Jobs of glean water? New Hampshire mill town dilemma
Lincoln NH faces a crisis as the W seb acket River pollution and the mill's bankruptcy threaten 276 workers and their families. A special town meeting weighs pollution controls against economic needs as 175 to 200 potential job losses loom if the plant closes.
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Thewasset
Perigewasset
White Mountain’ National Forest
Lancoln
Whigh
George McGee
Water Resources Board
H. Thomas Urie
New Hampton
Mil
Stewart Lamprey
State Water Supply and Pollution Control Commission
Franconia
Yale dean speaks here on Friday
Dr Colin W Williams Yale University dean of the School of Divinity will speak at a three hour Good Friday service starting at noon in St Peter's Episcopal Church. The service, sponsored by the Bennington Area Ecumenical Council of Churches, is open to the public with free attendance and an offering will be taken.
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Colin W. Williams
School of Divinity
Yale University
St. Peter’s Episcopal Church
Pleasant St
Bennington Area
Critics invited to meeting of Community Colleges panel
MONTPELIER UPI The Community Colleges Commission invited two Republican lawmakers to share views on the federally funded program at its next meeting. Rep. Beatty and Rep. Churcher have accused the commission of partisan politics. Director Peter Smith said the charge is false and asked both lawmakers to attend the April 17 session to discuss the commission’s activities. The commission serves BW students in the state.
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Commission
Peter Smith
Churcher
R-Charlotte
Seattle
Margaret Daniels
Weathersfield
Vermont Welfare Rights Organization
Philip Hoff
Laborar Hanlver
Marty Berger
Hoff
Smith
Beattie
Ribicoff pushes new cabinet level health department
Senator Abraham Ribicoff proposes creating a separate department of health by moving all HEW health responsibilities into a new cabinet level agency. Senator Edward Kennedy co sponsors the bill with 21 other Democrats. The plan would include Medicare and Medicaid and a national health planning advisory commission.
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UPI
Abraham Ribicoff
D-Conn
Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare
HEW
Department of Health
Ribicoff
Edward M. Kennedy
D-Mass
Senate
Department
National Advisory Commission On Health Planning
Rhode Island lowers age of legal responsibility
Rhode Island Gov. Frank Licht signed legislation giving 11 to 20 year olds all the legal rights of adults including buying and drinking alcohol. The law also allows 16 and older to marry without parental consent and enter contracts. The measure, passed by the Senate after House study, took immediate effect. Vermont and Maine have similar laws.
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Senate
House
Vermont
Maine
Licht
John Bevens
D-Warwheck
General Assembly
Nader blocked in bid to stop ITT Hartford merger
Consumer advocate Ralph Nader lost a third appeal seeking to block the Hartford Fire Insurance ITT merger. Superior Court Judge Waller J. Sidor ruled Nader lacked standing as an aggrieved person despite his general interest. Nader had argued insufficient public informing and claimed pressure on the prior commissioner.
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UPI
Ralph Nader
Hartford Fire Insurance Co
International Telephone and Telegraph
Waller J. Sidor
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William R. Cotter
Cotter
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Sidor
U.S
U.S. District Court
Hartford
M. Joseph Blumenfeld
Cancer danger cited from polluted Mississippi River water
EPA report notes industrial wastes from Baton Rouge to New Orleans contaminate the Mississippi River with metals and organic compounds that may endanger human health. Two cancer producing compounds found in water at Carville and New Orleans facilities. overall water quality standards violated.
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UPI
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James J. Friloux
EPA
Baton Rouge- Bay St. Louis
Mississippi River
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New Orleans
Public Health Service Hospital
Carville
Carrollton
Postal Service imposes 90 day hiring freeze
Washington UPI reports Postmaster General Klassen ordered a 90 day hiring freeze to curb payroll needs and avoid a potential 1973 postage rate raise. Nixon’s budget sought 11.7 billion to operate the Postal Service with possible 450 million extra if gains lag. Details of the proposed rate increase were not disclosed.
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UPI
T. Klassen
U.S. Postal Service
Nixon
Congress
Postal Service
Vermont Doctor Given Tax Fraud Sentence In Montpelier
Dr Bernard G Boucher a 37 year old gynecologist from St Albans was sentenced in Montpelier by Judge James Holden to one year in the custody of the attorney general and fined 6000 for filing a false federal income tax return for 1969 The imprisonment was suspended and he was placed on three years probation The fine is due by April 10 and additional taxes penalties totaling about 14500 are due during probation Also charged with filing false tax returns for 1967 1968 and 1969 charges for 1987 and 163 were dropped The case was presented by attorney John Webster and prosecuted by U S Attorney George W Cook
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U.S. District Court
Hotland
John &. Webster
St. Albans
U.S
Atorney
George W. F. Cook
Rutland
Jobless rate dips in Vermont as claims rise
MONTPELIER UPI The Employment Security Department reported a slight drop in the state's unemployment rate to 7.4 percent for last week, down from 7.6. A total of 8,100 people filed claims and received benefits totaling 439000 dollars. St Albans posted the highest rate at 14.7 percent while White River Junction logged the lowest at 4.9 percent.
Franklin teen dies in farm equipment accident
Clement Bouchard, 14, of Franklin, was strangled when his jacket became snagged in a feed conveyor on his father's farm while working with his brother. State police described the incident as a fatal farm accident weighing on the local community.
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Pranklin
UPI
Clement Bouchard
Franklin
New York prison guards threaten walkout over contract
Union representatives for New York State prison security officers vote to strike at midnight Friday if the state does not present a reasonable new contract. Council 82 of AFSCME says five months of negotiations yield unkept promises, many conditions promised after the Attica uprising, with potential layoffs and jail time feared for members.
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Council 82
American Federation of State
Ie'atata
Attica
Oswald
Tne
Oan
Ecohomle
Murder motive sought in elderly woman slaying
Police probe the motive in the murder of 83 year old Mrs. Ethel B. Butts found in her Albany street apartment. She had been dead two to three days, body found by a realtor during a showing. She lived alone two months, purse intact, no other items disturbed, weapons not recovered as leads are followed.
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Schenectady
Ethel B. Butts
Albany &J
Ata Logso
Extortion letter tied to missing single engine plane crash
In North Adams a claim letter linked to the missing five person Paul Gallary family plane, lost Nov 24 between Worcester and Michigan, was received by Airport Commission chairman Parrett. A $1.9? reward stands for information. contents withheld.
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Airport Commission
Hn Parrett
Michigan
Worcester
Gallary
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