Ruggles Attacks Sun Oil on Signs and Tax Reform Push
Senator Dan Ruggles charged Sun Oil with stubbornly refusing to remove high rise Sunoco signs while endorsing recent billboard laws. He praised Gov. Hoff for pushing sign removal but questioned current legal authority. Ruggles urged public reaction and warned the Sunoco case mirrors broader transportation and taxation debates. Hayes urged state aid to local districts to curb rising property taxes and support education and skilled labor development.
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Hardwick
Dan Ruggles
Sun Oil Company
Sunoco
Ruggles
Gov
Hoff
Vermont
Middlebury
Midnight perfume intoxicates young lad in London
London report says 19 month old Jeffrey Tiller drank a bottle of perfume named Midnight. His mother rushed him to hospital where doctors sobered him up and sent him home after treatment.
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London
UPI
Jeffrey Tiller
Jeffrey
Orthopedic Programs Set At Hospital
Orthopedic clinics will be held Aug. 12 14 in Bennington Rutland and Burlington as part of the Handicapped Children's Service program of the Vermont Health Department. Dr Harold A Sofield emeritus surgeon at Northwestern and Chicago Shriners Hospital will be the fifth Joseph S Barr visiting consultant. New England consultants will attend the three summer clinics opening in Bennington Putnam Memorial Hospital Monday morning Aug 12 with Rutland and Burlington clinics following August 13 and 14 respectively.
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Burlington
Handicapped Children’s Service
Vermont Health Department
Bennington
Rutland
Harold A. Sofield
Northwestern University Medical School
Chicago Shriners’ Hospital
Joseph S. Barr
New England
Putnam Memorial Hospital
DeGoesbriand
Vermont Medical Center
Highway Board Orders Removal of Gas Co. Signs
Vermont highway officials order immediate masking or removal of state erected gasoline brand signs along the interstate after Sun Oil refused to dismantle high rise signs. The signs, erected May 3 as part of early experimental programs, prompted the action following a verbal agreement earlier this year.
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Highway Board
Gas Co
Montpelier
UPD
Vermont Highway Board
Sun Oil Co
Vermont Petroleum Association
VPA
Highway Department
New Books at Bennington Free Library Catalog Highlights
A long list of new titles spans fiction and non fiction including Bell’s No Escape Cleary Season of Doubt and Ross Let Your Heart Answer. Notable works cover mystery romance science fiction and historical reference with authors such as Asimov Cohn Margolius and McLuhan.
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Cleary
Moskowitz
Gaslight
Ross
China
Stevens
Red Tower
Tuttle
Rudolph
Worley
Dr. John
Clinics on Shoplifting Announced in Bennington
Retail and small business groups announce clinics to train retailers on preventing shoplifting. A Vermont Retail Association session at 1 30 p m and 3 p m a film plus discussion. Police Chief Fox and State s Atty Carmody will discuss identification and legal aspects.
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Greater Bennington Association
Vermont Retail Association
The
Small Business Administration
Bennington
William Fox
Atty
John Carmody
YMCA Adds Evening Hours and Recreation Attractions
The YMCA will operate three evenings weekly from 7 to 9 pm offering gym, bowling alleys, weight room and lounge activities such as pool, ping pong, chess and checkers plus TV. Edward Dewey supervises. Summer hours are 9 to 5 weekdays and 9 to 1 Saturdays. A group of campers from Camp Y Woods anecdotally explored local caves and campsites, with plans to visit Lenox Mass and a bird sanctuary, including a stop for a swim in Pittsfield on the return.
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Everett’s Cave
Lenox
Mass
Pittsfield
Dagley Pleads Innocent in Los Angeles Crap Game Raid
Er nest Dagley pleaded innocent to gambling charges after a crapgame raid in Los Angeles. When two dice dropped to the floor as he pulled a handkerchief from his pocket the arresting officer exclaimed Your point is six Dagley then told the judge he wished to change his plea and was fined 35 dollars.
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Los Angeles
UPI
Ernest Dagley
Dagley
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