Urged For Dickey Project Funding By NRECA Official
Washington UPI An NRECA official urged a Senate subcommittee to appropriate the full 807,000 for the 1971 Dickey Lincoln power project. Charles A. Robinson Jr. said withholding funds worsens East Coast power shortages and noted the 8300 kilowatt potential could have eased Secretary Hickel's Northeast power concerns. He added investor owned utilities oppose Dickey despite claims of superiority and lower costs.
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UPI
National Rural Electric Cooperative Association
NRECA
Senate
Charles A. Robinson, Jr
Senate Public Works Appropriations
Dickey
Hickel
Salmon Urges Probe of Bid Procedures in Vermont
Representative Thomas Salmon of Rockingham called for a bipartisan investigation into the governor's Crime Control Commission over bid irregularities in the Motorola radio system project. He urged Gov. Deane C. Davis to authorize a special committee of Vermont Bar Association members to probe potential interference by the governor's executive staff or the attorney general's office.
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James Jeffords
Salmon
Deane C. Davis
Vermont Bar Association
Witten
Jeffords
Fred Reed
Crime Commission
Hair Code Ruled Illegal Brattleboro Teens Reinstated
U S District Judge Bernard Leddy ruled a Brattleboro High School hair length code unconstitutional. Three players Steven Dunham Prentiss Smith and Paul Weber were reinstated after being dropped from the tennis team for hair length. The judge noted hair length does not affect play and cited examples like Billy Kidd Joe Namath Ken Harrelson and Joe Pepitone.
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Leddy
Billy Kidd
Joe Namath
Ken Harrelson
Joe Pepitone
Troy City Council weighs sales tax shift in 8 PM vote
In Troy New York the City Council will consider an ordinance at 8 p m Thursday to raise the citys sales tax levy from one to one and a half percent the extra revenue to be drawn from county sales tax collections Troy residents still pay six percent at the counter. Gov Rockefeller says narcotics addiction drive has failed statewide needing outside help as drugs reach colleges and schools Albany voters to choose between elected or appointed school board in November referendum with a seven member nonpartisan panel replacing the current three member board
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Water Resources Board
Troy
City of
Albany
Rockefeller
State Narcotics Addiction Control Commission
Board of
Corning
Settlement emerges in 65 day Sprague strike in Washington
A tentative three year contract ending a 65 day strike at Sprague Electric Co was reached in Washington after 27 hours of talks. The deal includes a 6 percent immediate raise and 5 percent increases in the final two years plus cost-of-living adjustments and an agency shop. Ratification meetings are set by the three unions by Friday.
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Sprague Electric Co
Washington
D.C
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