National Motorcycle Races Draw 15 000 To Loudon
In Loudon New Hampshire police mobilize for the weekend event as about 15 000 bikers from across the United States and Canada arrive to watch and participate in the National Motorcycle Races at Motor Sports Park. Riders from Millington New Jersey travel 350 miles while officials coordinate state help under the New England State Police Compact to keep the weekend orderly.
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New Hampshire
Ed Seavel
Millington
N.J
George Washington Bridge
Seavel
New Jersey
United States
Canada
Loudon
Keith Bryar
Rte 106
Bob Wheeler
London
Laconia
Walter Peterson
New England
Robert Rhodes
Vermont Yankee authorized to issue up to 20 million in short-term notes
Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Corp has PSB approval to issue up to 20 million dollars in short-term notes to complete financing through September. The board notes a Massachusetts municipal utility interest in purchasing power from non-Vermont sponsors, hoping for a timely end to antitrust litigation and move toward permanent debt financing. Bankers Trust Co and First National Bank of Boston will underwrite, replacing an earlier plan, while Vermont Yankee already has authorization to issue 40 million dollars in common stock for a 120 million dollar Vernon atomic generator project.
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PSB
Massachusetts Municipals
Atomic Energy Commission
Securities and Exchange Commission
Vermont Yankee
Municipals
Vermont
Bankers Trust Co
First National Bank of Boston
Vernon
Harvard Graduation Divided by Administrators and Militant Dissent
Harvard Commencement drew about 15 000 spectators as aging president Nathan Pusey and a militant student faction clashed over campus expansion, ROTC presence, and race relations. Bruce Allen, an unscheduled speaker, denounced the university amid boos while Pusey urged calm and mutual respect. The ceremony honored 4 000 graduates and 14 distinguished figures including Mayor Lindsay and Steward Udall.
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Cambridge, Mass
UPI
Harvard
Bruce C. Allen
Students For A Democratic Society
Puseys
Bennetts
Rockefellers
Harvard Yard
Allen
University
Reserve Officers Training Corps
ROTC
Pusey
New York
John V. Lindsay
Walter P. Reuther
United Automobile Workers
Secretary of the Interior
Steward L. Udall
Gas Turbine Generator Sought in Burlington
Burlington seeks an 18 000 to 25 000 kilowatt gas turbine generator to meet reserve and peaking needs. The project, estimated at 2 5 million, is supported by city officials who cite reduced air pollution and avoided start stop of the existing steam plant.
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Burlington
UPI
Tion
Stebbins
William Davis
W.E. Davis Associates Co
Leewood Ran
Vermont Yankee
Vernon
Aiken Proposes Extension of Food Stamp Program
Senator George D. Aiken introduces a liberalized food stamp bill to the Senate. He argues current provisions fail to improve nutrition for low income families and calls for free coupons for the poorest, limits of 30 percent of income for others, and universal state coverage by 1971. The aim is to boost purchasing power and use normal markets for distribution.
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Aiken
Washington
UPI
George D. Aiken
R-Vi
Senate
Students retrace Arnold 1775 journey by Kennebec canoe expedition
Four St. Francis College students from Maine and Connecticut launched two 17 foot canoes on the Kennebec River to retrace Benedict Arnold's 1775 route to Quebec City. The trek covers about 400 miles, with portages at Arnold's Ponds and routes along the Chauudiere to the St. Lawrence.
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Augusta
Kennebec
Pittston
Reuben Colburn
Arnold
Bingham
Canada
Chaudiere River
St. Lawrence
Quebec
Vermont Water Survey and Public Health Mission
A two week survey of Vermont surface waters by Public Health Service engineers begins next month with samples from about half of the state's water supplies. Health Commissioner Dr. Robert B. Aiken cites sanitation and chemical and bacteriological data gathering in farm and recreational areas. Separately, Sen. Fiore Bove urges a special legislative session to repeal the sales tax and return welfare to local communities. Education Board to consider reopening McIndoes Academy in Barnet next September after meeting with Gov. Davis and state officials. Three patients escape from the Vermont State Mental Hospital, overpowering a guard but are soon recaptured near the Winooski River and Duxbury camping area.
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Montpelier
UPD
Public Health Service
Vermont
Robert B. Aiken
Burlington
Floyd Taylor
New England Bureau of Water Hygiene
Aiken
California
New York
Connecticut
Town of
Barnet
Connecticut River
Scribner
McIndoes
Waterbury
UPT
Vermont State
Springfield
Emile Mercier
Hardwick
Duxbury
State Hospital
Gosselin
Mercier
Medicaid Reactions Grow as Albany Cutbacks Hit Providers
In Albany Capital area a Medicaid revolt unfolds as druggists dentists nurses and some physicians refuse patients over a 20 percent reimbursement cut. Schenectady County Pharmacists quit filling Medicaid prescriptions and dentists join the withdrawal. Private nurses warn hospitals they will decline Medicaid work, risking postponed major surgeries. statewide school budgets face a record 114 rejections as voters oppose rising costs and reduced state aid across multiple districts.
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Albany
Schenectady County Pharmaceutical Society
Columbia County Dental Society
Lansingburgh
East Greenbush
Averill Park
Schodack
Rensselaer County
Waterford
Corinth
Saratoga County
Bethlehem
North Colonie
Albany County
Niskayuna
Schenectady County
Whitehall
Washington County
Monument Square Day Care Center Proposed in First United Methodist Church
A child day care center for up to 24 children ages 3 to 5 is planned at the First United Methodist Church in North Adams as a one year pilot. It aims to operate 7 a.m. to 6:15 p.m. with access based on family need and economic status, and will be named Monument Square Day Care Center.
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North Adams
First
United Methodist Church
Herbert W. Anderson
Charles G. Kalt
Northern Berkshire
Monument Square
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Goode Anan
Gooderham & Worts Ltd
Peoria
Ill
Yankee Corp
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Grand Union
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Chittenden Trust Company
National Shawmut Bank
Boston
Massachusetts
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Main Street
Academy
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Frank Champagne
Francis Champagne
Windsor Lake
Drury High School
Arthur O. Rosenthal
Pittsfield
General Electric Co
Housatonic River
State Division of Fisheries and Game
Adams
Washington, D.C
Department of Housing and Urban Development
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