New England seeks outside help in oil import quota fight
Governors Curtis of Maine and Sargent of Massachusetts invite 29 external governors to join a lawsuit challenging the oil import quota. Senator Prouty backs a bill to remove home heating oil from the program and end the tariff, advocating a northeast oil region. The measure, cosponsored by multiple senators, argues New England should be treated as a separate oil district amid rising prices and perceived inequities.
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Maine
New England
Canada
Curtis
Prouty
U.S
Edward Brooke
R-Mass
Norris Cotton
R-N.h
Thomas McIntyre
D N.H
Edmund Muskie
John Pastore
D-R.i
Claiborne Pell
Dr.i
Abraham Ribicoff
D-Conn
Lowell Weicker
R-Conn
McCormack Honors House Parliamentarian at Capitol
Former Speaker John W. McCormack surprised the Capitol to present the John W. McCormack annual award of excellence to Lewis Deschler, the longtime House parliamentarian who has advised nine speakers. Deschler, 66, has served since 1925 and 1928 in his current role. The ceremony marked McCormack's first public Capitol appearance since retirement.
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McCormack
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Aiken urges Amtrak to restore Vermont passenger trains
Senator George D. Aiken seeks reactivation of the Washington to Montreal route via Central Vermont Railway to resume passenger service in Vermont. He urged Amtrak to study and propose restoration by June 15, noting the current lack of service as intolerable and pushing for a Washington Montreal run through Vermont.
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Montreal
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Washingtonian
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Senate
Amtrack
Vermont officials clash over department counsel hiring
Education Commissioner Joseph Oakey expects no problem finding legal advisers for his department while Attorney General James Jeffords warns of difficulties in hiring lawyers for three department heads who now control their own counsel. Oakey disputes Jeffords' hypothetical conflict concerns and notes no such issue in states where departmental counsel answer to agency heads.
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Vermont jobless rate slips to 6.4 percent
Vermont's unemployment rate eased to 6.4 percent of the insured work force, a .2 point drop, though still well above the year-ago 3.6 percent. The state Employment Security Department reported 7,200 claims filed. St Albans posted the highest rate at 11.9 percent, White River Junction the lowest at 3.1 percent, with the total state rate steady at 7.2 percent for mid March.
Three charged in high speed theft of regulated drugs
Richard Charbonneau, 22, Essex Junction, Francis Schoonmaker, 28, Burlington, and Arthur Beshaw, 27, South Burlington pleaded innocent in district court to stealing drugs from Dr. James Mahoney's Burlington office. Judge Costello ordered $15,000 bail. Harold Beshaw, 21, free on $100 bail for careless driving from the chase. Police recovered tens of thousands of regulated pills after the Saturday pursuit through South Burlington.
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Burlington
UPI
Richard Charbonneau
Essex Junction
Francis Schoonmaker
Arthur Beshaw
South Burlington
Edward Costello
Beshaw
Harold
James Mahoney
Schenectady School Board funds open education project
The Schenectady School Board voted 5 to 2 to back an open or informal elementary school serving about 200 students. The $10,000 allocation supports a citizen group Parents for a New Education and the district's school affairs committee to run the one-year program at Washington Irving School next fall.
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Skidmore students withdrawn after administration buildsdemands
About 30 Skidmore College students left the administration building Tuesday afternoon after being told their demands would be considered, but were later ordered to depart.
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Skidmore College
Tueday
Berkshire academy closed after eight hour police raid
In Great Barrington Cornwall Academy shut down by owner John Geddes Moran after a Monday raid from 6 p.m. to 2 a.m. Tuesday. Police seized narcotics and drug implements. no arrests. Moran will inform students about graduation plans, with diplomas possibly mailed if none proceed. Meanwhile New England Telephone tests a sidewalk with built in utility trenches on First Street in Pittsfield. Stephen Norton says it is the first East of its kind and may pave way for cables and pipes. In Williamstown Patrick Gray, 25, Route 7 Pownal, was arrested on grand larceny charges for alleged furniture theft from a Florida home and released on bail pending May 17 arraignment in North Adams District Court.
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Frank A. Agostini
North Adams
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