Vermont to start federal food stamp program
Deputy Social Welfare Commissioner Paul Philbrook outlined the federal food stamp rollout for 1500 Northeast Kingdom residents starting Oct 1 with coverage expanding to Caledonia Orleans and Essex counties and about 3000 at full implementation. Applications will be accepted in September in St Johnsbury and Newport. A White River Junction district office opens Oct 1 with four more by July 1 1968 under the state centralized welfare reform law.
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Franklin
Lamoille
Grand Isle
Philbrook
White River Junction
Vermont Emergency Board approves 34 of 38 new hires
The Emergency Board approved 34 of 38 requested state positions from various departments. It rejected two Public Service Board hires and a cosmetology board clerk-stenographer, tabled an industrial arts consultant for Education until a new education commissioner is named Sept 30. Social Welfare gained authorization to spend about 99000 for special education programs with a supplemental appropriation planned for 1968 to reimburse the department as funds are unavailable.
Bread Loaf Writers Conference selects 13 fellowship winners
Middlebury College Bread Loaf Director John Ciardi announced the 13 all expense paid fellowships for the 42nd conference session. The winners include five women and eight men who have published at least one book or had a manuscript accepted. The conference, founded in 1926 by Robert Frost, will host two weeks of workshops lectures and panels.
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Middlebury
UPI
Middlebury College
Bread Loaf Writers Conference
John Ciardi
Robert Frost
Bread Loaf
Clardi
Vermont to buy 4000 acre Sevon Trout Ranch for preserve
Forests and Parks Commissioner Robert Williams announced a signed contract to purchase the 4,000 acre Sevon Trout Ranch in Groton for a fish and wildlife preserve and state forest. The $250,000 price hinges on securing 75 percent of funds from the federal Bureau of Outdoor Recreation, with approval from the Interagency Committee on Natural Resources.
Two Hebert brothers Die in Vermont Crash
UPI reports two Middlebury brothers Douglas G. Hebert 21 and Charles E. Hebert 17 died when their car skidded off V1 17, struck a tree and overturned. Both died at the scene. The crash pushed Vermont 1967 highway fatalities to 60.
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Addison
UPI
Middlebury
Douglas G. Hebert
Charles E. Hebert
Vermont
Essex Junction man dies in Burlington crash
Bernard I. Bushey 22 of Essex Junction died Monday night when his car collided with a cement mixer at Home Avenue and Shelburne Street in Burlington Police said a passenger Mrs Alda Prairie also of Essex Junction sustained minor injuries.
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Burlington
UPI
Bernard I. Bushey
Essex Junction
Home Avenue
Shelburne Street
Alda Prairie
Brattleboro Teen Killed In West River Crash
Eve Jones seventeen year old Brattleboro resident died Monday when the car she rode in as a passenger left Route 1 30 and rolled down an embankment into the West River.
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West Dummerston
UPI
Eve Jones
Brattleboro
West River
New York Constitutional Convention Proposes Bipartisan Reapportionment
Albany reports Democratic leaders propose that state legislative redistricting be entrusted to a five member bipartisan panel, removing it from lawmakers. Republicans demand delay to consult. Earlier plan kept reapportionment with Senate and Assembly for one year then, if unfinished, to a five member panel.
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Albany
GOP
Earl W. Brydges
Senate
Assembly
Court of Appeals
Funeral for NY police head Cornelius draws Rockefeller Lefkowitz
Funeral services were held Monday for New York State Police Superintendent Arthur Cornelius who died Friday at 59. Among the mourners were Gov. Rockefeller and Attorney General Louis J. Lefkowitz, honoring the former FBI man who reorganized the State Police into a premier law enforcement unit.
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Albany
New York
Arthur Cornelius
FBI
Gov
Rockefeller
Louis J. Lefkowitz
Conte calls for Vietnam war end with barrier proposal
U.S. Representative Silvio Conte proposes an unconditional end to bombing North Vietnam and a mile wide barrier from the China Sea through Laos to the Thai border. He argues the barrier would deter infiltration, signal resolve, and be cheaper than intensified bombing while South Vietnam remains, aiming for a political settlement at the conference table.
