Nixon rejects 125 jets for Israel to ease arms race
Washington reports Nixon refused Israel's request for 125 jet planes. Senate Foreign Relations Committee leaders Fulbright and Aiken praised the decision as bipartisan and stabilizing, while others warned it could push Israel toward nuclear capabilities or alliances with other powers. State Dept. Rogers noted $100 million in economic aid and vowed review if Moscow actions threaten balance.
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Corrections Chief To Talk About Vermont's Criminals
Vermont Corrections Commissioner Lawrence Bershad will discuss Vermont and Its Criminals in a historic look at correctional policies. The final winter seminar at the Vermont Historical Society in Montpelier starts 8 p.m. in the library with public admission free.
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Vermont Department of Correction
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Vermont Historical Society
Library of the Historical Society
State Administration
George Washington University
Davis Names State Board Appointees In Vermont
Gov. Deane C. Davis announced several appointments including Elizabeth C. Armstrong to the Board of Cosmetology. Armstrong, from Bennington, has cosmetology credentials since 1937 and led the Cosmetologists' Association roles since 1946 including a 1955 presidency. Howard E. Armstrong of Montpelier was named to the Real Estate Board. he previously served as secretary of state, House clerk, and first industrial relations commissioner. Ralph W. Howe Jr. of Wilmington was named to the Board of Pharmacy succeeding John B. McShane. Hilda Packard, Brattleboro Retreat nursing director, will join the Board of Nursing replacing Sister Irene Duchesneau.
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Scout Council Sees Busy Camping Season
Walter Gartner of Rutland predicts a record camping season for Ethan Allen Council with 65 camps, three sites still open. Camp Plymouth hosts a jamboree style week Aug 28 with cooking over charcoal and a high adventure program while specialty camps and the Long Trail trek feature across the season.
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Walter Gartner
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Plymouth
Tyson
Michael Shanahan
Taconic
Sunrise
Orwell
Camp Plymouth
Tony Soule Ofechee
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Fheen County
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Cray Gildersleeve
Brandon
Vermont ETV Wins A National Citation
Vermont Educational Television was named a regional winner in the 1969 70 National Academy awards for The First Step a documentary on the Vermont New York Project Produced and directed by Gary Simpson Vermont ETV is the only educational station among the winners and the program aims to spur community action and discussion. The district court waived several traffic charges in Bennington and Dorset involving youths and speeding violations.
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National Academy
Vermont Etv
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U.S
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San Francisco
Nine new Knighthood candidates listed by K of C
Charles Holden reports nine candidates received the Knighthood degree at the state council exemplification in Middlebury. The class is part of a 90 from across the region. Ritehts Columbus council meeting is at 7:30 tonight. Easter dance tickets are selling quickly. Tickets available from Holden and others. Dance set for April 11.
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State Council
Iniddlebury
Regula
Ritehts Columbus Council
Grand Knight Holden
Leonard Anzivino
Gerald Morrissey
John Burke
Edwin Maroney
Waste Disposal Device Studied As Alternative to Rural Dumps
University of New Hampshire researchers study a concrete open pit incinerator for rural waste, aiming to curb open-dump burning. Laconia builds two units from Thermal Research and Engineering designs, cost about 125000, with Ajax Ontario as the only municipal working example.
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N.H
UPI
University of New Hampshire
Russel Valentine
University
Mechanical Engineering
Laconia
United States
Dupont
E. S. Monrose
Canada
Valentine
Ajax
Ont
Thermal Research Andineering Corp
Conshohocken
North Country Resource Conservation
NIH Engineering Experiment Station
Harvard Lunar Materials Expert to Join UVM Faculty
Dr. John Craig Drake of Harvard’s Geological Sciences will join the University of Vermont as assistant professor in September. He holds an A M and Ph D from Harvard, is a 1962 Denison graduate, and arrives with a NASA grant to continue lunar materials research, building on work with Clifford Frondel and others and a Science article on lunar fines and rocks.
