Albany lottery super prize and state contracts update
Albany reports Gov Rockefeller approves a $250000 annual lottery super prize to be paid as ten yearly installments. Tax Commissioner Joseph Murphy details, along with plans to boost education lottery winners and end-of-year drawings. Also announced is an $5.1 million highway contract to J Groves & Sons for Route 17 and 6 in Orange County near Central Valley and Bear Mountain State Park, plus a new $440000 infirmary at New Paltz State University College.
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Gov. Rockefeller
8. J. Groves & Sons Co
North
Syracuse
Orange County
Central Valley
Bear Mountain State Park
Harriman
Long Mountain Parkway
Erie Lackawanna Railroad
State University College
New Paltz
Rockefeller
Albany
Joseph Murphy
Murphy
Outdoor living Bottles and cans mar the beauty of Fandletown
A field photo by Ed Halcher-Davidge shows litter in Mid-shek’s picnic area, with bottles and cans spoiling the landscape.
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Fandletown
Ed Hal
Cher - Davidge
Mid- Shek
Local Government Hearing in Albany on Tax and Debt Limits
The State Constitutional Convention's local government committee will hold a public hearing in Albany on Thursday. Chairman Dr. Alan K. Campbell said the session may be the most important of eight statewide hearings. Testimony will include Education Commissioner James E. Alien Jr and Albany Mayor Erastus Corning, focusing on whether local tax and debt limits should be retained. The Middletown Board of Education limit example is cited as a case raising voters' limits for education funding.
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Albany
Alan K. Campbell
James E. Alien, Jr
Erastus Corning
Middletown
Bonding powers urged to stay unfettered by constitution
Albany officials from three authorities urged the Constitutional Convention to keep legislative power to authorize bond financing programs unfettered. William J. Ronan, Robert Moses, and Austin J. Tobin argued that flexibility allows authorities to respond to modern needs and fund facilities from public housing to ski centers, with records access debated and no press disclosure demanded.
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Albany
UPI
Constitutional Convention
Convention Committee On Economic Development
William J. Ronan
Metropolitan Commuter Transportation Authority
Robert Moses
Triborough Bridge and Tunnel Authority
Austin J. Tobin
Port of New York Authority
New York
Tobin
Moses
Ronan
Rockefeller
Rockefeller Travia clash over New York atomic power plan
In Niagara Falls Governor Rockefeller and Assembly Speaker Travia spar over an eight billion dollar atomic power proposal. Rockefeller accuses opponents of political power stalling the plan while Travia argues public interest and warns against private monopoly. Moses backs a joint state private effort and warns over private-only control.
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Albany
UPI
Rockefeller
Assembly
Anthony J. Travia
Niagara Falls
Travia
Hhe Rockefeller
Moses
New York
Goat Island
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Orange
Robert S. van Fleet
Ottaway News Service
Arthur Levitt
Harold L. Fisher
Fisher
Roger H. Gilman
Port of
Gilman
U.S. Supreme Court
Congress
New York State Automobile Association
Louis B. Scott
Rocky Vs
State Power Authority
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