Vermont to Preserve Technical Services Program
Vermont will continue its two year technical services program despite a federal funding threat that could cut 85 000 from the 170 000 fiscal 1970 budget The Advisory Council for Technical Services met in emergency session after word of a 5 8 million federal cut Governor Deane C Davis and William Geary urged maintaining state funded work without compromising the program The effort includes field counseling at Norwich University and a technical information service at the University of Vermont aimed at aiding Vermont business and industry The council rejected eliminating reducing or fully state funded alternatives
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Montpelier
UPN
Vermont
Deane C. Davis
Advisory Council For Technical
U. S. Commerce Department
William Geary
Small Business Administration
Geary
Norwich University
University of Vermont
Harvard ROTC protest leads to mass trespass verdicts
In Cambridge Mass Judge M Edward Viola convicts 169 of trespass for the April 10 seizure of Harvard University Hall by SDS supporters. Most receive $20 fines. 139 plan appeals and await Superior Court trial May 12.
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Cambridge
Mass
UPID
Harvard University
East Cambridge
M. Edward Viola
Vard
Harvard
University Hall
Students For A Democratic Society
SDS
Reserve Officers Training Corps
ROTC
Viola
Vermont Film Writer Dies
Funeral services will be held Saturday for Paul C. Woodbridge a 62 year old film writer who died at Dartmouth College Wednesday. Woodbridge wrote more than 350 film scripts and since 1946 operated his own agency. He was a 1929 Dartmouth graduate and had lived in Quebec for the past four years. He leaves his wife Janet his mother Sara and a brother Ross.
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Hanover
N. H
UPI
Paul C. Woodbridge
Dartmouth College
Woodbridge
Dick’s
Infirmary
Dartmouth
Quebec
Janet
Sara
Ross
Federal decision expected on Vermont sign system
The U S Bureau of Public Roads will decide if Vermont may run a state owned directional sign system under federal rules. Secretary of State Richard Thomas said review is near completion and word is due by the May 14 Travel Information Council meeting. Deputy Development Commissioner Donald Lyons seeks format presentations for a state guide book with a $22,500 publishing budget.
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Montpelier
UPD
U.S. Bureau of Public Roads
Vermont
Richard Thomas
Frederick Farr
Bureau
Washington
Thomas
Travel Information Council
Donald Lyons
Lyons
State Committee Proposed On Law And Social Change
Former Deputy Attorney General Frank Mahahy urged creation of a Vermont Bar Association committee on law and social change during Law Day ceremonies. He warned violent demonstrations undermine free speech and urged a rational voice for due process against ideological criminals. Aide John Strachan urged Vermont to vote for a constitutional convention next month to reform government.
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Mahahy
Windsor County
Vermont Bar Association
New Left
Mahady
Nixon
Asst
John Strachan
Montpelier
Strachan
Pittsfield Fan Faces Surprise Anthem Debut
In Pittsfield Massachusetts Louis J Russo made his singing debut as the public address announcer performed the national anthem unaccompanied after the record needle broke minutes before the Eastern League game with Reading. Fans gave him a standing ovation.
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Pittsfield
Mass
UPI
Ladies and Gentlemen
Louis J. Russo
Russo
Bones Found Near Burned Montgomery Home
State Police found a skull near the ruins of a Montgomery house leveled by fire on March 9. Pathologist confirms remains. 83 year old Adeline Stanhope is believed dead in the blaze. Her 85 year old brother Carroll Stanhope was found dead in an adjacent woodshed from a heart attack. Police theorize he went to help his sister.
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Montgomery
UPD
Bruce Lahue
William Channard
Richard Woodruff
Adeline Stanhope
Stanhope
Carroll
Vermont to study overtime pay for state workers
Administration Commissioner William French will lead a new study on overtime compensation across state employes. Lesley Bell, state personnel director, calls the inequity in overtime pay unacceptable and notes differences caused by the 1966 Fair Labor Standards Act amendment. Some hospital and care staff are covered, while agricultural and kitchen workers in the same facilities are not.
