Vermont confronts road and safety issues as holiday travel begins
Gov Keyser urged care on festive roads amid a Vermont highway death toll of 82 to date versus 100 last year. State Police investigate a theft from a State House employee and a Burlington contractor lands the low bid to build twin Route 7 segments in Charlotte for a two and a half mile experimental road study.
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Montpelier
Keyser
Vermont
Vermont Highway Department
Burnet and Campbell Inc
Burlington
Charlotte
Vouchers Delay $8.1 Million in Vermont Highway Funds
Senator James Oakes says Vermont is owed $8.1 million in federal funds due to delayed voucher submissions by the state highway department. Arthur M. Knight acknowledges the delay and notes some vouchers were late for various reasons. The funds cover interstate construction work, including a project completed over three years ago. The probe was approved by the 1961 General Assembly with a $10,000 budget.
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Montpelier
James Oakes
R-Windham
Vermont
Oakes
Tas
General Assembly
Highway Department
Triplets Born In Claremont Hospital To Spinner Family
Walter L. Spinner and his wife welcomed triplet boys in Claremont Hospital. The newborns weigh 5 pounds 4 ounces to 6 pounds 3 ounces and are reported in good health along with their mother and father.
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Claremont
N.H
Walter L. Spinner
Saltonstall Favored For Post As GOP Policy Chairman
Sen Prescott Bush backs Sen Leverett Saltonstall for the Senate Republican Policy Committee chair after Styles Bridges death. A GOP conference is set for Jan 10 to fill the vacancy. Saltonstall said he is interested and hopes to be chosen, while declining to specify a philosophy if named.
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Washington
Prescott Bush
R-Conn
Sen
Leverett Saltonstall
R-Mass
Senate
Republican Policy Committee
Bush
Saltonstall
Massachusetts
Eisenhower
Styles Bridges
R-N.h
GOP
Congress
Boston
Living Costs Declined In November
In November the cost of living fell by 0.1 percent, pulling the index to 128.3 percent of the 1947-49 base. Robert J. Myers noted the year over year rise was 0.7 percent, the smallest November-to-November gain since 1955, with expectations of further modest declines. Toys and sporting goods prices dropped 0.2 percent from the prior year and factory workers saw record high weekly earnings after taxes.
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Washington
Robert J. Myers
Labor Statistics
Pony on the Way Eager-to-Work Girl Gets Yule Pony
Judy Lindsay, a bright eyed sixth grader from Cranford New Jersey, sought a job to buy a pony and was denied by state child labor laws. After job hunting herself she was helped by local officials and a farm, a pony breeder, and a feed company who offered a black pony, reduced stable space charges, a year of feed, and assistance from a 4H club.
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Judy Lindsay
New Jersey Department of Employment Security
Judy
Mandy
Ronald C. Weyer
State Department of Agriculture
Weyer
Ernest C. Bell
New Jersey Pony Breeders Association
Sky Top Farm
Mountainside
Plainfield
Three Day Forecast for New England Weather Outlook
The U S Weather Bureau projects a five day period from Saturday to Wednesday with temperatures in northern New England Massachusetts and Rhode Island near seasonal norms and little daily variation. Precipitation is expected to total about two tenths to six tenths of an inch.
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Boston
U.S. Weather Bureau
New England
Massachusetts
Rhode Island
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