Memorial train to honor F Nelson Blount at Steamtown
Steamtown Foundation chairman Edgar Mead Jr announces a fundraising drive to build a memorial for F Nelson Blount founder of Steamtown U S A A refurbished woodburning locomotive Ford Number 216 will pull the memorial train when Steamtown reopens on Memorial Day. Exhibition cars will highlight Blount as a businessman, railroad man, evangelist and family man with a life story motion picture.
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Bellows Falls
Steamtown Foundation
Edgar T. Mead Jr
F. Nelson Blount
Steamtown
U.S.A
Ford
Central Pacific Railroad
Blount
Loyalty Oath Bill Amended By House Action
The Vermont House passed a revised loyalty oath bill striking the clause that required teachers to deny activities contrary to the U.S. and Vermont constitutions. Atty. Gen. James L. Oakes urged the change to aid defense of the oath amid recent Supreme Court rulings. In Sherburne, authorities investigated five counterfeit $20 bills at Killington Ski Area with more similar notes found across New England in six weeks.
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Montpelier
LPD
House
United States
Vermont
Atty
James L. Oakes
Chittenden
Oakes
U.S. Supreme Court
Sherburne
UPI
U.S. Secret Service
Killington
Frank McDermott
McDermott
New England
New York City
Chicago
Tractor accident in Brunswick claims farm owner life
Troy Lorenz E Wiese 68 of RD 3 Brunswick was crushed when his tractor backed into a tree. He slipped from the machine and was found by his daughter Glora Green. He died at Samaritan Hospital. In Albany, the 400 room Ten Eyck Hotel on State Street has been sold. The Holiday Inn in Troy may open by April 1. Albany Medical Center opens an eight bed burn unit, the only one of its kind in northeastern New York.
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Troy — Lorenz E. Wiese
RD 3
Lockrow Road
Brunswick
Glora Green
Weise
Samaritan Hospital
Eagle Mills
Albany
Ten Eyck
State Street
Schine Hotel
van Curler
Schenectady
Troy
Albany Medical Center Hospital
New York
Albany Medical Center
Berkshire School Committee ousts Drury janitor over kiss claim
In North Adams the School Committee dismissed Oreste Giusti, 56, Drury High School janitor after 18 1/2 years of service. He will be notified within 48 hours and has five days to appeal to the state Civil Service Commission. His attorney says an appeal will be filed. Separately, Pittsfield officials plan to oppose ending two of four passenger trains after Penn Central filed to drop trains 404 and 405 after February 23.
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North Adams
Oreste Giusti
Drury High School
Giusti
State Civil Service Commission
Pittsfield
Alfred S. Bradley
George A. Purnell Jr
New York Central Railroad
Penn Central
North Adams State College to inaugurate sixth president
NORTH ADAMS Inauguration of Andrew S. Flagg, sixth president of North Adams State College, will occur Sunday at 2 p.m. in the college gymnasium in Venable Hall. Dr. Richard A. Sleeman, chairman of the inauguration committee, says the public is invited and no tickets are necessary. GREAT BARRINGTON Selectmen have not decided on appealing a Jan. 17 ruling by the state Outdoor Advertising Board allowing two billboards north of town off U.S. 7 to remain. They have until Feb. 16 to file an appeal.
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North Adams
Andrew S. Flagg
North Adams State College
Venable Hall
Richard A. Sleeman
Great Barrington — Selectmen
State Outdoor Advertising Board
U.S. 7
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