Man wounds wife and kills himself in Manchester parking lot
A 66 year old Dorset man William Abbott Crandall shot his estranged wife Florence Crandall in the Manchester Center Post Office parking lot then killed himself with two chest shots. Florence was treated at Rutland Hospital for facial gunshot injuries while Crandall died at the scene. Police described three witnesses, noted prior domestic dispute, and said both had appeared in Bennington court last year.
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Manchester
Dorset
William Abbott Crandall
East Dorset
Florence Crandall
Dufresne Pond Road
Manchester Center
Ning
Crandall
James Webb
Crandalls
Bennington District Court
Michael McShane
Mt Tabor YCC continues CCC heritage in Vermont work crews
A Vermont youth program, established in 1970 and now permanent, runs two four week shifts of 30 high school students at Mt Tabor. Crews work about 30 hours weekly on national forest projects from Jenny Brook Weston to Lye Brook Manchester, building puncheon and maintaining the Long Trail amid mud and rain.
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Rob Woolmington
MT. Tabor
America
Fdr
SEC
NRA
AFL
CIO
WPA
GOP
CCC
Civilian Conservation Corps
Cccers
Vermont
YCC
GMC
Green Mountain Club
Youth Conservation Corps
Forest Service
New York
National Forest
Jenny Brook
Weston
White Rocks
Wallingford
Manchester
Lye Brook
Vermont Bicentennial Steam Train Announces Going Out of Business Sale
Vermont's bicentennial steam train, opened July 1, will offer reduced rates to Vermonters as Administration Secretary Robert Wilson calls the move a going-out-of-business sale. The announcement signals sales event for the Steamtrain in Montpelier.
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Bicentennial Transportation Committee
Burlington
Bennington
Legislative Joint Fiscal Committee
Joint Fiscal Committee
Wilson
Life on Mars hints and Vermont transport plans collide
Inside reports hint life on Mars while Carter returns to New Hampshire to keep a promise. Vermont flights fall short as tourism rises with jazz and fiddling draws crowds. state funds pour into consultants. Editorial laments county Senate, Braden reveals Nixon era dirt.
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Mars
Carter
New Hampshire
Seabrook
Vermont
Senate
Tom Braden
Harvest Hills
Shaftsbury
Hoosick Falls
Arlington
Mt. Anthony Country Club
John Randolph
Mystery virus kills 19 in Pa at Legion convention
State health officials cannot identify a mysterious virus linked to the Pennsylvania American Legion gathering in Philadelphia. By July a death toll of 19 with 73 hospitalizations had prompted a statewide probe as officials warned the illness may spread and could be contagious.
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Harrisburg
UPI
Bachman
American Legion
Philadelphia
Flood rescue efforts by helicopter teams in Big Thompson canyon
Ground crews recovered 78 bodies at Loveland morgue and 10 at Estes Park after a weekend flash flood in the Big Thompson canyon. Helicopters ferried in to aid search as 88 people were killed in the freak storm that inundated the 35 mile canyon. Gov. Lamm pledged massive aid while National Guard units were mobilized.
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Loveland
Colo
UPI
Big Thompson River Canyon
Rocky Mountain Canyon
Larimer County
Bob Watson
American Legion
Estes Park
Ford
Colorado
Vail
Bureau of Reclamation
Richard Lamm
Lamm
National Guard
Denver
Watson
Ford gains uncommitted PA delegate as Reagan wins more
United Press International reports Ford picks up another uncommitted Pennsylvania delegate from Williamsport Thomas Twine who backs Ford. Reagan adds three delegates in the northeast after Schweiker's pick as running mate, with UPI tally showing Ford at 1,122 delegates, Reagan 1,031, and 106 uncommitted. Baker calls Reagan’s gains unsubstantial.
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Ford
Pennsylvania
Ronald Reagan
Thomas Twine
Williamsport
Reagan
Richard Schweiker
Schweiker
New York
Pennyslvania
UPI
West Virginia
Hunter James Baker
FBI break in probe widens into 75 agents, sources say
The Department of Justice broadened its inquiry into FBI burglaries of homes and offices of militant figures, warning about 50 agents they may be called to testify. The probe now covers several field offices, including New York, Washington, San Francisco and Los Angeles, with many entries dated 1972 73 aimed at Weather Underground and Socialist Workers Party targets.
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Nicholas M. Horrock
N.Y. Times
Washington
Department of Justice
Federal Bureau of Investigation
FBI
Department
Justice Department
New York
Bureau
San Francisco
Los Angeles
Civil Rights Division
J. Stanley Pottinger
Justice
Jack Solerwitz
Mineola
George Baxtrum
Milwaukee Bureau
Socialist Workers Party
Baxtrum
The
Socialist Workers
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Webb
Manchester Town Police
Morris Beauregard
Manchester Village
George Hoag
State
Glenn Hall
Burlington Medical Center
Lawrence Harris
Valley Forge
Neil Rideout
Forest Road 10
Ten Kiln Meadow
Steamtrain
Sharon Sexton
By Deborah Frazier
United Press International
John Sears
Californian
J. Edgar Hoover
Weather Underground
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