Oil import quota hike draws mixed New England reaction
Washington officials and New England lawmakers split over Nixon’s plan to boost imports by 140,000 barrels daily, with critics saying 40,000 more barrels a day is insufficient to ease heating oil costs while supporters call it a preliminary step toward inflation relief.
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UPI
Nixon
New England
Thomas J. McIntyre
Dn.h
F. Bradford Morse
Mass
George D. Aiken
Northeast
Vermont
Independent Petroleum Association of America
Rafael Caldera
Venezuela
Mexico
Brownsville
Tex
Canada
George A. Lincoln
Office of Emergency Preparedness
Edward M. Kennedy
D-Mass
Winston Prouty
Rvt
McIntyre
Aiken
Sen
Norris Cotton
R-N.h
Supreme Court Test Expected Decision Up to Nixon On Lower Voting Age
The House approved a bill to lower the voting age from 21 to 18 in all elections beginning 1971 and extended the Voting Rights Act until 1975. The vote was 272 to 132 with a procedural test at 224 to 183. Nixon was expected to sign, though a constitutional amendment was his preferred path. The measure could reshape politics by adding about 11 million young voters and affect state and local referendums.
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Washington
House
Nixon
South
White House
Gerald R. Ford
Emanuel Celler
Supreme Court
Salmon challenges Jeffords to debate for attorney general
Vermont Democrat Thomas Salmon announced his bid for attorney general pledging neutrality in primaries and challenging incumbent Republican James Jeffords to a series of debates. Salmon cited his four terms as a lawmaker and experience as attorney and judge, and named crime prevention, police pay and training, environmental laws, drug abuse, juvenile delinquency, rehabilitation, and consumer protection as key campaign issues. He attacked Jeffords over a police radio contract probe, calling it a boondoggle, while Jeffords dismissed Salmon's charges as a personal attack and defended his record.
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Salmon
Jeffords
Fox
Deane C. Davis
Levi P. Smith Dies, Prominent Vermonter
Levi P. Smith 85, retired Burlington Savings Bank chairman, died in Burlington. A Vermonter and former state official, he served in the Vermont Senate and House, acted as lieutenant governor in 1927 28, and led regional banks and associations. He was a Bennington College trustee and had ties to the Free Press and Vermont Bankers’ Association.
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Levi P. Smith
Burlington Savings Bank
Smith
Bennington College
Frederick P. Smith
Levi Smith
University of Vermont
Harvard University
Burlington Free Press
Vermont House of Representatives
Vermont Senate
Senate
S. Hollister Jackson
New England Telephone and Telegraph Co
the Gas Co. of
Vermont
The
Free Press Association
Free Press Properties, Inc
Vermont Broadcasting
Senate panel jams ABM expansion plan
The Senate Armed Services Committee voted 11 to 6 to confine the Safeguard antiballistic missile system to protecting missile silos and bomber bases rather than a nationwide population defense. The panel kept a third site at Whiteman Air Force Base Missouri and authorized an early fourth site at Warren Air Force Base Wyoming, preserving core elements of Nixon's ABM program.
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Washington
UPS
Nixon
Senate Armed Services Committee
Whiteman Air Force Base
Congress
Montana
North Dakota
Warren Air Force Base
Wyo
Vermont High Court Hears Arguments on Blue Laws
Vermont's sabbath-breaking law challenges were argued before the state supreme court. Betsy Samuelson reports that two discount stores are challenging the statute's constitutionality, framing it as a clash over religion and commerce in Montpelier.
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Montpelier
UPI
Vermont
Maryland
Jeffords
Morss
Ames
Grant
Vermont blue laws under Vermont Supreme Court review
Vermont Supreme Court hearings interrogate the 1960s blue law banning nonessential Sunday sales. Ames Department Store Rutland and Giant Store St Albans challenge exemptions as unconstitutional and aimed at protecting downtown merchants over discount stores. Local officials pause prosecutions while the case tests due process equal protection and First Amendment limits.
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Russell Morss
Vermont Supreme Court
Ames Department Store
Rutland
St. Albans
Morss
James Jeffords
Daniel J. Lynch
Grant
Chester Ketcham
Middlebury
Ames
Vermont
Davis House Demolition Clears Way for Downtown Parking
The Davis House on Pleasant Street is being torn down by Burgess Brothers wrecking crew to make space for a downtown parking lot. Workers yesterday ripped outer walls, and the cellar hole will be filled with gravel. The Vermont Bank and Trust Co. sold land to the Village of Bennington in trade for the Adams lot. The Bennington landmark was once owned by L. P. Norton of Northwestern Life. Major demolition continues today.
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Pleasant Street
Burgess Brothers
Vermont Bank and Trust Co
Bennington
Adams
L.P. Norton
Northwestern Life Insurance Co
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Dmiss
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Shaftsbury
Bennington Museum
Kit Foster
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Clark Art Institute
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Lynch
Ketcham
Nebraska
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