Economist Backs Maine Free Trade Zone Proposal
An economics professor testifies to a Senate subcommittee that rejecting the Machiasport subzone plan could limit supplies of low sulfur residual oil. He notes Occidental Petroleum's plan to bring Libyan crude could yield 75 000 barrels daily of low sulfur resid oil for direct use and blending.
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Machiasport
Royalton Retains Degree Rights Amid Board Decision
The Vermont Education Board voted not to seek new action to revoke Royalton College's degree granting privileges. Despite a call from Robert O Brien to act now, Education Commissioner Harvey Scribner said there are no grounds to revoke the privilege, which had been suspended last May. The board also approved 32 high schools for meeting standards and granted waivers for Union High District 33 and Leyland and Gray Seminary, with extensions valid for 1969 70 and set a April 21 meeting to decide McIndoes Academy’s fate.
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Vermont Senate approves pay raise for Lt Gov Hayes
In Montpelier the Senate advanced a bill boosting Lt. Gov. Thomas L. Hayes pay by 5500 with a 24 to 4 vote and includes a 2000 unrestricted slush fund. A House committee also approved measures granting the Fish and Game Board authority over the deer herd with review possible in two years.
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Lamoille County
William Doyle
Washington County
Raymond Blake
Essex
Orleans County
Fiore Bove
Chittenden
Grand Isle
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Education official to mediate Bristol vocational center dispute
Education Commissioner Dr Harvey Scribner will meet in May with Addison County union school district boards to settle disagreements over the location of a county wide vocational education center. The state Education Board in Mount Abraham Union School heard arguments from Middlebury Otter Valley and Mount Abraham officials who favor a New Haven site for the center.
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Addison County Union
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Otter Valley Union High School
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Mount Abraham
Otter Valley
New Haven
Mobile home owners press petition to Rockefeller in Albany
A Columbia County group led by Thomas Koulos seeks equal treatment for mobile home owners. 266 residents signed, plus about 300 association members, urging state and federal grants be withheld from discriminating units. A march to Albany aims to dramatize the housing potential of mobile homes as a solution to substandard housing.
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Columbia County
Rockefeller
Thomas Koulos
Mobile Home Owners Protective Association
Koulos
Albany
Williamstown Bypass Hearing Set For April 28
Berkshire area residents prepare for state DPW led hearing at Mitchell School gym in Williamstown on April 28 at 8 p.m. Two alternate routes, easterly and westerly, will be outlined for the proposed Williamstown bypass.
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Mitchell School
State Department of Public Works
New York
Bennington
Berkshire County
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John L. Fisher
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