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U.S
South Vietnam
Hanoi
Conte questionnaire on Vietnam findings clash with rep
Representative Silvio O. Conte released results of his Vietnam questionnaire showing large majorities favor escalation and oppose a conditional truce including Viet Cong recognition. The positions differ from Conte’s own stated views.
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Pittsfield
Silvio O. Conte
Vietnam
Massachusetts Mother Held In Deaths of Four Children
A 43 year old Massachusetts mother faces murder charges after four of her children were found shot and dead in a burned Dunstable home. Brenda Connolly 15 Gregory 11 Gary 7 and Thomas 3 died in the blaze with an autopsy ordered. The mother pleaded innocent and was committed to Gardner State Hospital pending further proceedings. Debbie 18 worked as a waitress in Seabrook New Hampshire at the time.
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Dunstable
Mass
UPIJD
Brenda Connolly
Gregory
Gary
Thomas
Lawrence Churchbille
David B. Williams
Connolly
Gardner State (Mental) Hospital
Debbie
Seabrook
N.H
Richard Robichaud
Frances Connolly
Center
Ayer District Court
UPI
Oakes Seeks Three State Coop On Thermal Pollution Jurisdiction
Vermont AG James L. Oakes pressed New Hampshire and Massachusetts to let the Vermont Water Resources Board decide who governs thermal pollution of the Connecticut River. A hearing is set for Aug 21 in Brattleboro on a Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Corp. petition for discharging tiny non-harmful radioactive substances and heated water back to the river. Oakes urged regional cooperation to avoid three separate hearings and potential AEC conflicts, while Vermont Yankee agreed not to use cooling-tower cost arguments against their necessity.
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Montpelier
UPI
James L. Oakes
New Hampshire
Massachusetts
Vermont Water Resources Board
Connecticut River
Brattleboro
Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Corp
Vernon
Oakes
Atomic Energy Commission
AEC
Water Resources Board
Vermont
Vermont Yankee
Philip H. Hoff
Albert A. Cree
Hoff
New England
Muskie Blames Republicans Over Dickey Lincoln Funds
Senator Muskie faulted Republican leadership in Congress for blocking the Dickey Lincoln public power project funding. He warned the House vote has reduced prospects for 1968 appropriations, while noting Senate chances may still shift. The plan seeks 218 to 300 million dollars for a hydroelectric peaking power project serving six New England states.
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Washington
House
Muskie
Margaret Chase Smith
Maine
Senate
Dickey
Senate House
GOP
Public Works Committee
San Felipe
California
Lowell Police Tangled With Hell's Angels Club Members
In Lowell Massachusetts a confrontation with a motorcycle club led to a police action. Club president Don Picard 24 was shot in the chest and five riders from Lowell and Omaha Nebraska were arrested on charges including assault with a dangerous weapon and disturbing the peace after a melee near Middlesex Street. Police say Picard struck officer John Newell with a bottle and brandished an iron bar before being shot by Newell.
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Lowell
Mass
UPID
Hell’s Angels Motorcycle Club of
California
Peter Guduras
Don Picard
St. Joseph’s Hospital
Guduras
Picard
John Newell
Newell
Arthur Diette
Gerald F. Smith
Smith
Gudaras
Middlesex Street
Chelmsford
Omaha
Neb
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Down In
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Conte
Alexander
N.E
Rye Beach
National Guard
Walter Stone
Rhode Island State Police
Nespac
David E. Kelly
New Jersey
Michigan National Guard
Leo Mulcahy
Connecticut
Leo Laughlin
Parker Hennessey
E.A. Alexander
Pontivy
France
Treboul
Brittany
Main St.ington
Ben
Fisimans
Atkins
Main ST
Bennington
Sen
Dickey-Lincoln
Adams Clothes Shop
Hollywood
Haynes & Kane Inc
Main Street
Blue Hill
Molly Stark
Monument Avenue
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