Jeffords calls for better use of Vermont county sheriffs
Vermont Republican Sen. James Jeffords of Rutland urged greater reliance on the 14 county sheriffs departments to improve local protection and reduce delays in police response. He spoke in a Middlebury radio interview noting the regionalization of jails and calling for adequate facilities and compensation for sheriffs in training programs and regional protection.
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UPS
James Jeffords
Rutland
GOP
Jeffords
Vermont
Law Enforcement Training Council
Hickey rules out run for Vermont state treasurer
Deputy state Treasurer Leo K. Hickey said he has no intention of seeking the state treasurer’s post, citing concerns about job security and no circumstances that would change his mind. Appointed in 1966 after Peter Hincks’ death, Hickey also ruled out accepting an interim appointment.
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Hincks
Vermont considers four candidates for new industrial director
Burlington reports an advisory committee has shortlisted two strong outsiders from New England and the Midwest for Vermont's vacant industrial director post, with one more Vermont applicant to be interviewed before the Development Board finalizes its list later this month. In Woodstock, the Vermont Mount Holyoke Club meets July 25 at the Woodstock Inn for a luncheon and a talk on Mount Holyoke Today by alumnae secretary Priscilla M. Wilson, with reservations due by July 22.
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Burlington
UPI
Development Board
Vermont
Roland Loveless
New England
Mid-West
Robert Wilson
Woodstock
Vermont Mount Holyoke Club
Woodstock Inn
Priscilla M. Wilson
Mount Holyoke
Marion Hardy
Frost Road
Bennington
Vermont Club
Jane B. Hobson
Bellows Falls
Katharin Flowers
Brandon
Ruggles Launches Vermont Lt Gov Campaign Swing
Washington County Republican Sen Daniel Ruggles began a two day southeastern Vermont tour with a Brattleboro coffee hour and appearances in Brattleboro and Bellows Falls as part of his campaign for the GOP nomination for lieutenant governor.
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UPI
Washington County
Daniel Ruggles
GOP
Windham County
Ruggles
Vermont
Bellows Falls
Vermont college gets $2 million HUD loan for construction
The Housing and Urban Development department approved a $2 million loan to the University of Vermont and State Agricultural College for construction, announced by Senator George D. Aiken's office in Washington.
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UPI
Housing and Urban Development
HUD
University of Vermont
State Agricultural College
George D. Aiken
D-Vt
Washington
Hicks wins Clarence Day Award for promoting reading
Grafton author and critic Granville Hicks received the Clarence Day Award at the American Library Association convention in Kansas City for promoting the love of books. The citation highlighted his Saturday Review column and his autobiography Part of the Truth. Hicks, a former RPI English professor, was McGuffey Visiting Professor at Ohio University last year and earned an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters from Skidmore College this spring.
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Granville Hicks
Clarence Day
American Library Association
Kansas City
Hicks
Saturday Review
RPI
McGuffey
Ohio University
Skidmore College
Albany Faces Shortage as Day Care Centers Close
Albany has five operating day care centers for working mothers with one closing due to strict New York State licensing rules. Operator Loretta Slaughter cared for 10 to 16 children but cannot fund required facilities and services. The county welfare commissioner can buy services only from nonprofit centers, of which Albany has one serving about 70 children.
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Albany
Loretta Slaughter
New York
Albany Teamsters End 32 Day Strike With Settlement
Members of Teamster Union Local 294 voted 128 to 5 to end a 32 day strike against 10 Albany area concrete firms. The walkout involved 160 drivers and 10 mechanics and halted work on several projects including the South Mall. The pact provides about a $36 weekly raise over three years.
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Albany
Teamster Union
Albany Area
South Mall
Berkshire wage panel urges higher school pay in Pittsfield
Professor Stanley Young of U Mass urges a minimum salary of 6050 dollars for Pittsfield teachers with Sept 1 implementation and a 302 dollar annual increment for the first 11 years of service. The bachelor degree maximum would rise to 9377 dollars. Lincoln D Lynch expects to leave for a Cape Cod area district this fall after the reorganization.
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Pittsfield
Stanley Young
University of Massachusetts
Pittsfield Teachers Association
Lincoln D. Lynch
Cape Cod
Lynch
Adams Selectmen Extend Camp Dresser Contract for Sewage Plant
Adams town officials approved a 60 day extension for Camp Dresser and McKee of Boston as consulting engineer for the planned multi million dollar sewage treatment plant. Additional design work is expected to raise costs by 488000 dollars with the plant total projected above 4 million dollars.
