Carpenters End 42 Day Vermont Strike With New Three Year Pact
Northwestern Vermont carpenters return to work after a 42 day strike that halted 32 projects valued at about 20 million dollars. A new three year contract grants across the board wage increases totaling 1.10 dollars per hour, matching terms of a separate deal. 300 workers participated and Local 683 AFL-CIO shifted stance to accept the terms.
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Burlington
UPI
Vermont
Carpenters
United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America
Afl-Cio
New York News Team to Interview Viet Nam Servicemen
Ernie Tetreault and Robert Schneider of WRGB will depart Sept 4 for Vietnam to interview servicemen from areas served by GE stations in the Northeast New York and western New England regions and the Nashville area. Interviews will air mid‑September during regular news programs, with WRGB asking viewers to submit names and locations of relatives serving abroad. ALBANY reports say Miss Albany has not been crowned in years. Miss Sherry Lynn Armbruster from Baldwin, L.I. is now Miss New York State, with no clear sponsoring organization identified in the capital.
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Schenectady
WRGB
Ernie Tetreault
Robert Schneider
Viet Nam
General Electric Broadcasting
New York
New England
Nashville
Albany
New York State
Sherry Lynn Armbruster
Baldwin, L.I
Hoosick Lions Club President Named Zone Chairman
Hoosick Town Lions Club president Robert C Hall appointed zone chairman for the district including Colonie Waterford Mechanicville and Hoosick by district governor Al Turbiane of Glens Falls Hall a general contractor oversee district duties and responsibilities.
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Hoosick
Lions Club
Robert C. Hall
Colonie
Waterford
Mechanicville
al Turbiane
Glens Falls
Hall
Navy awards GE contract for patrol boat power drives
In Pittsfield the U S Navy awarded General Electric ordnance department a 423000 dollar contract to produce drives powering guns for a new coastal patrol gun boat. It is the program’s first power drive development under the Ordnance Department. The boats are designed for close coastal operation and rapid movement. In North Adams the Thunderbird Club plans a mid September gypsy tour of Vermont, Massachusetts and New Hampshire for 1955 56 and 57 Thunderbird two seated models starting from Starbridge on Sept 10 at 9 a m. In Hinsdale John A Manning 65 was critically burned in a flash fire at his home laboratory. He was revived with a resuscitator and taken to Pittsfield General Hospital. The blaze cause is undetermined.
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Pittsfield
U.S. Navy
General Electric
Ordnance Department
North Adams
Vermont
Massachusetts
New Hampshire
New England
Classic Thunderbird Club
Peter A. Shields
Thunderbirds
Starbridge
Hinsdale
John A. Manning
William R. Robbins Sr
Manning
Pittsfield General Hospital
Lebanon
N.H
UPI
Randolph
Steven Bowen
Robert Martin
Douglas Salls
Donald Rogers
Citgo
Enfield
Woods
Surplus Amount For Vermont 1966 Cited As Early Estimate
Gov. Philip Hoff says final Vermont fiscal 1966 surplus cannot be pinpointed yet due to incomplete department returns. He disclosed at a Monday news conference that the cash surplus for 1966 was about 4 million dollars.
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Hoff
Montpelier
UPI
Philip H. Hoff
Vermont
Norwich Voters To Decide On Interstate Connection
Norwich residents vote Tuesday night on whether to pursue the Lewiston Interstate I-91 interchange. A four year dispute pits Vermont Highway Department against New Hampshire officials. Ballot asks if Vermont should proceed with the interchange as planned or without it in Norwich. Dartmouth College and Hanover officials opposed the loop due to traffic concerns.
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Norwich
UPI
Lewiston
New Hampshire
Vermont Highway Department
Hanover
Dartmouth College
N.H
Connecticut River
Vermont Doctor Calls Early Mental Health Treatment
Dr Herzl R Spiro of Johns Hopkins urges Vermont to fund outpatient care to prevent hospitalizations. He notes under treatment among the general population due to cost and stigma, especially blue collar workers delaying help until crisis. He argues early care saves money and improves ethics over hospitalization.
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Baltimore, Md
UPI
Burlington
Vermont State Hospital
Waterbury
Herzl R. Spiro
Henry Phipps
Johns Hopkins Hospital
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
School of Public Health
Spiro
Vermont
Vermont proposes three reforms to recruit state workers
Gov. Hoff outlined three recommendations by the Vermont Personnel Board to improve filling vacancies and recruiting. New salary and classification changes would take effect January 1, 1967, with a New York firm’s final report guiding any new programs and legislation. The third proposal would let the personnel director authorize emergency pay actions per position to reduce turnover and speed hiring, a measure Hoff believes would not disrupt balance but cut delays in critical jobs.
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New York
Youths Besiege DC Police Station in Rock-Throwing Raid
About 300 youths, chanting threats, besieged a city police station in Washington early today with bricks and bottles. One officer was injured, four youths hurt, nine arrested including five adults on charges from assaulting a police officer to disorderly conduct. The disturbance in the southeast sector followed the arrest of a robbery suspect on Saturday.
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Washington
UPI
Legislator Compares Sweepstakes to Whiskey
A Kentucky veteran legislator compares the New Hampshire Sweepstakes to Kentucky whiskey saying the older it gets the better. Sen. C W A McCann explains his 20 year push for a state sweepstakes program and notes Kentucky politics may revisit the constitutional amendment in 1968. Florida lawmakers studying the program visit Concord as part of a broad tour by state groups.
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Concord
N.H
UPD
Kentucky
New Hampshire
C.W. A. McCann
D-Ky
McCann
Granite State
Kentucky Sweepstakes Committee Inc
Florida
Father and son die in Gunn Mountain plane crash
A Dallas businessman and his teen son were killed when their light single engine plane struck a 660 foot TV tower atop Gunn Mountain near Winchester New Hampshire in dense fog. The plane departed Buffalo at 1 30 pm and was due at Keene Airport. The FAA said the father, at the controls, died with his son Robert 19. The WRLP TV tower shook but the station stayed on air.
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Gunn Mountain
New Hampshire
Winchester
N.H
UPD
Dallas
Tain
Robert S. Bone
Robert
Federal Aviation Agency
FAA
Wrsp-Tv
Leland Wheeler
Channel 32
Buffalo
N.Y
Keene Airport
Bone
Markem Machine Co
Keene
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Whiting
Aime Lamoureux
Shoreham
Donald Treadway
Lamoureux
Grocers
Rutland
Vermont Retail Grocers’ Association, Inc
Stratton Mountain Inn
Stratton
Carl R. Smith
VRGA
Walter Heffernan
Stop & Shop Stores, Inc
Heffernan
Godes
Hayes
Thomas L. Hayes
Montpelier Tavern Inn
James Mann
Richard Snelling
Miss Albany
Lions
Down In
Berkshire
Navy
Ment
Russell Holden
D.C. Police
Grand Rapids, Mich
American Seating Company
Restless Rudolph
Florida Commission For Tax Reform
Sen
B.C. Pearce
Tax Study Commission
James Sweeny
Gordon Wells
John L. Ayers
Walter Decker
Florida Association of Realtors
Edward J. Powers
Wisconsin
California
Powers
Wrlp-Tv
Wwlp- TV
Channel
Springfield
Mass
Shop Oneida
Classifieds Daily
Enry M. Tuttle CO. A
Depot ST. Dial
Bennington
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