Former Sea Captain Opens New Bookstore
Gustav S. Thum, a Cambridge, NY retiree and former SS American Clipper captain, opens Tom Thum Bookshop in Monument Plaza Shopping Center North Bennington Road. He formerly served as navigator on the SS United States and convoyed in the Persian Gulf in WWII. The store offers hard and softcover books, greeting cards, and gifts.
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Tom Thumb
Gustav S. Thum
Tom Thum
Monument Plaza
Bennington Road
Thum
Vermont Bank and Trust Co
Cambridge
N.Y
S.S. United States
Star of the United States Lines
Cambridge, N.Y
Saratoga Springs
VA Seeks Information On Pension Increases
The Veterans Administration says about 14,000 veterans and widows who receive pensions do not qualify for automatic increases under Public Law 90-77 until they apply. An estimated 10,000 housebound veterans may become eligible for a $100 monthly rate, up from current amounts, and over 4,000 widows of veterans may gain an added $50 monthly if in need of regular aid, attendance, or nursing home care.
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Boston
Veterans Administration
The
Pilot Project Aims to Help Poor Families Buy Homes
Washington under Johnson launches a pilot plan to assist non profits in buying and rehabilitating rundown houses and selling them to low income families with 3 percent mortgages. FHA insures 100 percent 30 year loans, groups must have five or more houses, private lenders get 6 percent then 3 percent after rehab, Fannie Mae buys the mortgage, Johnson authorizes up to 20 million in acquisitions.
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Washington
UPI
National Home Ownership Foundation
GOP
Jami
Leonor K. Sullivan
D-Mo
Federal Housing Administration
Federal National Mortgage Association
Johnson
Fanny May
Adams Drug Co opens in Monument Plaza Shopping Center Vermont
The Adams Drug Co opens a 7300 square foot store in Monument Plaza Shopping Center in Vermont. It is the first Adams Drug in the state, part of a New England chain headquartered in Pawtucket, Rhode Island. Pharmacists Ray W. Forrest and Vance H. Griffith supervise a full prescription counter, with three full-time clerks and eight part-time sales staff.
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New Adams Drug Co
Monument Plaza
Pawtucket
R. IL
Adams Drug
Vermont
New England
Oklahoma City
Ray W. Forrest
Bennington
Vance H. Griffith
Hoosick Falls
Evelyn Rabideau
Grace Lemieux
Maria Dunican
James Harrington
Poor Housing Slows Learning Says Cornell Research
A Cornell University study of 208 Negro children in Kansas City shows substandard housing and non participation in Head Start yield the lowest test scores among four groups. Researchers note urban renewal displacements hinder access to replacement housing and that Second-home growth will shape the broader housing market.
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Ithaca, N.Y
UPI
Richard Ragatz
New York State College of Home Economics
Cornell University
Kansas City
Cornell
Rochester
Buffalo
Syracuse
N.Y
Ragatz
American Home Economics Association
Dallas
Tex
Shoes, Gun, and $131 Take at Cincinnati Service Station
A shabbily dressed man entered Ernest Fields’ service station in Cincinnati on a Friday night and, after showing his worn shoes, asked for a job. He then pulled a pistol, demanded money, and escaped with $131 and Fields’ extra shoes.
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Cincinnati
Ernest Fields
Fields
Construction Total for Year Up 9 Per Cent in Vermont
The F W Dodge Co reports 1967 total Vermont construction at 16.546 million, down 8% from 1966. Nonresidential rose 47% to 6.369 million. residential up 18% to 4.189 million. nonbuilding fell 41% to 5.988 million. Year-to-date cumulative totals follow this pattern.
Books Added to Martha Canfield Library in November
Arlington Helene Thompson reports new adult titles including Twenty Letters to a Friend Alliluyeva Tamburas Where Death Delights Bouts of World History McNeill Ethan Allen World Famous Paintings A Very Quiet Place Garve Murder Against the Grain Lathen Too Strong for Fantasy Davenport No Bones About It A Horse s Head Hunter Rickenbacker Black Is the Color of My True Love s Heart The Grange 1867 1967 Robinson Hornblower during the Crisis Forester Young People and Driving Vermont Life Book of Nature Hard Undercover Cat The Pleasant Grove Murders VanceJuveniles The Two Helens Lattimore Julius Caesar Slaver s Gold The Bear Scouts The Witches Bridge Carelton Babar Loses His Crown The Mystery of the Fiery Eye The Mystery of the Silver Spider Making Easy Puppets My Enemy His Friend Willy Willy Don t be Silly. 1967 spending rose 9 percent to 117 271 000 from 1966 while nonbuilding and residential figures shifted up and down.
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Martha Canfield
Alliluyeva
Tamburas
McNeill
Ethan Allen
Davenport
Fleming
Arthur
Lewis
Tunis
Willy
Don’t Be
Vogel
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New York State Maritime Academy
Persian Gulf
France
Southampton
England
Cherbourg
Tricycles
Home Furniture CO
Main ST
Bombay
India
UPD
Maharashtra
Khoppali
Oil Heat Service
of New
John J. Daley
Democratic Women’s Club
Marian Cummings
Lt Grerd
Union Eye
Triple
Grand Union Empire
Arlington
Hodgson
F.W. Dodge Co
McGraw-Hill, Inc
George A. Christie
Dodge
Helene Thompson
Vermont Bank
Vermont Bank and Trust
F.D.I.C
And
Vermont Bank and Tevet Commpany
Morse C&b Block Inc
Shaftsbury Road
Pratt ST
Roofing & Sheet Metal CO
Chan
Better TV Inc
Main Street
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