Judge Holds Mt Anthony reapportionment plan approved
Judge James S Holden of Brattleboro U S District Court approved Mt Anthony Union School Board reapportionment, ordering a new election within 120 days with district nominations and at large voting, terms staggered, starting 1977 for three year terms. Separate ballots by district. current board stays until then.
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Rob Woolmington
Mt. Anthony Union School Board
James S. Holden
U.S. District Court
Brattleboro
Mt. Anthony
Luke Crispe
Holden
Bennington
Shaftsbury’s
Pownal’s
North Bennington’s
Woodford’s
American Civil Liberties Union
Puppet goddess leads Mettowee cast in Peace practice
Members of the Mettowee Theatre Company parade with their puppet goddess during a rehearsal of their Aristophanes adaptation Peace at the Park-McCullough House yesterday. The troupe performs tonight in Cambridge New York and later in Bennington this summer with more on the company on page nine.
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Mettowee Theatre Company
Aristophanes
Park-McCullough House
Cambridge
N.Y
Bennington
Top FBI aides under inquiry by Justice Department probes
Washington reports that several past and present FBI executives, including aides to director Clarence M. Kelley, face Justice Department inquiries into alleged misconduct. The probes center on criminal activity and illegal burglaries within the last five years, raising morale and operation concerns across the bureau. Sources indicate potential testimonies against colleagues in exchange for immunity, and the investigation may uncover broader illegal actions by agents, including wiretaps and abductions.
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N.Y. Times
Washington
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Clarence M. Kelley
Justice Department
Bureau
FBI
Edward Bennett Williams
Henry E. Petersen
Mitchell Rogovin
Central Intelligence Agency
Williams
Petersen
Kelley
Weather Underground
J. Stanley Pottinger
Civil Rights Division
L. Patrick Gray 3d
J. Edgar Hoover
Pat Nixon Collapses From Stroke in Long Beach
Pat Nixon is in serious condition after a stroke at Long Beach Memorial Hospital. Doctors warn her condition could worsen and she may not walk or talk normally again, while husband Richard Nixon and family await further updates.
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Long Beach
Calif
UPI
Pat Nixon
Long Beach Memorial Hospital
Nixon
Julie Eisen
Nixons
Tricia Cox
New York
Mosier
Seco
June Wholesale Prices Rise 0.4 Percent
The Labor Department reports June wholesale prices increased 0.4 percent led by steel and gasoline. For the April–June period, the year’s wholesale inflation runs 6.6 percent, with metals and fuels driving most of the rise.
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Washington
UPI
Labor Department
Ford
Skewering supper ideas from The Inside Local feature
Wadsworths share tips to skewer supper while Vermont Tomorrow releases a booklet on food consumerism. Page 3 highlights editor Paul Malamud’s impressions of Bicentennial events in New York City and editorial remarks on the jobs bill veto and its Bennington area implications. Page 4 notes the Manchester state dinner, Arlington Fire Co report, a Route 2 truck crash fatality, and the New Jersey teacher murder confession.
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Wadsworths
Vermont
Paul Malamud
New York City
Bennington
Manchester
Arlington Fire Co
New Jersey
Johnny Miller
Carlton Fisk
Brattleboro
Draft resister returns to U S to speak at Democratic convention
Fritz Efaw, 29, returning from seven years abroad to address the Democratic National Convention as an alternate delegate for overseas Americans. He faces an Oklahoma draft-dodger indictment but was not arrested at Kennedy Airport. A federal deal likely moves his appearance before a magistrate to delay returning to Oklahoma. Efaw, MIT graduate and former Oklahoma City native, fled in 1969 after conscientious objector status was denied. He has been in England as an urban consultant.
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New York
UPI
Fritz Efaw
Oklahoma
Efaw
Kennedy Airport
U.S
Efan
Oklahoma City
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
England
Ford gains 12 North Dakota delegates in race
United Press International reports President Ford remains active in Washington while Reagan campaigns nationwide. Ford widened his GOP convention lead by 13 and North Dakota awarded 12 delegates to Ford, versus four for Reagan. Reagan and Ford inch closer to the nomination as remaining states prepare voting days.
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United Press International
Ford
White House
Ronald Reagan
Washington
Queen Elizabeth
North Dakota
Reagan
Maine
New York
GOP
Richard Rosenbaum
UPI
Colorado
Utah
Connecticut
Bennington Summers program sparks faculty clash over art and jazz
Controversy at Bennington College erupts as faculty debate the Summers program and its Jazz Lab. William Dixon denounces commercialization and labels jazz a misrepresentation of black music, while others fear the program dilutes avant garde traditions and the college’s artistic integrity.
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Bennington College
Bennington Summers
Jazz Lab
William Dixon
Dixon
Omar Lerman
Lerman
Jimmy Ownes
Chris White
Visual Arts
Kathy Halbreich
Hoosick Falls
N.Y
Europe
Lee College
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Supreme Court
Shaftsbury
Mr. Anthony
Crispe
Mt. Anthony Board
Second Circuit
High Court
District
Anthony
By Terrance W. McGarry
Hower
San Clemente
Jack M. Mosier
Chicago
California
Mrs. Eisenhower
By Mike Feinsilber
Illinois
Missouri
Indiana
Jimmy Carter
By John Leaning
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