Selectmen Oppose Trailer Park Requirement
Bennington selectmen oppose the planning commission proposal to require mobile homes to be located within mobile home parks under permanent zoning. They cite community acceptance and compare the issue to past shifts in appearance of automobiles and modern housing as a reason to allow trailers beyond parks.
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Bennington
Town Planning Commission
Sisters
Manchester Planning Commission
Sion
Joseph E. Higgins
Alexander B. R. Drysdale
New England Mobile Home Association
J. Duncan Campbell
Campbell
Planning Commission
the Selectman
Selectmen
Nixon Signs Law For Draft Lottery
President Nixon signed legislation to set up the first draft lottery since World War II, aiming for a January start. The system, announced at the White House, will draft by birth date with 19 year olds most affected in 1971, reducing overall exposure from seven years to one. The plan removes a prior ban on a lottery and seeks to end inequities while pursuing a volunteer army as a long term goal.
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Washington
UPI
Nixon
Roosevelt
White House
Illinois
Vietnam
Pownal Plans Second Vote On School Addition Bond
Pownal school directors announced a January 6 vote on a $750,000 Center School addition bond after a 46 vote defeat on November 4. A petition seeks a special Town Meeting ballot to consider repairing the old North Pownal and Oak Hill schools as an alternative.
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Pownal
Oak Hill
District 32
James Lounsbury
Lounsbury
Banner
Vincent Pizzano
Pownalite
Lyme Industries
Connecticut
CBS Head Charges Agnew Tries To Intimidate TV
CBS President Dr Frank Stanton condemned Vice President Agnew for an ominous effort to intimidate television newsmen. He asserted government intrusion into journalism has grave implications and warned against censorship as a means to suppress media. The remarks followed Agnew's Nov 13 charge that broadcast journalism is biased and were delivered at a Plaza Hotel luncheon before 750 International Radio and Television Society members in New York City.
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New York
Frank Stanton
Columbia Broadcasting System
Agnew
Dr. Stanton
Herbert G. Klein
Nixon Administration
Paul O’neil
Subversive Activities Control Board
Mrs. O'Neil
Dean Burch
Federal Communications Commission
Clark Mollenhoff
C .B.S
Plaza Hotel
International Radio and Television Society
Vice Press
Hotel Plaza
New York City
TV News
Broadcast News
Wheth
Inside on Hoffmann Seale confrontation editorial note
On the Inside Greg Guma analyzes the clash between Judge Hoffmann and Bobby Seale. An editorial ponders a new Nuremberg trial reflecting on legal excess and vigilance in the era. A separate brief notes a $10,000 bequest to Factory Point Cemetery.
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Greg Guma
Judge Hoffman
Bobby Seale
Factory Point
Education Board backs full funding for ETV network
Vermont Education Board unani mously opposes cuts to the Educational Television system and urges full funding. Richard Young and Odell Skinner appeal to lawmakers for 80 000 in supplemental funds to keep nighttime programs on air after January 1. The network seeks 716 000 for the coming year after receiving 446 000 this fiscal year amid potential state budget cuts for 1971.
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STOWE
UPI
State Education Board
Vermont
Educational Television
ETV
Richard Young
Shelburne
ETV Broadcast Council
Odell Skinner
Davis
Educational Television System
Laird says Army knew of Song My massacre later
Secretary Laird told the Foreign Relations Committee he was shocked when told of the Songmy killings eleven months after the event. Clark Clifford said he never heard of it before reports surfaced, while Lt. Calley faces a general court martial for murder. The Army named Lt. Gen. William R. Peers to review the April 1968 investigation and the propriety of its actions.
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Washington
High Administration
Defense
Melvin R. Laird
J.W. Fulbright
Foreign Relations Committee
Laird
Sen. Fulbright
Clark M. Clifford
Army
House
GOP
Gerald Ford
New York
Lyndon B. Johnson
Clark Clifford
Fulbright
Calley
David Mitchell
St. Francisville
Sgt
Mitchell
Nixon
Ronald Ridenhour
Vietnam
Congress
20Th Infantry
11Th Infantry
11Th Brigade
Department of the Army
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Secretary of the Army
Stanley R. Resor
William R. Peers
Fort Benning
William L. Calley Jr
Songmy
Mylai 4
Thanksgiving reflections on Lincoln and nation’s blessings
The piece recalls Pilgrim origins and Lincoln's 1863 proclamation, urging gratitude for liberty, peace, health, love, family, and patriotism. It thanks readers for strong national resolve amid war, hopeful for an end to Vietnam and a return to unity.
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Lincoln
Conti
Vietnam
Berlin Wall
Unsolicited Credit Card Backfires in New York
Albany, N Y State Attorney General Louis Lefkowitz urged new laws to stop mailing unsolicited credit cards after a Lima resident, a 96 year old woman, received a card that was never used by her yet accrued charges totaling 1661 28. The pensioner leaves home monthly to cash a 114 check and it remains unclear who pays the debt.
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Albany
N.Y
Louis Lefkowitz
Lefkowitz
Lima
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David Scribner
Association
Pizzano
Syme Industries
Tri- State Mobil Homes
Charles Rounds
Ravena
Mauhs
CBS
New York Times News Service
Stanton
Nuremburg
Education Board
Sone
Army Brass
Armed Services Committees
Senate
House of Representatives
Resor
South Vietnam
Quangngal Province
Robert Herrick
Gay Pauley
George Washington
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