House Fight Looms Over Emergency School Grants
Montpelier eduction leaders prepare for floor debate on two measures shaping state school aid. One sets a partial time lag and uses two year old grand list figures for next year, while the other offers emergency grants for districts with sudden enrollment surges, including St Albans which would gain 140000 after parochial school closures.
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Burlington
Rutland
St. Albans
Education Department
Bennington
Springfield
Hartford
House Education Committee
House Appropriations Committee
St. Albans Area
House Approval Expected Protect Vermont Shorelines
Vermont lawmakers prepare final House approval of a shoreline protection measure tied to water pollution controls. The bill, described as a key companion to the administration's program, passed preliminarily by voice vote after over an hour of debate and one amendment. Representative Rene Berard won a scissors vote to shrink the proposed protected zone from 1,000 feet to 500 feet.
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Montpelier
UPI
Vermont
Rene Berard
South
Burlington
State Water Resources Board
Water Resources Department
Frank Bunting
R-Brandon
House Judiciary Committee
Senate
House
Environmental Conservation
Senate Natural Resources
Arthur T. Jones
10th Mountain Division Anniversary in New England
NORTH CONWAY New Hampshire UPI Members of the 10th Mountain Division gather for the 25th anniversary weekend of their Italy campaign in World War II. About 200 members and relatives join Minot Minnie Dole for speeches and ski lore amid reminiscences, races, and cocktails.
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North Conway
N. H
UPI
10Th Mountain Division
Italy
Appenine Mountains
New England
10Th Mountain Division Association
Eastern Slopes Inn
Minot
Minnie’ Dole
National Ski Patrol Systems
Greenwich
Camp Hale
Colo
Kiska Island
Aleutians
87Th
10Th Infantry Division
Camp Swift
West Texas
Mark Clark
U.S
5Th Army
Appenines
Sth
United States
Tap Goodenough
Pentagon
Phil Thurston
Worcester
Mass
Francis W. Sargent
Massachusetts
86Th
Ocean Sanctuary Off Cape Cod Proposed by Commission
A three mile offshore sanctuary around Cape Cod would bar mining drilling advertising and dumping to protect the Cape Cod National Seashore. Cable laying dredging and fishing could continue with Natural Resources approval as plans aim to extend state offshore jurisdiction to twelve miles.
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Boston
UPS
Cape Cod
Cape Waters
Cape Cod National Seashore
Hastings Keith
Department of Natural Resources
Moakley
Anthropologists Study Hudson Bay Region Returns to field study
A Dart mouth College anthropology team led by Prof. Elmer Harp Jr will explore Hudson Bay areas from Great Whale River to Nastapolis Islands to identify prehistoric Eskimo and Indian sites using aerial photography. The eight week expedition, funded by the National Science Foundation, will test potential sites and examine Eskimo Indian contact.
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Great Whale River
Nastapolis Islands
Hudson Bay
Harp
England
The
National Science Foundation
Cool Reception Meets Key State Reorganization Bills
The House Government Operations Committee heard two major reorganization bills with near universal opposition. Gov Davis seeks to streamline state government via a cabinet form and an executive-order based consolidation. Rep Merrill proposed a substitute to empower the Interagency Committee on Natural Resources to plan and coordinate agencies and manage personnel and finances.
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Deane CC. Davis
Perry Merrill
R-Montpelier
Interagency Committee On Natural Resources
Melvin Mandigo
R-Glover
Merrill Plan
Interagency Committee
Albany Democrats Endorse Eight For National And Local Posts
Albany County Democratic Committee met for 19 minutes and endorsed eight candidates for national, state, and local offices. Rep Samuel S Stratton won endorsement in the new 29th Congressional District and Rensselaer County Treasurer Edward W Pattison was backed in the 30th district. Mayor Erastus Corning praised the slate saying, I don’t know when we have ever had such a great ticket.
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Albany
N.Y
Albany County
Samuel S. Stratton
Rensselaer County
Edward W. Pattison
Erastus Corning
Army ends ice blasting on Connecticut River at White River Junction
UPI reports the U S Army Corps of Engineers halted its ice blasting on the Connecticut River after warm weather weakened the ice. Maj. Glenn E Davis said stopping the charges was for workers safety though a channel had opened near the White and Connecticut rivers and flood risk was averted.
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White River Junction
UPI
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
Connecticut River
Glenn E. Davis
State Civil Defense
Davis
White
Connecticut
Vermont Senate rejects abortion reform measure again
The Vermont Senate voted 17 to 12 to deny a motion to reconsider the abortion reform bill after a prior 10-to-20 vote against a rewritten version. Sen. Robert West urged reconsideration citing new evidence and asked for committee remittance for further study.
Vermont unemployment holds at 4.7 percent
Vermont's unemployment rate stayed at 4.7 percent for the fourth straight week. The Employment Security Department reported 4,970 people were unemployed in the week ending March 14, up 15 from the prior week.
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Montpelier
UPI
Vermont
Employment Security Department
Newport Man Killed After Slipping Under Freight Car
Bernard St. Sauveur aged 58, a longtime railroad employee, was fatally injured Thursday in a railroad yard when he apparently slipped and fell beneath the wheels of a freight car. The accident occurred in Newport.
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Newport
UPD
Bernard St. Sauveur
Demonstration arrests in Albany during draft protest
In Albany 17 protesters were arrested after blocking the entrance to the old Post Office Building on State Street in a Viet Nam war anti draft protest. They faced Class A misdemeanor charges for obstructing governmental administration and were booked to await arraignment. Simon Burrow 22 a Vietnam veteran spoke of his disillusion with generals and tanks encountered in Vietnam.
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Albany
State Street
Simon Burrow
Vietnam
Rockefeller Proposes State Aid to Fight Drug Abuse
Gov Rockefeller unveiled bills to combat youth drug abuse by funding local programs. The package seeks 65 million dollars in state aid to localities for treatment efforts and authorizes the Health and Dental Hygiene Facilities Improvement Corp. to construct facilities.
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Albany
Rockefeller
Health and Dental Hygiene Facilities Improvement Corp
Lottery ring busted in Berkshire district court ruling
Three men, Benjamin Bruno Jr Ralph Mascarelly and Robert Lloyd pleaded guilty to setting up and promoting a lottery and were fined a total of 4000 in District Court after a state police raid on Western Gateway Athletic Club Feb 9. Twenty eight others in the raid were fined 50 each. Police also investigate a Sleight-of-hand at Burke s Inn where Howard Lillie reported a roll of about 500 vanished at the bar.
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North Adams
Benjamin Bruno Jr
Ralph Mascarelly
Pittsfield
Robert Lloyd
Western Gateway Athletic Club
Original Mt Greylock War Memorial plans found
Adams-A original construction plans for the Veterans War Memorial atop Mt Greylock were unearthed by Donald R. Sommer in Boston, resolving key issues for restoring the current tower. Walter Wilson announced efforts to turn Dr DuBois boyhood home on Route 23 into a national shrine with NAACP discussions in Washington. John H. Gilmartin, 50, Rosenfeld's Men's Store president, was wounded by gunfire behind a Pittsfield store partition and is hospitalized after surgery.
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Mt. Greylock
Donald R. Sommer
Adams Redevelopment Authority
Boston
Great Barrington
Walter Wilson
Old Chatham
N.Y
William E. B. DuBois
Dr. DuBois
National Association For the Advancement of Colored People
Washington
Pittsfield
John H. Gilmartin
Rosenfeld’s Men’s
North Street
Pittsfield General Hospital
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Townshend
Gibb
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