Student Residency Debate Prompts College Town Voter Shakeup
Courts may rule on student residency for national elections while states set rules for local votes. Jeffords cites extremes from dorm residents to grad students with families. Registrars demand tangible ties to permanent domiciles, fearing college towns could see student blocs swing local outcomes. Bennington and Burlington observers note eight registrations under the new law, with 1972 seen as a potential clarity point.
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Boards of Civil Authority
Jeffords
U.S. Supreme Court
College Towns
Williamstown
Mass
Amherst
Amherst College
University of Massachusetts
Bennington
Bennington College
Madeline Mullen
Cambridge
Election Commission
New York Times
Mullen
Burlington
UVM
Mary Hodeck
Miss Hodeck
Massachusetts
New England Governors Skeptical of Fast Rail Plan
New England governors at a midsummer conference voiced doubts about a 496 million high speed rail proposal from Providence to New Haven to cut Boston New York travel to under two hours. Connecticut Rhode Island leaders questioned funding and route shifts away from shoreline service. Senator Pell urged support arguing two hour link would curb air travel and spur long term growth. Massachusetts Governor Sargent scheduled Aug 18 talks to map strategy for improved regional transit.
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Providence
R.I
UPI
New England
New York
Boston
New Haven
Conn
Amtrak
Thomas Meskill
Connecticut
Frank Licht
Rhode Island
Geo-Transportation Foundation
Meskill
New London
Sargent
Council On Youth and Aging
Burlington teachers lose bid to block contracts
Burlington Vermont The Burlington Teachers Union lost its bid to block the school board from mailing out teachers contracts for the coming year. Superior Judge Rudolph Daley denied the petition seeking an injunction. Contracts are to be mailed within days to determine returning staff.
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Burlington
UPI
President Tubman of Liberia dies at 75 in London
President William V. S. Tubman of Liberia dies in London Clinic at age 75 after 27 years in office. He entered the facility July 4 for rest and checkup, underwent prostate surgery that day, and died late Friday afternoon following bleeding. Tubman had led Liberia since 1944, shaping an open door policy for the West African nation.
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London
UPI
William W.S. Tubman
Liberia
Tubman
Haile Selassie
Ethiopia
Jomo Kenyatta
Kenya
Africa
Organization of African Unity
OAU
U.S
National Guard
Army
Cuba to push Puerto Rico independence at UN session
Cuba announced it will ask the United Nations General Assembly to debate Puerto Rico’s independence at next fall’s session. Cuban Ambassador Ricardo Alarcon Quesada said the issue would be added to the provisional agenda, a move seen as virtually automatic. Puerto Rico remains a U.S. territory with commonwealth status and its own elected government, amid a strong pro-statehood movement.
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United Nations
UPI
Cuba
United Nations General Assembly
U.S
Puerto Rico
Ricardo Alarcon Quesada
Provisional Assembly
Caribbean
United States
GI heroin arrests jump in Vietnam vast volume
UPI reports U.S. military police in Vietnam arrested 1136 GIs on heroin charges in June, nearly matching 1970 totals of 1146. The figures, alongside rising amnesty requests by addicts, signal a narcotics problem as large as or larger than congressional estimates that 10 to 15 percent of GIs in Vietnam are narcotics users.
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Saigon
UPI
U.S
Vietnam
Maine refinery plan rejected as unacceptable risk
The Maine Environmental Improvement Commission ruled the proposed 150 million dollar fuel refinery off Sears Island would pose unacceptable risk to Penobscot Bay and surrounding land. It cited inadequate spill plans, weak finances, and fragmented evidence, dismissing potential economic benefits and signaling possible appeal by Maine Clean Fuels Inc.
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Augusta
Maine
UPI
Sears Island
Penobscot Bay
Maine Environmental Improvement Commission
Maine Clean Fuels Inc
Maine Clean Fuels
David Scott
State Supreme Court
Searsport
EIC
Moyers Named Anchor For New Weekly Public Affairs Show
Bill D. Moyers, former press secretary and ex Newsday publisher, will anchor a new weekly program on the National Educational Network. The half hour show titled This Week premieres at 8 30 p m Wednesday Oct 6 and will focus on the single most important news story of the week across fields.
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New York
UPI
Bill D. Moyers
Long Island
Newsday
National
Movie Timetable Across Theaters This Weekend
Harte presents Million Dollar Duck through Tuesday with matinees 2 p.m. Saturday and Sunday. weekend shows 6 30 and 8 30 p.m. Plaza Suite by Neil Simon plays at Manchester Saturday and Sunday 8 p.m. Williamstown offers Wild Honey rated X at 7 and 9 p.m. Saturday and Sunday. Bennington drive ins show Big Jake with John Wayne and Adam at 6 a.m. Michael Douglas. Hataways in North Hoosick screens Willard and Zachariah, a Western double feature.
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Bennington
Big Jake
John Wayne
Adam
Michael Douglas
Kirk
Hataway’s
North Hoosick
Willard
Zachariah
Funeral for slain Milton teacher Rita Curran draws 400 mourners
In Milton, four hundred gathered at St. Anne's Church for the funeral of Rita Curran, 24, the elementary school teacher found beaten, raped, and strangled in her Burlington apartment. Police offered no new leads as the killer remains at large. Curran had been working at a South Burlington motel this summer.
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Milton
UPI
Rita Curran
St. Anne’s
Main Street
N. Joseph
Miss Curran
Burlington
University
Eight new state troopers sworn in Montpelier
Commissioner Edward W. Corcoran administered the oath to eight officers who join Vermont State Police, assigned across Derby Shaftsbury Brattleboro Rockingham Colchester Middlebury and Montpelier areas. The group fills part of the 228 strength, with recruit class due this fall at Pittsford Police Academy.
