Vermont College Receives Over 200000 For New Library
Vermont Technical College has been awarded more than 200000 dollars by the U S Department of Health Education and Welfare for a new library building set to be finished next fall with total project cost about 512182 dollars. In Woodstock Mrs Neatha Birchard 36 faces two kidnapping charges in Hartford Municipal Court on January 4 after pleading innocent at a preliminary hearing. She was held on 1000 bail and authorities say she took two nephews on a planned nationwide trip last month. they were located in Chardon Ohio. In East Highgate about 5000 chickens perished in a barn fire causing estimated 20000 dollars damage. the blaze, under investigation, left the Gagne poultry farm barn a total loss.
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Randolph Center
UPI
Vermont Technical College
U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare
Woodstock
Neatha Birchard
Hartford Municipal Court
Birchard
Chardon
Ohio
East Highgate
Marcel Gagne
Crepeault Reimprisoned After Arson Conviction
Paul Crepeault returns to Windsor State Prison days after a Vermont Supreme Court order freed him on habeas corpus. A Caledonia County jury convicted him of first degree arson for a Christmas Day 1964 fire that destroyed a Wheelock summer home and he was sentenced Wednesday to three to 10 years. He had been jailed on breach of peace charges before the ruling.
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ST. Johnsbury
UPI
Paul Crepeault
Windsor State Prison
Vermont Supreme Court
Crepeault
Caledonia Supremor Court
Wheelock
State Supreme Court
Vermont to cut workmen's comp rates for 1964
Vermont employers will pay less in workmen's compensation insurance next year as the Banking and Insurance Department prepares a 3.8 percent rate cut effective January 1, with an estimated $160,000 annual savings cited by Deputy Insurance Commissioner Richard C. Kemp. Separately, Insurance Commissioner James Hunt announced a public hearing January 3 in Rutland on proposed automobile insurance rate increases filed by the National Bureau of Casualty Underwriters. Also, nursing scholarships totaling $1,200 are awarded to Castleton State College Jeanne Mance School of Nursing and Mary Fletcher Hospital School of Nursing students, funded by the Vermont Wholesale Beverage Association.
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Montpelier
UPI
Vermont
Richard C. Kemp
Banking and Insurance Department
Kemp
National Council On Workmen
Hunt
National Bureau of Casualty Underwriters
Rutland
Insurance Board
Winooski
Vermont Wholesale Beverage Association
Burton Morse
Castleton State College
Jeanne Mance
New York Health Dept Seizes Ice Balls in Troy Area
The New York State Dept of Health announced 149040 ice balls seized in the Troy area with state totals nearing 500000. The Hong Kong made reusable cubes pose a potential health hazard after tests on a limited sample. In Albany, a $232 million rise in the State Education Dept budget requests was outlined, largely for primary and secondary education, to be reviewed with Gov Rockefeller's Jan 18 budget proposal. In Troy, over 350 people donated to a Viet Nam servicemen blood drive at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute on Jan 11, praised by Sec. of Defense Robert McNamara for patriotism and morale.
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Troy
New York State
Albany
Rockefeller
Viet Nam
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Robert McNamara
U.S
Berkshire Man Dies From Tuesday Night Collision
Robert George Shaw age 44 of North Adams died Wednesday from injuries sustained in a crash Tuesday night in Berkshire. Police said the other driver was Michael N. Nicholas of Colonial Village Williams town who was uninjured. Shaw was an Army veteran employed at the Pittsfield General Electric plant.
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North Adams
Robert George Shaw
Michael N. Nicholas
Colonial Village
Williamstown
Pittsfield
Bid opens for town hall renovation in Williamstown
Williamstown bids closed Wednesday night for converting the former Phi Gamma Delta house into a town hall. Laurie J. King of Adams submitted the apparent low bid of 32957 amid five other bids and about 100 subcontract bids. Award decision expected today. Pittsfield UPI Alexander K. Leslie sends a holiday note to an anonymous motorist who damaged his 1965 Pontiac on West Street with a left rear fender hit and run incident, wishing a joyous New Year.
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Williamstown
Laurie J. King
Adams
Phi Gamma Delta
Pittsfield
UPI
Alexander K. Leslie
Leslie
Berkshire Eagle
West Street
Vigorous Enforcement Promised For School Desegregation
Washington reports Harold Howe II, newly named U S education commissioner, pledges vigorous enforcement of federal desegregation laws. He warns the struggle will be long in both North and South and urges Southern cooperation to avoid federal coercion while pursuing greater integration.
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Washington
VPI
North
South
Harold Howe II
Hartford, Conn
Johnson
Francis Keppel
U.S
Howe
North Carolina Institute of Learning
Food supply shared by humans and animals in world view
Washington report cites Georg Borgstrom in The Hungry Planet estimating 15 billion living animal mass for a global food supply. It notes a world population around 3 billion and discusses racial discrimination in education with job losses of about 452 Negro teachers. It quotes Howe on enforcing Civil Rights Act compliance for desegregation.
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Washington
UPS
Georg Borgstrom
National Education Association
Howe
Rate Reduction Would Benefit Vermont Company
The Federal Power Commission plans a 10.4 percent annual wholesale rate cut to 25 major customers in Massachusetts New Hampshire and Vermont with retroactive effect to September first 1965 The proposal follows FCC staff conferences and would apply to Granite State Electric Green Mountain Power Holden Peabody Templeton West Boylston and several Massachusetts towns The prior reduction on October first 1964 cut 2 136 million in rates across New England agencies involved include utilities in both states
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Washington
UPI
Federal Power Commission
FPC
New England Power Co
Boston
Massachusetts
New Hampshire
Vermont
Rhode Island
Granite State Electric Co
Green Mountain Power Corp
Holden, Peabody, Templeton
West Boylston Ashburnham
Boylston
Danvers
Georgetown
Groton
Groveland
Hingham
Hull
Littleton
Manchester Electric Co
Mansfield
Marblehead
Massachusetts Electric
Merrimac Middleton
North Attleboro
Pitton
Princeton
Sterling
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