Vermont industrial deaths rise this year 16 count
Vermont records 16 industrial deaths this year up from 13 last year. Lyndonville police chief Alexander Fontecha counted as an industrial death after being slain last summer. Non fatal accidents also rise, up about 700. year to date total 13 500 versus 12 800 last year. Three Addison County towns Bristol Lincoln Monkton form union high school district awaiting Starksboro. New Haven joins Middlebury Union High School District. In Topsham George Moulton 83 dies in a house fire. he was unmarried and lived alone.
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Montpelier
VPI
Vermont
Lyndonville
Alexander Fontecha
Bristol
UPS
Addison County
Lincoln
Monkton
Richard Gibboney
Starksboro
New Haven
Middlebury Union High
New Look for Maple Industry in Vermont
Vermont seeks a new maple industry image for next year as Commissioner Reed Rexford notes two advertising firms have presented concepts. The state allocates 10000 dollars annually for promotion, with 5000 dollars from state funds and 5000 dollars from federal money. Firms are Creative Graphics of White River Junction and Wheeler Wood and McLeod of Burlington, which has handled past Development Department promotions.
Car crash kills Goshen waitress in Brandon Route 73 disaster
Mrs Winifred Rollins of Goshen died Thursday when her car struck a guard rail on Route 73 while en route to Brandon Inn where she worked as a waitress. The state death toll stands at a record 140 for the year officials said.
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Brandon
UPI
Winifred Rollins
Goshen
Brandon Inn
Tragic Cincinnati murder ties to RPI professor family
In Cincinnati a 54 year old wife of RPI professor Dr R Paul Harrington was strangled in her basement home. A plastic clothesline was used and the victim died about an hour before a janitor found her. The Harringtons have a Marlboro summer home where burial will occur.
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Troy
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Cincinnati
Ohio
Emogene D. Harrington
R. Paul Harrington
Aerospace Engineering
University of Cincinnati
Harringtons
Marlboro, VI
Lenox man dies after being struck by car near home
Diodato Asci 72 of Lenox dies instantly after being struck by a car while walking near his home. A native of Italy he had lived in Berkshire County 54 years. He is the 11th county resident to die violently in the past week and a half and the 32nd highway fatality in Berkshire in 1965.
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Lenox
Diodato Asci
Italy
Berkshire County
NBDC elects William B. Roberts as president
NORTH ADAMS William B. Roberts was elected president of the Northern Berkshire Development Corp at the annual meeting of NBDC stockholders Wednesday. PITTSFIELD Berkshire Community College president Thomas E. O’Connell defended inviting Korean War defector Richard R. Tenneson to discuss on WBRK radio Monday saying freedom of speech must be for everyone including those not highly esteemed by all Pittsfield groups. He had offered equal time to groups on a later broadcast to counter Tenneson's Vietnam policy criticisms, but was rejected.
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North Adams
William B. Roberts
Northern Berkshire Development Corp
NBDC
Pittsfield
Thomas £. O’connell
Berkshire Community College
Richard R. Tenneson
WBRK
O’connell
Pittsfield Union
Tenneson
U.S
Viet Nam
Wisconsin student paper faces bid to cut funds over sex series
Republican Assemblyman Nile W. Soik calls for denying state funds to the University of Wisconsin Milwaukee Post over a campus sex life interview series. Editor Patricia Strehlow defends the topic as legitimate. Chancellor Klotsche says the paper is funded by auxiliaries and supports free publishing.
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Milwaukee, Wis
UPI
University of Wisconsin
Nile W. Soik
Milwaukee
Whitefish Bay
University of Wiscon-Milwaukee Post
Patricia Strehlow
Soik
UWM
J. Martin Klotsche
Klotsche
Post
Liberal Arts
Robert E. Carr
Carr
Setting Fires Two Firemen Jailed For Deliberate Arson
MEMPHIS Tenn UPI two volunteer firemen Jim Franklin Owens 23 and Willie L Berryhill 22 must serve three years each at the county penal farm after pleading guilty to two counts of arson Hooks ordered the sentences. They said they liked to light fires.
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Memphis, Tenn
UPI
Criminal Court
Ben Hooks
Jimmy Franklin Owens
Willie L. Berryhill
Tetzlaff Encouraged by Fight To Reorganize Canadian Firm
Securities Director Donald H. Tetzlaff of National Life Insurance Co. says he is encouraged by efforts to reorganize the Atlantic Acceptance Corp., a Canadian loan firm that collapsed after over extending credit. The firm, set up for small loans, is in receivership. U.S. investors including Vermont Insurance Co. face potential losses if liquidation proceeds.
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National Life
U.S
Atlantic Acceptance Corp
Ontario Supreme Court
Tetzlaff
Canadian High Court
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Granite Assoc
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O.J. Cain
Burlington
New York
Albany
Advisory Council On
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Troy Brothers
George Kilduff
John Kilduff
Rensselaer County Grand Jury
Down In
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Roberts
Hartford
Walter Popowycz
Popowycz
Douglass B. Wright
Leon Cantor
Cantor
New York State
Paulin’s Garage
Shaftsbury
Chrysler
Bennington Area
Plymouth
Chrysliur
Chrysler Motors Corporation
Manchester
Leo’s Motors
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