Vermont Industry Panel Considering 1.25 Million Loan
The Vermont Industrial Building Commission will review a 1.25 million loan guarantee for Magazines, Inc. and Books, Inc. to start in St. Johnsbury. The plan aims to hire 25 initially, growing to 75, with a new plant and equipment, backed by 90 percent of the startup cost. Funding includes 45 000 from St. Johnsbury Development Fund and 80 000 from local residents.
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ST. Johnsbury
UPI
Vermont Industrial Building Commission
VIBC
Magazines, Inc
Books, Inc
Kingdom
Vermont
Secretary of State
Forest Fire Rages Through Ulster County Shawangunks
In Ulster County KERHONKSON a major forest fire along a five mile Minewaska Trail front drew 550 firefighters from 75 departments overnight. Nearby Troy fire crews responded to a Hudson River blaze from burning mattresses. Melrose field day saw Rodney Hewitt lose an eye when a nozzle struck him during water competition.
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Kerhonkson
Shawangunk Mountains
Ulster
Minewaska Trail
Troy
Hudson River
Central Fire
Melrose
Fire Department
Rodney Hewitt
Hewitt
St. Mary’s Hospital
Old Berkshire church may be saved amid tear-down vote
In North Adams the 112 year old First Congregational Church faces demolition after members voted last month to tear it down. A meeting tonight at the church aims to stop the destruction and preserve the unique structure noted by the Berkshire County Historical Society.
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North Adams
First Congregational Church
Berkshire County
Aid Goes to Vt Cities For Low Rent Housing
Federal housing aid will add 330 low rent units across Burlington Rutland and Brattleboro with 150 in Burlington 100 in Rutland and 80 in Brattleboro. Many units target seniors as officials urge coordinated urban renewal to fight poverty and boost dignity.
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Vermont
Public Housing Administration
Herman D. Hillman
Burlington
Rutland
Brattleboro
Hilleman
Resi
Stock Market Opens Mixed With Modest Gains
New York stocks moved slightly higher at the opening as General Foods fell 5 percent to 90.54, Woolworth rose 1.4 points to 28.14, Texas Gulf Sulphur up 0.5 to 52.3, Reynolds Metals up 0.4 to 34, Lorillard slipped 0.4 to 44.4, and rail and chemical shares edged higher or lower with minor moves across major names.
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NEW York
UPI
General Foods
Woolworth
Texas Gulf
Reynolds Metals
Chicago & North Western Railway
Westinghouse
Southern Railway
Kennecott Copper
Rohm & Haas
Corning Glass
International Telephone
Grumman
Con Edison
Owens CF
Panawa
Consumer Power Parke Davis
Continental Can
Penney
Copperweld Steel
Penn PL
Curtiss W
Pennsylvania RA
Detroit Edison
Phill P
Douglas AC
Pittsburgh Plate
General Dynamics
Richfield
General Electric
Schenley
Schering
General Motors
Sears Roebuck
Goodrich
Sinclair
Goodyear
Socony Mobil
Ry Great A & P
Sperry Rand
Alco
Greyhound
Standard Brand
Allegheny L Steel
Gulf Oil
Standard Oil Car
Allegheny Power
Hershey
Standard Oil Ind
Allied Chemical
Hoffman Electric
Standard Oil NJ
Allis Chalmers
Ing Rand
Standard Oil Oh
Alcoa
IBM
Stewart Warner
Alside
Int Harvester
Studebaker
American Airl
Nickel
E Swift
American Can
Tennessee Gas
American
Elec American Cyan Island Creek Coal
Texaco
Jones & Laughlin
Thompson RW
American Met Cl
Kennecott
Tiden Ol
American Motors
Koppers
Timken
American T & T
Kroger
Trans WA
American Tobacco
Union Carbide
United Aircraft
Armco Steel
Lone S Cm
United Air Lines
Armour
Lorillard
United Fruit Atchison
Mack Trucks
United States Rubber
Bendix Mgm
White Motor
Chrysler
Coca Cola
New York Central
Vy Xerox Co
Colgate Columbia Gas
Norf & Western
Youngstown ST
Zenith
Violent Knife Battle Shuts Raimond Community
Sheriff deputies blocked access to the Raimond area near Bessemer after a Sunday night knife fight left Bennie C. Gates dead and several others hurt. Two white men Lester Hicks and Billy Hicks fled, were treated, and released, as deputies described a clash between three Black people and two whites amid rising tensions.
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Bessemer
Ala
UPD
Here
Jefferson County
Mel Bailey
Raimond
Bailey
Lester L. Hicks
Billy Blake Hicks
Hoover at Ninety Brings Reflections on a Probing Career
New York UPI reports Herbert Clark Hoover, the 31st U.S. president, marks his 90th birthday frail but mindful of his service as an orphan advocate, humanitarian, and historian. History may judge him more generously than during the 1930s crisis.
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New York
UPI
Herbert Clark Hoover
United States
Herbert Hoover
Abraham Lincoln
Winston Churchill
Hoover
Churchill
Europe
America
White House
Mississippi Catholic Schools Plan Desegregation
Bishop R O Gerow announced plans to desegregate Catholic elementary schools in Mississippi in September. A state wide letter urged Catholics to accept the policy of admitting parochial school children without regard to race in first grade. There were 51 Catholic elementary schools with about 17 000 pupils. the number of Negro applicants was not known.
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Jackson, Miss
UPI
R. O. Gerow
Mississippi
Kennedy's Grandmother Funeral Set for Tuesday
Boston UPI reports funeral services are planned Tuesday for Mrs. John F. Fitzgerald the 9 year old grandmother of the late President John F Kennedy who was never told of his assassination in her final years
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Middlebury
UPI
Reginald L. Cook
Robert Frost
Middlebury College
Bread Loaf School of
James I. Armstrong
Cook
Bread Loaf School
Boston
John F. Fitzgerald
John F. Kennedy
Fitzgerald
Lincoln
Dorchester
Thomas A. Fitzgerald
Forc
St. Brendan’s Church
St. Jude’s Parish
Norfolk
U. S&s
Kennedy
Hyannis Port
Ann Garegen
Ambassador Kennedy
Richard Cardinal Cushing
Gargan
Pilot Mistaken Bay Wreck For House Off Portland
Coast Guard units searched a 20 square mile area off Portland after a pilot reported seeing a raft and smoke flares in Casco Bay. They concluded the sight likely showed a house wrecked from a seagoing barge. the house had broken away during a Saturday squall while being towed from Rockland to Kennebunkport.
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Portland
Maine
UPS
Casco Bay
Coast Guard
Navy
Civil Air Patrol
Rockland
Kennebunke
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Ulster Mountain Fire
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Halford Rogers
William's
Clark
Pittsfield
Berkshire County Industrial Development Commission
Adams
Bennie C. Gates
Birmingham
Gates
Drysdale’s
Bennington
Oldsmobile
Chevrolet
el Camino
Eddington
Main ST
Bennington, VT
Turkey
SALEM
Beas Market
Watch Dog
Esso
Mein St
Vermont National
National
BANK
Main Street
Bennington Windham
Windsor Counties
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Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation and
Federal Reserve System
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