Miller Formula Endorsed With Minor Amendments
In Montpelier the Senate Appropriations Committee plans to advance the Miller formula with slight changes. Ed ward Janeway and H Ward Bedford proposed a fixed 1969 appropriation, a 40 percent funding cap for local education costs, and four quarterly payments. They also urged a summer study to test merging personal income with equalized grand list in wealth checks for aid. The plan remains one year only with a Senate vote later this week.
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House
Janeway and
Bedford
William Miller
Princeton
N.J
Senate
Majority links movies and TV violence to real life
Sindlinger & Company reports 67.5 percent of 1,554 Americans polled March 20 to 24 agree that violence in movies and television causes real life violence. Fully 13.5 percent agree, 54 percent partially, 30.4 percent disagree, and 2.1 percent have no opinion.
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New York
UPI
Sindlinger & Company
Sindlinger
Daily Report
Muskie accuses Nixon team of delaying Maine trade zone promise
Senator Edmund Muskie charges the Nixon administration may back away from a prompt decision on Maine's foreign trade zone application. Press aides note the oil import quota review delays any action on a Machiasport refinery project, with Occidental Petroleum proposing a 143 million dollar plant and a 100,000 barrel per day import quota.
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Washington
UPI
Edmund S. Muskie
Nixon
Maine
Maine Democrat
Ronald Ziegler
Machiasport
Commerce
Maurice H. Stans
Foreign Trade Zone Board
Muskie
Stans
Senate
Margaret Chase Smith
Occidental Petroleum Corp
United States
Aiken Joins In Tribute To Trudeau
Senate Democratic Leader Mike Mansfield and Senator George Aiken paid tribute to Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau in Washington. Mansfield inserted Trudeau’s Washington speech into the congressional record while Aiken praised Trudeau as steady under pressure and not a fire-eater.
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Washington
UPI
Senate
Mike Mansfield
George Aiken
Vermont
Pierre Elliott Trudeau
Mansfield
Trudeau
U.S
Canada
Montana Democrat
Congressional
Aiken
Both Parties in Accord On Appropriations Bill
The $96.6 million omnibus appropriations bill for fiscal 1970 moves to the House floor with Democrats and Republicans in apparent accord. Chair Luther Hackett says the bill is not padded and adds merit pay salary hikes. a major change covers 34 Tax Department positions costing $375,000. House Minority Leader Thomas Salmon notes little fat remains and minor amendments may be sought to rejuggle allocations.
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House Appropriations Committee
Luther Hackett
South Burlington
GOP
Hackett
House
Thomas Salmon
Rockingham
Panel Split On Welfare Recommendations
The legislature will receive the joint committee report on welfare funding with two funding options for the 1970 budget. The six member panel failed to agree on one of 12 recommendations, preserving Gov. Davis's $15.2 million figure or proposing a $966,000 cut to omnibus appropriations. Also, Rep Lombard supported a bill to make unauthorized vehicle use a felony after his car was stolen six times.
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Boston
UPI
Gerald P. Lombard
Fitchburg
Lombard
Bryant Grinder workers approve two year contract after 21 week strike
Electrical workers at Bryant Grinder Corp in Springfield voted 186 to 47 to accept a new two year contract with wage boosts of four percent and 0.04 an hour plus 17 cents an hour second year. About 350 Local 218 members walked out November 4 after talks failed as mediator Albert Cree helped finalize the deal. a court contempt fine was paid by James Kane for injunction violations. Johnson State College to award posthumous degree to John Bindas, who died at 52 before May graduation. plan to confer during May commencement with his family stating he would have pursued teaching in New England.
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Springfield
UPS
Bryant Grinder Corp
United Electrical Workers
Albert A. Cree
James Kane
Johnson
UPI
John Bindas
Johnson State College
Bindas
Morrisville
Thomas Bindas
Johnson State
Billerica
Mass
Johnson Village
Maine
New Hampshire
Pueblo Crewman Discharge Nears After Captivity
Navy Communications Technician Bradley Crowe 21, one of 82 Pueblo crewmen held by North Korea, will receive discharge at end of 30 days of sick leave in California. Crowe, freed before Christmas, returned to Vermont with a hero’s welcome. Burlington selects Dr C Edward Hamilton 51 of Frederick Maryland as new superintendent of schools after unanimous board vote. In St Johnsbury, a service station attendant died from injuries after an explosion and fire at Shell station on Western Avenue. Richard J. Gamble Jr. 20 killed.
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Island Pond
UPI
Navy
Bradley Crowe
Pueblo
California
Crowe
North Korea
Vermont
Burlington
UPD
C. Edward Hamilton
Frederick
Richard Wadhams
Hamilton
Frederick County
Maryland
William Keough
St, Johnsbury
Richard J. Gamble Jr
Shell
Western Avenue
Schenectady residents denounce urban renewal plans
Angry Schenectady residents protested the citys urban renewal program less than a week before the final HUD funding deadline. They accuse local officials of excluding residents from planning and plan a 8 tonight town meeting at Washington Irving Junior High School.
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Schenectady
HUD
Federal Department of Housing and Urban Development
Washington Irving Junior High School
Washington
Barton-Aschman Associates
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