Vermont Hearings on B M passenger service continuation
The Interstate Commerce Commission will hold a second hearing Wednesday in Brattleboro on Boston and Maine Fairroad's petition to discontinue passenger service between Springfield Massachusetts Brattleboro and White River Junction. A Northampton Mass hearing Monday will also consider the petition. The case follows a rural road project bid by Perini Construction Corp for a $670000 four span bridge near Putney.
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Brattleboro
Interstate Commerce Commitnion
Boston and
Maine
Bay State
Law
Montpelier
Perini Construction Corp
Framingham
Mass
Department of Highways
Ue Putney
Rutland
Keyser
Interstate Commerce Commission
William S. Ginsburg
Jury Hears 300000 Suit Over Gas Water Heater Blast
A Rutland County jury heard a $300000 civil suit alleging injuries from a gas operated water heater explosion at a home in August 1956. Plaintiffs Bonnie Lee Deveny and father Frank Jameson claim damages. Defendants Rheem Manufacturing Co and Fulton Controls Co were not named.
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Rutland
Rutland County
U.S. District Court
Bonnie Lee Deveny
Frank Jameson
Auuugust
Rheem Manufacturing Co
California
Robert Shaw Fulton Controls Co
Delaware
Albany Suited for Nuclear Port Expansion
Albany New York and Buffalo are rated suitable to handle radioactive materials for the nation s growing nuclear industry Gov Rockefeller says The evaluation was prepared by the State Office of Atomic Development after a survey of port facilities The report notes capacity for future nuclear material handling and port readiness.
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Albany
New York
Buffalo
Rockefeller
State Office of Atomic Development
Grant for Roper Center at Williams College
Berkshire County treasurer reports a $1000 grant from the U.S. Steel Foundation to the Roper Public Opinion Research Center at Williams College for operating expenses. In the Wallace murder case in Berkshire Superior Court jurors were paid $2454 and authorities listed other costs. James A. Roy Wallace, 17, was found guilty of manslaughter and sentenced to 6 to 10 years at Walpole State Prison with an appeal filed.
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Roper Center
Williamstown
Roper Public Opinion Research Center
Williams College
U.S. Steel Foundation
Pittsfdgld
Wallace
Superior Court
Berkshire County Wag
John J. Shielda
James’ A. Roy Wallace
Guity
Walpole State
Hes
Shoplifting Trends Warn of Peak Soon
A report notes shoplifting may peak before Christmas with 57 offenders in a two week period. Average value stolen sits around 11.48 dollars. Expert Kiven cites 100 percent professionals only among thieves and says most culprits are ordinary people, many women. He says middle income shoppers cause larger losses, while those with small incomes grab impulse items. Some store workers admit theft, including a Detroit department store test where 16 percent confessed stealing 100 dollars or more in six months.
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Haven
Kiven
Detroit
Records Saved But Chickens Lost At Wallace Farm
At Wallace farm in Salem New York an accidental fire destroyed a poultry barn but records covering 16 years of Henry A Wallace chicken breeding were saved. About 1000 chickens were tested, many undergoing studies to develop laying more eggs on less food as Wallace, once U.S. secretary of Agriculture, focused on breeding improvements.
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Wallace Farm South
Salem
N.Y
Henry A. Wallace
West Hoosick Notes and Community Snowball Info
West Hoosick Jean Pie returns from Cortland visit. Mrs Lisle Cottrell guest of DAR in Watertown, Burt Baker wintering in Winter Park Florida. Christmas Bathy for West Hoosick Fire Court set for 6 30 p m with covered dish supper. firemen and auxiliary families invited. James Pine leaves for Tahiti research voyage via Miami and Sims Peru then Hawaii returning to San Diego. Pine with Scripps Institute over three years, ex Convair missile work, Hudson Valley Tech Inst grad.
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Cortland
James Pine
Lloyd Pine
Scripps Research of Oceanography
San Diego
Miami
Sims
Peru
Issist
Hawaiian Islands
Pine
Scripps
Convair
Hudson Valley Technical Institute
Dowsing test sparks letters in New England papers
Springfield notes James Coleman, physicist, offered $100 to anyone proving dowsers’ power to find water. He received 75 letters, several warned skeptics, and proposals for tests including burying a jug with the money for a future locating contest. Coleman aims to stage an air test to settle the matter.
