Wackerman Defends Vermont Welfare Record Amid Kritik
Social Welfare Commissioner John J. Wackerman defended his decade as department head saying he is damn proud to put the needs of Vermont's poor first. Deputy Paul Philbrook blasted a Davis administration probe and Pinkerton investigators, calling the findings based on hearsay and the cases used as worst possible examples.
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Deane C. Davis
Pinkerton
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Philbrook
Mao Reported Critically Ill in Moscow
East European sources report Mao Tse tung suffered a stroke and is in critical condition, unable to run day to day Communist China affairs. No confirmation from Soviet or Peking officials, while Hong Kong experts question the illness. If no public appearance Oct 1, the National Day, officials may acknowledge a problem.
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UPI
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China
Peking
Mao
Peking Radio
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Ho Chi Minh
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Vietnam
Chou En-lai
Hanoi
Chou En
Minority Report Sparks Welfare Department Debate
Rep. George Little from Burlington released his minority report to counter the 85 page majority finding. He argues distrust of the poor taints the inquiry while defending the department’s mission under the 1967 welfare reform law and criticizing Pinkerton investigations as unhelpful to rehabilitation.
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Little
Deane C. Davis
Pinkerton
Birth control deemed insanity by scientists at Aspen meeting
Scientists at the John Muir Institute meeting in Aspen declare voluntary birth control insanity and urge compulsion to avert overpopulation. John Erlichman moderated discussions with figures from biology physics and social development as experts warn of mass starvation and global resource strain within decades. The conference aims to produce publications and a broader program for future action.
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Colo
Nixon
John Erlichman
John Muir Institute
Aspen Meadows
The
United States
Garrett Hardin
University of California At Santa Barbara
Donald Aitken
Stanford University
Unknown Novel Found Among Hemingway Papers
A Pennsylvania State University bibliography reveals a hitherto unknown Hemingway work titled Jimmy Breen, a 20 page short story Summer People, and a Fitzgerald letter critique. The 137 page inventory covers 50 pounds of manuscripts from 1925 to 1945, compiled for a forthcoming display at Harvard's Kennedy Library.
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Ernest Hemingway
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Jimmy Breen
Nick Adams
Fitzgerald
Pennsylvania State University
Mary Walsh Hemingway
Mately
Mary Hemingway
Charles Scribner’s, Sons
Penn State
Philip Young
Charles W. Mann
Hemingway
Pennsylvania State University Press
Sloppy Joe’s
Key West
Fla
Cuba
First National City Bank of New York
Manhattan
Editorial celebrates House approval to end electoral college
The piece on Page 4 commends the House for approving a constitutional amendment to abolish the electoral college and replace it with direct election. It contrasts with James Reston’s critique of President Nixon for offering limited concessions on draft reductions and troop withdrawals. A highway official who predicted U S 7 would go to East Dorset instead of Manchester is revealed on Page 6.
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Nixon
East Dorset
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Jetliner crashes in Mexico City killing 25 and injuring 80
A Mexicana Boeing 727 with 118 aboard, mostly Americans from Chicago, crashed into a Texcoco lakebed near International Airport. 25 dead, about 80 injured, several missing. Rescue work amid mud and water, four bodies remain on board. Pilot reported normal contact. cause under investigation. Passengers recall turbulence before the descent.
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Chicago
District Attorney’s Office
Monterrey
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Mexican Civil Aeronautics Bureau
Texcoco
Afro-American Day Parade Held in Harlem
In New York Harlem hosted the first Afro-American Day parade drawing about 100,000 spectators. U S Representatives Adam Clayton Powell and Shirley Chisholm led the march celebrating Black heritage with festive observances similar to St Patrick and Columbus Day.
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API
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U.S
Adam Clayton Powell
Shirley Chisholm
Schenectady Couple Among Known Dead
District attorney lists known foreign victims aboard the crashed Mexican Airlines plane. Seven bodies are unidentified, four remain aboard. Named victims include Thomas Norman Wilcox, 58, of Schenectady, NY, a GE systems engineer, and his wife Margery Wilcox, plus Dr. William N. Dipalma and others from Illinois, Michigan, and New York.
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API
Mexican Airlines
Thomas Norman Wilcox
General Electric Co
Schenectady
N.Y
Margery Wilcox
William N. Dipalma
Denny Melvin Wilson
James Pierzakowski
Fred Dale Smith
William T. McDonough
William Arnold Freise
Charlie Jones
Nixon creates construction industry bargaining commission
President Nixon moved to ease silent strike tensions in the construction sector by appointing a special executive order backed panel. The commission, led by Labor Secretary George P. Shultz, includes labor and industry reps along with four public figures to pursue voluntary tripartite dispute settlement procedures.
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UPI
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George P. Shultz
Robbery Seen Motive In Double Murder
In Calais Vermont authorities theorize robbery may be the motive in the murder of a vacationing Florida couple. James Hipp 67 and Iola 62 were beaten to death in their trailer. No money was found. Autopsy confirms violent deaths. Investigators will interview Calais residents and search for equipment missing from the couple’s abandoned car.
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UPI
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Calais
William Keefe
James Hipp
Iola
Vermont
Keefe
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Henry Raymont
University of Vermont
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John Svoboda
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Clarence Wildman
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Williams College
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