McCarthy Says U S Back Where It Was In Sixty Eight
Senator Eugene McCarthy spoke at Dartmouth on the two year anniversary of his 1968 New Hampshire primary victory. He warned the country faces Vietnam era problems again and criticized quiet changes in U S world policy while urging focus on Vietnam and warning against a volunteer army. In Montpelier Vermont the House committee rewrote a bill to let Georgia buy a vacant parochial school in St Albans with a staged voting process by the city and town and a possible merger plan.
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UPI
Eugene McCarthy
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Vietnam
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Chicago
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Humphrey
Richard J. Daley
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Nicholas V. Katzenbach
Democratic Party
Laos
Southeast Asia
St. Albans
Arlene Martell
Georgia
House Education Committee
Hardin raises manufacturing milk price supports to 4.66 per cwt
Agriculture Secretary Clifford Hardin announces a 38 cent raise in manufacturing milk supports to 4.66 per hundredweight for the year starting April 1. Officials say the increase will not lift retail bottling milk prices, though butter prices may rise slightly, and it falls short of dairy farmers’ 66 cent request.
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Washington
UPI
Clifford N. Hardin
Hardin
House Debate Continues On Education Overhaul
Vermont lawmakers pressed ahead with a major overhaul of state education statutes as the House debated the bill. The day long session focused on committee changes and potential impacts on funding and governance for K through 12 schools.
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House
Bill Aims to Protect Vermont Waterways and Shores
Two Republican lawmakers unveiled a conservation bill to empower the Water Resources Department to classify potential dam sites and craft a statewide water use plan. It would require shoreline zoning within two years, allow state intervention if local ordinances fail, and include amendments on school governance and education commissioner appointments.
Chrysler Retrenches After 69 Percent Sales Drop
Chrysler Corporation slashed officer and director pay by 61 percent after a 69 percent sales drop in 1969. The proxy shows 52 top executives earned 4.9 million in 1968 but less last year as net income of 88.6 million failed to trigger incentive payments. Chairman Townsend saw the largest cut from 630,700 to 200,000, with 2,500 to 3,000 white collar jobs eliminated.
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Detroit
UPI
Chrysler Corporation
Chrysler
Lynn A. Townsend
Vermont House Debates Lower Drinking Age Ammendment
Around Vermont, the Vermont House rejected an amendment to allow 1%year-olds to buy alcohol in restaurants. The House General and Military Committee split 5-4 against lowering the minimum age to 18 for beverages sold outside state liquor stores. Public hearings show strong backing for lowering the drinking age with debates over the target age.
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Montpelier
ACLU Opposes Vermont House Bill on Student Dismissals
The Vermont chapter of the ACLU opposes HB 475 which would dismiss students or faculty at state colleges or UVM for protests by groups of five or more. Gael Steffens, executive director, says the bill would violate freedoms of speech assembly and due process and that existing laws already protect against disruption.
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Burlington
Vermont
American Civil Liberties Union
Vermont State Colleges
UVM
ACLU
Gael Steffens
Vermonter among trio on federal pornography charges
The UPI report states the Maurice Perras of Swanton and Bernard Fishman and his wife of Montreal faced trial in U S District Court in Burlington. The case concerns conspiring to violate federal customs and postal laws by sending pornographic materials into the United States from Canada in 1961 and 1965. The government presented witnesses and exhibits including films and books claimed obscene.
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Burlington
UPI
U.S
Youthful offender sentenced for dilating draft card damage
Daniel Tallon II 21 of West Tops ham was sentenced in U.S. District Court on two counts of mutilating his draft card. Judge Bernard Leddy placed him under federal supervision as a youthful offender and considered a favorable probation report. Tallon, Lyndon State College student, was convicted in February for destroying his draft card at a college antiwar moratorium last October. He faced up to 10 000 dollars and five years imprisonment per count.
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UPS
Daniel Tallon II
West Topsham
U.S. District Court
Bernard Leddy
Lyndon State College
U.S. Attorney General’s Office
Leddy
Tallon
Albany Governor seeks power utility reform to protect environment
Governor Rockefeller urged the legislature to streamline the PSC formed in 1907 to ensure reliable power and communications at fair rates. Proposals would compel long range planning for low rates with environmental protection, shift transportation regulation to DOT, and expand consumer protections.
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Albany
Rockefeller
PSC
Commission In Transportation
Department of Transportation
Albany State students protest outside acting president's office
A group of Albany State University students, numbering from 50 to several hundred, occupied the hall outside Acting President Allan A Kassisto's office while administration waited in a lounge. They awaited a final decision on rehiring Gerald A Wagner, center of a controversy, as Wagner's department chair had recommended a one year extension at the same pay but at lecturer rank.
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Albany State University
Allan A. Kassisto
Charles O'Reilly
Gerald A. Wagner
Wagner
Department of Rhetoric and Public Address
Berkshire talks fail as 100 jobs move to Nashua
In North Adams Sprague Electric and AFTE Local 101 held twelve hours of negotiations on economic issues without resolution. AFTE President Ronald Durant notes ongoing talks. reports say 100 jobs shifted from Union Street plant to Nashua, though company spokesmen would not confirm. In Pittsfield Francis Bellotti denounced Penn Central service cuts.
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North Adams
Sprague Electric Co
American Federation of Technical Engineers
AFTE
Local 101
Ronald H. Durant
Union Street
Nashua
N.H
Pittsfield
Francis X. Bellotti
Penn Central
Boston
Albany
Berkshire
Pittsfield School Posts Vacancy and Deadline for Applicants
Asst. Supt. Wilfrid L. Hebert resigns as school department business manager effective June 1 for personal reasons. April 15 is the deadline for applications. Since 1967 the department has struggled to fill the long-term post. ADAMS bill aims to lease Saddle Ball Mountain ski trails by June 30, facing conservation opposition. Dick Gregory to lecture at North Adams State College Venable Hall theater Wednesday at 8:30 p.m. NASC sponsors the event open to the public.
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Pittsfield
Wilfrid L. Hebert
Thomas J. Wassen
Adams
Anthony P. McBride
Saddle Ball Mountain
State House
North Adams
Dick Gregory
Venable Hall
North Adams State College
NASC
Reverend Rose Publishes Sermons Not Preached at the White House
Stockbridge author and editor Reverend Stephen C. Rose, known for religious and contemporary works, has produced a new volume titled Sermons Not Preached at the White House. The book is set for publication on July 4.
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Stockbridge
Stephen C. Rose
Bennington
White House
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