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Science
Denison University
Harvard
Governor weighs extending tax relief deadline for elderly
Governor Davis planned to seek legislative extension for the elderly tax relief deadline as only about 1,000 applications totaling under 100,000 dollars had been filed. Vermont Tax Department estimates 25,000 to 50,000 eligible, with a 1 million dollar appropriation from 1969. Davis would consult Appropriations and Finance committees before deciding.
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Senate Finance Committee
Decidineg
Vermont students to attend three day film workshop in Stowe
About 200 student filmmakers from Vermont high schools and faculty sponsors will join a three day workshop in Stowe. The event, funded by federal funds, aims to expose students to current techniques and advances in filmmaking and showcase the best in U S and international cinema.
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Montpelier
UPI
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Stowe
State Education Department
United States
Trapp Matriarch Maria von Trapp Injured in Auto Crash
Baroness Maria von Trapp sustained a broken arm several fractured ribs and multiple bruises in a Saturday night auto accident. She was listed in satisfactory condition at the Mary Fletcher Unit in Burlington.
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Maria von Trapp
Singing
Austria
Mary Fletcher
Burlington
Navy medic John C. Blake dies in Vietnam at 24
Brattleboro service members mourn as John C. Blake a Navy medic would have turned 25 today after being reported killed in Vietnam over the weekend. His brother Andrew Blake a Marine staff sergeant recently reassigned to Da Nang told their mother Irene Jarvis that John was wounded Friday and will have his body returned home for burial.
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Vietnam
Irene Jarvis
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Elwell earns third in Elks Youth Leadership contest
Rutland based Cathleen A. Elwell daughter of Mr and Mrs Corwin Elwell Brattleboro sponsored by Brattleboro Elks placed third in the girls division of the Elks Youth Leadership contest announced by Leo F. Keefe Rutland danr of the Vermont Elks Association youth activities committee
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Cathleen A. Elwell
Corwin Elwell
Brattleboro
Brattleboro of Elks
Elks
Leo F. Keefe
Danr
Vermont Elks Association
Albany Penny Postman Starts New Local Mail System
Kenneth de Lisle launched Albany Letter Express four hours after a strike began. The service uses stamps with William B. Winnie’s silhouette and charges 10 cents per letter, delivering 25 collected pieces within the city. In Albany, an Assembly committee tweaked a liberal abortion bill advancing to replace the 1840s era rule.
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Albany Letter Express
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de Lisle
Assembly
King Film Tribute Tonight At Albany Theatre
Albany screens a one night showing of King A Filmed Record. The film traces the non violent movement from 1955 to King's Memphis assassination and garbage strike. Proceeds go to the Martin Luther King Special Fund aiding civil rights causes.
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Albany
Berkshire Coca Cola Bottling to Close Plant in Pittsfield
Berkshire Coca-Cola Bottling will close its Pittsfield operation by January 1971 under an agreement with Lanning Corp of Grand Rapids. Lanning develops for S S Kresge and plans a major shopping center at Coltsville. Coca-Cola will keep an office and warehouse in town, sourced from Albany. Kresge aims to erect a K-Mart on a 12 acre parcel at Routes 8 and 9 junction.
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Berkshire
Coca-Cola Bottling Company
Lanning Corp
Grand Rapids
Mich
S. S. Kresge
Coltsville
Coca-Cola Company
Albany
Kresge Co
K-Mart
Polluting Hoosic River draws local debate in Williamstown
George W. Schryver, a longtime local Republican leader and former state official, argues pollution in the Hoosic River is down since 1920 and expresses skepticism about regional sewer plans and current treatment needs. He advocates home sewage devices before discharge. In Adams, towns approve a bylaw requiring garbage disposal units in all new homes. counsel notes it excludes homes under construction. Violations carry fines up to $20. The bylaw awaits attorney general approval before becoming public.
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George W. Schryver
Hoosic River
Berkshire
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