Vermont Seeks To Enter Milk Differentials Case
Vermont asks to appear before the U S Supreme Court as friend of the court in the Russell Allen dairy case challenging federal nearby milk differentials. Attorney General James Jeffords says intervention would bring Vermont into the arguments. About 7 million dollars in escrow for Vermont farmers awaits the decision.
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Funds approved for JFK Center and other measures
Congress authorizes 7.5 million to finish the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts and permits a 5 million Treasury loan for parking. Total center cost rises to 66.2 million from 46.4 million with public donations. House blocks a silverless Eisenhower dollar before moving to normal rules later. Additional actions include survivor benefits increases for servicemembers families and an education office review of programs for gifted children.
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Army Engineers Probe Champlain Gasoline Spill
UPI reports the U S Army Corps of Engineers continues an investigation into a gasoline spill into Shelburne Bay near Proctor Shoales in Lake Champlain after a grounded tanker vented fuel during unloading. Vermont officials say the bow damage caused the leakage and that removing gasoline from the bow first might have prevented it. A federal anti pollution law could allow a fine against the involved petroleum firm.
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Middlebury Faculty Narrowly Favors ROTC Continuation
Middlebury College faculty voted 53 to 51 in favor of a report recommending continuation of ROTC programs. The narrow margin reflects divided views on military training presence at the college.
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Four Die As Brooklyn Fire Destroys Three Homes
A early morning blaze in Brooklyn killed four people and destroyed three wooden houses. Firemen found three bodies at first, later locating a fourth in the same building as crews fought to contain the flames. Officials said the fire was out of control at 12 50 a m but unlikely to spread further.
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NFPA Reports Fires In Schools Increase
NFPA says in 1968 school and college fires rose sharply to 13,200 from 9,700 in 1967 with arson a major factor. Overall U.S. fires fell 1.2 percent to 2,363,000 while deaths dropped by 100. total property loss rose 6.6 percent to 2.255 billion. Notable disasters include a Farmington coal mine blaze that killed 78 and a Bondsville Palmer Mass. fire that caused a $10 million loss.
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Laughing teller foils bank robbery and arson burst
Penny Franks at Plains National Bank in Lubbock reacted with laughter as a would be robber demanded 10 000 dollars. The bandit fled in a car after his false mustache nearly slipped. The note ended a day of chaos revealing a string of fires and rising arson costs nationwide.
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Chance Helps Man Regain His Identity
George Kassoff, a 77 year old former opera singer who had been unidentified for 55 days, regained his identity after a New Hampshire honeymooner saw his photo in a newspaper clipping in a motel trash basket. A Robertsville New Jersey professor, Mrs. Mariel Teresa Gehin, positively identified him as a former boarder in her home.
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U S unemployment hits 23 month high in September
UPI reports unemployment rose to 4.2 percent the highest in 23 months with job losses concentrated among young white blue collar workers. Total unemployed nears 2.95 million as blue collar rates climb to 4.4 percent while white joblessness edges to 3.6 percent and nonwhite rates rise but not statistically significant.
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Vermont governor pardons Connecticut man in 1941 theft case
Edwin C. Stackpole, 54, a defense plant worker, received an unconditional pardon after civil affairs chief Frederick Reed said the criminal record was wiped clean. Stackpole served a five to six month Windsor Prison sentence in January 1941 and was paroled in April 1942.
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Doe permit drawing to determine hunters chosen
Roxbury reports 19,400 applications for special doe permits, with 10,700 to be randomly selected and approved by Friday. Each permit allows one hunter to shoot one doe, concurrent with the buck season running Nov 8 to 23.
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Turrell Fund grant eyed for Vergennes Weeks School cottage
The Corrections Department seeks a $150000 Turrell Fund grant to replace the 1914 Weeks School cottage in Vergennes with a new facility. Budget Director Ronald Crisman said the Emergency Board approved applying, and the state would cover about $25000 to demolish the old cottage.
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Agnew to Attend Vermont Fundraiser in Northfield
Secret Service agents arrive to plan security for Vice President Spiro T. Agnew’s visit. He will speak at a $50-a-plate Republican dinner at Plumley Armory on Norwich University campus Saturday night. Vermont Republicans aim to raise about $90,000 from the appearance.
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Roland Warns Of Tax Delinquency Scandal In Albany District
Albany Republican leader George A. Roland charged the county real property tax could be suspended for nearly three years if $8.7 million in delinquent taxes are foreclosed by the Democratic administration. Campaigning in the 31st district, he called the delinquency “a scandal and a damnation of the Democratic power structure.” He estimated about 90 percent of the total, roughly $7.5 million, is subject to foreclosure, with liens four years old or more.
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Canadians sentenced in snowmobile ring case
In Albany a snowmobile trafficking case ended Monday with Rolland St. Martin of Montreal receiving a two year prison term after defense claims he was an unwitting dupe of a ring leader who fled. Prosecutors disclosed three men were arrested in March over the thefts of snowmobiles from Canadian owners, with St. Martin and Ronald Roy, also of Montreal, among those indicted.
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Albany Mayor Corning to celebrate 60th birthday at City Hall
Albany Mayor Erastus Corning 2nd marks his 60th birthday at his desk in City Hall. He has the nation's longest mayoral tenure with 28 consecutive years plus three years of World War II service. An avid hunter, fisherman and golfer, he began office at 32 and seeks an eighth four year term in November.
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Erastus Corning
Fire investigators probe deliberate blaze in Berkshire home
A Sunday night fire on Brodie Mountain Road in Berkshire is being investigated by the state fire marshal after a fire chief said it was definitely set. A pile of charcoal briquettes under an outside beam started the blaze at the 100-year-old wood frame house occupied by Wayne power and his wife. A passing motorist alerted a nearby resident, who helped the 80-plus-year-old couple escape unharmed.
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Leon H. Roberts
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Slaughterhouse closure order hits Berkshires and state list
GREAT BARRINGTON the sole Berkshire slaughterhouse run by Louis Levine on Sheffield Road was ordered shut by the state Department of Public Health. Several others, including six in Boston, have been closed as inspector Wladyslaw Ptak reported rusty beef hooks and generally unkempt conditions. NORTH ADAMS a $250 000 lawsuit heads a 24-case civil filing in Superior Court by William H and Virginia J Horn alleging the North Adams Redevelopment Authority sought to pressure tenants to decline renting rooms in a Horn property. PITTSFIELD City Clerk John J Fitzgerald reminds groups running raffles or bazaars must obtain a city permit under a new state law, which also imposes a 5 percent tax on gross proceeds.
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