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Roger J. Gilbert
Public Safety
Edward W. Corcoran
Redstone
Lloyd B. Potter
Foster C. Corliss
Corwin H. Cudman
Francis S. Willey Jr
Robert E. Moulton
Sidney R. Adams
Paul R. Kipp
Edward R. Suits
Robert R. Trepanier
Witherspoon Available for Another Term at Goddard
Gerald Witherspoon told trustees he is available for another term as Goddard College president. His current three year term ends next June and a subcommittee was to evaluate his performance at the weekend meeting. Since becoming president in 1969 he has tightened finances amid faculty and student dissension.
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Goddard
Royce Pitkin
Vermont Receives 250 Dollar Green Up Day Grant
Vermont officials announced a 250 dollar payment from Continental Can Co for 12 tons of cans collected by more than 40 000 volunteers on Green Up Day in May. Cans were sent to a Albany recycling plant and funds will back next year’s Green Up Day. A bottle recycling pilot in Burlington will continue and expand to Montpelier Rutland and possibly Brattleboro.
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Burlington
Montpelier
Rutland
Brattleboro
Newlin
Lights Spotted on East Mountain in Bennington Area
After two reports of red flares on East Mountain last night, Bennington Police sent a cruiser to East Road for ten minutes but observed nothing. Investigators speculate campers in the White Rocks area caused the signals, noting similar reports in the past.
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East Mountain
Bennington
East Road
White Rocks
Kennedy seeks postcard voters
Sen. Edward M. Kennedy plans to introduce legislation to allow any person 18 or over to register to vote by mailing a postcard to a new Census Bureau computer agency. He says the system would replace burdensome registration and unfair residence requirements that bar voters in many states.
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Washington
UPI
Edward M. Kennedy
D-Mass
Census Bureau
Wyman's Son Convicted On Pot Charge In Maryland
Louis C. Wyman Jr., son of New Hampshire Congressman Louis C. Wyman, received a one year suspended sentence and one year probation after a jury found him guilty of marijuana possession. Judge William Travers ordered he continue his education and live with his parents in Washington, D.C., or face jail. The case stemmed from a August 5, 1970 arrest in Wheaton, Maryland, when police found 4 to 5 pounds of suspected marijuana on a motorcycle. The trial had been moved from Montgomery County to Wicomico County due to pretrial publicity.
Canadian car slams bridge on Route 67A injures driver
A late-model car driven by 25 year old Robert J. Beltrame of Whitefish Falls Ontario struck a bridge on Route 67A near Garrison Corp, Friday evening, causing extensive damage. Beltrame received a head bump but four passengers in the 1970 Buick were not injured as the car veered off a soft shoulder and out of control.
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Route 67A
Garrison Corp
Robert J. Beltrame
Whitefish Falls
Ontario
McCarthy Considers 1972 Presidential Run Again
Former Senator Eugene McCarthy moves toward a second bid for the Democratic nomination in 1972 while ruling out a third party run. Close allies say he plans to announce in late September or early October and will canvass nationwide to build broad support as he weighs a national campaign beyond primaries.
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Washington
UPI
Eugene McCarthy
Minnesota
Johnson
McCarthy
New York
Rotary club holds assembly with goodwill message
Bennington Rotarians met in a club assembly with no guest speaker. President Richard Jolivette read a goodwill message from Rotary International president, summarizing the organization's spirit and aims for members.
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Bennington Rotary
Rotary International
Richard Jolivette
Bennington Briefs Soccer Team To Castleton Sunday Meet Point
Members of the Bennington amateur soccer team traveling to Castleton for a game are asked to assemble at Delaney's Restaurant at the Route 67A and Route 22 intersection in Hoosick New York at 11 a.m. Sunday. Beginning July 26 Geannesis Restaurant on Main Street will be open all day.
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Bennington
Bennington Banner
Main St
Banner Publishing Corp
United Press International
New York Times
Matthews, Shannon & Cullen Inc
Vermont
Castleton
Delaney’s
Route
Hoosick
N.Y
Main Street
Obituary Carl E. Steele 65 Proctor Rutland Hospital death
Carl E Steele 65 of Proctor died at Rutland Hospital Friday after a long illness He was born in Proctor Sept 16 1905 son of Charles and Ida Peterson Steele He worked for Vermont Marble Co until 1970 retired He was a member of St Pauls Lutheran Church in Proctor Survived by two daughters Mrs Clayton Kelley Pittsford and Mrs Bernard Leamy North Bennington a son Carl A Steele Proctor seven grandchildren three brothers Arthur S Proctor Robert Rutland and George Nashville Tenn and several nieces and nephews Funeral services Sunday 2 pm Barnard Funeral Home Pittsford Burial South Street Cemetery Proctor Friends may call Saturday 2-4 pm and 7-9 pm
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Carl E. Steele
Proctor
Rutland Hospital
Charles
Ida Peterson Steele
Vermont Marble Company
St. Paul’s Lutheran Church
Clayton Kelley
Pittsford
Bernard Leamy
North Bennington
Carl A. Steele
Arthur S
Robert
Rutland
George
Nashville
Tenn
Barnard Funeral Home
South Street
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Walker
U.N
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South Barre
Green Acres Ice Cream Co
Derby
Roger Gilbert
Griswoldville
J.A. Jones Construction Co
Drury
Shaftsbury
Paul Kipp
Troy
W.H. Bumstead Co
Robert Moulton
Essex Junction
University of Vermont
Corwin Cudman
Howe-Richardson Sacl Co
Rockingham
Edward Suits
Ft. George G. Meade
Witherspoon
Kennedy
N.H
Chesapeake Bay
Montgomery
Bennington Briefs
Nichols
Berkshire
Colonial
By Conover
Dunham Furniture Inc
Elm ST. Bennington
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