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Springfield
Mass
James A. Coleman
American International College
New England
Vermont
Coleman
Calemary
Maine
Conference for Grange Officers Attended by 35
Thirty five persons attended the lecturers and economic meeting at Taconic Grange in South Shaftsbury to plan work for the state Pomona and subordinate Granges for the coming year. State officers Henry Stoddard Belows Falls, Harry Gibbs Hartford, Jennie Stewart Packet, and Horace Moore Rupert attended. The Taconic Grange youth served a Christmas din ner and decorations reflected the season. Represented were five subordinate granges in Ethan Allen Pomona with others from Washington Pomona. Mrs Clarence Decker reported on a planning meeting at station WGY and urged interested readers to send letters to Don Tuttles Farm Paper of the Air at WGY in Schenectady, NY.
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Shaftsbury
Taconic Grange
South Shaftsbury
Pomona
Henry Stoddard
Bellows Falls
Harry Gibbs
Hartford
Jennie Stewart
Packet
Horace Moore
Rupert
Union College Recital by Pianist Manes Sets Evening
Pianist Stephen Manes, a 2H year old Bennington native, headlines a Union College recital at 8:30 p.m. Tuesday. A prize winner since 1956, he has performed with orchestras over 25 times and debuted at age nine in Springfield. He will also deliver a morning lecture at Memorial Chapel and visit Union with Prof. Edgar Curtis. He is the son of Dr and Mrs Julius H. Manes of Bennington.
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Schenectady
N.Y
Stephen Manes
Bennigton Reyeaeenl
Albany League of ‘Arts
Boston “Associates of Art of Musse
Orthéiuiras
Manes
The
Springfield
New York
Memorial Chapel
Union
Edgar Curtis
Mint
Julius H. Manes
Bennington
Shaftsbury Girl in Mount Holyoke College Concert
Miss Karen Shaver daughter of Mr and Mrs Homer M Shaver of South Shaftsbury participates in Mount Holyoke College Glee Club annual concert at Town Hall New York City on Dec 15 She is a junior and a graduate of Kimberly School Montclair NC. Mount Holyoke began its Christmas concert in New York in 1924 and the current concert will be directed by Ruth C Douglass professor of music.
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South Hadley
Mass
Karen Shaver
Homer M. Shaver
South Shaftsbury
Glee Club
Mount Holyoke College
Town Hall
New York City
Shaver
Kimberly ‘School
Montclair
N. C
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Mount Holyoke
New York
Ruth C. Douglass
Vermont Tax Receipts Rise In Five Month Figures
Tax receipts for the first five months of the current fiscal year exceed last year by more than 900000, with November totals at 1.9 million down 302000 from 1960. Five month revenue reaches 10.7 million compared with 10.2 million the prior year, driven by cigarette, income and transportation taxes.
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Montpelier
New York Police Advised On Nightstick Use
NYG Police advise officers to use nightsticks freely to restrain prisoners or prevent injury. the guidance stresses restraint without causing harm and frames custody as non personal. A nationwide survey reports rising mob attacks, including in New York.
Widow Predicted to Seek Bridges Senate Seat
Concord AP report says Deloris Bridges, widow of Sen. Styles Bridges, may run for the late senator's Senate seat next year. Gardner Turner of Sullivan cites conversations with Mrs Bridges, who did not confirm the claim, as Gov Powell names Maureen Murphy Jr interim senator.
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N.H
Styles Bridges
Gardner
Turner of
Sullivan
New Hampshire
Deloris Bridges
Bridges
Washington
Concord Monitor
Manchester Church To Hold Yale Meeting
The Women's Service Club of the First Baptist Church Manchester Center will hold its Christmas meeting and supper at 6 p.m. Thursday December 14. The 11 a.m. worship on Sunday December 10 will be themed The Light of the World with a Sunday School session and rehearsal at 9:45 a.m.
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Manchester
Women's Service Club
First Baptist Church
Manchester Center
Veterans warn beneficiaries may lose GI insurance benefits
A historic notice explains the VA must pay GI insurance proceeds to the beneficiary of record even if not connected to the veteran. Changes to beneficiaries require written request by the veteran or their legal representative and must be sent to the Philadelphia district VA office.
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Philadelphia
Williams Winter Carnival Dates Change At Williams
Williams College announces the 1962 winter carnival will be held February 23, with Dartmouth and Williams swapping dates and Indiana taking the following weekend. The carnival will be on Friday and Saturday due to Blue Laws forbidding intercollegiate athletics on Sunday.
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Williams
Williamstown
Mass
Williams College
Dartmouth
Indiana
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