Dairy diet study shows 10 percent drop in good diet levels
Vermont officials summarize USDA findings on diet quality. Only half of households rated good, with calcium shortfall. Freeman notes high food availability but adverse shifts and a 10 percent drop in fresh milk and dairy intake as cholesterol publicity cited. Corn oil linked to higher cholesterol in heart patients.
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Freeman
Agricultural Research
Senate Agricultural Appropriations Committee
Vermont sugarmakers report strong early 1968 maple runs
The Vermont Department of Agriculture says the early runs yield excellent maple syrup quality. Southern regions have had a couple small runs while the north reports limited production. A warm spell reduced sap, cooler weather revived optimism. Prices in consumer containers rise 4 to 11 percent from last year. Hold-over inventory was scarce and labor shortages limit output, suggesting prices stay steady through the season.
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Montpelier
Vermont Department of Agriculture
Vermont
Federal food stamp rollout delayed to July 1 in Vermont
Social Welfare Commissioner John Wackerman says lack of federal funds pushes the statewide food stamp program start from May 1 to July 1. Planned openings covered Burlington Montpelier Hartford Rutland Middlebury Bennington Brattleboro Springfield areas as districts receive funds. The program now operates in six northern counties Grand Isle Franklin Lamoille Orleans Essex Caledonia. Eligible families can buy stamps redeemable for higher value foods.
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Montpelier
UPI
John Wackerman
Wackerman
Burlington
Hartford
Rutland
Middlebury
Bennington
Brattleboro
Springfield
U.S. Agricultural
Putney peace march set for National War Resisters Day
A peace march from Putney to Brattleboro is planned for April 3 to mark National War Resisters Day. Betsy Geddes says Marlboro College Antioch and Putney School students will join, with police permission sought. The route starts at 9 a.m. from Town Hall and goes along U.S. 5 to Brattleboro Unitarian Church. Chester Thayer, 63, of Rutland, died when a bulldozer struck a rotten birch tree and toppled onto him.
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Putney
UPI
Brattleboro
Betsy Geddes
Windham College
Marlboro College
Antioch Graduate School
Putney School
Geddes
Town Hall
U.S. 5
Brattleboro Unitarian Church
Mendon
Chester E. Thayer
Rutland
Albany moves to restore Medicaid funds after 20 percent rule drop
In Albany on Tuesday a Senate vote eliminated the 20 percent patient payment in Medicaid, restoring 3.5 million to the program after federal demands. Earlier, Republicans slashed about 300 million, with federal aid tied to uniform eligibility. Nine youths pleaded not guilty to fourth degree drug possession, jailed on 500 bond as police found marijuana and pills during a raid at an Albany State University shared apartment.
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Albany
Senate
New York
Michael V. Tepedino
Albany State University
Albany State
Berkshire School Committee weighs church class space rental
WILLIAMSTOWN The School Committee seeks another opinion on renting elementary classrooms to St. Patrick's parish for Christian doctrine classes. Action on the proposal was tabled at parish reps' request. Atty Bowes previously ruled such rentals violate the state constitution, while the attorney general's office said it is not illegal. GREAT BARRINGTON Seven new supporters join the W E B DuBois memorial roster including James Farmer and Ruby Dee among others. NORTH ADAMS Adams youth Alan Pause, 17, found guilty of dangerous driving related to the Jan 13 fatal crash that killed Marion Shaw, 16, with Pause fined 50 dollars and cleared of DUI charges.
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Williamstown
James A. Bowes
St. Patrick’s Parish
James S. Drummond
George E. Moorehouse
Atty. Bowes
Drummond
Great Barrington
W.E.B. DuBois
Mass
James Farmer
Congress For Racial Equality
Stephen Gills Spottswood
45Th Episcopal District
AME Zion Church
NAACP
Stephen J. Wright
United Negro Fund
Martin Jenkins
Morgan College
Baltimore
Roscoe Lee Brown
Godfrey Cambridge
Ruby Dee
North Adams
Adams
Alan W. Pause
West Main Street
Marion P. Shaw
Former aide predicts LBJ denied renomination at convention
Richard N. Goodwin, longtime Kennedy era adviser and Johnson aide, predicts Lyndon B. Johnson will not win the Democratic nomination at the Chicago convention. He argues the issues are deep and leadership weak, calling Johnson’s hold on delegates eroded and the McCarthy Kennedy challenge gaining steam.
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LBJ
Boston
UPI
Johnson
Chicago
Richard N. Goodwin
John F. Kennedy
White House
United States
Goodwin
Kennedy
Wisconsin
McCarthy
Probe Sought Into Suspicious Arrangement in Vermont
House Minority Leader Leo O'Brien called for a probe into reported dealings between tobacco interests and Ways and Means Chair Emory Hebard over a 70 000 tax break in exchange for not opposing a one cent per pack cigarette tax. Hebard denied any deal and suggested the dispute stems from politics while defending a tobacco policy change to curb tax discounts and special pricing.
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South Burlington
UPI
House
Leo O’brien
Tobacco Products Industry
Ways and Means
Emory Hebard
R-Glover
O’brien
Hebard
Tobacco Products
Cambridge teacher slain. killer sought after stabbing
Cambridge police pursue a man in connection with the stabbing death of Linda Marshall 25 a Fairbanks School teacher found on a second floor landing. Fingerprints and a composite sketch are key clues as officers canvass the Harvard Square area near her apartment.
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UPI
Harvard Square
Linda Marshall
Marshall
Fairbanks
Sudbury
Miss Marshall
Chevy Chase
Susan Freeman
U.S. Secretary of Agriculture
Orville Freeman
John
Boston
Washington
William C. West
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