Vermont Democrats invite Hodges to speak in March or April
Secretary of Commerce Luther H Hodges has accepted an invitation to address a Vermont Democratic meeting in March or April. State Committee Chairman John M Spencer said he will speak at a rally in Montpelier or Burlington. He is the first of several top Democrats to accept invitations in the state.
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Keyser
U.S
Montpelier
Vermont
Mohawk Airlines
Rutland
Mohawk
Edwin F. Knapp
Knapp
John J. Daley
Board of Aldermen
New York Delays on Raising Drinking Age
Albany reports the legislature will defer action on raising the drinking age from 18 to 21 for a year. Senate leader Mahoney notes an independent study will be urged after public hearings, citing cross border liquor use and auto accidents as motivating factors. Governor Rockefeller gives no comment on divorce law easing or his own split.
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N.Y
Albany
Senate
Walter J. Mahoney
Joint Legislative Committee
New Jersey
Massachusetts
Vermont
New York
John J. Marchi
Staten Island
Rocky
Nelson A. Rockefeller
Mary Todhunter Clark
Pittsfield Mayor Submits $11.3 Million Budget
Pittsfield Mayor Raymond Haughey submitted an $11.3 million city budget to the City Council, about $1 million more than 1961. The increase stems from $690,000 in school, public works and welfare pay raises. debt, interest, and welfare costs cover most of the rest. He says about $500,000 was cut from department requests and further reductions possible before the April 1 deadline.
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Pittsfield
Raymond Haughey
Haughey
Council
Nuclear Dollars Build New Rowe School In Nuclear Era
In Rowe Massachusetts a two room school with 37 pupils will close March 1 for a new half million dollar facility funded by taxes from Yankee Atomic Electric Co. The town’s tax rate drops to about 30 per 1000 as 93 percent of taxes come from the nuclear plant, and plans include five classrooms, a gym, kitchen, cafeteria, and future athletic fields.
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Chelsea
Orange County
Massachusetts
New England Milk Producers Association
Northern Farms Cooperative
Bay State Ice Cream Co
Rowe
Mass
Yankee Atomic Electric Co
New England
Deerfield
Wendell Bjork
Bjork
Charlemont
Pelham Lake
Yesteryear
Palmer
Yankee Electric Atomic Electric Co
Bennington Banner Publishing Details And Rates
The Bennington Banner lists publishing details at 425 Main Street Bennington Vermont and notes AP exclusive republication rights. It provides carrier delivery price and mail subscription rates for Vermont Rensselaer and other regions with servicemen discounts.
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Bennington
Main St
Vermont
The
Banner Publishing Corporation
Associated Press
AP_news
Rensselaer
Merchants Air New Revisions In Promotions
Merchants discuss ways to boost customer participation in monthly promotions at the Merchants Bureau meeting. Proposals include daily small ads and entry blank prizes, replacing large single day ads and past gift certificates with actual merchandise displayed in participating merchants' windows.
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Merchants’ Bureau
Bureau
Bennington
Truman Critics Washington Buildings as Cracker Boxes
Former President Truman told an AP reporter in Washington that the city’s new buildings are “full of chicken coops and crackerboxes” and warned that hailstones may reveal flaws in the architecture. He said he is no architect but questioned the design quality of the capital’s future structures.
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Washington (Ap
Washington
Harry S. Truman
Truman
Prize Draw Entry Blanks Guide Customers’ Merchandise Picks
Readers marked on entry forms which prize merchandise they wished to win, outlining how they would distribute entries for the remainder of the year. The notice details participation methods and selection process.
Debevoise Praises Spy Swap Arrangement
Washington AP Former Vermont Attorney General Thomas M. Debevoise key defense aide for Soviet master spy Rudolph Abel calls the U2 pilot Francis Gary Powers exchange a very satisfactory arrangement. Debevoise, now an assistant to Federal Power Commissioner Charles R. Ross, helped defend Abel in his 1957 New York trial.
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Vermont
Atty
Thomas M. Debevoise
Rudolph Abel
U. S
Abel
Francis Gary Powers
Debevoise
Charles R. Ross
New York
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