My Uncle's Farm Sowers Hope as Route 128 Roars
A Canton Massachusetts farm story chronicles an uncle who keeps 15 acres amid yellow meadows bee hives and a slate roofed house. Taxes rose as Route 128 and I-95 altered views, yet he chose to stay, restore parts of the home, plant pines, raise trout, and welcome family at Thanksgiving while the city’s roar surrounds the farm.
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Canton
Mass
Boston
Maine
Steinbeck
Jesus
Gailie
Village trustees grant permits for housing and rear structure
Regular meeting grants Merle Coulter permission to build a house on Morgan Street and Dr. J D Lane permission to erect a small structure at the rear of his Convent Avenue home. Breese resigns as water commissioner at a Monday night meeting. Washington announces a $2 992 grant for a Bennington community center among a $240 745 project list. Vermont seeks disaster loans after wind damage loss of 1 825 000. asks 2 000 000 in loans. Cub Scouts inducted includes Jerry Sargood James Waite Jimmy Pike Brian Galusha Ronnie King Eddie Waite. Milk Control Board approves 1 cent rise in pasteurized milk price to 25 cents per quart. Shaftsbury Fire Dept responds to small pump house fire at William E Dailey Construction Co South Shaftsbury.
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Merle Coulter
Morgan Street
J.D. Lane
Convent Avenue
George Hess
Arlington
Jerry Sargood
James Waite
Jimmy Pike
Brian Galusha
Ronnie King
Eddie Waite
Jealousies Across the East West Gap
A reflective capsule argues that Communist and Western systems envy each other’s strengths in technology, efficiency, law and order while revealing harsh faults. It notes Western crime and wage pressures versus Communist dictatorship, wage controls, inflation masking and limited strikes, then surveys various nations for tone and satire.
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Warsaw
Not Worth a Visit to the World We Live In
A satirical enumeration damning many nations for danger and cruelty. The speaker derides Saudi Arabia Uganda France Switzerland Italy Germany and South America as grim, unwelcoming places, concluding the entire world is not worth visiting due to war torture theft and oppression.
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France
South America
Chile
Bangladesh
Shock as friends’ children grow in sight in Burlington
A Burlington Free Press brief notes how visiting old friends reveals one child has grown a foot and the other has sprouted a beard, highlighting the surprising changes time brings.
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Judson Brown
Harry G. Breese
Board of Water Commissioners
Bennington
Washington
Vermont
Usda Council
Secretary of Agriculture
Brennan
The
Milk Control Board
Shaftsbury
Joseph C. Harsch
Europe
East Berlin
Poznan
Yugoslavia
Christian Science Publishing Society
Russia
India
Northern Ireland
Lebanon
China
England
Saudi Arabia
New York
Uganda
Switzerland
Italy
Mafia
Pisa
Lucca
Germany
Burlington Free Press
Johnson Woolen Mills
Johnson, Vermont
North & Adams Streets
E.p.mahar & Son, Inc
Main
Order OF the Golden Rule
Chittenden Trust
FDIC
Chittenden Trust Company
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