Vermont reapportionment plans prompt court action talk
Vermont lawmakers debate whether to wait for a legislative report on House apportionment before any court case. Meanwhile a highway study recommends the state add 102 employees to meet anticipated Interstate program needs through 1965. A Vermont trooper returns home after hospital treatment for facial injuries from a November 24 assault in Swanton. a 27 year old suspect is jailed on $1000 bail.
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Special Legislative Commission
ST. Albans
Vermont
Harry McDonald
Mary Fletcher Hospital
Homer St. Francis
Swanton
Connecticut journalist named editor at Middlebury College
Max P. Petersen, a Plainville News reporter photographer for five years, is appointed editor of news services at Middlebury College. He succeeds Joseph L. Presbrey Jr. now public relations director at Virginia Military Institute. Petersen, formerly of Salisbury Vermont, is a 1955 University of Vermont graduate.
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Middlebury
Connecticut
Middlebury College
Max P. Petersen
the Plainville (Conn.) News
Joseph L. Presbrey Jr
Virginia Military Institute
Salisbury
Petersen
University of Vermont
Albany proposes permanent daylight saving time to curb accidents
Senator Edward J. Speno of Nassau introduced a bill in the New York General Assembly to establish permanent daylight saving time. He argues the extra evening light will reduce traffic accidents. He also proposes reflective license plate coatings and keeping black letters on orange plates year round.
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Albany
Edward J. Speno
Nassau
New York General Assembly
Speno
Adams area drills plan and school notices
Civil Defense works on a nuclear attack booklet while Adams elementary and high schools prepare procedures for student pickup or home release. At Trinity Church Rev Walton resigns Feb 1 after serving Adams and Stamford churches since Feb. 1.
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Civil Defense Organization
C.T. Plunkett
Rolland G. Duval
Memorial High School
Darrell L. Walton
Trinity Methodist Church
Methodist Church
Stamford
Walton
Adams and Stamford
Yale Divinity School
Boston University School of Theology
Douglas S. Miller
Elm Park Methodist Church
Scranton
New Hampshire Thorium Mining Faces High Extraction Costs
Prof. T. R. Meyers of the University of New Hampshire says no economical method to mine thorium has emerged. Granite ore requires blasting and multi stage crushing to release crystals, making mining far more expensive than current market prices. The White Mountains near Conway are cited as a major thorium site amid renewed energy resource chatter.
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Concord
N.H
New Hampshire
Granite Hills
T. R. Meyers
University of New Hampshire
Prof. Meyers
Terial
John A. S. Adams
Rice University
White Mountains
Conway
Harvard
Prof
Meyers
Convicted Slayer Ends 40 Day Fast in NH Prison
Russell Nelson 34 of Providence ends a 40 day fast after his parents and lawyer visit. Nelson and co defendant Frederick Martin eau face execution February 21 for the 1959 murder of Maurice Gagnon. Nelson drank milk prune juice and beef broth ending the fast weighing 145 pounds, down from 216 at entry.
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Concord
N.H
Russell Nelson
Providence
R.I
Nelson
Frederick Martineau
Pawtucket
Maurice Gagnon
Rhode Island
Russell
Richard Leonard
Nashua
Leonard
William Maynard
New Hampshire
Parker Hancock
Parker
Thorium Deposits in Conway Area Estimated at 100 Million Tons
A Rice study covering a 300 square mile region around Conway estimates thorium deposits could reach 100 million tons. Earlier figures suggested only a few hundred thousand tons of thorium existed nationwide.
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Conway
Vermont Independent Party Incorporates and Targets Balance of Power
The Vermont Independent Party Inc led by two former GOP figures Buckley and Crispe filed articles of association in Montpelier. The group aims to seek federal court intervention to address what it calls disproportionate representation in Vermont’s House and Senate and plans to promote intelligent state policy while endorsing or supporting candidates across party lines. Third officer Janette Berry of Brattleboro is named in the filing.
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Montpelier
Vermont Independent Party, Inc
Vermont
House
Senate
A. Luke Crispe
Newfane
GOP
T. Garry Buckley
Bennington County
Brattleboro Corporation
Crispe
Buckley
Hoff
F. Ray Keyser Jr
VIP
Janette Berry
Brattleboro
Hospital Time: Baby Born as Father Parachute Jump Falls
In Nashville Robert H. Brodie and his wife were rushed to a hospital in wheel chairs. Mrs Brodie delivered a 7% pound boy. The father, who had jumped from a plane the day before, fainted cigars from his bed and later learned his ankle was broken trying to rise.
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Nashville
Tenn
Robert H. Brodie
Bennington Banner Modernizing Postal and Telephonic Services
The Bennington Banner lists contact numbers for Telegraphic Newsroom and Display Advertising and announces subscription rates for local Vermont and nationwide mail plans with multiple durations and serviceman discounts. It states daily publication except Sundays and holidays from Main Street, Bennington Vermont.
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Bennington Banner I
Main St
Bennington
Vermont
Associated Press
AP News
Radius
U.S
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