Judge rules quotas not a minority right in police posts
U.S. District Court Judge Charles E. Wyzanski Jr. said minorities have no constitutional right to a police job quota matching population share. The decision, issued as a memorandum clarifying last week’s ruling, held civil service exams for police posts discriminatory and emphasized selection criteria must relate to job requirements.
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U.S
Boston
UPI
U.S. District Court
Charles E. Wyzanski Jr
Wyzanski
Opposition voiced to plans for new prison at Windsor
Vermont hearings on a Windsor maximum security prison drew opposition from speakers urging rehabilitation over confinement. A Vermont Bar Association committee, led by Judge James L. Oakes, sought public input for the 1972 legislature. Participants included a Brattleboro mental health worker, a former chaplain, a former inmate, and a rehabilitation group representative advocating phasing out Windsor and adding psychiatric care at Waterbury. The session also featured remarks by Judge Wyzanski on equal opportunity in employment and racial representation.
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Oakes
Brattleboro
Friends of Rehabilitation
Windsor
Vermont State Hospital
Waterbury
Bay State man claims island ownership amid Honduras handover
Sumner Smith of Lincoln Massachusetts asserts ownership of Greater Swan Island a three square mile Caribbean dot. He traces claim to 1893 visit formation of Swan Island Commercial Co and possession since 1950. U.S. signed over the islands to Honduras citing a 1950s claim under the Guano Act while Smith questions the transfer noting wartime rents and a weather station.
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Lincoln, Mass
UPI
Sumner Smith
Greater Swan Island
Caribbean
Central America
U.S
Honduras
Greater Swan
Lesser Swan Island
Bobby Cay
Cuba
Robert H. Finch
Latin America
Nixon
Smith
Boston
Alonzo Adams
Swan Island Commercial Co
Boy 14 Steals Plane for Aerial Joy Ride in Nebraska
In North Platte Nebraska a 14 year old boy with no piloting experience took a light plane from a hangar for a solo joy ride. He crashed on his third landing attempt suffering a chin cut and was released to his parents after deputies weighed possible charges. The 1968 Champion plane owned by Jerry Boyle was heavily damaged.
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North Platte, Neb
Lincoln County Sheriff’s
Jay Beerman
William Rulla
Gosh
Rulla
Jerry Boyle
Beerman
Walter Mulliken
Land use tax proposed in Vermont reform plan
South Burlington Republican Rep. Paul Graves will seek 1972 General Assembly action to tax property by current use rather than potential value. The bill would redefine fair market value to reflect land as it is used now, aiming to curb rapid development around towns and ski areas. Graves calls it a step, not a complete fix.
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Montpelier
UPI
South Burlington
General Assembly
Vermont
Paul Graves
Graves
Louisville ad tester offers forbiseder in readers' trade
John Stein of the Courier Journal and Louisville Times ran a novelty classified ad for a "forbiseder" with a built in "hemisway" to measure reader scrutiny. Tuesday a reader signed "Oscar de la Rente" offered to trade his "1780 Fremisburg" from the priory of St Switchins in Gobersvale England for Stein's device.
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Louisville
UPI
John Stein
CourierJournal
Louisville Times Co
Forbiseder
Hemisway
Oscar de la Rente
Stein
St. Switchins
Gobersvale
England
Priest to face Elks over racist membership policy
Middleboro Massachusetts United Press International reports Rev William M Mackenzie, pastor at Sacred Heart Church, will be tried by the local Elks lodge on charges of conduct unbecoming an Elk for opposing the whites-only membership rule. He vows to pursue abolition of racism with a tongue in cheek demeanor. The 700-member lodge meets in a new $200,000 building beside his church, sharing parking.
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Middleboro
Mass
UPI
Elks Lodge
William M. MacKenzie
Sacred Heart Church
Elks
Middleboro Lodge
Rockefeller warns New York state near social bankruptcy
Governor Nelson A Rockefeller and county executives warned that both the state and municipal governments in New York are on the verge of bankruptcy. They urged Washington to assume total welfare and education costs and planned to press Congress in an emergency session.
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New York
UPI
Nelson A.rockefeller
Rockefeller
Nassau County
Ralph G. Case
Manhattan
New York State
Congress
Christmas trees shipped freely despite gypsy moth quarantine
Washington reports that starting today Christmas trees and green yule greenery may be shipped from northeastern states under quarantine for the gypsy moth. The Agriculture Department notes growers are removing gypsy moth eggs to stop the spread of the pest that has defoliated trees from Maine to Maryland.
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Washington
UPI
Agriculture Department
Maine
Maryland
Brandon man gets suspended sentence in Springfield fishing shooting
David Snow, 32, of Brandon, was given a suspended zero to five year sentence and probation after pleading guilty to careless handling of a firearm for a Sept. 25 shooting at Stoughton Pond in Springfield that wounded Richard Couter marsh, 40, of Springfield. The original charges included armed assault with intent to kill.
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White River Junction
UPI
Brandon
Springfield
George F. Ellison
David Snow
Snow
Stoughton Pond
Richard Coutermarsh
Vermont primary results confirmed by three member panel
A three member committee led by Superior Court Judge Robert Larrow affirmed Vermont's November 16 congressional primary results. Senator Robert Stafford and Rep. Randolph Major won their primaries, while J William O'Brien captured the Democratic House prize and Richard Mallory the Republican nomination. Burlington and St. Johnsbury saw record cold readings. The Interior Department's National Park Service provided Vermont with 35535 in matching funds for historic site preservation.
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Washington, D.C
UPI
National Park Service of the Interior Department
State of
Vermont
Unemployment Claims Rise in Vermont Week
MONTPELIER UPI reports five thousand people or 4.7 percent of the state work force filed unemployment claims last week, according to the state Department of Employment Security.
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Montpelier
UPI
State Department of Employment Security
College Dean to resign over president policy clash in Albany
In Albany the academic dean Sister Catherine McNamee announced she will resign by year end unless the College of St. Rose board reverses its support for President Dr. Alphonse Miele amid student boycotts and widespread faculty opposition. The board has backed Miele after contract termination notices to two teachers, provoking protests from about a third of 900 students.
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Albany
College of St. Rose
Alphonse Miele
Catherine McNamee
Dr. Miele
Miele
North Adams Mayor Leads Illegal Parking Crackdown
Mayor Joseph R. Bianco ordered a police crackdown on illegal parking in North Adams and was the first to receive a ticket. Rules bar parking on the north side of Summer Street, the traditional space for the mayor and public works commissioner. Bianco’s car was observed as police left the station, triggering the first citation. Commissioner Joseph J. Girardi faced a ticket for an expired meter as of Tuesday noon.
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North Adams
Joseph R. Bianco
Summer Street
Joseph J. Girardi
Pittsfield bypass timetable and local beano license news
Alan Altshuler of the Massachusetts Department of Transportation said the Pittsfield bypass project likely requires four to five years, with a separate major Route 8 corridor through Berkshire County about ten years away. In North Adams Notre Dame Church filed the first beano license application after voters approved beano Nov. 2, with a public hearing on the rules scheduled in Boston December 14.
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Pittsfield
Alan Altshuler
State Department of Transportation
Berkshire County
North Adams
Williamstown
Notre Dame
Boston
Four towns weigh bag ban to favor paper trash bags
Four area boards of healthStockbridge West Stockbridge Great Barrington and Lee met to discuss a Trim Town paper garbage bag system from Union Camp Corp New York as a biodegradable alternative to plastic bags at dumps and landfills.
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Stockbridge
West Stockbridge
Great Barrington
Lee
Union Camp Corp. of
New York
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