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Bennington Banner

Location

Bennington, Vermont, United States of America

Date

Sep 23, 1970

Page

2

House denies funds for Dickey Lincoln hydro project

Washington The House voted 230 to 131 to block any more planning funds for Maine's Dickey Lincoln hydroelectric project. The $167 million plan would tap northern Maine's St John River with dams to cut costs, but opponents call it uneconomic and wasteful. Proponents cite low power costs and New England needs, while supporters stress private utilities would not fund the project.

Washington UPI House Maine New England Senate House Public Works Committee House-Senate Peter N. Kyres United States Kyres Louis Wyman R-N.h Dickey-Lincoln St. John’s Edward P. Boland Dmass Robert Giaimo D-Conn Congress John Saylor R-Pa Corps of Engineers Saylor St. John William D. Hathaway Dmaine

Southern governors reach accord on anti-busing stand

Deep South and border state governors, at the Southern Governors Conference in Biloxi Mississippi, reached a rare agreement opposing forced busing to balance public school racial mix. The 10-2 vote, with 12 governors present, also backed urging Congress to adopt a single national desegregation policy. new Mississippi leader John Bell Williams won chair, while outgoing Winthrop Rockefeller lauded the accord as a major achievement.

Biloxi Miss UPI Southern Governors Conference Russell W. Peterson Delaware Louis A. Ferre Territory Puerto Rico Resolu Tion Congress Winthrop Rockefeller Arkansas John Bell Williams Mississippi Deep South Gulf Coast Williams United Program of Environment Control Rockefeller

Cambodian Drive At Tang Kauk Fails To Take Town

In Phnom Penh reports Cambodian Command rushed another battalion to Tang Kauk where paratroops backed a two week offensive but failed to capture the Communist held town 52 miles north of Phnom Penh. Militants claim three teachers killed and five missing in a later incident.

Phnom Penh UPI Tang Kauk Norodom Sihanouk U.S Saigon S.S. Amerigo Cam Ranh Bay Chau Doc Mekong Delta Tang Kauh Skoun Dey Eth

Rescuers search for missing Free Life balloonists

Rescue planes scoured over 50 000 square miles of the North Atlantic chasing two men and a woman feared lost after their helium filled balloon named The Free Life disappeared on Monday night while attempting to reach Europe. The trio Malcolm Brighton Rodney Anderson and Pamela Brown were last heard as they reported losing altitude in a storm before preparing to land.

New York UPI North Atlantic Europe Coast Guard Search and Rescue Center Cape Race Newfoundland Coast Guard Free Life Malcolm Brighton Rodney Anderson New York City Pamela Brown East Hampton N.Y

Ari and Jackie Onassis Spend $20 Million a Year

New York UPI reports Ari and Jackie Onassis lived on a personal budget of about 384 615 dollars in their first wedding year. Fred Sparks notes their spending rivals czars, funded by shipping profits and other investments. Sparks cites jewelry gifts totaling five dollars for Jackie and quotes a friend as joking about a diamond mine.

New York UPI Aristotle Socrates Onassis Fred Sparks Ari Russia Jackie Cleopatra Sparks Bernard Geis John F. Kennedy Onassis

Luna 16 return home tops Soviet space talk

Soviet deputy Luna 16 chief designer told Tass the mission proves the first reliable space robot and forecasts more craft to explore Mars Venus and other worlds. He said a radically new planetary exploration craft is being designed while Luna 16 heads toward a Thursday parachute landing after a moon soil scoop and return flight.

Moscow UPI Mars Venus Tass Earth Moon

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