Bennington merchants push downtown tree beautification plan
Bennington Main Street shopkeepers, facing mall competition and economic strain, back a beautification effort to plant flowering crabs and lindens along sidewalks. They seek private funding and town maintenance, while selectmen offer no tax support. Some worry trees won’t spark sales, others remain hopeful.
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Joe Swayze
Bennington
Main Street
Chamber of Commerce
Joseph Parks
Parks
Charles
Tilgner III
State sign program allows ads on Interstate routes
Vermont TIC approves a revamped travel sign plan featuring white text on blue, larger 6 foot signs, and optional symbols removed from travel centers. Advertising space at three rest areas will host local businesses for about 50 to 100 dollars per ad, with centers expected to reach over 150,000 travelers annually. The plan includes a future state travel guidebook distributed to 250,000 people and aims to direct travelers to attractions and historic sites across southern Vermont.
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Springfield
Vermont Travel Information Council
TIC
Guilford
Putney
Westminster
Stanley Patch
Patch
Elbert G. Moulton
Vermont
Moulton
Brattleboro
Meir warns US on Soviet Egyptian treaty risk to peace
Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir told United Press International the 15 year Cairo Moscow pact shifts the regional arms balance, threatens peace, and demands immediate U S arms support. She urged an interim Suez settlement but rejected a six month canal cease fire while warning Egypt to break the deadlock or face war. Sadat warned Washington to move quickly and set a six month deadline, saying time favors Israel if missed. Meir spoke to a crowded Knesset reaffirming Israel’s aim to reopen the canal and noting the new pact’s reach over Egyptian life and regional security.
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Golda Meir
United States
Middle East
Washington
Israel
Cairo
Egypt
Sadat
Meir
Soviet Union
Africa
Europe
Knesset
Parliament
Suez Canal
Inside Bennington Town Clerk Calls Abatement Meeting
Town Clerk proceeds to convene a tax abatement meeting to hear North Bennington’s plea after selectmen refused. The note appears on Page 3 of the issue reflecting local governance actions.
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Bennington
North Bennington
Charter defeat in Rensselaer County shapes local governance
In Rensselaer County the proposed charter failed nationwide with 8,133 yes to 7,108 no but missing city and town majorities. A separate county medical examiner plan passed 9,272 to 5,698, ending the old coroner system. Proponents vow another vote next year, while Berlin Nassau and Pittstown kept elected assessors against a state-mandated appointed system.
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Troy
N.Y
Rensselaer County
Rensselaer
Brunswick
North Greenbush
Charter Commission
Berlin
Nassau
Pittstown
NYC Wildcat Strike Ends After Pension Pact
NYC’s two day wildcat strike by 8,000 municipal workers ends as union leaders accept a four point plan from the Office of Collective Bargaining to resubmit pension proposals. Bridges reopen and most city services resume after widespread disruption and sewage dumping.
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New York
UPI
Office of Collective Bargaining
John V. Lindsay
Lindsay
American Federation of State
Mill Basin
Brooklyn
Supreme Court
Harold Baer
Victor Gotbaum
Barry Feinstein
Teamsters
Clifford offers Viet peace plan
Former Defense Secretary Clifford argues a concise plan could end U S involvement in Indochina by December 31 and secure the release of all American POWs within 30 days. The plan requires full U S withdrawal, a halt to military actions, and a mutual pledge by North Vietnam and the Vietcong to release prisoners within 30 days of a Washington Hanoi joint announcement. The proposal includes safeguards if prisoners are not released on time and emphasizes negotiations with Hanoi and the National Liberation Front. The White House disputed the feasibility and warned the deadline could deprive South Vietnam of defense time.
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Washington
Clark M. Clifford
United States
North Vietnam
Clifford
Indochina
Vietcong
Hanoi
Nixon
Defense
Lyndon B. Johnson
National Liberation Front
Congress
White House
Ronald L. Ziegler
Okinawa to be Returned by United States to Japan
Paris UPI reports final eight point treaty announced by American and Japanese negotiators details a U S and Japan agreement to return Okinawa after 26 years of U S occupation. Signing set for June 17 with ratification pending in Congress and the Japanese Diet.
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Paris
UPI
Japan
Okinawa
William P. Rogers
U.S
Kiichi Aichi
Eisaku Sato
Rogers and
Aichi
Washington
Tokyo
Voice of America
Rogers
Bennington Police Chief Rejects Size, Embraces Teen Rights
In a wide ranging interview Bennington Police Chief William H. Fox discusses shifting to a townwide force, hiring four new patrolmen, and upcoming moves to the Chamber of Commerce building. He fears increased teen access to liquor with Vermonts new 18 year old citizenship law could raise traffic problems and vows to fill State Police gaps when they pull out July 1.
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Bennington
Vermont
William H. Fox
The
Banner
Fox
Massachusetts
New York
South Street
Chamber of Commerce
International Association of Chiefs of Police
IACP
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Lake Michigan
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