Hope buds for trees on Main Street Bennington
Bennington town selectmen heard a push from Garden Club members and merchants to plant trees in the business district. A nine member ad hoc committee was formed with Charles Tilgner III as chair to study a beautification plan and report before the spring planting season. County Forester Jim White cautioned about site specifics and potential vandalism while the group pledged support including $300 for young trees and pledges from 12 merchants as Ted Bird noted.
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Bennington Garden Club
Bennington
Great Barrington
Mass
Selectmen
Charles Tilgner III
Garden Club
South Street
John C. Page
Page
James M. Toolan
Ted Bird
Bird
Edward Frasier
Jim White
Selectmen Reject Police Planning Council Plan in Bennington
Bennington selectmen voted 4 to 2 to table a plan for a police planning council after an $8,000 IACP study. Police Chief William Fox and Town Manager Edward Lamb opposed outside involvement, arguing reforms are underway and timely. Frasier and Campbell urged monthly progress reports and warned against footdragging, while Drysdale, Jerome, Stone, and Sheridan backed delaying the council.
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Bennington
William Fox
Edward R. Lamb
Fox
Police Planning Council
J.C. Jerome
John Stone
Paul Sheridan
Alexander B.R. Drysdale
Police Department
Frasier
IACP
Lamb
Sheridan
Jerome
Podgorny vows Soviet support to Egypt in 1967 war aftermath
In Cairo, Soviet leader Podgorny assured President Sadat that Moscow will maintain economic political and military backing as Egypt seeks to oust Israel from lands occupied in the 1967 war. The talks followed Sadat's purge of pro Moscow figures and aimed to strengthen cooperation toward eliminating postwar consequences.
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Cairo
UPI
Nikolai V. Podgorny
Egypt
Soviet Union
Israel
al Ahram
Podgorny
Anwar Sadat
Sadat
United Arab Republic
Moscow
Ali Sabry
Sharawi Gomaa
Mohammed Fawzi
Sami Sharaf
Gomaa
Abu Zaabal
Saad Zayed
Gamma
Sayed
Water Board to Review Thermal Pollution Order
Vermont Water Resources Board will reopen its 1968 order on Vermont Yankee reactor discharges but limit review to thermal pollution issues. Hearing planned for early July aims to align the order with new state thermal standards and not to reexamine radioactive emissions.
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Montpelier
UPI
Vermont Water Resources Board
Vermont Yankee
Vernon
Denning Miller
Stowe
Mehlman
Mass murder arrest in nine Yuba City bodies found
Juan V. Corona, 37, a farm labor contractor, was arrested on nine counts of homicide after the bodies of nine middle aged Caucasian hired hands were found buried near the Feather River and on the James Sullivan ranch five miles north of Yuba City. Police say the victims were stabbed or hacked to death over five to six weeks. The first two bodies were found in a peach and prune orchard, identification included Kenneth Whitacre, 40, Alameda, and Pete Peterson, 63, Marysville. The investigation continued as searches expanded and more graves were uncovered. Corona was to be arraigned later and questioned with assistance in Spanish.
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Yuba City
Calif
UPI
Feather River
Juan V. Corona
Big James Sullivan Ranch
Roy Whiteaker
Corona
Whiteaker
Nixon Visits Mobile and Birmingham Draw Huge Alabama Crowds
President Nixon drew more than 150000 supporters in Alabama, praising the South for quiet desegregation progress and criticizing Northern double standards. He cited 38 percent of black children in the South attending white schools versus 28 percent in the North, and dedicated the Alabama Tombigbee Waterway, a 386 million project linking the region to the Gulf. A Mobile welcome along Main Street drew about 80000 people, marking the first presidential visit there in 58 years.
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Washington
UPI
Alabama
Nixon
South
Mobile
Birmingham
George C. Wallace
North
Mid- South
Midwest
Gulf of Mexico
Main Street
Democrats seek election issue in Nixon's volunteer army plan
UPI reports that Nixon's $1 billion plan to raise military pay and end draft calls by 1973 survived a Senate test. Democrats push voters to assess its effectiveness before 1972 elections. A rival $2.6 billion plan would answer in one year. The Senate approved a $3,000 enlistment bonus, a keystone of the plan, 49 to 25, amid protests. Kennedy called the bonus a blood bonus. Nelson sought limits on draftees in combat. The votes indicated broad support for higher pay to attract volunteers and cut draft reliance.
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Albany
N.Y
UPI
New York Senate
Nelson A. Rockefeller
State Assembly
Rockefeller
New York
Washington
Nixon
Senate
House
Edward M. Kennedy
D-Mass
Kennedy
Sen
Gaylord Nelson
D-Wis
Vietnam
Vanishing Vermonter column and recs blur page notes
Inside Pete Horton offers an understated account of a vanishing Vermonter in a daily column. A letter to the editor provides humorous data on interim racial zoning rules. Pownal opens bids for a school addition. Farmland offered to Manchester at 1806 dollars per acre. Green Mountain Park passes the purity test.
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Pete Horton
Manchester
Green Mountain Park
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By Joe Swayze
White
J. Duncan Campbell
International Association of Chiefs of Police
Goro Kagehiro
Kenneth Edward Whitacre
Alameda
Pete Peterson
Marysville
Sutter County
Volunteer Army
West
le Bourget
Pownal
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