Vermont Gas Tax Revenue Rises in First Quarter
Vermont reports 3.545 million dollars in gas tax receipts for the first four months of the fiscal year, a 148 thousand dollar increase from last year. October gas receipts total 794,665 with a 52 thousand dollar rise year over year, and gasoline sales through October reach 116,044,227 gallons versus 114,237,658 a year earlier. Registration revenues through November total 7,378,829, up from 7,182,878. In Burlington, live births for July–September fell 8 percent to 2,299, while deaths declined slighty to 1,087 and marriages dropped 4 percent from 1960 figures.
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Montpelier
Vermont
Motor Vehicle Department
Burlington
Department of Health
Swanton Backing Newport Utility Substation Plan
Swanton village officials vote to support Citizens Utilities petition before the Public Service Board. Oren Harris will represent Swanton in hearings as Trustees back Newport Electric's plan to install a substation and supply Niagara power to northern Vermont. Swanton previously bought emergency power from Citizens Utilities.
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Swanton
Oren Harris
Citizens Utilities Co
Public Service Board
Newport Utility Company
Newport
Vermont
Niagara Power
Emergency
Citizens Utilities
Governor backs Northeast Airlines financing for New England economy
Governor Keyser endorses Northeast Airlines to secure Hughes Tool Co financing and protect long term service. Five New England governors support ICC approval for Hughes underwriting to insure continued operations and economic impact in the region.
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Montpelier
Keyser
Northeast
New England
Hughes Tool Co
Hughes
Interstate Commerce Commission
Fatal switch engine accident at Castleton station
Lloyd LaRose 31 of Schodack Landing was killed when an iron grab bar struck him on the head as a New York Central switch engine moved about 20 miles an hour at Castleton station. Coroner Ida D. Van Wormer ruled accidental death by massive skull fractures. In Troy the Rensselaer County Supervisors plan an organizational meeting January 2 with Republicans holding 22 to 12. The chairmanship race favors Joseph L. Fitzgerald for Sand Lake, according to observers.
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Castleton
Troy
Rensselaer County Board of Supervisors
Clarence Carpenter
Stephentown
Joseph L. Fitzgerald
Sand Lake
Democrats open doors to press coverage in Pittsfield meeting
In Pittsfield the Democratic City Committee approved covering all future sessions by newsmen after a motion by Robert Prendergast. Chairman Peter Aries said letters would go to local reporters welcoming them. In Williamstown, Vadnais Homes proposed six colonial style apartments on land off State Road and presented plans to the planning board.
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Pittsfield
Democratic City Committee
Robert Prendergast
Peter Aries
Williamstown
North Adams
State Road
Laurence H. Vadnais
Vadnais Homes, Inc
Jesus Birthday Party at First Methodist Church Sunday
The third annual Jesus Birthday Party at First Methodist Church is set for Sunday from 5 to 7 PM. The event features two parts a family worship and Christmas program in the sanctuary followed by a downstairs party for the churchs children. The program includes readings by Gary Harbour and Susan Smith, the Rays of Christmas worship, and the Christmas Story. Gifts by choir and congregation follow the hymns. A carol sing led by Vernon Gage opens the party with Christmas Bells sung by children and a closing benediction.
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First Methodist Church
Gary Harbour
Susan Smith
Carol Christie
John Mook
Susan Emond
Jeffrey Crane
Dawn Rogers
Barbara Tinkham
Nicholas Santo
Mary
Rebecca Grant
Joseph
Christopher Christie
Cynthia Denice
Maureen Mattison
Randy Mook
John Crawford
Kelly Owen
Vernon Gage
Harley Graham
Beverly Schmidt
Jesus
Stephen Peterson
Russell Christie
David Peterson
Chris Peterson
Joseph Vallee
Harold McDonald
Couples Club
Marvin McDougall
Russell Stratton
Ezekiel Cross
Henry Bushee
Frederick Pulver
Civil Air Patrol Celebrates 25th Year Open House
The Civil Air Patrol marked its 25th year with an open house and 20th CAP anniversary celebration. Col Ackley and Lt Kahwajy led cadet inspections followed by drill displays and a color guard presentation with rifles. Cadets Austin DeBell and Joseph Cleveland earned proficiency certificates as two short wave radios and a DuCharme School of Dance show entertained attendees.
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Civil Air Patrol
CAP
Col. Ackley
Mitchell Kahwajy
DuCharme School of Dance
Rene DuCharme
John Hurley
Peggy LeBlanc
Linda Maillet
Austin DeBell
Joseph Cleveland
62 Business Boom Predicted as Biggest
MOBILE Ala AP The United States will have its biggest business boom in 1962 says the president of Sales and Marketing Executives International Leland F Lyons Lyons also is vice president of the New York Life Insurance Co He predicts a 7 percent rise in production and sales nationwide and a sharp drop in unemployment based on personal observations and surveys
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Mobile
Ala
United States
Sales and Marketing Executives International
Leland F. Lyons
The
New York Life Insurance Co
Lyons
Benhi Students View New Filmstrips
Benhi's Audiovisual Department under Clyde Maxfield has received new filmstrips from the Vermont Film Library. Science films include Petrified River, World Without End, Story of the Bees, Human Growth, and a Bees life cycle shown by photography. A junior high assembly will present Christmas Through the Ages. The Commercial Department also got Fil ing Procedures in Business showing a central filing system.
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Benhi
Clyde Maxfield
Vermont Film Library
Mexico
Thailand
United Nations
America
Subscription rates and delivery options for the newspaper
Home Delivery by Carrier seven cents per day. By Mail in Vermont, Rensselaer and Washington Counties New York and northwestern Massachusetts: 3 months four dollars twenty five cents, 6 months eight dollars, 1 year fifteen dollars. Servicemen one dollar per month. All other by mail one dollar sixty cents per month. Truck route delivery: 3 months minimum four dollars fifty cents, 6 months eight dollars, 1 year fifteen dollars. All subscriptions payable in advance.
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Vermont
Rensselaer
Washington
N.Y
Massachusetts
Catholic Agency Releases Study on Parochial School Aid
The National Catholic Welfare Conference released a legal study arguing federal grants to aid secular education in church-related schools would be constitutional. It contends public funding supports church schools and cites 41 precedents while noting the document reflects the conference legal department, not bishops.
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Roman Catholic Church Agency
Washington
Kennedy
Congress
National Catholic Welfare Conference
Catholic Bishops of the
United States
Supreme Court
Health, Education and Welfare Department
Justice Department
Welfare Department
NCWC
Boston Tea Party Recalled By Small Boston Group
A small group in Boston marks the 188th anniversary by sipping the original British tea dumped in 1773. Henry Purkitt and his mother are linked to the tea’s journey from pocket retrieval to preservation by the Boston Tea Party Associates who brew a sample each year.
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Boston Harbor
Henry Purkitt
Boston
Purkitt
Boston Tea Party Associates
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