Vermont Sees Record State Product Growth Amid 1968 Boom
Vermont reports a preliminary 8.5 percent rise in personal income for the first ten months of 1968 and a gross state product surpassing 1.5 billion, topping 1967. The release cites 16.5 percent residential building growth, 10 new firms locating, and 26 expansions, with a labor force at 173,200.
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Montpelier
VPI
Vermont
Robert M. Wilson
Wilson
New Hampshire
New England
Masked bandit robs Strong Theatre ticket seller
Burlington police seek a stocking masked armed bandit who held up the Strong Theatre ticket seller Saturday night and fled with 95 dollars.
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Bellows Falls
UPI
Otis Johnson
Crayco Hotel
Johnson
North Walpole
N.H
Burlington
Colonie plans to expand driver education with federal aid
In Colonie New York the Highway Safety Board announced plans to enlarge driver education in local schools using federal and state funds over 30 000 dollars for North Colonie and a similar amount for South Colonie. Councilman James P Butler disclosed the initiative on a Saturday.
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Colonie
Highway Safety Board
Town of Colonie
James P. Butler
Thruway Safety Board
North
South Colonie
Arthur Haas
North Colonie
Williams College professor urges Berkshire pilot environmental program
Williams College analyst James M. Burns argues Berkshire County should become a pilot project to raise environmental quality. He says informed active citizens can halt mountain deterioration and outlines these ideas in the Williams Alumni Review.
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Williamstown
Berkshire County
Williams College
James M. Burns
Roosevelt
Kennedy
Williams Alumni Review
Christmas Dreams for Pueblo Crewmen Families
United Press International reports that eight Pueblo sailors, seven from New England, were released by North Korea. Mothers from Massachusetts and Vermont express relief and plan reunions in San Diego and across the region as Christmas joy spreads amid the return of Communications Technician 2.C. Bradley Crowe and others.
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Pueblo
Thomas Crowe
Island Pond
New England
Close Scrutiny of State Police in Davis Administration
Vermont governor elect Deane C. Davis pledges a re examination of the Public Safety Department and state police operations when he takes office on January 9. He and appointee William J. French will review department efficiency, organization, and the five division structure amid a 79 page probe into the Irasburg affair and Hoff's directive to Public Safety Commissioner Erwin A. Alexander.
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Montpelier
UPI
Lloyd B. Potter
Rutland
Erwin A. Alexander
Potter
Shaftsbury
Philip H. Hoff
Irasburg
Hoff
Public Safety
David Johnson Sr
Alexander
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Dean
Waterbury
Harold Dean
Governor’s Special Board of Inquiry
U.S
Ernest Gibson
Bradley
Lt. Potter
New York
Cohoes
Capital Division Disposal Corp
Lawrence R. Favreau
James E. McDonald
Board of Contract and Supply
David Silverman
Arizona Bio-Chemical Corp
Capital Division Disposal
City of
Troy
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Westland Hills
Albany
Association For Neighborhood Recreation
Erastus Corning
Down In
Berkshire
Burns
Pittsfield
Edmund T. Crown
Lanesboro
Berkshire County Superior Court
U.S. District Court
Boston
Rocco Liberatore
State Department of Public Works
St. Joseph’s Cemetery
United Press International
Davis
Hayward
Calif
UPID
Downtown Merchants Association
Division of Highways
Navy
Cmdr
Stephen Harris
Norman W. Spear
Portland
Maine
Stella Grant
Jay
John W. Grant Jr
Oime
Cornish
Hazel Hammond
California
Robert H. Hammond
Marine Corps
Hartford
Conn
Vincent Strano
C. Angelo Strano
James Strano
Ida Dodd
Vietnam
Burt
Henry M. Tuttle CO. Inc
Depot Street
Bennington
H. Greenberg & Son, Inc
Main Street
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