Bennington selects Democrat Sheridan as chairman in Republican board
The Bennington Board of Selectmen, now GOP-led, elected Democrat Paul Sheridan as chair unanimously at its first meeting. Republican J Duncan Campbell was named vice chair as several incumbents joined the new lineup and vacancies for town boards were announced with terms and nominees to be sought.
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Jan Slusmon
Bennington
Selectman
J. Duncan Campbell
Campbell
Sheridan
Timothy Corcoran
Peter R. Donavan
Richard B. Leake III
Gerald P. Morrissey
Planning Commission
Paul W. Bohne III
Robert Holden
Zoning Board of Adjustment
Robert Sourcliffe
Guy Harmon
Charles Sawyer
Averell Brown
John B. Harte
Ormal Pierce
Francis Walker
John Lowre
Parks & Recreation Commission
Daniel Cadiz
John Irons
Jim Merunowicz
Ted Ripley
Anthony Tomasi
Kenneth Clayton
Salvatore Santarcangelo
Richard A. Sleeman
Edward R. Lamb
Lamb
Richard Vachon
Lewis Carpenter
Walter Noyes
William Mattison
Civil Defense
Leon Eldred
Rush Welter
Ransom Gore
Selectmen
Slusmon
Bennington Board of Selectmen
Paul Sheridan
Frances Bender
Peter Reed Donavan
Six More Indicted in Ellsberg Burglary Case
A Watergate grand jury indicted six men including former aides John Ehrlichman and Charles Colson for the 1971 Ellsberg psychiatrist office burglary. Also named were G. Gordon Liddy and three Miami Cuban-Americans. Charges include civil liberties violations of Dr. Lewis Fielding with additional false statement counts for Ehrlichman and testimony refusal for Liddy.
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Washington
UPI
John D. Ehrlichman
Charles W. Colson
Daniel Ellsberg
White House
Ehrlichman
Colson
H.R. Haldeman
John N. Mitchell
Nixon
G. Gordon Liddy
Ellsberg
Bernard L. Barker
Eugenio Martinez
Felipe DeDiego
Miami
Barker
Martinez
Lewis Fielding
FBI
Liddy
Congress
Watergate
Vermont House Advances Bottle Deposit Reforms Amid Debate
The Vermont House approved 77 to 67 a plan to modify the bottle deposit law to aid small stores. Amendments cut limits on collection hours and allow one no-accept day weekly, with two cent deposit on standardized bottles and five cent deposit for nonreturnables. Fliptop cans to be banned starting 1975, as debate continues with the Senate.
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House
Ronald Goldberg
Vermont Retail Grocers Association
Goldberg
Senate
Vermont
Sam Lloyd
D-Weston
Emerson Peake
Rutland
Bennington BSD opens public negotiations talks
The Bennington School District board and BSD teachers held a prelim meeting to set ground rules for public contract talks. Chief negotiators agreed to publish progress reports while keeping actual bargaining private, with two weeks needed for complete budget data as Lally pushes a full budget context for teachers' requests.
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John
Bennington School District
John Donoghue
William F. Lally Jr
Lally
Donoghue
Mt. Anthony
Simon pledges more gasoline for all states this month
Federal energy chief William E. Simon announced increasing gasoline allocations for all states with a national average at 89.6 percent of March 1972 usage and a February state average of 83 percent. He previewed April targets and suggested possible end to Sunday closing orders as supply improves.
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Washington
UPI
William E. Simon
Federal Energy Chief
Simon
National Governors Conference
Federal Energy Offices
FEC
Alaska
Kansas
Louisiana
Minnesota
North Carolina
Oklahoma
Texas
Wyoming
Energy Office
New York
Congress
Nixon
Nixon prepared to testify under oath on Watergate
Washington says he is prepared to testify under oath that he rejected payments of hush money and offers of clemency to Watergate defendants though a grand jury indicted H R Haldeman for perjury. Nixon asserted he never authorized clemency or payments and noted the energy crisis and Middle East talks as he faced questions at a news conference.
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Nixon
Washington
UPI
H.R. Haldeman
Mideast
Haldeman
White House
John W. Dean
Grand
Watergate
Senate
Middle East
United States
Vermont readers weigh energy crisis in Hearst proposal
Inside notes report most Vermonters fear an energy crunch and 47 percent favor removing Nixon. Other items preview garden tips by Kit Foster, White House tape flap by Tom Braden, and local school board debates in Hoosick Falls over Latin in high school.
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Mallory
Nixon
Kit Foster
Tom Braden
White House
Potomac
Hoosick Falls
Arlington
John Hubbard
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By Bruce Talbot
Cairo
Afl-Cio
George Meany
Hearst
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