New Postal Post in North Springfield Opens to Public
National Guardsmen raised the flag at a new post office in North Springfield on Sunday as Town Manager J Leslie Giddings recalled local postal history from Abner Field, the village’s first postmaster circa 1836, noting the building is the first designed for postal use. Burlington honors three figures for new men’s residence halls at UVM, naming James Marsh, Frederick Tupper, and Warren R. Austin as significant campus names.
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North Springfield
J. Leslie Giddings
Abner Field
Burlington
University of Vermont
University
James Marsh
Frederick Tupper
Warren R. Austin
U.S
United Nations
Farmhouse Fire Damaged. party line hindered Montpelier aid
A Middlesex Center farmhouse sustained heavy first floor damage in a Friday blaze. Owner Henry Bolduc reported difficulty contacting Montpelier fire units due to party line interference. Six firefighters and a Montpelier truck contained the fire. In Barre, the Times Argus reported U S Air Force officers William T Combs and Robert D Little were grounded for good after a Plainfield B52 crash, with Combs doing ground duties at Westover and Little reassigned.
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Middlesex Center
Montpelier
Henry Bolduc
Burlington Woman Wins $80,000 in Gas Heater Explosion Case
A Rutland court jury awarded Bonnie Lee Jameson Deveney 80 000 in damages for injuries from a 1958 gas operated hot water heater explosion. She sued Rheem Manufacturing Co and Robertshaw Fulton Control Inc. Her father Frank Jameson of Burlington received 13000.
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Rutland
U. S
Burlington
Bonnie Lee Jameson Deveney
Rheem Manufacturing Co
California
Robertshaw-Fulton Control, Inc
Delaware
Rheem
Robertshaw-Fulton
Frank Jameson
Two Berkshire injuries and Florida fatal car crash toll
In Berkshire, Robert A. Hall, 26, of 110 Still River, survived a 75 foot Mohawk Trail plunge after his car hit a guard rail and went over an embankment. He sustained a broken shoulder head cuts and bruises. In Florida, two young Modesky children, William seven and Robert six, were killed when struck by a speeding car near Ocean Beach while en route to a fishing excursion. their mother is the former Marjorie Loehr.
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Burlington
Newport
Jonesville
Mary Fletcher Hospital
Nancy Holden
Louis Martell
Richmond
U.S. 2
North Adams
Robert A. Hall
Still River
Hall
Pittsfield
Ocean Beach
Fla
William Modesky
Robert
Robert Modesky
Marjorie Loehr
Charles Loehr
Dalton
Petersburg
Jonathan H. Burdick
Helena A. Knueher
Burdick
Miss Knueher
Amsterdam
N.Y
St. Mary’s Hospital
Leo O’brien
South Burlington
Bernard Jurs
Spencerport
Clyde Kittell
Rexford
Kittell
Fires claim life of Lansingburg father in home blaze
Edward J. Dwyer, 63, died yesterday morning as he entered a burning Troy residence at 219 Fifth Ave to help others. His wife Eleanor, 35, was hospitalized for shock after rescuing their five children, who survived.
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Lansingburg
Edward J. Dwyer
Fifth Ave
Troy
Eleanor
Murphy Sworn Senator Murphy Talks Seven Minute Press Conference
Sen Maurice J Murphy Jr 34 of New Hampshire was named to succeed Styles Bridges and held a seven minute press conference in which he said he would serve the people of New Hampshire and would comment further after Congress reconvenes He declined to discuss running for the remainder of Bridges term or other political plans.
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Washington
Maurice J. Murphy Jr
R-N. H
Murphy
Wesley Powell
New Hampshire
Capitol Hill
Senate
Bridges
Sen
Styles Bridges
R-N.h
GOP
Powell
Congress
Felton Johnson
Johnson
Mark Trice
Atom program costs total over twenty five billion since 1940
Washington AP reports the United States has invested more than 25 billion dollars in its atomic energy program since 1940, including bomb development. The 1961 budget of 2.61 billion funds production of nuclear materials, raw materials, weapons development, reactor work, physical science, biology and medicine, and miscellaneous projects.
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Washington
United States
War Department
Carved in Memory
Kingfisher Oklahoma reports 80 year old R E Weimer making miniature covered wagons from mahogany and red wood He recalls traveling the Chisholm trail in a covered wagon with his parents in 1889 and reflects on the old migration era.
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Kingfisher
Okla
R. E. Weimer
Weimer
Chisholm Trail
Mets Acquire Ashburn From Cubs in Cash Deal
New York buys outfielder Richie Ashburn, 34, in a straight cash transaction from Chicago. Ashburn batted .257 in 109 games last season and has 14 NL seasons, 12 with the Phillies, where he won the batting title with a .350 average in 1958.
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NEW York
New York Mets
Richie Ashburn
Chicago Cubs
Ashburn
Philadelphia Phillies
Bennington Banner Publisher Details and AP Rights
The Bennington Banner issued daily editions at 425 Main St Bennington VT with offices for advertising business and newsroom. It is a member of the Associated Press which holds exclusive republication rights to local news and AP dispatches.
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Bennington Banner
Bennington
Vermont
Main St
The
Banner Publishing Corporation
Associated Press
Man Biter's Best Friend Gives Biscuits
Washington AP report profiles Suitland Maryland letter carrier Theo dore Wilson who hands out dog biscuits and candy on his route for 15 years. He has been bitten only once by a new dog that later joined the daily greeting procession alongside pigeons, birds and children.
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Washington
Post Office Department
Suitland
Theodore Wilson
Wilson
Sam
Pigeon
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