Selectmen name commission to settle YMCA pool issue
Bennington officials rejected funding the indoor YMCA pool project but agreed to form a blue-ribbon committee of local citizens. The nine member panel will study long range options to raise about 320000 and consider town, school, and Y representatives to report back.
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Selectmen Name Commission
YMCA
Burlington
Bennington
Morrissey
Wright & Morrissey Inc
Douglas C. Pierson
Coffrin, Pierson & Affolter
Edward R. Lamb
Norton Barber
South Street
Wright & Morrissey
Pierson
James C. Jerome
Fraiser
John Stone
Paul Sheridan
Alexander B. R. Drysdale
Drysdale
Barber
Y’s
Anthony Tomasi
Town Park and Recreation Commission
Loomis G. Dana
Lamb
Hiram G. Savage
Greater Bennington
Explosions Rock Belfast During IRA Truce Talk Spars
A series of blasts hit Belfast touching a tire factory, a British Legion club and a supermarket as the Provisional IRA wing ends a 72 hour halt. Police faced gunfire in Rutland while a trooper escaped unharmed. Officials report clashes amid political debate on civil rights and internment.
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Irish Republican Army
IRA
Jack Lynch
Edward Heath
Northern Ireland
British Legion
Provisional
Newry
Provisional Wing
Dublin
Reginald Maudling
Home Secretary
Austin Currie
Social and Democratic
Labor Party
Ber
Maudling
Bernadette Devlin
Brian Faulkner
Britain
Shaftsbury Square
Army
Stoneman Named Vermont Corrections Commissioner
Kent Stoneman, 38, was named Vermont's new corrections commissioner to succeed Lawrence Bershad. He has directed community corrections and the work release program and will assume the $21,000 annual post Sept. 10 as Bershad leaves for a Harvard fellowship. The administration cited bids exceeding $5.1 million for Windsor prison and plans to study alternatives, including expanding community corrections, with a statewide welfare funding note and possible federal involvement.
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John Moran
Delaware
Human Services
William Cowles
Cowles
Vermont
Windsor
General Assembly
Stoneman
Corrections Department
New England
Joseph Bett
Boston
Massachusetts
Francis W. Sargent
Sargent
Congress
Connally Defends Nixon Tax Plan Before House Panel
Treasury Secretary John B. Connally disputed claims the Nixon tax plan harms the poor, outlining $7 billion in personal relief and arguing profits are at a low point. He testified at the House Ways and Means Committee as Mills seeks changes, including a potential 7 percent investment credit and a push to nullify accelerated depreciation tax cuts.
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Washington
UPI
Treasury
John B. Connally
Nixon
Connally
House
Ways and Means Committee
Wilbur D. Mills
D-Ark
Congress
Mills
Organized Labor
Israel blames U S for Mideast deadlock
In Jerusalem an Israeli source accuses U S criticism of pressuring Egypt toward intransigence on a peace deal. He cites Rogers remarks calling Israel policy not viable and questions why Egypt would resist if Israel was constructive in April. Egypt moves to finalize its draft constitution under Sadat.
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United Press International
Jerusalem
U.S
Egypt
Middle East
William P. Rogers
Rogers
Israel
Suez Canal
Cairo
Anwar Sadat
Uien
Congressional battle looms on school prayer amendment
Congress faces a tense struggle over a proposed constitutional amendment to restore prayer in public schools. Mrs. Ben Ruhlin of Ohio and opposing church groups race to influence House members during the recess, aiming to discharge the Wylie amendment from the Judiciary Committee and secure a vote.
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Washington
UPI
Ben Ruhlin
Cuyahoga Falls
Ohio
Congress
Ruhlin
Mrs. Ruhlin
Supreme Court
House Judiciary Committee
Chalmers P. Wylie
Wylie
Judiciary
Inside At UVM 100 Years Of Women On Campus
A review of a century of women around the University of Vermont campus notes their enduring presence and influence. The feature surveys roles, milestones, and evolving inclusion within university life across generations.
Mitchell Hoover focus differs on crime data
A year of Mitchell led revisions to FBI crime data interpretation created a gap with Hoover's agency statements. Mitchell press materials reframed trends, showing slower violent crime growth while national crime rose about 13 percent, prompting tension between Justice and FBI releases.
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Mitchell and Hoover
Fred P. Graham
N.Y. Times
Washington
John N. Mitchell
Federal Bureau of Investigation
J. Edgar Hoover
Mitchell
FBI
Bureau
Hoover
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By Joe Swayze
Aan
Swayze
Eugene F. Morrissey
Belfast
British Legion Club
Andersontown
Bershad
Maine
New Hampshire
National Council of Churches and the Baptist Joint Committee On Public Affairs
Uvm
Tom Braden
Pete Horton
John Page
Pownal
Hoosick Falls
Shaftsbury
Cole Hall
Mitchel
Justice Department
United States
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