Forest Service realigns staff appointments in Vermont
Vermont Forest Service announces new realigned sections. Robert A. Farrington named Chief of Property Administration and Statistical Services overseeing land acquisition surveying mapping permits rentals and rights of way plus supervision of the Essex Junction Service Unit and tax arrangements for state lands. E Bradford Walker named Chief of Forest Resource Protection with Nathan Dauchy assisting in fire control.
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Montpelier
A.F. Heitmann
James E. Wilkinson Jr
Vermont Forest Service
Robert A. Farrington
Essex Junction Service Unit
Fish and Game Dept
Water Resources
E. Bradford Walker
Nathan Dauchy
Norman W. Hudson
Benjamin F. Hoffman
Norwich University search to find 21st president
A board formed a search committee to select Norwich University's next president as Gen. Barksdale Hamlett plans retirement in 1972. Hamlett will stay on as an executive during a transition as the university begins a nationwide candidate list for the 1972-73 academic year.
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Northfield
Norwich University
Barksdale Hamlett
Norwich Board of Trustees
Hamlett
Gen. Hamlett
Philip R. Marsilius
Bridgeport
Ernest N. Harmon
UPI
ICC halts B and M N and W merger plans
The Interstate Commerce Commission denied the Boston and Maine Railroad merger with the Norfolk and Western System. The ICC urged Massachusetts courts to order a new plan within six months due to B M financial instability and several supervisory restructuring notes.
Officials meet today on prison replacement
Vermont officials and U.S. Bureau of Prisons representatives convene to address soaring bids far above the 4.3 million state appropriation for a new maximum security facility. The talks consider cost cuts while meeting standards. debate tuition transfers to other states and potential extra funding, with a fire hazard old prison cited and unlikely new appropriations.
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Lawrence Bershad
Special Legislative Council
Deane C. Davis
Pittsfield
Anthony Sessa
New Britain
Conn
Lakeway Drive
Onota Lake
Midwest twisters kill golfer as storms sweep region
A Chicago Heights golfer, Robert Spuhler, 28, was killed when lightning struck a tree near the first tee at Glenwoodie Country Club. Tornadoes touched down in Illinois, Kentucky, Tennessee, Arkansas, and Missouri, with watches in Indiana and Mississippi. Power outages hit Franklin, Kentucky, and several mobile homes were overturned. Multiple injuries were reported along I-40 near the Tennessee line and in Jackson Tennessee, amid damaged barns, houses, and downed power lines across the Midwest and Southeast.
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Houghton
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Kentucky
Midwest
Robert Spuhler
Glenwoodie Country Club
Glenwood
Illinois
Tennessee
Arkansas
Missouri
Indiana
Mississippi
Franklin
Horsee Cave
Fayette and
Shelby County
Jackson
Tenn
Washington County
Lake
Bloomington
Poor response reported in finding jobs for vets
In Vermont a survey of Indochina war veterans job prospects shows 1,900 employer interest cards mailed with only 52 returned. Vermont Employment Security Commissioner Stella Hackell notes local offices engaged 41 employers, listed 12 openings, referred 11 prospects and placed 3 veterans. She blames federal card routing and cites a proposal to let the state handle cards to speed the program. Debris and wind describe Lafayette damage. weather spreads to Mississippi Valley and Gulf Coast with showers in Rockies and Great Basin.
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Lafayette
Ind
Mississippi Valley
Gulf Coast
Rockies
Great Basin
Contract aide appointed for Highway Dept
Montpelier reports the appointment of Frank C. Evans of Moretown to the Highway Department as contracts specifications engineer. Evans joined the department in 1950, has served in design, computer, and traffic roles, and assumed the post May 24. He graduated from the University of Vermont in 1958 with a civil engineering degree.
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Sea Bees
Vietnam
Evans
Vermont Society of Engineers
Camel’s Hump Forest Reserve
Two Phone Firms Sued For Sex Discrimination
UPI reports U S Labor Secretary Hodgson filed suits in Boston and Providence against New England Telephone and Telegraph and American Telephone and Telegraph. The actions allege male employees are paid higher wages than females for equal work and equal skill, with violations tied to Equal Pay Act and Fair Labor Standards Act. The sites cited include 295 Worthington St Springfield and 59 Church St East Greenwich Rhode Island.
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Boston
UPI
New England Telephone and Telegraph Co
American Telephone and Telegraph Co
U.S
James D. Hodgson
Providence
R.I
Worthington St
Springfield
Church St
East Greenwich
R.S
Fire department bill after fatal Turnpike blaze sparks dispute
Patricia Ann McDonald, 24, Boston College secretary, had her car destroyed when a fire began in the engine on the Massachusetts Turnpike. Boston Fire Department fought the blaze, then she was billed $500. The Massachusetts Turnpike Authority billed the MTA for firefighting costs, and the MTA billed McDonald. Her father and she question why she should pay for services linked to taxless turnpike authority expenditures.
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Boston
UPI
Patricia Ann McDonald
Massachusetts Turnpike
Boston Fire Department
Massachusetts Turnpike Authority
MTA
Miss McDonald
Boston College
McDonald
Edward
City of
Alden accuses Highway Dept of robbing Peter to pay Paul
Woodstock UPI Senator John Alden of Windsor County charges the State Highway Department cut local road aid. He cites the two for one program shrinking from 700000 to 254000, plus costs from a 1971 maintenance law and a 330000 paving project in Franklin County. Alden calls the maintenance per mile raise a cruel hoax that harms towns striving for better roads.
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Alden
Highway Dept
Peter
Paul
Woodstock
UPI
State Highway Department
John Alden
Windsor County
Highway Department
Franklin County
Vermont Abortion Suit to Be Dismissed in Court
Vermont requests dismissal of a suit challenging the 125 year old abortion statute. Plaintiffs allege violations of free association professional conduct and medical care rights. State argues charges vague lacking factual basis and seeks jurisdictional dismissal.
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Burlington
UPI
Vermont
Chittenden
H. Russell Morss Jr
Morss
Chancery Court
James Jeffords
Chittenden County
Patrick Leahy
Assembly Democrats accuse New York mail of political censorship
In Albany two Democratic assemblymen say their constituent letters were censored by the Republican majority. Stephen Gottlieb of Manhattan obtained a show cause order from state Supreme Court returnable Friday, with Perry Duryea as Speaker. Daniel Hadley joined the protest at a Monday news conference. about 250 of Hadley's letters were returned as too political after a month in the Assembly mail room.
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Albany
Stephen S. Gottlieb
Manhattan
State Supreme Court
Perry B. Duryea
Daniel Hadley
Waddington
Gottlieb
Haley
Assembly
Body of girl found by students near Norman's Creek
A badly decomposed body of a girl was found Monday evening by high school students walking along Norman's Creek, 10 miles west of Albany. The girl's age is not yet determined.
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Albany
Norman’s Creek
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