Eastern Massachusetts adopts strict air pollution rules
The Massachusetts Department of Public Health approved tough air quality standards for 102 eastern communities including Boston. The rules, effective July 1 with minor variations, ban harmful emissions from many sources and set fines of 10 to 500 dollars per day for violations. Sulfur content in fuel oil will tighten to 1 percent by Oct 1 and 0.5 percent a year later, aiming to cut sulfur oxides by up to 70 percent by fall 1971. Residents lose backyard incinerators and burning of brush. towns without curbside trash programs get a year to establish them. Hearings will soon set similar standards for other districts.
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Boston
UPS
State Department of Public Health
Massachusetts
Alfred Frechette
Commissioner of Public Health
Frechette
Israel withdraws task force from Lebanon in latest clash
Israel announces withdrawal of its task force from Lebanon claiming the largest Middle East engagement since 1967. The Suez Canal front sees renewed air strikes from Egyptian planes at 7 a.m. and 10 a.m. with fierce artillery duels ongoing along the corridor.
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Israel
Lebanon
Egypt
Suez Canal
Tel Aviv
Middle East
Amman
Mendassa
Ummnakhlah
Dead Sea
Metulla
Canal
U.N. Security Council
al Fatah
Mohammed Sadek
Beirut
Beirut Radio
Security Council
Yosef Tekoah
Council
Haasbayah
Chebaa
Psychiatrists Debate Predicting Dangerousness in Crime
At the American Psychiatric Association meeting Dr. Harry L. Kozol presented a decade study of 651 Massachusetts convicts, 386 released on his recommendation with only 8 percent later committing serious crimes, while 49 freed faced objections and one third committed serious offenses. He stressed no single test exists for dangerousness and described it as a spectrum rather than a binary.
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San Francisco
UPI
Harry L. Kozol
Boston
American Psychiatric Association
Kozol
Massachusetts
Jury To Visit Scene Of Cape Cod Murders
The jury panel for Antone Costa's murder trial planned a site visit to the Cape Cod National Seashore where two young women were buried. Jurors were being chosen amid questions of bias as more potential jurors faced challenges before the trial proceeds in Barnstable Massachusetts.
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Cape Cod
Barnstable
Mass
UPI
Antone C. Costa
Cape Cod National Seashore
Truro
Susan Perry
Provincetown
Sydney Lee Monzon
Eastham
Costa
Hoff Slams Nixon For Housing Failure
Former Gov. Philip H. Hoff campaigned for the Democratic senatorial nomination in St. Albans criticizing the Nixon administration for insufficient housing funding. He called Vermont’s housing shortage a major national issue and urged subsidies tax incentives and federal leverages to expand housing supply and foster orderly suburban growth.
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ST. Albans
UPI
Philip H. Hoff
Nixon
Hoff
Vermont Home Builders Association
Jailed Burlington Lawyer Shot in Apparent Accident
Attorney John B. Harrington of Burlington, serving 10 to 15 months for attempted extortion, was found wounded in Colchester woods. Officials say the shooting appears accidental while Harrington is in a work release program at Burlington Correctional Center. The investigation continues as a disbarment request moves through the Vermont Supreme Court.
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Montpelier
UPI
John B. Harrington
Burlington
Harrington
Colchester
Chittenden County
Patrick Leahy
Attorney General
Vermont Supreme Court
Vermont Legislature Considers Statehouse Reform Steps
A Legislative Reform Study Committee proposed moving governor and secretary of state staffs from the Statehouse leaving ceremonial offices and creating space for legislature staff and a press corps. The plan aims to improve communications between lawmakers and the public. Vermont UEW members in Springfield back an antiwar statement linking Nixon policies to Kent State killings and call for U.S. troop withdrawal from Cambodia.
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Statehouse
H. Ward Bedford
Addison County
Springfield
UPI
Vermont
United Electrical Radio and Machine Workers of America
UEW
New York
Kent State University
U.S
Cambodia
Peter Palmer
Palmer
Vermont Raises Pay for Health Commissioner and Others
Mental Health Commissioner Jonathan Leopold remains the highest paid department head after new pay scales take effect. Gov. Davis approved 1970 act rises from $2,000 to $5,000 annually, Leopold increasing from $26,000 to $29,450. In Rutland, voters defeated a $3.5 million school tax, 1,325 to 1,158, ending a plan to raise the assessment ceiling and loan six teachers to parochial schools. The Rutland body of 18 year old William Fitzgerald was recovered from Otter Creek after a May 1 canoe capsize. two others remain missing.
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Montpelier
UPI
Jonathan Leopold
Davis
Leopold
Rutland
William Fitzgerald
Otter Creek
Albany Student Protest Shuts Federal Building in Eight Hours
About 2,000 young demonstrators closed the Federal Building and the old Post Office in Albany for eight hours from 7:15 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Blocking doors, shoving matches occurred between students and onlookers. Police, led by Deputy Chief William VanAmburgh, urged entrants to take a day off. Some mail carriers who had entered earlier showed sympathy, expressing support for the students' rights.
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Albany
Federal
State Selective Service
William VanAmburgh
Sprague Electric shows gains in three months
Berkshire coverage reports Sprague Electric Co three months ending March 31 1970 with net sales 36 622 436 up 7 percent from prior year first quarter net income 456 242 or 13 cents a share reversing 1969 loss of 395 846 or 12 cents per share directors declare 10 cent quarterly dividend payable June 12 to holders of record May 26 Pittsfield Hillcrest Hospital seeks 800 000 for 144 bed unit under construction near West Street project nearing year end Chairman Ivan W Lord says construction 80 percent complete Williamstown school panel votes to drop ability grouping in primary grades and discuss shared superintendent with Mt Greylock and Lanesboro schools
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North Adams
Sprague Electric Co
Pittsfield
Hillcrest Hospital
Tor Court
West Street
Ivan W. Lord
Williamstown
Mt. Greylock
Lanesboro
Town Considers Olympic Pool at Bowe Field Park
The Conservation Commission seeks Parks Department cooperation to build an Olympic size pool at the playground. The town lacks swimming facilities and a swampy area at Bowe Field is viewed as suitable. Cost estimates have not yet been determined.
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Wilmington, VT
Afeet
LEES
St Oy
Haynes & Kane, Inc
du Pont
Mom
Main ST
Bennington, VT
DIAL
Robert H. Beaudreau
Maurice Goldman
Brewster
Beaudreau
Barbara Neil
Goldman
Edmund §. Dinis
Dinis
Union
Federal Building
Rockefeller
Housing Finance Agency
Down In
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