Hohman murder trial opens with defendant absent
Middlebury Vermont defendant George Hohman of Bennington will not attend his first degree murder trial. Judge Hilton Dier allowed him to be absent during the proceedings, while prosecutors plan to argue he was sane at the time of the April 8 Shaftsbury killing of 15 year old Mary Ann Peterson. Defense contends mental illness and alcohol paranoia at the time.
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Middlebury
George Hohman
Bennington
Addison County Superior Court
Hilton H. Dier
Hohman
Mary Ann Peterson
Shaftsbury
Bennington County
Raymond G. Bolton
Peterson
Dier
Asane
Bolton
Donald Graham
Windsor County Public Defender
Graham
Lee Hohman
Addison County
Hilton Dier
Carter begins staff selection avoids single chief of staff
Carter moves to assemble a White House staff and will name key members within a week. He will not appoint a single chief of staff to keep lines of information open among multiple aides. Press secretary Jody Powell described the plan while Carter recuperates on St Simons Island. Carter will consult labor groups and farm groups before naming a cabinet and will meet with President Ford later.
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ST. Simons Island
UPI
Jimmy Carter
White House
Carter
Oval Office
Jody Powell
Powell
Chicag
Jack Watson
Hamilton Jordan
Jordan
Organized
Ford
Plains
Plains Baptist Church
Bruce Edwards
Albany
Edwards
Chicago
U N votes for broad South Africa embargo resolutions
United Nations General Assembly approved ten resolutions condemning apartheid in South Africa. The measures call for arms and economic embargoes, a total sports ban, and diplomatic isolation. The U.S. opposed several declarations and abstained on others. Britain France and the U.S. vetoed a Security Council arms embargo proposal last month.
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United Nations
UPI
General Assembly
South Africa
United States
Pretoria
Israel
Chaim Herzog
Security Council
Britain
France
Alden leads Buckley in Vermont lieutenant governor race by 826 votes
Final unofficial results from the November 2 election show Sen. John Alden, D Windsor, defeating Republican T Garry Buckley by 826 votes. Alden 82140, Buckley 81314, Liberty Union candidate John Franco 6769. Official results come January. recount possible if no majority, with Canvassing Board using any recount totals.
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Buckley
Secretary of
Richard Thomas
Arlington educators push yes for gym funding plan
More than 30 residents gathered at Arlington High School to back a school board vote on Nov 12 for about 900000 in federal and state funds for a new gym and renovations. Officials noted 70 percent from a national public works program and 30 percent from state funds, with no local tax impact promised.
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Arlington
Bennington Banner
George A. Sleeman
Sleeman
Edward Fabian
Fabian
Federal Economic Development Administration
Arnold Wilcox
Bennington County Regional Commission
John Simson
EDA
Neil Canon
State Education Department
Wilcox
Donald Sumner
Irving Hersey Associates
Durham
N.H
Cadillac
AMHS
William Towne
Towne
John M. Moore
Vermont Headmaster’s Association
Local and County News Highlights From Page 3 to 7
The edition previews a Gov elect Snelling interview and district court news with the Bicentennial described as a bust. Manchester hosts a special town meeting on a sewage bond while Falls residents protest a gin mill. John Page addresses farming issues from hens to trees and microwaves. Sports notes cover HFS Panthers forfeiting, Palmer winning the Cy Young, Nuggets in the ABA, and Havlicek rescues for the Celtics.
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Elect Snelling
District Court News
U.S
Russell Baker
Manchester
Falls
John Page
HFS Panthers
Palmer
Bennington selectmen clash with live video at meeting
Bennington town officials faced a televised clash as four of five selectmen allowed a Community Arts Association crew to film a public meeting. Richard Perrott objected, stormed out, and later asked that earlier tape be destroyed. Town attorney Norton Barber defended public access under the right to know law.
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Bennington
Community Arts Association
Selectmen
Penny Larrison
The
Arts Association
Richard Perrott
Paul Sheridan
Perrott
Hollywood
Norton Barber
Reggie
Barber
Doctors urge ban on amphetamine weight loss pills
A group of doctors told a Senate subcommittee that amphetamine related drugs used for slimming are ineffective and should not be prescribed. They fault pharmaceutical industry influence on medical education and call for barring physicians from prescribing such pills to dieters.
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Washington
UPI
Senate
Prout
Gaylord Nelson
D-Wis
Subcommittee
Lester Grinspoon
Harvard Medical School
Grinspoon
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Henry Payson
Dartmouth Medical School
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U.N
Robert Hupp
Hupp
Alden
Arlington Gym
Judson Brown
Selectman
By Rob Woolmington
Thaddeus E. Prout
Johns Hopkins University
Dawn Smith
Joan Kouwenhoven
Ms. S
Ms. Kouwenhoven
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