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Vermont State Hospital
Waterbury
Brandon Training School
Vermont Sanatorium
Soldiers Home
Bennington
Burlington
King Scholarships Benefit From Burlington Work Week
University of Vermont students raised 4748 for the King Scholarship Fund during Work Week, well below the 2000 workers and 20000 goal. Organizers blamed optimistic aims but plan to repeat the effort next year with similar results. Funds will be added to the Martin Luther King Scholarship at the university.
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Burlington
University of Vermont
University
James Wallman
Martin Luther King
Doyle to Lead Vermont Government Workshop at Goddard College
Sen. William Doyle of Washington County will conduct a two week workshop on Vermont government at Goddard College Plainfield this summer. The course runs August 18 to 20 and examines political processes at state and local levels. Doyle teaches political science at Johnson State College.
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Plainfield
UPD
William Doyle
Washington County
Vermont
Goddard College
Doyle
Johnson State College
Funeral services for former Rep. George Starr held Sunday
NORTH TROY UPI Funeral services will be held Sunday in North Troy for former Representative George E. Starr a Democrat from Troy who served five terms from 1957 to 1965. He died Thursday after a short illness at age 79 and is survived by his widow four sons two daughters 24 grandchildren and 16 great grandchildren.
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North Troy
UPI
George E. Starr
D-Troy
Starr
New York Legislature Approves 71.5 Million Supplemental Budget
Albany leaders unveil a 71.5 million supplemental budget funding Albany County Airport improvements and new buses for Albany and Amsterdam. It also provides 30 million for state employee salaries and 165000 for new allowances to ranking lawmakers. Net increase 28.7 million after 42.8 million savings from welfare aid.
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Albany
Albany County
Amsterdam
Troy Sisters sale of former St. Joseph Home for 65000
Sister Marion Rypski announced the sale of the former St. Joseph's Infant Home property in Troy for 65000. Eugene Brown and Harold Thurman of Long Island will build eight two story garden town houses on about eight acres for 100 units and turn the project over to the City Housing Authority for low income housing.
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Troy
Marion Rypski
C.S.J
Society of the Sisters of St. Joseph of
Brown
Pittsfield to receive $340000 grant for new public library
Pittsfield will obtain a $340000 federal grant for the new public library, not the Berkshire Athenaeum trustees. The grant, part of a $2.12 million project, will be paid to the contract-awarding group. The library will be city owned, says librarian Robert G. Newman.
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Pittsfield
Berkshire Athenaeum
State Bureau of Library Extensions
Mary E. Flynn
State Bureau
Leon L. Phelps
Pittsfield Taxpayers Association
The
Athenaeum
Robert G. Newman
City of
Brooke to Receive Honorary Doctorate at North Adams State
Sen Edward W Brooke will receive the first honorary doctorate at North Adams State College commencement on June 1 in Venable Hall gymnasium. He will also serve as commencement speaker. The honor was created by the Board of Higher Education and the Massachusetts State Colleges Board of Trustees in 1968 69.
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North Adams
Edward W. Brooke
North Adams State College
Venable Hall
Andrew S. Flag
Sen
Brooke
Board of Higher Education
Massachusetts State Colleges Board of Trustees
Men join North Adams League as seven member advisory council
The North Adams League of Women Voters forms a seven member men advisory council to advise on national state and local study projects and actions. members include Donald A. Thurston Dr Robert N. Taylor William B Roberts Bernard Lenhoff Ray E. Sutton Henry J. Callan and Donald Christiansen. WILLIAMSTOWN The former Sand Springs Bottling Co Inc is among 28 employers in the state accused of failing to pay unemployment taxes in charges filed by the attorney general's office. The firm ceased operations in 1967 after voluntary bankruptcy.
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North Adams
League of Women Voters
Donald A. Thurston
Robert N. Taylor
William B. Roberts
Bernard Lenhoff
Ray E. Sutton
Henry J. Callan
Donald Christiansen
Williamstown
Sand Springs Hires Bottling Co., Inc
Attorney General’s Office
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