Unemployment Up Across Vermont in November
Vermont wage data show higher joblessness in most regions in November with Brattleboro as an exception. Bennington Newport and St Johnsbury saw a smaller year over year rise, while Barre Montpelier faced more unskilled labor surplus as projects shut down. Brattleboro ran a higher demand for service workers at ski resorts.
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Burlington
Vermont
Brattleboro
Vermont Employment Security Department
Bennington
Newport
St. Johnsbury
Barre-Montpélier
Middlebury
Albany previews designs for $100 million South Mall facelift
In Albany the Temporary Commission on the Capital City will view designs for the 98 acre South Mall project. Plans remain secret as the architects’ scale model is not ready and officials await an end to the newspaper strike for wider publicity. In Goshen a Christmas Day fire at Finan's Hotel and Restaurant destroyed the four story building and damaged two neighbors. Three firefighters were injured. the cause is undetermined.
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Albany
South
Commission On
Capital City
New York
Goshen
Finan’s
Orange County
Glens Falls Hospital Prank Calls Steal Quiet
Police probe ends as prankster scares relatives with death calls to hospitalized patients at Glens Falls Hospital. Newspaper and radio publicity prompted fear and several near shocks as families rushed to the hospital to verify alleged deaths.
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Glens Falls
Williamstown School Closure Debate Puts New Facility in View
Berkshire report notes School Committee to hear master planner’s 10 to 15 year vision for a possible new South Williamstown school and Broad Brook addition. Debated last year, the three grade building closed in June amid calls to preserve it for growth and avoid later rebuilds. Mrs. Thomas to present Jan 21. North Adams sees light holiday traffic and a first commercial run of a 3000 foot poma-double chairlift at Petersburg Pass.
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Williamstown
Little Red
South Williamstown
Carol Thomas
Sonthoff and
Thomas
North Adams
North Berkshire
Jiminy Peak
Hancock
Thunder Mountain
Charlemont
Duckd Hill
Heartwellville
Petersburg Pass
New York Line
State St
First National
Francie E. Belanger
Murray St
Adams
Frank J. Maxmillian
Larksburg
National Guard Aims 400,000 Strength In New Recruiting Drive
The Army National Guard launches a vigorous recruiting push to reach 400,000 in strength, about 25,000 short, seeking to rebut Secretary Robert McNamara’s skepticism. Officials say changes include restructuring divisions and meeting governors on Guard modernization with a March deadline for Reserve reforms.
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National Guard
Washington
Army National Guard
McNamara
Robert S. McNamara
Army Guard
Congress
Defense Department
Army
Pentagon
East German refugees escape to West Berlin under gunfire
Eight refugees from Neugersdorf driving a bulletproof bus breached three barriers on the Berlin border at dawn. Border guards fired but only one man was injured by flying glass. The group included the bus owner, driver, their wives and four children. They crossed from East Germany through Babelsberg and reached West Berlin, entering via the Autobahn and Western checkpoints. The fugitives were taken to a reception center for interviews.
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Berlin
West Berlin
Neugersdorf
Oder-Neisse
East Germany
Poland
Babelsberg
Dreilinden
Prisoners Say Castro's Food Not Fit for Pigs
Miami AP report quotes returning Bay of Pigs prisoners describing meals as terrible. Tulio Diaz, 22, recalls breakfast coffee and bread, plus meals of macaroni with watery sauce or a grain called fatherland or death squash. Diaz says he plans to eat in the future.
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Miami
Fla
Fidel Castro
Bay of Pigs
Tulio Diaz
Bennington Banner Publishing Details and Rates
The Bennington Banner publishes daily except Sundays and holidays from 425 Main Street Bennington Vermont. The paper is a member of the Associated Press with AP rights to local news and dispatches. Home delivery is 7 cents per day. subscription rates vary by distance and term.
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Bennington Banner
Main St. Bennington
Vermont
The
Banner Publishing, Corporation
Associated Press
AP News
U.S
Laymen Assist Clergy in Parish Calls at St. John’s
In Royal Oak Michigan the St. John’s Episcopal Church organizes lay volunteers to visit each of about 1,500 families at least once a year, separate from fundraising. The program, led by Canon John M. Shufelt, aims to witness for faith while not replacing clergy work.
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Royal Oak
Mich
St. John's Church
John M. Shufelt
St. John’s
Detroit
Canon Shufelt
Marshall Hunt
St. Paul's Cathedral Church
Hoffa Attacks Judge and Prosecutor in Hung Jury Trial
Teamsters President James Hoffa criticized Federal Judge William Miller and Prosecutor James Neal during a taped WWJ-TV interview after the Nashville Taft Hartley trial ended in a hung jury. Hoffa assailed Kennedy and alleged jury tampering rumors while defending his stance on pretrial prejudice notes.
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Detroit
Teamsters Union
James R. Hoffa
Nashville
Hoffa
William Miller
Robert F. Kennedy
Ven Marshall
Wwj-Tv
Owen Brennan
Teamsters
Michigan
Commercial Carriers, Inc
Miller
James Neal
Justice Department
Atty
Gen
Kennedy
Miami
Tampa
Woodstock Youth Is Sixth Victim Of Road Mishaps
Vermont saw a sixth traffic death during the Christmas weekend with 20 year old George G Pearsons of Woodstock killed when his car left U S 4 near Hartford and hit a tree. Earlier crashes in Shel don and Pittsford claimed four and one lives respectively. The year’s highway toll rose to 102, up from 83 a year ago.
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Enosburg Falls
Raymond Page
American Legion Post
Page
Sheldon
Marie Martha
David
Clyde T. Laalla
Montpelier
Vermont
George G. Pearsons
Woodstock
U.S. 4
Hartford
Pittsford
Rutland
Hospital Notes Sees Numerous Births and Birth-Related Updates
Admissions none. Discharges Virginia Davis and daughter Wilmington Lorraine Surdam and daughter Hoosick Falls June Williams and son Readsboro. Births include a Christmas son for LeRoy and who. A baby born at Murphy Memorial Red Oak Iowa to George C Hooks and Anne D Mazzetti of Fairview Road. Weighs seven pounds twelve ounces. Church records updated with births deaths marriages baptisms.
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Virginia Davis
Wilmington
Lorraine Surdam
Hoosick Falls
June Williams
Readsboro
LeRoy LaCross
North Branch Street
Murphy Memorial Hospital
Red Oak
Iowa
George C. Hooks
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Vermont Department of Water Resources
Lake Champlain
Barre
Essex Junction
Hyde Park
South Royalton
Heart Association
Ratland
Vermont Heart Association
Porter H. Dale
Man
Thomas P. Dunleavy
Dunleavy
Clifton J. Morrison
Goshen Hotel
Down In
Berkshire
Francis J. Murphy
White Creek
N.Y
Murphy
Eagle Square Mfg. Co
Shaftsbury
Gerald Call
RCA
Dorothy Weaver
George Strong
Havana
Diaz
Hallmark
Mainstr
Bennington, Vt
Laurence Anderson
Peru
Patrick Kelley
Irene Grover
Center Shaftsbury
Teresa King
Joseph Glade
Dora Hart
Pleasant St
John Carroll
Helen McLeod
Clinton Ostrander
North Bennington
Vichaels
Union St
Polaroid
Fienberg
Main ST
Atkin
Beneficial
Beneficial Finance Co
Main Street
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