Billings Names 20 in GOP To House Committee Posts
Vermont news reports Speaker Franklin Billings named Republicans to head all 20 House committees and 12 of 18 Senate committees. Emery Hebard of Glover was named chair of the reapportionment panel. Other House chairs include Lawrence Guilford Franklin agriculture and John Masterton judiciary. Senate picks included George Cook chairing Judiciary and William Burke Finance. Gov Hoff criticized the all Republican list as surprising given Democratic population share.
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Richard Mallary
Fairlee
Byron Hathorn
Hartford
Senate
George Cook
Rutland
William Burke
Edward Janeway
Windham
Ellery Purdy
Daulton Mann
Peru
Samuel Parsons
Hubbardton
Flora Coutts
Newport
Robert Crowe
Sheldon
Arthur Simpson
Lyndon
George Heaslip
Manchester
Ralph Stafford
Wallingford
Walter Kennedy
Chelsea
John Masterton
Goshen
C. O. Granai
Barre
Alice Landon
New Haven
Clark Hutchinson
Rochester
Francis Kleinhans
Roxbury
Edward Conlin
Windsor
Fred Wilcox
Sheffield
Daniel Ruggles
William Wheatley
Fish
Daley rails at Senate committee makeup in Vermont
In Montpelier Democrat Lt Governor John Daley angrily refused to sign a report on Senate committee chairs, saying Dems held only six of 18 chairs deemed minor. Robert Cummings weighs resigning as Banking and Insurance Commissioner for private practice amid talk he was offered and turned down state tax chief. GOP Rutland officials express surprise as Daley labels committee allocations as political and partisan, while House GOP maintains control 17-13 and Democrats hold no chairmanships there.
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Montpelier
UPD
John Daley
Senate
George Cook
Rutland
Daeley
Committee On Committees
Daley
Olin Gay
Cook
GOP
Vermont
House
Vermont asks delay in reapportionment ruling before Supreme Court
Vermont asks the U S Supreme Court to extend the April 1 reapportionment deadline arguing current orders will halt government work. Deputy Attorney General Chester Ketcham will argue, with oral arguments set for next Monday, as Hoff aides propose a July 1 or September 1 deadline for realignment.
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Montpelier
API
Vermont
U.S. Supreme Court
Chester Ketcham
Supreme Court
Bliss In, Burch Out: Bliss Set to Lead GOP in 1965
Washington sources report GOP National Chairman Dean Burch will resign after the January 22 Chicago meeting, yielding to Ray C. Bliss as chairman. Bliss and Goldwater backers say Burch’s departure follows moderate pressure, with Bliss’s Ohio chairmanship timing tied to the Chicago session.
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Washington
Burch
National Committee
Chicago
Bliss
Ohio
Warranted arrests looming in Bennington cockfight case
State Police agents seized 47 fighting birds at a Squaw Hill Road barn and questioned about 50 people from several states. Warrants prepared for service on multiple suspects as investigators study applicable Vermont laws. arraignments not expected before Friday, guardianship of birds by Bennington County Humane Society under guard.
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Squaw Hill
Benenington
Vermont
Bennington County Humane Society
Socciety’s
Arlington
Hoff Predicts Ultimate Success of His Program
Vermont Governor Hoff predicts that his bold legislative program will eventually pass into law, noting time to act if the Supreme Court allows sessions until July 1. He discusses reapportionment, interim appropriations, tax policy, and the dismissal of a poll tax prerequisite for voting. He also names Stan ton Lazarus as executive clerk and defends recent raises while outlining labor and administrative agenda.
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Vermont
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Pownal
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Lawmak
Ers
Supreme Court
Middlebury
Stanton Lazarus
Lazarus
House
Senate
Benjamin Collins
Priscilla la Plante
Long Gilman Paper Co
60 More Jobs Foreseen In Wire Plant
POWNAL An official of the Warren Wire Co a subsidiary of the General Cable Corp announced Monday that operations moved from another General Cable plant should bring 50 to 60 new hires at the Warren plant in the coming months Carleton H Parker Warren Wire plant manager said the Providence R I General Insulated Wire Co plant has more work than it can handle and production equipment for plastic wire cord sets is being transferred to Pownal with only a few possible worker transfers from Providence including one or two supervisory staff
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Pownal
Warren Wire Co
General Cable Corp
General Cable
Carleton H. Parker
Warren Wire
General
Providence
Johnson seeks 1.5 billion for school aid shared time plan
President Johnson urged Congress to approve 1.5 billion dollars in new education aid, stressing elementary and secondary funding of 1.25 billion plus 260 million for higher education. The plan targets poorer families, expands shared time facilities, upgrades libraries and textbooks, and introduces federally insured student loans while broadening reach to pre K and college students. The move aims to boost federal education authority to 4.1 billion for the year starting July 1.
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Congress
Johnson
Peace Corps
Sargent Shriver
John A. Gronouski
AEC
Glen Seaborg
Hubert H. Humphrey
Defense
Robert McNamara
Agriculture
Orville Freeman
Labor
Willard Wirtz
Anthony Celebrezze
Commerce
John T. Connor
Washington
UPI
Raynolds resigns as Education Board chair to join Senate panel
Senator Harold Raynolds quits as chairman of Vermont State Board of Education so he can serve on the Senate Education Committee. Governor Hoff accepted the resignation after a conflict of interest dispute lingered, with the legislature to decide. Senator George Cook noted the need for a layman voice and suggested Helen Franco replace Raynolds on the committee.
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Sen. Raynolds
Montpelier
UPC
Philip Hoff
Harold Raynolds
State Board of Education
Windsor Couney
Senate
Raynolds
Springfield
Hoff
George Cook
Rutland County
Washington County
Helen Franco
State Board
Sen
Hicks Avenue School Leased for Rural Class Overflow
The Greater Bennnington School District signed a lease Monday for the old Hicks Tweroom School at Hicks Avenue and U S 7. Rent will be 160 dollars per month and the lease is effective immediately. The building will serve the 1965 66 school year to handle overflow students.
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Greater Bennington
Hicks Avenue
U.S. 7
Inside Court ends school segregation in Springfield
A brief note reports that On the Inside Court orders end to school segregation in Springfield Massachusetts on page 3. The item highlights a significant civil rights development and places the action within the local context of education policy.
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Springfield
Mass
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