No body found in Lake Rescue after Ludlow dive search
Acting Police Chief Raymond McDonald says the exhaustive skin diver search of Lake Rescue bottom found no remains. A hair fragment pulled from the lake and a pair of girl’s shorts were noted, but officials doubt a connection to a missing person. Divers faced 50 to 65 feet of muddy water complicating the effort.
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Ludlow
VPI
Raymond McDonald
McDonald
Ralph Williams
Red Bridge
Rutland Boy Dies After Rockingham Motorcycle Scramble
In Rutland, 12 year old Mark H Miles died from injuries after a fall during a high speed motorcycle scramble in Rockingham on Oct 9. His grandfather Fred Woods launched a fundraising drive to build a shrine on Mark s training track oval on Post Road.
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Rutland
UPI
Rockingham
Mark H. Miles
Mark
Fred Woods
Woods
Post Road
Vermont warns on bogus business directory scams
Burlington UPI. Vermont attorney general consumer protection office warns merchants about rackets from Vermont Business Guide and Directory, soliciting in Castleton after 1966. Ray Lanier alias Richard Porter leads the outfit and is wanted on a federal fugitive charge. Other bogus notices come from National Directory Corp and New England Police Chiefs Digest.
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Burlington
UPI
Vermont
Richard Blum
Vermont Business Guide and Directory
Castleton
Blum
Ray Lanier
Richard Porter
Tarzana
Calif
National Directory Corp
Far Rockaway
N.Y
New England Police Chiefs Digest
Boston
Tax order for Woodstock inn cancelled reports say
Vermont Tax Commissioner Gerald S Witherspoon said the White Cupboard Inn at Woodstock will not face a rooms and meals tax suspension after information from the state Liquor Control Board indicated liquor licenses would be suspended last week. The inn now is in good standing and the revocation order is no longer effective.
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Montpelier
UPI
Gerald S. Witherspoon
White Cupboard
Woodstock
Witherspoon
State Liquor Control Board
Albany Defeats Plan for Local Tax Authority Shift
In New York the Constitutional Convention rejected a proposal to let cities and counties over 125,000 impose non property taxes not denied by the Legislature. Supporters sought urban fiscal autonomy, while opponents urged broader state funding instead.
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Albany
RPI convocation to map goals for the institute
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute announced a Lake Placid convocation from September 8 to 10 that will gather more than 80 industry and education leaders and students to define what RPI should strive to be and its unique contributions to society. Francis Mainville, 29, of Cohoes, the suspect in a first degree murder case, was treated after a jail cell bed fire caused burns, with an initial finding that he slept while smoking.
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Troy
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Rensselaer
Lake Placid Club
Lake Placid
RPI
Richard G. Folsom
Folsom
Albany
Francis Mainville
Cohoes
Albany Medical Center
Albany County
Mainville
Neil Peterson
Council Demonstrates Chemical Riot Tool in Pittsfield
In Pittsfield Berkshire the City Council witnessed a test of a chemical instrument for riot control. Mayor Remo Del Gallo oversaw a demonstration by Richard Marble of American Arms Co. Councilman Raymond Crow volunteered and cried after one spray. Marble fired several more shots. all nine councilors wept as the chemical drifted through an open window. Police Chief Killen said the department bought 12 dispensers at 4.50 each, capable of spraying 12 feet.
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Pittsfield
Remo del Gallo
Richard Marble
American Arms Co
Marble
Raymond Crow
Crow
John J. Killen
Conte call for halt to Vietnam bombings gains support
U S Rep Silvio Conte's Dalton appeal for an unconditional halt to North Vietnam bombings drew overwhelming support. Fewer than six letters opposed the stand, while favorable messages averaged more than 30 daily, per Conte's aide Carole Long.
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Pittsfield
U.S
Silvio O. Conte
Dalton
North Vietnam
Conte
Carole Long
New Hampshire Sweepstakes Ticket Sale Lag Prompts Extension
The New Hampshire Sweepstakes Commission weighs extending sales by a week after Labor Day due to lagging 1967 totals. Executive Director Edward J. Powers cited federal restrictions and noted the Rockingham Park event in Salem neared 275,000 tickets worth $825,000 as of Friday, compared with 469,000 tickets last year by Aug. 15.
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Concord
N.H
Rockingham Park
Salem
Powers
New Hampshire
Webb proposes pre primary leadership convention for Vermont
Shelburne Republican leader Derick V. Webb mailed drafts of a pre primary leadership convention plan to town committee chairmen. He argues it could strengthen open primaries, boost local political action, widen voter voice, save time and energy, and unite the party before fall elections. The plan requires caucus approval and 1968 legislation to establish the convention with a 20 percent roll call threshold for candidates to file for the regular primary.
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Webb
PSB Conducts Yankee Hearings On Vermont Yankee plans
The Vermont Public Service Board conducted a hearing on Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Corp regarding authority to issue and sell 50,000 shares at 100 dollars each to finance a 97 million atomic generating station at Vernon. The board will question cooling towers costs and their effect on the Connecticut River.
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Montpelier
Vermont Public Service Board
PSB
Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Corp
Ernest Gibson
Vernon
Gibson
Vermont Yankee
Connecticut River
Vermont Prepares For Fall Forest Fire Dangers
Vermont forest officials warn that fall and spring are the riskiest periods for wildfires. Nathan Dauchy notes only three serious fires in summer, with most ignitions from camp or debris burns. He cites a 672 acre Cavendish fire in 1957 and a Weston blaze that burned over two weeks due to hard access.
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Montpelier
UPI
Vermont
Nathan Dauchy
Vermont Forests and Parks Department
United Press International
Lake Eden
Dauchy
West Brookfield
Danchy
Cavendish
Weston
Plane Wreck Off Humarock Beach Investigated
Officials probe cause after a twin engine Provincetown Boston Airlines plane ditched in Massachusetts Bay near Humarock Beach. Several passengers swam ashore or were rescued by boats, one hospitalized. The aircraft belonged to Provincetown Boston Airlines.
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Provincetown
Cape Cod
Boston
Logan International Airport
Arnold Holstine
National Transportation Safety Board
John van Arsdale
Holstine
Elwood Hallowell
Naples
Fla
Scituate
John A. Munro
Mount Lake
N.J
South Shore Hospital
Carol Ann Ibornone
Everett
Munro
Aiken, Mansfield push U.N. debate on Vietnam war
Senate figures including George D. Aiken back Mansfield’s call for Security Council action on Vietnam. Johnson’s administration reviews the idea, though veto risk from Soviet or French sides looms. In other notes, Aiken wins funding approval to expand Veterans Administration at White River Junction, and fire safety measures and weather forecasts fill out the day.
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Washington
UPI
Senate
Mike Mansfield
Johnson
Vietnam
United Nations Security Council
Capitol Hill
State Department
Security Council
George D. Aiken
R-Vt
Senate Appropriations Committee
Veterans Administration
White River Junction
Mansfield
United States
Aiken
Ottauquechee River
White River
U.S. Land and Conservation Fund
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Ted Flynn
Coast Guard
Logan Airport
Perkins School For the Blind
Watertown
New York
Con Con
Down In
Berkshire
Council
Katmandu
Nepal
New York State
U.N
Soviet Union
France
New Enland
Massachusetts
Rhode Island
U.S. Weather Bureau
Oneida
Y Market
Main
ST. Dial
Carters
Pike Pills
Bulova
Croton
Main ST
Bennington
Campbell
Walker
WORRY
AGWAY
Agway Petroleum Corp
Max Perrotta
Mgr
Ben Montave
Bennington, VT
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