Credit card use among independents slips further
The National Federation of Independent Business reports a decline in credit card acceptance among independent retailers, with only 33 percent honoring cards in October, down from September and August. Overall card volume averages 18 percent, varying by firm size, with Pacific states showing the sharpest drop and consumer caution noted. A separate Bennington crash saw Julia Mertrude escape injury after her 1967 Dodge Polara struck a house porch on Main Street.
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San Mateo
Calif
National Federation of Independent Business Inc
Federation
Pacific States
West Coast
Bennington
Main Street
Julia Mertrude
Main St
Free coffee offered on Christmas Eve and New Year’s Eve on Mass Pike
Massachusetts Turnpike Authority announces free coffee for motorists on Christmas Eve from 10 p.m. to 7 a.m. and again on New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day. Howard Johnson restaurants on the toll road will provide the coffee, a program started nine years ago on New Year’s Eve and extended to Christmas Eve seven years ago. John T. Driscoll, chairman, says results have been satisfactory.
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Boston
UPI
Massachusetts Turnpike
John T. Driscoll
Massachusetts Turnpike Authority
Howard Johnson
Vermont moves to extend unemployment benefits to 39 weeks
The Vermont Employment Security Department plans a bill to extend unemployment compensation from 26 to 39 weeks if statewide unemployment averages 4 percent for 13 straight weeks. Gordon Ladd says the measure would cost Vermont 50 000 to 75 000 dollars monthly, with the federal government paying half. The bill mirrors federal requirements set for 1972. Separately Attorney General James Jeffords will seek whether private Elks clubs with liquor licenses violate state racial discrimination laws, following a Maine ruling.
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Elks Clubs
Gordon Ladd
General Assembly
Ladd
Vermont
Hoosick Falls groups to share Buckley estate of $1 million
Hoosick Falls residents learn the $1 million Joseph E. Buckley estate will be divided among religious civic and charitable groups. The Immaculate Conception Church receives a $10,000 bequest. Buckley died Oct 30 while vacationing in Puerto Rico at age 43. He led Joseph E. Buckley and Son, Inc., the town’s oldest oil firm. Executor Mark W. Brown of Colonie announced cash bequests of $2,000 to each of four first cousins.
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Hoosick Falls
N.Y
Joseph E. Buckley
Immaculate Conception Church
Buckley
Puerto Rico
Mark W. Brown
Colonie
Bennington BPW Christmas party and charity bequests
The Business and Professional Women's Club of Bennington held its Dec. 9 Christmas party at Mt. Anthony Country Club with 30 members and guests. A skit celebrated prominent women. Mrs. Helen Galipeau provided piano music. Therese Goodermore distributed gifts in Santa’s absence. Future meeting set for Jan. 13 with Rev. Michael Curtis Hughes. Bequests totaling 1000 dollars benefited St. Monica's in Johnsonville, the Augustinian Fathers in Villanova PA, Cheney Library in Hoosick Falls, Hoosick Falls Health Center, Hoosick Falls Rescue Squad, Reynolds Center, and the Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet in Latham. A 10000-dollar trust funds the ad ministration of the State Bank of Albany to distribute various memorials and scholarships, including Immaculate Conception Church and St. Mary’s Academy, with a total about 500000 dollars for the Joseph E. Buckley III Charitable Foundation. CYO dance, candlelight service at North Bennington Church, and Bennington Lanes vacation hours noted.
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Business and Professional Women’s Club of
Bennington
Mt. Anthony Country Club
Helen Galipeau
Santa Claus
Michael Curtis Hughes
Immaculate Conception Church
St. Monica’s
State Bank of Albany
John F. Kennedy
Michael Curtis
St. Patrick’s Cemetery
Cambridge
Joseph E. Buckley
St. Mary’s Cemetery
Hoosick Falls
Kennedy
Joseph E. Buckley III
YMCA Pool Project Fails To Meet Fund Goal In Town Vote
Town votes to liquidate the YMCA pool project after years of fundraising. A 60 percent complete pool valued around 400000 could be finished in two months, but lack of big donations and a refused 250000 bank loan, plus tight money and inflation, doomed the plan. Former committee members Herbert H Leonard and Raymond B Bowen faced a bitter result. Construction halted last summer. structure sealed with a temporary heating system. The resources center plan was dropped. selectmen require a public vote before tax funds for the center. The UCS dinner dance prize contest will continue with a 1971 Pinto car as the top award. Dana is thanked for his long service to the Y.
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Y Building Committee
Herbert H. Leonard
Raymond B Bowen
Robert Foxen
Resources Center
UCS
Dana
Poverty 1969 Census: 24.3 Million in United States
The Census Bureau reports 24.3 million Americans lived in poverty in 1969 and raising their incomes above poverty lines would require about $10.1 billion. Poverty thresholds varied by family size with a four person family headed by a man at $3,745.
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Washington
UPI
Census Bureau
United States
Bureau
Obituaries of Keough Squires Roy and Schumacher
William R. Keough of 203 County St died Friday night after collapsing at a Mt. Anthony Greylock basketball game and was dead on arrival at Putnam Memorial Hospital. Edward J. Squires of Manchester Center died Friday afternoon in a Route 30 car crash. Funeral plans note entombment next spring, with six grandchildren and three great grandchildren among survivors. John A. Roy former postmaster and state legislator of West Barnet died at 93. John F. Schumacher, 75, a Shaftsbury meat cutter, died Friday morning. services planned in Shaftsbury and Pittsfield with multiple survivors listed.
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County St
Mt. Anthony
Edward J. Squires
Manchester Center
Squires
Joseph D. Huse
First Baptist Church
Factory Point
Mr. Squires
East Dorset
Frank and
Belle (Welles) Squires
Manchester
Carrie Stannard
Helen Moore
Pawlet
Mary Beauregard
Beacon Falls
N.Y
Bernice Forbes
New Haven
West Barnet
UPI
John A. Roy
Roy
Vermont House
John F. Schumacher
Eugene Kosche
Ethan Allen Highway
Shaftsbury
First National Stores
Pittsfield
Mass
Hilda Hornig
James Donahue
Copeland, Fla
Hanson- Walbridge
Pittsfield Cemetery
A. J. MacDonald
First United Methodist Church
Bennington
13 state alert issued for Waterbury escapers
Police in 13 states were warned to seek a teen, 16, and two men, 30 and 42, who escaped from Vermont State Hospital in a green garbage truck. Authorities described them as very dangerous and capable of killing if needed.
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Waterbury
UPI
Vermont State Hospital
Kurt Hanson
Brattleboro
James Mohan
New Jersey
Arthur Beshaw
Burlington
George Brooks
Brooks
Filibuster and Adjournment Slow Senate Action
Fragmentary notes describe a filibuster driven adjournment in the Senate hindering legislation on SST and foreign trade controls while a separate report notes a man named Mohan transferred from Windsor State Prison, under extradition to New Jersey for an unspecified charge.
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Senate
Mohan
Windsor
New Jersey
Senate to Consider Reapportionment in Vermont
Vermont’s state apportionment board met to review ten years of population shifts and will propose a reapportionment plan for the 1970s. Chair Webber noted no final conclusions but said the Senate must act, with Rutland hosting a next meeting on December 30 and a report due February 1 to become a bill.
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Rutland
UPI
Vermont State Senate
State Apportionment Board
Christopher Webber
Webber
Chittenden-Grand Isle
Senate
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