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Newspaper
Bennington Banner
Location
Bennington, Vermont, United States of America
Date
Sep 13, 1971
Page
5
A regional conference in Rockland Maine runs four days with about 100 state legislators staff and department heads from 10 eastern states. Tuesday morning sessions cover welfare youth vote national health insurance drugs and corrections with participation from six New England states New York New Jersey Pennsylvania and Delaware.
The National Weather Service warned small crafts to stay near harbors as Heidi tracks up the Atlantic coast. Seas could rise to 5 to 10 feet with gusts of 25 to 35 knots by late today. Meteorologists expect Heidi off Long Island by Tuesday afternoon. at 3 am EDT it stood about 240 miles off the North Carolina coast.
In Boston the 1971 mayoral primary remains a low-key contest with six candidates vying for one of two runoff spots. Incumbent Kevin White and Louise Day Hicks are seen as likely top finishers, while others like Timilty Atkins and Powers vie for transfers and a broader base.
Laura Lea Schaefer of Bexley Ohio was crowned Miss America 1972 in Atlantic City New Jersey. In her first press conference she defended conservatism opposed premarital sex and abortion rights while noting peers offered drugs and her stance on politics and campus dress code.
A car plunged from Grand Street Bridge into 30 feet of Pequonock River water in Bridgeport leaving at least three dead. Victims include Mrs. Pauline Soldi 26 and Mrs. Rita Fortin 28 of Bridgeport and David Fortin 31 of Brattleboro Vermont. another occupant, believed missing, may raise toll to four. A witness saw three women and a man in the station wagon before the crash. Mrs Fortin was driving.
An aldermanic meeting will hear the Burlington Street Department investigation into bid handling for equipment purchases. The three aldermen appointed by Mayor Gordon Paquette are expected to report irregularities found, though sources say no criminal wrongdoing was found.
The Vermont chapter of the ACLU had planned a Westford rock festival to challenge a town ordinance on large gatherings but canceled the event after selectmen rescinded the rule. About 50 to 60 people attended at Ephraim Robbins farm on Saturday. Harold LaPointe, 60, of Rutland died from injuries after a September 2 car collision, reported in Rutland.
In Troy Rensselaer County may get the area's first ombudsman office to handle public complaints and ensure proper services. The study for the county legislature calls the creation highly desirable and says the appointed ombudsman would primarily serve the public and remedy abuses. In Albany two men died in drowning accidents over the weekend. John Cook, 16, of Cairo, drowned in a two foot deep East Durham motel pool. Willie C. Hart, 26, of Albany, fell into the State Barge Canal at Waterford and was recovered hours later.
In North Adams Dr Edmond P Larkin becomes committee chair to promote a halfway house for social problems. Housing Now Inc scrapped a plan to buy Berkshire Rest Home for leasing to Northern Berkshire Community Action due to legal and financial limits. Larkin may form a corporation to reacquire the facility after conversion.
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