Massachusetts asks Supreme Court to rule on war declaration
Massachusetts Attorney General Robert Quinn asks the U.S. Supreme Court to decide if President Nixon can send Massachusetts servicemen to undeclared wars like Vietnam. The brief argues Congress has not declared or ratified war and seeks to halt further deployment while preserving executive powers.
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UPI
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U.S. Supreme Court
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Congress
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Francis W. Sargent
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Supreme Court
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Gulf of Tonkin
Maple Research Funds Cleared by Congress
Washington Congress cleared a 200000 dollar appropriation to fund a marketing research program in the maple syrup and sugar industry. The program will be run by the Forest Service Research Laboratory in Burlington and aims to boost sales, broaden markets, and explore veneer and lumber uses for sugar maple. Senator George D. Aiken noted benefits from Maine to Minnesota and Maryland to West Virginia. The item was inserted in the Interior Department appropriations bill and sent to the President for signing.
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Hoff and Davis Spar Over Vermont Deficit Claim
North Troy Vermont. UPI reports Senatorial candidate Philip Hoff accuses Gov. Deane Davis of misleading voters by focusing on a $7 million budget deficit. Hoff and Lt. Gov. Thomas Hayes blame the GOP legislature for adding $4.5 million to Hoff’s 1968 69 budgets. Hoff accepts responsibility for a little under $3 million. He notes he inherited a $5 million deficit when taking office in 1962.
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Deane C. Davis
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Davis
Thomas Hayes
Heckler declines bid to challenge Kennedy in Senate race
WASHINGTON UPI Rep Margaret M Heckler R Mass has refused White House support and a possible million campaign chest to run against Sen Edward M Kennedy. She said she will remain in the House and continue to work for her district after discussions with Nixon aides Murray Chotiner and Charles Colson. GOP primary contenders Josiah Spaulding and John J McCarthy are seeking the nomination.
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GOP
Court Asked To Rehear Welfare Case In Vermont
In Montpelier UPI Vermont Supreme Court petitions to rehear a welfare case after a ruling requiring continued support for a dependent child despite a mother’s remarriage. The case centers on who proves step parent status and potential bar admissions for lawyers. The Fish and Game Department reports mercury testing in major Vermont waters to finish by September with exemptions possible after re-evaluation.
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Vermont Legal Aid
Montpelier
UPI
Fish and Game Department
Vermont
Attorney Finds Marijuana Plants At Ohio University Golf Course
Athens Ohio police report a local attorney drove onto the Ohio University golf course and discovered four marijuana plants about eight feet tall in an evergreen grove near the first hole. The crops were confiscated by officers.
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Athens, Ohio
UPI
Ohio University
Charles Cochran
Vandals tied to dynamite theft recovered by divers
Washington County Sheriff Mark Brown said vandals likely stole a dynamite magazine from a Websterville quarry. The 500 pound case was recovered by state police divers from 30 feet of water. Theft was reported July 13 with other merchandise missing. The dynamite was destroyed after recovery and no underwater detonation occurred. A separate Marshfield bar cache is under federal investigation.
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Health Department to Boost Newborn Health Care
Burlington reports the state Health Department will notify the Child Health Service of every birth and send a public health nurse for at least one follow up visit. Nurses will refer families to doctors or health agencies when needed. The plan starts with high risk babies and will expand to all newborns.
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Vermont Supreme Court declines to rule in Blondin murder case
The Vermont Supreme Court did not rule on defense motions to suppress evidence in the first degree murder trial of Gerald Blondin 22 Barre. The court cleared the way for the trial over issues of arrest rights and seized items while directing exhaustion of appeals. Blondin pleaded not guilty and not guilty by reason of insanity and remains held on 50 000 bail.
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Rudolph Daley
Supreme Court
Murders, Ditch Collapse Reported in New York Area
Albany police and state police report arrests in two murders one in Albany the other near Troy. Nellie M Farmer 85 found dead in Wellington Hotel room John Lee Mitchell 23 charged with her murder George LaFrancis 18 charged with stabbing Dmytro Oleksowycz 61 found dead in a ditch near Brunswick Rensselaer County A Troy youth died when a ditch caved in at a Coeymans construction site John H Althouse 18 died as an eight foot wall of dirt collapsed in front of a Route 143 school at 430 PM
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Wellington Hotel
George LaFrancis
Ninth St
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Renssealer Polytechnic Institute
Brunswick
Rensselaer County
Coeymans
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Route 143
Rote Hill man kills rattlesnake in Route 41 incident
Berkshire report says Wayne Robbins of Rote Hill ran over a 56 inch rattlesnake on Route 41 Sunday. He brought the creature to the Sheffield Highway Department superintendent who skinned it and kept about four pounds of meat as a reward. The veteran skinner previously faced a rattlesnake bite while wrestling with another snake.
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