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Camp, Dresser & McKee
Boston
Wallace Campaign in Yankee New England Tour
In Massachusetts Wallace pursues a third party ballot bid with 61 238 signatures while touring with a country band and southern supporters. Secret Service and former Alabama troopers flank the ex-governor as he speaks in small Yankee towns promising law and order and grassroots empowerment.
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UPI
Alabama
George C. Wallace
Yankee
New England
George
Massachusetts
Wallace
Dixie
Secret Service
Congress Learns Cost of Spending Cuts
Washington based report outlines the price of economy as four day mail delivery and Saturday post office closures loom. Agencies push for exemptions while House Ways and Means weighs a 10 percent tax rise and substantial cuts.
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UPI
House
Ways and Means Committee
Post Office Department
Federal Aviation Administration
Secret Service
Congress
Internal Revenue Service
Military
Tom Steed
D-Okla
Ways and Means
Post Office
Reagan Denies Boston Story on Candidacy Announcement
UPI reports the Boston Herald Traveler claimed Ronald Reagan would announce his bid for the GOP nomination on July 21 with a national TV appearance and prearranged air time. Reagan’s press officer denies the story, while supporters push for a strategy to halt Nixon’s delegate lead.
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UPI
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California
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Reagan
Paul Beck
Beck
United Press International
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Richard M. Nixon
New York
Nel
Feet on wheel lead to arrest in Cincinnati incident
UPI reports Donald Snyder, 32, was cited after his convertible’s front seat was used while he sat on the back seat with his feet on the steering wheel for a June 14 collision with a parked car. Police alleged reckless driving. Reagan plans campaign stops in Little Rock Texas Virginia and Alabama to aid Governor Rockefeller reelection bid.
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Reagan
Rockefeller - Reagan
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South
Rockefeller
UPI
Donald Snyder
Snyder
Little Rock
Ark
Winthrop Rockefeller
Nelson
Texas
Virginia
Alabama
Opponents protest Spock sentencing with gagged statues
Boston sentencing of Benjamin Spock and three codefendants for draft evasion drew protests as statues of Washington and John Paul Jones were gagged in Philadelphia. Spock Coffin Goodman Ferber received two years and fines of 5000 each, stayed on appeal. Public demonstrations followed in Boston with Spock denouncing the war and Nixon.
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UPD
Philadelphia
George Washington
John Paul Jones
Benjamin Spock
Spock
William Sloane Coffin Jr
Yale University
Mitchell Goodman
Temple
Maine
U.S
Francis J. W. Ford Jr
Michael Ferber
Harvard
Buffalo
N.Y
Stafford Urges Battle Pay For Imprisoned Pueblo Crewmen
UPI reports Sen. Norris Cotton with House colleagues backing a bill to pay USS Pueblo crew members hostile fire pay from January 1968 to one month after their repatriation. Rep. Stafford and others argue extra income aids families and honors the 82 sailors who faced North Korea's forces during captivity.
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Washington
UPI
Norris Cotton
Secretary of Defense
Pueblo
Cotton
North Korea
Robert T. Stafford
Rvt
House Armed Services
Stafford
James C. Cleveland
R N,h
Garner Shriver
Rkan
Cairns Predicts Nixon Nomination On First Ballot
Vermont GOP official C Douglas Cairns predicts Nixon will win the Republican nomination on the first ballot at the national convention. He cites upcoming releases of delegations and recent endorsements by Hatfield and Tower as shifting support toward Nixon. Cairns also calls the vice presidential race open with names like Hatfield Percy Rhodes and Lindsay as possibilities.
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Nixon
Burlington
UPI
Vermont
Richard M. Nixon
C. Douglas Cairns
Mark Hatfield
Oregon
John Tower
Texas
New York
Nel
Rockefeller
Hatfield
Charles Percy
Ilinois
Ohio
James Rhodes
John Lindsay
Youth Problems To Be Discussed Colchester Session
Dr Rudolph Driekurs of the University of Chicago Medical School will address the Governor's Committee on Children and Youth on July 17 at the ETV studio Colchester. Arthur Ristau will discuss the Vermont New York Summer Project for Youth and the August 9-11 Vermont International Conference on Early Childhood Services at Johnson State College. A brief business meeting will follow, chaired by C Andrew Herschel of Montpelier.
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Rudolph Driekurs
University of Chicago Medical School
Governor’s Committee On Children and
ETV
Driekurs
UVM
Arthur Ristau
Philip H. Hoff
C. Andrew Herschel
Montpelier
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