Middlebury appoints two faculty and local education notes
Capt Ferdinand Collins of Burlington named assistant professor in Middlebury College Military Science Department. Rev Eliot A Daley of San Anselmo named assistant chaplain. Gov Hoff criticizes neglect of average children while pushing regional schools and summer classes for underperformers and the gifted.
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Middlebury
Ferdinand Collins
Burlington
Military Science
Middlebury College
Collins
Norwich University
Eliot A. Daley
San Anselmo
Calif
James I. Armstrong
Montpelier
Philip H. Hoff
Hoff
Fire destroys Liberty Prospect Inn in Catskills
A four story frame hotel in the Liberty Prospect Inn at a Catskill resort was destroyed by flames on Wednesday. Three employes and one guest were found dead in the ruins, with fourteen people injured including eleven of thirty registered guests many elderly. Bus boys and waiters were among the deceased.
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Liberty — Prospect Inn
Catskill Mountains
Mahoney longtime state conservation chief dies at 77
Justin T. Mahoney 77 died at Samaritan Hospital after a 48 year career with the New York State Conservation Dept. Rising from a clerical post to commissioner in charge he helped draft laws preserving natural resources and wildlife in New York and neighboring states. Albany reports Friday that he became deputy commissioner in 1955 and in 1956 took full charge by Gov. Harriman.
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Troy
Justin T. Mahoney
State Conservation Dept
Samaritan Hospital
Averell Harriman
Mahoney
New York
Berkshire flower show at Pittsfield museum this weekend
The Berkshire Museum Garden Club holds its annual flower show at the Pittsfield museum this Saturday and Sunday. Hours run 2 to 9 30 p.m. Saturday and 2 to 4 30 p.m. Sunday.
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Pittsfield
Berkshire Museum Garden Club
Pittsfield Museum
Five children orphaned after father dies in highway crash
Archie Wheeler, 47, died when his car skidded on Maple Street overturned and its gas tank exploded. Rescuers pulled him from the flames despite the danger. The Wheeler children, ages 4 to 16, already lost their mother last year. In Williamstown, the annual Northern Berkshire art show will run Aug 21 to Sept 5 at Williams College art museum with paintings and sculptures. entries due by Aug 17.
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Lee
Archie Wheeler
Maple Street
Wheeler
Williamstown
Northern Berkshire
Williams College Art Museum
Stock Market Nudges Higher Across Sectors in Early Trading
New York stocks opened slightly up with mixed moves among industries. GM steady at 97.34, Ford at 53, Chrysler up 0.44, Allied Chemical 46.5, Monsanto up 0.40 to 86. Deals cited gains in electronics and aircraft while U.S. Smelting rose to 98.14 on positive half-year earnings. Boston imposes regional drought water restrictions affecting 34 communities. MDC cannot enforce but will urge local compliance. Governor Volpe calls the drought the worst in state history as distribution issues complicate supply.
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New York
UPI
General Motors
Ford
Chrysler
Allied Chemical
General Aniline
Monsanto
U.S
Litton
Control Data
Fairchild Camera
Texas Instruments
Motorola
We Air
Boston
Massachusetts
Massachusetts Department of Public Health
Metropolitan District Commission
MDC
Municipal Water Department
John A. Volpe
Bethlehem Steel
Schering
Sears RoeBuck
Boeing Simmons
Bvd Co
Sinclair Canada Dry
Canadian Pacific
Socony Mobile
Sou Ry
Ly Chrysler
Sperry Rand
Cin Mill
Coca Cola
Columbia Gas
Commonwealth
Studebaker
Consolidated Edison
Swift
Consolidated Nat Gas
Texaco
Consolidated Coal
Thompson RW
Continental Can
Tidewater Oil
Timken RB
Crucible
Union Carbide
Curtiss Wright
Det Edison
United Airc
Douglas Aircraft
United Air L
Dow Chemical
US Rubber
DuPont
East Air Lines
US Steel
Va P&p
Western Union General Dynamics
General Electric
West Elec
General Foods
Wheeling Steel
Ly White Motor
General Tel
Winn Dixie
Goodrich
Woolworth
Xerox Cp
Goodyear
Grace W
IBM
International Harv
Ly International Nickel
International Tel&Tel
Island Creek Coal
Jones & Laughlin
Joy Mfg
Kennecott
Koppers
Kroger
Lehigh Pt C
LOF Glass
Lone Star Chem
Lorillard
Montgomery Ward
National Aviation
National Biscuit
National Dist
New York Central
Norf
Northerfean Coal
Owen
Illinois Glass
Bennington Banner
Rioter gets year at labor in New Hampshire riot case
Lawrence Galvin, 25, of Albany, N.Y., was sentenced to one year at hard labor after a riot conviction from the Weirs Beach incident during the New England motorcycle rally. He argued no riot occurred and appealed. Bail was set at $1,000. Nearby defendants and three more trials were listed. In Rhodesia, Rupert Fothergill, chief organizer of the Kariba wildlife operation, was seriously injured in a rhino charge.
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Laconia
N.H
UPID
Lawrence Galvin
Albany
N.Y
New Hampshire
Galvin
Weirs Beach
New England
Bernard Snierson
Snierson
Salisbury
Rhodesia
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Chelsea
Philip Angell
Public Safety
E. A. Alexander
Scott
Fish and Game
Carl Scott
Fish and Game Board
State Agriculture Department
State Personnel Board
Lesley Bell
Brownell
Tax Dept
New York City
Johnathan N. Brownell
Calais
Vermont Booth
St. John River
Maine
Catskill
Down In
Berkshire
Berkshire Museum
Hub
Main St
Bennington
The
Banner Publishing Corporation
United Press International
Bennington, Vt
Fred and Patricia Carmichael
Enid Bagnold
Dorset Playhouse
Thomas Honan
Hyannis
Mass
Dwight Pedersen
Hamden
Conn
Arthur Wheeler
Stevenson, Conn
Martin Laughlin
Wakefield
Fothergill
Southern Vermont Art Center
Manchester
Boy Burns
Burns
Michael Maule
Colleen Corkie
Chuck
Hamburg
Duncan Hines
Crisco
Campbell’s Vegetable Soup
Campbell’s
Campbell
V8 Juice
Maxwell House
Kraft
N.B.C. Graham
B.C
School Street
Smirnoff Mule
Skitch Henderson
Smirnoff
Pierre Smirnoff
Square Dance
Buster Wright
Golf
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Bromly Shop
Manchester Center
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