Vermont prison plan faces doubts and cost hurdles
Vermont Corrections Commissioner Richard Mallary questions the need for a new maximum security prison in Windsor as bids exceed the 4.3 million state appropriation. He suggests remodeling the 162 year old facility and improving other prisons while a task force trims costs. The governor will decide on any extra funding or a special legislative session.
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Richard Mallary
Windsor
General Assembly
Mallary
Deane C. Davis
Lawrence Bershad
Bershad
Pearson proposes UN broker system to guide developing nations
At a UPI report from Boston Lester B Pearson urged a UN aided brokerage and counseling system to link developing countries with large international corporations. He warned firms can act as sovereign entities and called for an honest broker to coordinate participation and auditing to ensure shared benefits and mitigate harmful economic and social consequences.
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Boston
UPI
Lester B. Pearson
Pearson
United Nations
Modern technology cited by U Thant at UN symposium
U Thant warned that despite gains from modern technology, mass poverty persists as the 1970s begin. He noted benefits favoring the rich and called for greater trade liberalization and international industrial cooperation to aid poorer nations.
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Thant
John F. Kennedy
Notables attend U N session in Boston gathering
A host of world dignitaries outline United Nations plans to raise living standards in underdeveloped nations during the 1970s. U Thant Lester Pearson George Bush and Henry Cabot Lodge head a day long seminar with about 1000 participants. Earl Warren and Lord Caradon also attend.
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UPI
United Nations
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U Thant
Lester B. Pearson
George Bush
United States
U.S
Henry Cabot Lodge
Pearson
International Development Research Center
Ottawa
Earl Warren
U.S. United Nations Association
Lord Caradon
Proxmire Urges Annual Wage and Price Guidelines
Senator William Proxmire vows to introduce legislation requiring the President to set yearly wage and price guidelines. He argues Congress must act to curb inflation, noting he has long championed such controls. The move follows Memorial Day recess return to the Senate.
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Washington
UPI
William Proxmire
D-Wis
Congress
Proxmire
Senate
State supreme court sends back jury size ruling for review
Vermont Supreme Court ordered lower court to reconsider whether a jury of fewer than 12 can sit in Bashaw’s 1969 case. Bashaw challenged a 11 juror panel and absence during his attorney’s agreement to the reduced number, seeking post conviction relief. The high court faulted the Windsor County Court for dismissing without a hearing or state response and lacking stated reasons for summary action.
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Vermont
Supreme Court
Bashaw
Vermont Could Gain $2 Million Under Welfare Bill
HEW released estimates show New England states would save billions nationwide in fiscal 1973 if welfare reform passes. State by state figures include Vermont at about 1 million to 1.2 million, with others like Massachusetts 40 to 49 million and Connecticut 19 to 23 million.
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UPI
U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare
New England
Congress
HEW
Connecticut
Maine
Massachusetts
New Hampshire
Rhode Island
Vermont
Trial resumes in Vermont sheriff assault case in Middlebury
In Vermont District Court the assault trial of Washington County Sheriff Mark Brown continues as the state presents its case. The eight women and four men jury was seated after venue moved from Barre. The first witness, Alfred Trombley of Montpelier, testified Brown handcuffed him to a bunk, jumped on him, knee struck chest and he was choked while confined for alleged intoxication.
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UPI
Washington County
Mark Brown
Vermont
Brown
Kimberly Cheney
Montpelier
Barre
Alfred Trombley
Trombley
Austerity budget criticized as Gov Daviss team hires
Vermont Democratic Chairman Francis Esposito says Gov. Davis’s austerity plan stops at the executive office. He condemns the $400-a-month appointment of Frederick Reed as counsel, noting the attorney general should serve as governor’s counsel. In Montpelier, Ward Fuller sues to expand Boston Trailer Park from 26 to 78 units, challenging district and environment board rejections along US 2 and I-89.
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Rutland
UPI
Francis Esposito
Davis
Esposito
Frederick M. Reed
Vermont men plead guilty in gun case at Albany
John M Hogan and Ernest C Robar of Burlington Vermont pleaded guilty in U S District Court to violating the 1968 Gun Control Act for transporting seven stolen firearms across state lines to Crown Point Essex County New York. Co defendants Morton Moorby still face charges.
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Jericho
Robar
Hogan
James T. Foley
William Morton Jr
Craig A. Moorby
Burlington, Vt
City Council to name successor to late Louis Rizzo
The Troy City Council will meet in a special session at the courthouse tonight to choose a successor for the late Councilman Louis C. Rizzo. Candidates are Lucretia Rizzo, his widow, and Eugene L. Cuozzo, former first ward supervisor.
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Troy
Louis C. Rizzo
Lucretia Rizzo
Third District
Eugene L. Cuozzo
Assemblyman Kelleher Returns After Hospital Visit
Albany Troy Assemblyman Neil W. Kelleher of Troy received a standing ovation after returning to the chamber hours after being carried to the hospital in an ambulance following dizziness on the Assembly rostrum Tuesday morning.
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Albany
Troy
Neil W. Kelleher
False Fire Alarm Guilty Plea Hits $200 Fine
James Goewey 18 of North Adams was fined the maximum $200 after pleading guilty to sounding a false fire alarm at Box 16 Union Street on May 15. Judge Ernest H. Rosasco imposed the fine following police investigation that used a black light to reveal jelly residue on Goewey’s left hand. The incident was part of a series of four alarms in the same neighborhood that night.
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James Goewey
Ernest H. Rosasco
Goewey
Union Street
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