Orange weighted voting hurdle cleared by county board
Orange County supervisors advanced a plan for weighted voting as a stopgap to comply with the one person, one vote ruling. The hearing drew no opposition and the board set sessions for charter government by end of 1968, with votes ranging by constituency. Also approved were five sewer agency appointments and five soil and water conservation district appointees, plus a $75,000 elections equipment purchase.
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Howell
Goshen
Orange County Board of Sufeterpervisors
U.S. Supreme Court
Albert C. Howell
County Sewer Agency
County Sprend Water Conservation District
Pur
Sewer Agency
Geary Chumard
Middletown
Col
LR. Talbot
Newburgh
Kenneth Sinsabeugh
Stephen W. Hayes
Central Valley
Burt C. Corteright
Campbell Hall
Hayes and Cortright
Chumard
Chumard and Erikson
Talbot
Cortright
Hamptonburgh
Soil and Water Conservation District
James E. Thorn
Thompson Ridge
Willis Simpson
Port Jervis
William Gurcia
Pine Island
Doctors Resist Medicaid Expansion Says Law Unworkable
Welfare commissioner Douglas D. Couser in Orange County says doctors may refuse to treat Medicaid patients unless the law is amended. Physicians want free choice of physician, lower eligibility standards, direct billing, higher state fees, and more input in administration. He notes 74.6 percent of residents would be eligible under a 1960 census baseline and estimates perhaps 40 percent now qualify. before Medicaid, only about 4,000 to 4,500 received benefits. If doctors refuse to treat, Couser calls it their right but fault the law, not the elderly patients.
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Douglas D. Couser
Orange County
Couser
Orange
Frog hunters arrested after dawn incident in Edenville
Three men were arrested after a frog hunting trip early Saturday. Raymond Mabee and Robert Williams faced disorderly conduct charges. Frank M. Walter, an Edenville farmer, was charged with second degree assault for allegedly firing a .12 gauge shotgun. Mabee and Williams received fines or releases as cases progressed.
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Edenville
Monroe
Raymond Mabee
Lower Wisner Road
Warwick
Robert Williams
Monroe Road
Greenwood Lake
Frank M. Walter
Mabee
St. Anthony's Hospital
Peter B. Bush
Walter
Martin Rosenblim
Williams
Thomas Talleur
Loch Sheldrake site wins SCCC campus status
Sullivan County Community College trustees approved Loch Sheldrake as permanent SCCC campus site in a 5 to 4 vote. Dr Richard Greenfield said the meeting lasted about 10 minutes with no discussion. Four trustees initiated the vote from South Fallsburg Neversink Callicoon and Roscoe. four opposed.
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Richard K. Greenfield
Harold Gold
Mortimer Michaels
South Fallsburg
Max Rubenzahl
Neversink
Frederick Starck
Callicoon
Ronald Albee
Roscoe
Luis de Hoyos
Loch Sheldrake
SCCC
Greenfield
Board of Supervisors
The
State University
Otisville vetoes hall bond vote fails
Otisville voters reject a 94800 bond to build a municipal building firehouse and garage by 103 to 62. Mayor Ralph DeSanna questions need while noting rent costs for a nonheated barn and arguing residents should decide how funds are used.
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Otisville
Otsville Village
Ralph DeSanna
DeSanna
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Orange County Community College
Robert T. Novak
Chase
Board of Elections
Burton C. Cosman
Joseph F. Lilly
Greenville
Harold L. Hansen
Minisink
Sullivan County
David A. Pardy
Albert C. Durland
Thorn
Simpson
Orange and Rockland Pomona Grange
Garda
Orange County Farm Bureau
Pardy
Durland
QCCC
Novak
Doe Dena
Bernard Wess
Mon
Tiello
James Burbank
Natsewsburg
Karl Bhers
Eldred
Miles Ellison
Ellison
Otisville Vetoes Hall
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