeastern Political Science Associations
Frank M. Bryan
Winooski College
House of Representatives
Bryan
St. Michael’s
University of Vermont
University of Connecticut
House
Hoff
World capitals cost more to live in than New York says UN
The United Nations released a survey showing diplomats spend more to reside in 17 world capitals than in New York City with Nouakchott in Mauritania being the most expensive and Paris the only major city pricier than New York.
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United Nations
UPD
New York City
Nouakchott
Mauritania
Paris
New York
Berlin NH hit by 102 inches of snow state of emergency
Berlin New Hampshire endures record snow piling streets and roofs. Public works fight to clear 66 miles of roads with 18 trucks and three snowblowers as residents face 8 to 16 foot snowbanks. Schools closed. business reports spike in snow related demand.
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N.H
UPI
Noah
Himsef
Clarence Brungot
Brungot
Gorham
Albert Wilson
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