Bids Open Tuesday on Two Presidential Yachts
Two yachts that served five U.S. presidents will be auctioned at Newport with a rule they be used for pleasure not business. Minimum bids are 100000 for the Patricia and 65000 for the Julie. Descriptions have been sent to Aristotle Onassis and the Kennedy family.
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Defoe Boat and Motor Works
Bay City
Mich
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Sewell Avery
Montgomery Ward
Chicago
Navy
Educator doubts peace will end campus unrest
Boston based educator Dr. Calvin Lee warns that ending the Vietnam War may calm campuses but will not erase youth concerns. He notes students are troubled by poverty pollution and broader American societal ills. He rejects a mandatory national service corps as a cure and says history shows higher education cannot be coerced into obedience.
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UPI
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Lee
S.I. Hayakawa
San Francisco State College
National Service Corps
WEEI
Bay State House To Act Tuesday On Vietnam Poll
Boston report says Massachusetts lawmakers consider a statewide referendum in the November election on U S strategy in Vietnam. The Senate endorsed the bill with three options for voters and may face House amendments and a conference committee.
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Maurice A. Donahue
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United States
Customs seeks total success in border narcotics crackdown
U S Customs Commissioner Myles Ambrose said the agency seeks total success in narcotics border enforcement as officials and three House appropriations subcommittee members toured northern border crossings in New York and Vermont. They backed more funds for staff and facilities, citing a $240 million request to expand Champlain New York entry from six to 17 lanes to curb five mile jam ups toward Montreal. The agency reported a 300 percent rise in seizures and arrests from May to June, with New York seeing a 1,400 percent jump in seizures for the same period.
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U.S. Customs
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Vermont
Thomas Steed
Oklahoma
Champlain
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Steed
Montreal
Housing Director Named on Trial Basis in Vermont
UPI reports John Collar of Randolph, serving as acting director since Douglas Kelley’s resignation, was named temporary housing director by Vermont Housing Authority Chairman Rosalyn Oakes. The post would become permanent on December 1 if Collar performs well, despite criticism from Fiore Ariole over publicity surrounding Collar’s recent allegations of slum housing in Moretown.
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Moretown
Ex Mother of Year Dies in Rutland
Martha Bucklin 82 Vermont’s 1959 mother of the year died Saturday in a Rutland nursing home. She organized the Vermont Girl Scout Council and helped establish local and state children's music programs earning the nickname The Music Lady. She survived the 1903 Iroquois Theatre fire that killed 602.
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UPI
Martha Bucklin
Vermont
Bucklin
Girl Scout Council
Chicago
Environmental advisors pick Schaefer from Schenectady
Dr. Vincent J. Schaefer of Schenectady is named to the new state Council of Environmental Advisors along with six others to advise Governor Rockefeller on environmental policy. Schaefer has led the State University Atmospheric Sciences Research Center since 1966 and is known for his dry ice cloud seeding method.
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Rockefeller
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Berkshire energy project wins contract for Bear Swamp
New England Power Co awards J A Jones Construction Co of Charlotte North Carolina the contract to prepare and supervise construction of the Bear Swamp pumped storage plant on the Deerfield River. The 610 megawatt station will use two 300 megawatt reversible pump turbines with a 10 megawatt conventional unit. Work starts this fall. A war memorial on Mt Greylock faces restoration after a long funding debate and a 37 year old granite tower closure. Provincetown reports a fatal plane crash on the Cape Cod National Seashore seconds after takeoff from Provincetown Airport. The occupants were Joseph Smagel and Frank Dunn, both 25, from Pittsfield and North Adams respectively. Authorities cite ground fog disorientation. Great Barrington reports no new information on Kenneth Kimball found shot at his Mt W cottage. Public transit resumes in Pittsfield after a 10 week strike with drivers set to earn contract pay and a wage around 2.95 dollars per hour.
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State Senate
War Memorial Fund
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Joseph Smagel
Pittsfield
Frank Dunn
North Adams
Cape Cod National Seashore
Great Barrington
Kenneth K. Kimball
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