Ulster County caps foster placement row with Morrows
Ulster County Social Services backed off plans to remove Dorothea and Marleana Price from foster parents John and Mary Morrow in Ellenville. Commissioner Kramer said the girls will stay as foster children and the Morrows may pursue adoption, with an investigation of the home to ensure conditions improve. The decision, praised by the children and supporters, ends days of protests and fears of a racially motivated move.
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Kevin Foley
Ellenville
Ulster County Social Services Department
Kramer
Morrows
John Morrow
Morrow
Sai Dorothea
Rockefeller OKs 17th permanent Court of Claims judge
Governor Rockefeller signed a law expanding the Court of Claims to 17 permanent judges and set a nine year term limit for those appointed under the special act. Salaries rise to 48,616 in 1975. the measure expires July 1, 1974. He vetoed a chaplains pension bill for NYC Fire Department. He urged local governments to fix finances and vetoed school bus charging and austerity budget bills.
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Times Herald-Record
Albany
UPI
State Court of Claims
Rockefeller
Court of Claims
New York City
Fire Department
John V. Lindsay
Police Pension Fund
Lindsay
Herkimer
New York to Expand Susquehanna Flood Survey
New York will add eight communities to a flood damage protection survey begun by the Susquehanna River Basin Commission and the federal government. Governor Rockefeller announced the $146,667 state supplement to a $933,272 main contract covering 500 miles of 13 streams and 91 communities, with 33 municipalities in the state now included. The added towns are Chemung Ashland Southport Erwin Corning and the communities of Hornell Wellsburg and North Hornell.
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Albany
N.Y
UPI
New York State
Susquehanna River Basin Commission
Rockefeller
Commission
Washington
State Environmental Conservation Department
New York
Chemung
Ashland
Southport
Erwin
Corning
Hornell
Wellsburg
North Hornell
Tuxedo cop faces morals charge
Tuxedo town patrolman Robert Morrow faces charges of immoral conduct and making a false report after a police investigation into alleged inappropriate conduct with a 16 year old girl. He has been suspended without pay since May pending a departmental hearing, now scheduled for June 27.
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Robert Morrow
Sam. A. Mottola
Mottola
Morrow
Monroe
Suffern
David Coral
Atty
Ronald Croyle
Croyle
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John
Mary Morrow
Marleana
Dorothea
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