Champlain sludge removal tests start
In Ticonderoga, New York, five more tank trucks will be filled with Lake Champlain sludge for experiments on the effects of a major dredging operation. Sludge from the lake bottom is being tested in a lagoon at the International Paper mill to assess water interaction and potential surface disturbance, with 250 cubic yards dredged for study and Vermont observers aiding the project.
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Ticonderoga
N.Y
UPI
New International Paper Co
Vermont
New York
Rockefeller
Deane Davis
Davis
Glen A. Nastie
Nastie
Environmental Conservation Department
Trial judge threatened by Manson at Tate trial
In Los Angeles UPI Charles Manson lunged toward Superior Court Judge Charles H. Older with a yellow pencil during the Sharon Tate murder trial. The incident prompted talk of restraints or isolation to continue the trial, with three young women defendants also dragged from the courtroom as fear spread among jurors. The judge ordered the proceedings to continue after Manson was removed.
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Los Angeles
UPI
Charles Manson
Sharon Tate
Manson
Superior Court
Charles H. Older
William Murray
Older
Search for Leah focuses on Vt summer resident
An unidentified New Jersey man linked to a Charlotte summer resident emerged as the latest lead in the Leah Sarachik kidnapping case. Shelburne police said New York detectives warned the man may have known Leah’s abductor and governess Mrs Anna Frohlich. Frohlich’s body was found in a family station wagon on a Monkton backroad and authorities ruled her death a suicide. A Jamestown, N.Y. woman reported spotting Leah on Sept 20, and verification from Jamestown Hospital is awaited. The girl has been missing since Sept 10.
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Shelburne
UPI
New Jersey
Charlotte Summer
Leah Sarachik
New York City
George Ellwood
Leah
Anna Frohlich
Missouri
Judy Morrisson
Frohlich
Monkton
Jamestown, N.Y
Jamestown Hospital
Manhattan
Prouty gains stem rail unions backing for re election
Senator Winston Prouty receives endorsement from the Railway Labor Executives Association, a coalition of 15 unions, praising his leadership on rail issues and safety laws. Prouty, ranking Republican on the Senate Surface Transportation Subcommittee, drafted the Rail Safety Act and Hazardous Materials Transportation Act. Meanwhile Vermont officials plan bond sales to fund local debt and a Rutland County grand jury indicts a former Pawlet town treasurer for misusing school and town funds in 1968.
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Washington
Winston Prouty
Railway Labor Executives’ Association
Prouty
Association
J. Taylor Soop
Senate
Rutland
UPI
Rutland County
Pawlet
Vermont
Helen K. Moore
First CATV complaint filed in Montpelier
State Treasurer Frank Davis filed the first Public Service Board complaint under a 1970 cable law. The board will hear his dispute over an extra charge for relocating his home outlet, billed by Green Mountain Television Co. of Burlington.
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Montpelier
UPI
Frank Davis
Public Service Board
Davis
Green Mountain Television Co
Burlington
Four charged in Marine Midland Bank branch heist in New York
Law enforcement crews track two men and two women from the Sept 18 armed robbery. Alfredo Pepe remains at large while Albert Trowbridge is in custody in Connecticut.Two New Jersey women are in custody in Rensselaer County. A separate rescue in Albany ends with Gordon Marsh Jr. death attributed to natural causes and John Calhoun found safe. In Niskayuna Mohawk Mall opens amid ceremonial smoking and peace pipe ritual led by Tom Two Arrows and Ga-We-Na-Se.
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Lansing Burgerit
Aarine Inavin Seemash
Tri-City
Marine Midland Bank
Albert Trowbridge
New Milford
Conn
FBI
Alfredo Pepe
New Jersey
Rensselaer County
Albany
Binghamton
Here
Gordon B. Marsh Jr
John Calhoun
Niskayuna
Mohawk Mall
Balltown Road
Route 5
Tom Two Arrows
Ga-We-Na-Se
Rockefeller Concedes Narrow Governor Race Tie
Governor Rockefeller acknowledged a very close contest in the race against Democrat Arthur Goldberg, admitting he was running neck and neck in the gubernatorial race.
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Buffalo
Rockefeller
Arthur Goldberg
Fall Foliage clue hunt and town updates pace Berkshire
In Berkshire towns last week the Fall Foliage Festival drew to a close yet a hunt item remains on the Berkshire scene with a clue about a tire atop Massachusetts highest peak near a monument beacon awaiting restoration.
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North Adams
Massachusetts
Joanne Pierce
Hunt
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Champlain
United States
Ticonderoga Mill
Pentagon
Vietnam
Boston
New England
Automobile Legal Association
ALA
Maine
New Hampshire
Berkshires
Connecticut
Rhode Island
Ueda
Power
CATV
Rocky
Down In
Berkshire
New Pittsfield
Pittsfield
John J. McDonough Jr
Somerset
Morningside
Sprague
Sprague Electric Co
John W. Winant
Mary P. Spalding
Albert Spalding
Berkshire Museum
Great Barrington
Aston Magna
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